{"id":806952,"date":"2020-04-30T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=992146"},"modified":"2020-04-30T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:43:24","slug":"flashback-styx-perform-a-soaring-come-sail-away-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-styx-perform-a-soaring-come-sail-away-in-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Styx Perform a Soaring \u2018Come Sail Away\u2019 in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two weeks ago, Styx<\/a> founder Dennis DeYoung posted a solo rendition of the band\u2019s 1981 hit \u201cBest of Times\u201d<\/a> onto YouTube that he recorded in his house. Much to his amazement, it quickly racked up 847,000 views and inspired him to post another song (the band\u2019s 1990 tune \u201cShow Me the Way\u201d) and start his own YouTube channel. \u201cThank you for everything you\u2019ve done with the \u2018Best of Times\u2019 video,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it. I\u2019ve read all the comments.\u201d (There\u2019s 6,015 of those and climbing.)<\/p>\n

The success of the video proves that there\u2019s still a lot love out in the world for DeYoung even though his own band kicked him out 21 years ago and have refused all of his pleas to let him back in. They point to personality clashes on their reunion tours in 1996 and 1997 along with lingering bitterness over the group\u2019s 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here.<\/em> \u201cIt cut our album sales in half because the male audience was absolutely alienated by \u2018Mr. Roboto,\u2019\u201d Styx guitarist J.Y. Young said in 2019.<\/a> \u201cNot all of them but a large chunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve toured heavily these past two decades with replacement vocalist-keyboardist Lawrence Gowan while DeYoung has played the band\u2019s music at solo shows. \u201cI\u2019m not even in the band I made famous,\u201d he told Rolling Stone<\/em> earlier this year.<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t want to sound like a whiner. I have moved on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Many fans have not moved on and continue to hope the group will let him back in at some point. To see what that might look like, here\u2019s video of the band playing \u201cCome Sail Away\u201d on the 1996 Return to Paradise<\/em> reunion tour. This is before South Park<\/em> and Freaks and Geeks<\/em> brought the song back into the public consciousness, but it still gets the entire amphitheater joyfully swaying and singing along.<\/p>\n

With all due respect to Lawrence Gowan, who is a fine singer, it\u2019s just not the same when they play it these days. Like so many Styx classics, DeYoung wrote the song and sang it on the record. Not letting him back for one more tour feels almost cruel at this point. They haven\u2019t spoken in 20 years, but when we recently asked DeYoung what he\u2019d like to say to them. \u201c\u2018Let\u2019s get together and give the fans one more run at this thing and then I\u2019ll ride off into the sunset,’\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018You\u2019ll keep doing your Styx thing and using the name. I don\u2019t care. I want it one more time for our fans.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Gentlemen of Styx, Dennis has put the ball firmly in your court here. What do you say? Will you try the best that you can to carry on as you are? Or will you think of childhood friends and the dreams you had and let him back in? Together you can once again search for tomorrow on every shore.<\/p>\n

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