Your so lucky to have seen them in their prime, JY is also my favorite he’s so cool.

Sounds like it was fun!

Have you seen the ones on my channel already, still looking for more to upload

Also fining filmed shows of Styx is super hard, there’s one more that exists but no luck of finding it has turned up

Yes, I seen those videos in your channel and OK

@@JoeChristiano-thekissfan2.0 A new one is about to be uploaded it’s the extended version of this show (audio only)

OK

That’s the only footage that was recorded of the show. The full audio sounds the same though

@@isaacg4511 ~ Doh! 😖 How is their no full video… ridiculous! And their manager in the 70s never let them perform on television shows like The Midnight Special. Ugh. 😣 How shortsighted. 🤦🏻‍♂️ PS: Still looking for any video - or audio - from the pre-TS years. Especially the Wooden Nickel era. Thanks, Mr. Isaac.

@@daveycretin664this was filmed by someone in the crowd. The original recording is slower and the audio is lower pitch

Yes it does! But it’s only audio and it will be up soon

Looking forward to it. Going to Indianapolis next Friday to see them with Foreigner and John Waite... This is super footage of I'm guessing the Pieces Of Eight Tour.. I've seen the Van Halen show in the same venue...It's just spectacular seeing a young EVH !!

@@robertblackwell5575yup, PO8 tour, there’s also a 20 minute film of them at the Madison square garden but I’m having alot of trouble finding it.

What’s a ghetto blaster? Not too familiar with recording gear

@@mr.majestic3851 awesome! I’m 15 right now 😂 must have been awesome to see them during that time

Man is that so!? This is great dude

I Put your name in the description as the taper

Nice!

What’s your favorite Styx album? Did they not play any of your favorite songs?

What sucks about this? This epitomized the sound of 70's rock! Plus, they were opening up for Deep Purple for fu(KS sake!!! Did you want them to play "Christopher, Mr. Christopher" or "Unfinished Song"? That's right, for the most part 2 ballads in their first 5 albums...back when they were a rock and roll band, and playing some pretty heavy stuff! This was 1975, there was no "Babe" or "Mr Roboto" yet...lol

@@stevewatz1924that’s what I don’t get either this is literally Styx playing Styx songs how could you like Styx and not like this? This is like some of their best being played here.

Not just Tommy's decision. So what if DDY wrote those hits. You do realize there are anywhere from 8-10 songs per album and there were 3 other songwriters. Styx fans are Styx fans because of JY, Chuck and John, John Curulewski AND Tommy Shaw, not just DDY. Yeah, it sucks because he was great, but he wanted to go in a direction nobody else did. Why can't DDY fans recognize that? They wanted to be a rock band, not a ballad/show tune/soft rock opera band. I miss him, but they're doing what they want to do, not what he wanted them to do.

@@stevewatz1924I really think that nobody is at fault Tommy Shaw nor Dennis, they both had different plans for their music and so they split

​@@stevewatz1924No Dennis no Styx

100%

You’re riding on the train of eternal wrath and judgement heading straight to hell.

@@michaelbirke6050love thy neighbor!

@@isaacg4511💕

Of course. Next show will be Styx playing in 2000

I love the grand illusion album

You like this? Check out the shows I’ve posted since

I’m trying to best every day to find the people new recordings. You will get new things I just need to dig deeper

@@patrickmurphy4297 I’ll let you know, there are 2 shows one from Miami 77 and one from Fresno 78 but sadly I’ve had issues downloading these.

@@isaacg4511 do you happen to have "The Illusive Crystal Balls" "unofficial" CD? I really want to hear that one.

@@patrickmurphy4297 I’m not in town I’ll look soon tho

@@isaacg4511 Thank you and keep with it to find a workaround...

Yea I’ll go look for some, what do you have in mind I’ll put em up soon. I’ve got all summer

@@isaacg4511 ~ Any tours from the Wooden Nickel era with John Curulewski on guitar and vocals, pre-Tommy Roland Shaw. Thanks! PS: l liked, subscribed and hit the notification bell as well. If you’re an American, Happy Holiday Weekend! 🎆

Post something from the Tom Nardini era.

Yea someone already told me that in the comments

Where did Dennis say this? I think this show was recorded in February of 1975 and Tommy didn't join the band until the end of 1975.

@@billhayes7014 Dennis talked about it on his facebook page.

​@@billhayes7014 I did some research EQUINOX was released December 1, 1975 . John Curelewski (RIP) quit days before the tour began so he never played these songs live with the band. Styx and the management had to quickly find a replacement. Tommy Shaw left M.S FUNK and joined Styx in December 1975. Also Tommy Shaw was replaced in M.S FUNK by Fergie Fredericksen (RIP) who later replaced Bobby Kimball in TOTO after Kimball was fired in 1983 thus Fergie Fredericksen was the lead singer on TOTOS 1984 album 👉 ISOLATION. Small world indeed.

@@waltersimmons946Thanks for the reply and additional information. I was a disc jockey in Los Angeles during most of the 1970's, mostly as album oriented rock (AOR) stations and we played a lot of Styx music from the RCA/Wooden Nickel releases. I still listen to The Serpent is Rising frequently. I was a music director when A&M released Equinox and we played the heck out of it. A&M gave me tickets to see Styx at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. They had just released Crystal Ball and were the opening act for Journey (pre Steve Perry) who were promoting their album Next. The jock I went to the concert with was a huge Styx fan and logged their entire set and then played the entire set the next day on his show. As luck would have it, the A&R folks at A&M records were listening to our broadcast, called the station and the next day we were interviewing Tommy Shaw in the studios. That kicked off a great relationship between me, A&M and the band that actually kind of continues to this day. I was invited to the premier of The Grand Illusion at the Magic Castle in Hollywood which took place on 7/7/77. Pretty much saw them every time they were in town including parties afterwards. Tommy Shaw actually tried to pawn a groupie off on me so he could get away but he was much cuter than me so she was having none of that. I reconnected with Dennis awhile back when he was at the PBS station where I was working, pledging the Sound Stage concert he did in Chicago quite a few years ago. I ended up interviewing him for the pledge show and we spent a lot of time off camera talking about the collapse of Styx, his brief return in the 1990's and his permanent departure. An awful lot of bad feelings between all of the band members which is really a shame since their chemistry relied on the entire unit. I saw them in an early HD video from Itchycoo Park in Tennessee sans Dennis and they weren't very good trying to play the hits which were originally written and sung by Dennis. They have gotten better at performing without him but the records they have released post Brave New World, haven't really appealed to me.

@@briandrake5464 did he? I don’t use facebook. Check out the other shows I put on here

@@isaacg4511 I will! But I thought you'd like to know Dennis himself highlighted this for us to find.

The next video that’s going up has the news article saying Styx is reunited as the photo

I posted 2 more shows since this one. Good news and bad news is that I may have found a 40 minute COLOR VIDEO of them at the Fresno selland arena 1978 but the bad news is that it’s getting hard to find I’ve been going at it for 2 days already

Someone found the color video of Styx playing from 1978

@@isaacg4511 I hope your right.Dennis deserves to be back with Styx

@@barbararea4291it’s an old photo not a recent one

@@ClassicRockSB stay tuned I’ve got more coming. 2 1996 shows up next

Yes I know I was corrected by someone in the comments. Thanks for watching

Dennis hired Tommy who ended up kicking him out of the band. Shame on Tommy!

Tommy was new in the band during when this show was recorded

@@greatsouthwesttrains3310ah I see

@@greatsouthwesttrains3310new show up

John Curlewski quit Styx just days before the Equinox tour. Jim Vose found Tommy Shaw playing in a bowling alley and brought him to Styx whose only requirement was to hit the high notes in Lady. After Tommy was officially part of Styx did they realize how great he was on guitar, vocals, and songwriting. Crystal Ball was written before Tommy joined.

@@greatsouthwesttrains3310 is that where this was recorded? I don’t really know much about this recording

@@isaacg4511 Yes it was

Made some changes

I personally consider that to be the capital of Rhode Island!

Of course, there’s more Styx on my channel

Yup, more to come soon just gotta find more

I’d say it’s one of the better sounding ones I have uploaded, check out the Fresno Styx concert from 77 it’s my newest video

Thanks for listening!

Oh wow

I’m trying to find more Styx concert bootlegs.

@@isaacg4511 I am happy you are uploading them. since no one really else is

I don’t know, if it is that’s really cool

Oh dang I know you, I have your Styx Las Vegas 96 show saved to my Styx playlist

@@isaacg4511 yeah. i uploaded it at the time because no one else did

@@greatsouthwesttrains3310 Im working towards uploading every bootleg available that isn’t already on KZfaq. I know some have disappeared off KZfaq for some reason like I remember one being called “great balls of fire” and it was a whole concert and now it’s gone

@@greatsouthwesttrains3310I just uploaded a show from summer fest 2000, Styx

That’s would be “babe”from the cornerstone album not fooling yourself. Fooling yourself was written by Tommy Shaw and was released on the grand illusion album