The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.
It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.
The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.
