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We just have to be ourselves.
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The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
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Chicago
Stills
Studios
Mix
Studio
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I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
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Play
Stage
Scrape
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So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.
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Chicago
Base
Secondary
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The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.
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Joy
Live Concerts
Two
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So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
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Music
Globes
Matter
Want
Our Music
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It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.
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Crazy
Way
Worst
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People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
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Music
Great Things
Inspired
People
Music Great People
Our Music
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I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.
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Goes On
Guitar
Playing Guitar
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Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
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Care
Styx
Ten
Years
Years Ago
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
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We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.
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Safe
Sorry
Way
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I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.
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Men
Stage
Twenties
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Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
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Giving
Keys
Progress
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I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
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Energy
Littles
Pace
Activities
Extra
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So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
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Music
Styx
Blues
Tommy
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All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
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Effects
Excess
Pain
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
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Audience
Crowds
Thinking
Younger
Audiences
Responsive
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I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.
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Ambitious
Should
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The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.
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Internet
Records
Way
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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
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Excelled
Performance
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They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
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Baby
Impact
Survival
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Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
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Technology
Needs
Stage
Happening
Stinking
Whereas
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The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.
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Deregulation
Planes
Tsa
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Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
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Music
Band
Dysfunction
Fun
Lines
Moments
Music Fun New
Line-Up
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People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.
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Concerts
Destructive
Excuse
Giving
People
Rock Concerts
Rocks
Loose
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And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
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Music
Band
Fans
Following
New Music
Play
Spread
Styx
Front
Music Fans New
Helps
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
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Country
Four
Past
Puritan
Centuries
Ethic
Needless
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But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
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Music
Fans
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Styx
Die
Continent
Set
Marking
Rock
Planet
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Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.
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Musical
Be True
Indeed
Painted
Sonic
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And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.
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Light
Musical
Shining
Styx
Great Stuff
Onto
Reflect
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We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
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Concerts
Fog
Marijuana
Response
Strong
Thinking
Age Always Me
Age Me Day
Naturally
Exuberant
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We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
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Chuck
Piano
Player
Release
Years
Album
Berry
Johnny
Piano Player
Studio
Recordings
Taylor
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In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
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Balanced
Groups
Incarnation
Individual
Mind
Functional
Current
Happier
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The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
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Navy
Use
Village
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Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
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Composing
Discipline
Guy
Mind
Okay
Sitting
Great Gift
Previous
Studio
Tommy
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Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
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Happiness
Smile
Feel Good
Laughter
Records
Song
Touring
Onto
Rock Band
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But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
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Change
Suits
Trying
Uncomfortable
Change Time Great
Great Thing
Suit
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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Music
Classic
Classic Rock
Dinosaurs
New Music
People
Play
Radio
Radio Stations
Rocks
Stations
Styx
Music Look People
Perform
Current
Generally
Inclined
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Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
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Core
Facade
Adjust
Apart
Believes
Each One
Wearing
Mantle
Perceived
Recognize
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I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.
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Couple
Song
Writing
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There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
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Running
Technology
People
Stuck
Backing
Click
Computerized
Partly
Producing
Runs
Vocals
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Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.
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Art
Perspective
Principles
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