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Post by LtVanish on Jan 14, 2019 19:37:30 GMT -8
I think you are right they are jealous. I know the reason you don't see Styx on TV much is because no one is interested without Dennis. The band really blew a big chance with the Fallon show a few years ago with Too Much Time on our Hands, I'm sure if Dennis was with the group they would of been on the show, that would of been huge publicity wise for them. A reunited Styx in this day in age would gather them a lot of things along these lines. I'm not so sure about Tommy but I think JY clearly shows signs of it. Both DDY and Tommy have had moderate success with their solo projects while JY's seemed to go nowhere. JY teams up with Jan Hammer and history is made, I listen to that album when I need a good laugh, guess this is the kind of rock JY wanted for Styx.
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Post by Boomchild on Jan 14, 2019 21:57:50 GMT -8
JY teams up with Jan Hammer and history is made, I listen to that album when I need a good laugh, guess this is the kind of rock JY wanted for Styx. Imagine it. This came from the guy who said he grew up listening to the likes of Hendrix, that he prefers "straight up rock n' roll" and that Styx was drifting away from that. Then on his very first chance to "do it his way", puts out a album with drum machines and synths all over the place. Makes you wonder if what he says bothered him about the direction the band was going in as well as issues he had with DDY is the truth. I contend it's a smoke screen. To be clear and I said this many times in the Styx threads over at MR, I don't think DDY is a saint and I'm sure he did things that contributed to disagreements between them. But I do not doubt for one minute that he EVER tried to stifle JY's nor TS' creativity when it came to songs the band could do. To quote the man: "A great song is great song no matter what style it is in".
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Post by tj on Feb 3, 2019 17:56:31 GMT -8
JY teams up with Jan Hammer and history is made, I listen to that album when I need a good laugh, guess this is the kind of rock JY wanted for Styx. Imagine it. This came from the guy who said he grew up listening to the likes of Hendrix, that he prefers "straight up rock n' roll" and that Styx was drifting away from that. Then on his very first chance to "do it his way", puts out a album with drum machines and synths all over the place. Makes you wonder if what he says bothered him about the direction the band was going in as well as issues he had with DDY is the truth. I contend it's a smoke screen. To be clear and I said this many times in the Styx threads over at MR, I don't think DDY is a saint and I'm sure he did things that contributed to disagreements between them. But I do not doubt for one minute that he EVER tried to stifle JY's nor TS' creativity when it came to songs the band could do. To quote the man: "A great song is great song no matter what style it is in".
The challenge is in what you do with the "great song". Long and Winding Road from the Beatles is a great song, IMO. Phil Spectors orchestrations, etc. make it a classic, IMO. Paul McCartney, however, who wrote and sang it, hated what Spector did in the final producing/mixing, etc. Would McCartney's non-embellished version have been considered great? I don't know. I don't care for it as much as the Spector version. Perhaps that is because I heard the Spector version a thousand times before the "naked" version that Paul wanted.
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Post by Boomchild on Feb 3, 2019 20:19:26 GMT -8
The challenge is in what you do with the "great song". Long and Winding Road from the Beatles is a great song, IMO. Phil Spectors orchestrations, etc. make it a classic, IMO. Paul McCartney, however, who wrote and sang it, hated what Spector did in the final producing/mixing, etc. Would McCartney's non-embellished version have been considered great? I don't know. I don't care for it as much as the Spector version. Perhaps that is because I heard the Spector version a thousand times before the "naked" version that Paul wanted. I agree. In Styx, Dennis over the others was the guy that knew what to do with a good song. It's evident in the advice he gave TS about some the songs he brought to the table. A good example would be Dennis's advice to TS about changing Renegade to a up tempo rocker. Also, Dennis spent more time on the album production phase then any of the others did. Perhaps it is these things that TS\JY felt this was Dennis being controlling or overbearing.
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