Talk:Donnie Dacus

This article (and all the parentheses)
I've never seen such a screwed-up (and ridiculous) article with all the parentheses (and other journalistic errors), and somebody (not me) needs to spend their valuable (or invaluable) time cleaning up all the parentheses (and other crap) as it looks like (or probably is) the writer of Creem Magazine (or some other idiotic publication) who added all the (parentheses).

(Thank you)66.168.242.100 01:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

This is more an editorial than an article... This is extremely biased and has gives little, if any, facts to back it up. 137.140.10.120 (talk) 19:30, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to attempt to re-write this to fix it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.140.10.26 (talk) 18:35, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Too much taken out?
What I see today is a bare bones article. Most of it is fine as far as I can tell, but there is one puzzling thing. Why is the name of his first band, The Shux, related to Jimi Hendrix? An internet search turned up the following from his imdb biography:


 * His career started in a teenage band called The Shux (so named because Jimi Hendrix often ended shows by saying, "Aw shucks"). Reports indicate that The Shux had Go-Go girls, and that Dacus often dressed up as Hendrix.

Don't know personally if this is true, but it just seems kind of an odd statement. At least to someone who isn't from the Woodstock generation. Ileanadu (talk) 01:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Article context and reasons for dismissal from Chicago
The article is clearly in need of rewriting and revising, because it's poorly formatted, and I think there should be more information about his time with Chicago as the first replacement guitarist for Terry Kath, such as how he was recruited and why he was eventually dismissed from the band. I know that he has been publicly silent for years, but has resurfaced in recent years, and I don't know if he's given his side of the story yet. I have read on IMDB that there are collected hints to indicate that Donnie's ego got too big and his rolling and yelping style was not well-suited to the group's onstage dynamics. Drummer Danny Seraphine says that Donnie was fired from the band because he didn't fit in with the others and it was a mistake to recruit him in the first place and in his book, he says there was on incident on a Chicago tour where Donnie had his own personal merchandise stand, but the other members objected and had it taken down.115.64.25.61 (talk) 11:34, 28 December 2017 (UTC)