Chuck jealous of reunited Police

[blt man]

Short article on why bands reunite. While the article focuses on the Police, Chuck has an interesting quote:

Why might it work now when it didn't before?

"It takes a gigantic sense of maturity," says founding Styx bassist Chuck Panozzo, whose current band tours separately from founding singer Dennis DeYoung. "I'm glad these guys have been able to overcome their problems or their egos. I'm a little jealous."

http://www.startribune.com/457/story/1274970.html

[StyxCollector]

Look, everyone - including Chuck - has thrown some mud. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. While Chuck by no means did the bashing that JY did against DDY, he hasn't always had the nicest things to say over the past little while. Pretty much everyone has toned it down which may pave the way, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Grotelul]

Look, everyone - including Chuck - has thrown some mud. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. While Chuck by no means did the bashing that JY did against DDY, he hasn't always had the nicest things to say over the past little while. Pretty much everyone has toned it down which may pave the way, but I'm not holding my breath.

How do we know he didn't mean all of them? I saw nothing wrong with the comment at all.

[DerriD]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

[StyxCollector]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

Pretty much.

The two that really need to work it out are JY and DDY if it was to ever happen, even only for one night on one stage. I just don't see it happening in the immediate future.

Look at it another way: at least we got 1996 and 1997 out of a reunion. More than I could have ever hoped for. The fragile peace couldn't have lasted.

[Zan]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

Well, sorta. And since this place is all about counter-balance, let us also not forget that DDY has had some pretty nasty things to say about the other guys in the past as well (like unsolicted things - like calling radio stations asking people to boycott Styx shows for one example). Just not-as-recent past as the JY interviews being quoted here. I'd say plenty of negativity has been spread all around where these guys are concerned. And Chuck has said the least of any of them.

[StyxCollector]

That was my point Zan - no one in this whole shell game is blameless. Chuck, DDY, TS, and JY have all said things at one time or another. Chuck's stuff was the least nasty (IMO), but is also some of the most recent due to his book more than anything else. He's been pretty quiet up until the past few months.

None of these guys are saints by any stretch of the imagination.

[DarwinNebraska]

I think they're all positioning for a reunion within the next few years.

[Skates]

I think they're all positioning for a reunion within the next few years.

But why? They all seem happy on their own. There's no reason to bring up the negativity. Let them be on their own. They're all doing fine.

[rajah2165]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

Well, sorta. And since this place is all about counter-balance, let us also not forget that DDY has had some pretty nasty things to say about the other guys in the past as well (like unsolicted things - like calling radio stations asking people to boycott Styx shows for one example). Just not-as-recent past as the JY interviews being quoted here. I'd say plenty of negativity has been spread all around where these guys are concerned. And Chuck has said the least of any of them.

Please cite where DDY has told people to boycott Styx shows.

[DarwinNebraska]

I think they're all positioning for a reunion within the next few years.

But why? They all seem happy on their own. There's no reason to bring up the negativity. Let them be on their own. They're all doing fine.

Because at some point it will mean more money for all of them since, believe it or not, with Dennis back in the fold they can headline the package tours instead of opening.

[Rockwriter]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

Well, sorta. And since this place is all about counter-balance, let us also not forget that DDY has had some pretty nasty things to say about the other guys in the past as well (like unsolicted things - like calling radio stations asking people to boycott Styx shows for one example). Just not-as-recent past as the JY interviews being quoted here. I'd say plenty of negativity has been spread all around where these guys are concerned. And Chuck has said the least of any of them.

Please cite where DDY has told people to boycott Styx shows.

That's perhaps a bit of a stretch. He DID solicit some phone interviews in some of the touring markets when the band was out without him initially, to try and get the word out that he was not with the band that was touring. The same kind of thing that Randy Bachman has done with some of the Guess Who dates that don't include him, and for the same reason . . . because otherwise fans just assume they're seeing the classic band, and let's face it, quite a few fans DID, in fact, attend those early Gowan shows with no knowledge that an important change had been made, much to their disappointment in some cases. In many markets the advertising simply did not make that clear.

I don't know of Dennis actually saying fans should boycott the shows, at least not in public. But I won't say it didn't happen because I haven't heard every interview he's ever given in his entire life.


Sterling

[Skates]

I think you two are saying the same thing.

Well, sorta. And since this place is all about counter-balance, let us also not forget that DDY has had some pretty nasty things to say about the other guys in the past as well (like unsolicted things - like calling radio stations asking people to boycott Styx shows for one example). Just not-as-recent past as the JY interviews being quoted here. I'd say plenty of negativity has been spread all around where these guys are concerned. And Chuck has said the least of any of them.

Please cite where DDY has told people to boycott Styx shows.

That's perhaps a bit of a stretch. He DID solicit some phone interviews in some of the touring markets when the band was out without him initially, to try and get the word out that he was not with the band that was touring. The same kind of thing that Randy Bachman has done with some of the Guess Who dates that don't include him, and for the same reason . . . because otherwise fans just assume they're seeing the classic band, and let's face it, quite a few fans DID, in fact, attend those early Gowan shows with no knowledge that an important change had been made, much to their disappointment in some cases. In many markets the advertising simply did not make that clear.

I don't know of Dennis actually saying fans should boycott the shows, at least not in public. But I won't say it didn't happen because I haven't heard every interview he's ever given in his entire life.


Sterling

Here in Orlando, just as the suit got started, Dennis was on the "Monsters of the midday" show. Yes, I know it was years back, that show is now a morning show, but.....I distinctly remember the following quote "In case you didn't know, I'm not with those guys anymore, so the show you're seeing is not Styx." This was a few days before he played a "private" gig at the Hard Rock. That private gig was going to be public, but the tickets weren't selling.... He kept calling himself Styx at that one. The rest of the interview he was going on and on about how the boys left him, and how it wasn't a show to see without him.

Strangely enough, the next year when the boys played the Hard Rock, the show was a sell out.

Something to remember here, folks, is that over the years, the fighting has been worse with the fans. I am happy with the way it is now, we get the best of both worlds. New music, tours (I'm not a fan of the def leppard show-I would rather they had a longer set) on both sides.