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Not just another band from Boston
He didn’t expect to do well at MIT; he didn’t expect his music to be successful. But engineer Tom Scholz ’69, SM ’70, became an inventor, producer, and philanthropist—and the artistic and technical brains behind a juggernaut rock band.
When recording between midnight and 8:00 a.m. above a bar an hour’s drive from home became untenable, Scholz decided to build his “really awful but workable” basement studio in Watertown (where, at 6 foot 5, he had to duck to avoid hitting his head on the way down). “When we have someone coming over for dinner, we actually have to clear out space to have a table that we can all sit at together.” (A proclivity for making things runs in the family; his son, Jeremy Scholz ’05, majored in mechanical engineering at MIT.) While other rockers were cultivating wild personas, he focused on the connection between self-improvement, higher education, and Boston’s music and tried “to encourage people to do things that I thought were a good step for mankind,” he says.
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