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from Vinyl

The story is that the tapes that made this were stolen from Tom Scholz' garbage. A more believable story is that these recordings came from one of the demo tapes sent out to record companies before Boston was a band. Who knows which story is true? But it is rumored that Tom now shreds his used recording tapes before throwing them out.

The sound quality is a bit rough, but considering the fact that these are early demos it is passable. In fact, for an amateur demo recording it is quite good. And if the legend is true, they were apparently good enough to land Boston a recording deal.

But the really neat thing about these six demos is the early musical directions that were being explored. For instance, "Life Isn't Easy", an early version of Something About You, goes in a surprising new direction other than what we're familiar with on the finished released product.

From www.boston.org:

Those are the infamous homemade recordings Tom Scholz made in his basement c. 1973-1975, which he then shopped around to various record companies. After securing the contract with CBS, the songs on the demos were ALL RE-RECORDED. Tom played all musical instruments except drums (which were played by Jim Masdea) and Brad Delp sang all vocals.

Incidentally, Tom claims that these tapes were NOT found in a trashcan; rather, they were stolen from him.