Cathedral Stone - Styx 1977 Grand Illusion Tour Gallery - Marshall Plexi

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1977 Grand Illusion Tour Gallery

Here's a pic of Tommy Shaw playing his creme colored Les Paul Custom and James Young playing his late 60's Fender Strat. The keyboard across from James Young is an Oberheim OB-1, and was only used to play the song "I'm OK" from the, at the time, unreleased Pieces of Eight album. As you know, "I'm OK" has the pipe organ in the studio recording (which was recorded at the Cathedral of St. James in Chicago). To re-create it live. Dennis DeYoung found that by mixing several different synthesizers, he could achieve a very similar sound live without having to haul around a pipe organ. The three instruments used togther were the Moog Taurus I bass pedals played by Chuck, the Oberheim OB-1 for the midrange section played by James Young, and the Arp String Ensemble for the high end played by Dennis DeYoung. In the back, you see several Marshall stacks. All the cabs were mid-70's Marshall 4x12's with the basketweave grill cloth and plastic corner covers. They were likely loaded with Celestion Rola 25w or 30w speakers. The amps look to be a mixture of late 60's Marshall Plexi's, early and mid-70's 100w Marshall JMP's. These Marshall stacks were for James Young. Tommy played through the Hiwatt staks. Both players played through a homemade preamp they called the Yoshinerator which would allow them to drive a hotter signal through the amp causing more distortion when needed for leads, etc.

Styx 1977 Grand Illusion Tour
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