Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited recently caught up with former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung. They discuss the singer's new release, Dennis DeYoung And The Music Of Styx - Live In Los Angeles. An excerpt from the interview is below:

Jeb: As a live album, the setlist works very well.  Even the tracklisting and the song order ebbs and flows and makes the show flow well. 

Dennis: "A setlist is the second most important thing you can do in a performance. The first important thing you can do in a performance is to have the songs to play. You can take the same set of songs and put them in a different order and the feel of the show will be completely different. There is an art to having an arch to a performance. 

AC/DC does not have this problem, as they have no arch. They start at a level and it stays. They do that thing that they do, but bands that are eclectic in their songwriting, a band that has some rockers and some ballads… you have to be very careful, because if you don’t get it right, then there will be more pee breaks than you want. 'I am going to get a beer. I will be back.' You want to keep them spellbound." 

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Frontiers Music Srl released Dennis DeYoung And The Music Of Styx - Live In Los Angeles on 2CD/DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats back in October encompassing the greatest hits of Styx sung once again by the voice who made them famous.

Recorded and filmed for this special CD/DVD release and for an October US TV live concert special, these classic Styx songs were captured before an enthusiastic audience at the intimate El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on March 18th, 2014.

“If you are a Styx fan this DVD CD package covers all the hits in one great concert experience,” says deYoung, who wrote and sang nearly all of that legendary band’s radio hits, as well as a number of solo hits. “The intimate setting of the historic El Rey theater was the perfect venue to see me and the band up close rockin’ these tunes.”

Captured with eight cameras in Hi Def, the show features DeYoung performing the band’s catalog of classic rock hits that became a staple on radio during the 1970s and 80s. Among them: “Lady", “Renegade”, “Blue Collar Man”, “Show Me The Way”, “Mr. Roboto”, “Too Much Time On My Hands”, “Babe”, “Best Of Times”, “Come Sail Away” and many others.

DeYoung, who began playing with the members of Styx in the early 1960s as a band called The Tradewinds, changed its name, wrote and sang the band’s breakthrough single, “Lady” in 1972. The group would go on to have over a dozen gold and platinum albums over the next twenty years. DeYoung left Styx in 1999. In addition to his success with Styx, DeYoung wrote and recorded several solo projects and did an album of Broadway standards, after touring as Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar.

“To have this band and these songs on a Blu-Ray, DVD and two CD set is a dream come true,” says DeYoung. “I have to thank AXS Tv in the US and Frontiers in Italy for this special opportunity.”

Tracklisting:

CD1:

"The Message"
"Grand Illusion"
"Lady"
"Lorelei"
"Blue Collar Man"
"Show Me The Way"
"Mr. Roboto"
"Desert Moon"
"Don’t Let It End"
"Too Much Time On My Hands"

CD2:

"Rockin The Paradise"
"Crystal Ball"
"Babe"
"Foolin Yourself"
"Suite Madame Blue"
"Best Of Times"
"Renegade"
"Come Sail Away"

DVD:

"Grand Illusion"
"Lady"
"Lorelei"
"Blue Collar Man"
"Show Me The Way"
"Mr. Roboto"
"Desert Moon"
"Don’t Let It End"
"Too Much Time On My Hands"
"Crystal Ball"
"Babe"
"Fooling Yourself"
"Suite Madame Blue"
"Best Of Times"
"Renegade"
"Come Sail Away"

Trailer: