Styx
A Search For An Anthem For 2020: 45 Songs To Describe This Year
it’s a year difficult to define by one single mood
Dennis DeYoung, Eisemann Center, Richardson, Texas, Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 Reviewed: Styx And Stones…
The current version of Styx does a much better job of replicating the band’s recorded output than DeYoung’s group, which had a decidedly Vegas sound. Both the guitarists had extended solo turns throughout the night, displaying every cliché in the 1970’s I’m-a-shredding-hot-poop-guitar-hero arsenal. This is a show that someone could enjoy for pure camp for about half an hour, but that’s only 25% of the evening.
10 Songs, Friday, March 21st, 2014
Colored Spade – Lamont Washington – The President of the United States of love takes racial slurs and embraces them with more power than raps pre-empting of “nigga” some 20 years after “Hair” came out of the Public Theater – A
Styx And Foreigner: You Know You Wanna
So any way the “Cold As Ice” and “Mr. Roboto” bands are playing a twofer at Prudential Center on June 26 and I swear I’m thinking about going. It is like part of the Middle America experience, as much a part as, say, going to see George Strait. It is a cultural identity even if it isn’t your cultural identity.