Hidden Conflicts Exposed: Classic 80's Rock Band KIX Spills the Beans on the Band That Hated Them!
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2023
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Hello and welcome to our channel. Today we have a special treat for all the Kix fans out there. We have two of the band's guitarists, Ronnie 10/10 Younkins and Brian Forsythe, with us to talk about the upcoming final Kix show and the past history of the band. In this captivating episode of "Artists On Record" we delve deep into the hidden conflicts that transpired within the classic 80's rock scene. Brace yourself as we uncover the shocking truth behind the intense animosity directed towards the iconic rock band, KIX! Get ready to hear it straight from the horse's mouth as KIX reveals the band that despised them, holding nothing back! Prepare for a riveting journey through the tumultuous world of 80's rock as we lift the lid on the long-held grudge that simmered beneath the surface. Unveiling the secrets and shedding light on the enigmatic dynamics of this era, our exclusive interview with KIX provides unparalleled insights into the band's struggles and triumphs.
KIX’s final performance ever is set for September 17 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. “KIX…Walkin’ Away, The Final Show” will see the original band members Steve Whiteman, Brian Forsythe, Ronnie Younkins, Jimmy Chalfant take the stage for the very last time. The night will also include some very special guests.
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KIx was criminally underrated. I have my theories about Atlantic Records.
I got "Blow my Fuse" from a friend who had randomly got it from one of those mail order music services and absolutely loved it. I never understood why they were not bigger.
One of the most underrated bands of the 80's. Should have been huge and these guys should all have a net worth of 100 million each.
One of the greatest 80’s rock band 🤘🏻
I agree with you 💯
Damn right!!! KIX rules!!!
Ah, NO!!!!
Definitely the best live band I've ever seen!! And I attended more than 30 kix shows in the day. Mostly at Hammer Jacks
Amen !
As a Maryland fan since 1985, this is the BEST rock band ever!!!
Kix is one of my favorite bands. “Cold Shower” blew me away. I loved Midnite Dynamite. One of the most underrated 80’s bands! 🤟
The remixed releases of Blow My Fuse and Midnite Dynamite are fucking
F A N T A S T I C 🤘They fixed everything I'm obsessed with these two records
When I return back to my 80’s rock days,KIX is ALWAYS blasted through my speakers! Their sound,their singer,everything clicked with this band! They DEFINITELY deserved more recognition than they got! There’s not another band out there like them. ANY show of KIX is and was worth the money! God bless you guys on retiring the band…we’re gonna miss ya!
my dirty boys of the undergroud Brian Damage & Ronnie 10/10! love both of them and KIX to no end. KIX will never die. you rock my world !!!
Hell ya! KIX will never die!!
@@DC8091LOL!!!!
America’s AC⚡️DC!
Baltimore's Beatles!
The first band I ever got to see live as they opened for Ratt in 89' & they blew my fuse big time such a great band. Much like Dirty Looks I loved these guys for not being the typical metal blah blah that was out there.
Seen them in '89 w/Ratt at Cap Centre in D.C.
I know there was huge differences between Donnie and the band but i want to thank Donnie for all he did when i was going to Kix shows in the late 80's and early 90's.
Kix will be missed! But like Hammerjacks all good things must come to an end.
Both sad days in history.
So many of the clubs and arenas from that time are gone .
Got tickets for it & can’t wait!!! Baltimores Favorite Rock N Roll Band goin out with a blast!!🤘🍻
Terrific band, been into them since KIX back in '81... Kix are For Kids! \m/
I love this band. Back in late 80s the band I was in played at a Battle of the bands on Aberdeen Washington. We open up with Blow my fuse .To this day it was one of the coolest moments of my life. We didn't win , but we were the loudest band that played and everyone went crazy for Blow my fuse. Thank you kix😊
Saw them in HammerJacks in Baltimore Maryland in the 80’s I remember the KIX cereal box being passed around and thrown all over the place ! GREAT TIMES! 🍻👍✌️
My old band had priviledge of opening for them in the early 90s.A live Kix show was always an anticipated event.
They were a GREAT live band and a great bunch of people as well.
Always loved Kix.
I have always loved Kix! Being from Maryland myself, I use to see them at Hammerjacks in Baltimore. Ive seen them at the M3 music festival in Columbia Maryland. Then a few months ago I saw them for the last time in Dewey Beach Delaware at the Bottle and Cork. I will truly miss watching them perform in concert.
Both Kix and Triumph are bands whose work I'd recommend. Sucks that they didn't get along.
One of my favorite bands since first hearing them on 98 Rock in Baltimore. I was 11 and a few years later seeing them play live. So many awesome memories. Hammerjacks, Network, some high school, 80’s In the Park, Monsters of Rock Cruise, and M3. I’m sure I’m missing some other places I’ve seen KIX. But I sure will miss seeing them live. Nicest guys and one of the greatest bands ever. 🤘🏼❤️
OMG, Network! LOL Wasn't that prior to becoming LA Gators? LOL Didn't realize Kix played Network. I saw them a few times at Hammerjacks, and then I believe I saw them open for Ratt.
I have seen this band a half a dozen times and the first time was in Raleigh, NC in 85. They were so rocking that I had a tattoo with their name put on my upper arm. I have seen over 100 shows in my life and these guys for me would be in the top 5 bands live that I have ever seen. Walking Away, Cold Shower and Scarlet Fever were my fav songs on Midnight Dynamite. You had to be there to understand just how great they really were. Love this group!!!
I saw them then too. At the Switch?
I saw Kix open for Ratt back in the late 80's and I remember the crowd basically booing Ratt off the stage and calling for Kix to come back on.
Similar bands though. Both had the same producer.
I recall seeing Kix open or Britney Fox and Ratt headline the 3 band bill. I was so excited to see Ratt because I was a huge lifelong Ratt fan. I remember thinking that Kix sounded great and had great stage energy. Britney Fox was largely forgettable and left me thinking that Britney Fox should be opening for Kix. Ratt came out and sounded simply awful. I was so disappointed. I’m not sure if it was Ratt or their sound man because I couldn’t tell what song it was until the guitar solos because the sound was so loud and distorted and just a jumbled mess of noise. I was so disheartened by how terrible Ratt sounded but the one bright spot of the evening was Kix.👍
@@brianbarker620 it’s Britny Fox. 👍
I saw Kix open for Ratt in 89’ in Atlanta. As much as I loved Ratt, Kix blew them off the stage.
God, I love these guys & this band!! Thank you for all the great music & great times.
Finally a great interview not the cookie cutter questions and BS that everybody else does Great job
Appreciate it! 🙏
They opened for DLR in Baltimore and you have to understand KIX owned Baltimore at the time so DLR was not happy 😎
I like DLR, but that's funny!
Yep I was there for that show. They cut the power on KIX to usher them off the stage. Everyone wanted them to keep playing. Great times!
Brian is such an incredible guy - he conversed with me over email about how they did the guitar tracking on Rock Your Face Off. And I used to go see them back in the early days - man, back then when KIX came to town, the Switch would be sold out months in advance. People would rap around the building hoping to get in. It was a hell of a good time.
I rememer being at a Ratt/Jackyl show in Mid Michigan at the River Roar.. Dee Sneider was the MC. We were all just chilin out while the crowd was coming in. It was an outdoor show. Bay City, Michigan. Anyways they always have music playing before the show, and it was cool. Then came on Blow My Fuse, and honesty it had been a hot minute since i heard it. The damn crowd Came alive all tge sudden as if the show started. And i mean everybody was jammin. Even the younger cats out there. And i thought to myself Damn Kix has not been forgotten at all. It was cool. I think shortly after that Kix played at Rocklahoma and Blew everyone away.. Man i cant believe they are gonna retire.. 😢..
I went to their last show. They were great. I remember listening to them on 98 Rock back in the early 80s.
Such a great time!!!
Always appreciate you being there
@artistsonrecord no place I would rather be!! Plus where else can I be the Queen of Adikaville🤣🤣🤣🤣💖💖💖💖
I was not a fan back in the day and never got to see them but thirty years later I love them.
I watched them soundcheck at The Limelight in the 90's and was amazed how they kept a very low stage volume.
A very important and historical band.
I saw them open for someone, I can't remember who as I was going to a lot of concerts then but I remember being amazed by the power of the vocalist's voice. When I was trying to put bands together I would often think ' I wish I could find a dude ( or girl)who can wail like that Kix guy '
I got the chance to go to their very last show at Merriweather. And it was my very first time seeing them. After their show I started crying because I was so freakin late to this party!!! Lived all my life in Baltimore!!! Shame on me!!!😢
Go ahead and let it out. You did miss a lot of kickass shows, KIX NEVER disappointed. At least we have the records and videos to continue enjoying this band of awesome musicians.
So glad I got to see them a few times over the past 2 years. Great band, I will miss them!!
My KIX catalog is STILL a goto. Steve is great to do a warm-up to or just sing an album for fun. They are unlike every other band from that era. Not a hair metal band - they are so much more than that.
I seen Kix 1st time at Shiley Acres Inwood Wva.And I was hooked and that was 1978
Wow, this is great. Stories you never heard before. I could listen to this forever.
Kix came to my area with AC/DC on the Blow Up Your Video tour. KIX was amazing live
Seriously one of the best musical artistry bands of their time !! Love KIX !!
Got to meet everyone except Donnie and I think mark too got to play with jimmy for a little bit he taught me lessons!💖😄love these guys!
Triumph was fighting their good fight everybody!🎉
🤘...LOVE KIX...THE BAND IVE SEEN THE MOST!!!
SEEN THESE GUYS AT LEAST 30..50 TIMES SINCE 1980-81...SERIOUSLY...
SO SAD THEY HUNG IT UP, BUT NOBODYS GETTIN ANY YOUNGER...BUT IM SURELY GONNA MISS THEM...1 OF THE BEST BANDS AROUND...
TAKE IT EASY FELLAS...YOUS WERE THE THEME MUSIC TO MY YOUTH & BEYOND...
GONNA MISS YAS...
ALWAYS KEEP ROCKIN...LONG LIVE " K I X "!!!
I had a Southern Rock band around 79 or 80 and we got a gig at the Club Sunrise in Mechanicsville, Md. but, no one told us that we would be opening for another band until we got there and come to find out it was KIX!! We sucked and they rocked the house!!I wish that I could meet Steve again and there is only two of us left alive. Those were the daze!!
Killer band. The final show was on point. Awesome!!!
Saw these boys at L’Amour Brooklyn a few times for sure. Always a kick ass amazing show.
Miss Donnie P. His stage presence and persona live was awesome. Cheers fellas. Would love to know what DP is up to these days
I have no idea what is happening in the personal live of the LIX member but I kinda of felt that this time is when finaly they could get the recognition the deserved! KIXASS! love them!
I loved this. I always enjoy seeing my old pal Brian ! 🎸🙏🏼🙂
As a Baltimore girl saw them a lot back in the day😂
KIX WAS A BADASS ROCK N ROLL BAND!
Unfortunate I missed this band the last couple of years they played live. Things kept coming up and I couldn’t make it. Loved this band growing up in the 80’s
West Tennessee dug KIX back in the late 80's and early 90's. A great Rock band. I thought they were gone then they dropped "Tear Down the Walls"- a great ballad
Ah!! The Mountainview!! Pre Kix! The Shooze! My band, Blind Mans Bluff opened and hung out with these guys many times around 80/81. So nice, so good, lots of stories. We offered Steve a job he kindly declined saying "I think we're going to get signed soon" Jimmy came from Atlas Ram, Steve was a drummer. Better than Face Dancer!!
Seen KIX & WRATHCHILD at the MT. VIEW many times back in the early 80s...
DAMN I MISS THAT PLACE!!!
LONG LIVE KIX, WRATHCHILD & MT. VIEW !!!!
Loved the Mountain View. My ex was the original singer for Wrathschild.
Just found your channel and am loving it, man!!!
Welcome aboard!
Love Kix , my Rock N roll Brother John Purdell worked on BlowMy Fuse with Tom Werman , John Purdell R.I.P .... cool interview !
Loved Kix. Never did like Triumph. My bass player was Rik Emmit's guitar tech back in the day and he told us lots of stuff about the band. P.S., the drummer, Gil moore wore a wig.
I like them and I actually lived at Baltimore one time when I was a kid went to school there
One thing I always dug about this band was their great, big, heavy duty rocking guitar sound. They kicked butt. The other bands in that were, as mentioned, for playing the goofy, pointy hockey stick guitars and sounded weak. Kix was one of the more rocking bands of that era that knew how to put on a show. Not a lazy band by any means.
LOVE KIX since high school- just the best then & now. Enjoy your retirement xoxo Same Jane
Donnie fell off the front of the stage in Roanoke Va in the late 80's (I think) and never returned to the stage for the set. I believe it was the Ratt/Britny Fox/Kix tour. LOL
Great interview Stef…
My Squaw said we saw Kix at The Purple Gator in Myrtle Beach SC in the 90’s. I’ll take her word for it. I was Blind those days 💨 💨
I went to middle school and elementary school with Brian Jack in the Essex area of Baltimore 21221. If that is you I'm glad to see that he made It.I have seen your band many of times in Baltimore
All I know is back in the day you definitely didn’t want to go on after KIX!! KIX and TESLA in particular were the 2 that were KILLER! As a headliner it may had sounded good in theory (business wise) to have KIX open for you, until they blew you off the stage. They were that good.
I loved seeing these guys at The Mountain View in Smithsburg Md back in the early 80s. Jimmy lives close to where I live now in WV. And Steve still close too.
These guys were cool as Hell! Very underrated! Yeah yeah yeah!!!!
Saw them back in the late 80's at The Boat House in Virginia Beach (Maybe Newport News)...Fucking great show.
Nobody sounded like Kix. They were not a “formula” band. Never gets old!
I saw a kix back I think it was the late 80s early 90s at the Civic arena in Pittsburgh they opened up for Aerosmith Blew Aerosmith off the stage I actually went to see kix and I wasn't disappointed . And I remember the original bass player at that concert his stage antics were awesome I wish I got to see you guys again, have a great retirement!
saw them in the 80's the a few years ago at a local fair they kicked ass sounded great what a show
I remember moving to Maryland and was working construction where the guys blasted music all day . Some of the guys asked me about Kix ! I never heard of them ,I wasnt from Maryland. Back then all they had was the debut out. So I reluctantly bought it thinking oh geez, punk rock or Marylands version of The Ramones ! But anyways first song with the sirens I thought of Sabbaths War Pigs and I loved them. Let me tell you , they played at Coast to Coast and Hammerjacks alot ! Anyone from a Metal fan or Skynyrd fan would like Kix ! One time we got tickets for Kix on New Years Eve at Hammerjacks, about as cool as you can get for a Marylander !
Hagerstown fair is where I saw them
hammerjacks seemed like every weekend kix and yngwie
I saw Kix open for David Lee Roth. When they played their encore they got shut down and we all booed. I'm sure that pissed off David Lee.
Everyone raves about DLR being the ultimate front man, He sucked compared to Steve Whiteman. I liked Dave in the studio but he was awful on stage when it came to actually singing the songs. Steve had the energy and actually sang true to records. Of the the many times I saw KIX they never disappointed.
I'm kinda proud to have been a fan of them prior to Midnight Dynamite. It was really because of my best friend Ken's older brother, who just seemed to know about everything. We were in the Washington DC suburbs, and KIX was kind of "our" band. I think the entire Mid-Atlantic claimed them!
Kix was one of my favorites back then and now just rolled into 2024 and there is seldom a day that I don’t still listen to them
We were definitely intimidated by these guys when we saw them in their rock star clothes and long hair, that's why we sucked! I wish someone would have videotaped that night.
Used to go around seeing them since they were the generators/ the snooze seagull inn rocked
I'm familiar with the name of the band, but they never got any attention in the midwest where I'm at. This is going to make me research their catalog & look into them. Funny & cool interview, thanks for posting it.
They were a really cool band, thanks for watching. Please subscribe and checkout our playlist. Appreciate you being here. Happy New Year
Glad to see Ole SKOOL Rockers with long hair. Long Hair Rules
Glad I got to see them in 2021/22 in virginie!🤔
Jman
My introduction to Kix was through a friend. He went to see Kiss with King Cobra. They announced that King Cobra wasn't able to play so taking their place would be Kix. They blew him away! And Kiss. He went and bought their album and called me to come listen to it. Been a fan ever since. Since they got back together they have been playing every December in our area. They were booked for this year but when i went to get tickets they were no longet listed. Then i heard an interview with Steve saying they were retiring. Bummer
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KIX REALLY RULES!! 💪Cheers from finland🇫🇮
Super cool people,all of them!! I remember spending a fun Thankxgiving Day at Adika’s with him,his wife at that time,Ronnie,his wife and Jeremy W.….and I guess handsome Jesse was already born,I guess. Great day,great people. I later on had the HONOR to jam with Ronnie. Thank you guys all for the great time. Miss you Stefan!! Alex
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Ronnie!! Your the best bro!! My cousin Chris gudat always had a great opinion of you!! Hope your well an ready to rock york pa!!!❤💪😎🏁👊👊👊👊
The original lineup was the band that had edge!
When Donnie Purnell left that was the end of any hit songs. Any grit. And the live stage presence. I miss those early days when they owned Hammerjacks !
Kix was so look good! There was so much of a glut of bands around that time that were pushed hard by their record companies that Mix got lost in the shuffle. A real shame..
These dudes were real and cool as fuck. I never got to catch them live and always hated it. Was so glad they got a big hit out of it because they fucking earned it.
Blow my fuse great album 👍
I saw KIX open for WHITESNAKE back in the early 90s, AMAZING SHOW!!! Very energetic band!!!
my first concert ratt kix britny fox .. kix is a killer band live everyone in kix are great guys super chill..
I loved kid, saw them at a small club here in Cleveland Ohio back in the day. They were f’n awesome live
Does anyone know the tour or tume frame that drum riser was used ? I would love to see a picture or video with that riser . Great interview and always a great band KIX !!!!
I will try my best to find out. And thank you for watching. Please subscribe if you haven’t. :)
Love Kixs ❤️ man hell yea seen them omg they rock live
OMG😂.... I've never seen this show before! Hilarious!!! KIX seems so cool and the host? "What were they? Mormons"?.... "Dress British, think Yiddish".... what a character! Good, good stuff. 👍
My favorite band, saw them twice in Memphis with Ratt then Whitespace.
To be brutally honest Triumph was killer. The pairing was terrible. That would be like having Pantara open for Bon Jovi.
Or Fates Warning opening for Pantera!😀❤️🎼
Criminally mismanaged and underrated. They should have been an American AC/DC. Saw them at Network. Awesome show.
❤ Kix
I was at that Seattle Kix/Triumph show lol. That show made me a Kix fan
That is so cool, tell us you favorite memory of that show
@@artistsonrecord I remember a guy I went to school with told me he saw the guys from Kix in Tower Records that day (the day of the show) and he talked to them, and they told him they were there buying Triumph albums to get on Triumph's good side 🤣
I saw them at the chameleon Lancaster 82 or so all ages show before the main event. Was amazing I was probably 13-14 yrs old. Went with 2 jr high friends from new holland out in the farmlands…went into the “ city” great night and they rocked!
These guys were cool I'm using my wife's account I'm a drummer and I got to open for these guys at the green door in Montclair CA and they were just way cool real rockn roll I played for a band called Radio I was only 15 and got to see these guys do they're thing it was great
Love this band
They around kicking ass long before a lot of hair bands…🤘🏼🤘🏼