Good news about BOSTON's appearance at the Come Together tribute for Brad. I  finally got acknowledgment last week that our offer to play had been accepted, and the arrangements have been sorted out.

Sorry for the long delay in relaying confirmation of our set in Brad's tribute, but we had a little trouble getting information ourselves. I didn't even know for sure if BOSTON was in the show, until I read it in the paper! We originally made the offer about two months ago, but I'm sure that everyone was very busy trying to work out the problems that inevitably accompany an event with so many bands.

Apparently a publicist disseminated some press information before anyone contacted us. Some of the resulting articles weren't very flattering and seemed to imply that BOSTON didn't have it's act together. We can definitely have our act together, but only when we know we're supposed to put it on a stage somewhere! It's too bad writers would chose to denigrate artists or an event when it is a charitable benefit concert for a man from their own area who was so universally loved.

Following the ensuing tempest in a teapot, everything was quickly worked out. The show is of course a benefit with most of the proceeds going to a foundation being formed by Brad's son, daughter and their family. This will be called the Brad Delp Foundation for musical scholarships and more information will be posted when we get it. We wish Jenna and John-Michael good luck with this effort, I'm sure Brad would love to have been able to hand out the scholarships they are planning to give.

A small portion of the proceeds will also go to the DTS Charitable Foundation I started many years ago. It embodies the commitment to cruelty free living and prevention of suffering to all living things shared by Brad and me. Brad was a major contributor to this foundation which has donated millions of dollars to dozens of well respected charities for animal protection, vegetarianism, anti-violence, cruelty prevention, hunger and public education programs, helping people and animals alike.

This won't be a BOSTON show, but we will play a short set of 7 or 8 songs with Michael Sweet, Mickey Thomas and Sammy Hagar graciously appearing for us in Brad's place. We are extremely grateful to these three awesome rock vocalists for traveling to Boston to help us out. We are also inviting former members Barry, Fran and Sib from the Boston area to join us on stage for the final song "Don't Look Back." We have not yet been able to locate Jim Masdea who played with us for many years in the 70's and 80's.

The promoter has provided a long list of acts and artists from the Boston area who will be performing for this celebration of Brad's life. It will be held at the Bank of America Pavillion on Aug 19th. Doors open at 6:00 PM, see you there!

Tom Scholz for BOSTON

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