Boston 50th Anniversary- Tom Scholz, the late Brad Delp

Only a year before releasing Boston, the band Boston did not even exist. In Summer 1976, my guest Tom Scholz’s seven year home tapes would emerge out of his basement in Watertown MA to re-write the record books on popularity and profits. The Cinderella story of Scholz and Boston tends to be reduced by some to astronomical numbers (over 18 million sold, and that number is soft), which may seem appropriate for a brainiac  M.I.T. mechanical engineering graduate. In my rare classic rock interview, Tom clearly explains that he never got into music to be a rock star. While his first time at bat resulted in the grandest of slams, the subsequent releases from this musical mad scientist would unrealistically and unfairly be compared to the debut Boston record-setting first release (only recently surpassed in sales by Appetite for Destruction from Guns’n’Roses ).

Driving from border to border recently, I heard at least a dozen of America’s classic rock terrestrial radio stations playing the first Boston album as if it was a current new hit album. Know that these stations spend millions of dollars annually researching what their most loyal listeners like, and apparently even  fifty years after it was released, the songs “More Than a Feeling”, “Peace of Mind:, “Foreplay/Long Time”, “Rock and Roll Band”, and “Hitch a Ride” have aged particularly well. Find out the real life Cinderella story from Boston mastermind Tom Scholz and the late Brad Delp here In the Studio. Over the five decades since his first epic release, Scholz has been characterized by some as reclusive, obstinate, ill-suited to the showbiz entertainment industry. Yet as you will hear in my classic rock interview, upon releases of their respective monumental debuts, what happened to Tom Scholz and Boston would later occur  to  Hootie and the Blowfish, Amy Winehouse, and Alannis Morrisette as well after their respective multi-million selling debut albums.  – Redbeard