How Boston & Tom Scholz FOOLED The MUSIC INDUSTRY & PUBLIC,

The story of how Tom Scholz of Boston fooled the music industry and the public into thinking he was a band.


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Again this is where there’s another discrepancy in the story. One story is that the higher ups at Epic heard the new demo, loved it and wanted to sign the band on the spot. But the company had a policy of not signing bands unless they saw them perform live. Steve popovich a higher up at epic told the la times in 1976 that boston’s demo was the most professional demo he had ever heard.. Another story is that epic wasn’t fully convinced and teh showcase was going to be the make or break for the band. Either way a showcase was setup by Pure management at a warehouse that doubled as Aerosmith’s rehearsal space in November of 75.
But there was an issue. Scholz didn’t really have a band and he ultimately had stopped playing live shows one year prior Scholz planned on using Mother’s milk lineup, but they didn’t use drummer Jim Masdea. Their management didn’t think they got could get arecord deal with Masdea and during discussions about the rehearsals Masdea proposed doing a drum solo something that didn’t sit well with Scholz. Goodreau had a friend Fran Sheehan who filled in on bass, since Scholz did the bass on the demo recording and they enlisted local musician Sib Hashian..
That showcase came and went, the band according to scholz played horrible, but it was good enough. Again anothe discrepancy. In one piece on the band things went silent on Epic’s end after the showcase. In other news stories published on the band in 1976 epic apparently signed the band right away after the showcase. According to the 1978 rolling stone piece Scholz had two other demos lying around that weren’t finished yet. Thinking that if he could finish them, he could possibly get Epic’s attention he went to work on them resulting in the song’s More Than a Feeling and Something About You, Well the plan worked because Epic heard the two new songs and soon got an offer from the label -
Epic’s contract was with only Scholz and Delp since they wrote the band’s songs. They signed a 10 album contract that was to be fulfilled over 6 years, crazy by today’s standards, but a norm back then.. Epic loved the demo tape they claimed the demos could use some sprucing up with a producer. Epic had union rules that required that a recording engineer had to be present at all times during the making of the album. You can hear the demo tape on the bootleg album Honest, I Found It In The Trash Can)
Scholz took a leave of absence from his job while re-recording his parts on the record. Scholz didn’t like the union rules and wanted to be left alone to tinker with the record in his home studio. To keep the record label in the dark about how the album was being recorded Scholz cut a deal with Epic’s appointed producer John Boylan to take the band out to LA to record the vocals and run interference with the label.. Scholz meanwhile stayed at his home basement. As part of the deal Scholz also got a co-producer credit on the record. The only song recorded by the full band happened in LA on the Delp penned song Let Me Take You Home tonight. The LA sessions cost aboutt $40,000 while Scholz studio costs were around $1,500. The label only wised up when they saw the credits for the album, which listed Foxglove Studios in Waterton Mass.
Original Jim Masdea did play on one song Rock N’ Roll band and played on the song Don’t Be Afraid, which didn’t make the album, but it made Boston’s subsequent record. Upon handing the album into Epic Records, Scholtz continued to work at Polaroid not sure if his career in music would take off. He told entertainment weekly that he had been rejected so many times he didn’t expect anything. At best he was hoping that maybe one song off the record was going to get picked up by local radio and that was it.
With the album in the can, Scholz needed a name. The group’s producer Boylan and engineer Warren Dewey suggested the name Boston. The name made sense, especially for Scholtz who grew up listening to local boston radio WBZ.
Months before the album was released in March of 76, Epic s

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