by brywool » Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:11 am
So is Tommy's whole look Tom Scholz's idea? I think the guy sings the stuff very well- and it is VERY HARD stuff to sing, but yeah, the taking on of Delp's whole look is very strange. I'm sure if you asked him, he'd say it's not intentional. MAYBE it's not, but a lot of fans are taking it as a planned thing or a wannabe thing and it's really odd. He'd be wise to get a new look. The other thing, and I've not seen the current version, Michael Sweet does NOT fit into Boston. Great singer, but not in Boston. Let Tommy sing all the tunes. As for the gal bass player- is she nailing the bass parts or is she missing them? Those parts are also NOT easy parts and super tough to sing over. If she's hitting the parts, no problem. But the country song... yeah, that's not "Boston" to anyone but I guess them. One more thing... The mixing and the drums on the new album are so so soooooo below par. I just can't listen to it.
NO. He's NOT Steve F'ing Perry. But he's Arnel F'ing Pineda and I'm okay with that.