Downtime (pandemic edition): VCU docs find respite in rock
Photos courtesy of The Vagabond Daddies)
When The Doobie Brothers sing “Music is the doctor,” they may as well be singing about The Vagabond Dandies.
Not only are most of the band’s members MDs, but the local rock group formed at the outset of and in some ways because of the coronavirus pandemic that’s given them even more reasons to rock out.
The group was brought together by drummer Gonzalo Bearman who, as chair of VCU Health’s Division of Infectious Diseases, is the health system’s top infectious diseases expert. The foursome includes two more VCU physicians: guitarist Gary Tye, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU; and dermatologist Justin Haught, who fronts the group on guitar and vocals.