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Sad day indeed! Boston was such a part of my youth growing up in the late 70's!
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I was going to college in Boston when they released their first album. Every car that went by, every door room I went by, every store I went in (especially the hi-fi shops) it was Boston, Boston, Boston. It could not be escaped.I have no opinion about the band one way or the other because I became sick of them so early on that to this day the moment I hear that signature guitar note that leads into most every Boston song I reach for the radio and change the station.
Dean.
of it. But after that.... Anyway, the pictures of Delp show a chalk colored man.
...but all day, everyday for a year. You had to live in Boston the year the album was released to understand.I am NOT saying the album in not good or that they were bad. They just never stood a chance with me.
Oversaturated.
Dean.
Saw Boston as Day On the Green headliners back in '79 inside Oaktown's Coliseum. They had the mis-fortune of following Sammy Hagar, along with a slight rain delay. They never interacted with the crowd as Sammy had, & quite a few left before their final notes were played. Seemed almost like automatons onstage. For all their detractors, Journey always put on energetic shows! Least in da Bay Area & Sactown anyhoo!!!
every album thereafter simply repeated the formula to lesser and lesser effect. That said, Delp was an excellent singer with an immediately recognizable voice. I always expected him to pursue a solo career, but apparently he never did. His passing is certainly a shame.
Brad Delp had a few CD's/albums with his group RTZ
and Barry Goodreau (other guitarist in Boston). They were a continuation of the Boston sound but 1/2 the overdubs.
Saw him in a club in CT a number of years back, about 12 people there. Did all the Boston stuff with Barry Goodreau.
he wanted to perrform only as "Boston". Hard to believe Tom Guitar player tried to perform as Boston with somebody else as singer. Maybe Skip Spence's daughter's pilates instructor.
I loathe Boston's music, and I mean no disrespect toward's Delp's passing. But everything I've ever read suggested strongly that Scholz did almost everything in that project. You're barking up the wrong tree."The first Boston album was recorded by Scholz and group of studio musicians which he had assembled for the project. Most of the guitar, organ, and bass on the album, was all performed by Scholz (bassist Fran Sheehan and second guitarist Barry Goudreau are also on two tracks). Most of the record was recorded in Scholz's basement studio. It was there that he crafted his trademark guitar sound, which became very popular, and also "Top Secret Space Pedals." Epic didn't want the album recorded entirely in Scholz's home, as Scholz intended; they suggested a typical recording studio. But most of what ended up on the album was recorded by Scholz in his basement."
"Gawd that sucked!". I wish I could play was well as Scholz, though.
It's the guys who don't play anywhere near as well that, whether it's because of their relatively, alleged limited abilities, or because their talents lie in areas other than playing, come up with musical ideas I find far more interesting. But deconstructing Scholz as a technician rather than as an artist would be a pointless thread-crap, and besides, for all the tinnitus it may have caused and even now be causing the Rockman was an inspired piece of hardware, I believe.But no, I don't want to take anything away from Delp's passing. And, I would say that he could've and probably would've, had he not hooked up with Scholz, found his way to success in the era of arena rock. My opinion of Boston aside, his vocals were well above average, all the more so in an era where many acts were trying to de-emphasize the importance of vocal abilities.
I suppose i could be found dead any day now.
But to place him on the altar of some of rock's greatest? Maybe I am jaundiced. Maybe it is overplay......God knows I wore out two LP's and at least that many cassettes.
...selling debut album ever.Too bad it was overplayed and their music never rose to that level again.
never bought them and never liked them. Too middle of the road.
and all I come up with is mathematical and calculated. Do you know what I mean by that?
ssia
mathematical. I guess I'm echoing musetap.
calculated...But, I'm adding to the echoe effect...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Good thing Bach didn't need to spend as much time calculating as Scholz. Would have put a MAJOR dent in that canon...
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
a formula, sterile, cold and so east coast wannabe. Am I getting close?
with Def Leppard. I went in to see them expecting a lot, and saw nothing but formula.
there is nothing wrong with that technique or approach. Eminence Front is a great example of doing it well.
Tool strikes me as being that way too.....
comforted by the fact that I am not alone in those perceptions.
Toto and a hundred others. It keeps the teenagers happy though.
I can only say that NONE of the aforementioned groups ever made ME happy!
if you had had pimples you would have worshipped the formula they were using. Thank god for clear skin.
Really he was 50% of Boston, along with Schultz's guitar. Maybe 75%????
My God, yes! Brad Delp and Tom Scholz WERE 'BOSTON'! The rawness and emotion of Delp's vocals, the melodic music, the novel sounding, spaced-out guitar crunch effects of Scholz, etc. That first Boston album was an absolute milestone in rock history (1976), and easily one of the top, definitive releases of the 70's. I was in high school at the time, and remember the utter frenzy created at the local record stores when it was released, following the success of 'More Than A Feeling' and 'Peace Of Mind' on the radio. There was a huge line going around the block, with police barricades just to get the debut album! I'll never forget it. In addition, whether many realize it or not, it was bands like Sabbath, Rush, Zeppelin, UFO, Boston, early Scorps, etc. that spawned and influenced the Heavy Metal genre afterwards, and prompted many a pimply faced teen to pick up a guitar.R.I.P. Brad Delp... you were a rock STAR amongst STARS!!!!
Boston's problem was they couldn't write a song/album that didn't sound a lot like the last one.... If it were not for that, Boston would have gone to the next level....(When I first heard the linked song, I initially thought Boston did it, only to find out later it wasn't Boston.)
Looking back, he was a darn good lead singer.... Almost in Freddie Mercury territory.... RIP.
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