Broken Hearted; Shattered Illusions
As most of my visitors now know, I lost a hero the other day. In fact, many of us did. Brad Delp, of the super-group Boston, died this past Friday.
Naturally, I was overcome with grief upon learning of Brad Delp’s death. It took me several days to come to grips with the facts. My sadness at Brads passing was not due to the fact that I was a personal friend of his, for I wasn’t. I didn’t know the man personally. Yet, like many of you I had my “guitar hero’s” as a kid. I felt like I knew each one of them. Illusion can a powerful thing.
As a kid I looked up to rock musicians, perhaps foolishly, placing them on pedestals that most certainly should be reserved for people far more worthy of reverence than the dysfunctional lot of riff-raff usually found in the rock ‘n roll industry. However, in Brad’s case I suppose you could say that I struck pay dirt. For by all accounts, there was not a nicer guy in rock ‘n roll than Brad Delp. He seemed to be universally loved by his peers and as people go, he apparently was someone you could admire and look up to.
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