Boston's Brad Delp, dead at 55

[PlexiBrown]

I lost a few friends who killed themselves and happened to be on anti-depressants at the time. They are bad news.

[VanHalener]

First I've heard of this...

While driving home I heard a local radio station mention surviving members of BOSTON, one of the greastest rock bands ever, will perform August 19th in tribute to the late Brad Delp.

Perhaps I have missed it on another thread, but the Boston website says Sam Hagar has offered to sing along with other artists in place of Brad.

Dear BOSTON,

Tell Sam, "Thank you, but no."

Here's to Brad, and to the band and their efforts in honoring him.

http://www.bandboston.com/

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[ELVIS]

Awesome video!

[ELVIS]

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[ELVIS]

Originally posted by vanhalener
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[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
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I think there's a reason that the only way you can hear this song is in a badly chewed up video tape.

Tom Scholz has put forth the myth that he and he alone WAS Boston, though he has at times modified that statement to include Brad Delp's voice.

But this song (from Barry Goudreau's first solo album) proves that not only Delp, but Goudreau were just as essential to the Boston sound as Scholz himself. Sounds just like a Boston song to me, although not quite as overproduced as the "official" Boston albums.

Rumor is that Scholz pressured Epic to pull this album from the shelves soon after its release, using the delay of the third Boston album as "leverage".

The Goudreau album was forgotten, but Third Stage wasn't released until 1986 and even then, on MCA records.

So who won the fight?

[ThrillsNSpills]

Originally posted by FORD
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So who won the fight?

I know the record company owed Tom a ton of money and they said they weren't going to pay him and Tom couldn't keep up with the legal bills to sue them. So tom invented these cool guitar processing pieces(Rockman) and eventually earned enough money to sue the company and got the money he was owed. I don't know if any of this ties in to what you're saying, but a cool story nonetheless.

[VanHalener]

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[ELVIS]

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[VanHalener]

Mr Brad Delp
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[VanHalener]

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[VanHalener]

If I may...

For those about to rock...
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[VanHalener]

Thank god for the young and improving...
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[Satan]

Originally posted by vanhalener
Thank god for the young and improving...
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Pretty good for a kid that age. Hope he has some other great classics in his music collection. If he keeps going, I might have to buy his soul eventually........

[gbranton]

A new and strange twist regarding the death of Brad Delp.

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/bedroom-spy-camera-led-up-to-brad-delps-suicide/?ns_service=mail&ns_robot=partner-Adestra&ns_campaign=1955&ns_source=Adestra&ns_mchannel=email-n&ns_linkname=Read%20more%20about%20this%20amazing%20revelation%20here.&ns_fee=0&ns_recipient=gbullitt2001%40yahoo.com&ns_mail_uid=60&ns_mail_job=2815

Boston singer Brad Delp installed a hidden camera in his fiancee’s sister’s bedroom – and killed himself nine days after he was caught.

Evidence given in the court case between Boston mainman Tom Scholz and a newspaper revealed how Delp, who committed suicide in 2007, was ashamed and apologetic after his spy device was found.

Events came to light as part of Scholz’s claim that the Boston Herald defamed him by suggesting he was to blame for his bandmate’s death.

Delp was engaged to Pamela Sullivan while her sister Meg Sullivan lived in the singer’s house. His relationship with Meg was described as “platonic”.

But in February 2007 she discovered his battery-powered spy device when it fell from its hiding place. She confronted him about it then went to stay with her boyfriend.

Delp emailed her to apologise, saying: “I feel sick about this, and deservedly so.” He later added: “I want to try and make you understand that I consider myself a decent person who made a dreadful error in judgement. I acted out of some impulse that is still not completely fathomable to me.”

But her boyfriend, Boston sound engineer Todd Winmill, ordered him to tell his fiancee what had happened. “He essentially apologised for half an hour,” said Winmill. “I told him he had to tell Pamela. He didn’t like the thought of having to do that.”

Delp later took his own life by lighting two charcoal grills in his sealed bathroom, leading to his death by carbon monoxide poisoning. In one of four notes he wrote: “I have had bouts of depression and thoughts of suicide since I was a teenager.”

Afterwards the Boston Herald reported he’d been “beaten down by the years of dealing with Tom Scholz,” which the bandleader says amounts to blaming him for the singer’s death. He’d countered that Delp’s depression was caused by “an extremely upsetting and embarrassing incident,” although he’d refused to provide details.

But Meg Sullivan says Delp had told Pamela about the camera, and the couple were dealing with the issue. She tells the Boston Herald: “In the years that followed Brad’s death it has seemed that Tom Scholz has desperately tried to find someone to blame for Brad’s decision to take his life. Quite contrary to what the article implies, Brad’s fear of the repercussions from the event between us was not the reason that he decided to end his life.”

The case continues.