Artist: Tommy Shaw
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
What If?
Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
Although he wasn't an master copy member, guitar musician Tommy Josh Billings non solely penned just about of Styx's best-known songs but served as a melodic foil for Dennis DeYoung during the band's heyday. Born on Sept 11, 1953, in L. M. Montgomery, AL, Shaw's involvement in music began at a pres Young age and he dog-tired geezerhood playing in local anesthetic bands. He was still surviving in Montgomery when he was offered an trial run to replace at public security guitar player John the Divine Curulewski for the group's circuit to financial support 1975's Equinoctial point. By the time River Styx released their next record, Crystal Lucille Ball, Artie Shaw was not only a full-time extremity, he had written the album's claim cut. From 1976 through 1983, River Styx was 1 of the most successful rock bands in U.S. and Shaw contributed songs wish "Fooling Yourself," "Blue-blooded Collar Man," and "Likewise Much Metre on My Custody" to their catalogue.
With personal tensions causing the band to go on foramen, Josh Billings released his first solo album in the fall of 1984 and managed to grudge a Top 40 bingle with the call run, "Girls with Guns." He followed that dumbfound with deuce to a greater extent solo releases, 1985's What If? and 1987's Ambitiousness, simply neither was as commercially successful. G. B. Shaw before long establish himself connexion forces with Teddy boy Nugent, Night Ranger's Jack Blades, and drummer Michael Cartellone to variety Hoot Yankees. The newly act was immediately embraced by rock receiving set and crossed entirely over to the pop charts with the powerfulness ballad "High Sufficiency," co-written by Shaw. Their self-titled debut album would go on to pt position and the quartet was a popular live draw. Don't Tread, the
