KIX talks new record with Shockwave Magazine and Hard Rock Hideout
KIX talks about their new record, Rock Your Face Off, with Hard Rock Hideout and Shockwave Magazine.
Excerpt From Hard Rock Hideout:
Steve Whiteman: We took a ten year break as we really thought the music was dead. Our genre of music was totally flushed. There was a new party in town and we were not invited. So we had to just move on and do other things with our lives. In the meantime, I started a band named Funny Money. We put out five CDs. It is not like we weren’t doing anything. four studio albums and one best of CD. Brian was in Rhino Bucket, and they put out a CD about every other week (laughs), and Ronnie has Blues Vultures. We were all writing and doing things but just not collectively. It is not like we weren’t producing music, but this whole concept of new record came from that live DVD, Live in Baltimore. The label we were with at the time, Frontiers, requested a studio album. We hadn’t really thought about it. All the fans, they don’t want to hear new shit.. READ MORE.
Excerpt from Shockwave Magazine:
Well, it took about a year-and-a-half to get together and get all of us in the same room and to come up with enough material that we felt would please all the previous Kix fans, so it was a little late in putting it together. We had to track down Taylor Rhodes; we were really adamant, he was a co-writer on Kix songs before, had done some co-producing on our previous albums. We wanted someone to kind of keep us on that direction of that Kix sound, that Kix energy, and he did a great job. So we sent him about 40 songs and said to go through them and see if he could get them down to 15. Then we all got together with the band and worked on those 15 songs and really put them together and tightened them up and thought, “Yeah, this is a pretty good record.” READ MORE
