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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Not Dead Yet |
| Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 05:50:16 -0500 |
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> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:14:32 -0600
> From: Dale - HifiToaster <differentkitchen@attglobal.net>
> To: audities-01-24-03 <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: Not Dead Yet
> Message-ID: <3E8DCB88.9000803@attglobal.net>
>
> Regarding Mike B's question about anyone covering "Not Dead Yet" by the
> Bad Examples, Brian Curtis replied:
>
> >Styx, on the album "Edge Of The Century" - sadly, sung by DeYoung
>
> Man, if you wrote that three days ago I would have dismissed it as a
> good April Fools Day joke, but you're serious. I have to admit that I
> still doubted it and had to do a Google search just to get some
> confirmation.
>
> I have a soft spot for Styx, which stems from them being hometown heroes
> and on the radio all the time during my formative music years, but I
> still can't picture them doing that song with even a shred of goodness.
>
Styx ... the band that inadvertently left out the 'n' between the
'y' and the 'x'. Put them right up there with the WIN button, Shields and
Yarnell, and the leisure suit as one of the most forgettable of seventies
cultural icons.
I got roped by some friends into going with them to see Styx live in
the spring of '79. It was easily one of the *dullest* shows that I've ever
seen in my life. The best thing that the band ever did was finance the
career of the Bad Examples, a far more entertaining band.
>
> I was never a big Bad Examples fan, but that song gets more than
> sufficient airplay on WXRT here in Chicago and stands up to the repeated
> plays.
>
> It still seems weird to me. What's next, REO Speedwagon's "88 Lines
> About 44 Women" or Supertramp's "What Do All The People Know"?
>
Nope. A revamped Journey is going to cover "She Smiles Like Richard
Nixon".
Gregory Sager
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