Patterico's Pontifications

6/10/2010

Some Thursday Night Music: Brad Delp Edition

Filed under: General,Music — Patterico @ 10:11 pm



Brad Delp fans, gather ’round.

First we have an amazing clip of Delp’s Beatles cover band doing the Abbey Road medley . . . at a high school.

Wow.

Then we have a video of the classic track “Dreams” from the Barry Goudreau solo album. It’s a video made from a wobbly VCR recording and it goes all wompy-jawed at a couple of moments, including right at the beginning. You can listen to a cleaner recording of the song here, but I prefer this version because you can see Brad belting it out:

Let’s close strong, with an unreleased demo of “More Than A Feelin'”:

The range this guy had is beyond the capacity of words to describe.

This version has additional harmonies and a raw, real feeling that makes it a real find. The video has only 3500 views on YouTube, which is hard to understand.

9 Responses to “Some Thursday Night Music: Brad Delp Edition”

  1. Dude. Can I call you dude? This rocks. There are times when I don’t agree with your blogging but this totally makes up for it.

    Jared (a58d54)

  2. Yes, you may call me dude. You are also allowed to disagree at times.

    But not about Brad Delp! So I’m glad you don’t.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  3. Fantastic big hair in the middle clip. Memories.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  4. These were very good. I thought we agreed on almost everything but music … but it seems we even agree on that.

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  5. Fantastic stuff! Thank you, Patrick.

    This guy has some pipes, no doubt.

    If you like Beatles covers done well, you can not do better than the OC’s own Fab Four. There are tons of their videos on You Tube (or check their site – http://www.thefabfour.com). If you ever have the chance, I think it would be a great family experience to go see them live.

    Ed from SFV (f0e1cb)

  6. Ed,

    Wow. That is crazy.

    I will definitely have to see this band.

    Patterico (c218bd)

  7. Unfortunately, this is now the late Brad Delp. Another great loss to the world of music. And

    Loren (af2946)

  8. Unexpected smiles like this are yet more reasons to make Patterico.com a daily visit. Well, music items and the occasional conversational gems from the Patterico progeny.

    TimesDisliker (c83992)

  9. Man, he actually sounded better without all the overdubbing and processing that Tom Scholz was addicted to–how many singers can you say that about?

    Another Chris (2d8013)


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