Video Styx 1978 – Full Concert!! September 28, 2013 Search Search for: ampgroove.comJoin Our Community By pressing the Sign up button, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Leave this field empty if you're human: Styx 1978 – Full Concert!! Source: Rock In The 904 Read Also: Video Behemoth – Bartzabel – Live at Wacken Open Air 2022 Tours REFUSED Announces Openers For North American Farewell Tour, Adds A D.C. Date News Balls to the Wall RELOADED Review News The Weekly Injection: New Releases From BLEEDING THROUGH, LACUNA COIL & More... Reviews Arch Enemy – Wages of Sin News ARCH ENEMY’s New Single “Paper Tiger” Gloriously Gallops Along News TOWER Streams First New Music Since 2021, “Under The Chapel” Post Activity 1046 Share this post 0% Back to Top
I think Styx could only afford to use one spotlight back then 😃
Met these guys in 78. They were all stoned, and Tommy Shaw was having an acne break out. He looked like he was 15 years old, just a kid. Ahhhh the 70’s!
Styx…Boston…Foreigner…Kansas…all NOT in the RR HALL OF shame! How? Why not? What a joke.
saw them in Portland,Maine 1978 . . . awesome
"Hot Damn Tommy Shaw!"
Sou fã do styx aqui em São Paulo , Brasil
man i so wished they had come down to New Zealand during this tour, Would loved to haveseen them live, thank goodness for fan videos, these are a record in time of great music
My very first rock concert at the San Diego sports arena in 78 or 79 I think The Cars opened for them playing from their first album. Two great bands of the late 70’s and yeah getting tickets was easy and it didn’t cost much, and it was an awesome concert! Thanks for posting!
Styx was the first live concert for me, 1978. 12 years old. First time smelling weed. What a great show!
I saw this tour in Montreal. I remember Dennis DeYoung doing that weird intro for "Born For Adventure" (1:21:07) where he has a sword fight with his mic stand. Other than that mildly cringe-worthy moment, it was a great show!
I saw this tour in a hall of about 2,500 people. These songs really filled the place with magic–even the mirror ball looked cool. Such a great sound for a rock show.
This album sucked
Ten minute keyboard solo 😞
Real music, real talent 😊😊😊❤❤❤
Fun to see Live '24 Styx Equally as fun to see '78 Styx Thank you
Ok Elon where's your time machine? I want to go back and see this live.
After the 70s everything went garbage 😢❤❤
fantastic band! so tight!
Saw them at the CNE Grandstand in Toronto on Labour Day weekend 1978 , I belive school was just about to start
Saw 'em at Columbia–Greene Community College in Hudson, NY, in 1975. They played much of the same set as in this film. They were awesome that night and everyone was on their feet nearly the entire show.
Why isn’t the stage lit up?
tommy's out of tune on Grand Illusion
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I had the pleasure of meeting Chuck and John, along with Glenn Burtnik, I later got to meet Tommy! Never met JY or Dennis! But what a band!
If this were any more raw, we'd have salmonella.
Schlock Rock—pure cheese.
I loved Styx in this era, but talk about 1970s rock cliches! I bet their amps went to 11, also.
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I saw this tour ,Angel was the opening act
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I saw Dennis solo. Directly in front of his keyboard. Stole his taped down setlist right off the floor when the show ended. It proudly hangs on my refrigerator to this day
I was 10. It was the first album I ever bought with my own money.
A somewhat nostalgic AND disappointing thing to find on YouTube for me! I was a senior in HS when the Grand Illusion tour came through Corpus Christi and I contrived a scheme to shoot the concert for school credit. I was in journalism (yearbook, newspaper) AND multi-media class and thought that if I could shoot the show and MAYBE the setup it would be a cool media class project. I talked to the teacher who had me write up a proposal for the principal to consider (I'd have to miss school) and they all agreed it would be a great project. With letter from the principal in hand…on school stationary…I went to the venue (Memorial Coliseum) early in the morning and sought the promoter. Even he agreed it would be a neat high school project.
So they agree to let me hang around during the setup (towers of speakers, stage props/gear) and lighting etc. WHAT BUGGED ME AT THE TIME was seeing a director get up on stage and start hitting some poses and the lighting get adjusted for said pose and gestures. Keep in mind this was 1978 and Styx was really just starting to hit big. So I take some shots of this part of the setup…poses, lighting adjustments, tape being stuck to the floor for each and then the sound check. I was told NO PHOTOS WITH BAND OUT OF 'COSTUME.' Again…that hit me a little weird…"costume." I keep my camera gear on the floor and my arms crossed…they threatened to take my gear if they saw me trying to sneak photos at this part of the setup. Take no chances. Arms crossed. Next…wait for the venue to fill, sit through Leggs Diamond (ugh…"a diamond is a hard rock" was a TERRIBLE song) and then for the main event. BTW…I was front row, center with camera gear. Perfect. Minimal effect of the smoke that filled the hall.
SO. Concert starts, it was fun, I got some fantastic pictures and had a helluva slide show I put to Styx music and got great marks for the project. The yearbook got a few of the pictures too. One of the end of song poses hit a chord with an artist who did a life-size pencil drawing/standup that graced a local record "super store" for years.
So I find this film. Not only are the guys in the band wearing the exact same "costumes" they're hitting the exact same poses I can pull up photos to show. The hokey "unified" guitar strumming by JY and TS is another reminder…but I find "the pose" that became the pencil standup drawing at 16:00 in this video. Alllllll setup and choreographed. All planned. The only thing differing from today seems to be the lack of dancers.
One of the reasons RUSH was one of the best shows ever is that it's just guys playing music. Alex to one side, Geddy to the other and Neil on the perch. Alex and Geddy would meet in the middle a few times with those weird looks they give each other…but it was just guys and the music. The Grand Illusion show really did put a sour taste in this fan's mouth over the absolute theatrics put on stage we later learn (maybe others knew before this) that DeYoung did so much of that staging and planning. The Kilroy was Here tour was the absolute worse in that regard.
Just play the songs, guys….just play the songs. Let the music do the talking. END OF RANT
Miss America 👍
À cette époque je rêvais même la nuit de devenir le drummer de Styx… j’avais 16 ans.😅
Guess they couldn't afford any stage lighting.
Still rocking and so thrilled to see STYX again in Toppinish Washington in March 2025….❤❤
Wow that video sucks!
I seen them in 1978 in Houston. Blue Oyster Cult opened. My favorites from Styx is Grand Illusion and Equinox
Great rockers best with Dennis
Oh, the story I could tell of this 78 tour..Columbia, SC. It is so surreal hearing this again! Not high as a 🚀kite😂
Great band , back in high school days in Chicago we would see S,tyx, REO speedwagon and cheap trick, and the Boyz from Illinoiz playing proms
Tommy Shaw: good Alabama boy.
Styx & Angel was a great combo in 7879