I started with the Beatles days and saw this in HIGH School in 77. After 45 years of concerts, I can honestly say this song is as good or equal to Bohemian R. Fools Overture, and Kashmir! Dennis's singing is equal to Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey. Zep almost hypnotized me with Kashmir
What in the hell are you talking about? This song was highly rated by millions of people around the world for many decades and still. Go buy a clue already.
Best Styx song ever . If this doesn’t give you goosebumps I don’t know what will. Thank you Dennis and Styx for providing this and so many treasured songs from our youth in the 70s and 80s. Can’t imagine growing up without songs like this and so many others . Wish you guys would get it together one last time! Clocks are ticking for all of us.
I have too many favorite songs of Styx, that I could decide, "that's the best one !" I'm so glad, that he still has such a great voice after so many years in this live performance.
My fave Styx song ever and of all time. Record companies routinely miss songs like this because they are looking for soundbites. Music lovers are looking for...this. Dennis, you are absolutely amazing to this day. That song is not easy to sing or to create or to play. Musicians are killer.
To be at 67 the one that holds and sets the standard for quality and style of the rock stage - that speaks for itself! An amazing musician and by all appearances a wonderful person!
For me, this is one of the best STYX songs ever. When I bought their first album for A&M Records, "Equinox", in 1975, I put - with shivering hands - the record on the player and was totally impressed by the perfect quality of that gem. From start to end. It's the last song on this, their fifth album, and "Suite Madame Blue" is the perfect final track. DeYOUNG's vocal performance is still the same as on the album from 1975 and unbroken - He also hits the point in the very high notes - unbelievable for that age. The performance of the band was perfect - he must be a perfectionist. And it sounds as on the original studio release from 1975. PERFECT SHOW! And hats off to this musician.
DANG!!! He’s still got it!!! I’m old, i was a kid when I fell in love with this song, snd HE still got it!!!!!!! Sounds exactly as good as EVER!!!! Dude, I am AMAZED!!!! You know what? I saw this and I almost passed it up because I was like, nah, this will be way too sad to see a beautiful voice gone downhill but I’m SO GLAD I DID!! ALL you guys are still golden! AND you were so right-the one the record company didn’t seem to front, but everyone who loved your music, we CHERISHED this song!
Dennis DeYoung's voice hasn't missed a beat in 40 years. I've seen Styx and Dennis several times from early as an up and coming bar band to the superstars they are today. Last time it was a festival in Arlington Heights Illinois about 8 years ago. I was walking around the festival and I heard what I thought was Styx music cranking out. Turns out Dennis DeYoung Band was playing no gate charge. It was absolutely great!
WOW! Bravo!! This is the best rendition of SMB that I have ever heard The DDY Band and/or Styx do! The band played perfectly and with such emotion and precision! Dennis's vocals are perfect and his emotional inflections are even more heartfelt and spot on than usual! They were completely in the zone this night! That poser band that calls themselves "Styx" can't even roadie or even qualify as audience members for this virtuoso band, not even close!!
Way way way better than Styx..This is the sound of the real Styx from back in the 80’s..Thank you Dennis and band for allowing me to relive my teenage yrs through your music..I say that with tears of happiness..Thank you
I'm really impressed with the crowed when guitarist Jimmy Leahey was playing "Prelude 12" by the late John Curulewski. They were quiet like they were at a classical guitar performance. Kudos to them! Dennis and early Styx write these type of high quality pieces of music!
Dennis DeYoung RULES!!!!!!! Styx went down hill since Dennis is no longer with them, Styx was the very first band I saw in concert in the late 1970's when they were in there prime :-) Dennis is way better solo than Styx is now :-) An Extra "BIG" thumbs up :-) Dennis still has great vocals :-) ROCK ON!!!!!!!
Yes... I saw Styx a couple of times. The Grand Illusion tour was my favorite. My first concert was Grand Funk Railroad. Saw Ted Nugent when they were simply known as The Amboy Dukes. Lol... I saw Van Halen OPEN for Eddie Money, Steve Miller Band, and Kansas. The memories...lol... I still remember Geddy Lee saying this is off our new album called Fly By Night... On and on I could go. Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Guess Who... I better stop. Of course saw Kiss many times
One of my favorite Styx songs of all time. I agree with another comment that this underrated song is on par to Bohemian Rhapsody and Kashmir. Many memories around this incredible song too.
Gads...A&M is like Epic Records: forget the real music, just filter the "apply, lather, rinse, repeat" stuff onto the charts, leave the real stuff out. That's how Epic killed Cheap Trick. Don't get me wrong, all of Styx's stuff was great...but this stands out. This is musicianship...the stuff that makes you think. This is what we need, to Hell with Eminem, Beyonce, all that other swill they call 'music' today. Real music died as soon as Nirvana debuted. Long Live Real Rock! Long Live Dennis DeYoung!
I caught this song on a classic radio station about a week ago and I didn't recognize the intro. It definitely has been way too long since I have heard this song. Such a great piece. Dennis still is killing it I must say? Way to hit that note (at the 4:10 mark)?
I knew this had to be live in Los Angeles, the audiences here are like the living dead. They just sit with their phones out totally unresponsive while the band plays their asses off
This is just amazing. Dennis assembled a band that could faithfully reproduce Styx far better than that Tommy Shaw's Styx Cover Band can do. Watch their version of Suite Madame Blue. Not even close.
Tommy Wasn't even a charter member, just a replacement for the late, great John Curulewski. Tommy can go Damn Yankee himself into the ground while poppin' off at the mouth against Dennis. Tommy will never really be as great as he thinks he is.
As soon as Kurt Cobain opened up his heroin-addled anus, that's when Rock went on life-support. And you have to dig like hell to find any real gems performed since.
You bet! I still laugh when I hear him on another YT vid, saying "What's a mother to do?" He's hilarious, genuinely caring...a maestro. A virtuoso. His voice is angelic, time can't touch it. Dennis is THE voice for Styx...and always will be.
To quote what someone mentioned earlier, "DeYoung WAS Styx!" Their existence since expelling him from the band - whether warranted or not - was the beginning of their slide downward. Dennis is a perfectionist, as is obvious by his choice of superior musicians in HIS band. As for Styx today?...they sound horrible!? Compare the two versions of SMB from THIS version to a live performance by Styx (1 year later), and you just want to leave the latter's concert. And if hearing the butchered lead by Dennis' replacement hurts your ears - like it did mine - skip to timestamp 1:55 where the vocal harmonies just make you want to cringe: ruclips.net/video/PHDnNKeN5CE/видео.html
De Young's voice is still stellar. Some of the guitar parts are wrong though, noticeably starting at 6:12. Those riffs are some of the best guitar parts of the song. Gotta nail 'em. They didn't.
Dennis DeYoung IS STYX. His only fault was too much of the rock opera format. Just get on stage and play the music. Loved the music. Hated the stage show of Kilroy
HAHAHA! And the irony is that Styx tribute band most recent album was a (Guess what?))a prog rock concept album (written by the Guess Who bassist), about science fiction, just like Kilroy! LMAO! XD The 1983 Kilory tour was my first concert! Loved it so much! DDY (and Elton) were the reason I studied music in college and became a keyboardist just like my heroes!
@@legasiguy551 love STYX. Not a fan of concept albums when you try to turn a concert into a play. Loved KILROY the album. Not so on KILROY the theatrical experience. Just a preference. If you liked it, more power to ya
@@richardharrington2470 That's the thing with art. One person can literally take the art out to the trashcan for garbage while another think it's the most wonderful work ever! That's the greatness of it. Some people don't like musical theater, Broadway, Opera, etc. However, these are art forms with a lot of followers and a lot of talented schooled musicians, actors, playwrights and score composers. DDY is the only schooled musician from the original line-up. (I think Gowan and Sucherman are.) He was the musical director of Styx by default for he knew the most. Shaw came in 13 years after they formed. DDY is Styx!
@Mark Ayash Yes, and the piece was heavily edited to paint DDY as the antagonist. There are many very good interviews that DDY's done that show his side correctly. The irony is that Styx tribute band that Shaw is no a member of, their most recent album was a (Guess what?))a prog rock concept album (written by the Guess Who bassist), about science fiction, just like Kilroy! LMAO! XD
Truly one of the most underrated rock songs of all time. My favorite Styx song.
I totally agree!
The record company was deaf
I Concur!
I started with the Beatles days and saw this in HIGH School in 77. After 45 years of concerts, I can honestly say this song is as good or equal to Bohemian R. Fools Overture, and Kashmir! Dennis's singing is equal to Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey. Zep almost hypnotized me with Kashmir
What in the hell are you talking about? This song was highly rated by millions of people around the world for many decades and still. Go buy a clue already.
Agreed. The finest Styx song performed by a true professional.
Best Styx song ever . If this doesn’t give you goosebumps I don’t know what will. Thank you Dennis and Styx for providing this and so many treasured songs from our youth in the 70s and 80s. Can’t imagine growing up without songs like this and so many others . Wish you guys would get it together one last time! Clocks are ticking for all of us.
I have too many favorite songs of Styx, that I could decide, "that's the best one !" I'm so glad, that he still has such a great voice after so many years in this live performance.
What a voice 🎤🎼🌍✝️☮️🦋🪶🌞🕯️🎸🥁🎹🪽😎🙌 what a song 😊
Dennis de'young is still freaking killing it!!!!
My fave Styx song ever and of all time. Record companies routinely miss songs like this because they are looking for soundbites. Music lovers are looking for...this. Dennis, you are absolutely amazing to this day. That song is not easy to sing or to create or to play. Musicians are killer.
YUP! Read mine above.
To be at 67 the one that holds and sets the standard for quality and style of the rock stage - that speaks for itself! An amazing musician and by all appearances a wonderful person!
For me, this is one of the best STYX songs ever. When I bought their first album for A&M Records, "Equinox", in 1975, I put - with shivering hands - the record on the player and was totally impressed by the perfect quality of that gem. From start to end. It's the last song on this, their fifth album, and "Suite Madame Blue" is the perfect final track.
DeYOUNG's vocal performance is still the same as on the album from 1975 and unbroken - He also hits the point in the very high notes - unbelievable for that age.
The performance of the band was perfect - he must be a perfectionist. And it sounds as on the original studio release from 1975. PERFECT SHOW!
And hats off to this musician.
You are Styx , that voice can not be replaced
Dennis DeYoung has still got it all! My favorite song from Styx. His voice is superb.
His voice just keeps getting better and I'll never get tired of this masterpiece and the guitar work.
This is the one I listen to now I don't even listen to the original much anymore this is better
deyoung lamenting america's troubles for the bicentenial. ''lift your heart and make a new start and lead us away from here'' amen brother.
DANG!!! He’s still got it!!! I’m old, i was a kid when I fell in love with this song, snd HE still got it!!!!!!! Sounds exactly as good as EVER!!!! Dude, I am AMAZED!!!! You know what? I saw this and I almost passed it up because I was like, nah, this will be way too sad to see a beautiful voice gone downhill but I’m SO GLAD I DID!! ALL you guys are still golden! AND you were so right-the one the record company didn’t seem to front, but everyone who loved your music, we CHERISHED this song!
Still going man.......
His singing and composing are so underrated.
One of my favorite songs and after all these years he still sounds great , even better
A superb live version of this great song. The acoustic guitar is absolutely perfect.
❤ it! Favorite Styx song for sure! This is the best version ever!👍💯
Dennis DeYoung's voice hasn't missed a beat in 40 years. I've seen Styx and Dennis several times from early as an up and coming bar band to the superstars they are today. Last time it was a festival in Arlington Heights Illinois about 8 years ago. I was walking around the festival and I heard what I thought was Styx music cranking out. Turns out Dennis DeYoung Band was playing no gate charge. It was absolutely great!
One of my all time favorites from Styx. His voice is still absolutely amazing!
Jeez.
This is one hell of a performance.
Lucky audience!
Dennis DeYoung you are Amazing..one of my favorite songs 🎵 ❤️
One of my favorite Styx songs.
Very prophetic song. Yes what has happened to our country ..
My favorite Styx song! Played at our high school grad concert CMA 74!
what a piece of song... what a voice, what a career, great musician, the best of the best STYX, what else can i said.... desde chihuahua, mexico.
i have no reponse
One of the greatest reminds me of my dad when I hear this song
Damn this was freaking AWESOME !!🎸🎸
Classic Rock Masterpiece !!!
WOW! Bravo!! This is the best rendition of SMB that I have ever heard The DDY Band and/or Styx do! The band played perfectly and with such emotion and precision! Dennis's vocals are perfect and his emotional inflections are even more heartfelt and spot on than usual! They were completely in the zone this night! That poser band that calls themselves "Styx" can't even roadie or even qualify as audience members for this virtuoso band, not even close!!
I get Goosebumps every time I hear this song
This is perfect. Great playing and singing. Dennis sounds amazing. And nicely done, August Z.
August is totally and completly under loved. He is my new favorite guitar guy.
Wow! So awesome to find this! Dennis is so underrated and great!
Way way way better than Styx..This is the sound of the real Styx from back in the 80’s..Thank you Dennis and band for allowing me to relive my teenage yrs through your music..I say that with tears of happiness..Thank you
Sends chills down your back.
God Bless Dennis.
The beauty is in the talent, all their songs were kick ass
i love Dennis De Young seen him a few years ago and still amazing !!!!!
yes y do
WOW! Beautifully done!
What a great artist. I played trumpet with the drummer from original band on an open mic.in Chicago back in the mid. 90's He was very good.
A+ band
I'm really impressed with the crowed when guitarist Jimmy Leahey was playing "Prelude 12" by the late John Curulewski. They were quiet like they were at a classical guitar performance. Kudos to them! Dennis and early Styx write these type of high quality pieces of music!
He sounds fantastic!
Whoever played the acoustic guitar is a champ
@@TSPH1992 -- Jimmy Leahey. Aloha from Boise.
One word.....MAGNIFICENT
Dennis DeYoung RULES!!!!!!! Styx went down hill since Dennis is no longer with them, Styx was the very first band I saw in concert in the late 1970's when they were in there prime :-) Dennis is way better solo than Styx is now :-) An Extra "BIG" thumbs up :-) Dennis still has great vocals :-) ROCK ON!!!!!!!
its trhut
I think Dennis kept them tight.
I agree.Dennis vocals can't be touched by a replacement singer!
Yes... I saw Styx a couple of times. The Grand Illusion tour was my favorite. My first concert was Grand Funk Railroad. Saw Ted Nugent when they were simply known as The Amboy Dukes. Lol... I saw Van Halen OPEN for Eddie Money, Steve Miller Band, and Kansas. The memories...lol... I still remember Geddy Lee saying this is off our new album called Fly By Night... On and on I could go. Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Guess Who... I better stop. Of course saw Kiss many times
One of my favorite Styx songs of all time.
I agree with another comment that this underrated song is on par to Bohemian Rhapsody and Kashmir.
Many memories around this incredible song too.
I love this album, Equinox. I love to listen to whole thing.
Weird to see how the rock musicians that you grew up with have gotten older. But great to see that they're still awesome.
Ils vieillissent bien, D. DeYoung , what a gr8 voice.
Amazing!
Goosebumps
So beautiful
Dennis' voice is majestic
It's fantastic that they started with that masterpiece by john curulewski!
Gads...A&M is like Epic Records: forget the real music, just filter the "apply, lather, rinse, repeat" stuff onto the charts, leave the real stuff out. That's how Epic killed Cheap Trick. Don't get me wrong, all of Styx's stuff was great...but this stands out. This is musicianship...the stuff that makes you think. This is what we need, to Hell with Eminem, Beyonce, all that other swill they call 'music' today. Real music died as soon as Nirvana debuted. Long Live Real Rock! Long Live Dennis DeYoung!
Suite Madame Blue is American Bohemian Rhapsody.
He wouldn't of associated his self with such filth!
About America -yes
He was a Christian! Why they hit the hall of shame!
I believe it is American Pie.
@@bluesgirl65 -- Oh? What kind of Christian: Baptist? Pentecostal? Catholic? Latter-day Saint? Jehovah's Witness? Rosicrucians? Independent? Lutheran? Ya gotta clear that up.
Love you and miss you 🐾🐕🐶
I caught this song on a classic radio station about a week ago and I didn't recognize the intro. It definitely has been way too long since I have heard this song. Such a great piece. Dennis still is killing it I must say? Way to hit that note (at the 4:10 mark)?
These Guys Clearly Rock! See them in Person if you have a chance. I have and will continue to. 👍
I knew this had to be live in Los Angeles, the audiences here are like the living dead. They just sit with their phones out totally unresponsive while the band plays their asses off
The audience looks like a graveyard
This is just amazing. Dennis assembled a band that could faithfully reproduce Styx far better than that Tommy Shaw's Styx Cover Band can do. Watch their version of Suite Madame Blue. Not even close.
Tommy Wasn't even a charter member, just a replacement for the late, great John Curulewski. Tommy can go Damn Yankee himself into the ground while poppin' off at the mouth against Dennis. Tommy will never really be as great as he thinks he is.
Great song, done better by Dennis and his group than the original.
Wake up call for America. RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW. 1976 IT WAS A GREAT SONG; HOWEVER PROPHESY FOR TODAY !!!!
As soon as Kurt Cobain opened up his heroin-addled anus, that's when Rock went on life-support. And you have to dig like hell to find any real gems performed since.
God bless Dennis.
sad that Dennis left the group, so many great songs. would love to see them perform again together....
They kicked him out bc they're dicks. There is no Styx without Dennis.
Styx thought they could live without Dennis… they were wrong
Exiting Voices never change - still impressive!
Extraordinario!!!!
Wow!
He's such a ham. And I love him for it.
He still can deliver the goods, new artists of today should take notes and behold serious talent.
You bet! I still laugh when I hear him on another YT vid, saying "What's a mother to do?" He's hilarious, genuinely caring...a maestro. A virtuoso. His voice is angelic, time can't touch it. Dennis is THE voice for Styx...and always will be.
The GOAT!!
Delightful!!! Ahg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America!!! You’re not a child anymore!!!
The original of the song was the one you wanted blasted at the store you’re buying your new sound system from.
To quote what someone mentioned earlier, "DeYoung WAS Styx!" Their existence since expelling him from the band - whether warranted or not - was the beginning of their slide downward. Dennis is a perfectionist, as is obvious by his choice of superior musicians in HIS band.
As for Styx today?...they sound horrible!? Compare the two versions of SMB from THIS version to a live performance by Styx (1 year later), and you just want to leave the latter's concert. And if hearing the butchered lead by Dennis' replacement hurts your ears - like it did mine - skip to timestamp 1:55 where the vocal harmonies just make you want to cringe:
ruclips.net/video/PHDnNKeN5CE/видео.html
Wow et Wow!! Il a définitivement toujours été le vrai chateur de STYX. Et quel age il a? sa voix est extraordinaire!
I don't understand a single word you just said but I agree with it 100%!
Priceless !
Helluva band Dennis. Drummer is the weakest link, still sounds damn good
A+
incredible
its the best voice
Bring your ass to central Florida,aka Lakeland, we will rock.
KFC doesn't taste the same since they removed the secret ingredient. Styx is not the same without Dennis.
De Young's voice is still stellar. Some of the guitar parts are wrong though, noticeably starting at 6:12. Those riffs are some of the best guitar parts of the song. Gotta nail 'em. They didn't.
It was a little weak.
No "auto tune" ❤❤
Damn!
DAMM!!!!!
Kicks Ass
@4:00 to @4:23 Peole could learn a lot about diaphragmatic singing from this guy
This is a classic. My favorite Styx song. I wonder if they were influenced by Led Zeppelin's "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" ?
Sounds good but the band STYX sounded better before Dennis left the original group, sorta like Steve Perry when he left Journey
He looks like dr. Who, love it
Before they kicked Dennis out of the band. A band Dennis formed, lol. You won't be missed. Nice wig.
The record company was deaf
And dumb, for that matter.
De la p.m.
don't think red, white, and blue is allowed anymore:(
Thank you Jimmie Page for the riff from Babe I’m gonna leave you
0:59 The Call of Ktulu?
Dennis DeYoung IS STYX. His only fault was too much of the rock opera format. Just get on stage and play the music. Loved the music. Hated the stage show of Kilroy
Loved paradise theater
HAHAHA! And the irony is that Styx tribute band most recent album was a (Guess what?))a prog rock concept album (written by the Guess Who bassist), about science fiction, just like Kilroy! LMAO! XD The 1983 Kilory tour was my first concert! Loved it so much! DDY (and Elton) were the reason I studied music in college and became a keyboardist just like my heroes!
@@legasiguy551 love STYX. Not a fan of concept albums when you try to turn a concert into a play. Loved KILROY the album. Not so on KILROY the theatrical experience. Just a preference. If you liked it, more power to ya
@@richardharrington2470 That's the thing with art. One person can literally take the art out to the trashcan for garbage while another think it's the most wonderful work ever! That's the greatness of it. Some people don't like musical theater, Broadway, Opera, etc. However, these are art forms with a lot of followers and a lot of talented schooled musicians, actors, playwrights and score composers.
DDY is the only schooled musician from the original line-up. (I think Gowan and Sucherman are.) He was the musical director of Styx by default for he knew the most. Shaw came in 13 years after they formed. DDY is Styx!
@Mark Ayash Yes, and the piece was heavily edited to paint DDY as the antagonist. There are many very good interviews that DDY's done that show his side correctly. The irony is that Styx tribute band that Shaw is no a member of, their most recent album was a (Guess what?))a prog rock concept album (written by the Guess Who bassist), about science fiction, just like Kilroy! LMAO! XD
guess he cleared up that light sensitivity problem he still claims to have..
he still has it
This band is way way better than styx
TRUMP 2024!!!!
No way jy and Tommy all the way
the current styx tour plays 13 songs 7 written by deyoung. they have no act without deyoung. and when they sing this they ruin it
Wherws tommy shaw