The jig is up, the news is out
No, no Supernatural squee from this corner. It's just amusing to see so many posts with Styx's Renegade in the titles, and I've been shaking my head at my flist since about 10:05 p.m. last night.
See, Renegade was released in 1978. And, big shocker, my first concert was... Styx. (Seeing Tom Jones in 1976 with my parents didn't count, exactly. I mean, I went with my parents and their friends (and friends' daughter), and it was traumatic for a 9 year old to see old women (well they were old to me at the time!) throwing their underwear onto the stage!)
Right. Styx. Which was my first 'official' concert in 1979, and which I went to without my parents' permission *cough* because I was not only a bad bad girl (and still only 11 years old) but only a year earlier, I had ripped down my Teen Beat/Tiger Beat posters of Andy Gibb and replaced them with even bigger store-bought posters of one Tommy Shaw, (and okay, one or two of the whole band) and I was determined to marry him when I turned 16. A "Wanted Man" indeed! All of my school books were covered in "Styx" doodles, and my favorite albums were Equinox, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight (the latter of which Renegade is from), and when Cornerstone was released in 1979, I decided that marriage wasn't enough - my main ambition was to become a Styx groupie. Well, okay, a part-time groupie. I wasn't going to quit school for it. :-P
I had other crushes of course, but Tommy was number one for a long time (well, long to a fickle (pre-)adolescent), and my favorite songs were the ones he sang (not that I'd grumble that Dennis DeYoung got to sing most of the songs or anything) like Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man), Blue Collar Man, Boat on the River, and of course, Renegade. I ended up seeing them only three times in concert - very dismal for a potential groupie - and I stopped wanting to marry Tommy Shaw when Howard Jones burst onto MTV circa 1984 in the video for "New Song", but Styx is still one of my very favorite bands.
So anyway, seeing all of this unbridled squee for Renegade has had me chuckling, making veiled comments about "young whippersnappers", and reliving a lot of old old memories. Plus, it's nice to know my flist has good taste in music! *g* And while I may not be full of the squee for Supernatural the way so many of you are - I mean, I enjoy it, but I'm not, well... You gals are crazy, you know that? *g* But I will admit that that show has, by far, the best music soundtrack of any TV show ever. And yeah, J & J aren't too bad, either. :-P
See, Renegade was released in 1978. And, big shocker, my first concert was... Styx. (Seeing Tom Jones in 1976 with my parents didn't count, exactly. I mean, I went with my parents and their friends (and friends' daughter), and it was traumatic for a 9 year old to see old women (well they were old to me at the time!) throwing their underwear onto the stage!)
Right. Styx. Which was my first 'official' concert in 1979, and which I went to without my parents' permission *cough* because I was not only a bad bad girl (and still only 11 years old) but only a year earlier, I had ripped down my Teen Beat/Tiger Beat posters of Andy Gibb and replaced them with even bigger store-bought posters of one Tommy Shaw, (and okay, one or two of the whole band) and I was determined to marry him when I turned 16. A "Wanted Man" indeed! All of my school books were covered in "Styx" doodles, and my favorite albums were Equinox, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight (the latter of which Renegade is from), and when Cornerstone was released in 1979, I decided that marriage wasn't enough - my main ambition was to become a Styx groupie. Well, okay, a part-time groupie. I wasn't going to quit school for it. :-P
I had other crushes of course, but Tommy was number one for a long time (well, long to a fickle (pre-)adolescent), and my favorite songs were the ones he sang (not that I'd grumble that Dennis DeYoung got to sing most of the songs or anything) like Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man), Blue Collar Man, Boat on the River, and of course, Renegade. I ended up seeing them only three times in concert - very dismal for a potential groupie - and I stopped wanting to marry Tommy Shaw when Howard Jones burst onto MTV circa 1984 in the video for "New Song", but Styx is still one of my very favorite bands.
So anyway, seeing all of this unbridled squee for Renegade has had me chuckling, making veiled comments about "young whippersnappers", and reliving a lot of old old memories. Plus, it's nice to know my flist has good taste in music! *g* And while I may not be full of the squee for Supernatural the way so many of you are - I mean, I enjoy it, but I'm not, well... You gals are crazy, you know that? *g* But I will admit that that show has, by far, the best music soundtrack of any TV show ever. And yeah, J & J aren't too bad, either. :-P