Fran Cosmo is now a member of the popular online community Facebook.

On a recent bulletin from Fran's Myspace page, it was announced that Fran now has a Facebook profile, which will allow fans to interact with him and keep updated on what's new with Fran. If you have a Facebook account, you can just add him by clicking this link and add him as a friend. If you don't have a Facebook profile yet, you can sign up at Facebook and create a profile.
If you attempted to access the site between Dec 31-Jan 02, you may have been surprised to be greeted by an error message instead.
 

This past year has been full of ups and downs in both the Boston community and this site, I thought I would take a few moments to reflect on the highs and lows of the year - both with Boston and thirdstage.ca.
 

Happy holidays from thirdstage.ca. Hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season.

bandboston.com has posted a holiday greeting on their front page, along with some info:

  • Jeff Neal and his wife Ann Marie welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Lauren on October 31.
  • The tribute for Brad in August raised $11,325 for the DTS Charitable Foundation, which was donated in Brad’s memory to The Humane Farming Association. Tom also made a matching contribution from the foundation to Earth Save.
  • Tom recently took some time out from recording some new BOSTON songs to lay the lead guitar tracks for Stryper’s “Peace of Mind” cover that will appear on their next CD. Both Gary and Tom are planning to make a guest appearance with Stryper at a benefit concert on 25 February 2008 in Providence, RI. Proceeds from this show will be going to the Station Family Fund, which provides survivor relief from the horrific February 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island.
  • Rolling Stone asked Tom to share some memories of Brad for their December issue. Only a portion of what Tom wrote appeared in the magazine, you can see the full response on the website.
Joe Benson, who is known for his Off the Record radio show, which has featured interviews and music from many rock artists, including Boston, will be bringing you three hours of Christmas music, greetings and interviews on Uncle Joe's Rockin' Xmas Show 2007.

This show will feature Boston's rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - or rather God Rest Ye Metal Gentleman during the second hour of the broadcast. The lineup also shows for interviews and greetings that will be broadcast during the show to feature both Tom Scholz and Brad Delp. Both were featured last year on the 2006 edition of the program.
 
The program will be broadcast on most stations that carry Off the Record, including some stations in Canada. You can check out listings for stations and scheduled airtimes and the full lineup of the program on unclejoe.com. For those in Canada, some of the radio stations the show will be carried on are available on cable and satellite. Star Choice subscribers who have the radio stations subscribed to can hear the show on CILQ (Q107) in Toronto on channel 864 and CIRK in Edmonton on channel 853.
Classic Rock Revisited has had rock artists recite 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This year Tom Scholz has given a go at this holiday classic.

Tom has joined a growing list of rock artists who have recited the poem for Classic Rock Revisited, including Black Sabbath's Bill Ward, Krokus' Marc Storace, Dennis DeYoung, Gil Moore of Triumph and Roger Earl of Foghat.

You can listen to Tom and many others reciting this classic at classicrockrevisited.com

TESLA, STRYPER (with a special guest appearance by Tom Scholz of BOSTON), Aaron Lewis (STAIND), Eric Martin (MR. BIG) and Carmine Appice's SLAM (a drum thing) are among the confirmed performers at a benefit concert for the victims of the February 20, 2003 nightclub fire, which claimed 100 lives, seriously injured 200 others, and left 65 children without one or both parents.

The show will take place on Monday, February 25, 2008 at the Dunkin Donut Center in Providence, Rhode Island. All proceeds from ticket sales and charity auctions benefit the Station Family Fund, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) charitable organization founded by survivors of the Station nightclub fire. They are committed to providing survivor relief, including costs of ongoing treatment and rehabilitation.

Source: blabbermouth.net

If you've been waiting impatiently for the last month waiting for iTunes to finally get the Delp and Goudreau song Rockin' Away on the iTunes music store, well wait no longer, because they finally have it.
 

When Barry Goudreau did the interview in WHEB on Oct 16 to discuss the song, he had indicated that Rockin' Away would be available in iTunes "any day". Well almost a month has passed and as of Nov 14, it's now listed on the iTunes music store and selling for $0.99. Interestingly enough, the release date shown for the song on the iTunes store is Oct 16/07. Be aware that if you purchase the song on iTunes, it is DRM protected, while the track at Discark is not.

For those of you who have been anxiously waiting for the Delp and Goudreau song Rockin' Away to finally be available, well it's available now, well sort of...

The song was supposed to be available on the iTunes music store sometime in October, but has yet to appear. There is an alternate source where the song is being made available. You can buy it at Discark either by purchasing the download or you can buy the CD single. Dicark uses PayPal for payment, but if you don't have a PayPal account, don't worry, they can accept credit card payments.

Former Boston guitarist/songwriter Anthony Cosmo has released his latest works with The Casting.

The Casting, which is fronted by Atom (Anthony Cosmo) released their first album on the iTunes music store. The album, which is titled Regrets, features 14 songs, including the song One, which if you recall, Anthony wrote as a tribute to Brad Delp.

The album is $9.99, or you can buy individual tracks for $0.99 each on iTunes.