Remembering Brad Delp. Dtephen Stills "Carry On". Peter Frampton tour. Sexist men like big boobs? Dieters can be bribed with cash. Women and their perception of Hooters. How quickly will he say "I love you". Most Americans think they are healthy.

BRAD DELP

It was six years ago Saturday (March 9th, 2007) that Boston lead singer Brad Delp committed suicide at his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire, at the age of 55. Emergency operators in Concord, New Hampshire, got a phone call seeking help and when local police responded, they found Delp had suffocated from the smoke of two charcoal grills he had lit inside his bathroom. The singer was found lying on a pillow by his fiancee, Pamela Sullivan. His cause of death was listed as carbon monoxide poisoning.

Delp will be remembered for his peerless vocals on such timeless Boston classics as "More Than A Feeling," "Peace Of Mind," "Foreplay/Long Time," "Rock & Roll Band," "Smokin'" -- which he co-wrote with Boston co-founder Tom Scholz, "Hitch A Ride," "Something About You," "Let Me Take You Home Tonight," -- which Delp wrote on his own, "Don't Look Back," "We're Ready," and Boston's only chart-topper, 1986's "Amanda."

• Immediately following his death, Tom Scholz posted a statement on the official bandboston.com website: "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll. . . As you all know by now, Boston's lead singer, Brad Delp, was found dead in his home on Friday, March 9th, 2007. Plans for live Boston performances this summer have, of course, been canceled. My heart goes out to his wonderful fiancee Pamela, his two children and other family members, his close friends and band mates, and to the millions of people whose lives were made a little brighter by the sound of his voice. He will be dearly missed."
• Shortly before his death, Brad Delp recalled the first time that rock n' roll entered his life back in October 1956: "I was told the story of when Elvis first came on Ed Sullivan, my sister flipped the chair over (laughs) when he came on, and I do remember playing her Elvis records, and her Buddy Holly records. And I was lucky enough that I got to see Elvis. It was the last tour I think that he ever did, and he played in Providence, Rhode Island, so he wasn't in the best of health, but I can say that I actually got to see Elvis on stage."

STEPHEN STILLS

 Stephen Stills has long admitted that he's his own toughest critic. While listening back to the tracks selected for his new four-CD, career-spanning, 82-track box set, Carry On, coming on March 26th, he was just as critical as ever, telling Musicradar.com, "When I heard my guitar playing on these songs, I thought, 'OK, he's still learning, He's playing within his limitations. Maybe he'll get good by the time he's 50.'"

Stills talked about how Graham Nash and longtime Crosby, Stills, & Nash collaborator Joel Bernstein handled the unenviable task of compiling the set: "I'm just not the kind of guy who sits around and stares at his own navel. They were planning on making it three CD's, but I said it had to be four. If we were going to do this, we were going to do it one time and have everything on there."

• He went on to add that it was quite an accomplishment to distill his career into one package, admitting, "I'm listed as a producer, but Graham and Joel did the lion's share of the work. Going through old boxes of tapes, trying to read credits and titles when the labels have been replaced -- it's a big job. I'm glad they did it because it would have taken me 10 years!"
• While the box set was in production, Stephen Stills said that looking back now, he's simply amazed at some of the stuff which ended up on the cutting room floor: "There is a host of things that was recorded around the time of the second Stephen Stills record. My God, there's just a couple of things that just thrilled me. But there's outtakes and alternate takes, and songs that didn't make the cut that are still sittin' there in the vault. And except for one particular brand of tape -- everything just plays beautifully."

PETER FRAMPTON

Peter Frampton posted an announcement on Facebook about his upcoming summer tour, which is being dubbed "Frampton's Guitar Circus." The post read: "'Frampton's Guitar Circus' tour is just around the corner! There will be some very special guests joining Peter on stage on this tour including Robert Cray in May and June, and B.B. King and Sonny Landreth . . . in August."

Frampton also took time to post a tribute for Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee, who died on Wednesday (March 6th) at the age of 68, writing, "I still can't believe we've lost Alvin Lee. My day went into slow motion after I heard this. Been talking to friends about times we all spent together. It's very sad. He was a wonderful person and an amazing guitar player."

Although these days, Frampton is more than happy to celebrate his Comes Alive! era, he recalled a time when it was literally the last thing he wanted to do: "I remember being on one tour in '77 when I did not wanna go on. I had given it my all. I didn't want to play anymore -- for the moment. That's when I should've -- even before I'm In You was even thought of -- I should've taken two, three years off before I even attempted to make another record. But no one knew at that time; no one had an experience with a big seller like that. Now you realize; you reach that many people -- you can wait a couple of years, people aren't gonna forget you. But it was like, 'Let's take advantage of the situation financially, y'know?'"

SEXIST MEN LIKE BIG BOOBS?

New research finds that the more sexist a man is, the more likely he likes large breasts. For the study, researchres from the University of Westminster interviewed about 360-white, heterosexual men. Each man was shown five 3-D models of woman, each with a different breast size, and then asked to record which model he found most physically attractive. Aftwards, all participants took a survey to measure their level of hostility towards women, their attitudes about relationships between men and women, benevolent sexism, and how much he objectified women. Researchers found that 32.7-percent of participants rated medium-sized breasts as "most attractive", while 24.4-percent said large and 19.1-percent said very large. Scientists found that the preference for large and very large breasts correlated with overt sexism, female objectification, hostile attitudes towards women and most notably benevolent sexism. Benevolent sexism is defined as when a man idealizes "traditional" femininity and perceives women as meek and weak. (Huffington Post)

STUDY FINDS DIETERS CAN BE BRIBED WITH CASH

What would you give up for 20-dollars a month? A new study finds dieters were most successful when offered cash as a bribe for weight loss. The study was done at Mayo Clinic, using 100 of their obese employees as participants. Half of participants were given weight-loss counseling, monthly weigh-ins, and a three-month gym membership. The other half of participants had those things plus financial incentives. The aim was for each person to lose four pounds a month up to a goal that depended on each person's starting weight. If they failed, they had to pay 20-dollars into a fund, and if they succeeded, they got a voucher to collect 20-dollars when the study ended. Part of the fund was used to pay the rewards and the rest of put into a lottery that anyone could win. Additionally the financial-incentives group also earned 10-dollars a month and lottery "tickets" for coming to monthly weigh-ins and texting their weekly weight to study leaders. After a year 27 of the 50 financial-incentive participants came out ahead money wise, and 62-percent of them completed the study versus 26-percent of the other group. On average the money-incentive group members lost a little more than nine-pounds, while the other group members lost just 2.3 pounds. (Fox News)

THE FEMALE PERCEPTION OF HOOTERS IS GRADUALLY IMPROVING, SURVEY FINDS

Hooters has been making an effort to attract women to its restaurants, and a survey from YouGov BrandIndex finds that women's perception of the restaurant isn't as negative as once was. The survey asked adults over age 18, "Do you have a general positive feeling about the brand?" Measurement scores range from 100 to -100 and are complied by subtracting negative feedback from positive. Last August, the women's Impression score for Hooter's was -26, while for men it was negative three. In the latest survey women's Impression score moved to -21, and the men's score moved to two. (Huffington Post)

  HOW QUICKLY WILL HE SAY "I LOVE YOU"?

New research finds that women actually take longer to say the three magic words than men do. The study was conducted by YouGov for eHarmony and found that men take 88-days to tell their partner they love them, while women take 134-days to do the same. The study also found that 39-percent of Men also declare their love within the first month of seeing someone, compared to just 23-percent of women. Also, 33-percent of men questioned in the study said they moved in with their partner within the first month of dating them, and 77-percent said they remember when they said "I love you" for the first time. The study also found that 37-percent of respondents who were married or engaged said they proposed within the first year of knowning their partner. Relationship advice expert for eHarmony, Jenni Trent Hughes, says that traditional perceptions of men being afraid of commitment are outdated, and that men can be softies and "mushier" than women. (Daily Mail)

MOST AMERICANS THINK THEY ARE HEALTHY

A new survey by The Atlantic in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline finds that 90-percent of participants think they are in good health. Only 26-percent said they health declined and cited dire economic circumstances as the reason. The survey covered just over one-thousand adults, with 87-percent saying that clean air and water were the key to good health, while 82-percent said regular access to doctors and dentists was key, and 81-percent said healthy food choices were most important for health. Interestingly, 94-percent said the health or medical information they found online was important to their health, but only 12-percent of respondents have ever e-mailed or text-messaged their doctor to ask a health question. (UPI)

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Jennifer Tyler

Fabulous Mid-Day Diva & Rock N Roll Cowgirl