We decided to add a keyboard player, and I put an ad in the Boston Phoenix. This was the real “Animal House”, with togas and all. We practiced in the basement of his fraternity house and played their parties. I was at Boston University and he was across the river at MIT. That didn’t last long though and soon I had a band with an old high school band mate. When I started college I tried to put music aside to concentrate on my studies in Geology. I had never heard anybody sing like that before. Brad sang Led Zeppelin’s “Communication Breakdown”. Their guitar player had decided to leave and he brought me there to audition as the replacement. I met Brad Delp when I auditioned for his high school band. I’m sure the neighbors didn’t appreciate it as much as we did. We had some great times there, refining our chops until the wee hours. Fran’s house was the place musicians went to jam. It was around this time that I met Fran Sheehan. Sib and I played in bands together until he joined the army and went to Vietnam. The go-go dancers were very friendly though. We would sometimes play in a nightclub, 7 days a week, 7 sets a night. He would often just call out a key and a song title, give us a count and off we would go. I played “Jingle Bell Rock”.Īt age 15 I joined a band with Sib Hashian on drums, Johnny V. Boy, I wish I still had that one! the first time I played guitar in front of an audience was at a church event. As the song goes, I played until my fingers bled and they realized I was serious and had the drive to continue. By the time I was eleven years old, they had given in and borrowed an acoustic guitar from a friend and let me take lessons. They felt it was just a phase I was going through and refused. This was pre-seat belt, of course! I decided I wanted to play guitar and asked my parents to buy me one. I remember having a keen interest in music from an early age, standing in the back seat of my mother’s car, jumping up and down to the sounds of Elvis and Roy Orbison. The OFFICIAL website for former Boston guitarist, Barry Goudreau! Mother’s Milk, Boston, Orion The Hunter, RTZ, Lisa Guyer Band, Ernie and the Automatics The official website for former Boston guitarist, Barry Goudreau. Using no synthesizers, only guitars, drums and keyboards, the new album is traditional, but fresh, rock and roll.īoston is scheduled to play Monday in Fukuoka before closing their Japan tour with shows Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Tokyo's Budokan Hall.Barry Goudreau. It should help to debunk the rumor that Boston depends on studio tricks to produce their sound.
Boston's second album is more mature, more complex than its first, spiced with crisp guitars and distinct rhythm tracks. Although the sound is unmistakably theirs, the thick Phil Spector-like walls of sound are gone. The song, like the rest of "Don't Look Back," may surprise Boston fans. It's the best lets-get-down-and-party song since Grand Funk's "We're An American Band." "Party," a cut from their new album, fulfills Scholz's aim of trying to make people feel good.
"Music is intended for people's enjoyment, not for espousing a political stance," he says. He said it is a waste of time looking for any profound statements or social comments in their lyrics. "That's what rock and roll is all about." "We want to make people feel good," says Scholz, with an easy smile. Commenting on their new album's title - "Don't Look Back" - he says the title is meant to suggest an "optimistic outlook." Their neat appearance reflects Scholz's attitude toward music. At a Tokyo press conference, the five men seemed a little uncomfortable with all the attention that goes with rock stardom.Īt 6-foot-5, Scholz towers over the rest of the group, friendly and clean-cut with creases in their Levis. Still, Boston seems new to the sometimes jaded world of rock. "And the tapes I made were turned down by 21 recording companies before Epic offered us a contract." "We all played for years in clubs and bars around Boston," he says. Like most success stories, theirs was hardly "instant." Scholz says the details are true, but much of the Boston legend is myth. engineering grad, put the music on tape with a 12-track machine in the basement of his Watertown, Mass., home. The group's launch to fame was boosted by a true story about how founder Tom Scholz, an M.I.T.
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