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InTheStudio celebrates the 35th Anniversary of BOSTON's first

InTheStudio celebrates the 35th Anniversary of BOSTON's first

Exclusive interviews with Tom Scholz and the late Brad Delp

Dallas, TX - July 12, 2011. North American syndicated Rock radio show InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands celebrates the 35th Anniversary of Boston, the biggest selling debut album for the past 30+ years. InTheStudio producer and host Redbeard gets a "one-on-one" interview with the reclusive creative genius, lead guitarist and songwriter of BOSTON, Tom Scholz, who reveals that he worked in a basement home studio for seven long years to make the demo tape, while the recordbreaking BOSTON debut was "made on a budget of $1,700!

The success of BOSTON's debut album may very well have given the band the time it needed to forward its career. Scholz hints, "That album, doing as well as it did, is the only thing that made it possible to do a second and third one....It was only because it sold so well that it was possible to do it and do it again." Redbeard also shares a rare archival interview with the late Brad Delp in which Brad describes life before BOSTON, meeting Tom, the meteoric success of BOSTON's debut and the first time he realized his fortune. Delp explains,  When I got home, I had an apartment. I called up our accountant and said, I m thinking about maybe buying a house, can I do that? My accountant said,  How many? 

InTheStudio is syndicated on over 50 radio stations throughout North America. The InTheStudio/ BOSTON 35th anniversary show will air the week of July 11-17. To find out where to hear this show or to stream it online, visit: http://www.inthestudio.net Direct Link to InTheStudio affiliate station list http://www.inthestudio.net/radio-stations

Scholz plays with Pops

Among those celebrating Massachusetts Institute of Technology s 150th anniversary over the weekend was Tom Scholz. The MIT alum and mastermind behind the formerly mega-selling band Boston performed with the Pops at Symphony Hall, wearing a tuxedo shirt and playing his signature Mighty Mouse Les Paul guitar. (In his intro, Pops conductor Keith Lockhart recalled how Boston s first LP was the soundtrack to his senior year of high school.) Scholz played a new song,  Last Day of School,  on the Symphony Hall pipe organ. He played four songs on guitar to a sold-out house backed by the orchestra, ending the set with  To Be a Man  from the  Third Stage  album.

When, suddenly, the sun was gone

By Geoff Edgers
Globe Staff / February 20, 2011

In his basement, the gawky engineer fresh out of MIT painstakingly recorded layers of guitars, keyboards, and bass until he got it right. But it wasn t until Tom Scholz, the stubborn perfectionist, met Brad Delp, the dark, complicated singer with the soaring voice, that those basement demos came alive.

They became Boston, a band that dominated the FM airwaves through the 1970s with hits such as  More Than A Feeling  and  Don t Look Back.  Boston s 1976 debut remains, at 17 million copies, the second biggest-selling in US rock history. It launched Scholz, Delp, and the band s three other members into a world of sold-out arenas from California to Copenhagen.

The sensation of their rise was matched by the bitterness of the breakup of the original five members, who last performed together in 1979. Scholz and the three other musicians, later cast from the band, have battled in the press, courts, and Internet ever since. And no part of the feud has been as ugly as the latest: the fight over who or what caused Brad Delp, the man in the middle, to take his life in 2007.

Now a pair of defamation lawsuits, filed by Scholz in the wake of Delp s suicide, have exposed new details about the bitter turmoil within the band that preceded Delp s death. And they have led to revelations about the never-before-reported relationship problems that burdened Delp in the last year of his life.

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Tommy DeCarlo Reveals A Story - New Single

Tommy DeCarlo Reveals A Story:
How He Met & Fell In Love With His Wife

Perhaps you've heard of Tommy DeCarlo's amazing story about how he went from being an employee at the Home Depot to touring North America as the lead singer of the multi-platinum selling group BOSTON? Tommy was literally transported from being a fan, weekend karaoke aficionado, and performing only at private family functions to singing alongside some of the greatest classic rock musicians of all time in some of the largest and iconic venues on the touring circuit.

Following the 2008 summer tour, Tommy sat down at his Yamaha keyboard in his home music room in Charlotte, N.C. to compose something. What poured out of him was an autobiographical song about how he met his wife of 23 years, Annie.

The story goes back to 1987 when native upstate New Yorker Tommy was visiting his grandparents in Florida. Chance brought Tommy and Annie to the same restaurant on the same night and there was a strong and immediate attraction. However given Annie's shy nature, the fact that she had no telephone, and the geographical distance, a year-long correspondence via mail ensued. In the age of texting and instant messaging, not to mention online dating, the randomness of the couple getting together permanently was like destiny. Given their very young ages, 20 and 22, it's all the more extraordinary they reunited, got married, raised two wonderful adult children and continue the romance. They have literally been together their whole adult lives and have done and learned and experienced most of life's biggest milestones together.

Asked if he believes in, "love-at-first-sight," DeCarlo could not agree more, "Absolutely, that's exactly what I felt the first time I laid eyes on her!"

Tommy recorded the song and wants to share it with others and hopes that it will inspire them to tune in to their own inner voice and follow it. "I'd be honored if this song would be the favorite of other couples who have had the same experience as me," he says.

Hear Tommy's song "I Think I Fell In Love With You" (Featuring Gary Pihl on guitar) along with a special bonus track.
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