Shaw -Tribute to Pink Floyd - Listen & New Article

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Here for all you Tommy fans out there.

I copied and pasted this from one of the groups:

AOL is offering a free listen to the new CD *Back Against the Wall: A
Tribute to Pink Floyd*.
Tommy is on several songs:

- One of My Turns
- Don't Leave Me Now
- Hey You
- Vera

I don't believe you have to be an AOL member to listen to the CD

http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds

[bugsymalone]

Not that I am racing over to listen, but thank you, Suite, for posting this.

Bugsy

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Bugsy says:

Not that I am racing over to listen, but thank you, Suite, for posting this.

Hey anytime I'll give it a little listen later tonight when I'm in the mood

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Here's an interview regarding the making of this Pink Floyd tribute album cd.

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Int ... erwood.htm

Here's the part about you're beloved Tommy - I didn't know that STYX fans worshipped Tommy - LOL

Jeb: Once guy on there is not a prog rocker. Tommy Shaw is from Styx. He does not seem to fit in but once you hear him sing, "One of My Turns" your jaw drops. Styx fans already worship Tommy but now I think more people will sit up and take note of his talent level.

Billy: He did a great job. He came in to sing "Vera" and he had so much fun that he asked me if I had anything else. I told him I was going to sing "One of My Turns" because it was really out there. I knew there were not many singers who would want to get beat to a pulp trying to sing in that high of a range. I asked Tommy if he wanted to take a shot at it and he said he would. He sang the hell out of it and really gave a real and raw performance. When he was done he asked me what I thought and I told him we were finished. Tommy really enjoyed doing it. He called Jim Ladd after that and told him about the session. That perked Jim’s interest and he called me and said, "I understand that you are remaking my favorite record." I said, "I guess I am." He made me a little bit nervous but I invited him over to hear a couple of songs. To make a long story short, he came over and was floored. I told him that I would love him to do the narration on "Outside of the Wall." He said, "I would love to do it but I need to get Roger’s blessing because we are friends." I totally respected that and thought Jim was being very honorable. I sent Roger some rough mixes so he could get the flavor of what is going on. Jim called me up and said, "I just spoke to Roger and he thought it was really, really good." I said, "Does this mean you can be on it?" Jim said yes and he went on to record his parts. We have become really good friends as a result of that and we are going to be doing a project together called Headsets. He has a free form show by that name in LA and we are going to turn them into CDs.

[Zan]

Here's an interview regarding the making of this Pink Floyd tribute album cd.

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Int ... erwood.htm

Here's the part about you're beloved Tommy - I didn't know that STYX fans worshipped Tommy - LOL
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Well, who else were they gonna worship? Dennis? *g*

[Monker]

Here's an interview regarding the making of this Pink Floyd tribute album cd.

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Int ... erwood.htm

Here's the part about you're beloved Tommy - I didn't know that STYX fans worshipped Tommy - LOL
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Well, who else were they gonna worship? Dennis? *g*

JY-

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Zan says:

Well, who else were they gonna worship? Dennis? *g*

Well there's enough of "us" that do that on here - LOL

Monker says:

JY-

EGAD!!! I'm not even going to go there!!!

[Zan]

JY-

EGAD!!! I'm not even going to go there!!!

There is a group of "Carrot Styx," as you call them, fans I know that attend Church of JY. LOL

(and of course, let's not forget the drummer )

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Zan says:

and of course, let's not forget the drummer

It seems on this forum most of the talk is about Dennis, Tommy and JY. I forgot that they even had Ricky in the band - LOL There's not much talk about Glen, mostly just from Yogi and the "Welcome To Hollywood" cd. Which I did buy and listened to. There's no talk about Ricky, not much talk about Chuck and he's one of the original band members and then there's Todd, not much talk either.

So this is how I see it on this board with popularity of the past/present members of STYX and how they rate with discussion.



Dennis 71%
Tommy 7%
JY 5%
Chuck 3%
John P. 3%
John C. 3%
Glen 3%
Todd 2%
Larry 2%
Ricky 1%

[classicstyxfan]

Zan Says:

"There is a group of "Carrot Styx," as you call them, fans I know that attend Church of JY. LOL"


Classic Says: Do they call it "Church of the perpetually bitter aging rock star ???"

or I suppose it could also be "St. Reluctant Legend" church !!!!

[classicstyxfan]

Who's Ricky ?

[SuiteMadameBlue]

Classic says:

Who's Ricky ?

Seems like a nice guy caught up on the never-ending-tour.

His message boards are pretty quiet, I feel kind of bad for him. He's just a paid musician, shows up to the gig, plays, then goes back on the bus to the next lonely town. I hope he goes back to producing.

[classicstyxfan]

Well, if he's making decent money ( meaning much more then he made pre-Styx ) and he gets along well with 1 or 2 of the boys in the band, then he's probably very happy with what he's doing.

I'm assuming he's not married with children or anything like that, which would change the equation quite a bit.

[bugsymalone]

There is a group of "Carrot Styx," as you call them, fans I know that attend Church of JY. LOL

You mean they are ALL not coming out in the droves that they do for these concerts to see the Legendary Legend??? You coulda fooled ME!

Suite brings up an interesting point. I wonder if boards such as these had been around in the heyday of Classic Styx, who would have received the most attention? Would people have talked about John and Chuck? It would have been interesting to see.

Bugsy

[sadie65]

You mean they are ALL not coming out in the droves that they do for these concerts to see the Legendary Legend??? You coulda fooled ME!

Stepping away from this one...

Suite brings up an interesting point. I wonder if boards such as these had been around in the heyday of Classic Styx, who would have received the most attention? Would people have talked about John and Chuck? It would have been interesting to see.

I believe it would have been the same people that are discussed now. Front men get most of the attention. Serious musicians will comment on the other members of the band. I do think back in the day Tommy would have been talked about more..simply because he had (and for some of you) still has that Teen Beat look about him. Not to mention he made himself a lot more accessible than the other members of the band.

[Monker]

So this is how I see it on this board with popularity of the past/present members of STYX and how they rate with discussion.

How could you possibly come up with such numbers with any hope of accuracy?

[SuiteMadameBlue]

How could you possibly come up with such numbers with any hope of accuracy?

You can't, I was just kidding about these numbers. That's why I added the


Sadie I agree about the front men of the band and how they received more attention. I believe it's still that way.

I have the Teen Beat with Tommy in it - LOL

I like the picture of Tommy with the roller skates - LOL

[Zan]

I like the picture of Tommy with the roller skates - LOL

Can I get an AMEN? What I wouldn't pay to see him dress like that now. LOL