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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.

James Young

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James Young
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 14
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Chicago
Illinois
James V. Young
James Vincent Young
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
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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.
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
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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.
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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
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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.
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I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
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So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
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The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
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I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.
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I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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