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Tommy Shaw was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and played with many local bands in his early years.He left Montgomery after attending Robert E. Lee High School to join The Smoke Ring and then MSFunk, a Chicago-managed outfit that he played with for three years, which gave him a chance to be noticed by Styx during a two-week club gig in Chicago.
In the late 1980s, the US rock music scene witnessed a trend for supergroups; Bad English, Mr. Big and Badlands were all formed around that time. [4] Shaw, Blades and Nugent were put together by big time Rock mover and shaker John Kalodner as Damn Yankees in 1989 [5] in response to declining commercial success of their original bands. [6]
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Nashville resident Tommy Shaw of the band Styx talks about life in Nashville, touring with Styx, making a bluegrass album and playing the Grand Ole Opry.
Shaw Blades is an American musical duo/group formed by Tommy Shaw of Styx and Jack Blades of Night Ranger, both of whom played in the supergroup Damn Yankees. It is an informal duo which has produced two albums between other projects, 1995's Hallucination and 2007's Influence. The first two songs on "Hallucination" -- "My Hallucination" and "I ...
Girls with Guns is the debut solo album from Styx guitarist/vocalist Tommy Shaw.It was released in October 1984 by A&M Records.. The title track was a top 10 hit on rock radio, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and reaching a high of #33 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Renegade" is a 1979 hit song recorded by the American rock band Styx on their eighth studio album, Pieces of Eight. Written and sung by singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw, "Renegade" is an uptempo hard rock song from the perspective of a wanted criminal who knows his choices will lead to his death.
The next band, were some of the members (including lead vocalist Tommy Shaw) continued under the name MSFunk in 1973, basing themselves out of Chicago. [ 6 ] The group was inducted into the Nebraska Music Hall of Fame in 1995, and has regularly reunited for regional concerts since then.