froy wrote:"Cassie May"
Bottom line, the guys in the band find DDY difficult to work with
Really how do you know?
, and, for the last 12 years, they have done the healthy thing and moved on.
Healthy take a look a Tommy Shaw the guy looks like he has aged 30 years .
The only one who has never found DDY hard to work with is Dennis himself.
Really again How do you know?
I told ya she was sent by the band. Tell Shaw to take back his stupid ass statement otherwise he's a woos,
froy, you are too funny. I have NOT been sent by the band. I am simply a fan since 1977, who initially was turned on to Styx the first time I heard "Fooling Yourself" on the radio, and I've read as much as I can on them throughout the years, even back in the days before the Internet. I'm not a crazed, in-your-face type of fan; just one who enjoys the music and seeing them live whenever I can afford to.
As for statements to verify my comments, all I can say is, have you not read Sterling's book? Or Chuck's? While truly, only the band members themselves have their own perceptions and memories of what went down daily for all those years, why do you think JC left? Yes, the official party line was that he wanted to be with his family, but there have been hints dropped that he did not like the direction Dennis was leading Styx into. Tommy obviously had his issues, as did JY. Chuck has been pretty restrained in his comments, but there have been some printed lately that he is over all of it and has moved on (I don't remember if it was posted on this forum; here is the link:
http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-mu ... 12336.html), and has no contact with Dennis. Finally, both Todd and Glen made comments in Sterling's book that rather politely made reference to Dennis being difficult to work with. There was even a quote in
The Grand Delusion along the lines of, "Dennis made so many enemies at A&M it's unreal." Really, in my prior post, I was just making an observation that sums up all I have read numerous times; I was not aware that I would have to footnote and annotate everything I say. I just find it a bit incredulous that so many people within the Styx organization have expressed pretty much similar types of dissatisfaction over the years. I think that's pretty telling, don't you?
And yes, Tommy has aged 30 years....since he was 27.
Finally, my last
observation on Dennis is that he has been pretty consistent through the years in expressing his continued disbelief (for lack of a better term) that things were really all that bad. Which is fine, it's his perspective; it just doesn't match up with what many other people have said. That's all.
What's a woos?
