Never Forget

[maxell]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

[ChicagoSTYX]

Sorry Not for me. To me it is still very much STYX. It's all about the music for me not about Dennis.

[Liz22562]

The topic is old...

If you don't like like the band, don't listen. Period.

I've seen Styx several times and each time they have kept the crowd rocking. Within 'hearing' distance there wasn't anyone around me that wasn't singing out loud to whatever song Styx was playing (be they young, middle aged or elderly). Their appeal to a diverse audience was more than obvious.

I doubt any one there cared less if DDY was there or not. "The song remained the same".....

Here's to Styx....Rock on guys!

[froy]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

This is the post of the year
Bravo

[gr8dane]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

This is the post of the year

you guys were made for each other.
Bravo

[styxfanNH]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

Yup, here we go again. If you don't like Styx without Dennis then don't go see their shows. And if you have a couple of hours and read through th backlog of posts on here you will find the answer to your question pretty quickly.

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the dark......

[classicstyxfan]

Maxell wrote:

absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.


Classic says: I always thought it was abstinence ........
at least that's how I remember my teens and 20's !!!

[froy]

The topic is old...

This is not a topic its his honest opinion

If you don't like like the band, don't listen. Period.

No its more than that
Classic Styx means too much to just give up
We voice our opinion
We have the right

I've seen Styx several times and each time they have kept the crowd rocking.

So what
I have seen the Classic Line up more times than you can imagine
They are a better lineup
Case closed

Within 'hearing' distance there wasn't anyone around me that wasn't singing out loud to whatever song Styx was playing (be they young, middle aged or elderly).

Great Im glad they had a good time
Not the issue

Their appeal to a diverse audience was more than obvious.

And the audience was much smaller than in the past
10's of thousands missing,.

I doubt any one there cared less if DDY was there or not.

Then their not Styx fans
Your not a Styx fan
Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan.
How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage .
Answer me that.

"The song remained the same"...

Yea the Song Is Over.

Here's to Styx....Rock on guys!

Thats almost STYX

[Liz22562]

I am a Styx fan. Always have been, always will be.

When you walk on water...maybe 'then' you will have the right to say who is a Styx fan and who isn't.

Until then, your opinion is like an *&%hole...everyone has 'em...

[Ash]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

Wow -- this topic hasn't been discussed in this forum in at least.... what .... 10 minutes?

Besides - how could we forget. Froy reminds us nearly every post.

[styxfanNH]

Then their not Styx fans
Your not a Styx fan
Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan.
How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage .
Answer me that.

Well John passed away and one still plays with the band. It was the Panozzo's band that Dennis became a member of.

One singer/song writer doesn't make a band, but we've been there before a million times.

[Guest]

Then their not Styx fans
Your not a Styx fan
Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan.
How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage .
Answer me that.

Well John passed away and one still plays with the band. It was the Panozzo's band that Dennis became a member of.

One singer/song writer doesn't make a band, but we've been there before a million times.

hahaha funny... if Dennis didn't join this band it wouldn't even exist today.

Puhleeze.

[froy]

I am a Styx fan. Always have been, always will be.

When you walk on water...maybe 'then' you will have the right to say who is a Styx fan and who isn't.

Until then, your opinion is like an *&%hole...everyone has 'em...

Once again answer the question

How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage, There are no original members in the band .

[froy]

I know it has been a long time but I'll never understand how people just accept that Tommy and JY just ran off without Dennis when He asked them to wait for him. I know they might be a good band now, and they are cuz I have seen them live several times, and I really like Cyclorama, but it just isn't Styx, sorry folks it never will be. You guys know they could of at least not used the name Styx. I wish they would of just called it quits after the Return to Paradise Tour and become a legend instead of giving in to their greed and just tossing Dennis out of the band. Now that they come to town every 2 months it's not special anymore. absense makes the heart grow fonder, indeed.

I know thats unorganized but I felt like saying it.

Wow -- this topic hasn't been discussed in this forum in at least.... what .... 10 minutes?

Besides - how could we forget. Froy reminds us nearly every post.

I think Maxell is reminding us this time

[froy]

Then their not Styx fans
Your not a Styx fan
Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan.
How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage .
Answer me that.

Well John passed away and one still plays with the band. It was the Panozzo's band that Dennis became a member of.

One singer/song writer doesn't make a band, but we've been there before a million times.

hahaha funny... if Dennis didn't join this band it wouldn't even exist today.

Puhleeze.

Exactly no Dennis no Styx period.
Check mate

[styxfanNH]

Then their not Styx fans
Your not a Styx fan
Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan.
How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage .
Answer me that.

Well John passed away and one still plays with the band. It was the Panozzo's band that Dennis became a member of.

One singer/song writer doesn't make a band, but we've been there before a million times.

hahaha funny... if Dennis didn't join this band it wouldn't even exist today.

Puhleeze.

Exactly no Dennis no Styx period.
Check mate

True, and we would have Dennis as a solo artist or as a Broadway performer/producer.

And as Dennis has said a number of times, it was Suzane who made it possible for him to get out and perform after Equinox, because he really didn't want to do music anymore.

[Guest]

And as Dennis has said a number of times, it was Suzane who made it possible for him to get out and perform after Equinox, because he really didn't want to do music anymore.

I love how you try to use Dennis comments against him.

That's ignoring the fact that Dennis DID stay in the band and WROTE 90% OF THEIR HITS.

[styxfanNH]

And as Dennis has said a number of times, it was Suzane who made it possible for him to get out and perform after Equinox, because he really didn't want to do music anymore.

I love how you try to use Dennis comments against him.

That's ignoring the fact that Dennis DID stay in the band and WROTE 90% OF THEIR HITS.

Now That's Funny. He said it, he continues to say it. Not using it against him. It is what it is and it's not even out of context.

In his interviews for Equinox and the 20th Anniversary of Equinox, HE AND JY spoke about how Dennis thought Progressive rock was dead, he wanted to take the band in a different direction and JY says he didn't want to go in that direction because he thought it would alienate their fans.

NO question that Dennis' had more of the songs that climbed the charts, but as i say now and continue to say, Dennis wasn't then or is he now a one man band. And I contend that if he stepped away from Styx in 75 or so like he said he wanted to, they would have replaced them then because the band had a record contract they had to forfill. True there would be no multiple platinum albums and the music we fight about today would never have exhisted, but I believe Dennis would have at some time come back to music and gone in the direction his heart appears to be in, that of broadway and the theatre. Hunchback would have had come earlier in his career and I am positive he would be more successful than he is today writing and producing stuff of that genre.

If you believe that any artist doesn't say what they mean and have rehearsed their lines prior to using them over and over so it becomes 'company' line, then you are fooling yourself.

[ek88]

Dennis DID stay in the band and WROTE 90% OF THEIR HITS.

True. Just out of curiosity, how many here consider Mr. Roboto (a hit) a better song than Pieces Of Eight (album track)?

[Guest]

And I contend that if he stepped away from Styx in 75 or so like he said he wanted to, they would have replaced them then because the band had a record contract they had to forfill. True there would be no multiple platinum albums and the music we fight about today would never have exhisted, but I believe Dennis would have at some time come back to music and gone in the direction his heart appears to be in, that of broadway and the theatre.

And if "if's" and "but's" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

If it weren't for Dennis DeYoung not one of us would be here because Styx would have ceased to exist a long long time ago and this board would have no purpose.

[froy]

Dennis DID stay in the band and WROTE 90% OF THEIR HITS.

True. Just out of curiosity, how many here consider Mr. Roboto (a hit) a better song than Pieces Of Eight (album track)?

Its a hit but its not better than 8
No way

[froy]

If it weren't for Dennis DeYoung not one of us would be here because Styx would have ceased to exist a long long time ago and this board would have no purpose.

This is so true and the reason why I fight for this man.
Without Dennis Shaw and Young would be washing cars.
They owe the man there lives.

[styxfanNH]

If it weren't for Dennis DeYoung not one of us would be here because Styx would have ceased to exist a long long time ago and this board would have no purpose.

This is so true and the reason why I fight for this man.
Without Dennis Shaw and Young would be washing cars.
They owe the man there lives.

Seems to me Shaw would have been successful with or without Dennis or Styx. He would have ended up with another band.

JY probably would have been about as popular as he is now, but would heve gone to a harder rock band than what Styx at the time had to offer.

[Guest]

Seems to me Shaw would have been successful with or without Dennis or Styx. He would have ended up with another band.

JY probably would have been about as popular as he is now, but would heve gone to a harder rock band than what Styx at the time had to offer.

Of course... both JY and Tommy would already be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame if it weren't for Dennis DeYoung derailing their careers.

Puhleeze... I'm still waiting for all this success from the current line-up... after all Dennis was holding them back.

Oh yeah... radio today isn't fair.

LOL

[styxfanNH]

Seems to me Shaw would have been successful with or without Dennis or Styx. He would have ended up with another band.

JY probably would have been about as popular as he is now, but would heve gone to a harder rock band than what Styx at the time had to offer.

Of course... both JY and Tommy would already be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame if it weren't for Dennis DeYoung derailing their careers.

Puhleeze... I'm still waiting for all this success from the current line-up... after all Dennis was holding them back.

Oh yeah... radio today isn't fair.

LOL

Who besides you said success was equal with being in the Hall of Fame?

If that was the only definition of success then few in the music industry would be successful.

[Guest]

Seems to me Shaw would have been successful with or without Dennis or Styx. He would have ended up with another band.

JY probably would have been about as popular as he is now, but would heve gone to a harder rock band than what Styx at the time had to offer.

Of course... both JY and Tommy would already be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame if it weren't for Dennis DeYoung derailing their careers.

Puhleeze... I'm still waiting for all this success from the current line-up... after all Dennis was holding them back.

Oh yeah... radio today isn't fair.

LOL

Who besides you said success was equal with being in the Hall of Fame?

If that was the only definition of success then few in the music industry would be successful.

It was being sarcastic. Geeze. Must I spell everything out for you???

[Adam]

Froy: Your not a Styx fan
Froy: Not the issue
FROY: This is not a topic its his honest opinion
Encarta® World English Dictionary: top·ic n 1. a subject written or spoken about

Adam: Since you seem to have your own erroneous interpretation of the word “topic”, we can conclude that your pronouncement of what the “topic” is is also in error.

Froy’s topic is whining about the personnel change in Styx which took place over half a decade ago. As for “Anyone who goes and see's this lineup is not a STYX fan”, this is very funny to me. Thousands (more?) have paid to see this lineup…given them ovations. They are fans of the band they paid to see. The band is Styx.

Froy: I have seen the Classic Line up more times than you can imagine
They are a better lineup
Case closed

Adam: says you. The deal was signed, DeYoung’s out AND DOING VERY WELL MIGHT I ADD. Reality marches on, like it or not.

Froy: Exactly no Dennis no Styx period.
Check mate
Adam: What is this? You punctuate every one of your opinionated declarations with an announcement of victory?

Froy: They owe the man there lives.
Adam: My God, what over-wrought, misplaced emotional hog wash.

[Adam]

Froy: How can you be a STYX fan when the guy who started the band is not even on the stage, There are no original members in the band .
Adam: Styxfan answered your question, you just didn’t see it. Read Dude.

[Adam]

IML: if Dennis didn't join this band it wouldn't even exist today.
Adam: True. And if Tommy hadn’t joined they might be a one hit wonder. And you could say if there wasn’t Desert Storm “Show Me The Way” wouldn’t be a hit. And if JFK hadn’t gone to Dallas that day he’d probably still be alive today. What’s the point?
IML: And if "if's" and "but's" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.
Adam: My point exactly.