There never have been more than a few thousand fans inside to hear it, and cheer it, and now the audience is reduced to friends and family members of the players and coaches involved. It’s been played three times in seven home games this season. The only way to hear their music would be through one’s phone, or the radio - or, for a handful of autumn days, through the scoreboard and sound system at Heinz Field. Originally, that was postponed until autumn, but the pandemic had other ideas and that show later was canceled. The band had 11 more shows planned that month next up were Pennsylvania dates in Bensalem and Jim Thorpe, and then one in New York City at the Beacon Theater. ![]() Styx began canceling concerts in early March, when the nation started entering quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They at least have been able to continue performing because their art translates so well to television, and this will be the 15th of 16 scheduled games to be completed on the way to their ninth NFL playoff appearance under head coach Mike Tomlin. The Steelers will play the final home game of their 2020 regular season Sunday against the Colts. If it all ended this year, I would still go: This is one of the coolest things that ever happened to me, and to Styx.” It’s just like this gift that keeps on giving. “It still blows me away that they haven’t tired of it. “The look on my face must have been, like: Wow! Because it was kind of a holy s-t moment,” Shaw told Sporting News. An NFL timeout does not allow for the song’s entire 4 minute, 14 second running time, whittling out much of James Young’s memorable guitar solo, but the edit by the gameday operations team honors both the franchise’s tradition of defensive excellence and Styx’ now-classic top-20 hit, "Renegade." What followed - after Dennis DeYoung’s primal scream punctuated the prelude and launched the guitar-driven rock anthem that ensues - surely was a blur, because it always is: the accelerated video compilation of massive hits by Steelers defenders, the fans simultaneously waving the team’s Terrible Towel talisman and either shouting or singing along. MORE: Ranking the 15 best stadium songs in sports Hangman is coming down from the gallows and I don’t have very long. Oh, Mama, I can hear you a-crying, you’re so scared and all alone. Then another five beats from Panozzo, and Shaw’s voice was surrounded by two of his bandmates. Lawman has put an end to my running and I’m so far from my home. Then it was the foot of the late John Panozzo, gone too long but still with us in that bass drum sequence that sounds so much like five heartbeats. Oh, mama, I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law. Shaw knew it was, and still it was more than he might have expected.įirst, above the crowd, he heard a voice, his voice, singing acapella. They had reason to believe that this was the moment. All around him, Shaw could see the mass of fans wearing mostly black outfits with gold trim starting to stir. Pittsburgh was frigid that day, but the Steelers were hotly contesting an essential game against the Chargers. You can use any modern browser to convert STYKZ, for example, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari.Oh, mama, what a scene Tommy Shaw beheld as he stepped onto the terrace outside a private box at Heinz Field on that Sunday afternoon in 2008.
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