r&p: concert review #3!?

time for our third concert review: styx/reo speedwagon with opener .38 special(i included styx and reo speedwagon together as a co-headline because they played for the same amount of time)

i have never really been a .38 special fan, and they weren't particularly entertaining live...not bad but definitely not blowing the doors off the place

reo speedwagon was very good as i expected them to be, they are a band sort of geared to the whole arena rock deal and a large part of that is playing a solid live show...the only disappointment i had was that they got 2 of my favorite songs of theirs(can't fight this feeling and take it on the run) done within the first 4 songs

styx was surprisingly very good, i was lowering my expectations for them due to the absence of dennis deyoung but james young proved a sufficient replacement, and overall they put on a very good show...my lone gripe here was that even with a limited amount of time to play they killed off some time with instrumental solos, which was cool but it cut out a couple of songs i would have liked to see them perform, but all in all a very solid effort

so, what is your opinion on these three bands?