BOSTON
One of rock's most enigmatic figures is surely Boston, led by-and essentially consisting of-Tom Scholz, a guitarist/ songwriter/technical wizard. The Boston saga is a strange one: years ago-way back in the '70s!-they had two monstrous albums, Boston and Don't Look Back (the debut LP has already gone platinum nine times, somthing even Bon Jovi must look up to).
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BOSTON
One of rock's most enigmatic figures is surely Boston, led by-and essentially consisting of-Tom Scholz, a guitarist/ songwriter/technical wizard.
The Boston saga is a strange one: years ago-way back in the '70s!-they had two monstrous albums, Boston and Don't Look Back (the debut LP has already gone platinum nine times, somthing even Bon Jovi must look up to). Then, quietly the band disappeared, seemingly to never be heard from again.
Fast-forward to 1986 and Third Stage-an album that so fit the musical times that it's sold over four million copies to date. This after a mere seven years without an album.
The credit must lie with Scholz, a reclusive figure who dislikes interviews, preferring to let his music do his talking for him. Perhaps rock's supreme perfectionist, Scholz spent his years off honing Third Stage to a masterpiece of recorded sound. "It took nearly six years to conceive and complete this album," Scholz says in the liner notes to Third Stage. "Each individual piece of music relates a human experience."
An awesome task, to be sure, but one Scholz seems peculiarly fitted to.
