Okay, as per the comment request, here is my review on the concert:
It was great! Dennis confessed that he is 61 years old, and stuck to the classics. He performed two solo album songs, but most everything was from his days with Styx. His voice is still in great shape, I didn't detect a single key change to try and "reach the notes."
A couple of cool things - his wife Suzanne is his childhood sweetheart, they've been married over 35 years, and she sings backup for him in the show. His son Matt is the Lighting Designer for the tour, and in a "we're happy for ya!" sidebar, Matt took Kristi's acting class when he went to Columbia (___) years ago - so we hung out afterward and talked to him for a while. He seems to be doing well, and is apparently going to be the LD for a Night Ranger tour this year in Europe. Cool and rocking.
Other cool thing: Dennis didn't bother with the formality of an "encore." After his "last song," he talked about how normally he would go off stage and pretend to leave while the crowd kept cheering, and then he'd come back and play one more song. But let's just pretend that we did that, and we'll play that one more song. Then he broke into "Come Sail Away." Awesome.
Here's the set list, which I put into my blackberry memo pad because I'm a total geek:
Grand Illusion/Lady/Lorelei/Show Me the Way/Castle Walls/Light up/Mr Roboto/Desert moon/100 years from now/Don't let it end/Rockin the paradise/Suite madame blue/Babe/Best of times/AD 1958 (fake encore) /Come sail away
My good friend Steve Cochran is doing the morning show on WGN on Labor Day and tells me that Dennis will be calling in on the show. So listen in and see what he says about the show in Naperville...
