Year : 1990-1991 (Retrospect Records Edition 2006)
Style : Melodic Glam Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 100 mb
Bio:
Foxx is a glam hard rock band from Akron, Ohio, USA, that was founded in 1985.Not to be confused with Foxx from Pekin, Illinois or Foxx from St. Louis, Missouri.FOXX reunited in 2012 to perform for the first time since 1992, and remain active up to the present.Dreams of making it big as a pop metal and glam rock band in the 1980s triggers laughter and colorful anecdotes about big hair, flamethrowers on stage, traveling from show to show in a rusty van, performing with Warrant's Jani Lane, Geraldo Rivera crashing a rock show with police during an undercover drug bust, and stealing beer from Blue Öyster Cult.Good times get scrambled because Foxx once played 211 shows in nine months and 43 straight.Boyd had a prime seat on the rock 'n' roll joyride. The gregarious, fun-loving jokester and wizard of a guitarist often kept the party rolling during Foxx's heyday.That's how McKenzie and Jackson remember the Massillon resident who died following a lengthy illness earlier this year (2022) at age 59.And it's why the founding members of Foxx will hold what they expect to be their final concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Club Energy, 289 Darrow Road, Akron. Admission is $5 to cover expenses of the show, Jackson said.Continuing without Boyd in the fold, even on a sporadic basis, is difficult for Jackson and McKenzie to imagine.Band members, both past and present, have lived in either the Akron or Canton area. Foxx used to play at Canton clubs so often that the band considered it their rock 'n' roll home field. Hangouts like J.R.'s and Buddie's Place.Foxx was influenced by numerous bands, including Kiss, Queen, Dokken, Twisted Sister, Cinderella, Metallica, the Ramones and Misfits. Together it coalesced into a hard-driving, catchy sound ideal for the hair band scene of the '80s."We started getting fan mail like from all over the world and stuff," he added. "It was odd to see letters coming from Germany saying we love you guys - it was like lightning in a bottle."Jackson, however, admits that was the commercial zenith. The big breakthrough never happened. No fancy dinners with record company executives. No MTV videos. No touring with Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and other rock titans of the day.Foxx toiled on the club circuit, while songs like "Party Naked" and "Sex Patrol" appeared on a locally-produced cassette sold to fans at club shows. Foxx also was played on WRQK 106.9 in Canton.McKenzie, 62, admitted to having pondered the question - Why not us?Why couldn't Foxx be the next Faster Pussycat, Steelheart, Slaughter, Trixter, White Lion or Nelson?"I scratch my head to this day wondering why Foxx couldn't catch a break," he said. "Because I thought our songs were good, our stage presence was good. I thought we had great musicians in the band — it just didn't happen for us."Like the time Jackson and Foxx were performing in a Key West club when famed television reporter Geraldo Rivera stormed inside with police in an undercover cocaine bust in 1986."We came home (after the tour), and I was sitting in my bedroom," Jackson recalled. "I turned on the TV, and there was my face, just a big picture of my face. I thought I was having an acid flashback.""... Then the camera pulls out, and it's a Geraldo Rivera undercover drug war story," he said, laughing. "The lights came on, and all these cops came pouring in the place followed by Geraldo Rivera ... and they cleaned the place out, and then we played our show, and only the band and three people were left - everyone else went to jail."High-profile gigs included opening for Blue Öyster Cult, a 1970s band known for hits still played on classic rock radio today — "Godzilla," "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and "Burnin' for You.""When you play with a famous band, you get treated well," Jackson said of craft service. "But we ran out of beer; it was a concert, and you just couldn't go out and get beer ... but Al left and went out and got beer — he walked right into Blue Öyster Cult's dressing room and took theirs."We drank it all up, and no one was the wiser," he remembered. "I'm sure they just said, 'We're out of beer.'"Foxx was among the most popular and known metal bands in the region. A setlist filled with original music stood out among counterparts. Covers included tunes from Kiss, Guns N' Roses, Judas Priest, AC/DC and Van Halen.But they certainly hadn't reached the status of Akron's Jani Lane, lead singer for Warrant, a Hollywood-based glam metal band known for the hit songs "Down Boys," "Heaven," "Cherry Pie" and "I Saw Red."Lane used to hang out at the former Akron Agora."Our sound man at the Akron Agora was one of Jani's good buddies," Jackson recounted. "He said, 'Have you heard of Warrant?' If not, you are gonna.'""He played drums with us," Jackson said. "I think he only sang with us once at the Agora, and he and I did a duet. I think we did 'Cherry Pie' and 'Down Boys.'"Comedy was another signature of the band, with Boyd often at the center of the shtick. Highlights included an Elvis impersonation and a bit called, "Fun Facts with Uncle Ken.""Kenny is just nuts every night," Jackson told Canton Repository entertainment writer Dan Kane in a 1989 article about the band's local following. "He makes every show different. "Wild outfits and teased hair aside, Foxx had legitimate musical chops, the founding members said."I think our music set us aside from the other bands," Jackson said. "Foxx had more teeth. Our music was a little rougher and more aggressive. It was every bit as pop, but it was just more upfront guitars."We come more from a punk rock aesthetic," he added. "We rarely did a ballad ... our music was just a little heavier than most bands. I would put us in the Skid Row category.""But there was no escaping the hair thing because we had so much stinking hair," Jackson said as he roared with laughter. "I had more hair than most entire bands had."As with most of their hair metal brethren, Foxx was served a sonic eviction notice at the hands of Nirvana and the Seattle grunge rock phenomenon of the early '90s. A wave of mainstream alternative rock followed — Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots.Seemingly overnight, what once had been hip was now radioactive. Pop metal bands fell out of favor with mainstream radio and MTV.Admitted McKenzie: "For every band and for us, it was pretty much over."But Jackson is at peace with the past."A lot of the record companies turned us down," he said. "And the grunge thing happened ... and that was it.Jackson is a voice actor, recording audio books, cartoons and video games. He's still involved in music as well.McKenzie has enjoyed a pop metal second act. He plays bass for FireHouse, which scored two major radio hits in 1990, "Don't Treat Me Bad" and "Love of a Lifetime."Later this month, he will tour with the band again.FireHouse also will be among those performing in August during the three-day "Monsters on the Mountain" music festival in Gatlinburg, Tennessee."The funny thing now is all those bands that got brushed away (in the early '90s) are back in a big way," McKenzie said."FireHouse is playing pretty big places and filling them up."
Album:
Rare melodic glam hard rock album.Recorded in 1990, but released at Foxx-headlined release party at the Akron Agora, in Akron, Ohio, on Sunday, March 17th 1991, with opening band Rogue's Hollow and newly reissued in 2006 through Retrospect records.Decent production and great melodic album.There are some great songs of course! "Don´t Go" is my favorite track, Ballads like "Need Your Love" and "Lost Without You" are Really Good ones, "Let's Raise Hell" "Imprisoned".An excellent purchase for all lovers of melodic hard rock with a touch of glam elements.
Line-Up:
Kenny Boyd (R.I.P. 2022) - Vocals, Lead & Acoustic Guitar
Dave Jackson - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Allen McKenzie - Vocals, Bass Guitar - see also: Firehouse
Keith Taylor - Drums, Backing Vocals
Production:
Produced by Chris Wintrip and Jeff Rambaud
Tracklist:
01. Let's Raise Hell
02. Stick It Out
03. Lost Without You
04. Wine Me, Dine Me
05. Poor Little Rich Girl
06. Love Transfusion
07. Don't Go
08. Imprisoned
09. Need Your Love
10. Cold Blooded
11. Bring On The Night
12. Love Or Money
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