Leslie here,if I have to sit in my rocker and stream any song,concerts etc etc on RU-vid…I’m still gonna ROCK!! And on 9/11, my birthday,that’s exactly what I did!! Rock on and Peace 🎼🎸🔥😎⚜️☮️💋
If you ever find yourself on the wrong side of fortune and are out of work, this song and Boston's Don't Look Back are what you need to get pointed in the right direction.
Tommy wrote this song. It's amazing. It gives you realism in your blood. His emotions singing this song are so deep. I love watching him perform this with CYO. His voice and talent are raw and real.
It shouldn’t be overlooked that John Panozzo was a force of nature on the drums. He is driving that beat, and his fills throughout the song really add to it without taking away from the other parts. He was an excellent drummer.
Love STYX. Went to New York City to try and score some Saturday Night Live! tickets to see Lindsay Lohan, and instead was able to see a 'Today Show' live performance of STYX and Tommy even looked over at me, like "That sumbich knows EVERY WORD to our songs!" lol This was around 2004 or 2005. What a fun memory of New York City. Peace and Love, y'all!
The anthem of the working man. Anyone who swings a hammer, drives a truck, or uses their hands to make a living day or night in all sorts of weather. Whether a hot steel mill, a dusty saw mill, or out in the cold fixing a sewer line or in a rain storm fixing a power line. The blue collar man made this country.
The best concert i ever went to was to see these guys in 1984 in Columbia,S.C. not only was the music, freaking superb, the lightshow was fantastic too, i love STYX one of my favorite all time bands .
This was one of the songs that made like rock and roll. I was prolly 15 or so and this shit just rockedit. Then came stuff like Rush's Tom Sawyer and really different stuff like Flock of Seagull's and Def Leppard and Ozzy and even Night Ranger and The Cult. The music back then was so awesome, so many different types of rock and weird shit. The early 80's were a time of awesomness
Good gosh How did Tommy Shaw NOT be as big as Tom Petty?? He had it All! His voice! Incredible. Way way under appreciated!! Sorta think the band got in his way-
Tommy Shaw...hair to his ass in 1977, my first concert ever. Stood right in front of him all night long. People always think of the DeYoung brothers, but Tommy was Styx..
Es increíble la energía y el ritmo de esta canción, en escenario son fabulosos, realmente puro talento, entusiasmo, ritmo muy pegajoso, que te invita a moverte.. Conozco a STYX desde los 70¨s, pero ahora es cuando realmente lo estoy disfrutando y entendiendo a este grupo y la clave de su éxito. Pensaba que Babe de Dennis era su mejor canción, `pero ésta , Renegade y Too much time on my hands, son las tres joyas majestuosas de este grupo... VIVA STYX !!
Maravillosa banda solo para conocedores viva styx siempre en mi grabadora tengo el great hits origanal amo ese disco cansiones que van a tracender en el tiempo ever forever and Ever como decís Demi russos
Mr Dilly has had the Absolute privilege to have seen the Original.. Styx lineup in concert... and let me tell you something there Bo they Kick Rock and Roll ass !!! 👍 🎸😎
Superbe song.....One of my most loved Styx songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This song helped me get thru many hard times in my life at work!!!! I retired 2009. "I was a blue collar man!!" Never say Never!
The "liveness" of this performance has the power to transfer the viewer to this concert arena in an instant. I was getting goosebumps from the beginning till the end as if I was there watching it live. This is an amazing gift especially for those of us living with the lockdown due to the virus. Thank you, Styx and Tommy Shaw, for your superb performance. I had the privilege to attend Tommy's solo concert in Nagoya, Japan in the early 80s. That memory is still vivid in me after 35 years. He has an extraordinary gift as a song writer and a performer.
Saw the back in the day from the 4th row, center, and that uplifted, charged up to levels I hadn't known existed, hit the ground a running and don't look back, raw, fully alive and aware place you're in after such a profound performance that's with you for a few days at least, is still with me 40 years later and still growing because I'm the only one they can't beat and I know it ; ) I love you brother Tommy
This song grew out of the great "industrial bomb" that really hurt Chicago's south side in the late 70's and early 80's. There were three steel mills in the south side (Wisconsin Steel, Republic Steel, and U.S. Steel), now they're all open fields. There were also food processing plants for General Mills cereals, and Jay's potato chips. They're abandoned too. WTH!
I grew up during the 70s, and I can sympathize with your assessment of the "industrial bomb" you mentioned. Not only was Chicago affected, but a lot of other cities as well, especially here in my hometown of Pittsburgh. You mentioned U.S. Steel in the observational comment; Pittsburgh was the headquarters of the company as well as a lot of other steel firms, and for decades we were the only city to produce steel with high quality until the cheaper imports came in. Plus with the new emphasis on environmental concerns and emissions regulations, our steel mills dwindled to almost nothing.
Thomas R. Skidmore Baltimore, also a big steel industry at that point, was destroyed during the late 70's under the disastrous Carter administration. The Bethlehem Steel company layed off nearly everybody back then. Although it didn't really shut down until the late 90's.
Scott Davis I love when commenters like you and the other two people in this thread explain the cultural things going on when a song was written. Great knowledge ya'll pass on.
POTUS Trump wants steel back; he is right. All purchases for steel by the Federal Government need to go to US producers. If a DoD contract is cost plus fixed fee it can support higher costs from US mills.
fligemon Yes. It might be the second ever Iwhich I've agreed with him. The first was that the Kathy Griffin monstrosity was far out of hand. Sorry to readers that we got political here for a min under a Styx video. No more from me.
itsnotaboutme it was mostly half Tommy Shaw wrote most of the radio hits from like pieces of eight. He also wrote too much time on my hands. And fooling yourself
Maybe one of the most underrated singers, but not songwriters. Dennis DeYoung wrote most Styx songs, and Too Much Time On My Hands is the only Shaw written Styx top 10 hit
Leslie here,With out a doubt the soundtrack of my life! Styx Boston,Heart,Led Zeppelin,Nazareth, Queen,Bowie,AC/DC,Traffic and too many more to name!! Rock on and Peace 🎼🎸😉🔥⚜️☮️💋
Tommy Shaw was the reason why I wanted to play guitar period. Then I have to tell you, I heard Journey’s evolution album, and was totally blown away by Steve Perry’s vocals and Neal Schons playing. It’s hard to make a decision between both.
Just saw these guys last Saturday down in Tennessee. They were really, really, good and worth every dime of the ticket, gas, and other expenses. Definitely one of those shows you are hoping won't end.
Love that guy Tommy Shaw...always showin talent with guitar and vocals and thought he did a great job with DAMN YANKEES with TED NUGENT a few years back! Keep Rockin TOMMY! Cheers, MBN
