Hurricane Relief

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JY's and Tommy's recorded public service announcements, that are available for radio stations to use:

http://www.premrad.com/

And, this was a nice story, especially considering Styx was a last minute booking at this fair...

http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbch ... m&ID=28409

Classic rockers Styx took the stage last night at the East Idaho State Fair.

As part of the band's efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, members of the group autographed a guitar to be auctioned off at the concert.

Producer Matthew Friend spoke with singer James J.Y. Young about his efforts to help the gulf coast victims.

Tonight J.Y. Young in his own words.

James J.Y. Young, Singer/Guitarist of Styx:

"No one can look at the tv and hear the stories of people and sort of not be touched, incredibly moved by the sad situation that exists down there.

Back in 2001 after 9/11 we kind of spearheaded a group of bands and people got together and did a couple of benefit concerts and raised a half million dollars back then. And we've done numerous other charitable things and it just seemd appropriate that we jump in here as well.

It's an amazing wonderful feeling to be involved in making music for a living, and the fact that our music touched so many people.

And all of a sudden as I've said 33 1/3 years into this whole thing there's a 3rd generation of fans coming in that were not born when our records were selling millions and millions of copies. Singing the words back to me, sometimes they know them almost better than I do, its an incredibly uplifting feeling for me.

In the last few years I came to the relaization that music is this incredible force, this power that we are the stewards of, and maybe being a rock and roller or a rockstar in the beginning is kind of an egocentric kind of proposition to pursue.

But in the final analysis I've come to realize that people, particularly when you're looking at tv and see the sad reality that no one seems to make better. People need and hour or two some point during their week or month to go to a place where they can forget about all their troubles and just immerse themselves in a wall of sound of uplifting music, and that's what we're here for."

The autographed guitar sold for $1,125 to Mike and Debbie Johnson, 100 percent of the proceeds go to the Red Cross to help with disaster relief.

From Styxworld BB