When I'm Dead and Thinking Cold

[OCmike]

BTW-Van Halen has got to be right up there with the most overrated bands in history, as well.

And DLR was so fucking repulsive and annoying, that it offset anything else the band was able to accomplish.

Oh, come on...you're telling me THIS doesn't do it for you:



Nothing like seeing a grown man in spandex showing off his bait and tackle to the audience:

[Diego in Seattle]

Van Haggar had a much better sound, although no deeper when it came to lyrics.

[Dinsdale]

Van Haggar had a much better sound

Sin,
Boston Fans, who are OK with repetitive, generic licks over and over and over...

[OCmike]

Van Haggar had a much better sound, although no deeper when it came to lyrics.

What, this doesn't do it for you:

Gimme some of that, uh ha, uh ha, ha...ow!
Oh, got some real fine, poundcake..


DLR may have been annoying and an ADD poster boy, but at least they produced solid music when he was around. Van Hagar blew.

[Mike the Lab Rat]

Van Hagar blew.

The incredibly cheesy keyboards and Hagar's screeching vocals didn't do it for ya?

Me neither. Every time I heard "Dreams" shortly after it came out, I wanted to put someone's head through a plate-glass window. I think it was one of those subliminal high-note seizure things...

[War Wagon]

I kinda' liked "Best of Both Worlds", though.

[Mike the Lab Rat]

I kinda' liked "Best of Both Worlds", though.

I just can't take the guy seriously after "Three Lock Box," "I Can't Drive 55," or that straight-to-the-carwash-cutout-bin "supergroup" HSAS's album. Hagar's take on "Whiter Shade of Pale" earned him a place in Hell.

[Dinsdale]

I kinda' liked "Best of Both Worlds", though.

How's that mullet growing out for you?


If by "like," you mean "like" in the sense that it softens Poison's position in the all-time buttrock rankings, then I guess I'm inclined to agree.


Since that tune was some of the worst fagrock hogwash I've ever heard in my life.


Fuck, I'd rather listen to a mix tape from Bacefelice on a Premarin bender than that unlistenable douchebaggery. Hell, expressing anything positive about that tune makes Donovan seem downright hetero in his musical taste.


It's freaking New Kids On The Block with bigger amplifiers.


What'samatter...Journey too hard-edged for you?

[War Wagon]

What'samatter...Journey too hard-edged for you?

Journey? Freaking Journey? Hell, why didn't you just toss Styx out there instead, or REO Speedwagon, or *gulp* Bon Jovi?

That was brutal smack, man. I think I need a shower after that sliming.

[Atomic Punk]

Okay, so I exxaggerated the Boston as best band thing, but I was listening to some old Boston tunes while typing.

I am on record as saying I hate Sammy Hagar's music after his Montrose days. Everything I've ever heard about Sammy as a guy has been positive. One guy I work with worked at the hotel Van Halen stayed at when they made the live CD a few years ago.

He was delivering room service and Sammy invited him in to bullshit. Mark told Sammy he can't get tickets to the show and had to work the next night (Van Halen recorded it over the 2 nights in Fresneck).

Sammy calls the manager right then and there and gets Mark's schedule changed and tickets to the show.

I just never liked Sammy's voice with the VH sound. DLR is an asshole, but his baritone voice goes with the brown sound of the band.

End of rant...

[Mister Bushice]

Boston's first album was a GREAT piece of work.
It is a classic.

The band was really a one-album-wonder though.
After that release they showed a lack of ability to expand their range.
It was pretty tiresome to listen to anything from them after that first album.

Boston was a concept that became a band. They never played as a unit - or as a touring band before the album was released. That first album was all from the wizardy of Tom Scholz. The fact that in the mid 70's He was able to record, mix and release an album made in his basement studio is pretty damn amazing. I used to use a power soak, which he invented, and he also invented the "Rockman" stuff that Dunlop now sells. He has a bunch of electronic stuff he patented, too.

He was more of a technician than a musician, though. When Goudreau left after that first album that pretty much killed the band. It was his guitar work that made that first album come alive, that and Delps voice.

[War Wagon]

^^^ Best take Bushice has ever had. Rack it.

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Delp Grilled himself to death....



Brad Delp lit two charcoal grills in the bathroom adjacent to his master bedroom and committed suicide via asphyxiation last week, according to New Hampshire police who yesterday confirmed that the lead singer of the band Boston took his own life.

“He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans or strangers,” the singer’s family said in a statement. “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.”

Delp, 55, a Danvers native, left two sealed suicide notes taped to a door and letters to his family and his fiancée, Pamela Sullivan. But Atkinson, N.H., Police Lt. William Baldwin said the cops were not told why he took his life. Toxicology tests by the state medical examiner’s office showed that Delp died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

“It’s very sad for all of us who loved this guy,” said ex-Extreme drummer Paul Geary, a close friend of Delp and his family. “Whenever I called him for anything he’d drop everything and help, and whenever he called me it was for someone else.”

Friends said it was Delp’s constant need to help and please people that may have driven him to despair. He was literally the man in the middle of the bitter break-up of Boston - pulled from both sides by divided loyalties.

Delp remained on good terms with both Tom Scholz, the MIT grad who founded the band, and Barry Goudreau, Fran Sheehan and Sib Hashian, former members of Boston who had a fierce falling out with Scholz in the early ’80s.

Delp tried to please both sides by continuing to contribute his vocals to Scholz’ Boston projects while also remaining close to his former bandmates. The situation was complicated by the fact that Delp’s ex-wife, Micki, is the sister of Goudreau’s wife, Connie.

“Tom made him do the Boston stuff and the other guys were mad that they weren’t a part of it,” said another insider. “He was always under a lot of pressure.”

As you may know, in 1976 the band’s first album, featuring Scholz, Delp, Goudreau, Hashian and Sheehan, was the best-selling debut album in history, spawning rock staples “More Than a Feeling,” ‘Peace of Mind,’ “Foreplay/ Long Time” and ‘Rock and Roll Band.’ But shortly thereafter things deteriorated.

Scholz’ penchant for perfection and his well-chronicled control issues led to long delays between albums. As a result, Goudreau, Delp and Hashian released an album without him, which led to an irretrievable breakdown.

Scholz claimed that the other band members - with the exception of Delp - attempted to steal the name Boston. While the bitter battle raged, Delp tried to keep peace with both sides. He continued to perform with Scholz and the reconstituted Boston but also did projects with Goudreau and remained friends with the other original members.

But the never-ending bitterness may have been too much for the sensitive singer to endure. Just last fall the ugliness flared again when Scholz heard some of his ex-bandmates were planning to perform at a tribute concert at Symphony Hall for football legend Doug Flutie - and then had his people call and substitute himself and Delp for the gig, sources say.

In fact, the wounds remained so raw that Scholz wasn’t invited to the private funeral service for Delp that the family held earlier this week.

“What does that tell you?” asked another insider. “Brad and Tom were the best of friends and he’s been told nothing about anything.”



In an interview with Rolling Stone after Delp’s death, Scholz said he and Delp were “friends and collaborators for 35 years but our bond ran much deeper than just Boston.”

But Scholz also made reference to the ongoing feud in the interview when he told the rock bible that “unlike other individuals eventually involved with Boston, Brad’s down-to-earth personality never wavered.”

Police discovered Delp’s body in his southern New Hampshire home at around 1:30 p.m. last Friday. Sullivan had gone to the house after failing to reach her fiance by phone. Police said Delp was alone at the time of his death.

Some friends expressed surprise at the timing of Delp’s suicide. He had been planning to tour with Boston and to marry Sullivan this coming summer. He was also content working with his first love - a Beatles tribute band called Beatlejuice. But friends say there was a dark side.

“He was a sad character to begin with,” said one close pal. “He didn’t think highly of himself. He was always very self-deprecating. He’s always been that way, though, so there was really nothing to lead anyone to believe that he would do this.”

Delp leaves two children, Jennifer, 26, and John Michael, 22.

Tomorrow, the classic rock station WZLX will pay tribute to Delp with a special edition of “Classic Cafe” featuring his music. The show, hosted by Carter Alan, begins at noon

[Rack Fu]

Tomorrow, the classic rock station WZLX will pay tribute to Delp with a special edition of “Classic Cafe” featuring his music. The show, hosted by Carter Alan, begins at noon

A whole day of Boston tunes would be different from their normal programming in what way?

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

St Patrick's Day is right around the corner... that means it's [font=Century Gothic]Dropkick Murphys [/font]24X7 March 11-17. The sold out shows all week at Avalons out front should have told you...


The other 51 weeks belong to Boston....

[Goober McTuber]

There's a rumor floating around today that Brad Delp decided that he had enough of Boston himself....along with everything else.

RACK him....I guess.

You, of all people, should RACK him. And take some pointers, too.

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

You, of all people, should RACK him. And take some pointers, too.

Excellent. I think the Kingstone people would be very interested in sponsoring Tarddowen's demise.

Think of the ensuing marketing campaign. Nothing kills like Kingstone. Brad Delp and Tarddowen approve of our product.

[Mississippi Neck]

R.I.P.

. Tell me any other fucking rock band where the instant you heard it, it said "The United States" more than Boston did.

.

Hmm...Creedence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty, are just a few that come to mind right off the bat.

[Det. Jimmy McNulty]

R.I.P.

. Tell me any other fucking rock band where the instant you heard it, it said "The United States" more than Boston did.

.

Hmm...Creedence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty, are just a few that come to mind right off the bat.

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