I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We just have to be ourselves.