Hey everyone: Here are some interviews journalist Neil Daniels conducted recently for his website, including one with yours truly. I hope you enjoy them! I...
Sterling - Â I have a question on the singles on Cornerstone. Based upon what I read in your book, it appears that Babe, First Time, Why Me, Boat On The...
"Babe" was the first single and hit #1. I think the record company intended for 'First Time" to be the second single, to capitalize on the heat from another...
From: sterlingwit@... As for "Lights", I don't know the thinking behind not releasing it. The band did not choose the singles; A&M did. They probably...
In a message dated 8/22/2008 5:58:59 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sterlingwit@... writes: The second single was then made to be "Borrowed Time" to try to...
Interesting, I honestly did not know that "Lights" was a single in Europe. Although it makes a? certain amount of sense because I do recall seeing a clip of...
Andrew: Wow, it's cool that you were on Biography! How did you enjoy the shoot? Did they come to your house, or shoot you at a studio? I have not seen the Andy...
I saw the last show for the Paradise Theatre tour and remember quite clearly the first encore song being "Borrowed Time". Slim Pickens had given the boys a ten...
LOL, I forgot about Slim Pickens. The guys were way into 'Blazing Saddles'. I think they? paid him smething like ten grand for that brief appearance. Pretty...
I remember when Lorelei was released as a single, then Mademoiselle, followed by Come Sail Away and Fooling Yourself. The first time I ever heard Suite ...
It's impossible to say, but I WILL say that it's a mix of things that caused the label to emphasize Dennis over everyone else. Yes, in part it was because he...
Styx would have sold many more records if they had purposely written more songs that could have been hits. But they didn't do that. Songs like Suite, Castle...
OOOps, sent that before I meant to. What I meant to say was, Dennis writes very strong melodies and melodic songs tend to test higher than others because they...
Sterling, do you know how well Snowblind charted on Rock Radio? I remember it being played a lot on the local Rock stations in San Jose back in 1981. ... From:...
In a message dated 8/25/2008 5:07:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sterlingwit@... writes: With 'Kilroy' they were stuck after "Roboto" and DLIE. What else...
I don't think Double Life would have done anything. Just Get Through This Night could have possibly broken the top 50. Shoot, if Music Time could make the top...
In a message dated 8/25/2008 7:00:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, vander9980@... writes: Shoot, if Music Time could make the top 40, why not this song. I...
I personally would have like to have seen it on the Desert Moon LP instead of a Styx LP as it sounds like something that would have fit on Desert Moon. I...
When MTV first announced that Styx was putting out a Live Record, they said it was going to have 3 new songs on it. I remember The VJ saying that. I think it...
I'm pretty sure I have JJ Jackson making that statement on VHS somewhere! ... From: William Vander <vander9980@...> Subject: Re: [Styxbook] A & M's...
Well, we all know there's no accounting for taste when it comes to the music industry. Most of the big hits Dennis wrote are great songs, but in my opinion,...
IMO, Styx was onto something from Equinox all the way to Pieces Of Eight. The lives shows reflected that. They tended to choose the rockers in their setlist,...
I'm pretty much the same way with with JY. I never listen to "Miss America" anymore. As I have always said, Styx is greater than the sum of their parts. I...
I honestly can't remember without looking it up, but there used to be a complete discography somewhere online that had all of that information. It used to be...
You know what, I forgot about "Double Life". Pretty uncharacteristic of JY, but it's, in my opinion, the best real singalong pop chorus he's ever written....
LOL, I always thought "Music Time" was included on CITA simply as a throwaway so they could advertise that there was a new song on there. I also thought it got...
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