Funny thing you seem to ignore in your post, is that Brad, Barry, Sib and Fran have Remained very good friends since the original band dissolved. They were together at Brad’s funeral. Apparently, Brad understood what the other bandmembers felt, and as Micki said, it tore him apart.
Barry’s comment about handling things differently does not mean he would have given in to Tom’s controlling ways...don’t confuse the issue. As you can see, this last recent collaboration with Tom, Barry (and Brad)is over. As Barry put it “old demons resurfaced”.
The emotional and professional career of Brad was laid to the wayside by all the litigations and problems Tom has with people...have you forgotten the lawsuit he also filed against the Cosmo’s? What other successful band do you know of that takes 6, 7 years between albums while the rest of the band can’t represent themselves as bandmembers from Boston? Or cannot use their instruments in photo ops
because they used that certain ‘guitar’in the band Boston.
Please, do your research, listen to people who were living it at the time (Micki, Sib, Fran, Barry) among others.
This is why Brad did not want any mention of Boston with promos for Beatlejuice. He did not want a problem with Tom.
Low self esteem was not Brad’s problem.... Instead of trying to make someone else happy, he should have made himself happy first. His incomparable voice and his career would never have suffered then. And that, my friend, has everything to do with Tom Scholz.