Glad you had a good time! I remember hearing and reading stories for years that Styx broke up after playing a Texxas Jam after being blown off the stage by the "opening acts"
I couldn't remember the exact story or which Texxas Jam, so I looked it up. It was the '83 Jam
"Sammy Hagar and
Ted Nugent say they had a direct hand in
Styx's early '80s breakup, after allegedly blowing the band off the stage with a raucous opening performance......
"Not only did I blow up the Trans Am on stage, and smash my guitar into the speakers and blow my speakers up,......but Ted Nugent comes jumping over the drum riser, lands on the ground and we go into that for an encore. And it's like, 'Styx will be right out, ladies and gentlemen,'" Hagar adds, laughing uproariously.
........" Hagar says Tommy Shaw "told me straight up, 'I quit the band after that.'"
Read More: Sammy Hagar and Ted Nugent Explain How They Broke Up Styx |
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/sam...eakup/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
1983 (Dallas – June 18, Houston – June 19)
Notes: Hagar came on just before Styx at the end. Ted Nugent and Rik Emmett joined Sammy Hagar on stage in Dallas for their version of
Led Zeppelin's "Rock 'n Roll." Tommy Shaw recalls these shows as being some of the worst of his career. He claims to have feared for his life as his band was performing nothing but the rock opera "Killroy Was Here" after some of the best hard rock bands of the day had performed. (This was the tour that essentially ended Styx.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texxas_Jam
I was at the '82 and '84 Texxas Jams in Dallas, just missed that '83 show.......
Those Texxas Jams were awesome shows.
