summer tour, the veteran guitarist and the latest edition of Boston will perform two shows in San Diego this month. ![]() “The ‘Iron Butterfly Theme’s’ odd time-signature, the sound of the guitar and its brute power, that’s what really got me,” the 67-year-old Scholz recalled.Īs part of their ongoing U.S. He gave extra emphasis to its unabashedly psychedelic guitar lines. To prove it, Scholz began to sing the principal melody from the all-instrumental “Iron Butterfly Theme” over the phone from his suburban Boston home. “And, oh, yes, I can’t forget the very first Iron Butterfly album (1968’s ‘Heavy’), which was not (the band’s second 1968 album) ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.’ It has a song called ‘Iron Butterfly Theme,’ and that had as much to do with getting me into rock as hearing The Kinks or The Yardbirds.” “I had Jeff Beck’s (1968 album) ‘Truth,’ the first two Led Zeppelin albums and the James Gang’s ‘Rides Again,’ ” Scholz recalled. ![]() One of them was by the then-budding San Diego band Iron Butterfly. alone, Tom Scholz has struck a chord with countless fans since the mid-1970s.īut when he was starting out in music, this veteran guitarist, songwriter and Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineering graduate had only five albums he listened to for inspiration. ![]() As the mastermind of the hard-rocking band Boston, whose first two albums have sold a combined 25 million copies in the U.S.
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