Why this song was never a significant hit, is beyond my comprehension. I remember playing it in my so powerful stereo for my friends and they were always amazed. This song had it all for '79: voice, tune, arrangements, power..... Still splendid, 40 years later.
I second that! First STYX Song I ever heard. Because it is the first on Cornerstone, the first of their albums I ever listened to in 1993 or '94. My brother had left a cassette of it behind when he'd gone away to school some years earlier. And I immediately thought it was quite a splendid song, as well. I have been a devout STYX fan ever since and have seen them perform live 3 times now, while my said older brother never has.
Because A&M never released it as a single back then. In those days, unless a song was put out on a 45, they rarely got airplay, except maybe on AOR stations. But even then, Styx had such a hard time getting radio to play anything from them. It would have been difficult for a song such as *"Lights"* to be played much either way. I've always felt that A&M was biased as to who they promoted more in Styx. 95% of the time it was Dennis's songs, regardless of what they were. Tommy got a small portion of promotion, and JY didn't get any at all...
@@Deborahtunes Deborah, there is a lot of sense to all you say. I'd just add that this great song "Lights" was a single in Germany, where it reached #35. I suspect the reason it was not a US single was the pause before the first vocal and because of Journey already having had a major radio hit with a different song of the same name.
@@bobdavis4848 ~ I have to disagree on the reason being the same song titles. If you look at the song title *"Lady,"* it's been done many times by different artists over the years. These are just a few examples: 1) *Lady* Styx (released in 1973 - charted at #6 in 1975 on billboard) 2) *Lady* Little River Band (1978 - charted at #10 on billboard) 3) *Lady* Kenny Rogers (1980 - charted at #1 on 4 different billboard music genra's) 4) *Lady {You Bring Me Up}* The Commodores (1981 - charted at #8 on Billboard) As you can see, everyone of these songs were pretty big hits for those bands/artists. I really do believe it was because of both A&M's, and the American radio station's biases, that Styx's song *Lights* didn't get played/promoted as a single. Coincidentally, Journey's *"Lights,"* the track only got to #68 on billboard's charts during the single's 1978 release. It was probably because of our AOR stations playing it so much that the song became a hit with the fans years after the original release. But the top 40 stations never touched it, and the studio recording never got any higher on the charts here in the US. Although a *live* version of *"Lights"* put on a box set in 1993 reached #30 on the adult contemporary charts...
@@Deborahtunes Hello Ms. Deborah 78, nice to see you here. The first and main reason I gave why I think A&M chose not to release Styx’s “Lights” as a single in the U.S. was the fade then silence just before the first vocal. Having worked in commercial radio for many years, I knew very well the paranoia program directors have about even perceived false endings and dead air, especially literal. They are scared to death that the silence will make listeners change stations. They take their song intros talk ups very seriously, writing out for DJs how many seconds, even breaking it down into multiple seconds number listings if the intro gradually builds up (examples: One 2 Many's "Downtown," Boy Meets Girl's "Waiting For A Star To Fall") Silence could fluster a busy DJ and make her or him spontaneously cut away from the song when it comes too early. I know where Journey's "Lights" peaked; it got so much airplay that people over the years have been surprised when I've told them it peaked that low on the pop chart (they hadn't gotten their pop radio singles momentum going well yet). Having been a weekly listener of the “American Top 40” radio show, I am familiar with all the other "Lady" related songs you listed, and I own each, too. But of those performing acts, only Styx was an AOR (album oriented rock) act in radio terms. The others were MOR, country and R&B (and then came The Whispers' "Lady" also top 40 pop and higher R&B...)... It was played plenty on San Francisco Top 40 stations like KFRC, probably partly due to its lyrics referring to wanting to get back to his “city by the bay.” Anyway, Journey’s “Lights” was getting increased AOR radio airplay at that time due to Journey’s pop radio and Top 40 inroads with “Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’” and “Any Way You Want It.” Styx and Journey appealed to much the same target audience and corporate AOR radio format staple, and I suspect A&M was also afraid of somehow the songs getting confused or conflated in some listeners’ and buyers’ minds if Styx’s “Lights” was a single. I am not ruling out that there could have been a third reason relating to some sort of bias…But what bias did you mean?
It's very hard not to fall a little bit in love with Tommy after watching. He's very charming, especially when he's goofing around with JY. Love those two.
So great seeing the Panozzo brothers on this video. Styx was in it's prime back then. I so wish Tommy and JY could reconcile with Dennis before one of them or Chuck aren't able to perform and we never get to see the real Styx together again. Probably too late though...
I often wonder why they can't just do a co headliner tour with Dennis's band and then maybe close the encore with a small set with just Tommy, Chuck, JY, Dennis and Todd
Our oldest Son just passed away two weeks ago 😭. While preparing a slideshow for his funeral, this song kept playing in my head over and over again. We used it as background theme, can’t believe how much it has help me grieve his sudden loss ❤️🩹 Well played Tommy and Dennis....❤️🔥
So sorry for your loss, so hard to ever go forward or understand. But music does help. Thank you for sharing such a an emotional loss, but comforting to know music has helped. One day at a time...♡♡
All songs with the classic line up are epic. Cornerstone is a classic. I heard it wasn't as hard as Pieces of eight. So what??? It is just as good, just completely different. What a treat for a band to go in different directions. Sound track of my life. Styx is without a doubt one of the best rock bands ever.
I just love this video ! Tommy Shaw is absolutely adorable and so damn talented! I love to watch his interaction with JY ! They act like brothers, its awesome!
I heard the knock on my door I heard the ring of the bell I got the letter, but I couldn't go So many thoughts in my head, so many places to be So many faces that I long to see Standing in front of me Tonight, the lights will take me where I want to be Just like a thousand nights before Somebody said to me Why do you do this to you? Why not sit back and relax? Go to the islands and forget it all Slow down, you're moving too fast You seem afraid it won't last Take my advice, go straight and settle down Thank you for caring, but Tonight, the lights will take me where I want to be Just like a thousand nights before I can't explain, it gives me some pain Give me the lights Precious lights Give me lights Give me my hope, give me my energy You can turn the wrong into right Precious lights Illuminate me, won't you watch me play? Give me the lights Precious lights Give me lights Give me my hope, give me my energy You can turn the wrong into right Precious lights Illuminate me, won't you watch me play?
I got your back Angie! I have seen Styx 4 times in the past 4 months - no lip syncing! Still have 3 more shows to go before the end of the year. They are the real deal. It's worth every penny I spend and every mile I drive!
I love this song and album. Great memories of this time. And so much superb talent in this band. Saw them live in 81 in NY. Still one of the best live shows I've ever seen to this day. This was the real and only Styx band to me. The albums with DDY were far superior ( my humble opinion) to anything since. But I am glad the guys are each still touring in their own groups too. -To much talent to just sit at home. I know how music is in one's blood and am glad that the show continues for them, in various forms. So I wish them all good health, and many many more years of rocking out and chasing their dreams. We are all thankful for Styx!
I might have the highest crush on young tommy! I'm 18 this year .I'm so glad TH-cam has recommended me so many Styx video since their own channel doesn't have them. Tommy's voice is so powerful he became my instant crush !
I can relate, as I used to have the same crush on Tommy myself, for many years. But now, as I am older, it's more respect for his music. And JY as well...
i cant recall how many times i heard this song...!when i was in the army in 84 i had styx songs on my sony walkman and listen to they´re music all night...
Tommy Shaw needs to do a live performance for a special area as well as a person who wants desperately stay standing ....ME....He's AWESOME to this day!!!!!!!!
1980 'LIGHTS' CON STYX: Es un compendio de lo que tiene Styx para sus fans... Hay letra muy bien escrita, folk acústico, presencia de llamativas voces de fondo o muy bien armonizadas... Hay elemento Prog y alcance Pop para su Rock... Tocan muy bien sus instrumentos los Styx ..ah! Lights también tiene Funk🙃❤ ....
Brings back alot of memories (of 1980... and 1990 -- when I finally bought the Cornerstone cassette). Tommy's awesome. This is when he still looked like Naomi Watts - ha! :-)
I don't know how old you are but many TV shows, especially in the 1960's-80's had the guest artists lip sync, like the long running series "Solid Gold" and many others. It's for the TV audience not the crowd there, and when a single is new they want the audience to get used to the recording and to buy it. Once it's famous then the artists will take license with it and stylize and vary it when performed live.
I have seen them 6 times since the late 70's. Not once did they lip-sync a single song. If you listen to their albums/cassettes/CD's as much as I did/do you can tell when someone is lip-syncing and when they arent. Styx doesn't. Kinda hard to lip-sync when they have a new lead singer/keyboard player anyway.....
Lol! They’re definitely lip syncing. It’s just the way things were done back then. I mean, come on, Tommy comes in late right from the get go. It’s no big deal. We didn’t care back then. It’s their studio album cut.
Pretty much all of those music tv shows in that era made you lip sync even when you wanted to perform live. See Public Image Limited on American Bandstand in 1980. Best example of a protest over this practice
Is it live or is it Memorex? Styx was so tight during this period it's truly hard to tell. With this lineup they always sounded just like the vinyl. DY insisted on perfection. This eventually led to resentment. Some truly talented musicians.
PixieFreya, don't know where, or who you got your information from, but trust me along with others on this page, I have been to several of their concerts and they are NOT lip syncing to anything. This was yes, because that's how many shows did it back then. But this here wasn't a concert, but a taped television show.
This performance was without a doubt lip-synched. I love Styx but this was nothing more than a music video, not a live show. The sound is exactly the same as the studio version.
Yes this performance was because back in this time that's what most of the shows did. With a few exceptions, Soul Train and Midnight Special. And even some of those were not always live. Read some of the other posts on here and you will see why it was that way back in that time period.
+Freyja11331ify A power metal band, Hmmm. Well, Anyone who plays music of any kind has musical influences which propels that person to play what they like. But to answer your question, I would say no. Dennis's ballads and show tunes have softened the band to the point that people stopped taking them for a serious rock band anymore. They had become more of a pop sound due to Dennis's musical ideas. But don't let that discourage you from looking at Styx as an influential band. They are all still great musicians and have good creativity, especially since they let in Lawrence Gowan, who replaced DDY. Without Dennis pushing his ideas forward, this change has allowed Styx to get back to their roots. Which initially was more progressive rock. I hope that answered your question. Thanks for asking.
I saw you on another video talking about footage of Styx at the Madison square garden 1978, any idea on how I could get that I upload a lot of Styx on my channel
That's funny. They are unplugged and playing to the original track. You can hear the laughing and talking in the background around 3:02 that is on the original track. Too bad.
This was definitely lip synced. Near the end of the song on the original recording, the one playing, he sings the lyric watch me play. Here, he looks like he says “let” me play. (3:38) So this was lip synced. I don’t know why they would have done that. They don’t need it at all.
Ok, HELLO MORONS! Read before you text! It was a tv show, they had to lip sync, but I agree it is kinda dumb to lip sync to a song that fades out at the end......
That's the way it was done back then. Most television shows didn't have the budget, or the time to do live concert performances when they had multiple acts performing in one episode...
Their record label wanted them to be on the show. In order to be on the show they had to lip sync. Things are different today then they were back then. I'm sure given the opportunity they would have liked to play live but when you're on a whirlwind tour of Europe and doing press and promotion in between live gigs, you kinda just do what's been lined up for you.
Dan S. That's because it is the studio version. This was a taped show done in front of a live audience. Back in those days many shows did it. American Band Stand, Midnight Special (sometimes), and others in that time period.
Of course they're lip syncing to the original recording here. They weren't given a choice. ALL the bands did on these kinds of shows. One episode might have 4 or 5 different bands perform -- there's no way to get the sound wired up and mic'd and properly mixed for each one of them. Even now, bands get an hour's soundcheck to play on Letterman or Fallon. Big deal, there's lots of footage of this band KILLING IT live throughout the years. Lip synching back when this was filmed had nothing to do with a band's talent or ability to pull it off in live performances. It was the simple logistics of running a TV show.
Why would they? Why be the only band screwing up the production schedule of a show that already had everything in the can? That'd be stupid. Who's to say the show was even set up for playing live and could've done it in the first place? TV production was a completely different thing back then. It was advertising, not art. These guys played it live plenty. Screw this one TV show. *smh*
+DcsOrCity No, that's just the way it was back then. The only show doing a lot of live material was Midnight Special, and even all their shows weren't live.
That's exactly right. If they had two musical guests that had big bands, i.e. Doobie Bros and Earth Wind & Fire, they just didn't have the capability to accommodate both bands' sound requirements. That didn't happen often, fortunately. But all these other shows figured no one would notice, and lip synching cut the budget for the show down to half, so...
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Why this song was never a significant hit, is beyond my comprehension.
I remember playing it in my so powerful stereo for my friends and they were always amazed.
This song had it all for '79: voice, tune, arrangements, power.....
Still splendid, 40 years later.
I second that! First STYX Song I ever heard. Because it is the first on Cornerstone, the first of their albums I ever listened to in 1993 or '94. My brother had left a cassette of it behind when he'd gone away to school some years earlier. And I immediately thought it was quite a splendid song, as well. I have been a devout STYX fan ever since and have seen them perform live 3 times now, while my said older brother never has.
Because A&M never released it as a single back then. In those days, unless a song was put out on a 45, they rarely got airplay, except maybe on AOR stations.
But even then, Styx had such a hard time getting radio to play anything from them. It would have been difficult for a song such as *"Lights"* to be played much either way.
I've always felt that A&M was biased as to who they promoted more in Styx. 95% of the time it was Dennis's songs, regardless of what they were. Tommy got a small portion of promotion, and JY didn't get any at all...
@@Deborahtunes Deborah, there is a lot of sense to all you say. I'd just add that this great song "Lights" was a single in Germany, where it reached #35. I suspect the reason it was not a US single was the pause before the first vocal and because of Journey already having had a major radio hit with a different song of the same name.
@@bobdavis4848 ~ I have to disagree on the reason being the same song titles. If you look at the song title *"Lady,"* it's been done many times by different artists over the years. These are just a few examples:
1) *Lady* Styx (released in 1973 - charted at #6 in 1975 on billboard)
2) *Lady* Little River Band (1978 - charted at #10 on billboard)
3) *Lady* Kenny Rogers (1980 - charted at #1 on 4 different billboard music genra's)
4) *Lady {You Bring Me Up}* The Commodores (1981 - charted at #8 on Billboard)
As you can see, everyone of these songs were pretty big hits for those bands/artists.
I really do believe it was because of both A&M's, and the American radio station's biases, that Styx's song *Lights* didn't get played/promoted as a single.
Coincidentally, Journey's *"Lights,"* the track only got to #68 on billboard's charts during the single's 1978 release. It was probably because of our AOR stations playing it so much that the song became a hit with the fans years after the original release. But the top 40 stations never touched it, and the studio recording never got any higher on the charts here in the US. Although a *live* version of *"Lights"* put on a box set in 1993 reached #30 on the adult contemporary charts...
@@Deborahtunes Hello Ms. Deborah 78, nice to see you here. The first and main reason I gave why I think A&M chose not to release Styx’s “Lights” as a single in the U.S. was the fade then silence just before the first vocal. Having worked in commercial radio for many years, I knew very well the paranoia program directors have about even perceived false endings and dead air, especially literal. They are scared to death that the silence will make listeners change stations. They take their song intros talk ups very seriously, writing out for DJs how many seconds, even breaking it down into multiple seconds number listings if the intro gradually builds up (examples: One 2 Many's "Downtown," Boy Meets Girl's "Waiting For A Star To Fall") Silence could fluster a busy DJ and make her or him spontaneously cut away from the song when it comes too early. I know where Journey's "Lights" peaked; it got so much airplay that people over the years have been surprised when I've told them it peaked that low on the pop chart (they hadn't gotten their pop radio singles momentum going well yet). Having been a weekly listener of the “American Top 40” radio show, I am familiar with all the other "Lady" related songs you listed, and I own each, too. But of those performing acts, only Styx was an AOR (album oriented rock) act in radio terms. The others were MOR, country and R&B (and then came The Whispers' "Lady" also top 40 pop and higher R&B...)... It was played plenty on San Francisco Top 40 stations like KFRC, probably partly due to its lyrics referring to wanting to get back to his “city by the bay.” Anyway, Journey’s “Lights” was getting increased AOR radio airplay at that time due to Journey’s pop radio and Top 40 inroads with “Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’” and “Any Way You Want It.” Styx and Journey appealed to much the same target audience and corporate AOR radio format staple, and I suspect A&M was also afraid of somehow the songs getting confused or conflated in some listeners’ and buyers’ minds if Styx’s “Lights” was a single. I am not ruling out that there could have been a third reason relating to some sort of bias…But what bias did you mean?
Tommy Shaw is one of thee most under rated musicians/voices in rock music EVER !
Agreed He is an outstanding music man
Totally agree..Shaw is amazing..Damn Yankees too!!
He's not underrated what Rock You Been Under
Hes a Monster.....a good one.....still.....yep
@@PaulyV56 For real! Every musician I know respects Tommy Shaw and have for decades! Such a tremendous talent still!
It's very hard not to fall a little bit in love with Tommy after watching. He's very charming, especially when he's goofing around with JY. Love those two.
I'm a lot in love with Tommy Shaw.
Yeah, he's still a cutie
I had such a crush on Tommy! Saw Styx in 2018, JY and Tommy still have that connection on stage!
I saw Styx live in Manchester, UK in 2005 and fell even more in love with Tommy and James!! The chemistry they have on stage is amazing 😊
I’m 28 and we just don’t make this kind of music anymore .. great music in my time but will never compare to Styx
This, in my opinion is Styx's best song, ever!
Not Styx. Tommy wrote it before he joined.
@@GraysonRobbins-yn1qq And yet still Styx.
I love seeing Tommy and JY having fun onstage, they will always be BFFS
So great seeing the Panozzo brothers on this video. Styx was in it's prime back then. I so wish Tommy and JY could reconcile with Dennis before one of them or Chuck aren't able to perform and we never get to see the real Styx together again. Probably too late though...
I often wonder why they can't just do a co headliner tour with Dennis's band and then maybe close the encore with a small set with just Tommy, Chuck, JY, Dennis and Todd
I always like watching Tommy and JY together. They are such good friends.
Precious Lights.....STYX at their prime.....it dont git to much better for me.....Rock n Roll.....thanx
• I remember buying this album • played it over and over • it's strange I remember every word • but haven't heard it really in years.
First song on Side 1 of the first Styx album I bought. A great feeling to find it was as good as Babe and I'm Ok. :)
Tommy is always so cute, and great talent. Styx is great and always will be.
Our oldest Son just passed away two weeks ago 😭. While preparing a slideshow for his funeral, this song kept playing in my head over and over again. We used it as background theme, can’t believe how much it has help me grieve his sudden loss ❤️🩹 Well played Tommy and Dennis....❤️🔥
So sorry to hear of your loss. Just know he lives in and through you. Pay him proper homage.
So sorry for your loss, so hard to ever go forward or understand. But music does help. Thank you for sharing such a an emotional loss, but comforting to know music has helped. One day at a time...♡♡
Hope you all are finding peace.
I am so, so sorry for your loss.
Love 💕 for Your Family ! Your Son lives in You ❤
Tommy looks so good 😭💖 He's the best
Love Styx! My favourite band of all time!
this song is so great and one of styx's BEST underappreciated songs!!
My favourite song of Styx.
Classic one!
Oh Tommy, your vocal range will destroy any karaoke attempt..... Love this song !!!
All songs with the classic line up are epic. Cornerstone is a classic. I heard it wasn't as hard as Pieces of eight. So what??? It is just as good, just completely different. What a treat for a band to go in different directions. Sound track of my life. Styx is without a doubt one of the best rock bands ever.
Grand Illusion and Equinox are their best 2 albums
@@williamgessler1759
私も貴方と完全に同じです！
日本から❤🎉
I love everything about this song the Music, the Lyrics and Tommy Shaw's Great voice he is probably one of my favorite Singers.
I can't explain he gives me something !!!
I just love this video ! Tommy Shaw is absolutely adorable and so damn talented! I love to watch his interaction with JY ! They act like brothers, its awesome!
Great minds think alike!
He looks like an old woman now.
@@stanleymcvay9283 I think you one jealous SOB. He looks better now at almost 67 than you ever will!
Gotta love Tommy Shaw! He is such a character! #havingablast! :)
"Thank you for caring, but . . . " you just have to love a rock star who is polite. lol
Those were the good old times
Secretly the Greatest band ever...
Second only to Toto.
I heard the knock on my door
I heard the ring of the bell
I got the letter, but I couldn't go
So many thoughts in my head, so many places to be
So many faces that I long to see
Standing in front of me
Tonight, the lights will take me where I want to be
Just like a thousand nights before
Somebody said to me
Why do you do this to you?
Why not sit back and relax?
Go to the islands and forget it all
Slow down, you're moving too fast
You seem afraid it won't last
Take my advice, go straight and settle down
Thank you for caring, but
Tonight, the lights will take me where I want to be
Just like a thousand nights before
I can't explain, it gives me some pain
Give me the lights
Precious lights
Give me lights
Give me my hope, give me my energy
You can turn the wrong into right
Precious lights
Illuminate me, won't you watch me play?
Give me the lights
Precious lights
Give me lights
Give me my hope, give me my energy
You can turn the wrong into right
Precious lights
Illuminate me, won't you watch me play?
Ahhhh.....so many memories of the teenage me who fell in love with Tommy!
Superb
Styx
"Lights"
A&M Records, 1980
I got your back Angie! I have seen Styx 4 times in the past 4 months - no lip syncing! Still have 3 more shows to go before the end of the year. They are the real deal. It's worth every penny I spend and every mile I drive!
I think this was lip sync'd. I've seen stub a few times, twice with Tommy Shaw and no doubt they are awesome live.
Luv styx one of the best rock music in the whole world
I love this song and album. Great memories of this time. And so much superb talent in this band. Saw them live in 81 in NY. Still one of the best live shows I've ever seen to this day. This was the real and only Styx band to me. The albums with DDY were far superior ( my humble opinion) to anything since. But I am glad the guys are each still touring in their own groups too. -To much talent to just sit at home. I know how music is in one's blood and am glad that the show continues for them, in various forms. So I wish them all good health, and many many more years of rocking out and chasing their dreams. We are all thankful for Styx!
one of my favorite rock band.
I might have the highest crush on young tommy! I'm 18 this year .I'm so glad TH-cam has recommended me so many Styx video since their own channel doesn't have them. Tommy's voice is so powerful he became my instant crush !
I can relate, as I used to have the same crush on Tommy myself, for many years. But now, as I am older, it's more respect for his music. And JY as well...
What's your favorite song?
Fantastic opening track.
Awesome 😎
i cant recall how many times i heard this song...!when i was in the army in 84 i had styx songs on my sony walkman and listen to they´re music all night...
JY + Tommy, forever melting my heart.
#FriendshipGoals
Legit, one of the best bromances of all time.
Hey Tess, how have you been? Is everything ok. Haven't heard from you. Hope everything is ok with you...
You always see how close Tommy and JY are.
This was great I had forgotten about this song. I read the post and yes most all Styx were live not lip sync
This is so cute of Tommy!!!
Used to play this one back in the day
Always great music ❤
What a personable performance .. lucky souls
OMG I hadn’t heard that since I was about 12 and remembered every word! I’m 52.
I das them in Munic 1980
Great Styx !!
Tommy Shaw needs to do a live performance for a special area as well as a person who wants desperately stay standing ....ME....He's AWESOME to this day!!!!!!!!
It was nice that Tommy was able to get leave from the Navy to shoot this. ;-)
Wow that Tommy Shaw can play!
and just as good as on the album.
Cornerstone , Head Games, Audio-Visions, Don't Look Back,
Hi Infidelity.
For me, the soundtrack of my Elementary youth🤟
Stay safe everyone 🙏
Great song, love the lyrics,
1980 'LIGHTS' CON STYX: Es un compendio de lo que tiene Styx para sus fans... Hay letra muy bien escrita, folk acústico, presencia de llamativas voces de fondo o muy bien armonizadas... Hay elemento Prog y alcance Pop para su Rock... Tocan muy bien sus instrumentos los Styx ..ah! Lights también tiene Funk🙃❤ ....
I love this song. It relates the grand spectacle of 1000 lights washing over you, illuminating, energizing and empowering.
Love it!!!!!!!!!! Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
saw them 4 times. One concert Tommy came out the lights went down and he played Lights-Acoustical-One of the best things I'd ever seen
That had to have been after Dennis left the band. His gargantuan ego would not let Tommy Shaw solo a song Dennis co-wrote.
@@michaelanderson2881 No Dennis was there too. Everyone was there except John Pannozo RIP. Outdoors in Colorado great evening
@@nathanhatcher1997 I stand corrected. Must have been great!
Greetings! It was probably in their contract to lip-sync for this TV programme. Styx was a phenomenal live band in the 70's and 80's - the best!
Superb Post~~not seen this~~ very Long time
Kitten Lady’s Dad!!!!
Thank you Thank you one of my favorites
Yes, thanks
Loved this album and this song. Thanks for posting
Mom
Thank you for the cornerstone album.. lots of nights with this and an order of Bob's Pizza back in the days on Westbrook.
Love you mom
Brings back alot of memories (of 1980... and 1990 -- when I finally bought the Cornerstone cassette). Tommy's awesome. This is when he still looked like Naomi Watts - ha! :-)
And Cheryl Ladd.
those ladies were all pigs
muy buen tema....
Excellent footage. Crazy to think there is only one "TRUE" original member left in Styx. That would be James "JY" Young. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!
and Chuck Panozzo.
MrMegaFredZeppelin J.Y. Is not a founding member. DDY JP and CP were
Styx has pipes.
If it has strings Tommy can play it
give me the lights precusious lights give mi lights!!
I don't know how old you are but many TV shows, especially in the 1960's-80's had the guest artists lip sync, like the long running series "Solid Gold" and many others. It's for the TV audience not the crowd there, and when a single is new they want the audience to get used to the recording and to buy it. Once it's famous then the artists will take license with it and stylize and vary it when performed live.
Ah, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to decieve
Carry me away!!!!!
I have seen them 6 times since the late 70's. Not once did they lip-sync a single song. If you listen to their albums/cassettes/CD's as much as I did/do you can tell when someone is lip-syncing and when they arent. Styx doesn't. Kinda hard to lip-sync when they have a new lead singer/keyboard player anyway.....
They're lipsyncing here.
Lol! They’re definitely lip syncing. It’s just the way things were done back then. I mean, come on, Tommy comes in late right from the get go. It’s no big deal. We didn’t care back then. It’s their studio album cut.
Pretty much all of those music tv shows in that era made you lip sync even when you wanted to perform live. See Public Image Limited on American Bandstand in 1980. Best example of a protest over this practice
Is it live or is it Memorex? Styx was so tight during this period it's truly hard to tell. With this lineup they always sounded just like the vinyl. DY insisted on perfection. This eventually led to resentment. Some truly talented musicians.
It is playback. In those years the instruments were connected to the amplifiers, there were no wireless devices.
I listened to this song while drinking jack and coke. Love the song.
sounds exactly like the studio version..... imagine that :)
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Even the banter between Tommy and JY. Amazing how the do it perfectly just like the album (insert sarcasm)😂😉
@@Express-420 I had the album... thought it was pretty good.... but then again.... I liked the Kilroy was here tour lol
PixieFreya, don't know where, or who you got your information from, but trust me along with others on this page, I have been to several of their concerts and they are NOT lip syncing to anything. This was yes, because that's how many shows did it back then. But this here wasn't a concert, but a taped television show.
This performance was without a doubt lip-synched. I love Styx but this was nothing more than a music video, not a live show. The sound is exactly the same as the studio version.
Yes this performance was because back in this time that's what most of the shows did. With a few exceptions, Soul Train and Midnight Special. And even some of those were not always live. Read some of the other posts on here and you will see why it was that way back in that time period.
***** I think the south side, but I may be wrong. Dennis, Chuck and John I believe were from a neighborhood called Roseland. Do you know it
+Freyja11331ify A power metal band, Hmmm. Well, Anyone who plays music of any kind has musical influences which propels that person to play what they like. But to answer your question, I would say no. Dennis's ballads and show tunes have softened the band to the point that people stopped taking them for a serious rock band anymore. They had become more of a pop sound due to Dennis's musical ideas. But don't let that discourage you from looking at Styx as an influential band. They are all still great musicians and have good creativity, especially since they let in Lawrence Gowan, who replaced DDY. Without Dennis pushing his ideas forward, this change has allowed Styx to get back to their roots. Which initially was more progressive rock. I hope that answered your question. Thanks for asking.
Your right Deborah all live concerts were truly live
the song is from 1979
MUSICA!!!
This entire album was phenomenal. Tommy’s voice gets far too little credit. I sure know that in 1980, I wanted to be Tommy Shaw.
Paradise Theater came out a year later. I bet you still wanted to be Tommy Shaw. Especially "Too Much Time On My Hands."
I love Styx and this song, but am I the only one who realizes that this is a live video but not live audio?
Dec 23 2012
Dec 7 2018
What other German music TV shows did Styx appear on back then?
This is not a live recording. My friend swore that neither was their concert we attended. But this is blatant.
Awesome album... Dennis DeYoung is king!!
And that so called king got crowned by his bandmates for his crummy ways!!
Just get to the chorus already and gimme that layered Styx vocal ear candy.
I saw you on another video talking about footage of Styx at the Madison square garden 1978, any idea on how I could get that I upload a lot of Styx on my channel
Should have been a single.
Didn't JY get the memo to wear white?
BiL Vandenberg ~ 😁😁 He's a rebel...🎶
JY sets trends. He doesn't follow them. 😎🤙🏻
his whites were at the dry cleaner that day
How can I recomend More? Styx in 1980?
That's funny. They are unplugged and playing to the original track. You can hear the laughing and talking in the background around 3:02 that is on the original track. Too bad.
Foreshadowing. The title of the song is the very reason why Dennis isn’t touring with Styx.!
What concrete is that
ummm i'm not gay but damn tommy!
Your not gay. you just have a "bromance" with Tommy. Nothing wrong with that.My bromance is with Steve Walsh of Kansas
He’s a handsome devil. Wanted to be this guy back when I was 11-12 years old. Can play and sing. Good looks. He’s a rocker 👍🏼
'Bromance'- so that's what they're called. Thanks!
@@jamescrouch3217 I don't know if I want to be Tommy Shaw or Mrs. Tommy Shaw (both in alternate realities, obviously)
You just maybe
This was definitely lip synced. Near the end of the song on the original recording, the one playing, he sings the lyric watch me play. Here, he looks like he says “let” me play. (3:38) So this was lip synced. I don’t know why they would have done that. They don’t need it at all.
Ok, HELLO MORONS! Read before you text! It was a tv show, they had to lip sync, but I agree it is kinda dumb to lip sync to a song that fades out at the end......
That's the way it was done back then. Most television shows didn't have the budget, or the time to do live concert performances when they had multiple acts performing in one episode...
Their record label wanted them to be on the show. In order to be on the show they had to lip sync. Things are different today then they were back then. I'm sure given the opportunity they would have liked to play live but when you're on a whirlwind tour of Europe and doing press and promotion in between live gigs, you kinda just do what's been lined up for you.
Sounds very close to the studio version.
DcsOrCity Some performances are lip-synced, that's why.
Dan S. That's because it is the studio version. This was a taped show done in front of a live audience. Back in those days many shows did it. American Band Stand, Midnight Special (sometimes), and others in that time period.
Those shoulder pads though...
Umm Hte To Tall You Im A Huge Styx Fan And I See Them Live And No They Do not Lip Sync
Sorry
I have seen Styx in concert probably eight times it's a travesty they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Angie Willyard Everyone lip synced at this time. Shows wouldn’t book you unless you agreed to.
@@RobertJohnson-lu9vb Why do you think they are not in the RRHF?
I don't think that this is a lip sync so much as it is them performing live but the audio being the studio version
Well if it is a lip sync, Tommy messes up at the end lol
It's lipsyncing, but they had to during these types of shows... It's just the way things were back then...
Dubbed?? Foreign tv show??
Of course they're lip syncing to the original recording here. They weren't given a choice. ALL the bands did on these kinds of shows. One episode might have 4 or 5 different bands perform -- there's no way to get the sound wired up and mic'd and properly mixed for each one of them. Even now, bands get an hour's soundcheck to play on Letterman or Fallon. Big deal, there's lots of footage of this band KILLING IT live throughout the years. Lip synching back when this was filmed had nothing to do with a band's talent or ability to pull it off in live performances. It was the simple logistics of running a TV show.
Robert Wright Sounds like a cop out. They should have played it live. They were certainly in a position to demand it.
Why would they? Why be the only band screwing up the production schedule of a show that already had everything in the can? That'd be stupid. Who's to say the show was even set up for playing live and could've done it in the first place? TV production was a completely different thing back then. It was advertising, not art. These guys played it live plenty. Screw this one TV show. *smh*
+DcsOrCity No, that's just the way it was back then. The only show doing a lot of live material was Midnight Special, and even all their shows weren't live.
+Deborah Kerns Correction, not all Midnight Special's artists performed live. That's what I meant to say.
That's exactly right. If they had two musical guests that had big bands, i.e. Doobie Bros and Earth Wind & Fire, they just didn't have the capability to accommodate both bands' sound requirements. That didn't happen often, fortunately. But all these other shows figured no one would notice, and lip synching cut the budget for the show down to half, so...
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