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The following statements made in response to recent allegations made surrounding Brad's Delp's death

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The following are excerpts from Classics Revisited interview, 2003

BRAD DELP 1952-2007 (BOSTON lead singer, friend to everyone) :

...I want to say I am proud of Tom but that sounds patronizing and I don't want to do that. A point of fact is that Tom and the band have been supportive of a number of organizations over the years with little to no fanfare... He has been with these organizations for a number of years without the publicity. As it turns out, happily, the rest of the band is in tune with these organizations as well. I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years and I am involved with animal rights organizations. They are all things that resonate with all of us but I want to give Tom the lion's share of the credit for taking the initiative and being more forceful with it.

Now, with the new incarnation of Boston, everyone is a great singer and plays multiple instruments. It really comes out in the live shows.

Tom suggested that we do one of my songs from the first record called "Let Me Take You Home Tonight." We have only played that once on one other tour. We have worked up a kind of acoustic version. It has been a lot of fun... I am just totally lucky to be the guy who was there. I am having a blast singing my song, "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" which is one of the lesser known songs on that album -- if there are any. It gets a great response as well. I am just so lucky. What guy gets to have this much fun at his job?

I have been very lucky over the years. I go in [the recording studio] and there is a microphone set up. The rest of my time is my own. He sweats over every other detail. He puts literally years of work into each album... Tom and I know each other so well. When we go in the studio there is a little bit of ESP.

It didn't occur to us that we had to write a hit [for the second album] because that is not what we had done with the first album. We were not trying to make radio friendly music... I respect Tom because he is so focused on the music and not what everybody else is doing. I think we have all been rewarded for that.

I have been playing in a band that plays Beatle songs when Boston is not touring. I play almost every weekend. I tell people that it is the only thing that I can do that makes me feel 15 again; it really does. The Boston thing is the only thing I can do that makes me feel 25 again. At 52, 25 is not that bad an age to be.

Bandboston.com March 23, 2007

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Mike Cecil said:

Having met Brad on his bus in Harrisburg in the RTZ days with Barry
was a pleasure for me to just talk briefly with in my opinion the greatest rock and roll voice out there. I remember seeing Boston together at Hershey and remember Tom introducing Brad as "THE VOICE" of Boston. What a voice he was. I happened to be in Lowell Mass. on business when Brad left us last March and was hoping to catch on of his Gigs up there and I'll never forget I believe my heart skipped a beat I was so sad and I'm just a fan. Listen God bless all you people close to him. I'll never forget just meeting him once. Mike

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Tony Panken said:

	Boston has always been my light in the dark , the music is heavenly. And there is where the leadsinger is now Tony from Belgium
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