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Styx - Too Much time on my Hands (Original Post)
marble falls
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ProfessorGAC
(74,541 posts)1. Covered This Back When It Was New
I had the same synth they used, so my sounds were pretty authentic.
marble falls
(68,665 posts)2. They released great songs that almost begged to be covered.
ProfessorGAC
(74,541 posts)3. At Least The Tunes...
...written by Tommy Shaw. (Or JY)
Not nuts about the DeYoung stuff.
marble falls
(68,665 posts)4. DeYoung was a dificult character who did know how to write good song, and how to keep a band together that loathed ...
... him for ten years or so. He did write 90% of their hits. I chose this one because he didn't write it and it was their biggest hit.
ProfessorGAC
(74,541 posts)5. One Has To Be Pretty Difficult...
...to be effectively kicked out of their own band.
I met him a couple times.
Odd duck.