Styx - The Live Illusion ~ Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, January 01-13-1982 (SBD)

Styx
The Live Illusion
Budokan Hall
Tokyo, Japan
January 13, 1982
Soundboard Recording
Cover Art Included
MP3 320kps

01 A.D. 1928 ~ Rockin' The Paradise
02 Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
03 The Grand Illusion
04 Great White Hope
05 Too Much Time On My Hands
06 The Best Of Times
07 Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
08 Sakura
09 Sukiyaki
10 Boat On The River
11 Babe
12 Come Sail Away
13 Borrowed Time
14 Half-Penny, Two-Penny
15 A.D. 1958 ~ State Street Sadie

Dennis DeYoung - keyboards, lead, backing & harmony vocals
James Young - lead & rhythm guitars lead, backing & harmony vocals
Tommy Shaw - lead & rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead, backing, & harmony vocals
Chuck Panozzo - bass guitar
John Panozzo (R.I.P) - drums

Recorded during the bands Paradise Theater Tour, this show sounds great! Everyone is in fine voice and the instrumentation is spot on. My only gripe would be a lack of earlier material but it's a small gripe. A lot of 1980's hits are here that were the soundtrack to my generations teenage years. You couldn't go to a school dance, roller rink, or arcade without hearing most of these songs. For me this was the last Styx album I bought, when Kilroy came out I was more than a little disappointed. I did see the tour which didn't go over real well in Detroit, during the theatrical parts the audience would constantly scream for the band to .."Shut up and Play Some F@#*ing Music!"

We lost John Panozzo at the age of 47 to gastrointestinal hemorrhaging, a complication from cirrhosis of the liver.

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