Comments for Boston, Walk On

Can't get enough of Boston!

The first Bostom album is in my top five albums of all time.

Generally I like this CD but I wonder what it would have been like with Brad Delp singing

I was really disapointed that Brad Delp didn't sing, i's still classic Tom Scholz style, but the voice isn't as good as Brad's All things considered, it's a great album and it's good to hear from Boston again.

Fran Cosmo sang on Barry Goudreau's (Boston's second guitarist on Boston and Don't Look Back) solo album and the album he recorded as Orion the Hunter. By the way, are Goudreau's albums available on CD?

This album is definitely Boston, and it's worth the money. To the person that asked about Barry Goudreau's albums: My brother made me a copy of Barry Goudreau's solo album on cassette. It's really good, but it is not yet available on CD. It was made on Portrait Records, so I wrote Sony some e-mail, asking them to print this album on CD. Send them some e-mail, and maybe they will do something about it. Orion the Hunter has just been reprinted on CD, so you should be able to get that one. And don't forget about RTZ's album, "Return to Zero." This is the reason why Brad Delp didn't sing on "Walk On", because he was the lead singer on this album, another one of Barry Goudreau's many projects. Anyway, I still like Boston, and I hope that I hear from them in less than 8 years again!!!

Tom ,get real and return to the success of TOM, BRAD. AND BARRY!!!!!

So Scholz decided he needed to make a buck again...Don't get me wrong! I used to be the biggest Boston fan ever, but when Third Stage finally showed up, I kinda cooled my jets. Whatever happened to that killer rhythm section (i.e. Sib and (especially) Fran)? Scholz has to do it all himself and hell, they're not even a band anymore. Cosmo is adequate, but Delp would've helped. Maybe. I don't know, but this stuff just doesn't turn me on at ALL! What's Your Name is as much a blatant ripoff of Bette Davis Eyes as anything I've ever heard (imagine that!). Surrender To Me is the best on the CD to me, but the arrangement pure sux...there are drums where there shouldn't be and the sound us so muddy I shouldn't have even been able to pry the thing out of my CD player. Oh, it has it's moments, but somehow when I wait a gazillion years for a CD I expect better than this, and despite Tom Scholz's technical proficiency and unique guitar style, he could use an outside producer, and this record proves it. All things considered, I just liked them so much more when they were a BAND.

Despite the bitterness throughout the comments immediately above, I'd have to agree. Even with Third Stage, Scholz decided to sequence the album with the attention to detail given the rest of the production, but the sequence on Walk On is totally anticlimactic. The tour in '95 was superb, and they masterfully interchanged the vocal talents of Cosmo and Delp, which I thought would have been impossible.

Don't get me wrong, I think BOSTON is the best band of all time but there are a few disappiontments on Walk On. #1. No Brad. Brad is as much the "BOSTON" sound as Tom's guitars #2. Drums are very weak. No "real feel" to them. #3. Yeah "ROCKMAN" sound is the BOSTON sound but lets be real, on tape they still don't sound as good as the real thing. Tom could sure tweek a Marshall. The first 2 albums had a completely different feel to them. Third Stage and Walk On sound more stiff, overproduced and impersonal. #4. No Brad Overall though, the worst Tom Scholz would put out sounds better than anything else out there.

Boston without Delp is a definite let-down. Walk On lacks the hooks of Boston's earlier efforts. Saw 'em in Worcester Mass. in '86. Best show that I've attended. Bring back Brad.

I think the album was awsome!!! Even though Brad didn''t sing on it, I take off my hat to the very talented FRAN COSMO. People should''ve just accepted that Brad did not sing on the album and give Fran the credit he deserves. Don''t get me wrong, Brad is an awsome vocalist, but think about that without Fran singing with Boston now on tour, they wouldn''t be able to pull off their awsome vocals that everyone loves. Brad even said, out of his own mouth, that Fran is his vocal saviour.

Boston is one of the best and this cd too.Great job.Want to hear more.Bernie

Boston is the best band of all time. THANK GOD they havenew album.