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A. No. Tom was inspired by the travails of Jim Masdea, who had been playing in various bands around Boston in the early 1970s. He would always tell Tom about how close a certain band was to signing a recording contract, and Tom used these alleged close encounters as the basis for “Rock & Roll Band.
