Roxx Gang

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#000000" text="#FF0000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF0000"> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <p>  <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>"It's difficult to describe the transformation that takes place as Roxx Gang hits the stage. As they launch into the first song it's as if the music possesses them like a lowdown shaking chill. The spellbound audience sees the very incarnation of a vodun ceremony as the lead singer throws his head back and hollers and groans his disturbing lyrics and the guitarists slash away at their guitars to accentuate the agonized rhythm. The Gang's music is the center of this aural and visual experience where the audience and the band become one through this primal music ritual." -</i> <b>The Voice</b></font></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Times New Roman"><b> </b></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Times New Roman">Roxx Gang have taken all their favorite ingredients: blues, psychedelic, hillbilly, glam, and gospel and mixed it into one goats head soup of a disc served simmering. Yeah, the Gang play good ole American rock-n-roll hoodoo voodoo, born on the bayou style and the taste is classic as opposed to flavour of the month.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Times New Roman">This disc features the songwriting of Kevin Steele, who's eclectic influences and sardonic wit have earned him comparisons to a young Bob Dylan, and the impassioned interplay of guitarists Stacey Blades and Jeff Vitolo. Drummer Tommy Weder and bassist Vinnie Granese lay down a rhythm thicker than mud from a Louisiana swamp.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Times New Roman">The diversity of the songwriting virtually defies labels and pigeon holing. Starting with "Tiger Lily," a T. Rex influenced rave, we are taken on a mystic journey that includes stops at: "Mojo Guru," the apocalyptic like view of todays music scene. "I Walk Alone" a dark semi-autobiographical ballad that tragically draws from Kevin's troubled childhood and the pain of losing his mother and father at an early age. This song shows a vulnerability that is easily as soul baring as anything John Lennon wrote. "Strawberry Wine" a psychedelic tale about the innocence of first love. "Baddest Mother's Son" is a shit kickin', guitar pickin' tribute to the man in black. The Gang rock like pre-army Elvis on the rockabilly number "Rave On." Time/space travel is explored on the trippy "Magic Carpet Ride" and testify to the hand clappin', foot stompin' boogie-fried gospel of  "Shine A Light." Truly this kind of scope has rarely been seen since the Beatles white album.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Times New Roman">Produced by Kevin Steele and Tommy Weder, <i>Mojo Gurus </i>was recorded in the band house as opposed to sterile studio conditions. The band wanted to capture a 70's feel when bands like Led Zepplin went into a house and created their own environment. Dubbed the Mojo Dojo, the band enjoyed recording in this relaxed atmosphere with candles and incense burning, dogs barking - it's all on tape. With their mastery of many different musical styles Roxx Gang have refused to paint themselves into a comer and have left plenty of room to grow with their audience like all great rock-n-roll bands.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff8080" face="Tms Rmn,Times New Roman"> </font></p> </blockquote> </body>