re: Why were Rush and Styx ever considered good?

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Styx has a few good old songs like Blue Collar Man. The latter stuff when they got enough of Dennis DeYoung's bullshite and got rid of him after that Mr Roboto crap sucked arse for sure. Saw them in BR LSU Assembly center for my first concert in 78 I think.

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I saw them at Hirsh in Shreveport probably the same year, around 78. Pieces of Eight tour. They were great. There later stuff was crap, but it wasn't always that way.

I can remember the fog machine and the stage completely covered with fog. You could hear the piano, and then you saw it coming out of the floor with the intro to Sail Away. Great show. One of my first.

Young playing lead on a solo, and steps rising up out of the floor underneath his feet. One step came up higher than the other, so he's got one knee bent under his guitar while he's wailing away. After his solo's over, the steps descend back into the floor, and Young walks away still playing his guitar like nothing happened. Quite impressive to a young kid at the time.

Their later stuff really tarnished their image and ruined there legacy for future listeners. Pretty sad really.