![]() It was the old adage, “If you want it done right then do it yourself.” I knew that if it failed then I would have no one to blame but myself.” He continued, saying: I was never able to do that when I tried to work with other musicians. So I could experiment and find the sounds that I needed. I played all of the instruments and by doing that I could finally get everything that I was imagining and hearing. “It was completely done by my drummer friend Jim Masdea and myself. Out of that came “Peace of Mind,” “Rock n Roll Band,” “Hitch a Ride” and “Don’t Be Afraid.” So I quit playing with bands at that point and I set up in my basement and I went to work. I knew that all I would ever do was play once and a while in a club and have no one really listen to the music. “I knew that I was going nowhere unless I started doing what I knew I could do and started doing it myself. But they didn’t play the music that became the music I wrote with Boston.” So I had been bumming around playing in local bands that didn’t have a future. I took all of the money and spent it on recording equipment that was good enough to record the demos that landed the Epic Records deal. I had been working for five years at that point. In 1974, I basically blew all of my money. How Boston’s Tom Scholz made their entire debut album in his basement ![]() In an interview with Classic Rock Revisited back in 2008, the musician recalled the recording process. ![]()
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