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
years care styx
Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.
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.
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.
discipline guy mind
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
We just have to be ourselves.
music styx
So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.
music matter want
So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.
music fun band
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
airline
The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.
music people inspired
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
music rocks rock-and-roll
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.
baby impact survival
They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.