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Boston- Third Stage 40th Anniversary- Tom Scholz

"Third Stage" Boston comeback album released in September 1986 put up spectacular numbers in popularity, with three Top 20 hits on Billboard including "Cant'cha Say","We're Ready", and the #1 "Amanda", all helping to blast the album to #1 sales. Boston bandleader Tom Scholz, my guest, also brought free-agency to the music business.

Boston- To Be a Man- Worcester 8-87

It had been such a "long time", almost seven years, since the band Boston had released a new album and toured, that when Tom Scholz, Brad Delp and Boston (band) returned to the concert stage in Summer 1987, t was international news. It also was a terrifying re-entry to live performance for the shy, soft-spoken lead singer Delp...
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Boston 50th Anniversary- Tom Scholz, the late Brad Delp

In the Summer of 1975, a year before releasing what quickly became the biggest selling debut album in music history, the band Boston did not even exist . A year later Tom Scholz's seven year basement tapes would emerge out of nowhere to re-write the record books on popularity and profits fifty years ago ...(more) Tom Scholz is my guest for Boston's golden anniversary.

Boston- Something About You- Worcester MA 8-16-87

Here is an amazing 1987 performance of "Something About You" by Boston with incredible twin harmony guitars from Tom Scholz and Gary Pihl, and Doug Huffman providing superb vocal harmony for the late Brad Delp.
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Boston- Don’t Look Back- Tom Scholz

The band Boston had by August 1978 sold seven million copies on its way to becoming the top-selling debut (now over 17 million ), and the follow-up "Don't Look Back"  was being rush released to North American rock  radio stations. Boston, led by my guest here in this classic rock interview, guitarist/composer Tom Scholz

Boston- Feelin’ Satisfied- Worcester 8-16-87

Here is ultra-rare Boston live on night four of their record-setting homestand in August 1987 in the Boston ex-burb of Worcester MA, with intrepid lead singer the late Brad Delp going up against the dual sonic assaults of lead guitarist Tom…

Boston- Holly Ann- Boston 8-16-87

This time in 1987 the home team was holed up in the Worcester suburbs of Boston midway through a ten-night stand when they performed the entire "Third Stage"  album front to back, capping that impressive song cycle with this stunning live "Holly Ann".
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Boston 50th Anniversary- Tom Scholz

When we scored a major coup getting Tom Scholz and Brad Delp  as guests for In the Studio  episode #10 telling the story of the Boston  1976  debut, Scholz had already earned the reputation as the "Howard Hughes of Rock" because of his technical wizardry and notorious reclusiveness.

Boston- Hyperspace Pedal Blues- Tom Scholz

Irrefutable proof of why Tom Scholz of the band Boston had to move from his apartment house in Watertown , MA .Turn it up as loud as your gear can go . -Redbeard