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[ChicagoSTYX]

Be the last one to buy this 3 year old CD. Comes with a $5.00 off coupon good at all hair club for men locations. Buy 2….they make great coasters!! Torture your friends, annoy your neighbors, and hang out with Froy while you play it loud and proud. Call now and we’ll include 10 free copies of his live CDs that are collecting dust in DDY’s basement! Comes highly recommended by Stevie Wonder and endorsed by the society of the hearing impaired.

Disclaimer… Not responsible for negative medical reactions, hearing loss, loss of coolness, spouse desertion, or embarrassment felt at the checkout counter while the clerk laughs her ass off at you for buying it.

And then on the other side of the spectrum we have the asshole post...

And you can BITE ME!!! DDY Sucks. He has no idea what is good and what is bad! He is real bad these days! He was good about 31 years ago and has done nothing but crap since then.

Opinions are like a$$holes...everyone has one




Robin

ChicagoStyx sez:Yes and the truth hurts sometimes!![




There I fixed it for ya

Thank you!

[hoagiepete]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit[/quote]

I'm not bullshittin' ya. Honest to God. I was there with my wife and daughter. We loved the show, but I was embarrassed (for our town for the lack of turnout). He did a good job, especially considering 3/4 the seats were empty.

[hoagiepete]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

That was good for a laugh.[/quote]

Whatever.

There wasn't anything to laugh at that day. My 10 year old daughter got the drummer's autograph after the show, she sang every word to Come Sail Away...which brought my wife to tears as it was so cute...DDY played a pretty rockin' set which impressed me...but looking back in the theater...that sucked.

[froy]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

I'm not bullshittin' ya. Honest to God. I was there with my wife and daughter. We loved the show, but I was embarrassed (for our town for the lack of turnout). He did a good job, especially considering 3/4 the seats were empty.

[/quote]

Yea right
What town do you live in
I will get the numbers,
And you know it was less than 500 tickets sold how?

[froy]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

He came to my town during his PBS "I Wanna Do Hunchback" tour and played the local theater. It was MAYBE half filled. The last time he played the rib fest.

It's NOT 'bullshit'.

[/quote]

Anything coming form you is bullshit
We all know that

[hoagiepete]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

I'm not bullshittin' ya. Honest to God. I was there with my wife and daughter. We loved the show, but I was embarrassed (for our town for the lack of turnout). He did a good job, especially considering 3/4 the seats were empty.

Yea right
What town do you live in
I will get the numbers,
And you know it was less than 500 tickets sold how?

Ok I was off by a few hundred, although I don't think all with tickets were there. Fact that it was a Friday night made it even worse. That's what I get for going off of memory. Here's my source. Geez.

Before you get your panties in a wad...I was actually and will continue to support your boy. I enjoyed the concert. He's a great showman and can still sing like it was 1977. However, I enjoy the current incarnation of Styx as well. I don't enjoy either as much as when they were truly a "band." The sum of their current parts do not add up to the whole, if they were Styx.

Sad fact is...they aren't and probably will never be a factor on the music scene again. Just like Journey and several of my other favorite bands. That is reality. Sucks...but reality.


Review: Styx proved a perfect pick for a great show

By Bill Blankenship
The Capital-Journal
When it comes to Styx without Dennis DeYoung or Dennis DeYoung without Styx, I prefer the latter.

A legal settlement might have given Jimmy "JY" Young, Tommy Shaw and some latter-day Stygians the right to be called Styx, but DeYoung has something no current incarnation of the band could possess -- a signature voice that puts DeYoung at or near the top of any list of rock's best power balladeers.

DeYoung proved he still had the rock stuff Friday night at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, where the only disappointment was the paltry size of the audience with only 848 bobbing their heads to the best of the songs DeYoung wrote and sang for Styx and as a solo act.

The years have been much kinder to 58-year-old DeYoung's voice than, say, they have been to the vocal chords of his contemporaries. Fellow prog rocker Steve Walsh of Kansas fame comes to mind.

DeYoung had no problems belting out the notes -- even the high ones -- for more more than two hours, and he did it with the same degree of energy he possessed decades ago when he and many in his audience had much more hair.

However, DeYoung's voice alone doesn't make "The Music of Styx," as Friday night's show was billed. DeYoung brought with him to TPAC an awesome rock back, most notably guitarist Tommy Dziallo, who looked as though he borrowed his shirt and eyeglasses from the estate of Buddy Holly but whose fingers could easily have been on loan from B.B. King.

Dziallo wailed, delivering lick after lick, rift after rift in solid rock fashion. Although DeYoung took his turns at the keyboards, he brought along John Blaucucci to, as DeYoung said, "play all the keyboard parts I used to play, only better."

Drummer Kyle Woodring and bassist Hank "The Hammer" Horton delivered as a top-notch rhythm section with Horton doubling on backup vocals along with clarion-voiced Dawn Marie Feusi and, on several numbers, DeYoung's wife of 35 years, Suzanne.

One show-stopper that drew a mid-performance standing ovation was the singing quartet's tight a capella harmonies on "Show Me The Way," a song that became a theme song of the Gulf War but is one DeYoung wrote for his son, Matthew, who designed and staffed the lights at Friday's show.

DeYoung performed all of the Top 10 hits he wrote or co-wrote for Styx, including "Lady," "Babe," "The Best of Times," "Mr. Roboto," "Don't Let It End," "Rockin' the Paradise" and "Come Sail Away." The latter DeYoung used to close the concert with the audience on its feet clapping, swaying and singing along.

However, some of the best moments came earlier when DeYoung dug a little deeper into his treasure trove of Styx songs, dredging out the title track of 1978's "Pieces of Eight" album or "Lorelei," "Light Up" and "Suite Madame Blue" from 1975's "Equinox."

DeYoung's "The Music of Styx" demonstrated why his songwriting and singing contributed so heavily to the soundtrack of anyone buying LPs or listening to the radio in the late '70s and early '80s.

And DeYoung was more than justified when he told the audience they could call their friends during intermission to rub it in how they had missed an incredible show.

Bill Blankenship can be reached at (785) 295-1284 or bill.blankenship@cjonline.com.

[bugsymalone]

We really have hashed and re-hashed this so many times here. But, in equal time fairness:

Does Dennis have huge audiences every time he plays ? Absolutely not.

Has he played to some pretty paltry crowds? Absolutely.

Does he have a harder time selling himself as opposed to being in a band with a well-known name? Absolutely.

Does he trade on the Styx name in advertising himself? Absolutely

Has he played some sold out venues? Absolutely.

LARGE sold-out venues? Absolutely.

I have been at several DeYoung theater shows and seen for myself he can sell out anywhere from 1200 to 4000 seaters. He certainly doesn’t do it all the time, but he certainly has managed to do so more than a few times.

If he continually drew tiny crowds, he would not be performing. No one would put him in their venues. I think he does pretty well for someone with not a lot of name recognition outside of his former group.


Bugsy

[KWH17]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

That was good for a laugh.

Whatever.

There wasn't anything to laugh at that day. My 10 year old daughter got the drummer's autograph after the show, she sang every word to Come Sail Away...which brought my wife to tears as it was so cute...DDY played a pretty rockin' set which impressed me...but looking back in the theater...that sucked.[/quote]

I didn't mean your experience was good for a laugh, I was talking specifically about Froy. His answer itself to your comment is hilarious because it's expected from him, but the way he just bluntly came out with it was even more so.

I'd be pretty upset myself if I went to a Dennis concert and only half [or less] of the seats were filled. I'd just feel weird seeing it

[hoagiepete]

He came to my town a couple of years ago and sold less than 500 tickets in a 2000 seat theater. It was a great concert, but sad turnout.

Bullshit

That was good for a laugh.

Whatever.

There wasn't anything to laugh at that day. My 10 year old daughter got the drummer's autograph after the show, she sang every word to Come Sail Away...which brought my wife to tears as it was so cute...DDY played a pretty rockin' set which impressed me...but looking back in the theater...that sucked.

I didn't mean your experience was good for a laugh, I was talking specifically about Froy. His answer itself to your comment is hilarious because it's expected from him, but the way he just bluntly came out with it was even more so.

I'd be pretty upset myself if I went to a Dennis concert and only half [or less] of the seats were filled. I'd just feel weird seeing it [/quote]

No prob.

[LordofDaRing]

Back to the subject matter, Dennis I have two words for you: "American Idol". Be the guest artist when they pair down to the top 12 and let them sing Styx songs, which you coach them doing. Then the night they vote one off, that artist gets to perform a song in front of the zillions of people that watch AI. Great chance to plug a new song. Then I like the idea of Fox and Friends, don't you think they would love to hear Turn off CNN over there.

[sniper16]

saw dennis at a free show last summer about 8000 there
great crowd great show.
i think he should do what kevin cronin did before thier last release.
go on a bus/van tour of the mis west for a week
doing every classic rock/ac radio station he can
play a new song a hit song and an interview.
i would have never bought the reo if i didnt know it wasd coming out.