Thanks so much for giving us this episode. I'm so glad to see Vixen getting the respect they deserve. While it is obvious that these women were incredibly beautiful, they were all EXCELLENT musicians. As a bass player, I have to say that Sharen Pedersen was an insane bassist. She had chops beyond, and she also played with her fingers instead of a pick, which was unusual in the hair metal genre. Keep up the good work Metal School.
@@randall168sTwackstickman It meant that she took care of herself by eating food not too high in carcinogenic/cancer causing ingredients and never drank, never smoked and never did drugs.
I have to say I have been listening to you girls there so long as you're so great I wish I'd had a chance to see you rock on your right there with Ronnie James Dio
I forgot how much I liked Vixen. Saw them in concert in the late 80s or early 90s. They had a meet and great afterwards. Roxy was the coolest. They were the best thing about Hardbodies.
I met their line up minus Jan back in 2017-2018 I believe. They’d just introduced Britt Lightning. Roxy was so awesome and I was so struck by her. These girls could definitely and still rock out. The line up I met was super nice and I’m glad I had the opportunity. I just wish I could’ve seen them in their heyday. I was a bit young then.
I actually only discovered Vixen through that Bands Reunited show. I was shocked to see such gorgeous women play they way they did. That led to watching their videos on TH-cam, and then downloading their music on Spotify. Now, I'm a big Vixen fan, and actually have them in my top 5 favorite bands right now.
I was a bellman when they opended for , I cant remember ..., But after they were packing up to leave, Roxy came down and chatted with me for about 10 min. She was awesome. I lost my pad paper that had all the autographs and Roxy wrote "TO SCOTT AND THE BASEMENT BOYS, KEEP ROCKING!" Share talked a second and mentioned her wrist was sprained all throughout the show. The two Jans smiled said hello and put down their names but didnt linger.
I still think ' Love is a killer' is a very underrated rock ballad. You to fancy the hell out of Janet Gardner. R.I.P Jan Kuehenemund you were a great addition to the great band.
Saw Vixen open up for Bon Jovi at Milten Keynes(UK) in front of 75,000 and they were absolutely awesome. A tough act to follow.They never got the recognition they deserved at the time. They could rock with the best of them and they were great musicians. They also opened for the Scorpions. One of the girls back in the day was going out with Rikki Rocket(the drummer from Poison) and he makes a cameo appearance in one of their videos. I loved their first 2 albums with the classic lineup. Richard Marx wrote "Edge of a Broken Heart".
I bought the first album in Woolworths for the princely sum of £6.50 on sale. It blew me away. Still got it in the loft somewhere. Listening to the songs amazed i still knew most of them.
I’m 25. I found vixen when I was a freshman in highschool when I was trying to find new influences and sounds, and HOLY SHIT. I love them so much. Every time I see anything about them my heart jumps. I fucking love Roxy’s motorcycle forks drum set man
Vixen was the album I'd have on for the first bike ride of the season. Through the 90"s and gets lots of play on rides to this day. I love their sound and wish they had more of a catalog "cause it would ALL be rockin'!!!
Jan was the sound and heart of Vixen...without her it was just another band. I liked her version of the band better. But I will say Janet has the best voice of all the singers from Vixen. RIP Jan...gone way to soon.
Janet Gardner has 2 Solo albums out now, and 3rd is Gardner/James. Justin James is a great Guitarist and her Husband, and her Vocals are stronger than when singing Vixens songs.
Great memories and Hell yeah Vixen 🤘 Man, remember being in 6th grade in the 80's going, "Wow! Beautiful, they play fucking awesome and they rock...!" Who the hell forgot Vixen? Shame on you! Thanks for this video bro 🤘
On Saturday in Tonawanda near Buffalo, New York Janet Garner had a Solo show opening for fire house. In the audience was Roxy! I got to have photos with both of them, which is basically 1/2 of the original band and it was so awesome. Getting my album signed by them.
Wow! Excellent work on this! I appreciate the research that went into this! Vixen is my all time favorite band. Safe to say I was more than thrilled to happen across this video! Rock on!
@@jenh9221 Yes. There are quite a number of clips and such from bands reunited in this video. As well as facts that were stated in the bands reunited episode. But, he still did a great job narrating and putting this video together.
Jan was hands down one of the best guitarist in the 80s to be treated as wanting another why? How a bout 2 singers or 2 bass players Jan brought it every time she played!!
They didn't want to replace Jan. They just wanted to add another guitarist. Having two guitar players really opens up what can be done with song writing and musical dynamics.
Awww. I keep watching your videos about 80s bands I definitely remember not liking. I just got that damned "Gypsy Rose" song out of my head! Great work sir. Great editing. Nice script. Excellent narration.
You got to wonder if there would have been a Vixen w/o Richard Marx and Jeff Paris or maybe 1 as successful as they were. The Rev It Up disc obviously sold far less. For extra credit, Vixen was also in the Penelope Spheeris documentary Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years. Well done video btw, I'm new to the channel and enjoyed this one. Thx.
I remember being introduced to Vixen at Weight Works gym in Newmarket, Ont by an old friend back then named ED. Seems like yesterday, and if by chance Ed reads this message. I hope all is well. Good times in the gym: you, Andy, myself and others clinking and clanking those weights. Good times. Great band too. Lee Arron, and Vixen were my two go to female metal bands.
Awesome video. I don't remember being aware of Vixen's existence in the 80ies in France. I recently discovered their work and it's pretty impressive, for just two albums at the time. How Much Love has become definitely one of my favorite songs ever.
I still have the cassette tape of Vixen, and the LP of Rev It Up. Those record companies who said they didn't want another all-female rock band were so full of shit. I remember buying LPs by Meanstreak (all-female thrash band who, AFAICT, released only the one album, Roadkill) and Phantom Blue (a five-part all-female hard rock band who, AFAICT, released only the one eponymous album), in perhaps 1989 or 1990. They didn't quite match the songwriting of Rev It Up, but it was good to hear something a little different.
I wore out the first Phantom Blue album. Bought it because is was on Shrapnel and co-produced by Marty Friedman, stayed for the great musicianship and songs.
My buddy and I loved Vixen and I remember when he showed me the Poison cassette "Look What The Cat Dragged In". I said "Woooow !!! Those chicks are *HOT !!!* ", he laughed and said "Dude, those are all dudes LOL!!!" 😄🤣😝🤪
Lita Ford was out there too. There were women, the record companies just wanted them for sex appeal. So, I'd say it was more of the record companies than it was hyper masculinity.
Well, there was absolutely nothing hyper masculine about the looks and style of hair metal bands. But I get what you mean that it was largely a boys club for some bizarre reason. It's disappointing that there weren't more female bands and that record companies seemed to think female rockers were a gimmick. The business is frustrating like that. Another thing was how the record companies started signing every hair metal band they could find by the late 80s just to make a quick buck. That's what ultimately killed off hair metal, and then the execs were so quick to drop hair metal like old trash and turn those guys into a laughingstock, as they jumped on the new bandwagon in town... grunge.
@@andromedastar4900 Yep.. Nirvana was the final nail on the coffin.. & yea, some of the dudes had nicer hair than me 😂😂& probably took 2 times as long to get ready!
I remember when this band appeared on the Bands Reunited show on VH1. If not for that show Janet would probably have not released the mid 2000's album. She had moved on to a different career choice. That show sparked her music interests back up.
Together with Détente and Sacrilege (UK) my favourite female-fronted band from the eighties! They would have made a perfect Thrash Metal touring package. Also, "Act of God" as well as Détente's "Recognize No Authority" and Sacrilege's "The Prophecy Within" are among my overall favourite Thrash Metal albums and still get regular spins from me today.
VIXEN a great band, saw them (Jan (RIP), Janet, Share & Roxy) twice in '89 & '90. P.S. check out BAND-MAID, LOVEBITES & MARY'S BLOOD. Great all-female bands from Japan.
I understand the musical “concessions” they had to make in order to get their first record, and they even managed to make something out of it. I think the saddest thing was the timing. When they really were on point, when they wrote the flawless album, amazingly not too much generic in hair metal terms... well it was the beginning of the 90s... And we know what came next. I mean, maybe if they got signed in the first half of the 80’s, the story would’ve been very different
I remember Vixen, hard rock was never my genre, I was into punk/hc, but in 1990 I was 12, and these bands were my gateway to the stuff I ended up loving, and living. Tv was crucial for it since we didn't have the internet at the time, and programs like Kerrang or Metal Hour (was this its name?) basically pulled me out of the mainstream rotten puddle, and pushed me into the world of underground punk.
So funny, actually kind of opposite for me. The full story is much longer but I first got majorly into the Sex Pistols in high school and then in my senior year decided to give Iron Maiden a shot. It was all over from there 😄 Still love me some old school punk tho.
@@MetalSchoolChannel haha, imagine that, I loved Maiden (still do to be fair) then first year of high school I decided to check out the Pistols, and that caused me to U turn from good music to 3 badly played chords 😅. It was very solitary too, until I was 16 I literally had no friends with which to share my passion. It was worth it obviously, we then had bands, traveled Europe and grew our naive rebellious attitude into a constructive one, which is very handy these days. Anyway, thanks for the great content, I love the trip back in time when shit was easy 🤟🏻☠️
Yikes. Sounds like it. Yeah, Tangerine isn’t bad really. Just had a super 90s feel to me. And that orange on the cover with the bellybutton ring... eesh so 90s!
Jan was just too good looking for her own good. I don't think she was taken seriously because she couldn't be that hot and be able to play the guitar like she could. You can't have it all, but she did. She looked like a model playing the guitar. Also, I never could find out why the other members wanted to add another guitar or get rid of Jan all together. But Jan's suspicions were right all along because the other members made an album without her. IDK what their beef was with her, because she was a good guitar player. She seemed more quiet and reserved (almost mysterious) than the other members though. Also, I see two different birthdates for Jan, one says 1961 and another says 1953, so not sure which is correct. I'm leaning towards 1953. I guess she was mysterious even after her death.
I love Vixen and when I was in a 2nd hand record store I saw both 'Vixen 1988' and 'Rev it Up' on CD, and I just had to buy them. Both albums are truly awesome, but I found 'Tangerine' very very disappointing. 'Live And Learn' was really great though.
As a product of the 80’s loved this band! Fairly certain I played at a club in U.P. that Roxy and her husband owned. This was decades ago but believe Roxy actually did some of the bartending at the show and her husband ran the sound. Also remember the band riding snow mobiles with some of the club patrons after the gig that night lol. Great times.
i have heard this stuff my entire life, i have heard females in bands complain about this stuff my whole life. i was a teen in highschool in the mid through late 80s and i was very much active in my local scene and in bands and hanging out all the time at parties full of friends, and i swear to you on my god damn grave i never heard dudes sitting around talking about women not being able to play or be good. i am just always amazed by the famous cliche that i do not remember ever experiencing. i remember Heart being pretty well respected, i remember Stevie Nicks being pretty damn respected, i remember the Runaways being pretty cool and Joan and Lita both being pretty popular and i remember people thinking Doro was a god damn goddess.
it's easy to accept gender equity and respect women when you're just a spectator and not faced with decisions; it's a bit different when you're a mover and shaker in a multi-million dollar business, because that's where it's down to the wire and your commitment to that principle is put to the test. what that "cliche" tells us is that most people, at least in those days, would have failed that test. EDIT: it's not just men either, hell you even heard Roxy admitting her fault on this.
@@joeoliver4266 women have dominated music since the industry worked out they could make money, but the Rock and metal scene ( the industry not the fans ) took awhile to catch up, I believe it's due to it being such a male audience, Women don't usually like or even tolerate Metal . But if you look at the charts back then it's mainly women ruling the charts in pop. They always have. Especially today !
@@RSProduxx Nemophila is great and actually my second favorite but no way they top bandmaid. Musically Band-Maid"s composition. Structures and lyrics are consistently good across all of their albums (hundreds of songs). Misa Akane and kanami are the power trio comparable to all the old time greats. Nemophila does have mayu though. She is a vocal treasure.
@@airtioteclint well, matter of taste I guess... Band Maid has just a few songs I like, other than that they feel too much like the typical Idol School band with distorted guitars to me... Nemophila is what I like about metal: passionate and raw and overall the songs are more appealing to me... as I said: matter of taste, Band Maid is good in what they´re doing, just not my cup of tea in most cases ...
Amazing Band! Jan was an Awesome guitarist and the Foxiest one in the band! I wonder what the real story was regarding if they ask her to be on the next album or never contacted her. R.I.P. Jan!
Vixen were a great band I didnt get on with their later stuff but love that 80s rock they did. Jan was a great guitarist but the whole band had a great sound and allot of talent.
There was no internet to promote them back then. You had to rely on MTV, airplay, magazines, record labels, and live gigs. Media bosses didn't promote what was good. They promoted what would sell. They all believed that popularity guaranteed quality
Its Monday March 15th 2021 And I wish this was 1989 because Janet of #Vixen Was the most Glamorous Women in the Band Janet 💐 was a Woman of Pure Beauty
Thanks so much for giving us this episode. I'm so glad to see Vixen getting the respect they deserve. While it is obvious that these women were incredibly beautiful, they were all EXCELLENT musicians. As a bass player, I have to say that Sharen Pedersen was an insane bassist. She had chops beyond, and she also played with her fingers instead of a pick, which was unusual in the hair metal genre. Keep up the good work Metal School.
Just heartbreaking to hear of Jan Kuehnemund’s passing of Ovarian Cancer before they were having their heart set out to have a real reunion .
It's sad but How the heck did Jan got cancer anyway
@@randall168sTwackstickman That never was established but according Share Ross/Pedersen Jan was health conscious as frak.
Health concious??? Wat is that?
@@randall168sTwackstickman It meant that she took care of herself by eating food not too high in carcinogenic/cancer causing ingredients and never drank, never smoked and never did drugs.
I have to say I have been listening to you girls there so long as you're so great I wish I'd had a chance to see you rock on your right there with Ronnie James Dio
The 80's had so much talent it was hard for labels to pick which group to sign and push. So many great groups got lost in the shuffle. So sad...
Jan was such an underrated guitar player. I loved her solos.
I forgot how much I liked Vixen. Saw them in concert in the late 80s or early 90s. They had a meet and great afterwards. Roxy was the coolest. They were the best thing about Hardbodies.
I met their line up minus Jan back in 2017-2018 I believe. They’d just introduced Britt Lightning. Roxy was so awesome and I was so struck by her. These girls could definitely and still rock out. The line up I met was super nice and I’m glad I had the opportunity. I just wish I could’ve seen them in their heyday. I was a bit young then.
Love Vixen. Still listen to their music. R.I.P. Jan. Sucks she's dead. Such an amazing guitarist 🤘🤘
She could really play that guitar. That Live and Learn album has her shredding it
Best looking one in the band as well.
LOL
We always lose the best guitar players I have a big list and it is so sad
@@davidaix5771 yup. So many gone and way too damn soon
I miss the 80s so much
I don't.
Jan is a huge influence on my guitar playing and songwriting. She will be missed by all Vixen fans.
I actually only discovered Vixen through that Bands Reunited show. I was shocked to see such gorgeous women play they way they did. That led to watching their videos on TH-cam, and then downloading their music on Spotify. Now, I'm a big Vixen fan, and actually have them in my top 5 favorite bands right now.
Same here and they are good
They were on "Headbangers Ball" a lot.
Those women is frickin beautiful and they rocked. Just amazing live.
Loved the original line up of Vixen.
a stroll down memory lane as a kid..watching them on MTV Head Bangers Ball.. Loved these ladies and their music.
They played them on head bangers ball? I don’t remember that at all. They had regular play during the day like lita ford.
I WANT YOU TO ROCK ME. Incredible rocker. Jans guitar work is second to none on that !!!!
Another great band: Phantom Blue
When women were women.....Love the original Vixen. RIP Jan x x
I was a bellman when they opended for , I cant remember ..., But after they were packing up to leave, Roxy came down and chatted with me for about 10 min. She was awesome. I lost my pad paper that had all the autographs and Roxy wrote "TO SCOTT AND THE BASEMENT BOYS, KEEP ROCKING!" Share talked a second and mentioned her wrist was sprained all throughout the show. The two Jans smiled said hello and put down their names but didnt linger.
And the drummer was in a Detroit band, with sebastian bach, before he went to skidrow
I still think ' Love is a killer' is a very underrated rock ballad. You to fancy the hell out of Janet Gardner. R.I.P Jan Kuehenemund you were a great addition to the great band.
Jan wasn't a addition she started the fuckn band I don't no about u but if u start a band u usually do the kicking out I no I would.
You're right. It's my favorite Vixen song. ;)
The female Bon Jovi and their drummer not only sexy can play.
In my opinion they play the shit out of bon jovi ! ROXY forever..👍🤘
Saw Vixen open up for Bon Jovi at Milten Keynes(UK) in front of 75,000 and they were absolutely awesome. A tough act to follow.They never got the recognition they deserved at the time. They could rock with the best of them and they were great musicians. They also opened for the Scorpions. One of the girls back in the day was going out with Rikki Rocket(the drummer from Poison) and he makes a cameo appearance in one of their videos. I loved their first 2 albums with the classic lineup. Richard Marx wrote "Edge of a Broken Heart".
Roxy was smoking hot back then, and still is. She's a kick ass drummer too.
Jimmy lewis. She is..!!👍
I bought the first album in Woolworths for the princely sum of £6.50 on sale. It blew me away. Still got it in the loft somewhere. Listening to the songs amazed i still knew most of them.
Jan is a Legend. RIP
RIP Jan, i was in love
Roxy and Jan especially were the driving force behind the wheel.
R.I.P. Jan 🌹
What can one say about Vixen... extremely gorgeous & highly skilled musicians who were so underrated
Rip Jan!!!! Great guitarist. Loved these ladies. All beautiful, talented bad ass.
I’m 25. I found vixen when I was a freshman in highschool when I was trying to find new influences and sounds, and HOLY SHIT. I love them so much. Every time I see anything about them my heart jumps. I fucking love Roxy’s motorcycle forks drum set man
Vixen was the album I'd have on for the first bike ride of the season. Through the 90"s and gets lots of play on rides to this day. I love their sound and wish they had more of a catalog "cause it would ALL be rockin'!!!
Saw them on the Rev It Up tour, those chicks can definitely play! What a great show!
i fucking love these women!!! I seen them in a small venue in Ohio. They ruin the fucking place. it was awesome. vixen are true rockstars
I saw these ladies in concert and they can play real good musicians
Jan was the sound and heart of Vixen...without her it was just another band. I liked her version of the band better. But I will say Janet has the best voice of all the singers from Vixen. RIP Jan...gone way to soon.
Janet Gardner has 2 Solo albums out now, and 3rd is Gardner/James. Justin James is a great Guitarist and her Husband, and her Vocals are stronger than when singing Vixens songs.
Rest in peace but no
Great memories and Hell yeah Vixen 🤘 Man, remember being in 6th grade in the 80's going, "Wow! Beautiful, they play fucking awesome and they rock...!" Who the hell forgot Vixen? Shame on you! Thanks for this video bro 🤘
I love this band...did an early show with them...they could play...really play.
I just found this channel. Really cool. I can’t wait to watch others. Rock on!!
Killer channel! An episode on Phantom Blue would be rad.
Phantom Blue and Precious Metal...
How about Trash Queen LOL.
Love the original Vixen, always!!
Love these videos, King. Very true metal content the real ones want to see, and you’re not annoying. Keep em coming!
On Saturday in Tonawanda near Buffalo, New York Janet Garner had a Solo show opening for fire house. In the audience was Roxy! I got to have photos with both of them, which is basically 1/2 of the original band and it was so awesome. Getting my album signed by them.
Wow! Excellent work on this! I appreciate the research that went into this! Vixen is my all time favorite band. Safe to say I was more than thrilled to happen across this video!
Rock on!
You mean the research done by “Bands Reunited?”
@@jenh9221 Yes. There are quite a number of clips and such from bands reunited in this video. As well as facts that were stated in the bands reunited episode.
But, he still did a great job narrating and putting this video together.
Jan was hands down one of the best guitarist in the 80s to be treated as wanting another why? How a bout 2 singers or 2 bass players Jan brought it every time she played!!
Nothing wrong with 2 guitarists. My band has two and it opens up a lot of stuff writing wise.
They didn't want to replace Jan. They just wanted to add another guitarist. Having two guitar players really opens up what can be done with song writing and musical dynamics.
Great trip down memory lane.
Keep up the good work, I'm really enjoying your channel.
I still love Vixen and recently made a deal to buy a guitar that Jan played and signed at a UK Gig back in either ‘89 or ‘90!
Don't do it, it's a fake!
@@tarasbulba3190 nope, it’s genuine! I also have provenance too!
@@richjl73 Cool! Enjoy!👍
Must be expensive
Awww. I keep watching your videos about 80s bands I definitely remember not liking. I just got that damned "Gypsy Rose" song out of my head!
Great work sir. Great editing. Nice script. Excellent narration.
😄🤘🏻
You got to wonder if there would have been a Vixen w/o Richard Marx and Jeff Paris or maybe 1 as successful as they were. The Rev It Up disc obviously sold far less. For extra credit, Vixen was also in the Penelope Spheeris documentary Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years. Well done video btw, I'm new to the channel and enjoyed this one. Thx.
There will never, ever, ever be another Vixen.
But Kittie was not a bunch to be sneezed at, either.
Great video! Waiting for your Warlock and Doro review!!
I remember being introduced to Vixen at Weight Works gym in Newmarket, Ont by an old friend back then named ED.
Seems like yesterday, and if by chance Ed reads this message.
I hope all is well.
Good times in the gym: you, Andy, myself and others clinking and clanking those weights.
Good times.
Great band too.
Lee Arron, and Vixen were my two go to female metal bands.
Vixen is one of my Favorites , the Death of Jan however was heartbreaking 😢
Awesome video. I don't remember being aware of Vixen's existence in the 80ies in France. I recently discovered their work and it's pretty impressive, for just two albums at the time. How Much Love has become definitely one of my favorite songs ever.
I still have the cassette tape of Vixen, and the LP of Rev It Up.
Those record companies who said they didn't want another all-female rock band were so full of shit. I remember buying LPs by Meanstreak (all-female thrash band who, AFAICT, released only the one album, Roadkill) and Phantom Blue (a five-part all-female hard rock band who, AFAICT, released only the one eponymous album), in perhaps 1989 or 1990. They didn't quite match the songwriting of Rev It Up, but it was good to hear something a little different.
I wore out the first Phantom Blue album. Bought it because is was on Shrapnel and co-produced by Marty Friedman, stayed for the great musicianship and songs.
It was cool to see women , out there rocking , at a time when it was HYPER -masculine.. and who had hair that was just as good, if not better !😂💕
My buddy and I loved Vixen and I remember when he showed me the Poison cassette "Look What The Cat Dragged In". I said "Woooow !!! Those chicks are *HOT !!!* ", he laughed and said "Dude, those are all dudes LOL!!!" 😄🤣😝🤪
Lita Ford was out there too. There were women, the record companies just wanted them for sex appeal.
So, I'd say it was more of the record companies than it was hyper masculinity.
Well, there was absolutely nothing hyper masculine about the looks and style of hair metal bands. But I get what you mean that it was largely a boys club for some bizarre reason. It's disappointing that there weren't more female bands and that record companies seemed to think female rockers were a gimmick. The business is frustrating like that. Another thing was how the record companies started signing every hair metal band they could find by the late 80s just to make a quick buck. That's what ultimately killed off hair metal, and then the execs were so quick to drop hair metal like old trash and turn those guys into a laughingstock, as they jumped on the new bandwagon in town... grunge.
@@andromedastar4900 Yep.. Nirvana was the final nail on the coffin.. & yea, some of the dudes had nicer hair than me 😂😂& probably took 2 times as long to get ready!
I had a couple of Vixen posters in my bedroom walls when I was a teenager... plus many Samantha Fox posters 😀
My heart broke a little when I learned Samantha Fox is gay...
I had also a Lee Aaron poster and dont forget PRECIOUS METAL...
Sam Fox had awesome high beamers😛
I remember when this band appeared on the Bands Reunited show on VH1. If not for that show Janet would probably have not released the mid 2000's album. She had moved on to a different career choice. That show sparked her music interests back up.
Great video on an underrated band from the '80s brother I dig your channel you really do your research very informative 😎👌
Thanks, Jimmy! 🤘🏻
I have the first album CD. Great hair metal album.
Znowhite might be a gem to consider making a video for.
Together with Détente and Sacrilege (UK) my favourite female-fronted band from the eighties! They would have made a perfect Thrash Metal touring package. Also, "Act of God" as well as Détente's "Recognize No Authority" and Sacrilege's "The Prophecy Within" are among my overall favourite Thrash Metal albums and still get regular spins from me today.
Love is a killer is a great song and video.
So I'm good to go if I already did my homework in 88 and 90? Yeah I played the crap outta these two albums... These women were.... S-s-s-SMOKIN'!
😄😄 Alumni students are always welcome! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
My mom said she wore the tape out of this band when she was a teenager lol
Love this band, Jan was awesome guitarist.
Seen them on the Ozzy tour 1989 at Castle Farms, Charlevoix Mich.
To me personally theirs best song always was Streets in Paradise, i think it goes quite underrated.
VIXEN a great band, saw them (Jan (RIP), Janet, Share & Roxy) twice in '89 & '90.
P.S. check out BAND-MAID, LOVEBITES & MARY'S BLOOD. Great all-female bands from Japan.
very underrated, and roxy can play the drums!
I love Vixen. I’ve seen them. Jan is special!
I just seen 17:25 minutes of them..
Great metal, so rocking.
I like Jan.s guitar solos very much, and the other instrument stuff to ofcourse,👊🙏💕💖🌞🦋🎸🎼🥁🎤
I understand the musical “concessions” they had to make in order to get their first record, and they even managed to make something out of it. I think the saddest thing was the timing. When they really were on point, when they wrote the flawless album, amazingly not too much generic in hair metal terms... well it was the beginning of the 90s... And we know what came next. I mean, maybe if they got signed in the first half of the 80’s, the story would’ve been very different
Love is a Killer is their very best song!
However, Heart had a hugely successful album in 1990.
Holy Crap Lorraine Lewis is in Vixen now? I know Lorraine, that's amazing. Good for her.
Great work mate
Congratulations
Regards from Buenos Aires
Rick
I love these gals, they were the ladies of rock metal" I grew up listening to them along side the female metal band Poison Dollys"
I am glad I watched this, I didn't know they did anything after their first album. Thanks
I remember Vixen, hard rock was never my genre, I was into punk/hc, but in 1990 I was 12, and these bands were my gateway to the stuff I ended up loving, and living. Tv was crucial for it since we didn't have the internet at the time, and programs like Kerrang or Metal Hour (was this its name?) basically pulled me out of the mainstream rotten puddle, and pushed me into the world of underground punk.
So funny, actually kind of opposite for me. The full story is much longer but I first got majorly into the Sex Pistols in high school and then in my senior year decided to give Iron Maiden a shot. It was all over from there 😄 Still love me some old school punk tho.
@@MetalSchoolChannel haha, imagine that, I loved Maiden (still do to be fair) then first year of high school I decided to check out the Pistols, and that caused me to U turn from good music to 3 badly played chords 😅. It was very solitary too, until I was 16 I literally had no friends with which to share my passion. It was worth it obviously, we then had bands, traveled Europe and grew our naive rebellious attitude into a constructive one, which is very handy these days.
Anyway, thanks for the great content, I love the trip back in time when shit was easy 🤟🏻☠️
That opening riff to Edge of a Broken heart is great. Jan and Roxy are fucking incredible musicians.
I actually really like Tangerine, saw them on that tour in New Hampshire. Maybe 30 people in the crowd, it was uncomfortable.
Yikes. Sounds like it. Yeah, Tangerine isn’t bad really. Just had a super 90s feel to me. And that orange on the cover with the bellybutton ring... eesh so 90s!
Nashua or Plaistow?
Love them. Love is a killer is my favourite song ♥️
See them twice I believe it was Early 90's! They rocked and put on a great show!
Jan was just too good looking for her own good. I don't think she was taken seriously because she couldn't be that hot and be able to play the guitar like she could. You can't have it all, but she did. She looked like a model playing the guitar. Also, I never could find out why the other members wanted to add another guitar or get rid of Jan all together. But Jan's suspicions were right all along because the other members made an album without her. IDK what their beef was with her, because she was a good guitar player. She seemed more quiet and reserved (almost mysterious) than the other members though. Also, I see two different birthdates for Jan, one says 1961 and another says 1953, so not sure which is correct. I'm leaning towards 1953. I guess she was mysterious even after her death.
Awesome review
I love Vixen and when I was in a 2nd hand record store I saw both 'Vixen 1988' and 'Rev it Up' on CD, and I just had to buy them. Both albums are truly awesome, but I found 'Tangerine' very very disappointing. 'Live And Learn' was really great though.
I wish The Hardbodies Soundtrack was available they are my favorite Vixen tracks!
"Desperate" was a great song!
As a product of the 80’s loved this band! Fairly certain I played at a club in U.P. that Roxy and her husband owned.
This was decades ago but believe Roxy actually did some of the bartending at the show and her husband ran the sound.
Also remember the band riding snow mobiles with some of the club patrons after the gig that night lol. Great times.
i have heard this stuff my entire life, i have heard females in bands complain about this stuff my whole life. i was a teen in highschool in the mid through late 80s and i was very much active in my local scene and in bands and hanging out all the time at parties full of friends, and i swear to you on my god damn grave i never heard dudes sitting around talking about women not being able to play or be good. i am just always amazed by the famous cliche that i do not remember ever experiencing. i remember Heart being pretty well respected, i remember Stevie Nicks being pretty damn respected, i remember the Runaways being pretty cool and Joan and Lita both being pretty popular and i remember people thinking Doro was a god damn goddess.
it's easy to accept gender equity and respect women when you're just a spectator and not faced with decisions; it's a bit different when you're a mover and shaker in a multi-million dollar business, because that's where it's down to the wire and your commitment to that principle is put to the test. what that "cliche" tells us is that most people, at least in those days, would have failed that test. EDIT: it's not just men either, hell you even heard Roxy admitting her fault on this.
@@joeoliver4266 women have dominated music since the industry worked out they could make money, but the Rock and metal scene ( the industry not the fans ) took awhile to catch up, I believe it's due to it being such a male audience, Women don't usually like or even tolerate Metal .
But if you look at the charts back then it's mainly women ruling the charts in pop.
They always have.
Especially today !
These ladies were fine as hell, I had their second album. I liked Share Pederson she was my favorite and then Roxy the Drummer.
Amazing video,as always.👍
Best Female Hard Rock Metal bands:
1. Vixen of Jan Kuehnemund
2. Girlschool of Kelly Johnson
3. Phantom Blue of Michelle Meldrum
Check out Band-Maid.
@@airtioteclint I´d go with Nemophila...
@@RSProduxx Nemophila is great and actually my second favorite but no way they top bandmaid.
Musically Band-Maid"s composition. Structures and lyrics are consistently good across all of their albums (hundreds of songs). Misa Akane and kanami are the power trio comparable to all the old time greats.
Nemophila does have mayu though. She is a vocal treasure.
@@airtioteclint well, matter of taste I guess... Band Maid has just a few songs I like, other than that they feel too much like the typical Idol School band with distorted guitars to me... Nemophila is what I like about metal: passionate and raw and overall the songs are more appealing to me... as I said: matter of taste, Band Maid is good in what they´re doing, just not my cup of tea in most cases ...
@@RSProduxx I can dig it.
I got to see Vixen at a night club in San Jose! I even got to meet Jan at a NAMM Show!
Girlschool, this band from England is also one of the successful all female heavy metal acts.
Girlschool was was awful.
I tried to get into them back in the day when Motorhead was on about them.
@@pauliescott oh shut up! They were the best all female metal acts in the history of music! But at least you tried.
@@nikolaiplotnikov7243 The Runaways were cool.
I even liked the Go Go's in the early days.
Girlschool...sorry
@@pauliescott I always fancied a bit of Fanny myself
Love Vixen! ♥
Gut zu wissen :-)
Roxy’s previous band, with her sister on guitar, was killer. Real hard rock. Madame-X. Featured Sebastian Bach pre-SkidRow. @ , @
Vixen was awesome. I had forgotten how great this rock band was.
I don't stop watching their videos till today.. thou myself i am a maestro in my music world around
L7 was highly underated as well.
Wow great band. Awsome tunes. And I didnt know Jan passed away!
Richard Marx just released his autobiography and he tells a different story. He dedicates a whole chapter to Vixen.
I'm binge-watching all of your videos, can you please talk about DORO PESCH and Warlock? I'd love that!
Amazing Band! Jan was an Awesome guitarist and the Foxiest one in the band! I wonder what the real story was regarding if they ask her to be on the next album or never contacted her.
R.I.P. Jan!
I think it was artistic direction
And money greed .....desperation
I wouldn't let them bring another one in either
Vixen were a great band I didnt get on with their later stuff but love that 80s rock they did. Jan was a great guitarist but the whole band had a great sound and allot of talent.
There was no internet to promote them back then. You had to rely on MTV, airplay, magazines, record labels, and live gigs. Media bosses didn't promote what was good. They promoted what would sell. They all believed that popularity guaranteed quality
Its Monday March 15th 2021 And I wish this was 1989 because Janet of #Vixen Was the most Glamorous Women in the Band Janet 💐 was a Woman of Pure Beauty