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, and by the time they released Equinox on A&M the band was starting to make a name for themselves. With the addition of Tommy Shaw in 1976 the band would enter it's classic run. With Kilroy Way 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 be a sucker for all things related to Styx. Dennis got airplay with the title track, and the same with Tommy. However neither album exactly set the...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget