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🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Today I sit down with an absolute legend Mr Tommy Shaw of Styx.
Tommy has been killing in the Rock n Roll game for most of his life writing some of the biggest songs on the FM dial like Renegade, Blue Collar Man and Too Much Time On My Hands.
Tommy also hit a home run with his other band Damn Yankees which also had some massive radio hits.
Today we sit down and talk about his history in Rock n Roll, Songwriting, Guitars, Nashville and their new record Crash Of The Crown.
Catch Styx out on tour right now in America and buy their new record.
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1:54.0 | Who do we got today we got rock and roll 100% pure rock and roll from the 70s all the way to 2021. This man has been slinging the sick string right and tuned singing killing it for his entire career Mr. Tommy Shaw is here of sticks. |
2:13.0 | Oh my god. What an honor to have this guy on unbelievable legend. I think he's totally underrated. He's worth so many damn hits. It's unbelievable. Look at their run there. |
2:27.0 | He's seven grand illusion 78 pieces of eight 79 cornerstone just those three records alone. You could call him a legend but nope keeps on going hits you with a little bit of paradise theater. That's when I first saw man. |
2:45.0 | Hell got a brand new record out right now keeping it going and just killing it with the new title crash of the crown great great classic sticks record there also out on tour right now smoking it all around America. |
3:02.0 | Great to talk to him we cover songwriting we cover his history on guitar and vocals and the sticks world what's going on right now they're out on tour. |
3:15.0 | I want to tell you we did talk about amps and he he had a little brain fart there for a minute which I get multiple times a day where you know something and you just can't remember it so I asked him what am I was being used and he talked about the early days of marshals and stuff but over the last 20 years of something he's been using boggner and he texted me a couple days later is like dude it was boggner so great to know that so people weren't going like what. |
3:44.0 | What was the amp what was the amp I want to thank everybody that came out to the tree house show Saturday night in Los Gatos it was probably one of my favorite shows of the last I don't know three four years it was just incredible sold out rockin it outdoors under the big trees this venue and show just blew my mind a lot of pay tree on his there too. |
4:11.0 | God that was just it was just so cool man I mean got thank you patreon is means the world to me that you throw a couple nuggets there for all of the work here on the cactus radio network dot com. |
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5:03.0 | So I like up to his pledge to I cannot thank you guys enough we got bonus episodes on a patreon and we have zoom fast I will be zoom fast in Monday night. |
5:16.0 | If my ass is not exploding from I'm about to go get a colonoscopy so I got to drink this fucking it looks like one of those truckers. |
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