I never knew they did this, doesn't seem like it was that long ago.



Pretty good cover.




The Jedi Master

Pretty good cover but I dont care for the lead singer at all. Styx died for me after Dennis DeYoung left.

Yeah, Lawrence Gowan is the worst thing ever to happen to Styx. It's a damn shame the way things fell apart for the band, but there'd been a rift between Dennis & Tommy that started around the time of Cornerstone and pretty much became open warfare with Kilroy Was Here. Apparently the rest of the band sided with Tommy when they wanted to tour and Dennis wasn't physically up to it, and pretty much dismissed him from the group. I saw them at the Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre on the Return to Paradise tour in 1996 (with Kansas opening), John Panozzo had just recently died and Todd Sucherman was in his place. It's still the best concert I've seen, even better than Rush.

Anyway, the cover was pretty cool, and I doubt Dennis DeYoung would have even tried it. Or sounded very good in it.

I saw them in concert in December 1979.

One of the very first music concerts I'd ever been to.

I also saw Supertramp Breakfast in America concert during that same year of 1979.

I can't remember the album or songs they (STYX) sang though.

It's been so long and my memory not as good anymore.

NH2112, I was invited to that concert in '96 (Atlanta) by a friend who had an extra ticket. We had already moved to Jax. and I was back in Atlanta by myself preparing for a presentation the next day. I was nervous about the demonstration and turned him down, reasoning that the drummer John had died anyway so they weren't complete anymore.

Oh what a dumbass decision that was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms1aDsKw-oo

...and I'm still kicking my own ass over that one!


EDIT: June 29, 1996 was apparently on a Saturday, so my demo must have been the following Monday. No excuse for missing that concert...

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/styx/1996/chastain-park-amphitheater-atlanta-ga-7bc54e9c.html

One of my favorite albums. Like Snowblind, how about another song about drug abuse?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Z2Upz_Be0

WOW! I just now [ while thinking back realized] I was in High School in 1979.

Where did my years go?

Uh oh, I sense the beginnings of a mid-life crises.

Call it a mid-life "transition" instead and make it a positive experience...

1. Forget the hair, it looked stupid anyway, grow a goatee and look meaner! Rrrrrrrr!

2. Forget the red sports car (or even 'sporty' car if you're like me and too cheap to buy a real car [my cars were downright wimpy by Moses' standards]), you'll just kill yourself with all that power anyway.

3. Forget younger women, they're all full of ink and piercings and their taste in music sucks! Dance with the one you came with.

Get the body/health right and chase your dreams, brotha.

That is, *if* you continue with this line of questioning.

It worked for Tommy Shaw, he doesn't look like he's 13 any more LOL.