RIP Brad Delp...

[donf]

I can't believe it.

If I were stranded on a desert island and could only take one album, their first album would be the one album I would take.

Brad Delp gone, crap.

I got to see their Corporate America 03/04 tour and it was kick ass. Goodbye Brad.

[shreddermon]

Very bumming. Boston was one of the first groups I was ever "into". Great music, great voice.

And funny you should mention Kiss, Kev. I can vividly remember arguing with a friend in 3rd or 4th grade about Kiss or Boston being the better band. (I was saying Boston, him Kiss.) We still joke about that to this day.

RIP Brad.

[~K~]

Back around 1988 My wife and I went into a local hardware store and got an item, got in line and as I looked up the person right in front of me turned around and it was Brad.

I was young and it actually startled me a bit as I wasn't used to seeing a rockstar in "normal" life.. LOL .. My wife was encouraging me to talk to him and I kept saying no ... She asked why I wouldn't and I told her I didn't want to bother him and make a fool of myself ... LOL

[Joe_Steeler]

ahh shit!! A signature voice for a timeless band. Very sad.
RIP Brad D.

[mattsmusiccenter]

This BLOWS!!

When I was like 10 I stayed at a friends house and we listened to a couple albums his parents had just bought. The first was Boston and up to that point I had never heard anything like that before. Quite honestly it BLEW MY MIND and that was the moment I decided I wanted to learn to play guitar. Ha... that record was SOOO good, I still remember the feeling I had hearing it for the first time.

I had a RCA or BMG membership at the time and as soon as I got home I ordered the album for myself, probably wore the grooves off the thing!

[charvelguy]

Barry Goudreau lives in MA too.. he really was the guy who played alot of the cool guitar parts in Boston.. no slight to the Tom I share a name with.

RIP. Brads voice will always be remembered as the voice that launched a million+ record sales to some of the greatest classic AOR rock to hit the airwaves.

[Bengal65]

I was on Spring break at college in 1977 and we drove from Utah to San Fran. CA to see this new band on their first album tour. I can still remember Brad hitting those impossible high notes! Later, in 1978, I saw them again at the Cow Palace. And in 1987 at the Cow Palace I saw Boston once again. I wished I got to see them on the Corporate America tour. I hate to hear things like this. His legend will live on for a long time to come. RIP once again.

[Subvamp]

Wow, I'm really stunned by this. I was actually listening to the first Boston CD today while I was working at my shop, and enjoyed it so much that I put in Don't Look Back too. I LOVED Boston when I was a kid, and I've listened to those first 2 albums consistently over the years. I have some cool Boston live bootleg videos, and Brad was totally on, every note, every song, in each of those videos. I was lucky enought to be 3rd row for the Corproate America tour a few years back, and ti was the time oif my life. What a great show!

The world has lost a major talent, and even thought I never got to meet him, I feel like I've somehow lost a friend.

RIP Brad. You'll be missed Brother.

[Distracter]

what the Devil? Brad is death? oh my god... Boston was great band... a great band... Brad was an excellent singer also...
Hail!

[nateb]

Damn... that really sucks. Grew up listening to their stuff. Awesome music for its time.

-Nate

[charvelguy]

what the Devil?

..Mr. Scott, you're fired. (little original series humor there)

[jackson1]

ugh....
Boston had a huge impact on me back then... it was my first "in awe" band.... This makes me very sad.. RIP Delp

[Distracter]

..Mr. Scott, you're fired. (little original series humor there)

[Firebird V]

RIP.

I saw them on Thiird Stage. Great show.

He was a great singer/frontman.

[JACKSONFREAK]

One of my favorite bands and one of myu favorite singers. I always loved Brads voice. I always wanted to see Boston live but i never got the chance. I heard Brad and Tom had both just gotten engaged and were planing to tour this summer. Now this. I guess Im not supposed to see Boston. I am deeply sadened by this. I've been playing the first album in my car ever since heard the news. What an amaizing singer he was.
Gil