STYX - Set List 11/14/2008

[dabstudio]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
Vinoy Park
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sail Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

[Everett]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sailo Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

TY for the report. Time to dump walrus for criminal mind or midnight ride permanetly.

[froy]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sailo Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

so

[Toph]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
Vinoy Park
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sail Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

Now that is F&*king original! Way to stretch yourself, guys. Love how 20+ song sets have shrunked almost in half.

[Jodes]

Toph obviously doesn't understand that its the promoters who set the length of time a band will be playing.. They're the ones who decide whether its a 90 minute show or a 2 hour show. NOT the BAND.

[MtlLady]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sailo Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

TY for the report. Time to dump walrus for criminal mind or midnight ride permanetly.

Agreed. With JY and Tommy on harmony on Criminal Mind, it cranks up the song itself to awesome. Midnight Ride has always been one of my favs, right up there with Renegade.

[styxfanNH]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
Vinoy Park
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sail Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

Now that is F&*king original! Way to stretch yourself, guys. Love how 20+ song sets have shrunked almost in half.

They've extended the insrumental portions of many of those songs quite a bit. Most of those songs are more than 7 or 8 minutes long now. In my opinion they could cut some of them down some and add a couple of other songs. That said, this is where they interact and connect with the audience, so I am sure they weigh that too.

While Walrus, Suite and Everything All the Time aren't new or diggin back into the catalog, they haven't really been a part of the standard set in quite a while.

Even Dennis has dropped the Lost Treasures part of his show. THe last time I heard him, it was pretty much the same as the time before. Even with new material other than One Hundred Years, what is part of his latest set list that has stayed in rotation for an extended time?

They all have the same issue. Casual Fans want to hear the top of the past and don't follow the present. And we know that current Styx touches very little of Dennis' stuff.

I know.....dead horse

[froy]

STYX-



I know.....dead horse

[chowhall]

STYX-



I know.....dead horse

Yet unfortunately for the rest of us, you're still here.

[pinkfloyd1973]

STYX-



I know.....dead horse

They Should rename the band "Elmer's Glue"


Robin

[kansas666]

This is kind of depressing. I saw the band a year ago, October. This is the same setlist minus Midnight Ride. We are seeing them at the end of January. I hope they change it up a little.

What happened to great songs like - Queen of Spades, Rocking the Paradise, Sing for the Day or Man in the Wilderness? these are all songs they have performed with Larry.

And what about lost gems like Mademoiselle, Light Up or Castle Walls?

[Jodes]

Well Sing For The Day was added to the setlist a few times when JY was with his wife and Styx was a 4 piece.

Part of Man in The Wilderness is done before Tommy does Crystal Ball.

I like many would LOVE to hear The Queen Of Spades back in the setlist. That was one of the songs Larry NAILED each and every time.

I could do without Rockin The Paradise Though, it just doesn't have the same Ummmph anymore (even when Dennis does it solo).

It would be nice for them to retire Walrus, add A Criminal Mind, maybe play Suite Madame Blue more, do Queen Of Spades, hell even Half Penny Two Penny would be sweet.

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

Oh well.. one can dream can't he?

[froy]

Well Sing For The Day was added to the setlist a few times when JY was with his wife and Styx was a 4 piece.

Part of Man in The Wilderness is done before Tommy does Crystal Ball.

I like many would LOVE to hear The Queen Of Spades back in the setlist. That was one of the songs Larry NAILED each and every time.

I could do without Rockin The Paradise Though, it just doesn't have the same Ummmph anymore (even when Dennis does it solo).

It would be nice for them to retire Walrus, add A Criminal Mind, maybe play Suite Madame Blue more, do Queen Of Spades, hell even Half Penny Two Penny would be sweet.

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

Oh well.. one can dream can't he?

Sounds like a nightmare to me..

[Toph]

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

Because they both suck

[Ash]

This is kind of depressing. I saw the band a year ago, October. This is the same setlist minus Midnight Ride. We are seeing them at the end of January. I hope they change it up a little.

What happened to great songs like - Queen of Spades, Rocking the Paradise, Sing for the Day or Man in the Wilderness? these are all songs they have performed with Larry.

And what about lost gems like Mademoiselle, Light Up or Castle Walls?

Honestly? Because most of those songs are penned by Dennis DeYoung. Obviously not Sing for the Day or Man In the Wilderness... but Queen of Spades, Rocking the Paradise, Light Up and Castle Walls are. Plus - all of them are songs that Dennis is currently doing as part of his show.

I'm sure there are some political things going on in the band that will prevent them from reaching out in this particular direction, but I don't really know. Just speculating.

[Zan]

This is kind of depressing. I saw the band a year ago, October. This is the same setlist minus Midnight Ride. We are seeing them at the end of January. I hope they change it up a little.

What happened to great songs like - Queen of Spades, Rocking the Paradise, Sing for the Day or Man in the Wilderness? these are all songs they have performed with Larry.

And what about lost gems like Mademoiselle, Light Up or Castle Walls?

Honestly? Because most of those songs are penned by Dennis DeYoung. Obviously not Sing for the Day or Man In the Wilderness... but Queen of Spades, Rocking the Paradise, Light Up and Castle Walls are. Plus - all of them are songs that Dennis is currently doing as part of his show.

I'm sure there are some political things going on in the band that will prevent them from reaching out in this particular direction, but I don't really know. Just speculating.

]Queen of Spades, just like Lorelei, are co-written by DDY and JY. If Styx wanted to do "Babe" or freakin "Don't Let it End" they could. They just can't record and distribute it. But they won''t. Because, as Toph so eloquently put it, "they both suck."

Some speculating of my own leads me to this conclusion:

Songs like Mademoiselle and SFTD are kinda slow, never gain momentum, and for the most part, are unrecognizable to the common concert goer.

Rockin' the Paradise would be cool...they did that one once upon a time.

[tommyluvr2]

I would love to hear Rockin the Paradise, Light up would be so good. When I saw Tommy in Niagara Falls I asked can you do something different like Rockin' his reply was that they didn't have time to rehearse it due JY flying in and out with Susie. They did do Sing for the Day which is not one of my favorites but was still good and different.

Denise

[Everett]

I would love to hear Rockin the Paradise, Light up would be so good. When I saw Tommy in Niagara Falls I asked can you do something different like Rockin' his reply was that they didn't have time to rehearse it due JY flying in and out with Susie. They did do Sing for the Day which is not one of my favorites but was still good and different.

Denise

That's why thankfully we have light up where they play almost everything.

[Tanirocker]

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

I agree...I would LOVE to hear both of those! EIC is one of the best show openers ever and BNW is just a really cool song. I wish they'd do a Jim Ladd's Living Room again, because Jim always gets them to do BNW.

[Jodes]

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

Because they both suck

Boy someone's in a bad mood today... How can you not like Everything Is Cool?

[Ash]

Hell, since they do "One With Everything" once and a while, why not do Everything Is Cool or Brave New World?

Because they both suck

Boy someone's in a bad mood today... How can you not like Everything Is Cool?

Everything Is Cool is really not all that cool. It's really not a very good song - and is a TRAVESTY lyrically. Next to "Friendly Advice" it may be Tommy's worst lyrical work. The music is kinda catchy in a "We're trying REALLY hard here" way but that song just sounds so forced, it doesn't feel natural. "These Are The Times" sounded much more natural, even though JY's voice isn't what it used to be.

[Zan]

It's really not a very good song - and is a TRAVESTY lyrically.

I'm sorry - didn't you praise almost everything on "100 years?" Not that it was a bad album, per se, but if you're gonna nitpick about lyrics....

[Grotelul]

Northeast Exchange Club
Ribfest 2008
Vinoy Park
St. Petersburg, Florida

Opening Act - The Greg Billings Band

STYX-

Blue Collar Man
The Grand Illusion
Too Much Time On My Hands
Lady
Lorelei
I Am The Walrus
Crystal Ball
Suite Madame Blue
Fooling Yourself
Miss America
Come Sail Away
ENCORES-
Everything All The Time
Renegade

I wish they would change it up some, even the order they play the songs. They can drop Walrus and Everything All The Time and rotate Midnight Ride, 22 Years, Half-Penny Two-Penny, Everything Is Cool, Man In The Wilderness, Queen Of Spades. They should NEVER play Babe, Don't Let It End, Rockin The Paradise or Brave New World. I don't know what anyone likes about Brave New World. It does nothing for me. Gowan singing Rockin The Paradise...UGH.

P.S. Froy is still delusional.

[bugsymalone]

I dunno. I see the setlist as sort of spreading the wealth, so-to-speak, to represent their recording catalog. Too many songs from this album or that album upsets that balance, as I see it.

I do not really see that they would change much here as it is a pretty balanced approach to their glory years and a few nods to the post DDY era. (So Walrus as opposed to Criminal Mind, for example).

And, as we have discussed before, they are playing to more than just the avid Styx fan.

I know. I know. Not rocket science for anyone here. But adding some of the songs mentioned above will not, in my view, ever happen.


Bugsy

[eclipse]

Just goes to show that it's hard to please everyone. You have the hard-core fans that want to hear the more obscure "good" tunes, and then you have the others who only know the radio hits. With only so much time in the show, it is hard to work both in. Plus with the Styx split, you have the whole Tommy/Dennis issue (gosh, has it really been 20 years?). While I haven't seen Styx live in 2 years, I did see DDY this summer at the Cleveland Rib Burnoff, and I was amazed that it was actually a ROCK SHOW!!!! While he may be a little, um, theatrical, the guy hasn't lost his chops. Of course, he included the hits like Mr. Roboto (ugh), Babe, and Lady, he did a killer version of Castle Walls and a great a capella version of Show Me The Way. All in all, a very impressive performance. While I do like some of the new Styx (Waiting For Our Time is great, although it sounds more like Damn Yankees than Styx), our Styx tribute, Grand Illusion, sticks to more of the old material. And of course, the nice thing about a tribute is that we can do the Tommy tunes AND the Dennis tunes.

The playlist from our last show (clocking in at a little under 2 hours)

GRAND ILLUSION
STATE STREET SADIE/A.D. 1928
ROCKIN THE PARADISE
LORELEI
BABE
CRYSTAL BALL
RENEGADE
FOOLING YOURSELF
SNOWBLIND
LADY
LIGHT UP
I'M O.K.
TOO MUCH TIME
MAN IN THE WILDERNESS
BLUE COLLAR MAN
MISS AMERICA
MR. ROBOTO
COME SAIL AWAY
PRELUDE 12
SUITE MADAME BLUE
BEST OF TIMES

So, no new tunes, but plenty of good music......

[LordofDaRing]

Didn't this version of Styx do a few shows with Babe in the set, maybe in Japan or somewhere?? I heard them do Roboto during the medley when Glenn was still there. Ah hell, if singing First Time would make them a few bucks, you can betcha TS would handle the lead vocals on it.