Parking lot full of whale vomit. Love it.
Parking lot full of whale vomit. Love it.
I believe Styx is "ghey"
I also believe that Dennis DeYoung is actually Gay
I remember this show when it came out. I remember Tommy discussing the view of cars tail lights trailing away from the outdoor venue at the start of one of their Kilroy shows. I think people actually witnessed a Sammy Hagar show before bailing on Stynx. That's bad.
I saw them in Sept., and Chuck played the last 1/3 of the show here as well. It was a great show, even if the keys/vox guy was a little over the top. Tommy and James were on top of their game.
As to if they're "assholes" or not, I couldn't fucking care less. I wasn't there to make friends with them, I just wanted to hear the classic songs played.
I don't really take one side or the other in the Styx wars, since I really haven't given a shit about them in 30 years. It definitely WAS the Kilroy album that scares me away, so I guess Dennis gets the blame for that. The actual idea behind the album was good - a statement against religious fascist theocracy - it just failed in the execution. Should have left the rock operas to Roger Waters and Pete Townsend.
I'm just not a fan of scab bands though, and that's what this so-called "Styx" is. If Chuck Panozzo is playing with them again, that's a good thing, but it would mean he's the only original member on stage.
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
If you want to talk true "scab" bands, check out the FOREIGNER currently milking the Casino Circuit for 20K a night.
Don't like the scab "Foreigner" either. Of course I didn't have any use for the real Foreigner after their third album.
He is the margarine man, pimple pimple I gotta pimple. DDyoung belongs on broadway.
When Styx plays now do they do any of the DeYoung songs? If so, who does the vocals?
RIDE TO LIVE, LIVE TO RIDE
LET `EM ROLL ONE MORE TIME
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
Well, you could trace ballads by hard rock bands all the way back to Zeppelin and Aerosmith, I guess. But where it really started to take over and become a commerical cash in, would probably be Styx with "Babe". And then once Van Hagar came in with the Velveetafests on 5150, all the hairbands came back with all that sickening shit that dominated radio of the late 80s.
"Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013
I do like Lawrence Gowan, he is the only one other than Dennis that I can see fronting Styx. He's a great keyboard player and a great singer. He didn't really sound good 2000-2003 but when they got Ricky Phillips (former Whitesnake member) on bass, he began to really adopt his own style as opposed to mimicking DDY. Chuck Panozzo still plays for them, but because of his HIV, I assume that he is required to take months off if he even catches the slightest hint of a sniffle, but he dosen't let his sickness rule his life. I give serious props to that man.
But you know what, Dennis is happy with his own act which is pretty good. I saw him twice at the Paramount Theatre. In a way it's kind of like there is two Styxes. One Styx is Tommy and JY's band, and the other Styx is Dennis' band. In short, I don't really want them to reunite, if they do, they're going to start fighting like two girls over a shirtless Chris Hemsworth.
How do you spell pretentious? S-A-M-M-Y H-A-G-A-R
STYX???
to each their own...........
just an oldies act to me
I'm still tripping over whether it should be Styx is a bunch of assholes or Styx are a bunch of assholes. This damn English language has it's perplexities.
Beth
When Peter Criss would sit onstage singing this, all the women in the audience would start playing with themselves.....
To be On Topic, the only time I saw Styx live was on a video, shot during the Kilroy tour. Caught In The Act or something like that, I'm baked, fuck off. Anyway I thought songs like Snowblind or Rockin The Paradise were cool, so I listened to Paradise Theatre (even bought the vinyl, with a "laser side" - fans & collectors know what I'm talking about even if my English is quite miserable tonight), and fell "in love" with that song Nothing Ever Goes As Planned (or something). It was 12 years ago. I'm 34 and in France, Styx have NEVER been played on the radio. I still Love this song, this album kicks ass, now I'm off to bed and so are you, cause I see your eyelids going down.
Paradise Theatre kicks ass, no doubt about it. It's arguably Styx's last good album even though Edge of the Century has its moments.
Listening to Paradise right now (Too Much Time On My Hands playing).. You can't take this "Rock-your-ass" side off of them. Even though...
James Young=James Hetfield????
Well I'm baked: behold. I laughed.
Always thought Styx sucked. Lame band, lame songs.
Roth And Roll
There were only a few ballads. And they weren't about losing pussy. Tedwouldn't allow it. Besides the best live version I ever heard of Renegade was with Ted on guitar. I think the one from their Uprising dvd is on You Tube. Shit they blewaway half the 90's bands live that I ever saw. Except maybe STP.
Yeah, but flip it a different way...
Not a huge Styx fan myself, but every time they're played on the radio almost without exception it's a song DeYoung sang lead on.
I'd be willing to wager that Styx's biggest hits were ones that DeYoung sang and wrote. Not talking quality, which in music is subjective, but economics: without DeYoung's contributions, Styx wouldn't even be worth talking about (inasmuch as they are anyway).
Also, what are the odds that people who go to see Styx these days, where Styx is part of a triple bill including, say, Kansas and REO Speedwagon...what are the odds that the majority of that audience is comprised of "hardcore Styx fans"?
Slim and none.
The majority of the audience are made up of people who only know the hits, and the overwhelming majority of those hits were sung by DeYoung.
In a larger sense, fuck the lot of 'em, DeYoung included.
I mean, it's Styx. Who gives a fuck?
Scramby eggs and bacon.
That doesn't mean that it should have been, or should be, DeYoung's way or the highway.....
Everybody Up!! (Oakland 81 style)
They were never important to me....I have never owned any of their records, though I did see them live once.
I also think Paradise Theater was their last good album. Can't deny they were a good, solid, hard rock band born out of the heartland of America.
Wanna know something? I know you don't but wtf.
I only have TWO Styx albums. Cause I only know those two (apart from that diamond called 'Crystal Ball' - the title track, I 've never heard the album - and the terrible Roboto shitty song).
- Cornerstone
- Paradise Theatre
And I deeply think that a song like 'Eddie', on Cornerstone, buries the whole Paradise album. Styx could Really Rock, 'Eddie' (like the one we know and worship) is the proof.
True Dat. Ezrin can be good (Alice), but he can suck too. Even though I Worship The Elder & Revenge (I'm not a KiSS fan), Ezrin can be boring. Beth is one evidence.
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