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Excerpts from Chauncey Mabe's interview:

On the Catholic Church: I'm very harsh on the church in my book, but I grew up in a very Catholic Italian family and I went to seminary for a year, and I know it from the inside. I still resent the fact the Catholic Church cannot differentiate between homosexuality and pedophilia. Besides, after 2,000 years of men wearing dresses, no wonder the priests are confused.

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styxfanNH wrote:Excerpts from Chauncey Mabe's interview:

On the Catholic Church: I'm very harsh on the church in my book, but I grew up in a very Catholic Italian family and I went to seminary for a year, and I know it from the inside. I still resent the fact the Catholic Church cannot differentiate between homosexuality and pedophilia. Besides, after 2,000 years of men wearing dresses, no wonder the priests are confused.

God, I do love that man.

Great response from Chuck.

From the interview:

"One would write ballads, the other heavy rock, and the third almost a kind of rockabilly. Then it's John and I who had to figure out how to make them go."

What's rockabilly (I presume he is referring to Tommy)?

blt man wrote:From the interview:

"One would write ballads, the other heavy rock, and the third almost a kind of rockabilly. Then it's John and I who had to figure out how to make them go."

What's rockabilly (I presume he is referring to Tommy)?

Rockabilly isn't exactly what I'd call Tommy's stuff .. rockabilly is more like Stray Cats.

blt man wrote:From the interview:

"One would write ballads, the other heavy rock, and the third almost a kind of rockabilly. Then it's John and I who had to figure out how to make them go."

What's rockabilly (I presume he is referring to Tommy)?

Rockabilly is that kind of country/rock amalgam made famous by early Elvis, Carl Perkins and so on. And it's actually an interesting way to view some of Tommy's material, as I have often observed that many of his melodies are country/bluegrass melodies that are being expressed in a rock arrangement. You know, when you hear Tommy play on acoustic guitar the songs in the way he wrote them, you realize how arrangement-driven a lot of Styx' albums were.

A very interesting interview!


Sterling

Well, I just got Chuck's book.

It's not very long, and hope to have my review up ASAP.