I’ve been a fan of Styx since I was a teenager in the late seventies! You still astonish snd amaze me with the raw talent!! This band has always been underrated!! Styx is the best!!!!❤️❤️❤️
This album and Cyclorama are so criminally underrated! I love them both so much, and Im glad you guys still give attention to those 2 albums. The video is awesome
Have you heard the live version of it on the Styx & REO Speedwagon CD Arch Allies Live At Riverport from 2000? This was the first version I ever heard of it and it still gives me happy goose bumps to this day! ua-cam.com/video/B8PwtX6NKco/v-deo.html
Brave new world was one album it took me a few years to grow into loving ;after having it for 2-3 years i began to find myself listening to it more and more i started to see each song on the album as a masterpiece.
I gave the album a listen recently-- there are 10 good songs on an album of 14 tracks--which is quite impressive. I truly wish that "Everything is Cool" was bigger hit. Such a good song. Also love "Fallen Angel" and "Number One". Very good album.
Very cool video! Prophetic as well for these times. Much like Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Paradise and Kilroy very pertinent social commentary. Styx, as well as Rush have philosophical and socially pertinent lyrics ("thinking band" lyrics) that cause their listeners to dig deeper past the riffs, melodies and catchy tunes and actually gain knowledge about the world around them and themselves! Thank you STYX and thank you RUSH!
@@jamesgoldman6942 mine too! I loved Styx - my fave when I was a teen. I didn't discover DT until 4 years ago!! And I didn't see Styx live until last year. Now that my kids were older, I have been (totally been now:( ) going to lots of concerts. Saw DT 7x in 4 years! The Styx concert was So good! Better live even than the studio!
sandy ferati I grew up on Styx. I swear I almost played them exclusively when I was young started with Equinox. I literally wore side 2 of that album out. Then The Grand Illusion/ Pieces of Eight I couldn’t get enough of them. Saw them live every chance I got. Grew up in a big northern city so it was often. Saw them with Dennis 12 or 13 times. Funny story went to college in TX & La. Became a HS baseball coach in TX. In 2001 I was coaching in S. TX we were deep in the playoffs it was Memorial Day ( no school) two of my top players came way late to practice. I kept them way late after punishing them. They knew the type of music I liked cause they could probably hear it daily from my office. The next day Tues they had burned me CDs of Images & Words, Awake & the single A Change of Seasons from Dream Theater. They also burned me Stainds Break The Cycle CD. I had never heard of any of them. 10+ years later on Christmas one of them sends me the CD Sound of Madness by Shinedown for Christmas. Dream Theater, Styx & Staind are by far my favorite 3 bands and I really like Shinedown too. I’ve seen Dream Theater close to 10 times. Only once with Portnoy on the skins ( Octavarium) that was my favorite concert ever. Their last concert Distance Over Time where they played Metropolis ll Scenes from a Memory was also incredible. Saw that show twice. Once in Dallas once in San Antonio.
@@st3v444 With who?? Styx?? They disbanded in 1999. Their last show was The Children's Miracle Network concert in on 6-5-99! ua-cam.com/video/aY03DkgFohA/v-deo.html Brave New World album was released on 6-29-99, marking the final day of Styx official existence.
@@colinsharp7498 Who??? Maybe you mean Jim Peterik DDY's co-writer on some music. Dennis DeYoung performs under "The Music of Styx" moniker and IS Styx! He's even got a couple of guys that look and sound like JY and TS, his old guitarists! Don't know why he just doesn't perform on his Styx moniker, but it's definitely Styx 2020 and his classic Styx sound!
Good heavens, this is a throwback. I was a big Styx fan growing up, and when I got this album when I was in high school, I remember playing it to death! It's been more than a few years since then, though. I wonder if it still holds up.
I was going to ask you if this popped up on your feed. Did they release the video when the CD first came out? I don't recall seeing anything done at the time...
@@SeanMorrisonRocks ~ I like it too. Very futuristic, & well produced. It's a shame they didn't put this out when the CD was released in 1999 though...
@Durian Durian Iron Maiden in 2000 released an album and a song called Brave New World.... I've seen this error... Not sure why it's appearing like that
So many great songs on this album! While There's Still Time, Fallen Angel, Everything is Cool, Great Expectations, Heavy Water, High Crimes, Goodbye Roseland.....
I've seen Styx both with Dennis DeYoung and without. these guys couldn't reconcile but yet they are putting a video together written at a time when Dennis was with the band? not good boys....
@@kilroy107 Listen to this whole album with this in mind: It's basicly two half albums. The half Dennis wrote in Chicago. And the half an album Tommy and JY wrote in LA. So if Tommy/JY want to release an older song with new video from their half of the album, so be it.
Wow! I almost forgot how good Brave New World is. Styx is one of the most versatile acts in existence. Love it when Tommy and JY team up to write a progressive piece like this.
This was a really strong track from a decent (overlooked) album. I love Todd's percusssion in the beginning and end of the song. The chorus has that classic driving Styx harmony that makes it sound like... Styx! I like the video but would loved to have seen the band make an appearance in it!
4:05 -- feel the weight of all this modern madness we call 'progress' 21 years after this song and 88 years since the publication of Huxley's prophetic vision.
Not a Huge Styx Fan but have always appreciated there music to the extent of seeing them quite a few times but this is freaking spot on for the times!! Well Done
I completely missed this album, due to other things going on in my life in 1999. This is a cool video for a cool-sounding song. I'll have to check out the album!
Love you guys. No new world order. No great reset. Jesus is the answer. Only one with power to save and rescue from the evil one. Everything else is a lie. Come to Jesus. We are not promised tomorrow.
Wow that was really good. Loved Goodbye Roseland, Everything is Cool, This Song Brave New World & both of JYs songs off of this. This video is gonna have me searching for the CD again. Sure wish that Styx would bring Dennis back for one last run. We need you guys back together now more than ever. Apart you are really good. Together BRILLIANT! Thanks for the video. I love it!
The 1:42 mark is the same clip from the Kansas “Jets Overhead” video. Also the 3:25 mark is the same clip from Dukes of the Orient “Strange Days” video.
Great song from such a underrated album. Great to hear DDY voice with you guys. Just sayin. Love both past and current bands. The song fits the times now.
Not sure that DDY is even on this song. Most of the album is Tommy, JY and Todd Sucherman, with limited contributions of both DDY and Chuck Panozzo (despite CP being the only credited bassist, most of the bass is actually Tommy or JY.)
Absurdly good. Love the video, have always been a fan of the Brave New World album (IMHO some of the best album art you've ever had, as well), and I gotta say, this video suits it. Still think the best performance was the Arch Allies CD cut of it on your tour with REO Speedwagon back in the day, when you were at Riverport Amphitheatre, great show. Great performance.
Nice! Y'all should do videos for more deep cuts. While you're at it, please reissue Cyclorama, it doesn't deserve to be out of print. Oh, and cheers for the next album! 😃
The last real Styx album. Sad. Would love to see Tommy@JY put aside their differences with Dennis and give all true Styx Fan's one more tour with all the boys.🙄 RIP John.💜🙏🇺🇸 Time is slipping away. The Fan's deserve one more!! Come on!!
Nice to hear Dennis in the harmonies of this track too. I agree, do the "brave" thing, see the Zen, and bring Dennis back for one more tour. No regrets and you'll have memories of many more smiling faces.
Well, this was nice. Doubt it will draw the views that Dennis did with Best of Times, in just a few days, over a million hits. Wish both sides would put their differences aside for us, the fans that made them what they are. I mean, C'mon guys, Dennis is 73! He can still rock too, With all Due Respect!
This was the very last CD that Dennis was on, and if memory serves, they recorded their parts remotely. The band did not record it together in a studio. Not long after that, the band divorced Dennis.
Interesting visuals. The depiction of the "brave new world" looks like it might be a less boring place than the current world. People should spend more time thinking about the future that they want to actually live in, in the future, and then begin working towards creating it, today. If people never think about the future, and then do things today, so as to make the future better, then the future is likely to become worse than the present.
IIRC this song and Tommy's other songs from the same album are thematically inspired by Brave New World, and not meant to be a literal adaptation of the material to music.
To Tommy and JY, when it comes to your narrative against Dennis and pitting the Styx fanbase against each other... your lies are drawn in the sand across the crevasse of time.
But to think Dennis is innocent in all of this is not correct either. All three of em have egos for sure. Difference in this is that everyone sans Dennis agreed on a way to push Styx forward. Dennis believed his vote is the only one that counted. Styx moved on without him. Even in the 'Behind the music' Chuck Panozzo stated they were ready to get back to work and tour but Dennis was wanting to put that on hold for an undetermined amount of time. A business doesn't stop just because of one person having to call in sick, it keeps going. Styx is no different.
Joshua Weaver tell that to Def Leppard. Their drummer( Rick Allen)lost his arm in a car accident. They waited years ( at the height of their popularity after Pyromania) for his return. They risked their careers for a DRUMMER they could have easily replaced. The result was the album Hysteria. They waited while Rick taught himself to play the drums with one arm and his feet. Rick & Def Leppard are an inspiration to 10s of 1000s. This is how you do things when you are part of a team. Tommy, JY & Chuck should be embarrassed how they handled this situation. With that all said. I love the video , loved Cyclorama & The Mission, One Hundred Years From Now, and DDYs latest album 26 East. Hoping they can work out their differences and Styx can bring back their superstar Dennis Deyoung for one last run.
Problem is, with Styx, Dennis was acting like he ran everything and his vote was the only one that counted. It goes far beyond tour delays and sickness; all the creative decisions, etc, Dennis acted like he was supposed to be the do all end all of Styx. Going against the band's teamwork formula from their heyday. It's not Tommy and JY pitting the fanbase against each other, and neither is Dennis. Any band split is bound to do this to a fanbase. But moreover, the ongoing rift is largely the fault of the bitter fans who can't get over Dennis not being in Styx and can't learn to accept reality.
JY is still alive, he just appeared in a video with Tommy a couple days ago... maybe you didn't see it yet. Besides, I haven't seen any factual evidence to support your conspiracy theories about JY being gone from Styx. Neither can anything support the claims of a Tommy Shaw power grab, it was really about maintaining Styx's integrity. Sadly, as immensely talented as Dennis is, his overgrown ego made him from the strongest link to the weakest in the team. The rest of the band knew this and had to make a decision for the good of Styx, and for Dennis's own good too.
I’ve been a fan of Styx since I was a teenager in the late seventies! You still astonish snd amaze me with the raw talent!! This band has always been underrated!! Styx is the best!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Wow! That was beautiful! My kind of place to live 💖Still a HUGE Styx fan!! 44 years now 💙
I love the transitions from upbeat to mellow! Beautifully orchestrated!
Tommy in fine form as always. Great vocal.
This album and Cyclorama are so criminally underrated! I love them both so much, and Im glad you guys still give attention to those 2 albums. The video is awesome
Couldn't agree more. Cyclorama has some hauntingly beautiful songs.
Even one of their earliest albums, Man of Miracles, never got the playtime that it should have. It was just as good as Styx II.
@@billwalker7782 Agreed again. Styx has some great hidden gems in their discography.
@@billwalker7782 Man Of Miracles and Serpent get un-needed hate as well, I agree!
Why is Cyclorama not on streaming services?
Why this song has so low views? This song is perfect and a masterpiece.
Because people have "hiphopped" brains...😁🤪
Have you heard the live version of it on the Styx & REO Speedwagon CD Arch Allies Live At Riverport from 2000? This was the first version I ever heard of it and it still gives me happy goose bumps to this day!
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@@MusicFanKim Wow great performance.
Brave new world was one album it took me a few years to grow into loving ;after having it for 2-3 years i began to find myself listening to it more and more i started to see each song on the album as a masterpiece.
I gave the album a listen recently-- there are 10 good songs on an album of 14 tracks--which is quite impressive. I truly wish that "Everything is Cool" was bigger hit. Such a good song. Also love "Fallen Angel" and "Number One". Very good album.
Very cool video! Prophetic as well for these times. Much like Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight, Paradise and Kilroy very pertinent social commentary. Styx, as well as Rush have philosophical and socially pertinent lyrics ("thinking band" lyrics) that cause their listeners to dig deeper past the riffs, melodies and catchy tunes and actually gain knowledge about the world around them and themselves! Thank you STYX and thank you RUSH!
Have you also checked out Dream Theater? They too have great thinking lyrics.
sandy ferati Dream Theater is my all time favorite band. Styx #2 and Rush is in my top 25. I can listen to Dream Theater & Styx all day everyday
@@jamesgoldman6942 mine too! I loved Styx - my fave when I was a teen. I didn't discover DT until 4 years ago!! And I didn't see Styx live until last year. Now that my kids were older, I have been (totally been now:( ) going to lots of concerts. Saw DT 7x in 4 years! The Styx concert was So good! Better live even than the studio!
sandy ferati I grew up on Styx. I swear I almost played them exclusively when I was young started with Equinox. I literally wore side 2 of that album out. Then The Grand Illusion/ Pieces of Eight I couldn’t get enough of them. Saw them live every chance I got. Grew up in a big northern city so it was often. Saw them with Dennis 12 or 13 times. Funny story went to college in TX & La. Became a HS baseball coach in TX. In 2001 I was coaching in S. TX we were deep in the playoffs it was Memorial Day ( no school) two of my top players came way late to practice. I kept them way late after punishing them. They knew the type of music I liked cause they could probably hear it daily from my office. The next day Tues they had burned me CDs of Images & Words, Awake & the single A Change of Seasons from Dream Theater. They also burned me Stainds Break The Cycle CD. I had never heard of any of them. 10+ years later on Christmas one of them sends me the CD Sound of Madness by Shinedown for Christmas. Dream Theater, Styx & Staind are by far my favorite 3 bands and I really like Shinedown too. I’ve seen Dream Theater close to 10 times. Only once with Portnoy on the skins ( Octavarium) that was my favorite concert ever. Their last concert Distance Over Time where they played Metropolis ll Scenes from a Memory was also incredible. Saw that show twice. Once in Dallas once in San Antonio.
I agree
Wow, very timely guys. We see what is unfolding. Great song writing by Tommy and JY as always.
Brave New World is in my opinion your most underrated album.
It's because it was the last Styx album!
@@legasiguy551 ... there were 2 albums after Brave New World plus a Cover album
@@st3v444 With who?? Styx?? They disbanded in 1999. Their last show was The Children's Miracle Network concert in on 6-5-99!
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Brave New World album was released on 6-29-99, marking the final day of Styx official existence.
@@legasiguy551 Styx has reformed with Gowan
@@colinsharp7498 Who??? Maybe you mean Jim Peterik DDY's co-writer on some music. Dennis DeYoung performs under "The Music of Styx" moniker and IS Styx! He's even got a couple of guys that look and sound like JY and TS, his old guitarists! Don't know why he just doesn't perform on his Styx moniker, but it's definitely Styx 2020 and his classic Styx sound!
Excellent song indeed....
Indeed ! 😎
Good heavens, this is a throwback. I was a big Styx fan growing up, and when I got this album when I was in high school, I remember playing it to death! It's been more than a few years since then, though. I wonder if it still holds up.
I can't believe that it took 21 years to make a music video for this awesome song
😅 I've never seen cgi like that it was so wild
This was a fantastic album, and excellent song. Good to see it getting the attention it deserves.
Such a great song and album! Wish it got more set list space these days
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I love this album, and am addicted to listening to The Mission right now. Every song on that album is fantastic
Love this song.... Would love to see this performed live again
I was going to ask you if this popped up on your feed.
Did they release the video when the CD first came out? I don't recall seeing anything done at the time...
@@Deborahtunes Deb this is a new video released 21 years after the release.... I like it
@@SeanMorrisonRocks ~ I like it too. Very futuristic, & well produced. It's a shame they didn't put this out when the CD was released in 1999 though...
@Durian Durian JY is fine..... He's working on the new album
@Durian Durian Iron Maiden in 2000 released an album and a song called Brave New World.... I've seen this error... Not sure why it's appearing like that
You boys never cease to amaze! My favorite band since the single digits. Love to the Godfather best known to me as J.Y.
So many great songs on this album! While There's Still Time, Fallen Angel, Everything is Cool, Great Expectations, Heavy Water, High Crimes, Goodbye Roseland.....
This album had some really strong tracks, I love Everything is Cool and Number One
Is this real...his comment
Τhe STYX is one great big band The song is MARVELLOUS Thank you
I have seen Styx without Dennis DeYoung & I have seen Dennis DeYoung without Styx...sadly I never got to see them together...still hoping one day!!!
Here's hoping! I saw them three times - the Equinox tour, Paradise Theater tour and Kilroy Was Here. So much talent in one band, amazing.
I've seen Styx both with Dennis DeYoung and without. these guys couldn't reconcile but yet they are putting a video together written at a time when Dennis was with the band? not good boys....
Ive seen them with DeYoung in 97, a night when Gowan opened for them
@@kilroy107 Keep in mind this is written by "Shaw, James Young"
@@kilroy107 Listen to this whole album with this in mind: It's basicly two half albums. The half Dennis wrote in Chicago. And the half an album Tommy and JY wrote in LA. So if Tommy/JY want to release an older song with new video from their half of the album, so be it.
Wow! I almost forgot how good Brave New World is. Styx is one of the most versatile acts in existence. Love it when Tommy and JY team up to write a progressive piece like this.
Definitely one of my favorite STYX albums.
This was a really strong track from a decent (overlooked) album. I love Todd's percusssion in the beginning and end of the song. The chorus has that classic driving Styx harmony that makes it sound like... Styx! I like the video but would loved to have seen the band make an appearance in it!
4:05 -- feel the weight of all this modern madness we call 'progress' 21 years after this song and 88 years since the publication of Huxley's prophetic vision.
Gave me chills
How did I miss this tune??! Need to go back and check it out
Not a Huge Styx Fan but have always appreciated there music to the extent of seeing them quite a few times but this is freaking spot on for the times!! Well Done
I completely missed this album, due to other things going on in my life in 1999. This is a cool video for a cool-sounding song. I'll have to check out the album!
Love you guys. No new world order. No great reset. Jesus is the answer. Only one with power to save and rescue from the evil one. Everything else is a lie. Come to Jesus. We are not promised tomorrow.
This was a nice blast from the past. Brings back some good memories.
This video makes the song all the more eerie! LOVE IT
Man, if only I could live in the world that this video depicts, that would be great!
100% agree. I was born 500 years too early.
You do.....
Maybe in 2000 years...
I LOVE the video. I always loved the song.
fantastic song!
Better late than never. Never enough Styx!!
Very cool. One of my favorites from that album.💙
Nice to hear Dennis back in the band again. Great song.
Happy Day this is a song from 1999
Keith R - yes thank you for the enlightenment, Keith.
A year later Iron Maiden released Brave New World. Similar minds on the timeline. We are almost there NOW. The future looks amazingly fantastic to me.
Wow that was really good. Loved Goodbye Roseland, Everything is Cool, This Song Brave New World & both of JYs songs off of this. This video is gonna have me searching for the CD again. Sure wish that Styx would bring Dennis back for one last run. We need you guys back together now more than ever. Apart you are really good. Together BRILLIANT! Thanks for the video. I love it!
The CD was better than what it was given credit for. It's in my top 5 albums for Styx. I never knew there was a video for this track though...
Cool lyric video
It's a new video.
@@ScottKornfeld ~ 👍 Yeah I didn't realise that when they first put it up...
The 1:42 mark is the same clip from the Kansas “Jets Overhead” video. Also the 3:25 mark is the same clip from Dukes of the Orient “Strange Days” video.
Cool video and an interesting song! I dig it.
Fantastic video, guys!! Love it.
been one of my favorite post '83 songs since it was released.
Amazing videoclip and the song, is a masterpiece 👍👍👍👍👍
Great song from such a underrated album. Great to hear DDY voice with you guys. Just sayin. Love both past and current bands. The song fits the times now.
Not sure that DDY is even on this song. Most of the album is Tommy, JY and Todd Sucherman, with limited contributions of both DDY and Chuck Panozzo (despite CP being the only credited bassist, most of the bass is actually Tommy or JY.)
Brave new world should be released on vinyl!!!!
Absurdly good. Love the video, have always been a fan of the Brave New World album (IMHO some of the best album art you've ever had, as well), and I gotta say, this video suits it.
Still think the best performance was the Arch Allies CD cut of it on your tour with REO Speedwagon back in the day, when you were at Riverport Amphitheatre, great show. Great performance.
luv this song, moved to Tugs - Favorite ballads 02 playlist 🤍❤🤍
Awesome!! Thanks for this!!
Awesome music Cool music video
БРАВО! Это классно!!! Фантастика!
Great song and amazing group !
fabulous
This is 🔥🎶✌️
🌟 BRILLIANT STYX 🌟
The Brave New World sure looks amazing but I'm not sure I'd want to live there.
Great tune!!!!
Isee. Love STYX.
Thk for this great video!
Interesting song...Interesting time... Hope to see you all safely on the other side! ;)
INCREDIBLE
Got this 25 suns ago
Can nearly sing it all with Tommy.
Nice! Y'all should do videos for more deep cuts. While you're at it, please reissue Cyclorama, it doesn't deserve to be out of print. Oh, and cheers for the next album! 😃
Awesome!
Styx is like an honest PT Barnum.
Is the new album going to take themes from Brave New World? Are we getting a sequel to The Mission? Exciting possibilities!
I just bought the mission CD and I listen to it a lot. A sequel album that expanded on the amazing sounds they brought to the album would be amazing.
Wasn’t a fan of the Mission CD, then I saw them perform it live and it completely changed my mind.
The last real Styx album. Sad. Would love to see Tommy@JY put aside their differences with Dennis and give all true Styx Fan's one more tour with all the boys.🙄 RIP John.💜🙏🇺🇸 Time is slipping away. The Fan's deserve one more!! Come on!!
Nice to hear Dennis in the harmonies of this track too. I agree, do the "brave" thing, see the Zen, and bring Dennis back for one more tour. No regrets and you'll have memories of many more smiling faces.
nice!
This is cool!
Fantastic ☀️🇳🇴
Nice
Well, this was nice. Doubt it will draw the views that Dennis did with Best of Times, in just a few days, over a million hits. Wish both sides would put their differences aside for us, the fans that made them what they are. I mean, C'mon guys, Dennis is 73! He can still rock too, With all Due Respect!
The new video is impressive.
I have always loved this song. The video is cool but TBH it reminds me of computer animation from about 21 years ago!
One of the new Kansas music videos, "Jets Overhead", uses some of the clips in the video. Same video artist?
Nice cine
Epic!
Wondering if the purple bridge at 4:48 is real. I'd go out of my way to use it if it was. 💜
This was the very last CD that Dennis was on, and if memory serves, they recorded their parts remotely. The band did not record it together in a studio. Not long after that, the band divorced Dennis.
Growing up, my father knew of your band but never bothered to listen to it. I did not make that same mistake.
This was great and love the video and song ! Could you tell me what is the album it's from ?please!
Brave New World
*Brave New World,* which was originally released in 1999...
Thank you I didn't remember this one for some reason !
Definitely can hear Captain America in some of the verses.
Really? Which lines? I'm henuinely curious.
Still sounds like the original
Interesting visuals. The depiction of the "brave new world" looks like it might be a less boring place than the current world.
People should spend more time thinking about the future that they want to actually live in, in the future, and then begin working towards creating it, today. If people never think about the future, and then do things today, so as to make the future better, then the future is likely to become worse than the present.
Is this also a remix of the song? During parts of the song, it sounds different.
Robert Fletcher I had the same thought, need to listen to my CD
@@stevedavis6802 it's mainly because it sounded distorted at certain parts.
Robert Fletcher the video is also 5 seconds longer than the cd version
Is this based on the book? That's cool if it was intended, I know it's the visuals, but the lyrics make me confused.
IIRC this song and Tommy's other songs from the same album are thematically inspired by Brave New World, and not meant to be a literal adaptation of the material to music.
Last album before Dennis was booted.
In the future, the letter “A” loses its middle line
HVY! That's not v nice thing to svy!
Hea asi välja nuputatud. 😏🎤👌
Ok,this is different, but good
I 8 the word futur
I've tried to get rid of the man I see in the mirror and change him but the neurotic s-o-b won't go away and he doesn't change.
Bring back Dennis
The New World Order is void of something I choose not to want to live in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💀🙈
Would've been better to dust off this 20 yr old song by bringing Dennis back for the video since he was on the album.
first
To Tommy and JY, when it comes to your narrative against Dennis and pitting the Styx fanbase against each other... your lies are drawn in the sand across the crevasse of time.
But to think Dennis is innocent in all of this is not correct either. All three of em have egos for sure. Difference in this is that everyone sans Dennis agreed on a way to push Styx forward. Dennis believed his vote is the only one that counted. Styx moved on without him. Even in the 'Behind the music' Chuck Panozzo stated they were ready to get back to work and tour but Dennis was wanting to put that on hold for an undetermined amount of time. A business doesn't stop just because of one person having to call in sick, it keeps going. Styx is no different.
Joshua Weaver tell that to Def Leppard. Their drummer( Rick Allen)lost his arm in a car accident. They waited years ( at the height of their popularity after Pyromania) for his return. They risked their careers for a DRUMMER they could have easily replaced. The result was the album Hysteria. They waited while Rick taught himself to play the drums with one arm and his feet. Rick & Def Leppard are an inspiration to 10s of 1000s. This is how you do things when you are part of a team. Tommy, JY & Chuck should be embarrassed how they handled this situation. With that all said. I love the video , loved Cyclorama & The Mission, One Hundred Years From Now, and DDYs latest album 26 East. Hoping they can work out their differences and Styx can bring back their superstar Dennis Deyoung for one last run.
Problem is, with Styx, Dennis was acting like he ran everything and his vote was the only one that counted. It goes far beyond tour delays and sickness; all the creative decisions, etc, Dennis acted like he was supposed to be the do all end all of Styx. Going against the band's teamwork formula from their heyday.
It's not Tommy and JY pitting the fanbase against each other, and neither is Dennis. Any band split is bound to do this to a fanbase. But moreover, the ongoing rift is largely the fault of the bitter fans who can't get over Dennis not being in Styx and can't learn to accept reality.
JY is still alive, he just appeared in a video with Tommy a couple days ago... maybe you didn't see it yet. Besides, I haven't seen any factual evidence to support your conspiracy theories about JY being gone from Styx. Neither can anything support the claims of a Tommy Shaw power grab, it was really about maintaining Styx's integrity.
Sadly, as immensely talented as Dennis is, his overgrown ego made him from the strongest link to the weakest in the team. The rest of the band knew this and had to make a decision for the good of Styx, and for Dennis's own good too.