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| 594.1 | | WMOIS::MAZURKA | Son_Of_B&B_And_A_Little_Weed. | Fri Jan 14 1994 13:58 | 4 |
| Are the Rumors true that Steve Perry will do the Lead_Vocals??
Crazy_Or_Is_Brad_Back_Al?
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| 594.2 | | CRISTA::MAYNARD | The Front Row Kid | Fri Jan 14 1994 15:10 | 3 |
| This is actually a Tom Scholtz album with a lot of different musicians
and 5 or 6 singers.
Jim
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| 594.3 | new Boston??? | ROCKER::KNOX | Rock'n'Roll Refugee | Thu May 26 1994 12:50 | 9 |
| I just heard a tune from the new BOSTON album. It sounded like
the standard Tom Scholz tune (i.e. a remake of every other Tom Scholz
tune), however the vocals did not sound like Brad Delp. I used to play
in a band with a friend of Brad's and words like "Cold Day in Hell"
were the norm when discussing a 4th Boston album with Brad.
Anyone know who this new singer is... quite a set of pipes!!
/Billy_K
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| 594.4 | NOT BRAD..NOT CLOSE..BUT THERE! | 3D::MERRIMAN | | Thu May 26 1994 16:00 | 17 |
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Listen carefully....Brad IS doing backups on the new tune!
According to Gary Phil, there was a LONG search for just the
right vocalist for the new album....Nationwide if I remember
correctly...anyways lots of folks are uncertain who the mystery
dude really is????..Some say Fran from the old Orion the Hunter
..but other say NOT!! I'll find out next time I talk to Gary
or Brad let ya know...Brad's voice I.M.O. is irreplaceable(sp?)
No one can/will deliver a song with SUCH conviction!
Again, my opinion only!
As a side note...I know Brad and Gary..and I'll see what I can
find out...Brad is an extremely nice guy and has been involved
with my bands activities off and on....Gary is cool ...but I
haven't talked to him for a couple of months...So I'll fill
ya in ...if/when I find anything out
-TGW
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| 594.5 | Help | JUPITR::WCLUETT | MO - MO - MO- TIVATION!!!!! | Thu May 26 1994 16:15 | 6 |
| I am wondering if Brad Delp still intends to put out a new RTZ album
in the near future... The first RTZ kicked...
Wayne
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| 594.6 | Lawyers, Guns and Money | TECRUS::ROST | The creator has a master plan | Fri Jun 03 1994 15:47 | 7 |
| These guys must love lawsuits. I saw in the Worcester, MA paper that
some guy is suing the band and the new singer for breach of a
management contract.
The album hits the stores Tuesday.
Brian
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| 594.7 | "Pretty rockin'" | HOTLNE::LUCHT | | Tue Jun 07 1994 13:26 | 8 |
| I just heard a new cut of the new Boston CD, a tune
entitled "Surrender to me" or something to that extent.
It sounded pretty good, it rocked o.k. You gotta love
that guitar sound. The Rockman is unmistakable in it's
distorted sound. Any other comments?
Kev --
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| 594.8 | | TAMRC::LAURENT | Hal Laurent @ COP | Tue Jun 07 1994 13:44 | 11 |
| re: .7
> You gotta love that guitar sound.
No I don't! :-) :-)
> The Rockman is unmistakable in it's distorted sound.
Unmistakable, yes. Good? Not in my opinion.
-Hal
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| 594.9 | | MAYES::OSTIGUY | | Tue Jun 07 1994 13:56 | 7 |
| I think the rockman sound is a good sound when used appropriately...it
fits well with the first album, but I don't like the rest of their
albums, and I haven't heard the new single yet...
when I was in U4EA, the lead player used his Rockman sound on
everything, which used to drive me crazeeeee...it's a good sound, if
not overused, and he OVERUSED it to the max, even during slower tooonz
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| 594.10 | "Brings back memories..." | HOTLNE::LUCHT | | Wed Jun 08 1994 13:17 | 8 |
| I've always been a big Boston fan from the start. However,
if I listened to the sound of the Rockman for too long it would
drive me beserk. Nevertheless, it's nice to hear that good
time Boston sound again in some new material instead of the
songs from the last two decades.
Kev --
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| 594.11 | | LEDS::BURATI | human crumple zone | Wed Jun 08 1994 13:58 | 10 |
| I can listen to that guitar sound for...about 4.6 seconds. It's
nauseating. It's shallow and lifeless. It is to my ears as paper is to
my tastebuds. I've been working overtime dodging Boston on the FM dial
lately.
I had a rockman for a while. Could wait to trade it in. Trying to get a
good sound out of it was just below painting my house on the enjoyment
scale.
There, I said it.
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| 594.12 | Love/hate relationship with Scholz Rockman | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Light to dark, dark to light | Wed Jun 08 1994 14:54 | 13 |
| I have a Rockman.
What I like about the RockMan:
You can plug any old guitar in it and it will make you sound
exactly like Boston.
What I hate about the RockMan:
You can plug any old guitar in it and it will make you sound
exactly like Boston.
Mine mostly sits in a drawer these days.
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| 594.13 | | MPGS::MARKEY | I might be totally wrong but I'm a... | Thu Jun 09 1994 11:52 | 16 |
| Ah, the Rockman... an interesting box indeed. No knobs. Just switches.
You can make it sound exactly like Boston, or you can move the slide
switches to another position and get a sound exactly like Boston. The
entire range of guitar sounds from A to A. Simply amazing.
In 20 years, Boston has made four albums. Everyone ignores the second
and third, and plays the death out of the first. If current trends are
any indication, the latest Boston album will join numbers 2 and 3 as
slightly upscale versions of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, and a day
will not pass in which some local radio station treats us to another
listening of "Foreplay/Long Time", or "Rock 'n Roll Band". Like we
really need it.
Yawn.
Brian
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| 594.14 | Quack | TECRUS::ROST | Don't use cruise control in reverse | Thu Jun 09 1994 12:03 | 20 |
| Ah, everyone knocks the Rockman, but as the owner of some interesting
excuses for headphone amps that existed before that, it was the first
headphone amp that sounded enough like really playing through an amp to
be useful and it was also the first product I recall that gave you the
sound of a rack full of studio processing gear in a box the size of a
video tape and for $200. Limited, sure, but what isn't? Tried a
Pocket-Bl*w-Me, uh, Pocket-Rock-It lately? Actually, Yamaha did it
best with the MA-10, which got discontinued almost as soon as they
introduced it. I hope mine never breaks 8^(
Hey, I was trapped in a lab in MRO1 a few years ago with a tape deck
and only two tapes, "Third Stage" and Zep's "Presence". Anyway, I
definitely heard plenty of that third album (although it suddenly made
"Presence" seems like a major work of art, for some reason). Why, it
sounds just like the first album! Maybe that's the Scholz mentality?
8^)
I found out that Tom's real first name is Donald, BTW.
Brian
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| 594.15 | :-) | MPGS::MARKEY | I might be totally wrong but I'm a... | Thu Jun 09 1994 14:08 | 24 |
| For Boston fans, I can understand your frustration at having to
wait so long between Boston albums. Thus, I offer the following
recipe for keeping yourself chock full of the latest Boston
music.
To create the ultimate Boston emulator:
1. Buy a drum machine. Select the least dynamic bass and snare
drum sounds and alternate them on beats 1,2,3.4. Place
a loud cymbol crash at the beginning of every measure of
4.
2. Place a Waring blender on "puree", to most closely approximate
that signature homogenized guitar sound.
3. Isolate the vocal tracks from the "Chipmunks Greatest Hits"
recording.
4. Mix these elements in such a way that the VU meter on your tape
machine never wavers from 0 bd.
There you have it! Enjoy.
Brian
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| 594.16 | "I'm trying to remember..." | HOTLNE::LUCHT | | Mon Jun 13 1994 12:37 | 8 |
| How many shows were sold out at the Worcester Centrum
back in 1987? 9 or 10? I can't remember. At any rate,
that's quite a few folks who enjoyed rocking' to Boston's
"irritating" sound. Any word on an upcoming tour?
Kev --
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| 594.17 | | LEDS::BURATI | human crumple zone | Mon Jun 13 1994 14:17 | 5 |
| Incredible isn't it. I've seen thousands upon thousands of people
absolutely convinced that they're having the time of their lives
listening to absolute trash. :^)
--Ron
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| 594.18 | | BUSY::SLABOUNTY | Is this p_n great or what? | Mon Jun 20 1994 19:42 | 6 |
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They sold out 1 less show than they booked, I believe ... and
I think they booked 9 shows.
GTI
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| 594.19 | same old.. But I'm not bitter. | BLASTA::Pelkey | Life aint for the squeamish | Thu Jul 14 1994 15:07 | 59 |
| re: Fourth Album
Nice cover... :)
Inside,, Same old stuff...
Singer is different,,, only way I was sure is different name,
who'd they do that ? (I pondered..) Anyway, I know the dude
Fran... Knew him pretty good back in the late 70s early
80s' He was in ORion the Hunter I believe... So that
apple stayed pretty close to the tree (Orion was Goodreau's
post Boston project.. Hmmmm??)
Can't decide weather Sholzs' sound is what makes all their
albums sound the same, or if they just keep reusing the
same hooks,,, ooooorrrrr BOTH! YEAH! BOTH!
Do I like it...
Most of it. First listen was the night I bought it, through
headphones. Not a bad mix, alot of production, the material
The songs themselves that is..,
ehh... it's quite
a bit like third stage, like Don't look back was quite a bit
like the 1st. Listen to the 1st and the fourth back to back,
and the biggest differnece is the mixing ability.technology.
Do I hate it.
Naw,, not really...
Like everyone else seems to be saying,, nothing much has changed..
RE: the Rockman.
Three GREAT purposes
1. The chaining ability, where you can either tie it
in to your stearo with the proper cable, and learn
covers via cassette or CD, or hook it up to another
rockman.... Silent jams at 1:40 A.m.!
2. Battery powered, goes anywhere your Case goes
3. When used wiht a stereo chorous, one output tied to
a real amp, other output sent to the rockman, with the
phone output hooked into two channels on your sound
board.. (Stereo 1/8" to Stereo RCA cable required)
You'd have to hear it to sort of appreciate it...
But for REAL road work,, leave it home...
TOO NOISY! TOO COMPRESSED
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