Boston - Full Concert - 06/17/79 - Giants Stadium (OFFICIAL) 

The greatest voice in rock history

Before Pro Tools there were pros.

Has reverb, delay, and phaser on it. You're wrong

@@marcusbailey2632 OK, Brad has a little reverb and compression, Barry has a chorus effect on his voice, but still no auto-tune. 🙄

​@@tomgorycki7176 The most melodically PERFECT band of all time.IMO

F$ck yeah!!

Of course mister! It was great.We really loved the hard rock

Definitely! Every song on their first album is a hit.

Their first 3 albums were very good.I had all 3.Doesn't look like many people were at this concert.

@@snave59 I’m sure there was. The seats they are showing are behind the stage.

So true.. a forever classic

Too bad they'll probably never be inducted into the hall of Fame.

Totally agree.

YOUR ARE RIGHT

@Bubba Hubba I suggest you go listen to the isolated vocal tapes then eat a big plate of crow for calling Brad a goober. He had one of the most amazing voices of all time. No effects, no pitch correctors, no pro tools, no cut and paste, no crap. The work he did on the first two albums were nothing short of amazing. Give Tom his due but don't dare do it at the expense of Brad Delp!! Goober.

@@sightsandsoundsa.v.8401 agreed Brad was a vocal God. Boston 1 is my pick for Desert Island album. Best dueling guitars in Rock, hands down!! Nothing but talent in the whole band! Sib and Fran held that shit down!!! And my teenage kids love this shit so fuck off haters!!

Plot Twist.. Brad changed his name to Mick and later went on to be Cactus Jack then Mankind.

Maybe.. Aerosmith didnt.. stole alot of they market share!

@@frankfromupstateny3796Boston was a way better band.

Just lost my dad, so I get it... prayers to you...

I'm probably close to your dad's age. I have kids not much younger than you. I guarantee one thing, if Boston was one of his favorite bands, I would have definitely been one of his buddies! Not gonna list them, but I bet I know what his 10 favorite bands were just based on him being a Boston fan! Sorry for your loss! Rock on! ✌️🤘

😅😅😅😅​@@iluvdaguitar

RIP to your dads. That's a tough pill to swallow. My husband and I loved this band. He played their music all the time. We never tired of them. My husband died suddenly of a blood clot. Listening to these guys is a whole different meaning.

Your old man had good taste.

sure ya did. LOL. Just incredible the lies.

​@@joeyheckler4845There was probably 50k people there. Why would he have to lie about it?

​@@joeyheckler4845You sir, are a dick. My first reaction was happiness for the guy. You, call him a liar. You're in for a sad, lonely life.

No way!!!

@@whataboutrob442 he had a similar reply to someone else on another video. He's a troll. And you're right, I have nothing to gain from lying about this. Especially since I wasn't trying to convince anyone. I don't care if anyone believes me or not. 😄

I don't know. It sounded like Barry Goudreau's backing vocal was going through some kind of electronic harmonizer. They used a lot of sound enhancing electronics that Tom Scholz designed.

Possibly an Eventide Harmonizer? I hear it too.

Yup. Brilliant if you ask me.

No Shultz electonics

Steven Salsbury whith that coment u pretty much just took a shit on queen

Such a tragic ending for some one so talented RIP Brad.

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Man Sheehan is such an incredible bass player...

@@JW-iy5yb well said Jack

Oh, I do believe enough people had their pulse quickened at Boston concerts that his estimation has been properly gagued.

Yep...

Amazing voice

AMEN!!! 🙏 🙏 🙏

do you know why he killed himself ? what a trip !!!

@Rick H Brad Delp was her “best friend,” someone she could turn to after a bad date, a breakup, or just a tough day. And for nearly 2½ years, Meg Sullivan also lived with the famed singer for the band Boston, staying in a spare bedroom at his house on Academy Avenue in Atkinson, N.H. By all accounts, the arrangement was platonic; Pamela Sullivan, Meg’s older sister, was Delp’s fiancee. But the relationship between Delp and the Sullivan sisters took a dark turn on the morning of Feb. 28, 2007. That’s when Meg Sullivan discovered a hidden camera that Delp had placed in her bedroom. She confronted Delp and fled to her boyfriend’s place, marking the start of a personal crisis that appears to have dominated the last nine days of Delp’s life. On March 9, Pamela Sullivan found Delp, 55, dead in his bathroom. The deeply depressed singer had killed himself by lighting two charcoal grills and letting the carbon monoxide overtake him. These previously unreported revelations regarding Delp’s relationship with Meg Sullivan have become a central piece of the now two-year-old defamation lawsuit filed by Boston founder Tom Scholz against the Boston Herald. Following Delp’s death, Herald stories, quoting an interview with Delp’s former wife, Micki Delp, and material from unnamed sources, seemed to suggest that Scholz was to blame for Delp’s suicide. A week after his 2007 suicide, the Herald’s Inside Track writers Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa quoted Micki Delp in a piece with the headline, “Pal’s snub made Delp do it: Boston rocker’s ex-wife speaks.’’ They wrote about the conflicts between Scholz and past band members and stated that Micki Delp said her former husband was “upset over the lingering bad feelings from the ugly breakup of the band Boston over 20 years ago’’ and “driven to despair’’ by recent changes in the group. It was, the Herald reported, “the last straw in a dysfunctional professional life that ultimately led to the frontman’s suicide, Delp’s ex-wife said.’’ For the lawsuit, Herald attorneys point to voluminous testimony from former Boston members, other local musicians, Delp’s doctor, and Delp’s friends, including Meg Sullivan, many of whom say the singer didn’t like Scholz, desperately wanted to quit the band, and felt tormented by his role as middle man in an ugly conflict between Boston’s founder and former band members. All of this was summarized in a 140-page statement filed by the Herald in April. Scholz’s attorneys argue that the guitarist didn’t cause Delp’s depression and that the singer’s personal problems - deepened by his fiancee’s affair in the summer of 2006 and the discovery of the hidden camera in her younger sister’s bedroom - led to his suicide. Meg Sullivan, who now lives in California, did not respond to requests for an interview, but her taped depositions in the lawsuit, along with e-mails to and from Delp filed as evidence, shed new light on the tragic story of Delp and the complicated history of Boston, a band that soared to fame in the 1970s before becoming consumed by decades of conflict.

As well as I do!😢

I'm sitting her watching this with tears running down my face. Never as a child did I think I would get to see this live performance so many years later in my living room on my television.

I was lucky....saw Led Zep, Floyd, Yes, Heart, Boston, Foreigner, Tull & Sabbath

​@@5150JAMBorn in '64 in a great neighborhood of Philadelphia. Big bands stopped in Philly quite often. That is a hell of a list of bands you saw. Floyd and Zeppelin. My God David Gilmour is my guitar hero. I'm not too old for that am I. ? Lol

​@@le_th_I completely understand. It's almost ghostly for me. This cassette played on and on. Start to finish and back again until the tape got slower because of the batteries loosing power. My youth was fantastic.

during the Animals tour I was at the MSG show that Roger Waters yelled at a fan about M80s during the show

Fran blew my mind watching him in this concert! He is a beast! Head banging the entire show! Stunning bass player.

Man, what a performance this concert from him

@@windberpa1220 hell ya! But his neck makes mine hurt must have a hell of a chiropractic bill😘

He seems to come from the John Entwistle school of "why play one note when I can play 3?", but with a fatter, mellower tone. I really dig his playing.

100% agreed!

Thanks a lot!

RIP Brad and Sib. They will never be forgotten. Every single member of this band was the backbone of the band. They were solid; you can't remove a single one of them and still have Boston.

The one and only legendary line up......

@@liquidbraino It's funny some will make the 'legal' argument that Boston is Tom. The rest were hired guns and therefore irrelevant. I find that thinking so odd. You can't force chemistry in music between players. The chemistry between this line up and their own unique strengths DEFINED the Boston sound. To call them hired guns, is just offensive. It neuters just how important each member was to that sound. Tom's been chasing it ever since never to be replicated.

Let’s not forget Jim Masdea was also the mastermind behind the drums

Jim Masdea

On this tour at least in Fort Worth TX in May in front of 18,000 folks they sounded HORRIBLE and nothing like the records. Sammy Hagar opened and BLEW them away......Interesting note is that their current guitarist (Gary Pihl) played that night...........in Sammy's band. Met them both a day earlier at Sound Town Records in Ridgmar Mall where I worked. Both cool easy going guys.....

Everytime i watch this video, i think the same thing.

I'd say even better! The small changes and embellishments Brad make sounds even more natural and better

Saw them live in San Diego they were perfect.

See this is a negative in my ears. Just put the album on, then.

You are so lucky friend

Danny Last hahahaha awesome brother....

Danny Last - I envy you for that.... you are right... amazing concert, amazing band, pure rock & roll... school for the other bands about to come in the 80's

Danny Last - I envy you for that.... you are right... amazing concert, amazing band, pure rock & roll... school for the other bands about to come in the 80's

What other bands where there

Except that a GibsonSG and Tom’s Les Paul are different tones. 😉

@@billmurphy9921 Barry had his SG bridge pickup swapped with a Dimarzio Super distortion which pretty much was exactly like Tom’s. He actually hits Tom’s tone pretty close all things considered. And I’m sure Tom helped him out and lent him some gear to make it so. He’s always one to replicate the sound of the albums live. Listen the Barry’s solo song Dreams with Brad Delp singing and playing rhythm guitar, literally has that full on Boston sound.

RIP

No idea what 8th notes are, but the man is clearly possessed by the spirit of rock and roll.

Sheehan/Hashian….an unbelievable rhythm section

If you do a YT search, you see just how many people have tried to copy the drumming. I tried as a teen and could only get close, but not exact. Then again, I only had a 5 piece set.

Right on there...their stuff is hard to do. If you can work out the music nobody can sing it in record key. In 30+ years of playing live music I remember covering one Boston song: Amanda...that’s it

darrelict1 you got that right. No prerecorded backing tracks or sequencers to boost the sound, just talent and loud amplifiers!

Rick R they could have had an Eventide Harmonizer, if so this would have been a very earlier use of it live

@@rickr2029 look again and you might see that Sib the drummer sang the high harmony. After sib left Tom invented a harmonizer to use on Brads vocals

Exactly!!!

Awesome

Great take.

Poetry

Bravo for your lucid and true diagnostic of the technical difficulties to play live such a monstrous répertoire especially Brad's inhuman challenge....

Perfectly said, modern day musicians have no idea of the raw god given talent here on display and in no way could ever compare

I hear you brother

I was just telling a young person what a crazy smell came from a 70-80' rock concert. Especially the Grateful Dead... Good times!!

yes they were!

Sweat, pot and sex

JawTooth the Train Guy? I'm with you. Back to the 70's for a night with friends and the drums telling your heart what to do.

Agreed

​@@robertfrederick4714Indeed. A modern day miracle. Who knew this even existed? With all it's fault's, I got to see these heros of Rock. Rulers of FM radio for several years.

And those harmonies! ...

Yeah Fran's way underrated..

Fran always brought the energy

Back in the he seventies Vancouver was still a bit of a ba CC kwater,but most of the tours startéd here andall the big acts played here at one time or another.$10 got you in the he Door. If you were broke you just waited for the right moment when the crowd rushed the door and run for it. Festival seating meant that you could be hugging the stage if you out were fast enough and forceful enough.pI saw everybody that was anybody as far as rock n roll back then. I think tickets were about $10. Those were the days

The way it used to be. Live and sometimes not perfect but rock and roll. RIP Brad and Sib, thanks for the memories. Music was awesome in the late 70s. Glad I was along for the ride.

Those high studio vocals sound real difficult to replicate on. I'm impressed with how they are doing it live.... Truly a debut album that came out swinging

Very pure rock and roll...

Autotune is a disaster for music. Musical paint by number. Give me a great natural human voice flaws and all.

I had a rock man in the 80’s, I wish I kept it.

That's passion. You can't fake that type of energy - it's not drugs, money or anything else. He's just into it.

Proto head banging!

Yeah, amazing, he's a giant metronome!!

Ya but when he joined Van Halen he showcased his backup vocals too

@@SaintsCheat That is NOT Michael Anthony who played bass in van halen!

Great introduction.

Both bands kick ass.

Si!!!! Amo su sonrisa y el movimiento de su cabello me mata!!!

Boston at the Hollywood Sportatorium < Possibly the best titled gig I ever heard of.

What an amazing memory! One of the moments that make life worth living.

As opposed to the NEW Sportatorium?

I went to many concerts at the sportatorium in the 80s. Good times!

@dk237 Were you one of the persons after a concert helping to push my 69 GTO to jump start it because I left my lights on? I'm not saying weed was involved. Lol

I was there too in the upper deck somewhere. 15 at the time. Was a strange mix of bands. The southern rock fans left after the Outlaws, who were excellent in their own right. Maybe they all ran out of weed. Boston was truly awesome. Their sound was tight on point. They rocked the arena. Great memories. Thanks for posting.

I crashed that show and got chased by security down the stairs and jumped down onto the field rite after it stopped raining and slid accross the tarp that was covering the field

Got in for free

I'd stay in rain all day for a show like this....

Todd Rundgren/Utopia were amazing live. Great concert.

I once saw Van Halen, Boston and Aerosmith at Anaheim Stadium. Prince opened the show, LOL 👍

Your sediments are recognized. I'm a veteran of over 200 rock shows from 1971 to 2000. I've seen Boston, Van Halen, Bad Company, Aerosmith, Sammy Hagar, Prince too at Anaheim stadium. Multiple shows. I saw The Wall, Pink Floyd at LA Sports Arena. Jethro Tull, Bruce, Chicago, All the Beatles (except Lennon) in various shows. Queen, Led Zep, Heart, Linda Rondstat, Black Sabbath , Deep Purple, the Eagles , Santana and Fleetwood Mac! Whew! 😃 Oh yes, Yes, ELP, Rush, Mountain, Eddie Money, ELO, Bryan Adams, Leon Russell, Buddy Miles, Sweet, The Knack, Uriah Heep, Ted Nugent, Tom Jones, George Benson, Humble Pie, Montrose , Foghat, Kiss, Edgar and Johnny Winter, Dave Mason, The Allman Bros., J.Geils Band, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, BOA, REO, BOC, THIN LIZZY, 10000 Maniacs, Lynrd Skynrd and many, many more. I'm exhausted, oh ya, David Bowie, LOL

@@carrrexx7190 No Stones?

@@CMissShelleyMichelle No, I waited 8 hours for Stones tickets in 1974. Ticketron crashed. Only two tickets were sold.

@@carrrexx7190 Ah man. That's sucks. So sorry. 😭😢😿😫😱

There were some good ones. The corporate monster hadn't completely taken over yet.

Damn straight!

Who is "we"?

"Definitely"

@@martintaper7997 "We" would be the generation that came of age during those times. Not that hard to figure that one out.

Amen to that. And don't forget arthritis and the other one... er.... Alzheimers! that's it!!

I am jealous.

Absolutely, we had the greatest talent to rock out to, no auto tune no voice overs

Riding around in our 60’s and 70’s suped up hot rods jamming this out was heaven

Amen to that...the greatest era of Rock N Roll...👍

NHguitar57 at the Civic Center ? My first show there was NRBQ

Love that story!!!! So nostalgic!!!!

You had your priority's straight i would have done the same........ I saw them in '77 '78 '79 '87 FANTASTIC !!!

Cool stories. Good times - Good times.

We were there too. Multiple times seeing them over the next decade. We moved to Southern California in 1986 and saw them out there too,at the Forum. Those stairs at the civic center were hazardous when you were stoned.Which we always were.

I was lucky enough to see him in a small venue in Atlanta just a couple years before he passed, never understand why he did it

Can they PLAY ?!!.More than a feelin' to be on hand for musics' Second Renaissance, spanning TWO centuries. YA-HOO !!

@@Meddy7463 Just to think that most of the album was done in Tom Scholz's basement apartment at the time.

They are incredible!

What did he do? Kill himself?

Johnny - we're kindred spirits. I so feel you on this one.

MarkKiddGuitar - Happy Birthday man. Great way to start the day, for sure.

MarkKiddGuitar 40 years my friend! More Than A Feeling was a big hit in 76!

All studio - they did not do live gigs cause of Tom, this is rare so enjoy.

Johnny Holland greatt

Me too

Me too got the album for Christmas as a kid wore it out on my mickey mouse record player

Yes;. Thank You God!!!!

Thundergod129++I didn't know he died,honestly,not til I just read your comment...That really sucks. God this music takes me back to high school...RIP BD

Agreed, Brad Delp was an Epic vocalist as well as Ronnie James Dio and Freddy Mercury. RIP fellers.

This was about 200 concerts into this tour...its amazing he could hit any notes....his voice here still gives me the chills. Amazing voice and an even better man.

Dodger Dogz At points in Don't Look Back it was a bit shaky but still very good

pussys

Yeah what is it, a pitch shifter?

@@georgelanders4271 it's a custom effect that Tom made. He only made two of them, and that particular effect was never offered to the public.

@@curtiseverett1671 awesome, thanks bro

OMG!!! That would have been the band of the 30th century!!!😆😆😆

Can't blame him for not selling that effect but if he ever decides to he's quad rich I'll tell you 😂😂😂😂

I saw them that same year too. I was in 8th grade, my first concert ever. It was magical.

No Freddie?

Tommy Shaw! Underrated to be sure. Vocal talent. Guitar talent. Brad Delp! Incredible vocal range. Steve Perry. Great range. Freddie! Fantastic vocal range. Stage presence all of them. Can’t pick the best of them but imagine they all collaborated. Such a chorus, would destroy my mind.

john smith nice dogs bro I love dobies

Just the best debut LP Side ONE of all-time....in an era with many

i was at the joe show

Sadly, the Joe Louis Arena has been Demolished..... Saw sooooooo many great concerts there!!!

@@scottyp4299 the first concerts are the joe were two nights with rush. i was at both shows

Ty for your service

Me too brother

How right you are. Definitely the “pinnacle of rock music”. I miss those days. Boston is one of the few groups I never saw live. I do regret that.

@@stevesenkle6995 I saw them in 2008 at a casino in the UP of Michigan, but of course it was nowhere near the same lineup. They had Michael Sweet from Stryper and the guy they found on the internet singing, the woman bass player......it was a bad show, the sound was terrible. They shouldn't have even been touring under the Boston name at that point, IMO, because it was really a ripoff to the fans. I love Michael Sweet and think he's an incredible singer, but it was just weird seeing him onstage with Boston and the sound was so bad you couldn't even hear him that well.

@Aaron Allenson - yes I watched some concert footage videos from about that time era and all of them that I could find sounded pretty bad. The original Boston group sounded good in concert, but nothing like the studio recordings. I don’t even think many cover bands attempted to play Boston.

Thank God He DID "let me off" there!!!!! I was 18!!!

+Kevin Schmitt I learned how to play drum listing to him with head phones on while on my drums in the late 70's. I can play just about every Boston song. It might not be right but it is close.

Just downloaded a Boston cover, More than a Feeling, check it out

Sadly, Sib died today.....he was a powerful drummer, for sure. RIP.

RIP Sib.

Agreed! RIP Sib. You were the man on drums - and vocals too. Totally Awesome Stuff!

I always said Brad's vocal range was on par with Freddie Mercury. He might not have had Freddie's sheer strength on those high notes but he could hit them right with Freddie.

they are often falsetto.

There's a guy on EBay that has 2 different ones. They are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

@@MrBAMAFANATIC That's pretty cool will have to check it out. You don't happen to know under what name he is listed as?

@@samkeepintherockalive Bos Ton Lol

Don't be greedy

What kind of name is that? You Worship the 👿? YSB!!!

Yeah, and now we can find albums with no good songs on them! Lol. Sad but true.

He didn't miss a beat and yeah, he was head bangin' through most the show. How can someone appear to be so coked up, yet play perfectly while head bangin'? That was epic.

FOR REAL! it's blowing my mind.. I've heard all these and never realized how amazing it really is ! He can stroll tastefully all over the place and remain anchored.. it colors the guitars so well.. all around rips!

@@matthewmccalvin2062 most definitely one of the most underrated bassist in rock and roll. The dude was a machine

Very Motown influenced

@@paolocoletti1574 Indeed! James Jamerson did all kinds of little runs like that. The only difference is that Fran plays them faster lol.

Brad lived down the road from me in Londonderry, N.H. Before his untimely demise he did alot of Beatles covers with local musicians, called themselves "BEATLE JUICE" His amazing voice was incredibly accurate to both McCartney and Lennon. they were great shows, close your eyes and you were back in 1964.Had tons of fun with his like minded friends ,engaged to a beautiful woman...everyone loved him. He hid his demons well.We all cried when the morning news reported he put a couple hibachi's in the bathtub and just fell asleep on the toilet, gone forever. RIP, my friend

Brad one of the unrecognized greats well maybe he was recognized rest in peace man you are awesome, very sorry your life ended the way it did. it was a very somber day for me when I heard.

I used to love it when Karaoke was just starting out and guys would try to sing boston and FAIL miserably

manifestgtr : yes, indeed !!!

@Mike Girard bwahaha what a load of crap you spout (just to make it clear i wasn't saying Boston were crap)

2nd..dat..helping!...may i have another..n..so on ..lol

Not in music circles......

Underrated? By who? lol

Man, you can be sure of that!

This is rock show.

No idea what you're complaining about. I said I loved the performance. But if you don't hear Brad Delp straining and slightly off pitch on the high notes of "Don't Look Back", you have no musical ear.

Understand that is pure vocal skill in it rawest form. With no technical help you can tell the Brad vocal is real, powerful, full range and tone. Like Freddie Mercury and Steve Perry...the best among the best. Period.

yes, some people on yt give promptly bad comments if singers are a bit off in concerts (ehm Huey Lewis and the News ? He's 60+ now)