TOM SCHOLZ
Tom Scholz (born March 10, 1947) is an American rock musician, inventor, engineer, and philanthropist, best known as the founder of the band Boston. He is also the inventor of the Rockman portable guitar amplifier. He has been described by Allmusic as “a notoriously ‘un-rock ’n’ roll’ figure who never enjoyed the limelight of being a performer”, preferring to concentrate almost exclusively on his music, and in more recent years, spending much of his time working with charities. (More from Wikipedia)
SMiLE was never completed by the Beach Boys. Part of the reason might have been the limitations of recording studio technology in those days; Brian Wilson was already becoming reclusive, and a decade later, he might have been able to put the album together privately and then spring it on the world, fully born – the way that studio wizard Tom Scholz was able to do with the original Boston album in 1976. Brian Wilson might have been over-reaching also, and there is little doubt that the pressure of the months of recording sessions contributed to the decades of drug addiction and mental illness that plagued Brian Wilson after the SMiLE recording sessions collapsed in early 1967.
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