That's how I got my break - playing in a club on Rush Street in Chicago. There were lots and lots of clubs where live music was the center thing.
On getting his big break: Tommy : "Back when I was still living in my hometown, what you did was you played in clubs. If you're a musician that gets on the road a lot, the trip home or the trip out there is a lot shorter."
The other thing is, Nashville is pretty centrally located. To go one place and get one thing done would take you two or three hours because of traffic. We lived in Los Angeles for almost 24 years. You get a certain attitude when you're driving in Chicago or New York or Los Angeles, and when you come here, you notice right away that you don't hear anybody blowing their horns. When people move here, they tend to want to assimilate into that instead of bringing the culture with them from the last place they lived. It's encouraged - that kind of thing is just in the culture. Tommy: "There's a Southern way of life - Southern attitudes. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). STYX vocalist/guitarist Tommy Shaw recently appeared on "PodKats!", a podcast hosted by John "Kats" Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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