Let's Count How Many Times Tommy has quit/threatened to quit
Let's do a count here, because it is getting up there...
Here are the times and the consequences...that we know of...
1. Threatened to quit when First Time was going to be released as a single - Consequence: Styx loses at least one top 10 single and maybe two (Boat never gets released in the States)
2. Threatened to quit if another concept album was going to be pursued after Paradise Theater - Consequence: Dennis wins out and the band convinces Tommy to do the album
3. Threatened to quit if Haven't We Been Here Before was going to be released as a single - Consequence: High Time released instead - doesn't even hit top 40 - expensive video shelved - another top 10 single gone - Kilroy momentum stopped - 500,000 albums not sold -
4. Threatened to quit if the band didn't release Cold War (Live!) as a single - Consequence: Releases High Time - poor results - Kilroy loses momentum
5. Quit the band and then was convinced to rejoin in the middle of the Kilroy tour - Consequence: convinced to finish tour dates
6. Quit the band after the Kilroy tour - Consequence: Dennis refuses to keep Styx together without him - no new Styx music for 7 years
7. Signed over all rights of Styx sometime before the release of "Edge"
8. Said finishing Brave New Flop was not in his best interest unless he could be guaranteed a tour - Consequence: Dennis kicked when tour couldn't begin when Tommy wanted it to begin. A very poor Brave New World gets released and Stiffs...big time.
There is 8 right there...who knows how many more...
Here are the times and the consequences...that we know of...
1. Threatened to quit when First Time was going to be released as a single - Consequence: Styx loses at least one top 10 single and maybe two (Boat never gets released in the States)
2. Threatened to quit if another concept album was going to be pursued after Paradise Theater - Consequence: Dennis wins out and the band convinces Tommy to do the album
3. Threatened to quit if Haven't We Been Here Before was going to be released as a single - Consequence: High Time released instead - doesn't even hit top 40 - expensive video shelved - another top 10 single gone - Kilroy momentum stopped - 500,000 albums not sold -
4. Threatened to quit if the band didn't release Cold War (Live!) as a single - Consequence: Releases High Time - poor results - Kilroy loses momentum
5. Quit the band and then was convinced to rejoin in the middle of the Kilroy tour - Consequence: convinced to finish tour dates
6. Quit the band after the Kilroy tour - Consequence: Dennis refuses to keep Styx together without him - no new Styx music for 7 years
7. Signed over all rights of Styx sometime before the release of "Edge"
8. Said finishing Brave New Flop was not in his best interest unless he could be guaranteed a tour - Consequence: Dennis kicked when tour couldn't begin when Tommy wanted it to begin. A very poor Brave New World gets released and Stiffs...big time.
There is 8 right there...who knows how many more...
