Tommy Shaw

All these years, I thought I liked Styx. I grew up listening to them (and Simon & Garfunkel, and the Beatles) because my older sister liked them so much. Turns out that on closer examination of the liner notes, I was wrong. With only one or two exceptions, every Styx song I like is a Tommy Shaw song, not a Dennis DeYoung one (and that must've made for strange band dynamics, I would think, with such different styles). I was looking at the cover of Kilroy Was Here yesterday, and was appalled by the casual racism. Apparently the other band members hated the whole Kilroy thing, with the different roles they had to play.
A week or two I was with my sister, and something in the conversation made me belt out, "Righteous thinks it's over. Righteous thinks it's over! But it's not. This is just the beginning. Long live rock and roll!" This is, of course, what Dennis DeYoung very earnestly proclaims at the end of the live Kilroy, but my sister didn't remember this at all. Apparently I was younger, and more impressionable.