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Born: 1949-11-14
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
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We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

Tags: Piano, Player, Year

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

Tags: Feeling, Tell, True

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

Tags: Country, Moment, Past

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Tags: Good, Rock, Smile

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

Tags: Hard, Real, Sometimes

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

Tags: Audiences, Responsive, Younger

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Tags: Bit, Energy, Quite

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Tags: Off, Stage, Until

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

Tags: Excelled, Ourselves, Stage

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

Tags: Great, Music, Tell

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

Tags: Globe, Matter, Music

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Tags: Blues, Maybe, Music

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

Tags: Again, Care, Thought

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

Tags: Band, Stage, Wanted

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

Tags: Chicago, Mix, Studio

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Tags: Hear, Stage, Technology

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

Tags: Fans, Front, Music

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Tags: Great, Light, Said

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

Tags: Music, Reach, Rock

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Tags: Great, Mind, Yourself

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Tags: Die, Music, Rock

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

Tags: Change, Great, Time

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

Tags: Family, Mind, Off

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

Tags: Band, Others, Rock

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

Tags: Fun, Music, Put
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There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Tags: Amazing, Technology, Time

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

Tags: Age, Less, Strong
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