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 Listen: 
 I'm tired of living in a world in which everyone always covers their ass first, makes things up, looks the other way, says the ""politically correct"" thing instead of the truth, or basically lies about every thing. Apparently, Brad was too. Bush lies, the Pentagon lies, Hillary Clinton lies, the Attorney General lies, the corporate media lies, etc... and on and on and on. What people don't seem to understand is that this constant lying and avoidance of the truth is ""why"" we're all in the mess we're in: a polluted environment, a corrupt political system, an unjust legal system, a nation without moral direction, a world were capitalism and ""the bottom line"" overrides all human other human values, the pimp culture, internet porn, global climate change, illegal resource wars, etc. C'mon folks, ;let's cut the crap. It's time for a dose of the truth. Nothing is ever going to get better if all we care about is making people ""feel better"" about things that are totally screwed up. We must all train ourselves to look carefully and soberly at THE FACTSregardless of how painful they areand deal with them honestly and scientifically. If we can't do that, then we're all finished as a civilization. 

 With that in mind, I write the following: 

 Listen, let's look at the FACTS people: 1) we all love Tom Scholz and his ""guitar sound,"" but despite his ""vegetarianism"" and an album actually called ""Corporate America,"" he was a total CAPITALIST, and well known to be one in an extreme Type-A form [basically, a control freak who controlled everything BOSTON ever did to the Nth degree and hogged all the money for himselfask any of the former members]; 2) Brad killed himself a day before (or on?) Tom's birthday [Tom's birthday is March 10thvery suspicious, don't ya' think?]; 3) that thing Tom wrote on the web [www.bandboston.com] is the most defensive piece of b.s. I've ever read; therefore, I am very skeptical, because everyone knows that Tom put tons of pressure on Brad to be the laison between himself and all the other people involved in the latest BOSTON tour and anyone who says otherwise either didn't know Brad or is just flat-out lying; 4) Brad's ""fiancee"" was out ALL NIGHT the evening before his deathshe said she talked to him last around 11pm the night before. Now, listen: it's perfectly fine if your lady goes out for a ""girls-night-out"" from time-to-time; it's also perfectly fine for her to be out drunk as a skunk  and not come home until 4am... 5am... even 6:30am in the morningas long as she eventually COMES HOME. However, Brad's fiancee didn't come home until the afternoon of THE NEXT DAY, when she, unfortunately, found the body 6) it's clear that Brad KNEW his fiancee would be the person who would ""find"" his body the next day. Many psychologists say that this type of suicide is what they call a ""message"" specifially sent to such a person, so one can infer that things must have not been going so well between them either, and that, seeing as Brad was a good and sweet person, maybe ""whatshername"" wasn't so good and sweet as she now is trying to appear; and, 7)accordng to family members, Brad wrote three (3) separate suicide notes, one (1) directly addressed to Tom and one to his fiancee. If that's true, then why don't they just share with us his last words to them rather than writing a bunch of crap on the web that doesn't reflect the facts and true feelings of Brad? To continue to cover-up the truth just to make everyone ""feel"" good so that they keep buying BOSTON albums and tickets to their shows in order to continue making Tom Scholz ever richer than he already is to me is in bad taste and a disgrace to the memory of Brad. In my mind, BOSTON and BEATLEJUICE is done without Brad, and anyone who gives anymore money or time to such projects is giving Brad pain beyond the grave and showing how crass they really are. Sure, Brad was depresseed; but, he also had his reasons, and we as his fans should try to understand them. He will be greatly missed. 

 By the way, if you're one of these liars that likes to obscure the truth, get lost. No one needs you. You're part of the problem. There's enough of all that, and, ""vegetarianism"" or not, none of our problemsincluding global warmingwill ever get better without the truth. Get used to it."