That is what I would call the height of nostalgia. People need the ability to, rightly or wrongly, go back and feel the way they did when they were young. And I understand it completely. Listen, music is magic. Of all the arts, none of them come close to music. Music can ignite actual physical change in the body.
It gives you goosebumps or raises the hair on the back of your neck. People come up to me and they thank me. Nobody thanks a year-old for anything anymore. They come up and thank me for the music constantly and say what an impact I had on their lives.
You know what I think? I was just trying to beat Queen and Foreigner. They still bash that song, though. Look, when J. I still have light sensitivity.
They wanted to assume control, the two of them. They wanted the power to do that and they did it. They said in that the reason they had to replace me was because of something that happened in But if you tell a lie long enough and with enough enthusiasm, people are going to believe it.
Styx fans were not in a contest to see which member they liked best. They liked the band. Most of them loved the variety. We lived on the same street. We had the same ethnic background. Over the years we had various guitar players. Every guitar player that joined us, joined a successful band. Every guitar player that joined the band, they joined because we had gigs. He was looking to make money. We had the gigs and he joined us. We were a cover band. It was only temporary in his mind.
But then boom! He and I joined together and the Styx sound was forged. But it was only temporary for him. He wanted to run his own band. So every guitar player joined a successful band, including Tommy Shaw. He joined a band that had just recorded an album that would go on to sell 2 million copies, a band that had a gold album and a Top 10 single.
But the core was always the Panozzos and me. Do you get any money from their ticket sales these days? We had to come to an agreement. The used it for a year and a half on the road and I never sued them or said a word to them.
They never paid me a dime. And then I saw the Behind the Music segment where they started this campaign of going after my music and me. I cried. I cried and I called my lawyer. The only reason I sued them was to get my share of the Styx name. I mean, am I starting to sound like a whiner? This feels very justified to me. Here it is. I still go out and play. They pay to see me. I have moved on. I have probably said over and over again we should do one last tour for the fans. If you were talking to them right now, what would you say?
I want it one more time for our fans. And can I say this? I want to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because we deserve to be. There was a time the Hall was controlled and run by a certain mentality, which I respect. The people who raise the money and got it, those people have the right to put who they want in there.
But in recent years, too many of our peers have gotten the nod. Coming off the triple-platinum success of the "Paradise Theatre" album, Young recalls, "I think we sold a million of the 'Kilroy' album.
Roboto' was a gold single, but I would say that there's a huge male demographic that liked the rock side of this band that said, 'What the hell are these guys doing? What made things worse, he says, is that DeYoung had come up with "a very ambitious production" for the tour, which cost "a fortune to mount.
They reunited in without Tommy Shaw, the guitarist who'd written and sung two of their biggest hits, "Renegade" and "Too Much Time on My Hands," releasing an album before they parted ways again in The next reunion was with Shaw on board in They re-recorded "Lady" for a "Greatest Hits" collection, launching a tour optimistically called Return to Paradise in DeYoung left Styx for good in after asking his bandmates to delay their tour in support of "Brave New World," their first album in nearly a decade, for medical reasons.
They went out without him. Today, Young and Shaw are the lone remaining ties to Styx's multi-platinum heyday, with occasional appearances by founding bassist Chuck Panozzo. Panozzo's brother John, the band's founding drummer, died in Guitarist John "J. Which we have. And the band I'm in now is the band I always wanted to be in.
A large part of Styx's enduring appeal, Young says, is that they "touched a large part of the Baby Boom with that music, and we're still the soundtrack for their glorious misspent youth. But they've also been noticing more and more young people filling those seats at their concerts. Young recalls meeting the daughter of "a radio guy" backstage last summer. She was wearing a Styx shirt and holding old Styx vinyl.
So we're still reaching out to people under 20, which is astounding to me. But there's always a teenager that's gonna be rejecting the mainstream of their generation, looking for value in other places. And fortunately, they're finding it in Styx. Fans sharing links to streaming music that no one paid to hear is also a completely different business model than the one that led to triple-platinum sales for several Styx releases.
That's why Young was resistant when Shaw first suggested recording "The Mission," a release that became their first album of original material in 14 years. And after the time and energy and the love we're gonna put into it. But fortunately my colleague Tommy Shaw just ignored all of that. Shaw started work on the album with an outside writer, Will Evankovich, eventually inviting Styx's current keyboard player Lawrence Gowan into the creative process.
We never screamed at each other. We made music together. And it serves no purpose. Our fans loved us because what we did musically was very uplifting and positive. And to harm that in any way is insane. Not to give the fans one last glimpse of us together on stage, it makes no sense to me. And I know that all Styx fans would want to see that one more time.
Regarding 26 East, Vol. And if the spirit moves me I might write a song from time to time and put it out through Apple or whoever the local robber baron is. The people who still support us are emotionally bound to the music of their youth, which is true of all generations.
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