‘’Prog Rock [...] has connotations of grandeur and pomposity [...] I think looking back on it that most of it was a pretty good experience for musicians and listeners alike. Some of it was a little bit overblown, but in the case of much of the music, it was absolutely spot on...
It was 1977. I was 10. My brother and I asked my father to take us to see Styx play at Cobo Arena in Detroit. My dad was an older father who grew up on Big Band music in his teens, so rock concerts were not his thing. He'd never been to one. It's great ...
The beauty of the old way of album listening (whether cassettes, CDs, or LPs) is that the artist can script an experience in the way that the whole thing played together. An album was not merely a list of singles thrown together in a haphazard manner.StyxwithParadise TheaterandKilroy was...
Rick Derringer was already somewhat of a known entity, having played with The McCoys and working with blues guitar greats Johnny and Edgar Winter before deciding to venture out on his own in 1973. The guitarist’s debut album was titledAll American Boy, and while it featured several instrumenta...
Kilroy Was Here (Styx). A criminally overlooked rock opera about a future fascist theocracy in which music is outlawed, told from the perspective of a former rock star. The band made a film of the story, which accompanied their stage show....
Rick Derringer was already somewhat of a known entity, having played with The McCoys and working with blues guitar greats Johnny and Edgar Winter before deciding to venture out on his own in 1973. The guitarist’s debut album was titledAll American Boy, and while it featured several instrumenta...
the tracks mirrored pop-culture movements of the time. The LPs biggest hit was “Come Sail Away,” a soaring song about escapism - a common theme in 1977 - that also mixed in sci-fi elements. ‘The Grand Illusion’ launched Styx to stardom, selling more than 3 million copies in the U...
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Rick Derringer was already somewhat of a known entity, having played with The McCoys and working with blues guitar greats Johnny and Edgar Winter before deciding to venture out on his own in 1973. The guitarist’s debut album was titledAll American Boy, and while it featured several instrumenta...
Rick Derringer was already somewhat of a known entity, having played with The McCoys and working with blues guitar greats Johnny and Edgar Winter before deciding to venture out on his own in 1973. The guitarist’s debut album was titledAll American Boy, and while it featured several instrumenta...