It was 30 years ago today.............
It was 30 years ago today......on the ultimate Bicentennial....that the best band in the world...... released the greatest album in the world the GRAND ILLUSION.... yet not 1 month later.....earlier members of this so called band would come together for ultimate world dominiation....here's the whole sorted story......
As you can see from the above pic which was taken 30 years ago when we used to be in Styx, we still looked pretty damn good for our ages. But this was of course when we were all friends....In 1961 the Tradewinds formed with Chuck & John & Dennis, then they found JC & JY then called themselves Styx. They made 5 great albums
until JC had had enough & left, then JY decided to leave also & took Dennis & John with them & Styx was left with just one member, Chuck. So Chuck at this point decided, HA, I could do a better band without these idiots, so he found the great Earl of Rozland & State Street Scotty to replace JY & John. In turn, we then proceeded to find the great 1/2 Anjy -2 Anjy & the ultimate Suki Madame Blue.....
Our world domination began with the songs they left over for what would eventually become the Grand Illusion album. We began work on the album, played the songs recorded it & all was well. Chuck painted the cover art which was glorious & we were all in Styx heaven.
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At this point something started happening to Chuck & we were just a bit worried. We discovered he was getting constant calls from Dennis & JY asking if they could come back because they'd found this kid & recorded some song called Crystal Ball the year before with & thought it'd be cool if he would let them come back & play in the band. They begged & begged until Chuck had such remorse. This promptly pissed Suki Madame Blue off. So she disappeared to parts unknown. This was after the above pic was taken [in fact this was to be the original poster insert because we refused to wear jumpsuits...]. Just as we were about to sign the new 1977 tour contract [you can clearly see the pen in Chuck's hand!]. 1/2 Anjy wouldn't stay without Suki so she left & disappeared too.
This put Earl of Rozland & State Street Scotty in a most awkward position as we were about to give Chuck his new name, the Queen of Spades. But Chuck wouldn't hear of it. He sat us down, told us he would bring his old mates back & release it on 7-7-7 & said we could all retain our names as long as we didn't mention the fact that we played all the instruments on the album & he'd give us all a generous fee. We accepted with humility & decided to go our separate ways.....
.....& on August 17th Earl & State made a great pilgrimage to an Air Supply concert in Australia to seek solace from our dismissal & plot our ultimate revenge & on AUGUST 22, 1977......we found the ultimate spitfire again in our old guitarist 1/2 Anjy 2 Anjy after her journey to Bangladesh...... & even though we ran into 2 very un-Styx like persons on the way who tried very hard to disco-fy our sound with awful bass & keys, whom which we promptly released quickly & swore we would never make that mistake again .....Fate gave us our most precious gift....in Miss Suki Madame Blue, after we'd tipped over a huge dumpster in the greater Chicago area.
We found our calling....we prevailed & decided to continue without Chuck & let him take Styx where he had to. Decided to forgive & forget & call ourselves what not to do to your roboto.... WNTDTYR............
well dreams do come true.....................
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY WNTDTYR & GRAND ILLUSION.....
posted by Earl of Rozland at 2:40 AM
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