The Band Boston Announces 2012 Tour Dates

Tom Scholz has lived in Beantown for three decades and lays out his favorite haunts

The Lowdown:

MIT grad and founder of the rock band BOSTON, Tom Scholz has lived in Beantown for three decades and lays out his favorite haunts.

HANGOUT
Faneuil Hall Marketplace, also known as Quincy Market, is a great place to relax outdoors and watch the endless and entertaining parade of people and street performers (1 Faneuil Hall, 617-523-1300).

EATS
My wife and I love the Mediterranean food at Vlora where there are plenty of options for vegetarians (545 Boylston St, 617-638-9699).

Cafe Sol Azteca, just a short ride from downtown Boston, has a beautiful outdoor terrace and serves excellent guacamole, black bean soup and margaritas (75 Union St, Newton Ctr; 617-964-0920).

Farther out in Waltham, La Campania serves the finest gourmet Italian fare in a relaxed but elegant setting (504 Main St; 781-894-4280).

MUST-DO
See a show at Symphony Hall. The acoustics are considered to be the best in the nation. The huge 4,800-pipe organ is incredible, and the grand decor will take you back in time (301 Massachusetts Ave, 617-266-1492).

Official Statement from Boston

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.