Behind The Vinyl: "Mr. Roboto" with Dennis DeYoung from STYX
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2016
- Founder/Former Lead Singer/Songwriter of STYX Dennis DeYoung dropped by the boom 97.3 studios again to play "Mr. Roboto" on vinyl! He talks about the entire narrative story he had in mind for the song, how he went about writing it and how he didn't expect the song to be a hit single! Watch as Dennis goes Behind The Vinyl!
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I love Mr Roboto ..
ddy sings his ass off every time he opens his mouth way more talented than the other guys and the reason for their success and longevity period
I love his line, "That's a good scream!" :)
By far the best part of the video. Poor roboto ... lol
Me too man
@Terrence Reardon and Friends Podcast Podcast so many nights I was supposed to be asleep back in the day and my late grade school in the high school and I would sit there listening the late Bob coburn and rockline loved it..
the course that's because of the fact we were lucky enough to have Sony walkmans back then we could sneak it and no one knew
THE ONE THING YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY FROM HIM HE CAN STILL SING HIS ASS OFF FLAWLESSLY!!!!
I've seen him 2x in 12 g
Yrs
You have Dorito crumbs in your caps lock
Thank you Mr. Roboto for TAKING the jobs nobody wants to
The cover of Kilroy scared me as a kid and held off buying the album for 12 years until I watched Caught In the Act (I had the live album when released in 1984 and loved it) and then I understood the Kilroy concept and the roboto masks were just masks and not real monsters. Then 1983 saw Supertramp and Pink Floyd implode as well plus no one could stop The Police and Def Leppard.
Terrence Reardon That album cover was total nightmare fuel for me as well.
Can't be as nightmare inducing as the News of the World album cover!!
LOL.
Dennis’ explanation of the story of Kilroy Was Here is significantly more entertaining than the album itself.
I will never forget buying the album, putting on the headphones and then just sitting there realizing how my favorite rock band from High school was now dead.
@@nealm6764 😂😂🤣
Agree...he couldn't sell it to a bunch of arena jockeys like his bandmates. Drugs and rancor didn't create artistic grist this time. Amazing voice on DD
@veganhigler6541 The Meatloaf song/ Jim Stienman song? I remember it, sort of... Only heard it on the radio/ MTV a few time and never really sought it out to listen to since then.
Great story, Dennis is very funny, thanks.
1983 Savannah, GA I saw Styx start the show with that 14 min video and kick off the show with Mr. Roboto. I don't think the die-hard fans were ready for a theatrical performance, most of all Tommy Shaw and James Young. The beginning of the end on full display.
The people in the row in front of us fell asleep during the movie, which set the tone for the entire concert. People were leaving halfway through, the energy in the arena was completely drained.
We came for the Grand Illusion, and got dancing, singing robots and ministers.
I felt Cornerstone was the beginning of the end and Kilroy was THE END.
They had a great 4 album run though with Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, and Pieces of Eight!
His lyrics are prophetic, he was right. Love me some Dr. Righteous Fried Chicken 🍗
I first heard this album in 1983. I was in high school and I bought it with my own money. I remember getting shivers listening to Mr. Roboto right off the album. The Kilroy tour was the first rock concert I ever attended.. I mist have heard this album a hundred of times by now. Mr. Roboto still gives me shivers. Great album! My favorite Styx album! Thank you Dennis!
@Vegan Higler I sure do.
i loved that album , and now love it even more Mr De Young is a charming funny and great musician !
He would agree with you on all points I'm pretty sure.
Dennis is so much fun to listen to. And STYX is so great! Thanks for the memories and journey through. Wow. I want to listen to it all on vinyl now.
I'm so glad I saw this interview with DDY. I could listen to him for hours. That album made a huge impression on me back in the 80s and still holds its own today.
Dennis, I was at Baraboo when we all got snowed in....it took me 30 years to get THREE feet from that mask....and MR ROBOTO is STILL my ALL TIME FAV SONG!!!!
Cool back story on this campy song
I remember when I first heard it in '83 in my childhood home in the basement listening to my sisters stereo and was mesmerized...it seemed pretty edgy and different
I can’t comment on just one of the videos from Behind the Vinyl..I LOVE THEM ALL!,what a great idea..love love it
As much as I loved and still enjoy Mr. Roboto, I can’t help but think that song thrust our whole world right smack into the future...whether we wanted it or not. We went on the highway when 1982 began after the whole post-70s hangover that was 1981 faded away, but once 1983 arrived we went from the highway full throttle into hyperspace.
I have loved Styx since I was 7 or 8. I am now 40. In my top 5 fav bands, easily.
We love You Dennis!
My all time favorite song as a kid.
Like the album or not it was successful. Roboto was on the radio every minute. I never understood how band members could get so upset about making an album that people loved and bought. That album extended their popularity and relevance. They put out Paradise theatre in 1981. Roboto comes out in 1983. No Roboto and their hay day ends in 1981. Some band members seem to think that their big record success ended because of the Roboto album. When something ends, it does not mean the last thing you did was what ended it. If paradise theatre had been their last big album would that have made paradise theatre the reason it ended?
Then these band members say they lost their audience. Well, they generated a bigger audience with roboto. Fans that didn’t like Robot didn’t quit on the group. They actually kept the group alive through the 90’s and 2000’s.
I also think all this hate talk on the Roboto album is not really true. Half the so called fans who say they hate that album as of late, loved it back then. When your favorite band(s) fall off their perch at the top, you always want to know why. So when band members start saying it was all Roboto’s fault, these fans just repeat what they say and then the album you liked then and in many cases, what got you hooked on them, all of the sudden sucked. I mean how can you say you like an album that the people who made it says it sucks?
Lastly, I wished there was a way to find out how many Styx fans got started on Roboto, and it led to their discovery of their previous music
I LOOVE this song Classic
So much fun, so heart-warming, so engrained
lol "Stop with the Porn for 5 Minutes and go look at it!"
Sorry but I can't do that.
This is a great series ! 😎🤘
Dennis Is so awesome with his songwriting! He doesn't need Styx he's better off without them.But his music with Styx will always be Legendary! 👏
I loved this and the "concept album" at the time,not so much many years later.
heavy metal poisoning from JY still rocks to hell out of it
Powerful!
Favourite lines:
0:15 - "The band that did Babe. Seriously dudes?!"
0:59 - "We had enough trouble making these records sound right going forward, let alone backward."
4:00 - "Stop with the porn for five minutes...and that's a good scream."
Hahahahaha
Yes, those lines had me 🤣🤣🤣. Others:
3:39 - (as he lifts glasses) -“ Depending on who you ask”
4:31 - “That’s a hit record.”
“ No it’s not. The lyrics? At the end I’m yelling‘I’m Kilroy!”
Yes, those lines had me 🤣🤣🤣. Others:
3:39 - (as he lifts glasses) -“ Depending on who you ask”
4:31 - “That’s a hit record.”
“ No it’s not. The lyrics? At the end I’m yelling‘I’m Kilroy!”
what an amazing and talented man.
Domo Arigato Mr Robot, made me a styx fan
Dennis is on 🔥!
YOUR MUSIC IS AWSOME
Your
@@bonscotty67 yes, comment on the 4 year old comment that I forgot about to correct my grammar
I saw Styx at the Indiana State Fair just after they re-formed and released "Edge Of The Century". Strangely enough they played all their hits but nothing from the "Kilroy Was Here" album, though a couple of roadies came out at one point in "Mr. Roboto" masks.
"...and that's a good scream..." {keeps talking}
Very cool
everything that Hollywood did predicted humanities future. he didn't ruined bandthey had differences
Different people. Different mindsets. It happens in almost every profession
I love the guys mannerisms lol
Loved this song as a kid. then grew up and thought it was lame. Then somewhere in adulthood found out (again) it actually owned.
From the album that nearly killed STYX, "Kilroy Was Here".
The 9-2-5 Outlaw Reviews it did kill Styx...
The stage production the music...the musicians acting ...depending on who you ask...
Aahh I was a Teenager and Styx was one of my fav bands. I loved the Paradise theater album. Who doesnt love to sing along with Mr. Roboto. I’m cool with Roy uncle Roy, lol this is what the computer typed As I spoke into it -----Im Kilroy Im Kilroy!
Dude, he's talking about himself 🙂🙂🙂🙂🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖i love this song!
Music was changing to techno pop new wave
Genesis changed to pop. Rush to New Wave/Hard Rock hybrid. Pink Floyd went Arena Rock on The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, orchestral on The Final Cut and even David Gilmour had a hard rock solo album in 1984 and even Roger embraced synths on KAOS.
thanks for an awesome track and dennis always had the best voice all we have to do is look at solo careers tommy came up with girls with guns a fun kinda cool track but dennis comes up with dessert moon and nuff said .............
Accidents happen my man. But this is a great Jam! If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
I've always thought, "Heavy Metal Poisoning" was one of their greatest songs. It's good, but it's not great, but something about is very cool. I just can't quite put my finger on it.
Thanks for binge watching!
. . . and you can swim with it!
The editor cut the wrong opening shots on this and “Come Sail Away”. This is showing the Grand Illusion vinyl stamp and CSA is showing the Kilroy vinyl stamp😊 on the needle drop.
machines dehumanize!!
Kilroy was a great concept tackling censorship, the morality squad and taking over of jobs and society by automation/robots. Just didn't work with the musicians playing the parts. Still great music!
I agree, I have the "Caught in the Act" DVD and it was a bad idea to have them act it out on stage. And the tone of the album should have been more serious. The songs tried to be "infotainment" when they should have been a lot more serious criticizing backmasking, TV preachers, the moral majority and companies moving factories overseas. But I bet they felt it would be career suicide to do that so they kept the tone light, so most fans didn't take it seriously.
I think I mostly didn't work cause Tommy and JY had trouble trying to write songs that fit with the theme and many of them were kinda half-assed or didn't fit the concept at all, with the exception of "Cold War", "Heavy Metal Poisoning", and "High Time". In one of the early drafts, "Don't Let It End" was supposed to be Kilroy singing to his estranged wife. She was written out of the story but the song stayed and that's why it doesn't make any sense in context.
It should have been a movie instead!
@@ybrix101 That's what Dennis initially wanted to pursue, but the record label wouldn't give them the budget.
I remember seeing an intreview with Tommy Shaw that when he was on the Kilroy Was Here tour, he felt uninspired and shitty about sining about robots he needed to take drugs to get thru it.
He “needed” drugs. Tommy was weak.
That lp on the turntable isn't the USA release, cause the USA release has a image on the artwork from the like the music video of Mr. Roboto. Now i see the lp with the correct label in the background. Why the change of the lp and it's label?
Dennis DeYoung was Styx.
😏 nice, i did not know that, 20 20 vision eh
"depending on who you ask"?,I'm almost certain that one was for Tommy Shaw. Lol
That is completely true - great comment
I'd like to hear far more stories about guys in bands deciding how a song is going to be structured and recorded than one whole big narrative about the songwriting process behind that song. Especially in bands that were self-produced and argued about that shit all the time during a recording session. DeYoung literally didn't say a word about it. Certain licks of a specific song bring back specific memories from that specific time. There's no "Behind The Vinyl" going on here. *BOO!!!!!!!*
Tonto Epstein ~ I believe he just wanted to talk about *Roboto* by itself. But Dennis is very Looong winded here. What I would love to see is this to one of JY's or Tommy's songs. In regards to Styx tracks, these are only done to Dennis's lyricics & compositions. Apparently the producers of this, only like his songs.
Hilarious!
I am looking for original song mr. roboto..can anybody help me plzzzz
STYX is not STYX without Dennis.
If you want to see him now, type in Jim Peterik Dennis DeYoung at the search icon. Good song.
Jim peterik from the western suburbs of Berwyn.. Danny from what is now we're all the shootings go on in Chicago Roseland...
Jimmy is one of the nicest guys in music friend to everybody take a look at Rik Emmett from triumph he's hanging out with him he's proud of so many people and help them along their way that have stumbled and he's just Jim is one of the greatest..one of the nicest guys in music you can really ask to meet to just like Dennis he still very much grounded and proud to be a Chicago area guy both live out in the suburbs..
durante decadas dancei. andei de patins ao som dessa musica que embalou minha vida . so recentemente descobri a qual banda pertencia. e porisso pesquisei mais sobre a banda stix. e continuo gostando mais de mr roboto. que de outras musicas da banda. eu nao iria num show dos stix pois sei que eles nao tocariam essa musica. se limitam a apenas deixar jogada ao canto a mascara de gravação do clip Mr Roboto. mas na verdade acho que eles nunca foram capazes de executar essa musica ao vivo. fora dos estudios. lamentavel.!!
The sound was I tried to hard to make it so that has the subliminal message not mirror mirror. Just had to say that. Love snowblind.
3:40 = lol a little shot at JY there ....
A jab without name dropping. Dennis never bashed Tommy, he is heartbroken that Tommy stabbed him in the heart.
Dennis De Young leads voice
Somoene inform 85% of the comment section that this video was recorded before either Trump or Biden was President.
"stop with the porn for 5 minutes and look it up if youre interested" :D oh man that was a killer line
This reminds me of "Joe's Garage" by Frank Zappa.
This.Is.The.Central.Scrrrrrrutinizer.
:-)
Paul Reiser was in Styx?
🤣🤣🤣
Yes. And Tom Brady plays drums for the B-52s, when he isn't winning Super Bowls. ruclips.net/video/LAWF1OaMD8U/видео.html or ruclips.net/video/2VCCiY17hKw/видео.html
ahead of its time. Styx isnt the same w/o DDY
Looks like Paul Reiser
Come on I just to dance that Mr roboto backward when I was A kid
He should've done broadway
He tried, he wrote a show on Hunchback of Notre Dame
He was Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar in Chicago for quite some time
This guy reeks of Vegas...
He does!!! That should be where he goes and stays...
Paradise Theater was the last good Styx album. The top ones were Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight. Cornerstone wasn't that great, but it had a few good songs. This is just my opinion of course.
Blame The Sex Pistols, Ramones and the like for changing rock music.
The album itself is great. However the tour was done wrong. With the story Dennis came up with it should of been done in small intimate theatres, versus big arenas or stadiums. Would of been more effective and probably wouldn’t of caused the consternation that it did.
If one wants to know what happened to Styx and its demise watch this video.
I love all of them, and it took all of them to become STYX and all of their musical differences was the reason and diversity, and success of STXY. I also enjoyed the theatrics of music in the 70's, and as a musician myself it is an exciting way to make a point and storyline for your music. Tommy and James didn't like it, but it was an incredible show, I saw it performed live the second show, and it was unbelievable and three hours long. It was a direction for STYX I feel ended much too soon and that was a shame. In a band you can not always have your way, hence the reason so many good bands have failed. I won't take sides because I love them all as musicians, however as much as Tommy gave the band, he also took from what De Young started and gave himself. I will just say it was a shame that they could not see eye to eye and broaden the world of Rock Musicals that pretty much died after this great album and concept.
dakotaescher1 actually the riff with the band was they were together for a long time Dennis after caught in the act was trying to get into writing music for Broadway musicals which was his passion the killroy was here album had nothing to do with it plus in 96 John panozzo died which really hurt the band but also in 96-97 Dennis finally went after the grand reopening of Paradise theater album was when he left for Broadway and wrote music for the play hunchback of Notre Dame then he came back to form a new band with his name and the music of Styx but before that he and tommy shaw went to court over some of the music of Styx's that Dennis wrote that is when the fallout happened and Dennis completely distanced himself from Styx all together
You don’t know if they were even going to survive the 80’s. So many bands failed or ran out of steam during the 80’s and the ones that didn’t fail were the ones that turned to ballads. Look at Chicago, Heart, Foreigner, etc.
Tyler Buckley - You have the story ALL WRONG. Tommy, Dennis, JY and Chuck (with Todd Sucherman on drums) were back in action and after touring in 1996 with Return To Paradise and again in 1997 with the 20th anniversary of The Grand Illusion, put out an album called Brave New World.
When they all sat down to discuss the tour and promotion for Brave New World in 1999, Dennis came down with his apparent “illness” of “light fatigue”. Whether he was lying or not is not the issue. The issue is that he asked Tommy and JY to wait a little bit until he got better. Tommy and JY said “fuck you!” and went on to keep Styx going without Dennis. THEN Dennis tried to sue them for the use of the same Styx. Dennis lost. THEN Dennis started touring as Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx around 2002/03.
I met him at the casino here in CT on his first tour in 2002 and it was actually BEFORE he had the band that he has now where he’s got the 2 guys to sing the JY and Tommy songs, so what I saw was all Dennis songs.
The fallout didn't happen when he went to court with the band (which btw was over the rights to the bandname, not the catalog). Dennis didn't leave the band to do Broadway. He was working on the Hunchback musical in between tours and eventually got sick in '99 with symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Styx had just recorded a new album and was set to promote and go back on tour, but Dennis wanted the band to put it off until he got better, which was indefinite. That was the final straw that broke the camel's back. Tommy and JY got sick and tired of compromising and it always being what Dennis wanted, even going as far as getting Dennis a temporary replacement while still having him travel on tour, but Dennis didn't want the band going on without him at all, and that's precisely what the band did. These days, Tommy and JY have made their peace with Dennis but no longer desire to work with him. I'm pretty sure Chuck still talks to Dennis every now and then though.
Jeffster.
Mans said put down the porn
Nobody yelled cut during this?
Funny how this song broke up the band, was never considered a contender as a single etc... And then blew up huge in the early 80s and is a permanent fixture of our culture. I was a little kid when Mr Roboto was released and it's what introduced me to Styx. Because of Roboto I got their other albums and one of the things I loved about them as a kid was how their sound was in so many different directions. Ultimately the band themselves didn't like that. That's a shame. Everything from Renegade to Roboto was great. They should have accepted that they could be all of those things. In fact, just to mess with people and expectations, the follow up album after Kilroy should have been something else entirely different.
Styx (without Dennis) now perform the song in concerts.
hated Mr Roboto , now it's been explained I guess it's OK now . only wish they spent more time refining the music . like two years more time . great concept tho
Hey Dennis, "Go home and get your fuckin shinebox".
Saw this tour in austin Texas. They had a movie on for about 15-20 minutes explaining the whole concept. I knew eventually they’d play some music. The concert started with this song. They had an elaborate curtain around the stage that refused to open. He got about 45 seconds into the song and said “can someone please open the curtain so we can start the show”? A spinal tap moment. The house lights came on. 30 minute intermission to fix the curtain. They played the movie again. By this time people are pissed and booing. They finally got into some music but the theatrics was a bad move.
You are a liar no such thing ever happened I was there
LOL. Must. Deflect. To. A. Different. Song. Easier than explaining the idea/inspiration for this or how it ever made it to a Styx LP. "She blowed up....she blowed up REAL GOOD!". OTOH, I suspect the "song" has made him/them a ton of money so bruh got paid.
Gonna get drunk.
...And now I understand why Tommy walked away.
For €*#¥ sake!!!
Celebrities should not voice their political platform's. Love the back story of this because he is truly a futuristic artist and know before many countries that technology is a double edged weapon. He is a true performer.
Trump fuck
Funny how you said rock stars thrown in prison. Nowadays, you just don't become a rock star unless you push certain ideas. So sad!
Technology and censorship and economic depression… sounds like these days.
Ur joking right
It aint no Grand Illusion. It's just cheese.
I think he meant Bidden about being in hard times 🤦♂️ LGBFJB
From what I’ve herd, The band hated this song, Tommy and JY hated to perform this. They thought it was one of the stupidest songs ever written.
Jack Schissler well they have not played it for 30 years and their incredible fame didn’t return. I wished they would just quit bashing it and using it as an excuse for whatever they are unhappy with in their careers
3 minutes and 50 seconds to talk about the song and not the theme of the album.
Clay Page - He DID talk about the theme of the album. Clean your ears.
He did talk about it a bit. But this video is called, "Behind The Vinyl: Mr. Roboto". So that's why he talked so much about the song. Because that's the topic here...
good band but that dr roboto deal sucked ass for me
2:42 Typical !! Glad they kicked you out of Styx 🤣😂🤣
Poor little snowflake. Did your feelings get hurt by the big, mean musician?
@@jonathangwynne1917 What the hell are you talking about you idiot !! Do you even know what I was commenting on you uninformed douche? That plus the fact that his voice and songwriting are extremely annoying is why I am glad he was kicked out of Styx 🙄 and by the way, I knew Dennis was a musician I didn't know he was 'Big' and 'Mean'.. now go back to Facebook and troll someone else you little sheep 😂
didn't he say "just kidding" after that or did you just choose to forget that. chill out
@@andrewwhite1585 uhhh.. 2 months ago 🙄 think u need to chill 🤣
@@SimpsonMusicProductions does it matter? you just dodged my comment 👍 great job