Old Enough to Forget

When Styx imploded after the band's 1983 tour that gave the world the live album Caught in the Act , it was the end of an era. Styx had dropped their debut album in 1972, and while those first few albums on Wooden Nickel were inconsistent, there was something undeniable going on. By the time they released Equinox , their first on A&M back in '75, the band was starting to make a name for themselves. With the addition of Tommy Shaw in 1976, the band would enter its platinum classic run. With their 1983 release Kilroy Was Here , the band started to come apart at the seams. The album would go platinum, but it wasn't the triple platinum their past few albums had delivered. Freed from the constraints of being in a band, Dennis would drop Desert Moon in the fall of '83, and not long after, Tommy Shaw's Girls with Guns was released. For me, this was all gravy - I was, and continue to be, a sucker for all things related to Styx. Dennis got airplay with the title track,...