Word: scholz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businesses and the swift disappearance of Jews from public life. He records the beginnings of a resistance that would grow through the war: 13 young Austrians refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler; Socialist Otto Haas, building his network of anti-Nazi information; Father Roman Karl Scholz founding his Austrian Freedom Movement. All were caught and executed...
...second pass, Tom Scholz 's crew still flies high
Nearly 6.5 million copies have now been sold. The success of Boston was so left field-as abrupt, decisive and cleaving as one of Leader Tom Scholz's guitar breaks-that the group came to be treated as if it had been freshly cloned for stardom. When Boston went back into the studio to make their second album, much hope was raised, but many doubts lingered. The new album, out a little more than a month, could settle the score. Don't Look Back shot to the upper regions of the charts; the album's title track...
Boston does not make the kind of music that moves writers to darken the page with excerpted lyrics that snake through the columns like trenches. Scholz himself admits, "I never thought I was too good with lyrics," and the results of his struggles are at best serviceable ("And it gets harder every day for me/ To hide behind this dream you see/ A man I'll never be"). It's the music that is, well, if not wholly memorable, at least for the moment unique...
...guess the sound is three things," says Scholz. "Power guitars, the harmony vocals and the double-guitar leads." He was heavily influenced by "raunchy stuff, like Cream and Led Zeppelin." He first heard a dual-guitar harmony on an old Zep cut, How Many More Times, and expanded the Boston sound from there. But Scholz slips his music through so many acoustical refinements that the result is one part raw energy, another part applied science. "I was really annoyed about the first album," Scholz told TIME's Jeff Melvoin. "My primary love of the sounds of rock...