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Brad Delp R.I.P

post #1 of 47
3/9/07 at 8:46pm
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I just got home and saw this. Quite a sad day for the rock music world

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/40689307

Paul
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post #2 of 47
3/9/07 at 9:14pm

Re: Brad Delp R.I.P

What a shame. He was a very talented man.

I just read this news elsewhere online and it really tripped me out. I was at Best Buy about an hour ago and felt compelled to buy the newly remastered CDs of the first two Boston albums for some reason. I had no idea yet that he had died.
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post #3 of 47
3/9/07 at 11:08pm

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I bought the new remasters a couple of days ago, myself. The sound quality is spectacular. The news is terrible.

- Steve
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post #4 of 47
3/10/07 at 6:00am

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This really sucks.

RIP Brad.
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post #5 of 47
3/10/07 at 6:50am

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I had the good fortune to meet and talk to Brad during the Third Stage tour, and you couldn't meet a more likeable guy. This is indeed a tragic loss for the music world. RIP.
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post #6 of 47
3/10/07 at 1:06pm

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Have you guys seen the Boston web site the past day or so? It simply reads, "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."
http://www.bandboston.com/

I had the first album cranked up last night and the remaster does sound fantastic.
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post #7 of 47
3/10/07 at 1:53pm

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www.boston.org has a live show image with a similar message.
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post #8 of 47
3/10/07 at 3:02pm

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Very sad...Some of my best memories as a teenager have Boston's music in the background.

RIP Brad.
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post #9 of 47
3/10/07 at 3:39pm

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Tom Sholtz's guitar playing and ingenuity always got the attention (as well as it should have) but Brad Delp was responsible for much of the way Boston sounded. I usually don't get too worked up over these announcements (we all have to go sometime) but for some reason, this one kinda got to me. The only silver lining to losing a musician is you can still put a disc in and enjoy what they did best. If I'm lucky enough to make it 90, what ever rest home I'm in, I know two things for sure. I'm going to have a kick-ass sound system and Boston will be playing on it much of the time. Thank you Brad, and RIP.
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post #10 of 47
3/10/07 at 7:42pm

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hard to believe.

i sat in the front row at the Spectrum for the only time i ever sat in the front row when i saw them about 25 or so years ago.

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post #11 of 47
3/10/07 at 8:18pm

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Awesome vocalist, one of rock's best. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I was under the impression Boston didn't tour very much so if that's the case,TonyD,you were lucky to have seen them in concert. R.I.P. Brad.
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post #12 of 47
3/10/07 at 8:26pm

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well i know there have been several manafestaions(sp) *cough* of the band
and it was so long ago over 25 years that i couldnt even say for sure if he was a member at the time.

funny thing is that the lead guitarist was not the origional guy it was a guy named Gary Pihl, i think.

he threw a hand full of picks at the crowd.
my friends picked up a few but i wasnt able to get any.
on the subway home i noticed in my shirt pocket a guitar pick with the guys name on it.
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post #13 of 47
3/10/07 at 8:27pm

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I heard recently that two of the band members, don't know which ones, got engaged. One of them apparently got down on one knee in front of the girls family and asked the sister if she would do him the honor of becoming his sister in law. Unique way to pop the question for sure.

In my teenage years, Boston was usually playing in the background.

RIP
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post #14 of 47
3/10/07 at 8:32pm

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more then a feeling has always been one of my favorite rock songs and i never could figure out one lyric until about 10 years ago.

i believe the line is "i see my marion walkin' away."

my brother told me he thought thats what the lyric was and it made perfect sense and sure does sound like what he sings.
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post #15 of 47
3/10/07 at 9:00pm

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I really got into Boston in the mid '80s when I was in high school (good music is certainly timeless). My friend Rusty used to crank their first album on a pair of 6x9s out of his old baja bug on a regular basis back then. I still think back to those days every time I hear anything from their first album. Man... good times.

Isn't the lyric "I see my Mary Anne walking away?" For the longest time I was hearing it as "I see my derriere walking away" for some reason. Thankfully I finally read the lyrics somewhere and it was forever corrected in my mind.
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post #16 of 47
3/10/07 at 10:16pm

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd Stout
I really got into Boston in the mid '80s when I was in high school (good music is certainly timeless).

Ditto!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd Stout
Isn't the lyric "I see my Mary Anne walking away?"

Ayuh.
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post #17 of 47
3/10/07 at 10:19pm

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More than a feeling
When I hear that old song they used to play
And I begin dreaming
'Til I see Marianne walk away
I see my Marianne walking away

I knew the second utterance of "I see my Marianne walking away," but I didn't know the line was sung directly before that in a different phrasing for a long time.

Anyway, Delp was probably one of the two best vocalists in rock. The first three Boston albums are all great, with the first one being one of those rare albums that can be heard in its entirety on classic rock radio.
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post #18 of 47
3/11/07 at 5:55am

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We went last night and finally picked up the Boston remaster. Wow did they do a great job. Tom really knew what he was doing on the remaster.

Boston is the first band I ever listened to in the early 80's. I never liked music when I was younger. I just didn't get half the stuff they were playing on radio and when riding in the car with my older sisters and brothers I'd rather have the radio off than anything on.

Boston is the first band I ever heard that I liked. I remember hearing them on 101.1 WRIF in Detroit one night when I was screwing around with my dad's stereo...never cared for music but didn't have much else to do that night

Thankfully he made quite an investment back in the late 70's and when I did start to find more music to enjoy had quite the system to listen to it on. Sad thing was, he spent 5K way back then, and everything he listened to was on AM radio.

We'll be picking up the second remaster as soon as I can find it locally.
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post #19 of 47
3/11/07 at 6:40am

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They toured in 2003 and I saw them in Dallas. Brad Delp was back with the band after a hiatus, and was called "The Voice of Boston" by Tom Scholz.

The replication of the album sound was amazing. These albums were so heavily-produced, with layers upon layers of guitars, and they nailed it live. I remember standing there slack-jawed and getting chills on the lead-up to the guitar solo on "Don't Look Back."

I'd love for some of the live recordings to be released. The single live track on Corporate America is not enough!

- Steve
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post #20 of 47
3/11/07 at 6:53am

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Check out the obit in the NH daily paper:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.a...9-eba266ef6149
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post #21 of 47
3/11/07 at 8:34am

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Wonderful tributes are here: http://blogs.ocregister.com/soundche...elp_19512.html and http://www.boston.com/ae/music/artic...ing_brad_delp/
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post #22 of 47
3/12/07 at 7:11am

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We went last night and finally picked up the Boston remaster. Wow did they do a great job. Tom really knew what he was doing on the remaster.

I went over the steve hoffman's forums to see what they thought of the cd and they all pretty much said it stunk. Too compressed. It definetley is more compressed. I'm on the fence as to the sound. I don't have my old cds anymore to compare to. I wish the mastering engineers could be left alone to create a great master, without having the artist or label looking over their shoulder telling them to make it louder.
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post #23 of 47
3/12/07 at 9:28am

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kyle are you sure they werent talking about the previous remaster that wasnt done by tom?

that one has been killed by those in the know.
recently a new remaster by tom has come out.
i have read good thoughts on that one.
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post #24 of 47
3/12/07 at 10:50am

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No, they were discussing the new one by Tom, saying he should have kept his hands off of it. They were particularly mad that Tom used ProTools to tweak eq and compress/limit the master, when Tom had always been an all analog guy. I think the remaster sounds good, I just wish he had laid off the compression. It's probably 3-4 dB louder than before.
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post #25 of 47
3/13/07 at 10:49am

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Is it just me, or do the folks on the Steve Hoffman forums tend to be overly cranky sometimes?
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post #26 of 47
3/13/07 at 11:41am

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Compressed?

I haven't look at the waveform but let me give you this.

Compressed music is supposed to be loud when the volume level is low. In my Corvette I have MB Quartz speakers, a solo-baric sub and 1600 watts total. On my head unit most of todays popular CD's are around 100db when I set it to a volume level of 32(compressed). Some older stuff goes near 40(not compressed)

The Boston remix plays CRYSTAL clear at 44. There isn't a CD I own that will go to 44 without breaking up.

I'll look at the waveform tonight but based on my un-scientific test I'd say the recording levels are dead on.

In the house it sounds fantastic so I'm not sure what they are complaining about.
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post #27 of 47
3/14/07 at 2:34pm

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Just posted on the AP wire that Delp's death was a suicide, according to family. From carbon monoxide poisoning.
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post #28 of 47
3/14/07 at 3:59pm

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Wow, even more tragic. I just hope that Tom has a lot more of Brad's work on tape, and that once he and the rest of the band have had time to deal with this tragedy that he can release it, although I suspect this is going to take a heavy toll and working on tracks will be very difficult if not impossible emotionally.
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post #29 of 47
3/15/07 at 9:59am

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Tom has updated the www.bandboston.com website with a must read for Boston fans.

I too was lucky enough to see Boston live a couple of times during the Third Stage tour. The first was at the Tacoma Dome, and was the first time I had ever braved the front of the pit. The second was at the Pacific Coloseum in Vancouver - I was late in hearing about the show and it was nearly sold out, but I managed to score tickets in row 2, stage right. What was very cool about that show was that the whole audience remained seated, even at the front of the stage, so we had an unobstructed view. This was the show where I managed to get backstage with a borrowed pass (thanks Gerald!) and meet Tom and Brad. Even though they knew I wasn't supposed to be there, both were gracious enough to talk to me for a few minutes before security politely escorted me away. Very classy.
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post #30 of 47
3/15/07 at 11:59am

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Ulmer
What was very cool about that show was that the whole audience remained seated, even at the front of the stage, so we had an unobstructed view.

Maybe I'm just too old, but I hate when everybody sits down at a rock concert.

Is that an ironic thing to say?
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