They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
We just have to be ourselves.
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.
And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.
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Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.
We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
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