I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.
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.
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
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.
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.
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.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.