Brad Delp is doing cartwheels in his grave!!!

[newmajority]

Boston?? Try BoStryper with a MySpace dweeb??? WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU THINKING, TOM???

Boston Kicks Off Tour with MySpace-Recruited Vocalist
By Eliot Van Buskirk



Boston We can only guess at what it feels like to become the new lead singer for Boston after posting covers of the band's music on MySpace, but Tommy DeCarlo knows.

Following the unfortunate passing of their golden-throated Brad Delp at 55, the band has regrouped with the help of DeCarlo. The new group takes the stage on June 6 in Thunder Bay, Ontario at the Great Race 2008 (some sort of motor sports affair).

Boston will be bringing two new recruits on tour this year. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael Sweet, veteran Stryper frontman will both sing and trade riffs with Gary and Tom on guitar. Unexpected phenomenon Tommy DeCarlo, the fan that posted his Boston covers on his MySpace page and ended up on stage, will also be belting out the classics that skyrocketed the band to worldwide fame.

Former Stryper frontman Michael Sweet will also contribute vocals and guitar. Nothing can replace Brad Delp's epic pipes, but with the help of MySpace, the show goes on.


Boston died with Brad. Let it go, you goddamn vultures. :(

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/03/boston-kicks-of.html

[Swede]

1. I'd have to hear this incarnation before saying yea or nay.

You never know.

[newmajority]

2. Yeah... maybe they're playing this one live?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1quiFqtWcE

[Westegg]

3. First album floated my boat at age 13...

...in the summer of '76. I can still listen to it with nostalgia for my youth and an appreciation for T.S.'s talents, both musically and studio-wise. But the band never progressed, IMO, and I didn't care for anything else they put out.

[Shakespeare]

4. Have you heard the new guy? He's really good, and sounds astonishingly like Delp.

Good for him. :thumbsup:

[guitar man]

5. yes he is

I didn't think they would ever find anyone that could sing like that....the new guy is pretty amazing. :thumbsup:

[newmajority]

7. I'm all for the idea tribute bands

Started a Lounge thread on the subject last week, in fact. If this guy was fronting a Boston tribute band, playing in a bar somewhere around here, I'd go see the show.

Brad Delp himself sang in a Beatles tribute band in his later years. But he didn't call up Paul McCartney and Ringo and say "Dudes, let's go out and tour as The Beatles".

And there's the difference.

Apparently Journey is doing the same thing, but at least Steve Perry ain't dead. (Though Journey, as a band, died the day Greg Rolie quit - but that's entirely another subject.)

[southpaw]

8. I'm with you on the Journey/Rollie thing

Gregg was apparently the only thing that kept them from being strictly commercial!

[southpaw]

6. Scholz's Letter to Mike Huckabee earned him my forgiveness

Tom Scholz has shown himself to be a bit of an ass over the years, but this letter to Mike Huckabee forced me to forgive his overly litigious relationships with past band mates and give him a fresh start.

Aparently, former Boston guitarist Barry Gudreau endorsed Mike Huckabee's candidacy and appeared with him at campaign stops where he was introduced as a member of Boston. From the letter, it seems that Gudreau and Huckabee played 'More Than a Feeling.' I'm not sure whether Huck tried to adopt the song as his campaign theme song... I'd think 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' or 'Amazing Grace' would be more appropriate.

In any case, Tom Scholz fired off this letter to Huckabee:

Dear Gov. Huckabee:

It has come to my attention that your campaign’s use of my song More Than a Feeling and my band’s name BOSTON has resulted in a great deal of false information, which it now appears may exist permanently on the Internet.

While I’m flattered that you are fond of my song, I’m shocked that you would use it and the name BOSTON to promote yourself without my consent.

Your campaign’s use of More Than a Feeling, coupled with the representation of one of your supporters as a member “of BOSTON” clearly implies that the band BOSTON, and specifically one of its members, has endorsed your candidacy, neither of which is true.

I wrote and arranged More Than a Feeling, engineered and produced the recording, and actually played all the guitars on that BOSTON hit as well as most of BOSTON’s songs, not the person holding a guitar in your promotion who identified himself as being “of BOSTON.” Your claim that this was “the guy who originally did it” is a bit mystifying since he never played on that recording, nor has he been “of BOSTON” since he left my band over a quarter century ago, after performing with us for only three years.

BOSTON has never endorsed a political candidate, and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing a candidate who is the polar opposite of most everything BOSTON stands for. In fact, although I’m impressed you learned my bass guitar part on More Than a Feeling, I am an Obama supporter.

While this may seem like a little thing to you, BOSTON has been my life’s work. I hold the trademark to the name and my reputation is inexorably tied to it.

By using my song, and my band’s name BOSTON, you have taken something of mine and used it to promote ideas to which I am opposed. In other words, I think I’ve been ripped off, dude!

The unfortunate misconceptions caused by your campaign now live indefinitely on Internet news sites and blog archives.

As the “straight talk candidate,” I hope you will help undo the damage still being caused by this misleading use of BOSTON and More Than a Feeling.

Still evolving,
Tom Scholz for BOSTON

[newmajority]

9. Didn't realize Barry Goudreau was a Huck supporter

Never figured him for the Repuke type. (Oh well, if I can forgive Johnny Ramone.......)


Never understood the whole fight between him and Tom anyway, and it really sucks that it took Brad dying to get them on the same stage again. (Brad had continued to record and tour with both until the end)

This whole "I did everything and they did nothing" bit from Tom is revisionist history to some degree though. While there's no doubt that Tom can be a control freak perfectionist in the studio (average time between albums - 8 years)I would say that the following video (without Tom's involvement) proves that Brad and Barry were as vital to the Boston sound as Tom was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWpZjMrJaQ