Interview - Barry Goudreau: The Vibe on Boston's "Don't Look Back"

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[@richardblock9733]

You are a great interviewer! You have a unique style. You ask those difficult questions without offending or defending the artist's past. Excellent work!

[@billrussell7197]

Barry great guitar player and singer...excellent brother!!

[@williamboye3145]

Love you Barry

[@le_th_]

I was too young to see Boston when their first couple of albums came out, but I can tell you this, when I've watched the videos, I've seen several of those live shows, and I realized what a total pro musician Barry Goudreau was/is. I mean, talk about someone you can count on to be on their game for every performance, and his backing vocals. Just truly impressive. ...and not just Goudreau, but every single member of this band seemed to be total pros, not the typical childish rockstars out living their dreams for sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but alert and on and present to provide an incredible performance for the fans, which has to be so so so much more difficult that they make it look. I do remember watching one video where Brad Delp, as great as he was, didn't quite hit the high note on More Than A Feeling and almost immediately saw Scholz's disapproving reaction on stage when he didn't quite push out that high note, and he didn't look angry, he just looked noticeably disappointed and like he was being critical of another musician whose instrument...his voice...was probably tired from being overworked night after night after night, year after year, without the proper rest and care that vocal chords truly require. Delp gave an amazing performance in that show, too. Again, he didn't appear to be angry, just lacking in empathy for the person who made his success possible by actually being able to pull off those vocals, night after night, which is something he clearly could not do himself or he would have done it (like he did everything else). Ideally, music should be fun when performed live, not just perfectionistic. Surely there is a balance of both??? Or is that impossible? I sit in awe of so so so many musicians who can play at this level, and have spent COUNTLESS hours honing their craft in their bedroom or wherever they can practice, getting the notes right and in time, and then playing it back with such emotion in it. Just being able to execute that requires so much skill. The original members of Boston will always be "the band" I think of when I think of Boston. I feel bad that these men weren't able to enjoy playing on stage the way all of us fans usually hope they do. I can tell that, for me, the WORST concerts I've ever attended, are the ones where the band members are standing like statues and not having any fun at all. Now, I don't mean like Devo, in which mechanical movement was part of their schtick, I'm talking the Cars: \one of my favorite bands up until I saw them perform live for the first time. Thank you to all the original members for making the fans feel like you were actually a band when it appears that, for Tom, it was more of a one-man show than the one-man project it appears he wanted it to be. I can tell you one thing, Scholz really hand-picked extraordinary musicians for the original band. You guys were EACH just extraordinary, as so unique...but you played so well together despite being so seemingly different. To Barry Goudreau, if he ever reads the comments, your fans were just heartbroken for you when your family lost Brad Delp. Yes, he was the front man who made Boston what it was, but we also know he was much, much closer to your heart, and so many of us as so so sorry for your family's loss.

[@j.a.wabbit]

That must've been awesome opening for a guy you idolized and who inspired you to be the awesome guitarist you are, I love the fact that you have an awesome lead solo for every song you play

[@richardzraick9296]

The outro to the title track is awesome. Sib really hits the groove and the lead guitar is perfect right on top.

[@diegogomezferreira1914]

Boston 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cosmicdrifter287]

Class act.

[@janlee3173]

Great interview! I learn new things about Barry Goudreau and his band members. Love it!

[@tomulator]

Love these interviews so much!!

[@halbunner8899]

The first two tours were amazing. Third Stage was good but just wasn't the same without the original band. Saw all in Pittsburgh PA. Really good interview. Would really like to see Barry's new Band. Always loved His Playing. A Class Act. God Bless You. RIP Brad@SIB 🖤🙏

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

Dear Mr. Goodreau, I was wondering if by chance you remember on the DLB tour a crowd rush with partial frontal barrier crash in Huntington W.V.? I've been a fan since day 1...Nothing comes close to the 3 Leads in Long Time for me the greatest in Rock Guitar History. Yours Very Respectfully and Sincerely, cq.

[@pamr4040]

♥

[@drmorqWarrenProject]

Boston was a welcome relief from all of the dance music at the time and some rock bands changing from rock to dance.. People didnt understand at the time that we were seeing rock music being smothered by dance, disco and then so called punk.. but really were that new romantics type stuff... and it ruined rock music.. the next thing for rock music was the big hair bands.. and then grunge and 'alternative'... Rock music should be what the radio stations push...

[@chadbennett7873]

It's amazing how much crap we've had to dig though over the eras you detailed to get to a very few nuggets of gold. Backhoe anybody?

[@billmers3219]

Boston played at the buffalo memorial auditorium... Pretty sure it was 78? And I want to say Sammy Hagar open for Boston. My first concert

[@williamboye3145]

I was there brother, my first concert

[@trismahaffay2813]

Great interview! love the inside story. I want to add that live Barry did an incredible job of mimicking Brads backup vocals from the recorded albums. I saw all the concerts here in So Cal every night Barry carried the back vocal seamlessly. One particular high point was the way he carried the back vocal in Dont Look Back "A new day is breaking" etc..he killed it every time. I truly believe if that original line up could have stayed together what a untouchable music time it would have been. Having said that...later Fran Cosmo was a killer singer as well would love to see him on a Boston tour??? btw..Tommy's is holding the candle steady, us Boston fans are eternally grateful! Hear Barry nail this here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4mccpeoZa1_ncU

[@laynelucia5111]

What is the camels back? I cannot find this song anywhere.

[@drmusic3641]

Tom is his own enemy. Each sucssesive album had diminishing returns due to his controlling nature. he shouldve stopped after Third Stage.

[@tomulator]

Actually, he should’ve brought the original touring band back and made a proper fourth album with their input.

[@Journxy27]

Walk On is awesome, and Corporate America and Life Love Hope have a lot of good songs

[@masque1313]

What Tom created was unsustainable. Whether it’s U2, Def Leppard, Metallica, GNR, queen, Bon Jovi or any of those bands that achieved rare super mega success..........they all have one thing in common, subsequent releases all eventually come with diminishing returns. Look at the quality of songs on those first three albums. Essentially one man is responsible for the majority of those songs. Luckily he also had an incredible vocalist to sing his songs. He caught lightning in a bottle and it was an incredible three album run that nearly any artist in history would trade their career to have. So the only thing keeping them from the hall of fame is the stupidity of the hall of fame in not recognizing hardly any of the bands from that time period like Styx, Kansas, foreigner and REO.

[@kevindepew8193]

Disagree. Walk On was excellent. I wish Brad had sung on it, but the vocals were still good and didn't detract from the songs. There isn't a Boston song from the first album through the fourth album that I don't enjoy. Now after Walk On, I think Boston albums took a huge nose dive. There are a handful of good songs that sound like Boston, but overall they were not anywhere near the level of the first four albums. It is like Tom Scholz forgot how to write and produce an album.

[@ericjohnson1228]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.... No reason they should not be in...

[@jb6879]

don't blame Tom. why mess up a good thing.

[@andycomstock9920]

If Tom Scholz was not such a control freak, no doubt Boston would be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[@mikal]

Scholz' inability to collaborate is why so much Boston stuff sounded exactly the same that early on. I love the albums, but let's be honest - Don't Look Back sounded like leftovers from the first album.

[@stacypollock9289]

Scholz WAS "Boston. His baby. His sound. His parents. Him. If you were smart you'd step back and learn.

[@kevindepew8193]

I think Barry did learn. He has produced some songs that have some aspects of the Boston sound. The song dreams is the closest thing I know of to a Boston song that isn't Boston, and I think it sounds better than anything Boston produced post the Walk On album.

[@h.r.puffinstuff431]

Agree with you! 👍

[@johnford5568]

Let's see, Tom's ideas produced one of the greatest albums of all time. By album 2, the hired guitarist is complaining that he still wanted it to be that way, what a shock.

[@h.r.puffinstuff431]

Exactly!! Barry G. makes it sound like he himself had more input on the first album than he truly did. I think he is probably jealous of Tom. I don't like his attitude. In all the interviews I have seen with Tom, Tom definitely doesn't seem like a braggart. Whereas this guy seems to be putting Tom down and raising himself up.

[@rushmore3927]

Brad Delps voice in the DLB album mix seems too low. Inferior mix to their debut. Not just Brad, but a lot of it. It sounds compressed to where none of the vocals or instruments have apparent space. ACDCs, Fly on the Wall sounds the exact same way.

[@rephaimog4186]

Never saw Boston in concert unfortunately. I was told by a friend that Brad and Fran Cosmo together were killer live.