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Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: 57basstra on July 28, 2005, 10:00:33 AM

I was getting ready for work today and had on the video show and noticed that Chuck Panozzo, original bass player for Styx, in a video of Best of Times off Paradise Theater was playing an Alembic, I think. It may have been a Series. I'm not sure. Does anyone know if Panozzo played Alembic? One of the most outstanding concerts I ever saw was Styx in Nashville during the Grand Illusion tour, sometime in the late 70s. They really were something to see, and hear (at least then!)

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: neyman on July 28, 2005, 10:25:15 AM

That was the bass that first introduced me to Alembics. I think there was also a color pic of it in an Alembic catalog from somewhere around 1978. I believe it's a Scorpion body shape with ebony facings. Don't know if it's a S1 or S2.
 
I'd love to se a pic of it again if anyone has one!

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: keith_h on July 28, 2005, 10:33:51 AM

I'll bet he was. Here is a link to some early Styxx pictures with Chuck playing an Alembic. I still remember these guys when they played high school gymnasiums in the Chicago area.  
 
http://www.chuckpanozzosplace.com/earlystyx.html (http://www.chuckpanozzosplace.com/earlystyx.html)
 
Keith

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: dadabass2001 on July 28, 2005, 10:36:07 AM

Here's a link to a small pic from the Showcase section / Artists and their Alembics:
http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/1934.html?1034274178 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8200)
Mike

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: 57basstra on July 28, 2005, 12:15:48 PM

Keth...I went to college in the mid-and-late70s at Murray State University, Murray, Ky. One of the guys there had his claim to fame as having had Styx having played at their HIgh School Prom somewhere in or near Chicago in the early years..

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: gare on July 28, 2005, 03:26:47 PM

Ah Styx's..like Keith, I also remember seeing them in high schools, junior college gigs, and the like around Chicago. They were from a da south side. I read recently that the DeYoungs are still living in the same neighborhood.
 
Gary

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: eastcoastepic on July 28, 2005, 07:31:33 PM

Keith,
   Thanx for the link...a great pic of a very unique Alembic with a Scorpion Omega, something that I have never seen before.  
Mica, is this still an available option??  
Chris

Title: Panozzo (Styx) Bass?
Post by: valvil on July 29, 2005, 04:48:03 PM

Hello Chris,
 
yes the Scorpion can still be had with or without omega.
 
Valentino