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Music legends BOSTON continue their Hyper Space Tour this summer with the iconic Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, for an additional 21 cities, presented by Live Nation. Performances with Joan Jett will begin on Wednesday, June 14 in Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and continue eastward across North America. More information can be found at livenation.com. Itinerary for the Live Nation portion of BOSTON’s Hyper Space Tour with Joan Jett below.
Presale for BOSTON and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts fan club members begins Tuesday, March 7th at 10am local, through Thursday, March 9th at 10pm local time. General on-sale begins Friday, March 10th at LiveNation.com and on the Live Nation app. Check out the tour dates page for details and presale code.
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As was first posted in the news section on May 27/07, Boston fan Chris Capozza has written and recorded a Brad Delp tribute song called Don't Leave Us Now. Chris wrote this song with the intention of making it a single to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Chris has also made it available for Boston fans to listen to, including the lyrics. As well he made a video which is available for viewing here.
Download Song (MP3 | 7.41 MB)
Don't Leave Us Now
I see the pain in your heart from the smile that isn’t there.
We should talk about it.
And there’s a look in your eyes that reveals you don’t think I care.
Can’t we talk about it?
No one wins if I let you believe everything is wrong, when you’re not strong.
Don’t want to think just how bad this could go if I wait too long, you might be gone.
Don’t leave us now,
this isn’t a time to surrender.
Don’t leave us now,
you couldn’t come back from forever.
Don’t want you to go so you’ve got to know
that I love you.
Don’t leave us now
‘cause one day it’s gonna be better.
I wouldn’t pretend that I know what you’re going through.
No one said it’s easy.
Won’t insult you by telling you that you’re just feeling blue.
I don’t think it’s easy.
It didn’t take only one day to make what you feel inside, need to heal inside.
With some help and a whole lot of love you can change your mind, but it takes some time.
Don’t leave us now,
this isn’t the time to surrender.
Don’t leave us now,
I tell ya it’s gonna get better.
How many ways do I have to say
That I love you?
Don’t leave us now,
You couldn’t come back from forever.
I know you’re too hurt and too tired to care what you’d leave behind.
Stop and think it over.
But this mountain you’re stuck on is something we have to climb.
Stop and think it over!
Won’t you reach out to me ‘cause you don’t have to own this all, or take that fall.
The light you’ve shined will reflect back on you to let love appear and you’ll be glad you’re here.
Don’t leave us now,
This isn’t a time to surrender.
Don’t leave us now,
You couldn’t come back from forever.
It’s making me cry at the thought of goodbye
‘Cause I love you.
Don’t leave us now,
I promise it’s gonna get better.
copyright - Chris Capozza
5-10-07
This site all started as a little project I came up with during the summer of 1999, between my first year and second year of college. I had decided I wanted to create a Boston website. I decided that I wanted to create this website from scratch in just 2 weeks, which isn't much time to build an entire site. To this day I still cannot figure out if I was really ambitious or if I was out of my mind! I spent many long nights, early mornings and any time in between to get it done -- and I did. On June 01, 1999, "Third Stage: A New World" was born. The site was hosted on the free service Webjump.
Not too much changed for a while; I worked to keep the news up to date, which at the time wasn't too hard, considering the lack of news in the Boston camp at the time. I made a few changes here and there, and some design changes (which I cringe at every time I think about them). The site soon moved to another free hosting service, Batcave. It stayed there for a while.
Then in April of 2001, after getting sick of the ads plastered on my site and the limitations that come with a free webhost, I decided to get my own webhost. I registered the domain thirdstage.ca and moved the site to my new home. At that time, I decided to rebrand the site from "Third Stage: A New World" to simply "thirdstage.ca". Having my own webhosting with Elosoft meant I no longer had to put up with any banner or pop-up ads and I didn't have restrictions as to what types of files I could host, or how big they are. In September of 2001, I assumed control of the Boston webring, which had been run by Jody Wager for about 5 years prior. On April 14, 2002, I uploaded a completely redesigned site, which had a much brighter appearance overall than the site had ever seen since its birth.
On October 30, 2002, right after boston.org closed their forums suddenly, I added a board to this site to try and fill the void and give visitors of boston.org a new home. It quickly demonstrated the limitations of my hosting on Elosoft. Since boston.org was a popular board, a lot of traffic that was going there was now coming here. People were getting errors with "too many connections", and this caused problems with the board -- it quickly fell apart at the seams. Thankfully, Kelly Wilbur -- another Boston fan, had a ton of webspace that he generously offered to host the board. The board had a new home at thirdstage.toobookoo.com, where it spent quite some time. I eventually passed down the board to another member of the forum and they took over administrative duties.
The biggest thing to happen to this site since it first launched came in 2003, when I decided that I could no longer give the site the attention it needed, and I said goodbye to this site.
| This has nothing to do with Boston, but it is related to this site You've probably noticed the notice on the main page, regarding this site. After over 3 years, I've decided to call it quits. This isn't a decision I came to lightly. I've thought long and hard about this. The truth is that for a while, this site, which started as a hobby, has become an obligation. Besides the fact that running a website like this is time consuming, I just don't feel like I can give this website the amount of attention I used to. The shutdown schedule is posted on the main page (the final day will be June 1st). It's time to move on and focus on the other things in my life. Thank you to everyone who has supported me and this site over the years. It's been great! That concludes the final news update on thirdstage.ca. |
Well, for over 2 years, it looked like this site would never come back. I had kept the domain and webhosting active, and had even added a new "site" to thirdstage.ca in 2004, which is a simple set of pages containing video clips relating to the TV series "Charmed".
In summer of 2005, having a lot of time off, I decided I wanted to resurrect this site. In September 2005, I reopened the site, at the time not knowing how much I'd be updating the site content. In 2006, I redesigned the site yet again.