The Roads
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BOSTON's Gary Pihl has a new project with an album releasing in November.
The Roads is a collaboration between Pihl and singer Mick Devine. It started when Khalil Turk of Turkish Delight sent Gary one of his songs so Gary could add guitars to it. Gary had some ideas for the song that would require changes to the drum parts. Gary was put in touch with the drummer, Josh Devine, from whom Gary later discovered that the vocalist on the track was Josh's father, Mick. Khalil suggested Gary and Mick work together.
The album features many special guests performing, including Boston/Stryper bassist Tracy Ferrie on bass, Lawrence Gowan (Styx), Paul Taylor (Winger), and Josh Devine.
Their first album Simple Man is due to be released on November 18, 2022 through Escape Music. You can pre-order the album from The Music Shop.
 Track listing:1: Let's Not Let It End Like This 2: Promise Me 3: Simple Man 4: How Long? 5: It Will Be Alright 6: No Way 7: Avalanche 8: Love So Strange 9: Just Not The Same 10: Love Lives In Promises 11: Will You Believe In Me? 12: Save You From Your Yesterdays |
You can watch the promo video to their first song Let's Not Let It End Like This:
Tommy DeCarlo: Dancing In The Moonlight
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BOSTON vocalist Tommy DeCarlo is releasing a new solo album in December.
Tommy, who also has a band DECARLO with his son Tommy DeCarlo Jr, is releasing a solo album on December 9, 2022. The album Dancing In The Moonlight will be released on Frontiers Music srl, which is the same label that DECARLO released their album Lightning Strikes Twice, and where BOSTON's last album Life, Love & Hope was released on.
Tommy has released music as a solo artist previously, however this is his first full solo album, as well as the first solo release with a record label.
You can preorder the album or pre-save it to your preferred streaming service. The title track has already been released as a single, which is available to buy or stream.
 Track listing:1. Dancing In The Moonlight 2. Change Our Fate 3. Beyond Forever 4. Life Is Just A Game 5. No Surrender 6. The Game Is On 7. The Road Will Lead To You 8. In The Hands Of Fate 9. Find The Love 10. Home To You 11. Spread Your Wings And Fly 12. You And Me |
There's also a music video for the title track:
I FEEL some Boston! Vocal ANALYSIS of a timeless classic
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Elizabeth Zharoff on The Charismatic Voice YouTube channel covered Boston's More Than A Feeling and Brad Delp's vocals.
More Than A Feeling: Boston's Tom Scholz celebrates 50 years of flying model aircraft
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By Jay Smith
Model Aviation
Boston's self-titled debut album, which was released in 1975, has been certified for sales of 17 million in America. Until 2008, it was ranked as the top-selling debut album of all time. Tom Scholz wrote and produced the album himself, as well as played most of the instruments on it. He recorded it in his basement.
Creating one of the greatest rock albums of all time wasn't the only thing Tom was doing in his basement. He also designed and built model airplanes. His love of aviation began in his childhood. While growing up in Toledo, Ohio, a chance to attend the Weak Signals Toledo Show: R/C Model Expo further cemented his interest in the hobby and made him think about the cool airplanes he could build.
When Tom was 6 or 7 years old, his mom bought him his first model airplane kit. After successfully building and flying a few Free Flight (FF) models, he started designing his own aircraft. He said, "My designs all center around the way I would like an airplane to look, believe it or not--oh, and brute-force power.
"I've had luck with the axiom: Airplanes that look right usually fly right. Creating a new design, solving the aerodynamic and structural problems, the reward of seeing a finished airplane, and the thrill of watching it fly are my motivations.
"Each song on the album is three to four months of work. It's like when you build an airplane that's a difficult build and you love that plane. I ‘m very fond of all my music because each song is a labor of love."
FF led Tom to start flying Control Line (CL) at the age of 10 or 11. The next logical step would have been RC, but the cost kept that side of the hobby out of reach until he was older. He continued to dabble in FF and CL until he was 16 or 17.
Lost Curly Smith Track Goes Viral
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A song recorded in the seventies but never released became a viral hit. Boston drummer Curly Smith's 19-year old son Zach Smith, who goes by Zach Montana on TikTok, discovered the long-lost track by accident when a disc that was in the car's CD player began playing. Zach posted a TikTok video playing the track and reacting to it. The song is called Surrender To Me (not to be confused with the Boston song of the same name) and was originally recorded in 1978. On the video he posted "Guys PLEASE blow this up to convince my dad to release this song." The video immediately got thousands of plays overnight. To date, it has over 3 million views. The track has received lots of praise, check out Zach's posts of the reactions from Meghan Trainor, Herman Li and Anthony Fantano (Zach explains to an off-camera Curly what a banger is). The song has been remastered in the personal studio of the band Chicago, according to an update Zach posted. The song was released under the band name FireCityFunk on February 4 through multiple digital music services. Zach and Curly appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 16 to perform the song. On why it was never released, Curly told Jimmy Kimmel "Well, it was very tough in those days to get a record deal. You know, especially with people like The Bee Gees dominating the charts. So I couldn't get it signed, so I just put it on a shelf for 43 years."
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