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Not just another band from Boston

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70% Informative

Tom Scholz69 , SM70 , was a 29-year-old product design engineer working at Polaroid on audio electronics and tape-recording technology.

For five years , he had been painstakingly crafting music and lyrics, and perfecting phenomenally complex sound production, in the makeshift basement recording studio at his apartment.

Boston guitarist built and deployed increasingly complex gadgets to create the otherworldly music he heard in his head.

At Polaroid , Scholz ’s primary responsibility was creating audio tape for Polavision instant video system.

Boston went on to become one of the best-selling debut albums of all time.

Scholz built a "scary-fast red delta-wing airplane" that he built in 1972 , flew for 52 years .

He still hopes to get his studio back up and running, “because I am still writing music, believe it or not, in what’s left of my brain,” he says.

VR Score

68

Informative language

65

Neutral language

40

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

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not offensive

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not hateful

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Time-value

long-living

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