I have every Styx album and I love this song. I love the Wooden Nickle era and wish they would play more from this era live. I did see one of their concerts about 7 or 8 years ago where Tommy Shaw did make a reference to this song by playing the first couple of verses on acoustic by himself before going into Crystal Ball. I wish they would do a whole band performance of it.
Oh nice! Many catchy songs from those first 4. I always loved You Need Love and Southern Woman when I was in middle school. But that was in the late 90's haha.
Huge Styx fan here. I started in 1977 with "Grand Illusion" album and "Fooling Yourself", and then went back to get all their previous albums; and this one was rare and hard to get. It mostly had songs given to them by the record company, but this one they all wrote and was their big hit before signing a record deal. They play it so much, so maybe that's the reason they stopped. Interesting to note is that Dennis DeYoung, James "JY" Young, and John Curulewski all traded off the lead vocal on this song. Tommy has said they played around with this on some of the down time on tour, but I've never seen them perform it in all the concerts I've been to (and that's alot). "A Day" is a cool song off their 2nd album. A jazz-rock fusion song by John Curulewski (the guy before Tommy).
You're right. I see all the different writers listed now. Never caught that before. No wonder many of these didn't last through the years. Appreciate the info! I will check out "A Day" soon ;)
Sounds a lot like ELP minus the vocals. Never been huge on Styx and this one is a little too poppy for me. I guess it should have done better as a single. My only guess is it did nothing on the charts and this was a fresh new band on this release so there’s that. Not many knowing it is the reasoning for not playing it live, probably. Speaking of ELP, try From The Beginning - a somber ballad, but very beautiful. I also recently dug Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain and the band Atomic Rooster (if you want similar instrumentation to what you heard here). Their 2nd and 3rd albums are some of my all time favorites: Death Walks Behind You and In Hearing Of. Awesome stuff!!
I have every Styx album and I love this song. I love the Wooden Nickle era and wish they would play more from this era live. I did see one of their concerts about 7 or 8 years ago where Tommy Shaw did make a reference to this song by playing the first couple of verses on acoustic by himself before going into Crystal Ball. I wish they would do a whole band performance of it.
Oh nice! Many catchy songs from those first 4. I always loved You Need Love and Southern Woman when I was in middle school. But that was in the late 90's haha.
Huge Styx fan here. I started in 1977 with "Grand Illusion" album and "Fooling Yourself", and then went back to get all their previous albums; and this one was rare and hard to get. It mostly had songs given to them by the record company, but this one they all wrote and was their big hit before signing a record deal. They play it so much, so maybe that's the reason they stopped.
Interesting to note is that Dennis DeYoung, James "JY" Young, and John Curulewski all traded off the lead vocal on this song.
Tommy has said they played around with this on some of the down time on tour, but I've never seen them perform it in all the concerts I've been to (and that's alot).
"A Day" is a cool song off their 2nd album. A jazz-rock fusion song by John Curulewski (the guy before Tommy).
You're right. I see all the different writers listed now. Never caught that before. No wonder many of these didn't last through the years. Appreciate the info! I will check out "A Day" soon ;)
Sounds a lot like ELP minus the vocals. Never been huge on Styx and this one is a little too poppy for me. I guess it should have done better as a single. My only guess is it did nothing on the charts and this was a fresh new band on this release so there’s that. Not many knowing it is the reasoning for not playing it live, probably. Speaking of ELP, try From The Beginning - a somber ballad, but very beautiful. I also recently dug Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain and the band Atomic Rooster (if you want similar instrumentation to what you heard here). Their 2nd and 3rd albums are some of my all time favorites: Death Walks Behind You and In Hearing Of. Awesome stuff!!
Awesome! Never checked out any of these bands. I will do so :)