Year : 2021 (Loudworks Records Limited Edition)
Style : Hard Rock , Glam Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 151 mb
Bio:
Madam X is an American glam rock band first active during the 1980s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach. Disbanding in 1988, the group reformed briefly in 1991, and has become active again after reforming for a second time in 2014. The band is set to release a new album in 2017.One of Madam X’s more distinctive songs, ‘Come One, Come All’, contained the line ‘We’re bad, we’re good, that’s all we ever wanted’. Unfortunately for them, most people thought they belonged chiefly in the former category. The band was formed in New York in 1983 by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (b. 17 March 1962, Rochester, Michigan, USA) on guitar and drums, respectively, along with vocalist Bret Kaiser and bass player Christopher ‘Godzilla’ Doliber. They subsequently moved to Los Angeles where their brand of glam metal was more readily accepted. In February 1985 they released an anthemic single, ‘High In High School’, backed with a suitably grandiose video. The single was produced by Rick Derringer who also performed the same task on the album. Both, however, were very average affairs and live shows fell short of the expected excitement.In 1986, Roxy Petrucci departed to join Vixen and Kaiser quit the scene with ego suitably deflated. Mark McConnell took over the drums while vocal duties were handled by Sebastian Bach (b. Sebastian Philip Bierk, 3 April 1968, Freeport, Bahamas). Within the year the band disintegrated, with Doliber forming a wild and heavy band called Godzilla (which failed). Maxine remained in the shadow of her sister, but Bach found stardom with pop metallers Skid Row.
Album:
Here’s the demos MADAM X taped before the recording of their debut album. Some songs ensed into the LP, others not, others were re-written / changed. This a bootleg CD titled “We Reserve The Demos” appeared last year, with fine sound quality.The good thing about these early versions is the band’s rawness, more ballsy than the tracks later released. Vocalist Bret Kaiser sounds a lot like Sebastian Bach, you gotta hear it. It’s not surprising that later a young Sebastian Bach was member of MADAM X in 1986 for a few months before joining Skid Row. Seems that was the type of singer the Petrucci sisters wanted for the band.“We Reserve The Demos” circulated for years among the fans as ‘Madam X with Sebastian Bach demos’. That’s not true, the singer here is Bret Kaiser. But the similarity is impressive.As said, there’s more nerve of titles like the killer ‘High In High School’, ‘Dirty Girls’, Cat’s Got Your Tongue’ or the properly titled ‘Heavy Metal’. Some songs even have an ‘Americanized’ Judas Priest feel circa 1982-83.There’s some live tracks recorded in Detroit in 1985 while MADAM X were touring the album.These are merely testimonial as the sound quality is pretty poor but enough o taste how good this band was alive.
Line-Up:
Bret Kaiser – vocals - See also: Bret Kaiser's Speedway
Maxine Petrucci – guitars, backing vocals - See also: Maxine Petrucci, ex-Vixen
Chris “Godzilla” Doliber – bass, backing vocals
Roxy Petrucci – drums, backing vocals - See also: JSRG, Roktopuss, Vixen, ex-Maxine Petrucci, ex-Hell's Belles
Tracklist:
01. High In High School
02. We’re Gonna Have
03. She’s Hot Tonight
04. Dirty Girls
05. Heavy Metal
06. We Reserve The Right To Rock
07. Good With Figures
08. Cat’s Got Your Tongue
09. We Want Rock
10. Stand Up And Fight
Live At Harpo’s – Detroit, MI. January 1985:
11. Come On, Come All (Live)
12. Hit And Run (Live)
13. Hard Rockin’ – I’m Breaking Out (Live)
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