Jodes wrote:Oh right.. and Dennis is completely innocent in all of this eh?
DDY's overbearing behavior while he was still in the band is well-documented. I'm sure he's not very easy to work with. But he was the only one willing to take on a lot of responsibilities for the band's success while JY and Tommy were snorting coke on the tour bus, and the Panozzo brothers just did their jobs.
There's no question that DDY screwed the pooch with Kilroy...my least-favorite Styx album. But the others could have stuck to their guns when they fired him for writing Babe...then realized they weren't going anywhere without him.
For all DDY's faults (and there are plenty), at least he's not still going around holding a grudge and bad-mouthing his former bandmates. If he was, I'd certainly have a problem with him. Even Tommy gave up on the bashing long ago.
JY's continuing barbs directed at DDY are not even the main reason I dislike him...it's his ridiculous attempts at re-writing the entire history of the band, as if DDY had no contribution ("our former keyboard player"). Sorry JY...he provided most of the musical direction for the band.
If JY hated him so much for all those years, why didn't he form the James Young Project and put out a solo album??
What's that, you say? HE DID?? I had no idea...