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Styx- Paradise Theater 45th Anniversary- Tommy Shaw, James Young 1-12-26

Styx lifers to this day Tommy Shaw and James "JY" Young detail the real-life headlines in 1981 America which inspired "Rockin' the Paradise", "Too Much Time on My Hands", the pre-opioid precursor "Snowblind", and the anthemic "Best of Times" along with Styx co-founder/former member Dennis DeYoung the week of January 12 for the "Paradise Theater" forty-fifth anniversary!
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Styx- Grand Illusion- Tommy Shaw, James “JY” Young, Dennis DeYoung, Lawrence Gowan

Styx co-founder Dennis DeYoung, lifer James "JY" Young, and then recently recruited Alabama boy Tommy Shaw all join me here with current Styx keyboardist/vocalist Lawrence Gowan In the Studio for the early days of being the perennial opening act, saddled with the curse "big in the Flyover States", all the while writing and recording "Fooling Yourself","Come Sail Away","Miss America", "Man in the Wilderness", and "Grand Illusion".