Yeah, I'm a STYX fan, what of it?

[Armpit_licker]

Watched an episode of the 70's show that I DVR'd and they were all closet STYX fans. Was it bad to be a STYX Fan? The sounds of Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung...

You know it's You Babe
Whenever i get weary and i've had enough
Feel like giving up and its true (do-de-dodedo-dodedodedo) BABE I LOVE YOU!

 

[featherfingers]

I just bought Styx' double CD greatest hits "Come Sail Away-The Styx Anthology". It's one of the best things I've bought recently. I saw them in concert a few years ago and I'm fully out of the closet as far as liking their music is concerned.

Boston and Kansas were a couple of other groups that were labeled "corporate rock', whatever that means. Maybe they weren't rock like Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith, but I still like their music.

 

[steph]

I'm a HUGE Styx fan~seen them 3 times! I like more of the newer stuff, though...

XOXO

 

[Mimi]

I've seen STYX in concert too. Add another fan to the list here. 🙂

Mimi

 

[Dave2112]

Yeah, I'm a STXY fan, what of it?

...what's a STXY? 😎

 

[Armpit_licker]

Re: Yeah, I'm a STXY fan, what of it?

...what's a STXY? 😎

Has been fixed!😱

 

[Mimi]

Wanna borrow my whapper? Dave has it coming....

Mimi

 

[qjakal]

Mr Fixit...

I adjusted the thread title...gotta keep Dave happy around the holidays.

Q

 

[tkrexx]

I finally saw STYX with REO Speedwagon about 5 years ago. That was the 3rd time I'd seen REO. Styx rocks ass. There were several so-called corporate bands around the same time in the mid-late 70's that standardized top-40 rock; Journey, REO (Didn't start out that way), Styx, Boston, Kansas (As mentioned), Toto, Foreigner, Genesis hopped on the bandwagon; some were less successful, Point Blank, Greg Kihn's band...Kiss kind of started this craze, which snowballed into the Lite-Metal big-hair madness of the 80's.

On a side note, it was more than a little amusing seeing Tommy Shaw and James Young jamming side by side, as there's very close to 12 inches between their respective heights.

Rxx

 

[Knox The Hatter]

I saw Styx at the Garden, 12/7/78. The 'Pieces of Eight' tour. I was there with a bunch of guys from high school. It was a hilarious night. This kid who lived around the block from me was with us, and his pathetic attempts to fit in and be liked paid Seinfeldian dividends on the train, at the show, after the show, and on the way home. I wasn't a big Styx fan at all, really.

In retrospect, Styx was a group at home in suburban subdivisions with houses made of thin pine and drywall, listened to by kids who couldn't fathom the likes of The Sex Pistols or The Clash or the Ramones in a zillion years.

I had eight tracks of 'The Grand Illusion' and 'Pieces of Eight' just so I could appear just that much cooler to the high school girls I wanted to...uh...well, you know what. I saved Elvis Costello and Graham Parker and Joe Jackson and The Clash and The Police and Lydia Lunch and Television for me and my buzz cut friends. Those were the days.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

I saw Styx back in 1980 on the "Paradise Theater" tour, the best part of the show was when Tommy Shaw took a little too long to introduce a song and Dennis DeYoung got mad at him! He walked over, whispered in his ear, then threw his arms out and mouthed "WELL, C'MON!!"
I really wish now I'd have gotten into The Clash or The Ramones back then instead of Styx, Journey, or even Molly Hatchet.




Drew

 

[giantfan121262]

I can listen to the song "Come Sail Away" over and over and not get sick of it. I like the live version best.

 

[Fastwalker]

Styx was the first rock band I ever got into. But I haven't kept up with them as much as I should, with being more of a Rush fan than anything else. Recently bought Styx's double cd, and heard old stuff I never knew existed, and also didn't know they'd gotten back together.

 

[featherfingers]

I had a long day of driving around to get to my sessions so I listened to my Styx CD's... does anyone else ever confuse some of their songs with Kansas' songs? Anyway, I just thought I'd say that after hearing their music, I definitely am a Styx fan and am not ashamed to admit it.

 

[socksoff]

STYX.........EWWWWHHHHHHH!!!! Awful!!!!!!!!!!

 

[giantfan121262]

I had a long day of driving around to get to my sessions so I listened to my Styx CD's... does anyone else ever confuse some of their songs with Kansas' songs? Anyway, I just thought I'd say that after hearing their music, I definitely am a Styx fan and am not ashamed to admit it.

Frankie, I hear you bro. The song "Grand Illusion" can be mistaken for the Kansas song "Point of No Return". It's the beginning of the song. AFA being a Styx fan, there is nothing to be ashamed of. I am also not ashamed to admit that I like Kansas as well

 

[giantfan121262]

Styx was the first rock band I ever got into. But I haven't kept up with them as much as I should, with being more of a Rush fan than anything else. Recently bought Styx's double cd, and heard old stuff I never knew existed, and also didn't know they'd gotten back together.

Super Cool there is another Rush fan on the board. Saw them 4 times and one show was better than the other. I had second row to the "Subdivisions" tour in 1982. I just wanted to throw in that comment. Now back to our original thread.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Did anyone ever see the "Kilroy Was Here" tour? I remember the VH1 Behind the Music special where Tommy Shaw talks about playing one of those shows in a football arena after Sammy Hagar and Blue Oyster Cult opened for Styx. He was saying how he had to go out there and "perform Shakespear" and how the audience "was gonna KILL US!!"


Drew

 

[Fastwalker]

I had a long day of driving around to get to my sessions so I listened to my Styx CD's... does anyone else ever confuse some of their songs with Kansas' songs? Anyway, I just thought I'd say that after hearing their music, I definitely am a Styx fan and am not ashamed to admit it.

I used to listen to Styx and Kansas both pretty heavily, so I never had any trouble confusing the two.

 

[featherfingers]

I used to listen to Styx and Kansas both pretty heavily, so I never had any trouble confusing the two.

Back in the 70s, I knew who both bands were but not enough to actually go out and buy their records. They had similar musical styles, at least that's what I thought before I eventually bought their albums years later...and I still hear similarities.

When I was 11 years old, I thought the Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today" was actually by Jimi Hendrix. A disc jockey corrected me on that. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I decided to become serious about music and educate myself about everything I was listening to.