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Scholz controls new Boston album

Tom Scholz is recognized as a perfectionist and control freak, so it's no surprise that the new Boston album was developed under his total control. Speaking with the Globe, Scholz acknowledged that although he tries to keep fans in mind when working on songs, in the end, '...it's all about what I like'.  That preoccupation is why Boston is perceived by many to be more a man than a band and why Scholz has a reputation for being so difficult to work with. Boston's 6th album finds Scholz takes full credit as the producer, arranger and engineer.  True to form, Life, Love & Hope is a product of Scholz spending months in his basement studio - 99% of the time alone, where there is '...no one else who is going to tell me if something is good or bad'.  As to outside influences, Scholz professes to have none, claiming he stopped listening to anyone's music other than his own sometime before 1973. Asked about a slide guitar part on the new album that is reminiscent of Joe Walsh on Rocky Mountain Way, Scholz acknowledged having learned a lot from listening to Walsh with the James Gang and Rocky Mountain Way came out, '...after I stopped listening to music.  James Gang Rides Again (1970) was the last album I ever bought'. Whether the result of  being such a recluse is good or bad in the ears and minds of fans remains to be seen.  

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