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.
crazy way worst
It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.
music play fans
And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.
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.
thinking crowds audience
I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
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.
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.
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.
sorry
We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.
change trying suits
But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
mind groups individual
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.