I love Mr Roboto ..

ddy sings his ass off every time he opens his mouth way more talented than the other guys and the reason for their success and longevity period

I love his line, "That's a good scream!" :)

@xr4ti548

6 жыл бұрын

By far the best part of the video. Poor roboto ... lol

@elcivilista

5 жыл бұрын

Me too man

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

@Terrence Reardon and Friends Podcast Podcast so many nights I was supposed to be asleep back in the day and my late grade school in the high school and I would sit there listening the late Bob coburn and rockline loved it.. the course that's because of the fact we were lucky enough to have Sony walkmans back then we could sneak it and no one knew

Great story, Dennis is very funny, thanks.

Thank you Mr. Roboto for TAKING the jobs nobody wants to

Dennis is so much fun to listen to. And STYX is so great! Thanks for the memories and journey through. Wow. I want to listen to it all on vinyl now.

The cover of Kilroy scared me as a kid and held off buying the album for 12 years until I watched Caught In the Act (I had the live album when released in 1984 and loved it) and then I understood the Kilroy concept and the roboto masks were just masks and not real monsters. Then 1983 saw Supertramp and Pink Floyd implode as well plus no one could stop The Police and Def Leppard.

@MaliceMouse

6 жыл бұрын

Terrence Reardon That album cover was total nightmare fuel for me as well.

@luisalonsoecheverria

6 жыл бұрын

Can't be as nightmare inducing as the News of the World album cover!!

@ybrix101

6 жыл бұрын

LOL.

@terrencereardon6374

17 күн бұрын

@@luisalonsoecheverria That cover was a drawing NOT A REAL PHOTOGRAPH. Kilroy and Bark were real pictures.

THE ONE THING YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY FROM HIM HE CAN STILL SING HIS ASS OFF FLAWLESSLY!!!!

@matvangogh

Жыл бұрын

I've seen him 2x in 12 g Yrs

@jeffsimon9594

7 ай бұрын

You have Dorito crumbs in your caps lock

i loved that album , and now love it even more Mr De Young is a charming funny and great musician !

@NVRAMboi

4 жыл бұрын

He would agree with you on all points I'm pretty sure.

I'm so glad I saw this interview with DDY. I could listen to him for hours. That album made a huge impression on me back in the 80s and still holds its own today.

Dennis’ explanation of the story of Kilroy Was Here is significantly more entertaining than the album itself.

@nealm6764

3 жыл бұрын

I will never forget buying the album, putting on the headphones and then just sitting there realizing how my favorite rock band from High school was now dead.

@blueknight5754

3 жыл бұрын

@@nealm6764 😂😂🤣

@krisscanlon4051

2 жыл бұрын

Agree...he couldn't sell it to a bunch of arena jockeys like his bandmates. Drugs and rancor didn't create artistic grist this time. Amazing voice on DD

@nealm6764

Жыл бұрын

@veganhigler6541 The Meatloaf song/ Jim Stienman song? I remember it, sort of... Only heard it on the radio/ MTV a few time and never really sought it out to listen to since then.

1983 Savannah, GA I saw Styx start the show with that 14 min video and kick off the show with Mr. Roboto. I don't think the die-hard fans were ready for a theatrical performance, most of all Tommy Shaw and James Young. The beginning of the end on full display.

@nealm6764

3 жыл бұрын

The people in the row in front of us fell asleep during the movie, which set the tone for the entire concert. People were leaving halfway through, the energy in the arena was completely drained. We came for the Grand Illusion, and got dancing, singing robots and ministers. I felt Cornerstone was the beginning of the end and Kilroy was THE END. They had a great 4 album run though with Equinox, Crystal Ball, The Grand Illusion, and Pieces of Eight!

I first heard this album in 1983. I was in high school and I bought it with my own money. I remember getting shivers listening to Mr. Roboto right off the album. The Kilroy tour was the first rock concert I ever attended.. I mist have heard this album a hundred of times by now. Mr. Roboto still gives me shivers. Great album! My favorite Styx album! Thank you Dennis!

@ThatVinylChannel

Жыл бұрын

@Vegan Higler I sure do.

Dennis, I was at Baraboo when we all got snowed in....it took me 30 years to get THREE feet from that mask....and MR ROBOTO is STILL my ALL TIME FAV SONG!!!!

His lyrics are prophetic, he was right. Love me some Dr. Righteous Fried Chicken 🍗

Cool back story on this campy song

I remember when I first heard it in '83 in my childhood home in the basement listening to my sisters stereo and was mesmerized...it seemed pretty edgy and different

I have loved Styx since I was 7 or 8. I am now 40. In my top 5 fav bands, easily.

As much as I loved and still enjoy Mr. Roboto, I can’t help but think that song thrust our whole world right smack into the future...whether we wanted it or not. We went on the highway when 1982 began after the whole post-70s hangover that was 1981 faded away, but once 1983 arrived we went from the highway full throttle into hyperspace.

I can’t comment on just one of the videos from Behind the Vinyl..I LOVE THEM ALL!,what a great idea..love love it

My all time favorite song as a kid.

I loved this and the "concept album" at the time,not so much many years later.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

heavy metal poisoning from JY still rocks to hell out of it

I LOOVE this song Classic

We love You Dennis!

So much fun, so heart-warming, so engrained

lol "Stop with the Porn for 5 Minutes and go look at it!"

@PiperPruiksma1986

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry but I can't do that.

Like the album or not it was successful. Roboto was on the radio every minute. I never understood how band members could get so upset about making an album that people loved and bought. That album extended their popularity and relevance. They put out Paradise theatre in 1981. Roboto comes out in 1983. No Roboto and their hay day ends in 1981. Some band members seem to think that their big record success ended because of the Roboto album. When something ends, it does not mean the last thing you did was what ended it. If paradise theatre had been their last big album would that have made paradise theatre the reason it ended? Then these band members say they lost their audience. Well, they generated a bigger audience with roboto. Fans that didn’t like Robot didn’t quit on the group. They actually kept the group alive through the 90’s and 2000’s. I also think all this hate talk on the Roboto album is not really true. Half the so called fans who say they hate that album as of late, loved it back then. When your favorite band(s) fall off their perch at the top, you always want to know why. So when band members start saying it was all Roboto’s fault, these fans just repeat what they say and then the album you liked then and in many cases, what got you hooked on them, all of the sudden sucked. I mean how can you say you like an album that the people who made it says it sucks? Lastly, I wished there was a way to find out how many Styx fans got started on Roboto, and it led to their discovery of their previous music

This is a great series ! 😎🤘

what an amazing and talented man.

I saw Styx at the Indiana State Fair just after they re-formed and released "Edge Of The Century". Strangely enough they played all their hits but nothing from the "Kilroy Was Here" album, though a couple of roadies came out at one point in "Mr. Roboto" masks.

Domo Arigato Mr Robot, made me a styx fan

Dennis Is so awesome with his songwriting! He doesn't need Styx he's better off without them.But his music with Styx will always be Legendary! 👏

YOUR MUSIC IS AWSOME

@bonscotty67

3 жыл бұрын

Your

@MarcusCollins69

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonscotty67 yes, comment on the 4 year old comment that I forgot about to correct my grammar

Favourite lines: 0:15 - "The band that did Babe. Seriously dudes?!" 0:59 - "We had enough trouble making these records sound right going forward, let alone backward." 4:00 - "Stop with the porn for five minutes...and that's a good scream." Hahahahaha

@ladystrange7791

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, those lines had me 🤣🤣🤣. Others: 3:39 - (as he lifts glasses) -“ Depending on who you ask” 4:31 - “That’s a hit record.” “ No it’s not. The lyrics? At the end I’m yelling‘I’m Kilroy!”

@ladystrange7791

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, those lines had me 🤣🤣🤣. Others: 3:39 - (as he lifts glasses) -“ Depending on who you ask” 4:31 - “That’s a hit record.” “ No it’s not. The lyrics? At the end I’m yelling‘I’m Kilroy!”

Powerful!

everything that Hollywood did predicted humanities future. he didn't ruined bandthey had differences

@TSPH1992

2 жыл бұрын

Different people. Different mindsets. It happens in almost every profession

The stage production the music...the musicians acting ...depending on who you ask...

Dennis DeYoung was Styx.

"...and that's a good scream..." {keeps talking}

Dennis is on 🔥!

The editor cut the wrong opening shots on this and “Come Sail Away”. This is showing the Grand Illusion vinyl stamp and CSA is showing the Kilroy vinyl stamp😊 on the needle drop.

Very cool

I am looking for original song mr. roboto..can anybody help me plzzzz

Loved this song as a kid. then grew up and thought it was lame. Then somewhere in adulthood found out (again) it actually owned.

The sound was I tried to hard to make it so that has the subliminal message not mirror mirror. Just had to say that. Love snowblind.

From the album that nearly killed STYX, "Kilroy Was Here".

@Harlanmote

6 жыл бұрын

The 9-2-5 Outlaw Reviews it did kill Styx...

I love the guys mannerisms lol

I've always thought, "Heavy Metal Poisoning" was one of their greatest songs. It's good, but it's not great, but something about is very cool. I just can't quite put my finger on it.

@boom973Toronto

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for binge watching!

That lp on the turntable isn't the USA release, cause the USA release has a image on the artwork from the like the music video of Mr. Roboto. Now i see the lp with the correct label in the background. Why the change of the lp and it's label?

Music was changing to techno pop new wave

@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124

Ай бұрын

Genesis changed to pop. Rush to New Wave/Hard Rock hybrid. Pink Floyd went Arena Rock on The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, orchestral on The Final Cut and even David Gilmour had a hard rock solo album in 1984 and even Roger embraced synths on KAOS.

thanks for an awesome track and dennis always had the best voice all we have to do is look at solo careers tommy came up with girls with guns a fun kinda cool track but dennis comes up with dessert moon and nuff said .............

I remember seeing an intreview with Tommy Shaw that when he was on the Kilroy Was Here tour, he felt uninspired and shitty about sining about robots he needed to take drugs to get thru it.

@brianfoster4664

3 жыл бұрын

He “needed” drugs. Tommy was weak.

Dude, he's talking about himself 🙂🙂🙂🙂🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖i love this song!

. . . and you can swim with it!

Aahh I was a Teenager and Styx was one of my fav bands. I loved the Paradise theater album. Who doesnt love to sing along with Mr. Roboto. I’m cool with Roy uncle Roy, lol this is what the computer typed As I spoke into it -----Im Kilroy Im Kilroy!

Accidents happen my man. But this is a great Jam! If it's meant to be, it's meant to be.

😏 nice, i did not know that, 20 20 vision eh

durante decadas dancei. andei de patins ao som dessa musica que embalou minha vida . so recentemente descobri a qual banda pertencia. e porisso pesquisei mais sobre a banda stix. e continuo gostando mais de mr roboto. que de outras musicas da banda. eu nao iria num show dos stix pois sei que eles nao tocariam essa musica. se limitam a apenas deixar jogada ao canto a mascara de gravação do clip Mr Roboto. mas na verdade acho que eles nunca foram capazes de executar essa musica ao vivo. fora dos estudios. lamentavel.!!

ahead of its time. Styx isnt the same w/o DDY

"depending on who you ask"?,I'm almost certain that one was for Tommy Shaw. Lol

@lw1391

3 жыл бұрын

That is completely true - great comment

God Forbid, we get to hear what he's saying clearly. Ugh. It's one of my favorite songs but do you have to loop it LOUDLY throughout a spoken interview. *huff*

Hilarious!

3:40 = lol a little shot at JY there ....

@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124

Ай бұрын

A jab without name dropping. Dennis never bashed Tommy, he is heartbroken that Tommy stabbed him in the heart.

If you want to see him now, type in Jim Peterik Dennis DeYoung at the search icon. Good song.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 жыл бұрын

Jim peterik from the western suburbs of Berwyn.. Danny from what is now we're all the shootings go on in Chicago Roseland... Jimmy is one of the nicest guys in music friend to everybody take a look at Rik Emmett from triumph he's hanging out with him he's proud of so many people and help them along their way that have stumbled and he's just Jim is one of the greatest..one of the nicest guys in music you can really ask to meet to just like Dennis he still very much grounded and proud to be a Chicago area guy both live out in the suburbs..

Dennis De Young leads voice

machines dehumanize!!

STYX is not STYX without Dennis.

I'd like to hear far more stories about guys in bands deciding how a song is going to be structured and recorded than one whole big narrative about the songwriting process behind that song. Especially in bands that were self-produced and argued about that shit all the time during a recording session. DeYoung literally didn't say a word about it. Certain licks of a specific song bring back specific memories from that specific time. There's no "Behind The Vinyl" going on here. *BOO!!!!!!!*

@diceytrust2768

6 жыл бұрын

Tonto Epstein ~ I believe he just wanted to talk about *Roboto* by itself. But Dennis is very Looong winded here. What I would love to see is this to one of JY's or Tommy's songs. In regards to Styx tracks, these are only done to Dennis's lyricics & compositions. Apparently the producers of this, only like his songs.

Kilroy was a great concept tackling censorship, the morality squad and taking over of jobs and society by automation/robots. Just didn't work with the musicians playing the parts. Still great music!

@wildbilltexas

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, I have the "Caught in the Act" DVD and it was a bad idea to have them act it out on stage. And the tone of the album should have been more serious. The songs tried to be "infotainment" when they should have been a lot more serious criticizing backmasking, TV preachers, the moral majority and companies moving factories overseas. But I bet they felt it would be career suicide to do that so they kept the tone light, so most fans didn't take it seriously.

@luisalonsoecheverria

6 жыл бұрын

I think I mostly didn't work cause Tommy and JY had trouble trying to write songs that fit with the theme and many of them were kinda half-assed or didn't fit the concept at all, with the exception of "Cold War", "Heavy Metal Poisoning", and "High Time". In one of the early drafts, "Don't Let It End" was supposed to be Kilroy singing to his estranged wife. She was written out of the story but the song stayed and that's why it doesn't make any sense in context.

@ybrix101

6 жыл бұрын

It should have been a movie instead!

@luisalonsoecheverria

5 жыл бұрын

@@ybrix101 That's what Dennis initially wanted to pursue, but the record label wouldn't give them the budget.

Paul Reiser was in Styx?

@WhisperVoyeur

6 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@Coats2112

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. And Tom Brady plays drums for the B-52s, when he isn't winning Super Bowls. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fnWLqJOIkbCqaLg.html or kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIp3pcuSYZrOe9o.html

This reminds me of "Joe's Garage" by Frank Zappa. This.Is.The.Central.Scrrrrrrutinizer.

"stop with the porn for 5 minutes and look it up if youre interested" :D oh man that was a killer line

Looks like Paul Reiser

Somoene inform 85% of the comment section that this video was recorded before either Trump or Biden was President.

Nobody yelled cut during this?

Come on I just to dance that Mr roboto backward when I was A kid

He should've done broadway

@zacharyterrazas2138

6 жыл бұрын

He tried, he wrote a show on Hunchback of Notre Dame

@MegaTempo22

6 жыл бұрын

He was Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar in Chicago for quite some time

:-)

Jeffster.

Paradise Theater was the last good Styx album. The top ones were Grand Illusion and Pieces of Eight. Cornerstone wasn't that great, but it had a few good songs. This is just my opinion of course.

@terrencereardon6374

Жыл бұрын

Blame The Sex Pistols, Ramones and the like for changing rock music.

The album itself is great. However the tour was done wrong. With the story Dennis came up with it should of been done in small intimate theatres, versus big arenas or stadiums. Would of been more effective and probably wouldn’t of caused the consternation that it did.

This guy reeks of Vegas...

@Deborahtunes

5 жыл бұрын

He does!!! That should be where he goes and stays...

If one wants to know what happened to Styx and its demise watch this video.

@WarehouseHobbies

7 жыл бұрын

I love all of them, and it took all of them to become STYX and all of their musical differences was the reason and diversity, and success of STXY. I also enjoyed the theatrics of music in the 70's, and as a musician myself it is an exciting way to make a point and storyline for your music. Tommy and James didn't like it, but it was an incredible show, I saw it performed live the second show, and it was unbelievable and three hours long. It was a direction for STYX I feel ended much too soon and that was a shame. In a band you can not always have your way, hence the reason so many good bands have failed. I won't take sides because I love them all as musicians, however as much as Tommy gave the band, he also took from what De Young started and gave himself. I will just say it was a shame that they could not see eye to eye and broaden the world of Rock Musicals that pretty much died after this great album and concept.

@tylerbuckley7409

6 жыл бұрын

dakotaescher1 actually the riff with the band was they were together for a long time Dennis after caught in the act was trying to get into writing music for Broadway musicals which was his passion the killroy was here album had nothing to do with it plus in 96 John panozzo died which really hurt the band but also in 96-97 Dennis finally went after the grand reopening of Paradise theater album was when he left for Broadway and wrote music for the play hunchback of Notre Dame then he came back to form a new band with his name and the music of Styx but before that he and tommy shaw went to court over some of the music of Styx's that Dennis wrote that is when the fallout happened and Dennis completely distanced himself from Styx all together

@Richiezbrasjr

6 жыл бұрын

You don’t know if they were even going to survive the 80’s. So many bands failed or ran out of steam during the 80’s and the ones that didn’t fail were the ones that turned to ballads. Look at Chicago, Heart, Foreigner, etc.

@MaestroMephisto

6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Buckley - You have the story ALL WRONG. Tommy, Dennis, JY and Chuck (with Todd Sucherman on drums) were back in action and after touring in 1996 with Return To Paradise and again in 1997 with the 20th anniversary of The Grand Illusion, put out an album called Brave New World. When they all sat down to discuss the tour and promotion for Brave New World in 1999, Dennis came down with his apparent “illness” of “light fatigue”. Whether he was lying or not is not the issue. The issue is that he asked Tommy and JY to wait a little bit until he got better. Tommy and JY said “fuck you!” and went on to keep Styx going without Dennis. THEN Dennis tried to sue them for the use of the same Styx. Dennis lost. THEN Dennis started touring as Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx around 2002/03. I met him at the casino here in CT on his first tour in 2002 and it was actually BEFORE he had the band that he has now where he’s got the 2 guys to sing the JY and Tommy songs, so what I saw was all Dennis songs.

@luisalonsoecheverria

6 жыл бұрын

The fallout didn't happen when he went to court with the band (which btw was over the rights to the bandname, not the catalog). Dennis didn't leave the band to do Broadway. He was working on the Hunchback musical in between tours and eventually got sick in '99 with symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Styx had just recorded a new album and was set to promote and go back on tour, but Dennis wanted the band to put it off until he got better, which was indefinite. That was the final straw that broke the camel's back. Tommy and JY got sick and tired of compromising and it always being what Dennis wanted, even going as far as getting Dennis a temporary replacement while still having him travel on tour, but Dennis didn't want the band going on without him at all, and that's precisely what the band did. These days, Tommy and JY have made their peace with Dennis but no longer desire to work with him. I'm pretty sure Chuck still talks to Dennis every now and then though.

Mans said put down the porn

Funny how this song broke up the band, was never considered a contender as a single etc... And then blew up huge in the early 80s and is a permanent fixture of our culture. I was a little kid when Mr Roboto was released and it's what introduced me to Styx. Because of Roboto I got their other albums and one of the things I loved about them as a kid was how their sound was in so many different directions. Ultimately the band themselves didn't like that. That's a shame. Everything from Renegade to Roboto was great. They should have accepted that they could be all of those things. In fact, just to mess with people and expectations, the follow up album after Kilroy should have been something else entirely different.

@boom973Toronto

3 жыл бұрын

Styx (without Dennis) now perform the song in concerts.

Ur joking right

Saw this tour in austin Texas. They had a movie on for about 15-20 minutes explaining the whole concept. I knew eventually they’d play some music. The concert started with this song. They had an elaborate curtain around the stage that refused to open. He got about 45 seconds into the song and said “can someone please open the curtain so we can start the show”? A spinal tap moment. The house lights came on. 30 minute intermission to fix the curtain. They played the movie again. By this time people are pissed and booing. They finally got into some music but the theatrics was a bad move.

@pepperdog2039

3 жыл бұрын

You are a liar no such thing ever happened I was there

Gonna get drunk.

hated Mr Roboto , now it's been explained I guess it's OK now . only wish they spent more time refining the music . like two years more time . great concept tho

Funny how you said rock stars thrown in prison. Nowadays, you just don't become a rock star unless you push certain ideas. So sad!

Hey Dennis, "Go home and get your fuckin shinebox".

Technology and censorship and economic depression… sounds like these days.

...And now I understand why Tommy walked away. For €*#¥ sake!!!

LOL. Must. Deflect. To. A. Different. Song. Easier than explaining the idea/inspiration for this or how it ever made it to a Styx LP. "She blowed up....she blowed up REAL GOOD!". OTOH, I suspect the "song" has made him/them a ton of money so bruh got paid.

Celebrities should not voice their political platform's. Love the back story of this because he is truly a futuristic artist and know before many countries that technology is a double edged weapon. He is a true performer.

@NintendoPsycho

3 жыл бұрын

Trump fuck

Teenage girls made this a hit, bottom line.

@DebraKadabra

5 жыл бұрын

Not I, said the Debra. I was SO excited for the new Styx album and this as the lead-off single broke my 12 year old brain/heart. I was incredibly crushed, because as Dennis himself pointed out, it was so vastly different from what I'd been hearing as a casual fan from the age of 7. Looking back, yes--Roboto is a transitional song that never should have been the huge hit that it became but I believe it's one of the worst songs on that album. This was marginally tolerable with Caught in the Act, but after hearing an interview Dennis did in 1994 where he himself aped on this song finally soothed the disappointment. Maybe.

3 minutes and 50 seconds to talk about the song and not the theme of the album.

@MaestroMephisto

6 жыл бұрын

Clay Page - He DID talk about the theme of the album. Clean your ears.

@Deborahtunes

5 жыл бұрын

He did talk about it a bit. But this video is called, "Behind The Vinyl: Mr. Roboto". So that's why he talked so much about the song. Because that's the topic here...

He thought the government was going to censor him, but it ended up being the Styx band that censored him by firing and silencing him. Then the Styx band scammed me into buying a ticket shortly after this happened. They still had Dennis' picture on the advertisement, so I bought a ticket to go see styx, thinking Dennis was going to be singing, and this dweeb with a Canadian accent is singing in his place, and acting stupid on stage.

@myunclesnephew

4 жыл бұрын

That would be Lawrence Gowan. A big pop star in Canada as a solo artist for a couple years in the 80s

@NintendoPsycho

3 жыл бұрын

Gowan is the shit.

I think he meant Bidden about being in hard times 🤦‍♂️ LGBFJB

Meh