Styx - Take Note....

[Toph]

The most appropro line certainly applies to the band calling themselves Styx....

"A wise man once said -- 'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave," agrees Michael Stipe. "We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it. I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end; and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way. We have to thank all the people who helped us be R.E.M. for these 31 years, our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this. It's been amazing."

Tommy and JY, the party ended 14 years ago...you've way overstayed your welcome.

http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1446


READ Warner Bros. Press Release below:

ATHENS, GA--(Marketwire - Sep 21, 2011)

"During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective; we started to ask ourselves 'what next?'," commented Mike Mills. "Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together. The time just feels right."

R.E.M. is unique in that they are very much still the group of friends from Athens, Georgia that they've been since the band formed in 1979. While their career has spanned 15 studio albums and huge global success, the band itself only ever comprised the four original members. The one person to leave this tight-knit group was drummer Bill Berry, who retired two years after suffering a brain aneurysm on-stage during 1995's "Monster" tour. But not before extracting a promise from his band mates that they would continue on as R.E.M.: "Bill insisted he would stay, if his leaving meant breaking the band up," remembers Michael Stipe.

Mills adds: "We have always been a band in the truest sense of the word. Brothers who truly love and respect each other. We feel kind of like pioneers in this -- there's no disharmony here, no falling-outs, no lawyers squaring off. We've made this decision together, amicably and with each other's best interests at heart."

"A wise man once said -- 'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave," agrees Michael Stipe. "We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it. I hope our fans realize this wasn't an easy decision; but all things must end; and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way. We have to thank all the people who helped us be R.E.M. for these 31 years, our deepest gratitude to those who allowed us to do this. It's been amazing."

Buck picks up on his thoughts: "One of the things that was always so great about being in R.E.M., was the fact that the records we made and the songs we wrote, meant as much to our fans as they did to us. It was, and still is, important to us to do right by them. Being a part of their lives has been an unbelievable gift.

"Mike, Michael, Bill, Bertis, and I walk away as great friends. I know I will be seeing them in the future, just as I know I will be seeing everyone that has followed and supported us through the years. Even if it's only in the vinyl aisle of your local record store, or standing at the back of a club; watching a group of 19-year-olds trying to change the world."

R.E.M. will release a career-spanning Greatest Hits album through Warner Brothers in November. More information to follow.

[yogi]

Quoting the Famous Plankton from Sponge Bobs Movie ' Dont let the flame die out'

Toph, you Froy and those like you put your Bucket helmets back on.

Rock on STYX!!!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!!!!

[Toph]

Quoting the Famous Plankton from Sponge Bobs Movie ' Dont let the flame die out'

Toph, you Froy and those like you put your Bucket helmets back on.

Rock on STYX!!!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!!!!

Yogi...go fuck yourself. Just showing an example of leaving with class and at the right time.

[gr8dane]

Quoting the Famous Plankton from Sponge Bobs Movie ' Dont let the flame die out'

Toph, you Froy and those like you put your Bucket helmets back on.

Rock on STYX!!!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!!!!

Yogi...go fuck yourself. Just showing an example of leaving with class and at the right time.

I think I get your drift.
So if I thought, that now would be the right time for you to leave this forum,and if you could please do so with some class,would you?

[Toph]

Quoting the Famous Plankton from Sponge Bobs Movie ' Dont let the flame die out'

Toph, you Froy and those like you put your Bucket helmets back on.

Rock on STYX!!!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!!!!

Yogi...go fuck yourself. Just showing an example of leaving with class and at the right time.

I think I get your drift.
So if I thought, that now would be the right time for you to leave this forum,and if you could please do so with some class,would you?

Fuck you too.

[yogi]

'Don't let the flame die out'!!!- "Plankton" from his Academy Award winning performance in 'Sponge Bob The Movie'

Rock on Styx!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!!!!

[brywool]

Geez Toph, do you just lie awake at night thinking about this stuff?
You really need a hobby.

It's JUST music. If you don't like it, don't listen. All of these guys are musicians. That is their purpose in life. They are out making a living as musicians. That is what they are supposed to do. They are not "hurting" anything. If you like the old band, play the original albums. If you hate the new band... don't go to their shows.

Simple as that.

[yogi]

Poth errr Toph posted on another site that the Oreck Vacuum dude needs to hang it up also.

Poth's quote taken from the fourm of Vacuums Illustrated was ' David Oreck had a great run but the wave of the future is bagless vacuums, David and his team of now second stringers need get out /hang it up and pass the torch to someone else gracefully'

My advice to Mr Oreck is, as Plankton stated' Dont Let The Flame Die out'!!!!

Rock on Styx!!!!! Rock on Dennis!!!!! Rock on David!!!!!!

P.S. Poth also boycotts all movie sequels & Meatloafs Bat Out Of Hell ll !!

Rock on Rocky 7, Home Alone 6 & and Rambo 5 ( Rambo travels back to look for his lost 8 tracks)

PBS.. Poth was also the ringleader that called for the boycott of Brett Farve. He boycotted the return of Fiat, the Michelin Man, and he dispises Jack from Jack in the Box.


Rock on ALL 4!!!!!!!!

[Baron Von Bielski]

How could they even think of retiring with such an insatiable demand for them to continue touring.

[Monker]

Yeah, well, a wiser and much more fun guy wrote:

"“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.”

I think I know which party I would rather be at.

[Babyblue]

Yeah, well, a wiser and much more fun guy wrote:

"“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.”

I think I know which party I would rather be at.

[Boomchild]

How could they even think of retiring with such an insatiable demand for them to continue touring.

Because it's their thing, their life and they have the right to choose what path it goes in. Sometimes at the outset it looks as if it's the wrong decision but sometimes it's the right one. Things can get to a point where it literally becomes a joke. I can think of one right off the top of my head.

[masque]

REM sucks ass and always has......i could care less when and how they call it quits........one of the most overrated fucking bands of all time.........and I get so sick of people talking about when it's time to call it quits with class.....who the fuck are any of us to tell another human when to quit working or engaging in a craft or art......stupid as hell to me.

[Zan]

Yogi...go fuck yourself. Just showing an example of leaving with class and at the right time.

POST OF THE DAY!

rofl...

[DarrenUK]

Can someone remove the F U C and K keys on Toph's keyboard as he uses them to answer every arguament .......

[shaka]

Yogi...go fuck yourself. Just showing an example of leaving with class and at the right time.

POST OF THE DAY!

rofl...

That's what I thought as well. It would seem someone needs to take his own advice......

[Babyblue]

REM sucks ass and always has......i could care less when and how they call it quits........one of the most overrated fucking bands of all time.........and I get so sick of people talking about when it's time to call it quits with class.....who the fuck are any of us to tell another human when to quit working or engaging in a craft or art......stupid as hell to me.

[yogi]

Friend of ours just saw Styx & REO in Vegas. Said that the small venue(Hard Rock) was packed(sold out). They thought both bands were EXCELLENT. Both he and his wife were bummed that Styx didnt play The Best Of Times. He also thought that Miss America was the weakest song of the entire night.

They actually liked REO a little better. I told em before that Kevin was going to talke their ears off which he said he didnt. Although Kevin did say with REM now folding he may come back fronting that band in a few years and make a play on that playmate.