I've loved this song since I heard it out on the radio. I still have my 45 rpm record of it! :) Yes, the 80s were as magical and wonderful as could be. So blessed to have come of age during that era!
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
This song played almost every night on my local rock station for about 3 months straight, then tapered off. I always loved it, and the rest of the album. Tommy's cover of 'Ever Since the World Began' on his Ambition album is better than the original Survivor cut.
they played this song once a day at my camp, and after three months of on-and-off looking, ive finally found this awesome song. it was so worth my time
@TheFloppyrooster I got the mp3 for this song years ago in a binary newsgroup - alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1980s. If you have access to newsgroups, keep checking it might come around again. I've gotten a ton of 80's songs you'll never find on Itunes from there.
This is an awesome song but it was the video that first got me interested in it, done in one take with one camera and in black and white, roaming around the soundstage. It was a great idea and done very well. And then the song itself is one of my all time favorites now too, even after all these years.
I remember cn him do a free teen acustic show @ bar(Backstage Club) n Houston TX but there weren't any teenz there.Just adult STYX fanz! Yup I waz there,2! He roxed the place,2!
I was at the concert in Montgomery when the actual video for this song was filmed. 2 takes was all it took. Tommy lost one of his shoes to a gal in the crowd when he got too close to the edge of the stage. Great concert
After the first video was complete, Tommy watched it and didn't like it. It was too slick/glam/ersatz for his taste (and I agree). So they re-shot it and this video was the result.
If you look in my Faves list, towards the very end, there are two versions of this video. One is the one you're watching now and the other is him talking about the first video (with clips included). That will probably answer your question better than I just did. :-)
i had completely forgotten about this song until i netflixed some Miami Vice dvds and heard this on one of the episodes. i didn't know who sang it until i googled "don't put your back against the wall" with quotes. lol thanks for posting. :)
Yes, the Miami Vice episode this is from is Glades (season 1, episode 9). This song is played while Tubbs and Crockett are driving down to the Glades from Miami to help the 1 drug dealer save his daughter from another drug dealer. Most famous in this episode is that it guest stars Keith Szarabajka who would go on to fame in the equally awesome 1980's series The Equalizer with Robert Lansing and Edward Woodward. 1980's music and television rule and almost nothing has been good since then.
Hey, guys, could you cut out the dirty comments. They don't belong here on Youtube. Not now, not ever. You're ruinin' it for those of us who don't cuss or swear! Tommy's only solo top 40 hit at #33.
love tommy and all, but its interesting that he left styx to pursue more of a "rock and roll" path, and the first thing he does is put out a fruity, bouncy, pop song.
well aside from a few bands you werent missing much from the 80's Parsleygl. cause quite frankly the 80s sucked as far as music goes, too much over production. the 60's and 70's are were its at. of course this is just my opinion but i mean just look at the bands that came out of those decades.
Fantastic song, the only one hit wonder he had though on his own, Dennis Deyoung didn't do much better, but did have a one hit wonder with "Desert moon", these two remain on my list of one hit wonder singles, even though they were artists before this, solo one hit wonders I mean.
The music from the 80's really makes me wish I was alive back in those days. It's the only thing I listen to. Kids these days listen to crap..I keep going back in time to songs like these!!
THANK YOU to whoever posted this...when I was 14, I used to sit and listen to the radio for HOURS in the Autumn of 1984 waiting for them to play this. No music at the touch of a button back then, unless you paid $1.35 for the 45 at K-Mart or a whopping $6.99 for the vinyl album or those cassettes which were all the rage at the time. Memories...
God this brings back a lot of memories. I loved the 80's Everything about Big hair Big Sounds and Big Style. If I had the same money then as I did now the 80's would have been so much more fun for me.
Endearing...I so loved this album! Yes, very interesting with no edits. I can appreciate that, I'm doing video now and it's a nitemare in edit! LOL Guess the talent lies both in the camera (person) and on the stage! Clearly here they had both going on quite nicely!
I so remember this song, I used to love Styx, I wanted to see the Kilroy Was Here tour so badly, and then it was cancelled in my city because of technical problems they were having with the movie they showed.
For years I've gone nuts trying to find out the artist of this song. I've tried everything. Then I wrote down a portion of the lyrics on the computer, and behold I"VE FOUND IT.
Was backstage with Styx a few years ago and mentioned to a friend of mine that I wondered if Tommy would do this song. They were about to walk out onstage, adn he heard me, snapped his head around and asked, "You remember that song?" When I told him I did, he said, "So you're the one!" Cool song!
No, no, no, Zorsha...it was BETTER(!) than you rememebr. This song has more pep and zest than anything Tommy Shaw did w/ Styx. It's a song I wish and pray someday that Damn Yankees does, replacing thekeyboards w/ Jack Blades on his guitar. And the video--oh my God--the vid should be filmed by Quentin Tarantino, using film footage from "Jackie Brown." It's a very frenetic, sexual song. I agree w/ Witchman above. Shoulda' been a hit! We played it enough on our radio station.
A great song. I am surprised that it was not a hit. There is a slight bit at the beginning where he goes to the candy machine. This song was used to some effect in an episode of Miami Vice called "Glades."
One continuous take in film is called a "mise en scene".. which is what this video is. Great examples include the following films: Rope (by Hitchcock, entirely filmed in mise en scene style.. the only edits are to change the film reals), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Touch of Evil (Orson Wells.. the intro scene is one mise en scene.. amazing!)
"the term has come to represent a style of conveying the information of a scene primarily through a single shot—often accompanied by camera movement. It is to be contrasted with montage-style filmmaking"
via Wikipedia.. and that's what I was always taught.
You're right, this is an *amazing* example of the "really-long 'tracking-shot' " --- hope they bought the assistant cameraman hauling the cables around a brew or two afterwards! Junglemaster is correct --- "GwG" is used in an early part of the MV ep "Glades", with the Daytona hauling a** down Alligator Alley (I think). Shoulda used it for a scene with Gina and Trudy (hey, the song is called " *Girls* with Guns", not " *Boys with Guns"), but at least they did use it!
@junglemaster2014 watching Miami Mice right now and sure your right, what a great song of the 80's. Just another "proof" that the 80's rocked the house!
Slammin! I first heard this when I was serving in the Navy. Went right out and bought the cassette. Been a huge Rush/Styx fan my whole life. And yeah, this is a timeless classic.
soxfan801, I absolutely love what you wrote. Yes, rap and hip-hop have ruined music as we know it! I can not stand that kind of music, and for me, Rock-n-Roll will never die. P.S.....Kilroy Was Here!
I love this tune. It gets stuck in my head and I keep singing it over and over. ...But in a GOOD way, (not like Barry Manilow tunes; which would be in a BAD way)!
In late fall '84 I piled my car full of pals and we sang this track at the top of our lungs--word for word, good times! Yes, there were encores! Finally saw Styx in 2008!
This song goes back to when MTV was great before they stopped playing Rock. It is one of those fun upbeat summer songs that we all listened to drinking beer. Just wish all those good groups from the early 80's would just bring thier original singers back, Rock needs them.
Tommy ridiculed the "Kilroy" tour (more than the album itself), as did JY, because Dennis went off the rails with his silly costume ideas and the stage production for that tour. Tommy wanted to get back to more straight-ahead rock, which is exactly what this song is. Not sure why you call it "crap," but I guess you're entitled to your opinion. Maybe you're a friend of pint6x (or just him with another screen name?). In any case, since you hate it so much, feel free to never watch it again. :)
he ridiculed the tour which i agree with ,I mean a script and costumes (wtf?) but when he ridiculed the album as a whole... that"s when he lost me. "Don't let it end"=good, "girls with guns"=???
Well, I don't recall him ridiculing the album itself. But I can't claim to have read/heard every interview he did at the time, so if he did, then I missed it. He and JY were pretty critical of the tour because of Dennis's goofy ideas and imposing his will on the rest of the group.
Out of curiosity, what is it about this song that you dislike so much? It's nowhere near as sugary as "Don't Let It End" or some of Dennis's other ballads, and it just always struck me as a fun, rocking song.
in honesty, nothing personal against this song , I just don't like the rep "Kilroy.." has gotten particularly from JY and Shaw's comments over the years and with JY and shaw's solo work not being the best , I can't see how they were skeptical of the project.
Well, I'm with you 100% on the bad rap the "Kilroy ...." album has gotten. I think every song on it was excellent, with the exception of "Don't Let It End." And the reason I was suprised to see you say that Tommy ridiculed the record is that he and JY wrote every song on it except for two ("Mr. Roboto" and "DLIE"). Again, I think he was more upset about the embarrasing (and money losing) tour than the record itself, and since he wrote ~ half of it, I'd be puzzled if he did in fact ridicule it.
Slight correction to my last post: Dennis wrote three of the songs, not two. I left out "High Time."
Tommy wrote 3 1/2 of the songs, so he wrote a little more than a third of the album. JY wrote the other 3, and since Tommy and JY have always been pretty much in agreement over each others' songs, I'm gonna assume Tommy must have been happy with at least 2/3 of the record.
I haven't heard this song in AGES. I was getting my Post-Styx nostalgia going. Watched "Desert Moon" now this. I can't believe I still remember the lyrics 20 yrs later!!
it is mentioned that this video is one long continious shot...ever noticed the scene in goodfellas when henry and karen are going into the copa???...Paul thomas anderson also likes to do shots like this, too...
Agreed. This pint6x half-wit continually pops into this thread, time & time again, to post his moronic venom as if anyone else even remotely cares about his bizarre hatred for Tommy. If ever the phrase "get a life" applied to someone ....
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TheFirearmLover 1 month ago
I remember this from Miami Vice!
rainbow1goddess 1 month ago
Yeeeeeeeha! Thanks Tommy. I grew up on this shit as it was being broadcast out of Puget Sound in the 80's. I was on the Canuck side though.
DefenderOfLogic 2 months ago
band dumpster!
MrEmmetOtter 3 months ago
this is REALLY shit!
DoctorAxe 3 months ago
sounds like it should be in a Scooby Doo cartoon lol cute....
leadettman 3 months ago
Great song!
captmclain 4 months ago
I know she's probably fat and gross now but i still want to lick the ass off of that chick sitting on the speaker
DamageRenamo 4 months ago
@DamageRenamo Dear idiot: yes, keep trying to convince total strangers that you're heterosexual.
SoulsOfTheCities 3 months ago
@DamageRenamo Whatever floats your boat, man, but that's TMI big time.
smalltownman73 3 months ago
@DamageRenamo DEEDS NOT WORDS
jfrsnjhnsn 3 months ago
I've loved this song since I heard it out on the radio. I still have my 45 rpm record of it! :) Yes, the 80s were as magical and wonderful as could be. So blessed to have come of age during that era!
Volkslady 5 months ago
Tommy hit #33 in Billboard, 11-17-84. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!
DaveWollenberg 6 months ago
Just so you all know...the guy playing the keyboards is Billy Joel's former saxophonist Richie Canatta.
timepoet77 7 months ago
best part of this song was how it was incorporated into Miami Vice's drive across alligator alley... perfect song for that scene ....
paulierna 8 months ago 4
@paulierna Best part of this song was when i played it at a red light "loud" and everyone around me finally heard a good tune! :)
Iron4343 7 months ago
Someone PLEASE make a keyboard tutorial! =3
J4C0BC0OK 8 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 8 months ago
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Obviously, super sucky.... prolly best forgotten. Sori Tommy but you ate shit on this one...
DoctorAxe 8 months ago
18 people are afraid of girls with guns...LOL
MysticKnight38 10 months ago 8
@MysticKnight38 20 now. lol
smalltownman73 3 months ago
A great closet classic!!
MSN0665 10 months ago
This song played almost every night on my local rock station for about 3 months straight, then tapered off. I always loved it, and the rest of the album. Tommy's cover of 'Ever Since the World Began' on his Ambition album is better than the original Survivor cut.
jeffb2066 10 months ago
Can that girl sitting to the side actually not HEAR the music? Holy cow talk about being devoid of rythm. LOL
demonhoopa 11 months ago
@demonhoopa Too funny!
Iron4343 8 months ago
I always liked this song, but it got so little airplay!
megarouge2001 11 months ago
I always loved this one! Thanks!
lovingthe70s 1 year ago
they played this song once a day at my camp, and after three months of on-and-off looking, ive finally found this awesome song. it was so worth my time
Hobinator17 1 year ago
heared this in miami vice
kinmanyuen 1 year ago
Did Tommy Shaw ever do this song after he got back with Styx?
johnny10301968 1 year ago
There is NO FUCKING SOUND IN THIS VIDEO!!!!!
metalslut1 1 year ago
@metalslut1 It works for me.
megarouge2001 11 months ago
One of my all time favorite albums!
smalltownman73 1 year ago
I have the 45 :)
halninekv 1 year ago
@halninekv You said 45 lol Sweet
Iron4343 1 year ago
this song and High Enough are two great songs you just dont hear
on mainstream, even classic rock stations anymore... how sad.
Lucky we have youtube and the net to find them and keep them :)
motorsport007 1 year ago
@motorsport007 my local classic rock station plays high enough all the time, but I've never heard this one.
wiiman250 1 year ago
you know what else is a good song? WHAT IS LOVE
Modern40thCreed 1 year ago
you know what wlse is a good song? WHAT IS LOVE
Modern40thCreed 1 year ago
haha!!! I LOVED this song I was 11, it's funny to me now that I had no clue what it's about- I just thought it was good clean posi fun!
karkass666 1 year ago
haha!!! I LOVED this song I was 13 or so, it's funny to me now that I had no clue what it's about- I just thought it was good clean posi fun!
karkass666 1 year ago
Haven't this song in ages. Feels like I just got sucked back in time to the summer of '84.
rayva1 1 year ago
Please vote up previous post, so that others can find this video?
Science35 1 year ago
For what it's worth; there is a longer, much better quality video of this awesome song
at [h/t/t/p://w/w/w.dailymotion.*com/video/x7twuw_tommy-shaw-girls-with-guns_music] I hope you enjoy!
Science35 1 year ago
great song from the 80´s
vcardenas30 1 year ago
Awesome song - tons of energy and brightness to it. I was kicking when this came out and it's never grown old. It can hang with anything today.
HeroDreams1 1 year ago
I love this song, and his Remo Williams one also. I wish I could get to see him play them both live.
latenighter1965 1 year ago
This is one of my all-time favorite songs.
Shainie27 1 year ago
Forgot to say:
@TheFloppyrooster I got the mp3 for this song years ago in a binary newsgroup - alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1980s. If you have access to newsgroups, keep checking it might come around again. I've gotten a ton of 80's songs you'll never find on Itunes from there.
utexxas 1 year ago
This is an awesome song but it was the video that first got me interested in it, done in one take with one camera and in black and white, roaming around the soundstage. It was a great idea and done very well. And then the song itself is one of my all time favorites now too, even after all these years.
utexxas 1 year ago
love this song
Maverickchic84 1 year ago
I love this! The name of the album is...?
Ksvitak12 1 year ago
I remember cn him do a free teen acustic show @ bar(Backstage Club) n Houston TX but there weren't any teenz there.Just adult STYX fanz! Yup I waz there,2! He roxed the place,2!
rikkisogazgf 1 year ago
I was at the concert in Montgomery when the actual video for this song was filmed. 2 takes was all it took. Tommy lost one of his shoes to a gal in the crowd when he got too close to the edge of the stage. Great concert
bamasnoopy67 1 year ago
I LOVE(D) THIS SONG!!! It is truly one of the 80's hidden treasures. This song is one of my all time favorite songs.
platman16 1 year ago
i have this on 12" !!! :) hell ya! ;)
blockbuckster 1 year ago
Love this song...takes me back 20 years to high school.
darinprescott 1 year ago
Awesome! Thanks for posting!
drkmagneto 1 year ago
very well written and delivered ty for posting
capnamo 1 year ago
Hit #6 rock, #33 pop in Billboard. God bless!
DaveWollenberg 1 year ago
wish he hired a better crew slut with bigger guns for the vid
underfrogg 1 year ago
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— The interesting thing about this clip is that its possibly the worst song ever written.
rachelmmmmbourne 1 year ago
@rachelmmmmbourne I like this song,much better than most of the crap out there theses days.
soxfan801 1 year ago
Is it bad that I fangirl over him even though he's old enough to be my dad?
AoshiFan 1 year ago
From what I heard this is the 2nd version of this video. What happened to the original???
eden1963 1 year ago
@eden1963
After the first video was complete, Tommy watched it and didn't like it. It was too slick/glam/ersatz for his taste (and I agree). So they re-shot it and this video was the result.
If you look in my Faves list, towards the very end, there are two versions of this video. One is the one you're watching now and the other is him talking about the first video (with clips included). That will probably answer your question better than I just did. :-)
Ken5244 1 year ago
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This guy looks like a splitting image of Duff McKagan from Guns and Roses ... only difference is that this music is gay.
phileustace 1 year ago
i had completely forgotten about this song until i netflixed some Miami Vice dvds and heard this on one of the episodes. i didn't know who sang it until i googled "don't put your back against the wall" with quotes. lol thanks for posting. :)
nervouswreck75 1 year ago
great song!!!, great 80´s!!!
fox2572 1 year ago
1. That cool synthasizer -- obviously inspired by the sound of a passing ambulance.
2. Without the girl; it's a total sausagefest. I suspect that's why she's there.
3. All that being said; I am still a huge Tommy Shaw fan.
pklocek 1 year ago
Craziest synthesizer sounds I can think of from my short musical life, but darn is it catchy :)
firstttg 1 year ago
Is the chick his wife? She really added alot to the vid. Not!
NowInLA123 2 years ago
Miami Vice I believe from the episode Glades. Seems like that was just yesterday. would give anything to go back to the mid 80's
jlmarsha 2 years ago
Yes, the Miami Vice episode this is from is Glades (season 1, episode 9). This song is played while Tubbs and Crockett are driving down to the Glades from Miami to help the 1 drug dealer save his daughter from another drug dealer. Most famous in this episode is that it guest stars Keith Szarabajka who would go on to fame in the equally awesome 1980's series The Equalizer with Robert Lansing and Edward Woodward. 1980's music and television rule and almost nothing has been good since then.
MRobert21 1 year ago 3
he wrote this about ted nugent
lerxt42 2 years ago
Hey, guys, could you cut out the dirty comments. They don't belong here on Youtube. Not now, not ever. You're ruinin' it for those of us who don't cuss or swear! Tommy's only solo top 40 hit at #33.
DaveWollenberg 2 years ago
love tommy and all, but its interesting that he left styx to pursue more of a "rock and roll" path, and the first thing he does is put out a fruity, bouncy, pop song.
mboll101x 2 years ago
wooo weeeee!!!! thats rock and roll!!
i love his hair---wheres tubs and crockett?? they would kick that csi guys ass-lol
4020kid 2 years ago 3
well aside from a few bands you werent missing much from the 80's Parsleygl. cause quite frankly the 80s sucked as far as music goes, too much over production. the 60's and 70's are were its at. of course this is just my opinion but i mean just look at the bands that came out of those decades.
drunkontheboard 2 years ago
i was born in 82, and i love 80's music! hell yeah!!!
biggjoshhardcore 2 years ago 3
Fantastic song, the only one hit wonder he had though on his own, Dennis Deyoung didn't do much better, but did have a one hit wonder with "Desert moon", these two remain on my list of one hit wonder singles, even though they were artists before this, solo one hit wonders I mean.
latenighter1965 2 years ago
dennis de young had another top 4o cant wait for heroes that reached in the late 30's
miketheblueeagle 2 years ago
The music from the 80's really makes me wish I was alive back in those days. It's the only thing I listen to. Kids these days listen to crap..I keep going back in time to songs like these!!
Parsleygl 2 years ago 12
THANK YOU to whoever posted this...when I was 14, I used to sit and listen to the radio for HOURS in the Autumn of 1984 waiting for them to play this. No music at the touch of a button back then, unless you paid $1.35 for the 45 at K-Mart or a whopping $6.99 for the vinyl album or those cassettes which were all the rage at the time. Memories...
jeb12blur 2 years ago
This is FINALLY on itunes - album and single...
stet1965 2 years ago
This song was also played on one of the episodes of Miami Vice in the glorious 80's
junkie4vids 2 years ago 2
God this brings back a lot of memories. I loved the 80's Everything about Big hair Big Sounds and Big Style. If I had the same money then as I did now the 80's would have been so much more fun for me.
01artist 2 years ago 4
Endearing...I so loved this album! Yes, very interesting with no edits. I can appreciate that, I'm doing video now and it's a nitemare in edit! LOL Guess the talent lies both in the camera (person) and on the stage! Clearly here they had both going on quite nicely!
brendakaye34 2 years ago
Tommy had a nice package and really knew how to use it too :-) I'll never forget 9/17/1980
AWALKINGSTD 2 years ago
i am just going to say.... GREAT SONG !!!
Rueda456 2 years ago
my dad's name is tommy shaw
cpa123ful 2 years ago
I remember this song at the skating rink when I was 12...some of the best times, brings back so many good memories!
erik7x57 2 years ago 2
I so remember this song, I used to love Styx, I wanted to see the Kilroy Was Here tour so badly, and then it was cancelled in my city because of technical problems they were having with the movie they showed.
deeprose4 2 years ago
Tommy Shaw,
The BEST.... that says it all. I bought the album and it was sone of the bes of all times
wheelesw 2 years ago
For years I've gone nuts trying to find out the artist of this song. I've tried everything. Then I wrote down a portion of the lyrics on the computer, and behold I"VE FOUND IT.
Dirojan 2 years ago 2
The drummer is from the Romantics, right?
skip3579 2 years ago
Was backstage with Styx a few years ago and mentioned to a friend of mine that I wondered if Tommy would do this song. They were about to walk out onstage, adn he heard me, snapped his head around and asked, "You remember that song?" When I told him I did, he said, "So you're the one!" Cool song!
auralconcepts 2 years ago 42
@auralconcepts - great story. Next time you see Tommy, tell him you're not the only one. :P
deadheadtrea 1 year ago
@auralconcepts Love this song! wish it was available on itunes.this was a great record! please re release girls with guns
TheFloppyrooster 1 year ago
I use to use this song, regularly, in the night clubs I dj'ed at. Usually got them up on the dance floor.
doghouse111 1 year ago
@auralconcepts That's is one of the coolest things I've ever heard.
Ricklawrence 1 year ago
@auralconcepts
LOVED This album !!!!!
sugarrgerl7 1 year ago
@auralconcepts
Well, more than a 180,000 visits....some people remebers the song....Sorry to tell you that you´re not the only one...
Georgedlm 1 year ago
No, no, no, Zorsha...it was BETTER(!) than you rememebr. This song has more pep and zest than anything Tommy Shaw did w/ Styx. It's a song I wish and pray someday that Damn Yankees does, replacing thekeyboards w/ Jack Blades on his guitar. And the video--oh my God--the vid should be filmed by Quentin Tarantino, using film footage from "Jackie Brown." It's a very frenetic, sexual song. I agree w/ Witchman above. Shoulda' been a hit! We played it enough on our radio station.
TubeSteak007 2 years ago
A great song. I am surprised that it was not a hit. There is a slight bit at the beginning where he goes to the candy machine. This song was used to some effect in an episode of Miami Vice called "Glades."
witchman67 2 years ago
God I loved this song!! Thanks for posting!
krisjay69 2 years ago
One continuous take in film is called a "mise en scene".. which is what this video is. Great examples include the following films: Rope (by Hitchcock, entirely filmed in mise en scene style.. the only edits are to change the film reals), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Touch of Evil (Orson Wells.. the intro scene is one mise en scene.. amazing!)
bobbelheadedmidget 2 years ago
film "reels" sorry. doh!.
bobbelheadedmidget 2 years ago
Thats not what mise en scene means...
dyagnylproductions 2 years ago
"the term has come to represent a style of conveying the information of a scene primarily through a single shot—often accompanied by camera movement. It is to be contrasted with montage-style filmmaking"
via Wikipedia.. and that's what I was always taught.
bobbelheadedmidget 2 years ago
You're right, this is an *amazing* example of the "really-long 'tracking-shot' " --- hope they bought the assistant cameraman hauling the cables around a brew or two afterwards! Junglemaster is correct --- "GwG" is used in an early part of the MV ep "Glades", with the Daytona hauling a** down Alligator Alley (I think). Shoulda used it for a scene with Gina and Trudy (hey, the song is called " *Girls* with Guns", not " *Boys with Guns"), but at least they did use it!
sdingeswho 2 years ago 3
The drummer is former- Wing (1978-80)Steve Holly. Cool-I always liked Back To The Egg lp (Wings' last lp from '79).
The other musicians I don't know.
crapple009 2 years ago 2
The keyboardist was Richie (?) from Billy Joel's band for many years.
krisjay69 2 years ago
ugh this was not as good as i remember it to be...
Zorsha 2 years ago
I finally found it, this was the tune crockett and tubbs was listening to in the episode ''glades'' in miami vice.
junglemaster2014 2 years ago 19
loved that episode! Thats the one with the "gator getter".
mrmikebeaton 2 years ago
@junglemaster2014 watching Miami Mice right now and sure your right, what a great song of the 80's. Just another "proof" that the 80's rocked the house!
notsignedup 1 year ago
@junglemaster2014 yeah man, I was searching this song for the same motive! is cool that moment in that episode :)
ImmortalDarkTordo 1 year ago
a classic party tune..I remeber dancing to this after several quadruple rum and cokes back in the 80's
dscottwarren1 2 years ago 2
Tommy reminds me of my freaking brother and it scares me.
He looks like him, (Execpt my bro looks more indian but the feautures are almost the same)
And they talk alot alike..
only differents is coloring and height XD
kdai2012 2 years ago
Tommy Shaw justs strikes me as a person it would a lot of fun to be in a band with.
meddlejordison 2 years ago 6
Thankyou for sharing this video!! Like the song, LOVE the album.
lbmfg 2 years ago
Who is the girl in this video?
ShadeJon 2 years ago
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I like most of the stuff Tommy has done over the years, but this song is too bubble gumish for my taste.
LunaticFringe40 2 years ago
Styx must have an arsenal of talent
stevemtc1 2 years ago 4
yes, it was on miami vice--you can watch the episode on utube. its about some
hillbilly women with guns deep in the everglades. are you hot?
4020kid 2 years ago
It reminds me of Miami Vice
angria1 2 years ago
Slammin! I first heard this when I was serving in the Navy. Went right out and bought the cassette. Been a huge Rush/Styx fan my whole life. And yeah, this is a timeless classic.
CaptinBubbleKitten 2 years ago 3
Music today sucks! Rap and Hip Hop has ruined music!!!!!!!!!!!!!
soxfan801 2 years ago 6
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krazygrrrl 2 years ago
Amen, Brother soxfan... ;-)
death2hiphopnRnB 2 years ago
soxfan801, I absolutely love what you wrote. Yes, rap and hip-hop have ruined music as we know it! I can not stand that kind of music, and for me, Rock-n-Roll will never die. P.S.....Kilroy Was Here!
txwrestling1989 2 years ago 3
Proof that my memory is not going weird on me. As awesome now as it was back in the day.
The 80s really did deliver.
Spookoyuko 2 years ago
awesome song, brings back old memories
couchtator2 3 years ago 4
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this is complete shit
sneefy1 2 years ago
I love this tune. It gets stuck in my head and I keep singing it over and over. ...But in a GOOD way, (not like Barry Manilow tunes; which would be in a BAD way)!
MagicBendy 3 years ago 5
AWESOME!!! GOTTA LOVE THE 80s !!!
THANKS
4020kid 3 years ago 3
one of my FAVORITE songs of ALL time!!! THANK YOU for posting!! :)
tubaplayingmom 3 years ago 2
I had the good fortune to meet Tommy in 76 when he played Santa Monica Civic Center...what a great guy! I will always follow his career!
fulltimervgal 3 years ago
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If tommy shaw was playing in my front yard i would walk to the back yard, he blows
sneefy1 2 years ago
If sneefy1 was in my front yard I would walk to my front yard and kick his arse!!! Hey sneefy, if you don't like this stuff then piss off!!
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sneefy1 2 years ago
First time I heard this song was in MIAMI VICE in the episode GLADES. Used perfectly as most MIAMI VICE songs were in the show.
janhammerrules 3 years ago 2
I haven't seen this in over 20 years...thanks for posting!
ajbeatlemama 3 years ago
very cool..thanks for posting this!
vanmanjumps 3 years ago
AWESOME, Ilove this vid and song, thanks.
rhys2112 3 years ago
In late fall '84 I piled my car full of pals and we sang this track at the top of our lungs--word for word, good times! Yes, there were encores! Finally saw Styx in 2008!
castertunes1967 3 years ago
cool man. i really can see that. we're the same age.
48mmPOV 3 years ago
i just saw it on an episode of miami vice on Hulu, "Glades". that show really knew good eighties music.
gotuitguy 3 years ago
This song goes back to when MTV was great before they stopped playing Rock. It is one of those fun upbeat summer songs that we all listened to drinking beer. Just wish all those good groups from the early 80's would just bring thier original singers back, Rock needs them.
mmaury5150 3 years ago
tommy go back to the styx
huttut519 3 years ago
man he's back in styx, but he's good, if not better by himself
dman7791 3 years ago
I have not seen or heard this song/video since it came out!Thanks so much for posting a classic!
bensmom923 3 years ago
let me get this straight, this is the same Shaw who ridiculed "Kilroy was here" and then he goes and makes this crap???!!
gwbwla 3 years ago
Tommy ridiculed the "Kilroy" tour (more than the album itself), as did JY, because Dennis went off the rails with his silly costume ideas and the stage production for that tour. Tommy wanted to get back to more straight-ahead rock, which is exactly what this song is. Not sure why you call it "crap," but I guess you're entitled to your opinion. Maybe you're a friend of pint6x (or just him with another screen name?). In any case, since you hate it so much, feel free to never watch it again. :)
Ken5244 3 years ago
he ridiculed the tour which i agree with ,I mean a script and costumes (wtf?) but when he ridiculed the album as a whole... that"s when he lost me. "Don't let it end"=good, "girls with guns"=???
gwbwla 3 years ago
Well, I don't recall him ridiculing the album itself. But I can't claim to have read/heard every interview he did at the time, so if he did, then I missed it. He and JY were pretty critical of the tour because of Dennis's goofy ideas and imposing his will on the rest of the group.
Out of curiosity, what is it about this song that you dislike so much? It's nowhere near as sugary as "Don't Let It End" or some of Dennis's other ballads, and it just always struck me as a fun, rocking song.
Ken5244 3 years ago
in honesty, nothing personal against this song , I just don't like the rep "Kilroy.." has gotten particularly from JY and Shaw's comments over the years and with JY and shaw's solo work not being the best , I can't see how they were skeptical of the project.
gwbwla 3 years ago
Well, I'm with you 100% on the bad rap the "Kilroy ...." album has gotten. I think every song on it was excellent, with the exception of "Don't Let It End." And the reason I was suprised to see you say that Tommy ridiculed the record is that he and JY wrote every song on it except for two ("Mr. Roboto" and "DLIE"). Again, I think he was more upset about the embarrasing (and money losing) tour than the record itself, and since he wrote ~ half of it, I'd be puzzled if he did in fact ridicule it.
Ken5244 3 years ago
Slight correction to my last post: Dennis wrote three of the songs, not two. I left out "High Time."
Tommy wrote 3 1/2 of the songs, so he wrote a little more than a third of the album. JY wrote the other 3, and since Tommy and JY have always been pretty much in agreement over each others' songs, I'm gonna assume Tommy must have been happy with at least 2/3 of the record.
Howzat for calculated analysis? *laugh*
Ken5244 3 years ago
Another awesome hit from the 80s that goes completely ignored by the local radio stations that supposedly play 80's hits.
GumbytheUnstoppabIe 3 years ago
I haven't heard this song in AGES. I was getting my Post-Styx nostalgia going. Watched "Desert Moon" now this. I can't believe I still remember the lyrics 20 yrs later!!
dig1105 3 years ago
Love this song! I remember hearing it on Miami Vice when the guys were cruising along in their Ferrari Daytona Spyder.
meliores 3 years ago
it is mentioned that this video is one long continious shot...ever noticed the scene in goodfellas when henry and karen are going into the copa???...Paul thomas anderson also likes to do shots like this, too...
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WangMan187 3 years ago
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This is the worst song I have ever heard. In addition, Tommy Shaw is an odious little homosexual with "little man syndrome"
pint6x 3 years ago
wow. you're an idiot
dmorrow10 3 years ago 6
Agreed. This pint6x half-wit continually pops into this thread, time & time again, to post his moronic venom as if anyone else even remotely cares about his bizarre hatred for Tommy. If ever the phrase "get a life" applied to someone ....
Ken5244 3 years ago
here, here,
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LilMissEmo13 3 years ago
great song, possibly worst lip synching ever
bkmentube 3 years ago
i forgot about this one until I heard it this morning on the radio on my way to university. awesome!