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When our favorite songs are played, we all do the same thing: we turn it up and we sing along. But the idea of living a rock and roll fantasy and being the lead singer in your favorite band is only played out on the big screen and on television, right? For everyone who ever dreamed of being a rock star, meet Tommy DiCarlo. He sings every night to tens of thousands of screaming fans, but only months before his gig as the lead singer of the legendary rock band Boston. 42-year-old Tommy wore the orange apron and worked on the floor at Home Depot in Charlotte, North Carolina, where his singing was confined to the shower and karaoke bars.
Here's De Carlo. I remember doing karaoke at a bowling alley. There was maybe 30 or 40 people. That most of them were bowling. They weren't even listening to karaoke.
So how did Tommy's life go from this?
Well, let us know if we can help you, okay? To this. Like most kids who came of age in the late '70s, Tommy DeCarlo was struck by Boston in the summer of '76 when the band released the momentous debut album. Which perfectly packaged progressive rock with melodic pop. Back when I was around 12 or 13, a friend of mine bought the debut and lent it to me, and I never gave it back.
De Carlo says, "I fell in love with the music, and especially Brad Delp's vocals." Boston never toured as much as its 70s counterparts, so De Carlo didn't get to see Boston until the mid 90s. My first show, he says, I was able to meet Brad Delp. I wasn't among thirty or forty people at a meet and greet, but after the show, I hung around by the buses and yelled Brad's name, and we talked for a minute. I'm really thankful I got to meet him. He got to tell him how much he loved Boston, but he was so wrapped up in the moment he didn't even remember to have Delp sign the CD he was holding in his hand.
Here's Tommy describing what life was like before living out his rock and roll fantasy. Um, pretty average. Worked a 40-hour week job at the Home Depot, and and still am. I'm on a leave of absence there right now. De Carlo's gig began with an unfortunate incident back on March 9th, 2007, when Boston's lead singer Brad Delp took his own life at age 55.
Leaving a note clipped to his shirt that said, "I am a lonely soul." The band posted on its website, "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll. Here's DeCarlo." A lot of the fans, including myself, felt terrible about that. You know, it was it was it was a pretty rough time for for a lot of folks. And I decided to go ahead and write a tribute song in memory of Brad, and it was a very short piece, just a couple of minutes long. But I didn't really know how to go about sharing that with the other fans, which is what I really wanted to do.
So I went ahead, and my daughter. My daughter Talia told me, "Hey, Dad, why don't you try MySpace?" So I'm like, "All right, I'll try it." Well, I got a message from another fan. That's the beauty of MySpace and the friends you could make through the through the MySpace page. A Boston fan had sent me an email saying, "I love your tribute song. Would you consider sending it to the band?
I have an old email address." And I'm like.
Okay, sure. I'll I'll try it. It's funny because back when I was a young teenager, I had a lot of folks, a lot of friends, would tell me that I had a very similar voice to the lead singer of Boston. They didn't know his name was Brad Del. Back then, but and I said, yeah, you know, thanks.
That was a great compliment. And over the years, I would sing a lot of the Boston music, and still get those same compliments.
So when that person sent me that email and told me. Why don't you try sending your stuff over to to the Boston camp? I was like, ah, you know, maybe. Here's that cover of Peace of Mind De Carlo posted on MySpace. Tommy's cover eventually reached the founder of the band, MIT mastermind and guitar geek Tom Scholz.
Here's Shoals with the story. Actually, through my wife Kim, I was walking through the kitchen, and she was listening to something on her computer that was up on the internet. And I was, and she said, "What do you think of this?" And I said, "Well." I've never heard that recording of Brad before. What show is that from? And she said it's not Brad, and I said, "Oh yes, that's Brad." And she said, "No, this is not Brad." And I didn't realize till I put it up on some big speakers and listened to the background music that it was in fact not Boston, and it was some sort of a karaoke track.
And then I realized this wasn't Brad, but it sounded just Exactly like him, and I I know every nuance of Brad's voice. Worked with him for 35 years, so I was I was shocked. But yes, I did. The moment I heard that, start to think, all right, maybe there is another future for Boston, and we we proceeded cautiously but quickly, and invited him to Boston to make an appearance with us on stage at a tribute show last summer for Brad.
So, what was it like for this fan of Boston to pick up the phone and hear it was Tom Scholz on the other? I couldn't believe it. I could not believe it. It was—it's—it's almost hard to put into words. Really, I just could not believe it.
It was—I was shocked and I was excited. It was—it was just an amazing—it was an amazing day. Believe me. De Carlo's wife of 21 years was his number one groupie, and his two teenagers saw their dad as the real American Idol. For Tommy, it was tough to leave his job at Home Depot in Charlotte.
He liked his coworkers and rather enjoyed helping people find hardware, and he doesn't rule out going back to it at some point. In terms of lifestyle, not much has changed. DiCarlo says, "We live in the same house, and the best part of my day is my kids and wife, and I get a lot of support from the people at the store." For the time being, though, he's just enjoying the ride. You know, just like what the Boston song. I'm just taking my time, just moving along.
And what a story! A terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by Greg Engler. I'll never forget the first time I heard "More Than a Feeling." I was in high school. I didn't even drive yet, but boy, I had my my tape recorder with me, and I was rolling around the neighborhood, holding my radio, blasting it at ten all the time. No record played more in my high school.
Than the Boston record, and what a story about my goodness, living way beyond anything you could dream of, Tommy DeCarlo just recording a tribute. To the man he adored, Brad Depp, who took his life sadly in 2007, and Tom Scholz, the band leader, going well. There goes Boston, and then his wife pops open this MySpace recording before Facebook, folks. There was MySpace, and there it was. And well, we had a lead singer for Boston once again.
The story of Tommy DeCarlo from Home Depot. To the lead singer of Boston, here on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 semi-quintennial coin and medal program from the United States Mint.
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