In a brand new interview with Dennis Wooden of WOKW 102.9 FM‘s “Again To The 80s”, VIXEN drummer Roxy Petrucci was requested what it means to her personally to “nonetheless be taking part in these nice songs and connecting with followers all these years later.” She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is who I’m. It is not simply what I do. I nonetheless have the passion. I nonetheless have the drive. I really like the band. I really like taking part in with these women. We’re having a good time. So I believe as a result of I really like VIXEN, I really like the music. I simply love this band, and I wanna proceed doing it. And so long as the followers wanna preserve listening to it, I’ll do it until I am unable to — bodily cannot. However proper now I am nonetheless in pretty fine condition, nonetheless obtained tons of power and I am gonna preserve slamming these skins.”
As for what it’s prefer to see an entire new technology discovering VIXEN and Eighties rock typically, Roxy stated: “Oh, it is superior. We’ll be taking part in these reveals and typically we exit and do meet-and-greets, and there will be those that say, they arrive out to the meet-and-greet and so they’re, like, ‘We noticed you with Ozzy [Osbourne] again in 1989. That is my daughter, and he or she’s [been] launched [to] you, and he or she loves you guys.’ So we get a variety of that — a variety of that. A number of school youngsters which might be completely into the ’80s now. As a result of the ’80s, there’s nothing prefer it. That music, the enjoyable, the anthems — how are you going to not like that? As a result of individuals wanna hear it, younger youngsters wanna hear it, and so they’re completely all about it now. And the individuals need it. They’re coming to the reveals. That’s the take a look at.”
Petrucci went on to verify that VIXEN doesn’t use any backing tracks throughout the band’s stay efficiency. “Hell yeah. None of that. We do not try this. We need not,” she stated. “If you go see a band, you type of need that rawness. After I go to a live performance, I do not need them to sound similar to the CD or the recording. I wanna hear some rawness. We give it to you. However the vocals are unbelievable. Yeah, Rosa [Laricchiuta, VIXEN singer] nails it each evening, and Britt [Lightning, a.k.a. Brittany Denaro, VIXEN guitarist], Julia [Lage, VIXEN bassist] and Tyson [Leslie, VIXEN touring keyboardist], all of us do backing vocals, and it is simply there.”
VIXEN‘s most up-to-date launch was the 2023 single “Crimson”. It marked the group’s sole studio recording with singer Lorraine Lewis, who was fired from VIXEN in Could 2024 and changed with Laricchiuta, a singer, songwriter, and performer from Montreal, Quebec.
Laricchiuta‘s onerous rock venture BLACK ROSE MAZE launched its self-titled debut album in August 2020 through Frontiers Music Srl.
Rosa made her stay debut with VIXEN on June 21 on the Honda Heart in Anaheim, California alongside GREAT WHITE, SLAUGHTER and QUIET RIOT.
In January 2019, VIXEN recruited Lewis as its new lead singer following the departure of Janet Gardner.
Lewis had already carried out with VIXEN in March 2018 in Durant, Oklahoma whereas Gardner was recovering from surgical procedure.
Previous to Lewis‘s addition to VIXEN, Petrucci, bassist Share Ross and Lightning vowed to “increase upon the VIXEN legacy whereas remaining true to our musical roots.”
Gardner, Petrucci and Ross are thought of to be a part of VIXEN‘s basic lineup, together with founding guitarist Jan Kuehnemund, who died of most cancers in October 2013.
Gardner contributed lead vocals to VIXEN‘s most commercially profitable studio albums — “Vixen” (1988),“Rev It Up” (1990) and “Tangerine” (1998) — in addition to the group’s newest full-length launch, 2018’s stay album “Dwell Hearth”.
Three and a half years in the past, Ross introduced that she was “taking a hiatus” from VIXEN. Her substitute is Lage, previously of the Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian rock group BARRA DE SAIA and spouse of Richie Kotzen. Lage made her stay debut with VIXEN on February 8, 2022 on the pre-Monsters Of Rock cruise live performance at Magic Metropolis On line casino in Miami, Florida.
Picture credit score: Tom deBlonk
