... Former Boston drummer Sib Hashian dies at 67 aboard rock legends cruise — Los Angeles Times. Goudreau admits that his hearing took a beating in those days “from the Marshall stacks”, with Suzanne quickly adding, “and standing in front of Sib”. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his own favorite award in the auction is the official RIAA 8-track tape gold sales award.
Goudreau reveals that the sneakers “embodied him; the wear and tear tell you the story of Sib”.
Hashian was reluctantly chosen by Boston founder and band leader After leaving Boston, Hashian sued Tom Scholz for back royalties and the two later settled out of court. Goudreau remembers going with him to pick it up, and remembers that it had an 8-track player. I live in Brooklyn with my wife Catherine, our daughter Velocity, and her guinea pig Skullcrusher.Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.I cover the arts and culture from an appraiser’s perspective. Not a bad description of some of us here reminiscing about 1978; still, though, even today, “It’s More Than A Feeling, When I Hear That Old Song They Used To Play...”.35 years ago, while a senior at Yale studying art history, I started a database company which gathered and sold auction data. Suzanne told him at 400,000 miles “blow it up or bronze it”.Also included in the auction will be quite a few autographed photos. But before the fame and success, Sib was a drummer that wasn’t, for a band that wasn’t. Since then, I have appraised art, furniture, decorative objects, jewelry, coins, wine, memorabilia, books, etc., for thousands of clients. According to Goudreau, Hashian’s pre-show ritual was to make one cup of instant coffee and sit backstage pounding on this practice pad. After leaving Boston, Hashian remained on good terms with a number of his former bandmates. March 22, 2017 – Sib Hashian – John Thomas “Sib” Hashian, (drummer for Boston) was born August 17, 1949, in Boston, Massachusetts.. Hashian was of Armenian/Italian ancestry and grew up in Boston’s North Shores area, where he collaborated with most of his Boston band members in a variety of bands during his teenage years. RR Auction. I have served as a Contributing Editor of Art Business News, a member of the eBay Art Fraud Panel, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU. Yup. According to Suzanne, in Vietnam “he announced to his men that within two years of leaving, he’d be famous”. He was 67. John “Sib” Hashian, former drummer for the arena rock band Boston, died on board a cruise ship Wednesday. According to Goudreau, Hashian’s pre-show ritual was to make one cup of instant coffee and sit backstage pounding on this practice pad. As befit an ex-military officer, he did not even tell his band mates about the injury until after the tour. As my college roommate Mark Hall used to say, “What do you play besides Boston?...more Boston!” (Cue air guitar.) The band performed in venues that ranged from “tiny little bars that you could barely fit a drum set in to massive stages,” Boch recalled, and Mr. Hashian was always a cheerful presence. Goudreau says that fans regularly approach him at shows with material they claim was hand-signed by the band. It comes with the original road cases, all of which are stenciled "Boston" or feature the ubiquitous Boston logo. Sib Hashian's drum practice pad. According to the catalogue condition report, it has “heavily worn feet and other signs of age”. Hashian was also the drummer for fellow Boston member Boston and the Barry Goudreau album were the last mainstream projects Hashian worked on. Once the prophecy was ultimately fulfilled and the first paycheck arrived, he ran out and bought himself a green Cadillac Seville. Appropriately, Suzanne observes that when he played, it was like “he was running a marathon”. Ronnie Tutt drum solo 1977 Elvis in concert - YouTube. Did the high school marching band drummer born John Thomas Hashian know that he would someday rise to such heights? Although he sued Scholz in the ’80s (and ultimately settled out of court), he continued to work with other veterans of the group, drumming on guitarist Barry Goudreau’s solo LP and periodically gigging with bassist Fran Sheehan and singer Brad Delp. With the passing of drummer John Thomas “Sib” Hashian this week, rock ‘n’ roll fans are remembering Sib as the rhythmic force behind one of the most influential bands of the ’70s — Boston.
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Melancholy morphed into eeriness when I learned that there is actually a link between the two. John Thomas "Sib" Kashian was an Armenian-American musician, best known as a drummer for the rock band Boston. “95% are not real”, he says, “the signatures are not even close. According to band mate Barry Goudreau, the kit “was locked in time”; it was stored after the tour and never used since. My personal favorite in the sale is the Ludwig drum practice pad, which dates back to Hashian’s early teens, when he was drumming to help support his family. I was made a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and, as president of Manhattan-based International Art Advisors, I currently value and broker works for an array of clients. More than 70 of my articles have appeared in print, and I authored chapters for the books which accompanied the Antiques Roadshow. The pounding he took from the bass drum must indeed have been prodigious. That wear and tear included playing with a broken ankle that entire first tour.