Styx 81 - Crystal Ball

Styx
Capital Centre
Largo, MD
1981

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Styx
• Tommy
• Dennis
• JY
• Chuck
• John

[iqfrenzy]

Tommy Shaw has an amazing voice.

[ZenDriveSeven]

Tommy was the sole reason I bought a Gibson Explorer last year. Saw them when I was 16 and have wanted one ever since.

[WebventureTime]

Luke Skywalker wails <3

[tjrrockandrollmaster]

This was Styx at its finest live. DDY's Oberheim synthesizer solo was better than the problematic Mini-Moog he used prior to 1977. He was playing the String Ensemble with his left hand while he soloed on the Obie 8 Voice while TS switched from acoustic to his black Gibson Explorer. Shame I was just 5 years old in 1981 I would have gone to see Styx at the old Boston Garden. Without DDY, they have to open for Def Leppard when they do play on bigger scale summer tours.

[UltraRareBreed]

...my heart is breakin, my bodies achin and I don't know where to go...THEY ROCK ! This is when they were all together. I saw them minus DDY a few years back and they were great tho. I love em all. I grew up hearing The Grand ILLusion due to my dad being a rocker. Those were the days.

[veritriphy]

I can't say how they are now, Styx were hot back in the day, so I still say it takes an Alabamian to show'em how it's done! (Tommy Shaw, Montgomery,Al. native) I grew-up in Chicago,Il. and Birmingham,Al. so I'm a fan of any good rock band/musician from the Great Lakes and the Deep South

[jenngra505]

Styx had a ton of great songs, but this my favorite by far.

[redneck6310]

Styx V1 was the best wooden nickel years!!

[MercurysWoman]

@MercurysWoman I was never Dennis DeYoung, but I SAW Dennis' solo concert. LOL

[MercurysWoman]

@romeokid69 While I agree that Styx without DDY was really good, when I was Dennis solo, he was just as good, if not, better! When Lawrence sings Dennis' songs, it's like a really good cover band, it's the same when the young guys in Dennis' band sing Tommy's stuff, however, Dennis' show had only a few of the other member's songs and Styx's show had many of Dennis' songs, even covered Lady and Babe, when I saw them! I feel like both are like a great cover band, but I liked Dennis' show better!

[mrroboto5785]

@Fixxer315 That's exactly what I want, it doesn't have to be a permanent thing, just one reunion tour, and at one of the shows record it for DVD and CD, so those that have to miss it could still be a part of it. Lawrence shouldn't have to be kicked out just for a reunion tour, he has his own songs that he has written and covered in the band. Dennis could be on piano and Lawrence could be on his keyboards.