Don't throw Styx

[Hall, Russell J]

Killed the lead singer of another band, that's sort of original

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> From:         Joseph Brooks[SMTP:Joseph.Brooks at GCCCD.NET]
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> Sent:         Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:56 AM
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> Subject:      Re: Don't throw Styx
>
> Well, I never did hear anyone stick up for Boston. And Motley Crue should
> be
> despised just for stealing BOC's umlaut AND Kiss's makeup.. did they ever
> do
> anything original?
>
> JB
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   BREVARD, Adrian R. [mailto:abrevard at SHL.COM]
>                 Sent:   Thursday, March 18, 1999 7:16 AM
>                 To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
>                 Subject:        OFF: Don't throw Styx
>
>                  Actually they're a bunch of kids from Chicago who
> accidentally hit the
>                 > > big time.  They wrote a hell of a lot of good
> rock-n-roll (which
>                 > > you'll never have heard, because I seriously doubt
> that
> you've even
>                 > > *met* anybody who owns a copy of "Serpent" or
> "Equinox").  Then they
>                 > > got carried away with their own success, and started
> getting into
>                 > > artsy, overblown concept albums in the late 70s/early
> 80s.  They made
>                 > > really big fools of themselves, and they've never
> lived
> it down.
>
>
>                 True, grew up in a neighborhood about 3 miles away from my
> wife's old
>                 neighborhood.  Unless you count Tommy Shaw as a real
> memeber
> of Styx.
>                 Believe Tommy hails from Alabama..."Go Tide!"
>
>                 Ah the conceptual stuff was ok, I like this band and used
> to
> own several
>                 pieces of vinyl, at least 8, get it?
>
>                 Can we all work together and find a band universally
> despised on this list?
>                 We gotta rip somebody...anybody...what about Boston?
> Motley
> Crue?  LA Gunns?
>                 C'mon folks think about it.
>
>                 Ghost in the Ruins
>
>                 NP: Galactic Cowboys - Space in Your Face
>