James Young
James Young
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter who has played lead guitar for the rock band Styx. He has released three solo records.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth14 November 1949
CountryUnited States of America
way records internet
The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.
player years piano
We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.
thinking crowds audience
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
pace littles energy
I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.
crazy way worst
It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.
play stage
I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.
years care styx
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
country past four
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
song couple writing
I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.
chicago stills studios
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
navy use village
The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.
light shining musical
And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.
running technology people
There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
technology needs stage
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.