Difficult rock songs from a brainy town

Tom Scholz in 2008

“All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.’’

Tom Scholz (born 1947), the founder, main songwriter, primary guitarist and only remaining original member of the rock band Boston, named after Scholz’s home town.

He’s a MIT-trained engineer who designed and built his own recording studio in an apartment basement in the early 70's. Scholz began writing songs while earning his master's degree at MIT. The first Boston album was mostly recorded in his basement studio, mostly using devices he designed and invented.