I don't know to what extent Bostonians pay attention to Tom Scholz these days. Can tell you this much, though, writing from Seattle: Tom Scholz and Brad Delp have been a big part of the Boston city "Brand." My impression of the city, having never been there?, is that if you took New York, made it brainier and less self-assertive, that you'd get the city of Boston. If New York is Jim Kirk, Boston is Jean-Luc Picard. We might not leave as many smokin' dead Romulan bodies floating through the local asteroid belt, but at the end of the stardate we'll have a more robust Captain's Log to file. ................... Scholz and Delp have typified the Boston braininess.
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