IanHenry Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Found this on Youtube and I thought I'd share it. Sadly Styx didn't have very much success here in the U.K, I think they deserved more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 my wife and I went to see these guys several times, it was always a great show. and.. Tommy Shaw can still bring it.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I saw them on the Paradise Theater Tour. I saw Tommy Shaw open for Rush once. Here is me with some dude from Styx. I'm the good looking one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 The last time I saw them was about 20 years ago playing out of a portable stage trailer on the street at a festival in Tempe Az close to ASU. I was able to watch them from stage left just a few feet away, anyway I have always enjoyed them.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 (edited) Tommy spent about 30 mins with me and my buddy in Gruhn's. He is a true rock star. He walked around and showed us and talked to us about a few of the guitars and told us which ones were way over priced. I won't mention a brand name but one was one Jackson Browne has a sig model of. Its Gruhn's that over priced it though. Paradise Theater came out in '80 and I saw them the summer of '81, that was 39 years ago. Edited December 4, 2020 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Very nice!!! I just watched Tommy on a fresh episode of Live From Daryl's House the other week. Great stuff. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Oh man. For a few years there my best late teens/early 20's band we always put Come Sail Away at 4th song, first set. A gig in them days was ThursFriSat, 9 - 2, so in 5 sets we sometimes had to do that one THREE times. End of the night they wanted that again instead of Freebird lots of nights. It's all DeYoung, but it is 200% Styx. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, rct said: Oh man. For a few years there my best late teens/early 20's band we always put Come Sail Away at 4th song, first set. A gig in them days was ThursFriSat, 9 - 2, so in 5 sets we sometimes had to do that one THREE times. End of the night they wanted that again instead of Freebird lots of nights. It's all DeYoung, but it is 200% Styx. Dennis had to stop touring do to the strobing and blinking lights affecting him at shows. I saw a doc about them, and it said he went to about 10 different doctors before they could figure out what it was. I think Grand Illusion was the first Styx album I heard and owned. The doc also stated that Dennis and Tommy met in an elevator one day in some town and Dennis gave him an earful about making fun of the song Babe on stage when he was in that lame Damn Yankees band with Ted (The Republican Mouthpiece) Nugent. Hey Tommy you play on that song remember you were on the Cornerstone album too. So your making fun of yourself too. Edited December 5, 2020 by Sgt. Pepper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmonk Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I was in a cover band in the early 80s that did Too Much Time On My Hands. It always went over well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdinaryNimda Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I don't wanta be the judge, but here's my judgement on STYX: some extremely good songs some real lousy ones (hear em once, and never again) some mediocre ones. This one is probably The Best Thing (pun intended): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 6:08 PM, sparquelito said: Very nice!!! I just watched Tommy on a fresh episode of Live From Daryl's House the other week. Great stuff. 🙂 Yeah I saw that one too. Tommy could hit the high notes even better than Daryl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 5:42 PM, rct said: Oh man. For a few years there my best late teens/early 20's band we always put Come Sail Away at 4th song, first set. A gig in them days was ThursFriSat, 9 - 2, so in 5 sets we sometimes had to do that one THREE times. End of the night they wanted that again instead of Freebird lots of nights. It's all DeYoung, but it is 200% Styx. One of my first make out sessions, with the sheriff's daughter no less of a small Arkansas town, 1976 or 7 (when did it come out?), was to this song which she loved. Hell I loved it too and still do. She dumped me soon afterwards. Oh well. The song had great building of energy. Great voice. One of my goals in life is to write and record a song that someone says the same thing about. Wouldn't be me singing but at least writing. His voice was Styx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Grand Illusion was '77. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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