People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

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.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

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.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.