Where is kix from

Chad Childers Published: March 27, Filed Under: Kix , Ronnie Younkins. Categories: Metal , News , Rock. Back To Top. The Generators Demos. Daddy's Little Girl. By Surprise. Up To You. Atomic Bomb. Mud Pies. Hitting the club circuit six nights a week for three straight years resulted in the band cultivating a huge local fan base and led to a contract with Time Warner affiliate Atlantic Records. To support the release, the quintet set out to hit every club up and down the East Coast. Their follow-up, Cool Kids, showcased a more commercial side of the band.

Spearheaded by the single "Body Talk," rumors circulated that the song was written to appease the band's label, who, eager to capture radio airplay, also forced the band into shooting a blatantly commercial video for the song which featured the band in full-on workout mode. Other songs like "Restless Blood" and "Mighty Mouth" fared a little better.

Kix - Live in Baltimore [Full Concert]. Eager to get back in the studio, Kix partnered up with Ratt and future Warrant producer Beau Hill and released Midnite Dynamite — their self-proclaimed "favorite record ever. Cold Shower. Building off the success of "Midnite Dynamite", in Kix went back into the studio to record their follow-up. Later that year they released Blow My Fuse, and finally achieved fame as it went platinum. The album featured the singles "Cold Blood" and "Blow My Fuse", along with videos showing the band in concert at Hammerjack's.

In , the band released Blow My Fuse: The Videos, featuring their official video releases and behind-the-scenes footage. With the success of "Blow My Fuse", the bands popularity had grown to include arenas. The album Hot Wire arrived in , with the single "Girl Money". In , guitarist Jimi K. This proved to be a disastrous move for the quintet; they now had to deal with a new regime to work on their yet-to-be released fifth record.

By the time Hot Wire finally hit record stores, the musical climate of had shifted dramatically from just three years earlier. Grunge was all the rage, making a band like Kix look like a laughingstock. The new trend made it virtually impossible for Kix to garner the radio support necessary for them to prosper commercially. In hindsight, Hot Wire may have proved to be the band's best-sounding record ever. Bolstered by a little MTV airplay, the album's first single, "Girl Money," showcased everything that made Kix a first-rate bar band.

Selling just under , units, the album came and went while Kix returned to doing what they had done all along -- hitting the road. The band toured Asia and recorded a live record in Japan in It was released by Atlantic one year later as Kix Live , fulfilling the band's contractual obligation to the label.

By the time Kix Live was released, founding member and guitarist Brian Forsythe had quit the band -- although he returned to the fold in , just in time to record Show Business , the band's ill-fated debut on CMC.

Released in , Show Business tanked and the band decided to call it quits. Still, after a three-year hiatus away from the music biz, Steve Whiteman re-emerged in Baltimore as the singer for Funny Money. Forming its own label, Kivel Records, Funny Money released a self-titled debut in and a sophomore follow-up, Back Again, in Kix re-formed in the early s, although without bassist and chief songwriter Donnie Purnell. Occasional summer touring followed during the s, and in , the band signed to Frontiers.

It performed very well, almost equaling the chart success if not the sales numbers of Blow My Fuse. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

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