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  • in 2013 when this album celebrates its 30th anniversary, there NEEDS to be a broadway adaption of this album

  • Devo could do this make it work .. But Styx .. ridiculous ...my heart goes out to Tommy Shaw ..

  • Years ago there was talk of making Styx's "Kilroy was Here" into a Broadway show. Shame they never did it because I think it would have been a big success.

  • I saw Styx perform last year, unfortunatly without DeYoung. I have to say I love the song Mr. Roboto, and that was one of the only songs the rest of Styx couldn't perform. Of course, Tommy Shaw and most everyone else was there, including Chuck Panozzo. They did a great job...Lawrence, Tommy and James had great vocals, and their performance was astounding. Though they may have lost a great vocalist [despite or even including the eccentricities of Kilroy Was Here], they still have great talent.

  • @Castielover But the song Mr. Roboto really sucks!

  • @kagiso9638 Pfft, in your opinion.

  • Kilroy was here sucks

  • it looks cheap.. not low budget but cheap, there's a difference

  • bacan

  • love it

  • wheres part 3 and part 4 ???????

  • my theory on "kilroy was here" is this... i think dennis deyoung went to see pink floyd's "the wall" and thought "wow... if those guys can do that, i think i can top that but with robots!" no dennis deyoung, you're not roger waters. as fucked up and as pissed off as waters is. at least he didn't alienate the band wrote "babe" though it a good love song.

  • @thevoid99 Dennis did Kilroy to get Styx on film. Their previous manager refused to record live albums and concert films thinking they were useless. DDY was intrigued by The Beatles movies, The Who's rock opera that turned into films, The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter and Pink Floyd The Wall had just hit theaters when he did Kilroy. He had no idea MTV would take off like it did. Kilroy was a number of years ahead of its time with the Warning labels on the album (which became reality with PMRC).

  • @tjrrockandrollmaster you're probably right about the warning labels thing but it was just poorly executed as a concept. of course, styx would break-up for some years after that album.

  • @thevoid99 Tommy Shaw broke his hand after the theater shows which delayed the arena tour until that summer. Then Tommy would leave midway in a cocaine and other drug induced haze. When he quit during the mixing of Caught In the Act (the live album), JY and the Panozzos wanted to replace TS but Dennis DeYoung said NO WAY. He knew that he and Tommy were the geese that laid the Styx eggs and DDY saw Tommy as irreplaceable.

  • classic

  • Í want a nice IBM based brain as well

  • the real pop musicis this!! i prefer this x10000000 times than my generations fucking auto tuned pop music

  • I don't really trust the screams from the audience. Surely they are fake?

  • @jockejocke1 No the screams aren't fake. There is a boot of this show out which says Atlanta 1983 which is actually the New Orleans shows recorded for Caught In the Act before the mixing and editing went on for the album and you can hear the crowd really into it. The girls screaming for Tommy whilst he was coked out of his tree here. He went into writers block after Cornerstone and didn't write much due to drug addiction so Dennis had to carry the ship.

  • It's actually "modren" man, guys.

    It's in the lyrics on the vinyl I have.

    Not "modrun".

  • I love Styx...but watching stuff from this Kilroy tour makes me want to puke. I feel bad for Tommy Shaw for having to go through with it.

  • @tjrtherocksponge You are right my mistake. Mr. Roboto was a #3 hit in the US.

  • watches this for the 20th time

    go to father DO ARIGATO MR ROBOTO!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @CypherInfinity2 -- The concept goes back quite far, and Dennis De Young didn't even bring it from the 19th Century to the 20th, though Mr. Roboto's design appears to be a bit of a nod to Fritz Lang's Metropolis.  And remember that "Rossum's Universal Robots" came before Metropolis.

  • This was Styx jumping the shark.

  • Look how pissed Tommy Shaw looks in this video. He is saying, get me the hell out of here!

  • This was the fall of the Rock Band Styx...The songs Come Sail Away, Lady, Too much time, and Renegade were classic hits. When Dennis DeYoung turned this group into a Broadway Musical Group, it drove Tommy Shaw out of the band. Tommy Shaw rocked with Ted Nugent in Damn Yankees!

  • @dacoach1122 Tommy Shaw did HAIR METAL crap. Damn Yankees (which was voted one of the 20 Worst Metal Moments) was like watching Superman, Spider Man and The Hulk get together to play poker and drink beer than go out and fight crime. Dennis did Kilroy so Styx could get on film like The Who did with Tommy and Quadrophenia, Pink Floyd just did The Wall, The Beatles with Help and A Hard Day's Night. Problem was, Dennis had to carry the band while Tommy and JY were stoned and drunk respectively.

  • looking back in that day this pretty damn cool.

  • This is what My Chemical Romance tried to do. Both ideas lasted about 2 years

  • Tommy must be thinking WTF through the song

  • This was Their Biggest hit. Yet it was their downfall. Modern day Styx refuses to play this song. I saw them back in 07 and they did they teased you with the intro.

  • I saw this tour at the Texxas Jam in Houston in 1984, before this set was over with they got booed off of stage. The live segment of this was good when they played their classics, but this was total shit. Another reason they got booed off cause RUSH was the next and final act of the night

  • This is great!

  • JAMES!!!!!

  • I LOVED this album as a kid... we had the clip - didn't know there was a full-length version?! Did anyone notice this storyline is a lot like the one Ben Elton wrote (many years later) for "We Will Rock You"??

  • This is real bad, and its a shame its the only good live video of the classic lineup of Styx in concert. I wish A&M would have filmed them during the "Grand Illusion" or "Pieces of Eight" tours when they were rocking hard.

    Dennis had the right idea, automation was starting replace factories and millions of jobs in the USA at the time, and he also had the guts to speak out on the censorship on rock music. But he just didn't have the talent to turn a serious message into entertainment.

  • I like the song/ video for Mr. Roboto, but I think an entire stage show based on the album was just overkill.

  • Those were the days when music was still an art, and experimenting with new ideas made music diverse, and creative. Bold attempts were made, some succeeded, some failed, ultimately, they all made the 80's an awesome time for music.

  • i wanna see the rest of it can you upload more??

  • Tommy Shaw looks like someone is standing just offstage with a shotgun pointed at his head more or less forcing him to perform material that he hates.

    You can tell he is thinking many things including:

    Why did I agree to this?

    If I can just get through the next two and a half hours it's one less performance of this tripe that I have to do.

    Where did I put my room key for the hotel?

    That jambalaya I had for dinner isn't sitting to well.

    and

    Maybe in twenty years we can forget about this.

  • @Hammerhead547 Thats a damn good observation and that made me laugh. Your really close. Tommy hated this whole idea. They took this down south during a heat wave, the audience was getting ugly, and at one point he thought the audience was going to lynch the band. I saw this on VH1 -- it is pretty goofy. I remember when this came out in 83 and as a kid I thought it was pretty silly.

  • Rock opera when done right is amazing (Bohemian Rhapsody) but when it's done badly like this it can be absolutely insufferable to listen to and unbearable to watch performed live.

    Dennis DeYonug was essentially creatively masturbating with the whole Kilroy Was Here album, it was almost like he'd spent too much time listening to Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and suddenly decided "hey why don't we do this too?" without realizing that story albums actually have to have a good story.

  • @Hammerhead547

    yes but the rest of Genesis didn't much like the lamb and it broke them up (sort of) great story or not, something like that usually falls to the one who wrote it, alienating the others in the group

  • @Hammerhead547 Anytime you turn a rock and roll band and try to make them into something you see on Broadway will not work. Bohemian Rhapsody was done right but Queen still rocked the house. I was at the Caught in the act concert...The song Lady, their first hit, was not even played. Styx was actually booed after they took the stage and Tommy Shaw was pissed.

  • @dacoach1122

    Queensryche was pretty successful in 2007 where they did full theatrical staging and performances of both Operation: Mindcrime albums in their entirety but the difference is that the material they had to work with was a hell of a lot stronger than this tripe.

    Even Judas Priest didn't attempt to do a fully staged performance of their entire Nostradamus album in 2008 because they knew it would bore the audience to tears.

  • @Hammerhead547 Genesis did all of The Lamb Lies Down on the 1974/75 tour and that was a nightmare and many shows were marred with microphone and technical problems. When Pink Floyd did The Wall shows, the four Floyds were not speaking to each other (so no surprise that there was no Final Cut Tour). I think the Kilroy tunes were better live than studio. I heard the L.A. Forum gig from the Kilroy tour and Styx were on fire that night.

  • @Hammerhead547 Agreed, although (unfortunately for him at that time) he might also have been thinking, "Just two more hours of this B.S. and then John Panozzo and I can go backstage and snort some more coke."

  • @Hammerhead547 Thanks Tommy for telling us how you really felt...LOL

  • Poor Tommy. You can tell he really doesen't want to be there.

  • Does anyone remember on that Behind the Music on VH-1 a few years ago that when they played at some stadium in Dallas,Tommy Shaw said he's got to go out there and talk for 15 minutes and the crowd starting booing? Or some of them did..Sammy Hagar and Ted Nugent were on the bill,too..

  • @mrgb46 I was there at this concert, and it was the Texas Jam at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas!

  • so lame... *glances side to side, whispers* can i have more please??

  • Lol shut down at 3:20

  • I was in the 17th row at symphony hall in San Diego on opening night of this tour, I have been to and seen 100's of concerts and this play/show/concert is still by far the best one I have seen. You left bewildered at the end, it was nothing short of spectacular.

  • why is the rest of it not on youtube?? All that did was tease me!!! Please i NEED to see how it ends!!!

  • love this opera

  • if only he were as good an actor as he is a singer!

  • So and what is PART 3

  • LOL shoulda just stuck with rock and roll.

  • God, this is horrible.

  • @IcePotash this video ROCKKKKSS!!!!!!!!!!

  • @shelbykw94 its epic!!

  • Upload the rest!!

  • @deepmelody1991 I agree, common and upload the rest!!  I'd love to see it

  • this styx tape i listened to in my bedroom 2x a day in the early 90s as a kid years elapsed i name my son tommy and i learnt guitar :D

  • @michaely2k8 Because of all that, you're my hero.

  • Fried chicken!

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  • Dennis knew what was best (not to fire key members).

  • is tommy pissed in this or somethn?

  • @jjk696969 Naw, Tommy always looks like that.

  • @jjk696969 Yeah probably, he hated this stuff, it was definitely not normal styx material, and ddy was really the only one on board with the whole "kilroy was here" thing... the rest of the band wasn't too fond of that album.

  • @EmilyAE19 Yeah. I waited over 20 years to finally see this thing that I'd only heard about in high school. In the interim I read about ddy's push to do it & the band's reaction (i.e. "WTF is this? You want us to what?"). The band (esp. Tommy) *are* rockers & DDY just wanted to "fix up the barn & do a show w/Mickey and Judy." Having read the details of their experience, I just sat here in dismay watching this...this. As with most things, I prefer the imagery I had in my head all these years.

  • This was the first full-on rock concert I ever went to, in junior high. Their juvenile concept album perfectly fit my junior high consciousness. It was only later that I grew up and realized that they weren't doing this ironically. I'm glad it tore the band apart, self-indulgent twaddle that it is. They are great musicians though, and much of their other writing is superior. Whaddya think "The Wall", Rush's "2112" or this for a concept album? Embarassing.

  • Great voice, great sounding band - but the lead singer is kindof a dork! Unfortunately today's pop culture wouldn't have a place for him - screw pop culture!

  • @mycatisromeo No thanks, me no screw pop culture...I have standards and there isn't a body condom strong enough to protect anyone from the diseases pop culture carries.

  • @mycatisromeo Actually they would if, like back then the bands today, could relocate to the great lakes area, seattle or sf bay area and imply that they're canadian or canadian influenced. I used to catch the haters often. They knew Monty Python but few knew You Can't Do That On Television or Degrassi. I was like dude, its on cable! =)) I guess that accounts for why parts of the suburbs don't understand the blue collar appeal of Superbad or Juno, etc.

  • @mycatisromeo That's the whole point - it's deliberately over the top and "dorkish". And a good thing too - we need more quirky and innovative music like this in the world.

  • @mycatisromeo it's greatd there no place for Dennies Deyoung in modern pop culture, pop culture would be even worse. thsong and the shows on the killroy was here is terribe album and even worse stage show. this song sucks. the first time i heard "Mr. Roboto", i didn't thik it was Styx. I can't imagine this is the sam band as "Blue Collar Man (Lomg Nights)" or "Cme Sail Away"

  • poor tommy, he holds the robot head that was tossed to him like a football and contemplates..."dennis, what the f*** are you thinking?? you just killed our band!"

  • @vveq no, The pronunciation Modrun was used because it sounds better, when your singing this song it just comes out like that.

  • @vveq What the fuck is your problem? whats with the fucking attitude?

  • @vveq Modern, Modrun =Modern Modrun man would be a technological man or or a 21st century man.

  • Tommy Shaw's sitting there thinking, "Why the f@%k did I agree to do this?"

  • @ForceMaximus84 I'm sooo glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Tommy Shaw clearly looks very uncomfortable here, he has that distraught look on his face of someone who believes a very good friend has gone completely out of his mind. It's no wonder that Styx broke up shortly after this. Reportedly James Young was also unhappy about having to participate in this silliness, although here he hides it pretty well, unlike Shaw.

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  • I'd LOVE to see the rest of this...

  • Cheese-tastic.

  • I had the entire concert on a RCA Laservision system in 1984, It is lost to the mists of time as i sold it all in 1986.

  • domo arigato Mr. Blazek

  • if you upload the other parts pliss?? i really love you thanks :)

  • enjoy :)

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