Styx Show Review By Efren Martinez
It was a night of hits and misses, meaning the band only played a few of their biggest hits along with some covers from The Beatles and Queen. No doubt, the excitement went over the top when “Blue Collar Man” and “Sail Away” were played, but “Babe” or Styx’s last hit from the 80’s, “Mr. Roboto,” never came.
The songs “I’m OK” and “Superstars” went over well. Styx played to a nearly full house at The Gallo Center for The Arts and their fans calmly ate up every minute of the show. Styx rocked the stage for nearly two hours with no intermissions. As my wife and I sat at the edge of our seats wanting to get up and dance, I couldn’t help but wonder why the crowd was so kick back during the concert. After awhile we couldn’t sit any longer, so along with a few others in the front of the theatre, we just got up and rocked out but totally refrained from doing that air guitar thing. We just don’t do that.
Shortly after, others followed along and everyone was up and out of their seats rocking out. Styx was very in tune with their fans. One time Tommy Shaw came down off the stage and walked through the isles playing his guitar among the crowd. Everyone had their cell phones at the ready so I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to find a photo of that on any of your social media websites.
At another time, the band started to toss out loads of Styx merchandise as if they were showing their appreciation to the fans for being there. My wife and I purchased our Styx tickets early on and we weren’t really sure what to expect since Dennis DeYoung wasn’t with the band any longer. The end result, we had a nice time and if you ever got to experience a Styx show with all of it’s original members from the back in the day, consider yourself a true seasoned Styx fan as well as lucky.
