RIP: Brad Delp

Yikes!Are you kidding? Link?

Never mind. Rats, that sucks.

This is so terrible. He will be missed. His voice inspired me.

thanks, and no thanks for the news. i've got my old lp on now.

Damn it, he was the voice that carried my high school class from 9th grade through graduation. You will be missed.

I heard that earlier tonight... bummer.

F***. That sucks. I love Boston. Brad's voice was just BEAUTIFUL... one of the all time greatest rock singers. He will be missed.

and Tom Scoltz turns 60 today.

Brad was an unbelievably humble guy. He would always go out of his way at packed shows to come over and say hello, talk music for a few minutes. Great guy, will be sorely missed.

Sholz

Did you hear their latest album, "Corporate America"? God, they should all die after that!

BABYFACED DESTOYER wrote:

Sholz

Thank you. I was drinking a Schliz when I wrote that.

Boston was so great and he was huge part of it, It's depressing news to hear.

And isn't it Scholz?

I think the correct spelling is Schuoulteze.

I was 16 when I saw Boston for the first time on the Third Stage Tour at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati. It was a school night but my friend and I went around the building at the back of the show. There were two other people waiting.

Delp came out and seemed amazed that there were people waiting to meet him. He took the time to speak to each of us, asked us each our names and signed what we wanted signed and thanked us for coming and sticking around.

I've had many occasions over the years to watch performers interact with their fans both at the venue and away from it. Few were that considerate. And none of them had a voice like that, the perfect rock voice.

My favorite band of all time. He will be missed - an unbelievable and unique voice Brad Delp had. Wow!

more on Delp ... very sad...

ATKINSON, N.H. - Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston who killed himself last week, left behind a note in which he called himself "a lonely soul," according to police reports released Thursday.

The note was paper-clipped to the neck of Delp's shirt when police found his body at his Atkinson home, on the bathroom floor, his head on a pillow. He had sealed himself inside with two charcoal grills; toxicology tests showed he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

"Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul," the note read.

Delp joined Boston in the mid-1970s and sang two of its biggest hits, "More than a Feeling" and "Long Time." He was cremated Wednesday, after a private funeral earlier in the week.

His fiancee, Pamela Sullivan, called police March 9 after noticing a dryer vent tube connected to the exhaust pipe of Delp's car. In the garage, police found a note taped to the door leading into the house.

"To whoever finds this I have hopefully committed suicide. Plan B was to asphyxiate myself in my car."

In another note on a door at the top of the stairs, Delp cautioned that there was carbon monoxide inside.

"I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation. I have lost my desire to live," he wrote. The note also included instructions on how to contact his fiancee: "Unfortunately she is totally unaware of what I have done."

Police later found four sealed letters in an office addressed to Sullivan, his children, their mother, Micki Delp, and another couple whose identity was not disclosed. Police Lt. William Baldwin said police gave the letters to family members without reading them.

Sullivan told police that Delp "had been depressed for some time, feeling emotional (and) bad about himself," according to the reports.

He had planned to marry Sullivan this summer during a break in a tour with Boston. A lifelong Beatles fan, Delp also played with the tribute band Beatle Juice.

That is so truly sad. What is it about artists that life torments them so?

Depression is powerful. Hard to imagine someone giving up when so many people around them love them. Sad. Obviously his music and his fiance were not enough.