Occupation: Guitarist Birth: November 14, 1949
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology..
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things..
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that run….
I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do..
And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following o….
I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them..
So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe..
We just have to be ourselves..
People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive ….
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music unt….
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again..
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was C….
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 g….
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provi….
The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' fram….
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage -….
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago..
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 ex….
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - fro….
The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access..
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music..