Tom Scholz
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Donald Thomas Scholz (born March 10, 1947) is an American rock musician, composer, programmer, engineer, and philanthropist best known as the group's founding and only original member of the band Boston.
He came into the recording industry in a strange way; as an MIT-trained engineer interested in music, he had built his own recording studio in a apartment building basement to capture his own music.
The first Boston album was mainly recorded in this basement studio, often using equipment he invented and built himself.
He formed Scholz Research & Development, Inc. after the band's initial success.
Many under the Rockman brand, one of which is available is to create and sell his own inventions.
AllMusic has characterized him as "an infamously "un-rock n' roll" figure who never enjoyed the limelight of being a performer," instead of focusing more on music, fabrication, and inventing new electronic equipment.
In recent years, he has concentrated much of his money and time on charitable causes.
Early life
Tom Scholz was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew in the suburb of Ottawa Hills. Don Scholz, his father, was a homebuilder who became wealthy from his prefabricated luxury homes and founded Scholz Design, Scholz's forerunner.
Scholz played classical piano as an infant. He had a penchant for tinkering with everything from go-karts to model airplanes, and was never building or designing. He graduated from Ottawa Hills High School in 1965 as a top student and a member of the varsity basketball team. Scholz earned a bachelor's degree (1969) and a master's degree (1970) in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1970) as a senior product design engineer before his musical career, as well as working for Polaroid Corporation as a senior product design engineer.
Personal life
Cynthia Hartford, Scholz's first wife, married him in October 1970, shortly after they both graduated from college. They have a son, Jeremy Scholz, who followed in his father's footsteps by graduating from MIT and becoming a successful entrepreneur (but not necessarily a professional musician).
Scholz married Kim Hart in the Florida Keys on January 11, 2007. They live in the Boston area.
Scholz has been a vegetarian for more than 30 years.
He founded the DTS Charitable Foundation in 1987, which has a variety of objectives: supporting animal welfare, preventing hunger, preventing hunger, making homeless shelters, food banks, animal rescues, and sanctuaries, and advocating for children's rights. The foundation has raised millions of dollars. In 2013, PETA gave him the Compassionate Action Award.
Career
Scholz, amidst his work at Polaroid, had a keen interest in music and began recording demos in his home studio. He spent six years unsuccessfully delivering demos to recording companies.
The demos piqued Epic Records' interest, which had signed Scholz and singer Brad Delp to a recording deal. Scholz's demos were good enough for publication as Boston's first album, but Epic asked Scholz to re-record the demos. Scholz performed the majority of the guitar, bass, and keyboards, although other performers were active throughout the recordings, especially drummer Jim Masdea. Epic did not want the album to be recorded entirely in Scholz's house as Scholz had intended (the label suggested using a recording studio), but the bulk of the album had actually been recorded by Scholz in his basement. Scholz and Delp also included three more local musicians to round out the band, but not much on the album itself: bassist Fran Sheehan, guitarist Barry Goudreau, and drummer Sib Hashian.
The album was released in 1976 and became the best-selling debut album by an artist up to that time. The single "More Than a Feeling" has become a rock classic. The band also became a hit live act shortly after.
Scholz's reputed perfectionism postponed the sequel to Don't Look Back for two years. When it was finally released, he was dissatisfied with the result, claiming that the record company was released under pressure. Scholz also stated that he would not release any more music until he was 100% satisfied with the final product. Consequently, Third Stage, Boston's third album, did not appear until 1986. The album was certified platinum, and "Amanda" debuted at the top of the singles chart. Scholz and Brad Delp were the only two members of the original band to appear on the album.
Under the name Rockman, Scholz also started his own line of guitar effects. One of the many Rockman effects available, one could imitate the distinctive "Boston" guitar sound. The boxes were placed in cabinets and tested using an (analog) stereo signal path. The originals are now collector's items.
Brad Delp's adult children arranged a concert in his honour on August 19, 2007, at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston, inviting the group to perform. Fran Cosmo was unable to perform due to a vocal injury, so Scholz welcomed guest stars Michael Sweet from Stryper and Tommy DeCarlo, a long-time Boston fan who appeared on lead vocals, to perform in his place. DeCarlo would later become Boston's lead singer. For the first time in over 25 years, early Boston residents Barry Goudreau and Fran Sheehan appeared, joined Scholz on stage for the first time in over 25 years.