Boston - Tommy Scholz Guitar Solo Live at Brad Delp Tribute

[MrJasonovich]

is he trying to play eruption?

[Oreeyemma]

@MrJasonovich he wouldnt bother with that amateur crap

[joshuaguitarman]

@minpinful shut up dude boston is a clean band if anything they should do it back stage

[seanpgh]

I think it’s nice and all that you are paying tribute to Brad for all his musical accolades and everything. But the bottom line is; he was the father of two children who most certainly did not care that their father was a has been rock-star. His selfishness for days gone by far outweighed the needs of his children; and that, in fact, is truly the tragic aspect of this story.

[ThrowingItAway]

tom scholz wrote long play after 1 year of playing guitar. absolutely amazing

[SilverWar1]

@ThrowingItAway you mean Foreplay?

[sweetgyy]

i like the bassist girl :) cute

[rjdoddswr450f]

as much as i love Boston, they put me to sleep. RATATAT's guitaring is where its at now!

[dennisl2008]

Scholz is responsible for some of the best power chord rock songs in history. On top of that, he INVENTED the ROCKMAN used on countless hit records. Huge influence in the recording arts in it's day. Gibson Fuzztone, Vox Wah-Wah, MXR Phase Shifter and the Rockman. The pantheon of guitar effects.

[sonicman2112]

Always have loved Tom Scholz as a musician and a songwriter. Needs to do a different solo. He has been playing the same one forever.

[dudeguy242]

1:02, this is wats going through tom scholzs head:"phew, break time, let my pedal do the work" lol XD

[Samhain35]

That dudes been playing the same freakin' solo since 1976.

Please don't sue me Tom!!!!

[DeafMetal8647]

to those of you who think this is boring, you guys obviously don't appreciate talent when you see it....Scholz's guitar playing not only contributed to the hard rock and heavy metal that's around today, the guy actually created his own pedals, and helped pave the way for new guitar sounds...I recommend that you pay a little closer attention...

[cptnoremac]

@DeafMetal8647

That all has nothing to do with whether or not this guitar solo is entertaining. It all boils down to some guy tapping the fret board.

[1danrobbins]

Man, this is some great, clear footage. Great job.

[zackgreer]

Zzzzzzzz.........

[computercurtis]

Yeah.....ha ha..........finger tapping and hopscotch......and yo-yos......It's cool, but the true talented guitarist is the one that can made a memorable melody.....with....a memorable tone.....

[rodneyracoon]

Finger tapping is kid's play. Leave that to EVH. Tom is so much better than that. He's one of the best.

[TSOfan]

@rodneyracoon Yeah alot of guitarist do it but not well. EVH is one of the best at right hand fretting.

[grawde]

@rodneyracoon go look up yngwie malmsteen

[truemetalist89]

im very grateful to have seen boston play before delp took his life. went to a concert in 03 when i was 13. they were my favorite band at that time too. RIP Brad Delp. yu will never be forgotten.

[fta4worldcom]

Tom can jam and is the best of the best making music but on guitar Barry blows him away.Few can write music to Toms level the man is just a genious .The sound boston has and the way he plays the organ is second to none.And yes he is great on the guitar .Barry along with Peter Frampton and a few select others including that Creed ax guy are my favs .Tom S. is my favorite musical sound guy he produces perfection in the studio like no one else ever can or has.

[00x98pd]

what was the name of the song TOM SCHOLZ made with out BOSTON???

[kylejamesvaughan]

katterfelto:

haha.

"moveondotorgg" dosen't know wtf he's talking about.

[xxKoRndudexx]

wow that long solo with insane finger tapping, scholz is one of my favorite guitarists of all time, him and Jimi Hendrix

[Hornadayfan]

Brad will be missed...

[vowarren7]

black guitar, grey sweatshirt, on the right and looks similar to tom scholz, who is he?..JW

[vowarren7]

If tom scholz is playing the yellow guitar on the left, whos also playing the solo on the right that looks similar to tom but has a black guitar and a grey sweatshirt??...JW

[twiggymac]

might be barry, i think it is, can't really tell cus i only remember him from the 70's =P

[chucknbillie]

It's Gary Pihl, been with Boston since the Third Stage album.

[alptunabeksac]

I didn't know there was a chick in the band :D

[Ixamxgodx]

KIMBERLY DAHME MAN!

Haha lol

[Neodynamics]

I was going to say something pissy to you at first thinking you were making fun of one of them... But nope... I see her. :P

[jrbostonrocks]

My god people stop. Tom u rock keep up all your musical talants you will always have fans!

[Samhain35]

Aaaargh - he's been playing the exact same thing for 30 years.......

[TaskforceDingbat]

My only complaint about Tom: I've seen a bit of footage of him "soloing" live at this point, and all I've ever seen him do is tap. Am I missing something, or is that pretty much the routine? If it is, he should stick to blues boxes and lyrics, as I'm not sure if he's the solo kind of guy. The guy can write a damn good melody, though.

[eddievhfan1984]

That means Eruption blows too. As does the Heartbreaker solo. Tom IS a composer at heart, but do you rip on classical music because it is often played w/o much deviation? I appreciate the man for what he does; so what if that's his unaccompanied solo? I actually like the change-up to Bo Diddley/tribal feel...

[TruthSurge]

hehe 3 min of wheedly wheedly monotony then he blows the melody and then MORE wheedly. yaaawn. Gawd, should have quit after the 3rd album.

[Ixamxgodx]

im sure he can play guitar a hell of a lot better than you can

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

brilliant guy but such a misguided, misinformed radical liberal.

[TaskforceDingbat]

I love how both conservatives and liberals love to call each other "misinformed" and "misguided" like they just came up with the idea.

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

TaskforceDingbat: hey dingbat, when TS creates a misguided song bashing CORPORATE AMERICA - while I and many others have lived very good lives by working in CORPORATE AMERICA - therein lies the "misguided, misinformed radical liberal" Try participating in life before you offer up ignorant comments. BOSTON rocks!

[TaskforceDingbat]

If I only I had remembered the fact that you had been looking over my shoulder every step of the way in my life and had intimate knowledge of said lack of "participation in life", I would've never humbled myself before your greatness with the aforementioned comment. By your standards, no enterprise through which individuals have made good livings should be judged, regardless of what that enterprise entails. But with searing mind reading abilities like yours, why even try to counter? Moron.

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

TaskforceDingbat: back atcha' 'tard. The world is full of educated derelicts. nuff said. Rock on!

[TaskforceDingbat]

Enough said, and retard are , I believe, what you meant to say. I'm sure there's a point in there somewhere, but all I see is frustration and angst. By the same token, the world is also full of affluent morons. I will be waiting for more grade school level banter, or you may, conversely, actually address the topic you brought to the thread with something resembling a point. I would suggest you follow the guidance of your own title, as this conversation seems to be above your mental age.

[katterfelto]

Or you both could stfu

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

katterfelto: thanks for budding in where you don't belong...and proving my point. You're another moron in a league of morons on YouTube.

[katterfelto]

If I were the moron, I'd know it was "butting" in, rather than "budding." But hey, maybe you're just sharing your smoking habits with us. What the heck do I know?

[MoveOnDotOrgg]

katterfelto: regardless of how it's spelt, you get the idea. ps - smoking? Naw, that's for radical liberals like Obama.

[katterfelto]

Um, that would be "spelled," not "spelt." Keep writing. I enjoy the laughs.

[bustucherer]

I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[812mistyeyes]

Amazing!!!

[tmage01]

LOL,you guys all raise fine points, really, but I think you're all forgetting about a true pioneer into this style of play, the guy who inspired this entire school of playing: Jeff Beck. He was doing this years before those guys.

[alwaysopen]

TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP

who gives a rat's ass?

Billy Gibbons did it before EVH and someone showed him.

[DANNEGREANU1]

Yes but I bet you would enjoy it if you we're there, seeing as everyone was so emotional anyways, you'd just be thinking where's Brad? Just to be there at the moment would feel so good...

[PSFlorida]

Yep. That's the most important thing to point out. Since Billy Gibbons invented it, he is the undisputed king of tapping. This fact makes everything Eddie did with it null and void, and it should be illegal to listen to any Van Halen albums or mention the words "Eddie" and "tapping" in the same sentence. Wait, Billy Gibbons isn't the first guy to ever play blues riffs! His stuff is illegal now, too!!

Idiot.

[premo011]

Tom is better than Eddie Van Halen anyway

[yimmye1]

dont like it, dont listen to it...

[hastyberford]

Luv ya Tom but quit dressing like you're homeless.

[clesterrific]

Gee Tom. Did you invent two handed tapping too? What a snore fest. I can't believe that you haven't ordered this removed from YouTube. Get a little lost around 2 minutes did you? I guess you don't know what to do if you aren't ripping off Eddie Van Halen or Brian May. What band is this?

[undertaker116]

clesterrific...you are very wise. Tom "the great" never forgets to remind us fans how much smarter he is they all of us. Is he going to sue Eddie Van Halen now. Rock on Sib, Barry and Fran....RIP Brad...SucK eggs Tom!

[kingmixer]

Tom is probably the best producer i've heard, and val halen took bostons sound just like nirvana tried to do.

[lwhite2216]

Tom Scholz doesn't rip off anybody, almost all the guitar greats have been doing 2 handed tapping long before Eddie Van Halen. It has been part of Toms guitar solo since 1970, and after Boston started touring in 1976.

[mhlm0623]

Obviously , you were not there! cause this was a Great Tribute to a Great Man! Nuff said..... Dumbass!

[Geekernator21]

OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND YOUTUBE, A MUSIC DUMBASS! If you knew anything you would know that Tom has been tapping before Eddie picked up a damn guitar and that eddie didn't invent tapping, he popularized it through his unnecessary overuse of the technique.

[rickbcri]

Ohhh...a fucking know it all. "Tom has been tapping before Eddie picked up a damn guitar". Do you KNOW THIS FOR A FACT? You fucking wanna be, why don't you post YOUR shit, show us how good YOU are and lets US rate. Do it or shut the fuck up you little ass wipe piece of shit!!!

[Geekernator21]

if you ever knew anything about eddie you would know he started playing only three years before van halen was formed(which means he started playing in 73'). Tom has been using tapping since 1970, just a year after Boston was formed. He's been using it in his solos since then, he just didn't over do it like eddie did. and yes this is fact, so don't come at me with anymore dumbass comments because i know my shit.

[mike6254]

satch taught eddie how to tap and eddie made it popular, so fuking what who made it first Boston is Boston, VH is VH

[AeroCooper1]

Wow...you got just about everything wrong... Eddie was born in '55. He was twelve when he started playing. That's '67, not '73. Boston was formed in 1975 (although I don't think there is any definite source to when they actually formed, but it sure wasn't as early as '69). I've only heard Tom tap once and that is on the Walk On Medley, which actually sounds like a take on Eddie's style. Besides, tapping has been around for centuries. But who cares, they're both great in their own respects.

[Vote4Pedro99]

tom only started playing guitar in 1974 dumbass

[uofm97]

According to Boston's own website, Tom didn't play guitar until the age of 21. Being that in was born in 1947 (according to Wikipedia), that means he started playing in 1968, not 1974. Wikipedia also has a quote from EVH himself saying he saw Jimmy Page on TV in 1971doing a pull-off on an open string, then learned to use the fimger as a nut and move it around. SO it's safe to say that both guys developed their skill roughly around the same time.

[DANNEGREANU1]

Lets just stop.

I think tom has been tapping before Eddie :]

[jamesspatig]

Boston , rather Brad and Tommy, first started playing together in 1970 as Brad Delp says in an interview on youtube. their first record 'Boston' came out in '76. I don't know for sure about the tapping situation but does it really matter? EVH is an amazing guitarist and so is Tommy. Anyone who loves music and maybe plays as well will be happy just to know that there are people out there they can enjoy and be inspired by.

[uofm97]

Can I suggest that someone ASK Tom when he started using the tapping technique so you can end this really stupid argument?

[jamesspatig]

agreed...

[Bigtrain421]

Actually Barry Goudreau took the technique from EVH after watching him in rehearsals,when Van Halen opened for Boston. Soon after both he and Tom were using it in concert.

[ZerosigFF]

My gf and I must have been sitting within 20 feet of this guy taping the solo. Great job bro!

[lizardneck]

rubbish.

[Geekernator21]

Please post a video of you doing better. If you can't shut the hell up and respect the man.

[CLDETH]

Boston Rocks !

[Flaflyer]

FANTASTIC ! Please make a DVD  so Boston fans can purchase!

THANK YOU for SHARING with us!!!!!!!

[Kissaholic2000]

YOU GOT SOME GREAT FOOTAGE!!

[VMkoe]

Awesome!