Boston leader (and sole original member) Tom Scholz has announced that the group is planning to finish a new studio album after its summer tour. Scholz says the record will be out “just after the first of the year.” I wonder what year he’s referring to?
The new album will reportedly include a number of songs from Corporate America, Boston previous studio album. Scholz is remixing, rearranging and, in some cases, completely re-recording the songs. The reasoning, according to Scholz, is that Corporate America was a flop. This is where the logic of making a new record becomes muddled. I mean, why would you include songs that flopped? Aren’t you, in effect, increasing the odds that the new record will also flop?
Apparently, Scholz, in his infinite wisdom, is hoping the public will show a little sympathy and plop down their hard-earned dollars for a new record because of singer Brad Delp’s 2007 suicide. As it so happens, Delp lent his unique tenor to a couple of tracks. The other tunes are to be vocally augmented with former Stryper singer Michael Sweet and Tommy DeCarlo, a fan Scholz discovered via a Delp tribute DeCarlo posted to YouTube.
Scholz is also revising the group’s Greatest Hits album to coincide with the tour. Rumors that Scholz is planning to re-record other Boston albums with American Idol rejects have been dismissed as “ridiculous” by a unknown source.
