Story from Dennis

[Archetype]

Great read

Hey everybody,

People have speculated on my nickname the Dr. and it's origins for some time, so here's the real story.

When the band was first starting out in the early Styx days John Panozzo supplemented his income by working part time in a music store in the drum department. Tells ya what kind or money these rock stars were making. I worked part time for the C.I.A. (no I didn't) One day a young man came in the store and struck up a conversation with John about drums and such. He had recently seen one of our concerts. During the conversation he asked John "How does doc tune his organ?" John said who, what? To which the guy responded "doc your keyboard player".

Well first you do not tune an organ and second how this guy thought my name was doc is still a mystery.

After John related this story we laughed our cookies off and little by little John, then the other guys began to refer to me jokingly as doc. It stuck, how stupid is that. Real stupid. But there my friends is the true story. Later we worked this nickname into the show in this manner. During the encore everyone but me would return to the stage. Tommy would then proclaim that someone was missing and had anyone seen the doctor. He would then get the crowd to yell come on out doctor whereby I would come out onstage with a white coat and stethoscope and prescribe more rock and roll for the audience. High class stuff. Hell the audience loved it.

Years later when Glenn joined the band we began referring to each other as Denny and Glenny as a joke, this also stuck. No Sting or the Boss for me, oh well. cheers ddy

[Cassie May]

Interesting! And I had always heard it was because he always carried a ton of meds around. Good story.

[brywool]

Interesting! And I had always heard it was because he always carried a ton of meds around. Good story.

I had heard this too, I think on an interview with the band. Supposedly, Dennis was kind of a hypochondriac (or very sensitive and got sick a lot- in fact one of his recent interviews said that too) so he always had medicines and a bag.

[yogi]

I had always heard that it was because people kept confusing him with Julius Erving.

[yogi]

I sure wish I had the computer savvy to post pictures of Dennis and Julius side by side. All of you could then see the striking reselembance between the two. This is how I heard he got the nickname The Doctor. I actually think that DDY's slight case of Romnesia is preventing him from remembering how he actually got that nickname.

I am sure that there are plenty of pictures of Dennis and Julius on the internet. If any of you know how, please post a few of them for me. It is greatly appreciated.


Thanks

[Boomchild]

I actually think that DDY's slight case of Romnesia is preventing him from remembering how he actually got that nickname.

It's my understanding it's Dennis full concentration on trying to figure out how Obomanomics is going to reduce the national debt that is frying his brain cells.