Sooth Sayers?

[sadie65]

Found this...apparently from last week.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbc ... LIVING0404

Styx as accidental soothsayers
March 24, 2006

The band Styx will play Sam's Town Hotel and Casino tonight.
Concert
WHO: Styx.
WHEN: 8 p.m. today. Doors open at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Grand Ballroom, Sam's Town Hotel and Casino, 315 Clyde Fant Memorial Parkway, Shreveport.
ADMISSION: $50; $40 with Prime Rewards card.To purchase tickets, call the Shreveport Trading Companyat (318) 424-5634.



"Lady," "Mr. Roboto," "Come Sail Away" and "Too Much Time on My Hands." Along with a list of song titles begging to be reissued as a refrigerator-magnet poetry set, super band Styx will play Sam's Town Hotel and Casino today.

Longtime member James "J.Y." Young believes their fans have stuck with them since the early 1970s because they entertain. "We've always prided ourselves on great shows," he said. "And, collectively, a number of years ago, we created, wrote and recorded some music that, for some reason, has inspired a lot of people."


He can't fully explain why the band's music endures, but it may start in the lyrics. "The world is a very unique and complex place," he said. "And any lyric can take on some random meaning 30 years later. It's gratifying to feel that the music you wrote seems to be chameleon-like."

He draws a comparison between the 1978 hit "Miss America" and Vanessa Williams fall from Miss America grace in 1984. She put down her crown just before nude photographs of her resurfaced from her past and were published in an adult magazine without her permission.

Telling lines of the Styx song read, "We love your body in that photograph, your home state sure must be proud. / The queen of the United States, or have you lost your crown?"

Young said he was, of course, just writing about beauty and celebrity in a general sense. "I suppose it was about how we manufacture people to hold them up on pedestals," he said. "Sometimes life imitates art."

Let's just hope the future doesn't conform to "Mr. Roboto," which foretells, "The problem's plain to see: too much technology / Machines to save our lives. Machines dehumanize."


©The Times
March 24, 2006

[SuiteMadameBlue]

All these articles usually mention "Mr. Roboto" - LOL And then they don't play it, just a snippet. And when that "snippet" of Roboto is played, the crowd goes crazy!!

I woudn't be surprised if they ever do this one live, maybe add it to their Live dvd.

I love this song live!!

Thanks for the article Sadie.

[jimmy19029]

I'd love to see them play it live rather than the karaoke version they did in 1983.