The Boston Archive
Newspaper and magazine coverage, concert and album reviews, and radio and television interviews — catalogued from verified sources and searchable by year, publication and type.
Every record here links to the source it was verified against. The archive is being catalogued continuously; thin years reflect what has been indexed so far as much as what was printed.
Showing 171 records
YouTube - Jammin' Jay · 2017-09-29
Sweet recounts how he came to join Boston before performing Amanda; recorded in Fresno, CA.
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The Blade (Toledo) · Jul 2, 2017
Hometown profile: Ottawa Hills High School and MIT, classical concerts at the Toledo Museum of Art, picking up guitar at 21.
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The Call · Jun 28, 2017
Syndicated 2017 tour feature on Scholz at 70 — vegetarianism, ice skating, the gym — and why the road still suits him.
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Sun Herald · Jun 27, 2017
DeCarlo on his show-day vocal regimen and recording Life, Love & Hope.
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Best Classic Bands · Apr 16, 2017
Part two: classical music as first influence, the Kinks and Yardbirds as rock entry point, Delp as the best studio singer he had worked with.
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Best Classic Bands · Apr 9, 2017
Part one of two ahead of the 2017 Hyper Space tour: how the records get made and how the six-piece band recreates them live.
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The Improper Bostonian · Mar 24, 2017
Wide-ranging Q&A on his creative process, why complex arrangements need obsessive rehearsal, and where he keeps his platinum records.
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The Boston Globe · Aug 15, 2016
Review of the first of two hometown shows closing the 40th-anniversary tour, opening with the harmony-guitar Star-Spangled Banner into Rock & Roll Band and Smokin'.
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The News-Dispatch · May 19, 2016
Anniversary-tour preview built around bassist Tracy Ferrie's path from championship roller skater to touring with Boston.
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cleveland.com / The Plain Dealer · May 11, 2016
Anniversary-tour feature on the all-analog rig, roughly 30 sound changes per song across three guitarists in stereo, and his Toledo-to-MIT backstory.
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Miami Herald · Apr 27, 2016
40th-anniversary interview in which Scholz reflects on the debut album's legacy and credits the Jeff Beck Group with pulling him toward rock.
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Broward/Palm Beach New Times · Apr 22, 2016
40th-anniversary interview: defying 1970s industry scepticism, his commitment to analog and sobriety, and the new anniversary staging.
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Best Classic Bands · Feb 21, 2016
Announcement and running update of the 40th-anniversary tour, including the two hometown Wang Theatre shows that closed the run.
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The Modesto Bee · Jul 15, 2015
Tour-stop feature with Gary Pihl crediting fan devotion for the band's longevity.
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AXS.com · 2014-08-29
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Pihl discusses Life, Love & Hope and the tour, plus his earlier years with Sammy Hagar.
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Guitar Player · Jun 27, 2014
Tone-focused interview: detuned multi-guitar stereo layering, the razor-blade tape splice with 80-100 cuts, and advice to home recordists.
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northfulton.com · Jun 17, 2014
Review of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Alpharetta, GA) double bill with .38 Special, praising the theatrical production.
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Boca Raton Magazine · Jun 6, 2014
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Review of the Heaven on Earth tour at Hard Rock Live, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood — a 20-song retrospective.
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PBS NOVA - The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers · 2014-05-29
Mini-documentary in which the MIT-trained engineer tours his studio and explains the gear he invented, including the Rockman and the Hyperspace pedal.
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Ultimate Classic Rock · Apr 30, 2014
Scholz announces the 2014 summer tour behind Life, Love & Hope and describes how new material sits alongside the hits.
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SiriusXM Classic Rewind · 2014-03-11
Feature-length SiriusXM exclusive recorded inside Hideaway Studio II, going track by track through the making of the album.
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Premier Guitar · Dec 10, 2013
Gear-focused interview: analog overdrive, echo and chorus, his small collection of vintage Guilds and 1968 Les Pauls, improvising leads in the studio.
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Gibson.com · Dec 6, 2013
Scholz picks the ten guitar records that shaped him and talks about his two 1968 Les Paul goldtops.
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SoundBard · Dec 5, 2013
Audio-craft interview: three technical objections to digital recording, his hoard of Quantegy 456 tape, and emotion as compositional driver.
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Ultimate Classic Rock · Dec 3, 2013
Mixed review of the sixth album, praising Heaven on Earth while calling the record overall frustrating and unfocused. Critical.
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Guitar World · Dec 2, 2013
Album-release interview on the all-analog approach, the eight-track detuned rhythm-guitar method, and choosing which singer suited which song.
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Ultimate Classic Rock · Nov 24, 2013
Scholz says unreleased Delp material, including live performances, still exists, and explains what he would and would not release.
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Guitar World · 2013
Announcement story confirming Delp's vocals feature on the album and that Scholz aimed for the band's early sound.
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Guitar World · 2013
Magazine feature on the release as the last Boston record carrying previously unreleased Brad Delp vocals.
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The Express-Times / lehighvalleylive.com · Aug 12, 2012
Musikfest concert review — technically precise greatest-hits set, though the reviewer felt the band was going through the motions. Mixed/negative.
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ABC affiliate, Columbus OH · 2012-08-01
Local news crew interviews the touring band on the road in Columbus, Ohio.
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The Washington Post · Oct 12, 2008
National feature on classic-rock bands touring with new lead singers, using Boston's Tommy DeCarlo and Michael Sweet as its lead example.
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New York State Fair / contemporary press coverage · August 27, 2008
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Boston Herald · Jul 31, 2008
Michael Sweet on joining Boston for the 2008 tour and how the 2007 tribute concert became the starting point for the new lineup.
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Post-Tribune · Jul 18, 2008
Syndicated tour feature on the 2008 return to the road, the two-vocalist lineup, and the spaceship stage production.
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Leader-Telegram · July 18, 2008
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The Oklahoman · June 26, 2008
This is another strong entry. It is explicitly identified as a concert review, written by Chris Colberg for The Oklahoman. It covers BOSTON's performance at the Zoo Amphitheater, including the opening, Tom Scholz's performance, songs performed and audience reaction.
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ABC - Good Morning America · 2008-06-01
Network morning-show segment with Scholz and DeCarlo introducing the 2008 Greatest Hits summer tour and the new lineup.
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MSNBC - The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch · 2008-05-20
Cable-TV feature on DeCarlo's jump from a retail job and home recordings posted online to fronting Boston.
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The Boston Globe · Aug 20, 2007
Review of the five-hour Come Together tribute concert, with an encore reuniting Scholz, Goudreau and Sheehan, and a film by Delp's daughter.
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Boston Herald · Aug 20, 2007
Herald review of the tribute concert: seven bands, Extreme debuting Rock 'n' Roll Man, Godsmack acoustic, RTZ and Beatle Juice, and Tommy DeCarlo flown up to sing.
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The Boston Globe · Aug 18, 2007
Preview of the Come Together benefit at the Bank of America Pavilion, with surviving and former Boston members reuniting on stage to honour Delp.
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Boston Herald · Mar 11, 2007
Reaction piece gathering tributes from bandmates and fans, built around Delp's reputation as the nicest man in rock and roll.
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The Boston Globe · Mar 10, 2007
The Globe's appreciation of Delp by its longtime rock critic, celebrating his vocal range and generosity toward the local music community.
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Associated Press · Mar 9, 2007
Wire obituary reporting Delp's death at 55, summarising his career from the 1976 debut through Corporate America, with the band's statement.
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Sound & Vision · Nov 4, 2006
Detailed interview on the 30th-anniversary remasters and Scholz's objections to MP3s and 16-bit CD audio.
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Guitar World · Oct 1, 2006
30th-anniversary remaster feature: recording the debut in a basement on a 12-track, why the original CDs sounded terrible, and restoring both albums with engineer Bill Ryan.
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Boston Herald · Jun 13, 2006
Scholz on the 2006 remasters of the debut and Don't Look Back, and on liner notes revealing he played nearly all the instruments.
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Toronto Star · Aug 21, 2003
Tour-stop feature ahead of the Molson Amphitheatre show on the Corporate America tour.
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Houston Music Review · August 9, 2003
This is a genuine concert review of BOSTON's performance at the Woodlands Pavilion in Spring, Texas. It discusses the actual performance, Scholz's guitar playing, Brad Delp and Fran Cosmo's vocals, the set list and the band's progression through the concert.
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WLVQ 96.3 QFM Columbus (Wags and Elliott) · 2003
Morning-show interview with Delp, later rebroadcast by the hosts as a tribute in the week after his death.
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Guitar World · Dec 2002
Corporate America cover-cycle interview: the first Boston album with complete songs by other members, his perfectionism, and the Rockman's legacy.
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Bostock V fan gathering · 2000-07
Delp phones the Bostock fan gathering in rural Ohio and takes questions on the forthcoming Corporate America, his Beatles tribute band Beatlejuice, working with Scholz, and the rise of MP3s.
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EE Times · Apr 17, 1998
Engineering-trade profile of Scholz as the MIT-trained inventor behind the Rockman, and why he stayed analog as the industry went digital.
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Maximum Guitar · Sep 1997
Guitar interview around Greatest Hits: the Power Soak, harmonized guitar arrangements, the five-year writing of More Than a Feeling, and his rock Star-Spangled Banner.
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Guitar World · Feb 1996
Long technical interview: Scholz explains his all-analog layered wall-of-sound method, his Rockman signal chain and why he avoids current music.
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Los Angeles Times · July 17, 1995
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Los Angeles Times · July 17, 1995
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Philadelphia Inquirer · Jun 14, 1995
Tom Scholz discusses the long gaps between Boston albums, the band's 20-million-plus sales and the touring cycle behind Walk On.
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Video Max · 1995
Delp interviewed for a regional music-TV programme at the Blockbuster Pavilion, Charlotte NC during the 1995 tour.
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The Boston Phoenix · Dec 9, 1994
Long phone interview ahead of Boston's Dec 13 1994 House of Blues benefit, the first small-club show of the band's career and the opening night of the Walk On tour. Scholz shrugs off being called a 70s relic, says he only learned of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit borrowing from interviewers, and plays down Delp's absence from Walk On.
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The Gavin Report · Oct 28, 1994
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Review of the third Walk On single: quality in all aspects of the record-making process has always been a priority for Boston founder Tom Scholz.
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Billboard · Aug 20, 1994
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Single Reviews entry for the second Walk On single, produced and written by Tom Scholz, MCA cassette single.
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The Gavin Report · Aug 12, 1994
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Review of the second Walk On single: to many the name Boston is synonymous with the very finest in rock production, and the group's re-entry on the chart proves Scholz still demands nothing less than the best.
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Billboard · Jun 25, 1994
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Review of Walk On opens Fortunately for Boston, critics don't buy records, people do, and predicts album No. 4 will hit the band's fans where they live via I Need Your Love, the ballad Livin' For You and the title track.
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The Gavin Report · Jun 3, 1994
News note that former Boston members Barry Goudreau and Brad Delp are about half finished with a new album and are debating a name change — the post-RTZ project running alongside Boston's Walk On.
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In The Studio / WEBN 102.7 Cincinnati · 1994-05-29
World-premiere broadcast of Walk On: Scholz talks through the album and demonstrates guitar equipment at the end of the show. Off-air recording.
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Billboard · May 28, 1994
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Single Reviews entry for the Walk On lead single, credited producer Tom Scholz, writers T. Scholz / F. Sampson, MCA.
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The Gavin Report · May 20, 1994
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Review of the Walk On lead single: superstars in the 70s, a noteworthy comeback in the 80s, and now Scholz creates his first masterpiece of the 90s.
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Los Angeles Times · June/July 1994
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Contemporary coverage of BOSTON's return to touring after the long hiatus
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The Baltimore Sun · Nov 14, 1991
Delp explains RTZ operates as a straightforward five-piece with none of the heavy production layering of Boston, and says there's a little more of me in this music.
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St. Petersburg Times · Jun 10, 1991
Feature on Brad Delp and the launch of RTZ with ex-Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau, published a month before the RTZ debut album.
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MuchMusic · 1988-12-17
Canadian music-television interview with Delp recorded in Vancouver at the close of the Third Stage touring cycle.
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Billboard · Sep 5, 1987
Reports Boston set the largest gross ever at the Centrum in Worcester with nine sold-out shows grossing about $1.95 million; the same issue's Boxscore lists BOSTON / FARRENHEIT at the Centrum Aug 13-16, 18-21 and 24, gross $1,975,671, attendance 109,827, promoter Don Law Co.
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YouTube - Just My Classics · 1987-08-21
Backstage footage from the eighth of nine Third Stage tour nights at the Worcester Centrum: the band receives an award from the city, plus a short Delp interview.
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Boston Globe · August 13, 1987
Coverage of BOSTON's unprecedented nine-show run at the Worcester Centrum.
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Billboard · Jul 25, 1987
Talent-page photo item (photo by Chuck Pulin) captioned Tom Scholz leads Boston through the first of four sellout shows at New Jersey's Meadowlands Arena.
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Los Angeles Times · July 20, 1987
Review of BOSTON's Forum performance during the Third Stage tour.
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Los Angeles Times · July 19, 1987
Coverage of the 1987 tour and BOSTON's return to live performance after the long recording period.
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The New York Times · Jul 4, 1987
Review of the first of four sold-out Brendan Byrne Arena shows on the Third Stage tour: a few early songs then Third Stage performed start to finish, with Gary Pihl on second lead guitar and almost no visual effects.
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The Gavin Report · Jun 12, 1987
Short quotation panel citing Tom Scholz of Boston discussing his eating habits in The Animals' Agenda — a rare non-musical Scholz press appearance from the tour year.
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Billboard · May 23, 1987
Announces Boston's return to the stage with a June 20 headline set at the Texxas World Music Festival at the Cotton Bowl, a five-night Greek Theatre stand and an Aug 17 Madison Square Garden date; manager Jeff Dorenfeld explains the switch from stadiums to arenas, and the touring band is named as Scholz with Delp, Gary Pihl and Jim Masdea.
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Billboard · May 9, 1987
Brief talent-column item reporting the rumour that Tom Scholz's band will only appear in stadiums this summer — a plan reported two weeks later to have been dropped in favour of arenas.
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Billboard · Apr 11, 1987
Column item announcing MCA Radio Network will give listeners a rare look at the previously media-shy Tom Scholz and Brad Delp of Boston.
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Billboard · Mar 21, 1987
Q&A as the band prepares its first live dates since 1979-80: how the six-year album came together, why he took Scholz Research & Development full-time in 1982 to fund the record, praise for MCA's Irving Azoff, and his reasoning behind Boston's no-video policy.
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Billboard · Feb 28, 1987
Talent-section note reporting Scholz is donating all royalties from To Be A Man, a Third Stage track, to Greenpeace.
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The Gavin Report · Feb 13, 1987
Rare Scholz interview granted only on condition questions stayed on the musical and creative side of Third Stage; covers a basketball back injury that put touring in doubt, dissatisfaction with the 1979-80 shows, founding Scholz Research & Development in 1981, the Rockman, and his Polaroid engineering background.
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The Gavin Report · Feb 13, 1987
Companion interview in which Delp says it never worried him to be out of the public eye during the eight-year gap, describes writing an alternate set of lyrics merged with Scholz's, and says he lived quietly in New Hampshire where most people had no idea who he was.
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Circus (Year in Rock & Roll special) · Jan 31, 1987
Year-in-rock annual runs the full Amanda lyric with a Boston Fast Facts box (founded 1975; line-up Scholz, Delp, Masdea, Pihl) and a caption noting Scholz enlisted ex-Sammy Hagar guitarist Gary Pihl for Third Stage.
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Radio & Records · Dec 5, 1986
Trade item on Livewire Entertainment and MCA running one of the biggest sweepstakes and promotions ever for Third Stage across eight major markets; the same issue's year-end AOR piece notes after eight years Boston was welcomed back to the charts.
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Billboard · Nov 8, 1986
Chartbeat marks Amanda reaching No. 1, notes Scholz is 39, and points out Boston is only the second act from the city to hold the No. 1 album and single simultaneously in five years.
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The New York Times · Nov 5, 1986
Pareles interviews Scholz by phone as Third Stage tops the chart, framing the record as a deliberate 1970s throwback — analog, no synthesizers, no video, no band photo — and covering the Rockman and the six-year making of the album.
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The Boston Phoenix · Oct 21, 1986
Long review of Third Stage profiling Scholz as an MIT-trained electronics savant, tracing the Rockman and Scholz Research & Development of Waltham, and judging Third Stage the best of the three Boston albums despite its deep conservatism.
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Billboard · Oct 4, 1986
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Pop album review of Third Stage, noting Scholz kept the band's signature sound intact by spurning current studio devices and trends, calling the results a bonanza for fans of the Boston sound.
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WAQX Syracuse · 1984-06-27
Pre-show radio interview before an Orion the Hunter / Aerosmith date, with Goudreau on his post-Boston band (which included Fran Cosmo on lead vocals).
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Musician · Oct 1982
Working Musician feature interviewing Scholz in his basement studio about the Power Soak and the new Rockman, and the four-year wait for Boston's third album: the record's taken a solid two years just in the studio.
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Musician · Oct 1981
Feature on the AOR/hard-pop wave crediting Scholz — an engineer working for Polaroid came up with the ideal studio guitar sound — with Barry Goudreau explaining Boston's guitar EQ technique. Boston is one of several bands covered.
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Westwood One - The Rock Years: Portrait of an Era · 1980
Vinyl rip of the Westwood One syndicated radio documentary; the 1976 hour carries Goudreau's recollections of Boston's arrival.
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Hollywood Heartbeat · 1980
Short syndicated-TV interview taped just after Goudreau's solo album appeared, while he was still a member of Boston.
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New Musical Express · Oct 20, 1979
NME live review of Boston's London Rainbow Theatre show on the band's rare UK appearance.
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Rock's Backpages Audio (John Tobler interview) · Oct 1979
Archived audio interview with Scholz and Delp on making the first album in Tom's basement without Epic's knowledge, Scholz's influences, Brad's contribution, and the difficult making of Don't Look Back.
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Sounds · Sep 29, 1979
Report and interview built around the Rock & Roll Band lyric, covering the band around their 1979 UK visit.
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The Western Texan · February 15, 1979
A much more positive review of the February 8, 1979 Lubbock concert, describing the sold-out 10,500+ crowd and the band's stage production.
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The University Daily · February 12, 1979
A particularly interesting contemporary review because it criticized BOSTON's difficulty translating its studio sound to the stage.
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Rolling Stone · Jan 25, 1979
Rolling Stone live review of Boston's hometown Boston Garden show with Sammy Hagar.
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1979
Pop Music
Rock Band Boston: Barry Goudreau, Sib Hashian, Fran Sheehan, Tom Scholz and Brad Delp (L-R)
YouTube - cutting the chord · 1979
Delp talks to Direct News about Scholz rebuilding the studio before Don't Look Back and about shaking off the techno-rock label.
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Internet Archive (plattsburghdc) · 1978-11-16
Campus-radio interview on the Don't Look Back tour: forthcoming material, how the band's real story differs from its rock-and-roll image, and why Scholz's private studio suited them better than a commercial room.
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The Villanovan · November 3, 1978
on the scene
November 3, 1978 - THE VILLANOVAN - Page 13
Boston Is Back!
Creem · Nov 1978
Creem's album review of Don't Look Back, opening with an extended romance metaphor.
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Sounds · Oct 14, 1978
Live review of a Boston concert in San Francisco.
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High Fidelity · Oct 1978
Interview feature reported from Scholz's basement studio as the leader of a six-million-dollar band tries to finish the second record.
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Record World · Sep 16, 1978
Cover story on the band's second act, with Goudreau on the debut going gold before they had played a gig; same issue carries a photo report from the Madison Square Garden platinum presentation.
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The Boston Phoenix · Sep 5, 1978
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Long critical essay reading Rock & Roll Band as Scholz's fantasy and assessing both albums as hard rock that was soft enough not to antagonize, soft rock that was hard enough not to fade away.
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Melody Maker · Aug 26, 1978
Album review of Don't Look Back: America has learned its lessons well; we could not expect British bands to reign supreme in their country for ever.
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Billboard · Aug 26, 1978
Full album review naming best cuts (A Man I'll Never Be, Don't Look Back, Feeling Satisfied, Don't Be Afraid, Party) and crediting all five members by instrument.
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Cash Box · Aug 26, 1978
Album review: difficult to recall when a second album by a group was so hotly anticipated; undeniably an appealing, consistently engaging affair.
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Cash Box · Aug 26, 1978
Trade news story on Epic's marketing campaign behind Don't Look Back — fibre-optic light boxes, super posters, neon pieces — with Don Dempsey quoted on the boundless versatility of Tom Scholz.
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Record World · Aug 26, 1978
Album pick: the wait will undoubtedly be worth it as Scholz and the group enhance rather than stray from the textured sound that sent their debut to the mega platinum plateau.
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Billboard · Aug 19, 1978
Singles review of the title track from the second album, produced and written by Tom Scholz.
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Cash Box · Aug 19, 1978
Singles Feature Pick: Scholz and Goudreau open with blazing guitar riffs. Soaring vocals, melodic passages and a break at the three-minute mark temper the hard rock edge.
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Record World · Aug 19, 1978
Singles pick: the long-awaited second Boston album is previewed with the title track.
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Rolling Stone · Aug 10, 1978
Rolling Stone issue 271 feature: the discovery story (Charlie McKenzie / Paul Ahern), Walter Yetnikoff on the debut's runaway success, and reporting from Swampscott while the long-delayed second album is still unfinished.
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The Tapes Archive · 1978
Previously unpublished 1978 tape of a 27-year-old Delp during the making of Don't Look Back: the flooding of Scholz's basement studio, whether Boston is a democracy, the label's view of the two-year gap, and Delp's self-doubt.
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Creem · Jul 1977
Report and interview subtitled Boston learn to be stars — on the band adjusting to sudden success and life on the road.
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Sounds · May 14, 1977
Report and interview: There are five people in Boston. Barry, Tom, Sib, Brad and Fran. One year ago no one knew who they were.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Creem · May 1977
Multi-artist comment feature in which Boston appears alongside Aerosmith, Blondie, KISS, Patti Smith and others — Boston is one of many subjects, not the sole focus.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
New England magazine, Boston Sunday Globe · March 20, 1977
The man who invented 'Boston'
By Nathan Cobb
The Observer · March 1, 1977
Review of BOSTON's performance before the ACC crowd. The review discusses Tom Scholz's guitar sound, the band's live presentation, “Rock ’n’ Roll Band,” “Smokin'” and “Foreplay.”
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Melody Maker · Feb 19, 1977
Profile and interview reported from New Jersey on the band who came from nowhere taking off in unprecedented fashion.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Sounds · Jan 29, 1977
Report and interview: how can any band be so special that their very first album goes platinum? Barton goes to the States to investigate.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Sounds · Jan 8, 1977
Live review of Boston with Bob Seger in Harrisburg, opening Amazing what a platinum album can do, isn't it?
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Walrus · Dec 1, 1976
No printed headline
Radio-reviewer concert report praising Boston's Halloween set, singling out More Than a Feeling, Smokin' and guitar antics by Tom Scholz. Positive.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Record World · Nov 6, 1976
Profile charting the debut album's rapid ascent, defending the band against hostile critics, and reviewing their first national tour date (Oct 22, Tulsa Civic Center Arena, opening for Black Sabbath).
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Phonograph Record Magazine · Nov 1976
Feature tracing the band's formation from North Shore bar bands, Scholz's MIT/Polaroid background and the McKenzie-Ahern management story, with Scholz quoted hoping people won't think of them as a computerized Monkees.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
The Boston Phoenix · Oct 26, 1976
Harshly critical review of Boston opening for Blue Oyster Cult at Boston's Music Hall, faulting the live sound and stage inexperience while praising More Than a Feeling as one of the year's best 45s. Negative.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Billboard · Sep 11, 1976
Album review of the debut LP, opening This highly touted New England group. OCR of the column is fragmentary but the entry is unambiguous.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
The Boston Phoenix · Sep 7, 1976
Review of Boston's disastrous outdoor hometown-area debut in Waltham, where the band's amps failed; assesses each member individually and concludes they do have what it takes. Section Two, p. 8.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Cash Box · Sep 4, 1976
Album review of the debut: not many hard rock bands show even a smidgeon of the concern for pleasing melody lines and supporting harmonics that are the hallmarks of the Boston sound. An extremely impressive debut album.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Record World · Sep 4, 1976
Singles-picks column reviews the debut single with full production and writer credits.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
The Boston Phoenix · Aug 31, 1976
No printed headline
Reports from Epic's press launch for the debut LP, profiling Scholz's MIT background and Foxglove home studio, describing the record as a cross between the Raspberries and good Grand Funk.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Billboard · Aug 28, 1976
Billboard's singles review column picks the debut single, crediting producers John Boylan and Tom Scholz.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Cash Box · Aug 28, 1976
Reviews the debut single as a good progressive single, hard-rock but with a sophisticated melody, predicting quick FM adds. Same issue carries an Epic/CBS column touting Boston as better music through science.
Catalogued from a citation. The page has not been scanned or transcribed yet.
Trade-paper photo item marking Boston's second platinum award from CBS Records/Canada for the debut album.
CANADIAN METAL — Boston recently picked up their second platinum record from CBS Records/Canada for their first album for Epic, which along with the group's single, “More Than a Feeling,” is also charting in the U.K., Holland, Germany and Australia.
Shown above are (from left, standing) Terry Lynd, CBS Canada president; Paul Ahern, co-manager with Charlie McKenzie, far right; Bruce Lundvall, Columbia Records president; Boston's Tom Scholz and Barry Goudreau; Ron Alexenburg, Epic senior vice president; Sib Hashian of Boston, and Lennie Petze, Epic A&R vice president — (kneeling) Boston's Brad Delp, producer John Boylan, and Fran Sheehan of Boston.
How to Make Extra Money Working at Home in Your Own Basement...
By Tom Scholz
Sitting on a folding metal chair in a basement in 1976, I was tweaking the mix of a demo that Brad Delp, Jim Masdea and I had recorded in my home-brew studio.
Tom Scholz & Boston: '76 Rock History
"A cross between the Raspberries & Good Grand Funk"
SAT., AUG. 19
No printed headline
SON OF BAMBOO PRESENTS
WABX--Cellent Concert
The shape of the archive
Press about this band was never evenly distributed, and the archive shows it. The heaviest run is 1976–79, when the debut and Don't Look Back put the band in every trade weekly and rock monthly at once. The second peak is 1986–87, around Third Stage and the tour that followed, and a third arrives with Walk On in 1994.
The quiet stretches line up with the gaps between records and tours — when there was no album to review and no show to cover, the papers moved on. Coverage picks up again across the 2010s as the anniversary tours brought the band back into print and onto the radio.
The shape is also a map of what has been indexed so far. A thin year can mean the press was genuinely quiet, or simply that its coverage has not been catalogued yet.171 — items indexed across 34 years and 10 types.
Type is assigned at intake: Reviews covers concert and album reviews, Features covers cover stories, interviews and gear/tech pieces, News covers wire items and tour announcements. Records marked “Citation only” are verified references to material held elsewhere; follow the source link to read or listen in full.
