The band’s first studio album in 14 years, The Mission, which includes “Radio Silence,” was released in June.
STYX RADIO SILENCE LIVE FULL
You can see the full list of announced dates below. It’s likely that more dates will be added. 18 and the last on March 5.Īfter that, the band will embark on two months’ worth of concerts with REO Speedwagon and Felder in tow, commencing March 13 and ending on April 15. Additional Styx shows have been added before and after those dates, with the first scheduled appearance on Jan.
The Renegades in the Fast Lane shows feature Styx and former Eagles guitarist Felder, and take place at the Venetian Theatre inside the Venetian Las Vegas between Jan. tour dates around their previously announced Las Vegas residency in early 2018, with REO Speedwagon and Don Felder included in their plans once again. THE MISSION–which was recorded over a two-year period at Blackbird Studios, The Shop, and 6 Studio Amontillado in Nashville–displays the best aspects of the ongoing in-harmony musical intersection of the six-man STYX team.The tour was such a success that a repeat run has been scheduled for early 2018. “It’s our boldest, most emblematic album since PIECES OF EIGHT.” As founding guitarist James “JY” Young continues, “In the 40th anniversary year of our release of our biggest selling album of all time, GRAND ILLUSION, it just seemed truly appropriate to save our new studio album until this year. “The planets truly aligned for THE MISSION, and I couldn’t be prouder,” says vocalist/guitarist Tommy Shaw, who co-wrote the album’s storyline with longtime collaborator Will Evankovich (Shaw/Blades, The Guess Who). It debuted on various Billboard charts, including: #6 Top Rock Albums, #11 Physical Albums, #11 Vinyl Albums, #13 Current Albums, #14 Billboard Top Albums, #16 Retail, #17 Mass Merch/Non-Traditional, #29 Digital Albums, and #45 Billboard 200 (includes catalog and streaming). It tangled from the bottom and can be seen shortly after the balloon pop in the video.Īfter 14 years, STYX’s sonically sweet 16th studio album and its most ambitious, most challenging, and most rewarding album to date, THE MISSION, was finally released June 16 on the band’s label, Alpha Dog 2T/UMe. They poked a hole in the jacket and ran a string through the vinyl LP’s center hole. Phillips and his team attached it underneath. The vinyl LP would not fit on the payload. The video constantly has the new STYX CD in full view as it rises until you can see the curve of the earth and the black of space then the balloon pops and tumbles back. To document this exciting collaboration between science and rock n’ roll, the band’s label (UMe) and the band created a time lapse lyric video for the song “Radio Silence” that traces the entire ascent and descent within four minutes. The space atmosphere boundary is at 328,000 feet. The British band Blur recorded “Far Out,” which was played on Beagle 2 when it landed on Mars in 2003. Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B Goode” is on golden disc within Voyager 1. Amazingly, the CD and LP survived the landing.Īs far as we know, this is the only time a vinyl LP has gone this high into the atmosphere, exposed to the elements and returned safe and sound. On this mission, the payload and the music landed in a Joshua Tree forest in Nevada. A parachute deployed and the package landed safely. Then it popped and the payload packages tumbled back to earth for nearly 20 minutes. For nearly three hours the balloon ascended. They launched it near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His team recorded the entire ascent of the package to 111K feet.
Phillips and his team of students launched a weather balloon with both the CD and LP of THE MISSION attached to the payload. He is also a major STYX fan.īack in April, Dr. Tony Phillips is a scientist and researcher that launches weather balloons 111,000 feet to the edge of space to measure ionizing radiation in the stratosphere. Here’s more info about the “Radio Silence” video:ĭr. STYX–Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitars), James “JY” Young (vocals, guitars), Lawrence Gowan (vocals, keyboards), Todd Sucherman (drums) and Ricky Phillips (bass), along with the occasional surprise appearance by original bassist Chuck Panozzo-has just released the lyric video for “Radio Silence” from their highly anticipated and critically acclaimed 16th studio album, THE MISSION.
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