How WILL we resist the lure of the fabled….STYX?! LOL
In their way they remain “The Definitive Havre Sludge Band”, if only because they actually (and somewhat disastrously) played Havre during The Golden Age (@ Northern Montana College’s Armory Gymnasium, March 1976!).
A performance which inspired the following deathless phrase from the subsequent Styx review in the Havre High Stampede:
Devoted rock fans flocked like lambs to slaughter to NMC Armory Gym last Friday night to hear the well-promoted, not-so-well-heeled band known as Styx…
Attending this particular casino-bound secondhand smoke fest in Tacoma would be almost enough to make me stop celebrating birthdays altogether!
We’ll just have t’git out my semi-battered copies of EQUINOX, GRAND ILLUSION, and PIECES OF EIGHT instead, when the 3rd o’ February rolls around….
Yours in Sludge,
– Tom Kipp
From: Live Events [mailto:LIVEEVENTS@EMERALDQUEEN.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:16 AM
To: Kipp, Thomas J
Subject: STYX at EQC
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STYX Friday, February 3rd @ 8:30pm
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Spawned from a suburban Chicago basement in the early ’70s, Styx would eventually transform into the virtual arena rock prototype by the late ’70s and early ’80s due to a fondness for big rockers and soaring power ballads. While the albums (as well as non-stop touring) helped the group build a substantial following locally, Styx broke through to the mainstream when a track originally from their second album, "Lady" started to get substantial airplay in late ’74 on the Chicago radio station WLS-FM. The song was soon issued as a single nationwide, and quickly shot to number six on the singles chart. On the eve of the tour in support of the Equinox album (1975), original guitarist John Curulewski abruptly left the band and was replaced by Tommy Shaw. Shaw proved to be the missing piece of the puzzle for Styx, as most of their subsequent releases throughout the late ’70s earned at least platinum certification and spawned such hit singles and classic rock radio standards as "Come Sail Away," "Renegade," "Blue Collar Man" and "Fooling Yourself." Must be 21 or older to enter. |
