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OT Brad Delp has passed away

FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
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My favorite band of my childhood. Man, I am bummed. I guess you just don't understand how music means to you until it is gone.

sorry to be so sentimental but Boston was my band in the 80's.

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭✭
    Was he the lead singer?
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • brianwintersfanbrianwintersfan Posts: 3,626 ✭✭


    << <i>Was he the lead singer? >>



    Yes
  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    yes he was. He was also the mind behind the inventions of their instruments on Third Stage.
  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    you start looking at his age and i am getting very close to it.
    i loved their first album around the 1976-77 era. so many bands peak on their first try, it's a shame. hootie, alanis morrisette etc.

    don't look back wasn't horrendous, just not as good as the debut.

    i always thought the best band from that city was the cars. a co-incidence one of their originals bejamin orr died a few years back at 53.

    and today is the 10 year anniversary of the death of the notorious B.I.G.--enough said
  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    amazing points there czar. Personally I don't thing the cars compare but it is an opinion.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow, what a shame. I don't think it's an overstatement to say he had one of the best voices ever for the lead singer of a rock band. Certainly unique and extremely difficult to duplicate. Sad. What did he die from?
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,103 ✭✭✭
    there is no information about cause at this time
  • gotsparks09gotsparks09 Posts: 957


    << <i>and today is the 10 year anniversary of the death of the notorious B.I.G.--enough said >>



    That was ten years ago? God...I'm getting old.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>yes he was. He was also the mind behind the inventions of their instruments on Third Stage. >>

    FF

    I'm not sure what that means - inventions?

    I know that Tom Scholtz was the brains behind some of the sweetest "effects" that gave Boston that hot and sweet mellow distortion that everyone equates with their first CD.

    In fact I bought my first Rockman back in the 80s - it can make a guitar cry - me too!

    mike
    Mike
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had the pleasure of seeing Boston in 1986 at the Meadowlands Arena ....

    RIP Brad Delp

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  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    Was a great band Boston was. Their first album was one of the greatest rock albums of all-time, imho. It's too bad they had trouble putting out albums on a yearly basis. Brad Delp had a great rock music voice. That's a shame he passed. RIP.

    Who's this notorius big guy? Never heard of him.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    I saw Boston in 1986 also, on the Third Stage tour. I remember being excited to hear that this great band that was larger than life in the late '70s was getting back together after 8 years for a third album, and my friends and I had to go check it out. They were amazing, I can still remember that show today...20 years later.
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  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow, can't believe it. He was a local guy from Danvers, just about 10 minutes from here. Here is a link to the local news story:

    Salem News online
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    Sad to hear. I was never a big Boston fan, a bit before my time, but that guy could wail. I always sound like an idiot trying to sing along with More Than A Feeling.

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  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boston's first LP was one of those rare moments where I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard it. The production and arrangments were unlike anything heard before. Brad Delp was a singer extraordinare.
  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    it probably isn't a good comparison with boston vs. the cars. they almost define different time periods.

    i put boston in with journey, kansas and maybe even styx that hit their stride in the mid to late 70's. i really think that mtv reduced the popularity of bands like these. you cannot make a good video with gonna hitch a ride, wheel in the sky or carry on my wayward son. in other cases bands tried to remake their style, guys went solo and it just wasn't as good. also that kind of rock was fading with the new wave of the early 80's catching on.

    the cars music was much different and were late 70's to early 80's. why not punk and barely even new wave they still had a nitch in that genre. i consider them a "B" version of the police which isn't too bad. there video with the bumblebee on "all i want is you" was definitely a sign that their run had ended.

    whether you like the cars or not, no one can dispute that ric ocasek has one of the hottest wives in rock history and if you look at him you can definitely say he outkicked his coverage on the kind of wife he got. he has been married to her since 1989.

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  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    I always thought Ric Ocasek looked like a cross between 'Kramer on Seinfeld' and 'Spock from Star Trek'. Maybe even a little Richard Belzer mixed in from 'Homicide' and 'Law and Order SVU'.

    Ocasek did have one hot wife. I wonder if he had her on his mind when they did the song 'Got a lot on my head'?

  • rise2itrise2it Posts: 160
    As a music lover / pretend musician, I can always pick out parts of songs that I've thought, "I'd have done something different here", etc.

    However, I think 'Amanda' is the most perfect song ever - there's not a note on any instrument that I would change.

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭✭
    I always thought that every Boston song sounded the same...
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  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    However, I think 'Amanda' is the most perfect song ever - there's not a note on any instrument that I would change.

    they actually took a poll of musicians a few years ago somewhere and the most perfect song ever from a composing standpoint was deemed to be here, there and everywhere by the beatles. all that is a matter of opinion of course, but anytime i hear that song i think of that article.

    keep in mind that the poll was done prior to the recording of chain hang low by jibbs.
  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    Death of Boston Lead Singer Ruled a Suicide
    Brad Delp Was Killed by Carbon Monoxide Poison

    BOSTON (March 14) - The recent death of Brad Delp, lead singer of the rock band Boston, has been ruled a suicide, police in New Hampshire said on Wednesday.

    Delp, 55, was killed by carbon monoxide piped through a tube from a vehicle's exhaust pipe into a bathroom where he was found dead on March 9, said Lt. William Baldwin of the police in Atkinson, a southern New Hampshire town where Delp lived.

    Delp's family released a statement earlier in the day confirming the suicide.

    "He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans or strangers," the family said in a statement relayed by police Wednesday. "He gave as long as he could, as best he could, and he was very tired. We take comfort in knowing that he is now, at last, at peace."

    The family's statement said Sullivan, Delp's children and their mother, Delp's ex-wife Micki Delp, were grateful for the sympathy they had received.

    With Delp's big, wailing voice, Boston scored hits with "More Than a Feeling," "Long Time" and "Peace of Mind."

    The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s but it remained active off and on, producing its last album, "Corporate America," in 2002.

    Delp was born in Boston, and bought his first guitar at age 13 after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, according to his Web site. Since 1994, he spent his spare time working in a tribute band called Beatle Juice, the band said.

    "The 55-year-old Bradley Delp committed suicide and the cause of death was carbon monoxide" poisoning, Baldwin said in a statement.

  • JeffJ99JeffJ99 Posts: 91
    This is sooooooo sad. "Amanda" is my favorite Boston song, followed by "More than a feeling", and "A man I'll never be". The music world will miss his legendary voice.

    Jeff
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