Styx & The Contemporary Youth Orchestra Of
Cleveland – One With Everything
(Concert/DTS)
Picture: C+ Sound: B- Extras: C+ Concert: B-
Styx has
been written off a the kind of faceless corporate Rock that made Punk necessary
to save the genre at the time, but that is unfair revisionist history. Instead, the band was started by the twin
brothers Chuck and John Panazzo, which by 1976 became the band we know of when
Tommy Shaw joined the band. A few years
before that, the band was quickly gaining notice on the independent Wooden
Nickel label.
Lady put them on the map in 1975 and
they were signed to the extraordinarily artist-friendly A&M Records and
became one of the labels biggest acts.
Up to that line-ups disintegration in 1983 when Shaw left the band in a
falling out with Dennis DeYoung that later drove DeYoung out of the band for
both personal and healthy reasons, the band later reformed with Shaw and have
toured on and off ever since. John
Panazzo died in 1996.
The
latest variation has teamed up with The Contemporary Youth Orchestra Of
Cleveland for the new One With
Everything concert. HDed on May
2006, this edit of the concert runs 112 minutes and features these classics as
follows:
- Blue Collar Man
- Lorelei
- One With Everything
- It Don't Make Sense (You
Can't Make Peace)
- Can't Find My Way Home
- I Am The Walrus
- Just Be
- Everything All the Time
- Crystal Ball
- Miss America
- Criminal Mind
- Too Much Time On My Hands
- Boat on the River
- I Don't Need No Doctor
- Medley: Put Me On / Mademoiselle / Heavy
Metal Poisoning / Midnight Ride / Sing for the Day / Shooz / Queen of
Spades / Great White Hope / Half Penny Two Penny / Borrowed Time / Rockin'
the Paradise / Lights / Man in the Wilderness
- Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
- Renegade
Noticeably
absent are hits DeYoung was behind like Babe,
The Best Of Times, Come Sail Away and anything from the
fascinating and ill-fated Kilroy Was
Here (1982) album like Mr. Roboto. As for Shaw, his voice is still in great
shape and except for adjustments to fit the 171-piece orchestra, sounding just
as clear and rangeful as it did going back to the 1970s. Many of these Rock/Classical Orchestra combos
have been attempted and just about all of them have been a disaster, but
despite some glitches here and there, One
With Everything is still worth a look even when it does not live up to its
ambitions.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image was shot in digital High Definition recently
and after seeing several Blu-ray releases from Eagle, we know this will look better
in that and the HD-DVD format they also support. With that said, the Video Black is weak here,
but is from the tradedown to this format.
The editing and shooting is not bad and I look forward to the actual
HD. The sound is here in Dolby Digital
2.0 Stereo with Pro Logic surrounds, Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1, with the 5.1 mixes
better. The DTS just edges out the
Dolby, but not by much. I noticed a
slight distortion/compression issue in the 5.1 mixes throughout, but it is
still good. Extras include two new Styx
Christmas songs filmed at the same concert: All
I Want & Ring The Bells, interview
segment with the band and a photo gallery.
- Nicholas Sheffo
