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
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.
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.
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.
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.
joy
The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.
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.
men
I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.
strong marijuana thinking
We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.
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.