They're underrated because the only way they could get a record deal was with the caveat of their first album considering solely of songs composed and produced by industry people, and the result is glossy guitar pop, not unlike Bon Jovi that most true metalheads have generally shunned. It was the wrong sound for the wrong audience. If the record company had trusted the band to do what they wanted their way, and the label people just focused on promoting the music, they would've at least sold well to fans of stuff like Skid Row and Poison. Their true metal colors are able to shine through a bit more clearly on their second record.
Japan did this awhile back with hard rocking girl bands like Scandal, Band Maid, Baby Metal and others. South Korea had a boy group like BTS and girl groups like Apink and Black Pink era. I predict next they will be doing the Hard Rock groups and hard rocking girl groups.
Hey, if you like Vixen and this kind of female 80's rock, you should really check out the new video by Chez Kane. th-cam.com/video/FIqSK4K-ki8/w-d-xo.html
@@mkinster But the Japanese ones don't have the essence of rock in their veins, but the one from the 80s does, and the ones from South Korea are Korean pop, that's why it says k-pop, the one that's from Korea 😏
@@Brolypelado I said that I predict next that Korea will be doing the Hard Rock groups and hard rocking girl groups. I was saying the k-pop era is starting to wind down and could give way to harder rock groups in South Korea.
Cancer has taken to Goddesses of Rock Guitar: Michelle Meldrum (Phantom Blue), Kelly Johnson (Girlschool) and the best my platonic love Jan. Now they are Angels.
They should've been bigger than they were! So sad what the music industry does to people - not to mention all the fighting between band members. RIP Jan ❤❤
I'm almost 43 as and still love Vixen! I started listening to them in 1988 when they put their amazing debut out. It got heavy rotation on MTV then, when MTV was still MTV. They got so popular so fast that they were invited to play at MTV's Spring Break in Florida in 1989, and invited on countless shows. People couldn't believe they were as good as they were, but they were the real deal. ... To think, that young, unknown band in the 1984 Hardbodies movie would go on to be one of most successful female bands of all time!
Vixen actually played in the movie "Hardbodies". In fact, they did most of the soundtrack. This was before they hit it big. I think that movie came out in '84. Great movie.
Not underrated just unaccepted... Woman bands and Women Rockers were never taken seriously back in the 80s.. Too bad they are very talented and fricken hot 🔥
I missed them very much and they leave mark on me to listen songs and watch movies from that time I don't recognize this time in which unfortetanly we living
adarshraksh We did indeed! Lol! Used to rock the guy-liner with my mullet. Sharing my lady's mousse, etc. Good fuckin' times... forever. Best decade of music ever!
Os anos 80 foram a melhor da HISTÓRIA, e a inspiração para tantos na gerações seguintes, continua Mariana Vieira , com esse extremo gosto pela música dessa década, tal como eu, ainda hoje , escuto com tanto prazer... Um Abraço do Filipe do Porto 👍🏽🙏🍀
Everyone loved Jan it's amazing how one person can emanate so much love. A true angel Roxy share ,Janet all angels it's sad we lost one of our angels but she's a 'real angel now
I heard this on the radio for the first time ever in my life (Hair Nation) and I’m listening to this with headphones and all I can say these girls sound amazing! Holy crap! Rock on metal heads!
Hi I have had cancer and I am here to tell the tail I am one of the lucky ones but her music will live forever, long after we have all gone . She is rocking the gods
Looking back on the 80's, I'll never understand why Vixen weren't more popular? Great songs, musicianship, and gorgeous women! Who doesn't like that? Plus, Janet Gardner was an outstanding singer. She could hold her own against some of the best female singers of the time plus she had the looks to add to her appeal. I am shocked the record companies never offered her a solo record deal? Crazy, crazy!! Are those record execs both blind AND deaf? Disgrazia!
Apparently there was factionalism in the band, which lead to the break up. Gardner then got married and had a child and she decided being a mother was more important so respect to her for that.
Growing up back then, I can say, honestly, it was hard for women in metal to be taken seriously. Yeah, you had acts like Lita Ford, Vixen, Doro from Warlock, Wendy O Williams and a few others but none of them really made it HUGE. Women and non whites were, sad to say, more like novelty acts. When bands like Living Color or Loudness etc came out it was like wow that black/Japanese guy can play great. Sad, but true, it was mostly the white guys club back then.
Ah, god. This is bittersweet. I miss this era so much. If only I were a little older back then, I would have blasted this track at max volume from the speakers of my 1989 Mitsubishi Starion with the windows down while speed shifting as the intercooled turbo hisses in perfect harmony with the music! The eighties were so RAD!
All the girls were accomplished musicians, and Janet's vocals and style so perfect. Their live recordings are great too. In this song you can clearly hear Jan's vocals in the chorus with Janet and that was a good choice, it sounds really good.
I remember when Vixen came to play in our city in support of this album. They went to our local music store for a signing, with a long line waiting. Me and four of my male friends were able to get a spot behind where they were seated, about 15 feet from them, as they sat at their table and signed with pictures, etc. We didn't get in line because we were heavy metal dudes! We can't get in line for a *girlie* band!! ;) Every now and then one of them would look around, and see us, among others standing in the background. Then, when they had to leave, they got up, and headed straight for us, needing to get to our aisle of the store in order to get out, since it was totally jammed in there between the records (CD's?) and fans, and them. As they approached, my heart started racing, I got flushed, and they each said "Hi" to us with smiles; and it was such a tight squeeze that Janet rubbed the side of her arm/shoulder/elbow against my torso to get by in her ultra-glam black outfit hotness, makeup, awesome blond hair and heels, and I just about dropped a load right there (sorry). They smelled amazing, their size surprised us (seeing them on TV you think they're all tall, etc)...Janet was outright petite, as were two of the others, all with perfect bodies...they were all friggin GORgeous, not kidding when I say even more stunning than in their videos, seriously. I later read an interview where they remarked about "the guys who come to our signings but won't come up to us because they're afraid of us..." (lol...she was definitely referencing us among how many others?...). ;)
Tom Miller lol re Janet...And you nailed it on the Nirvana thing; grunge came out and just destroyed music. Corporate music was pushing what amounted to three-chord garage band music as hard as they could, and the music world changed dramatically almost overnight. It was just appalling, because (in my opinion) grunge was just really bad music. I'm convinced the record companies were desperate to make more money, and garage bands didn't cost anything compared to the technology that was evolving back then, etc (I could continue to rant but will restrain myself).
+facelessfatloss I'm getting a little flushed just reading this! But anyway, it's OK to be a metal dude and love Vixen -- they've got some songs that seriously rock. I'm a metal dude who loves Renaissance.
+known fact I, TOO, am a male rocker/headbanger/metalhead and, LOVE Vixen! In my opinion, Vixen, were, and still are, proof or confirmation, that female rockers don't (always or necessarily) have be or act "tomboy"-ish to be in a rock/metal band.
I wish girls still looked this good!!! Not anymore!!! Boy haircuts!!! I am glad I got to see it all!! I set up for these lovely ladies!!! And they were very talented ladies!! They could play!!!! Period!!!!! Respect and love!!! I am blessed to have met you and set up for them!!! I have drum stick and guitar picks from setting up for them!!!
Mr. B wouldn't say better than most male bands, having rivals like Dokken, White Lion, Ratt, Motley Crue, Winger, Warrant, Skid Row, among others who seriously kicked ass. That said, Vixen was a very talented group of gorgeous ladies
I'm a 47, I grew up in the 80s there are definitely a lot of heroes that are being passing lately.. it truly is sad when you find a band like this where they definitely had to fight and try and play a little harder to make it in that world, they definitely proved that they could and they rocked thank you for Vixen and there music..
2:13. To this day I can’t stop listening to this solo! Seamless transition into the relative minor scale and it is really fitting for the song... she kept it an octave lower than most guitarists of the era and really let those sour notes cry. Perfect solo for a song called cryin. I just wish it was longer. The solo could could have went another 8 bars or even longer, that tone sounded really good.
Unfortunately, they started very late, about 1988. They had a few hits, but before they could make it big, the grunge music scene shut down talented acts such as theirs.
@@markymark0417 lol you can't blame a genre for shutting down a musician that's total B.S, a LOT of bands evolved through MANY different decades of different popular genres. Of course you have to have persistence, drive, determination, and talent if you want to evolve as a band through different genres, let's not forget grunge died too as a genre but just because grunge eventually died doesn't mean ALL those bands just stopped making music because grunge wasn't mainstream anymore.
Loved that Aqua net hair, all the Big Hair and the music was and will always be great. I'm glad I got to grow up in the 80s and was able to play and sing some of music with various Bands at parties.
Seriously, seriously under-rated band. They came along at the wrong time, just as hair-metal was gradually being pushed out for grunge. The fact they were a smokin' hot, all-girl band probably counted against them and were likely considered a gimmick, despite obvious talent.
That plus Thrash Metal was reaching it's peak, Death Metal and Grindcore was on the rise and the 2nd wave of Black Metal was starting to take off. By the time Vixen arrived on to the scene, they, like many of the Glam Metal acts in the late 80s was in an ever narrowing corridor. By 89-90 it was pretty much a spent force.
Grunge (Also a term to describe the rawness of the heavy music) existed before Nirvana and all the other grungy End-Eighties-Bands happend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge
@James Spun , this stuff was just as real. I was in a hair metal band back in the day, and we cut our teeth on everything from punk to really heavy stuff. We had a male lead , then a female and male duo, then only a female ( she could cover anyone without missing a lick, huge range ), then we wound up with an equally incredible male vocalist. By the time the personnel changes were through, the genre was about dead. I left for a second bout of college and a marriage, and the band cut another album, but there were no real sales. Nobody wanted hair metal anymore. That didn't make the music any less real, and didn't take away any skills from the excellent musicians I was blessed enough to play with. I was the weak link in the lineup when I was in it as the synth player, and they wound up with a better musician. The band reformed after being asked to do so for a local festival for fans, and then went to play the NASCAR race at Bristol a month later. I couldn't gig with them, due to my health, but, they were tight as hell still after only about a month's practice, playing mostly covers, Skid Row, Judas Priest, Van Halen / Hagar, Dokken etc. It was a great show even as an audience member and my teenage son, who was still in the womb the last time I was in the band, was absolutely astonished at how tight they were. There were thousands of musicians and bands that were as good or better than anything you've ever heard on the radio that never got big for different reasons. You can look at most successful artists and see that they've been in a lot of bands before they broke big, and listen to those bands and they sounded fantastic. Any music is real if the musician's heart and soul is in it, and I can tell you, that the hair metal scene had a hell of a lot of that. It was real. I don't denigrate any genre of music. There's great and talented musicians in all of it, and in all of it, there are performers that give their heart and soul to the music and to their fans. The only thing that is crap, and that isn't "real", is the critic who's never laid his ass on the line in front of a small crowd in a crappy , smokey bar full of drunks, or few thousand or a few tens of thousands of people. These girls were real. They were all very talented, and top players. Pia, the bassist, even graduated from Berklee and was a classmate and friend of Aimme Mann's. Pia is Pia Vai, Steve Vai's wife, and has played on his recordings.
God, I love Vixen, they were all so amazingly gorgeous AND talented, just like their male counterparts of the 80's. Love how Jan made her guitar sound like a sax in the solo, so unique. Hair metal had such talented musicians. Wish these girls had more attention than they got, so beautiful!
I'm going to hug my daughter after seeing this video. Can't wait to introduce her to this wonderful band & music of the 80's.. I still Love heavy metal & glam metal (aka arena rock) as many do. R.I.P. Jan*
I miss the 80’s hair metal. So much fun. I will never forget seeing Vixen during Spring Break in Galveston, TX. Great show in the sweltering heat. The best time I ever had in swim trunks!
These songs, videos, were the best of the 80's...and I greatly appreciate and love their contributions...they are definitely worth listening to! Rock on! Lonnie
I saw this band live back when this song was on the charts. They played in a small venue for a one night show. One of the best live bands that I have ever seen. They were touring with the Scorpions. Not hard on the eyes either.
I was born in the early 80s & remember the 80s but the 90s defined my childhood & teenage years. My point is how cool it would have been to been born 10 years earlier than I was to be a part of the 80s music scene. But now that I think about that I realize I'm glad I was born when I was because had I been born to truly enjoy 80s music I'd now be in my late 40s or early 50s. But 80s music is awesome!
thank you ladies. this album got me through some of the toughest times in my life ,but also went along with some of the best. this album will forever be at the top of my list. only wish there were more like it
Como eu queria ter sido jovem na década de 80! Se eu tivesse oportunidade de usar uma máquina do tempo com certeza iria dar uma voltinha nessa época kkkk bom demais!
I was born in 1959 and as a Teenage Boy I feel in Love with Female Bands and Female Singers 😂. Fanny, The Runaways, Suzi Quarto, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, ❤Ann & Nancy Wilson❤ and thats just a Few. ❤Fanny "PLAY LIKE A GIRL"❤. Women can Rock & Roll just a Hard as the Boys.
I was born in 1990. How I wish I was raised in the 80s. Definitely I would love being in high school in this a Era. The metal, heck even the new wave was awesome.
God, I miss the 80’s. Somebody build a time machine so I can go back, I hate it here.
You and me both 😢
Me too. I feel the same way.
The Immortal Decade !
Shotgun!
@5ifty6ixmediauk called shotgun, but I'm squeezing in dam it. . . let's go!🎉😊
There was only one Jan Kuehnemund, and I'm glad I was able to see her in my lifetime. She is so missed. Rest-In-Peace Goddess❤
My favorite Vixen was Jan
I just wanna go back to this era of time, music, and hair. Loved this band. RIP, Jan. You were awesome!!
Very underrated band. These women Rockers had talent and rocked with the best in the 1980's.
They're underrated because the only way they could get a record deal was with the caveat of their first album considering solely of songs composed and produced by industry people, and the result is glossy guitar pop, not unlike Bon Jovi that most true metalheads have generally shunned. It was the wrong sound for the wrong audience.
If the record company had trusted the band to do what they wanted their way, and the label people just focused on promoting the music, they would've at least sold well to fans of stuff like Skid Row and Poison.
Their true metal colors are able to shine through a bit more clearly on their second record.
I wouldn't consider it metal; hard rock yes and good rock unlike the crap we have these days; the older people would be happy rock is basically dead
Who rated them?
@@jasonlieberman4606 Yup Heart also made such similar deal from 85-90 under record company but they were still great though.
@@bob_greene ???what do you mean by "the older generation would be happy " I'm nearly 70yr old, I would rather listen to this music than pop music..
my best female rock band
plus HEART
@@criszaxop6153 Heart is not a female rock band.
Vixen >>>>> Runaways
i agreee
@@TheKestevon
Fanny is better than Vixen
Oh my god . I want the 80s back !!!
👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎
My time machine refuses to work, but I'll say hi to kid-you when it finally does.
I wish Jan could come back...she was an amazing guitarist and a stunning woman. :(
me too
i want these girls back
I could waste a whole week just listening to 80's music and watching the videos back to back! LOVE everything about the 80's!
You mean invest the weekend?
Jan was the prettiest one of them all! She is dearly missed!
Vixen is so awesome. They deserve to be inducted into the Hall of Fame!!!
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Back in the days when Rock Songs Was Worth Listening
Agreed 1:17
One of the most underrated bands of all time. Simply great.
I love these girls. RIP Jan.
I played the crap out of this cassette, yes I said cassette!! Roxie made me want to be a drummer. These ladies sure did rock, I'm listening in 2024!!
OH MY GOD I WANT THE 80 BACK TOO FOREVER AND EVER AND FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE TOO
Bring back female rock bands. Miss them so much!! Vixen was the bomb!
Japan did this awhile back with hard rocking girl bands like Scandal, Band Maid, Baby Metal and others. South Korea had a boy group like BTS and girl groups like Apink and Black Pink era. I predict next they will be doing the Hard Rock groups and hard rocking girl groups.
Hey, if you like Vixen and this kind of female 80's rock, you should really check out the new video by Chez Kane. th-cam.com/video/FIqSK4K-ki8/w-d-xo.html
Bring back? There's more female metal bands now than there was then
@@mkinster But the Japanese ones don't have the essence of rock in their veins, but the one from the 80s does, and the ones from South Korea are Korean pop, that's why it says k-pop, the one that's from Korea 😏
@@Brolypelado I said that I predict next that Korea will be doing the Hard Rock groups and hard rocking girl groups. I was saying the k-pop era is starting to wind down and could give way to harder rock groups in South Korea.
I hope this band gets inducted into The Rock -n-Roll hall of fame someday. Vixen was and always excellent
They won't get that....they were one hit wonders....but they did rokk
@@Swanlord05 sad on not getting inducted but Vixen did definitely rock no doubt
So wrong, they were far from one hit wonders; they had 6 songs that charted in the US and UK.
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I'm 54 and my wife is 56 okay and we have been married for 24 years okay letting you we love y'all okay goodnight okay
One of the best songs of all time and another great example of why the 1980s was the decade when music was real music.
RIP Jan Keunemund 1954-2013. Ten years ago today
Great song, great band, great memories!
I miss the eighties so bad...
Your Not Alone They were a Millon Times Better.
You guys weren't even there
Hey, if you like Vixen and this kind of 80's rock, you should really check out the new video by Chez Kane. th-cam.com/video/FIqSK4K-ki8/w-d-xo.html
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Didn't the lead singer Pass?
Cryin' for Jan Kuehnemund, REST IN PEACE
Agree :(
Oh dam, did not know that!! R.I.P. Jan
CANCER IS A KILLER. DAMN CANCER, ¡FUCK YOU!
So true!!! Cancer has taken far to many! :(
Cancer has taken to Goddesses of Rock Guitar: Michelle Meldrum (Phantom Blue), Kelly Johnson (Girlschool) and the best my platonic love Jan. Now they are Angels.
They should've been bigger than they were! So sad what the music industry does to people - not to mention all the fighting between band members. RIP Jan ❤❤
Just mythical..the best female band,miss Jan..Desperate..!!
I traded licks back and forth between her and I. She was more of a Micheal Schenker and was/am an Yngwies,Randy Rhoads, Eddie.
These ladies are damn good! Should get more recognition
These gorgeous girls are the essence of 80s rock.
Die girls sind nicht nur hübsch sondern können auch gut singen ❤
For sure ❤😢😮
I'm almost 43 as and still love Vixen! I started listening to them in 1988 when they put their amazing debut out. It got heavy rotation on MTV then, when MTV was still MTV. They got so popular so fast that they were invited to play at MTV's Spring Break in Florida in 1989, and invited on countless shows. People couldn't believe they were as good as they were, but they were the real deal. ... To think, that young, unknown band in the 1984 Hardbodies movie would go on to be one of most successful female bands of all time!
defpickles98 yeah and on an average Rock and rest of music has sucked ever since
Vixen actually played in the movie "Hardbodies". In fact, they did most of the soundtrack. This was before they hit it big. I think that movie came out in '84. Great movie.
I remember this song so fondly great rock music,, unfortunately my girlfriend didn't agree and dumped me due to my Vixen obsession.
@@johndavey8751 , sorry to hear that. But that was the best time to be alive. Cheers from northeast Ohio!
Not underrated just unaccepted... Woman bands and Women Rockers were never taken seriously back in the 80s.. Too bad they are very talented and fricken hot 🔥
It's sad that was true as they were really badass great !
RIP Jan. The short amount of time we spent together was still the best part of my life. You were one of a kind.
What little I saw of her in interviews, she seemed like a nice and humble person... and gorgeous, of course.
unforgettable nostalgia with GLAM metal music ..
I MISS THE 80S SOOOOOOOO BAD!
X2
Yep.
I missed them very much and they leave mark on me to listen songs and watch movies from that time I don't recognize this time in which unfortetanly we living
So do I.
Hottest female band of the 80s sure do miss the 80s Rip Jan
***** guys of that decade looked hotter than the girls XD
***** guys of that decade looked hotter than the girls XD
adarshraksh We did indeed! Lol! Used to rock the guy-liner with my mullet. Sharing my lady's mousse, etc. Good fuckin' times... forever. Best decade of music ever!
***** Sadly, Jan K. died of cancer in October 2013.
2024 Quem ouve esta jóia de canção, tremendamente, awesome!
Jan was flawless, so easy on the eye and a fine guitarist too. What a loss. RIP
Que diferença das músicas atuais! Em todos os aspectos… batida do som, melodia, acordes da guitarra. Amo muito! E viva os anos 80! ❤️🔥
Hoje em dia só lixos, graças ao TH-cam podemos nos salvar dessas porcarias de hoje em dia
Os anos 80 foram a melhor da HISTÓRIA, e a inspiração para tantos na gerações seguintes, continua Mariana Vieira , com esse extremo gosto pela música dessa década, tal como eu, ainda hoje , escuto com tanto prazer... Um Abraço do Filipe do Porto 👍🏽🙏🍀
80's Rock is where it's at. The crap now days is just garbage
Every time I hear this song I get goosebumps! RIP Jan....
Jan has some very emotional guitar work, amazing band
RIP Jan. I know everyone is Cryin. Our thoughts goes out to the Edge of a Broken Heart.
Well said...🤘🏾
Everyone loved Jan it's amazing how one person can emanate so much love. A true angel Roxy share ,Janet all angels it's sad we lost one of our angels but she's a 'real angel now
She's still alive
Their 2 Signature Big hits well said
Wonderful song references
I wanna go back to the 80's, I was happier then.
Take me with you...PLEASE!
As was I. Everything started going to hell after 2000. Dammit.
Love was truer, people were honest, friendships lasted..we live in hell now!
Me too in every way
@@briansmith8361 You are right that was year when everything gone wrong 21 th century sucks in everything!
I miss these Bad Ass Bitches. The 80's where the best!
Saw them in concert….. was blown away with how absolutely beautiful they all were
They look like heavenly metal angels with all that cool poofy hair! I LOVE IT! 😙
I heard this on the radio for the first time ever in my life (Hair Nation) and I’m listening to this with headphones and all I can say these girls sound amazing! Holy crap! Rock on metal heads!
Women of the 80s were Gorgeous!
Oh, so it's not just me?
Amen our women of the 80's are beautiful . they dress hot at the shows
Amen🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
If you stay healthy then you'll age very fine. Don't Make No Promises, Your Body can't keep. - A song by the Scorpions from Hannover, Germany
@LogicalSchizoid So does Steven Adler (former Drummer of Guns N Roses)
What a talented singing rock band Vixen 🙂🤘
Hi I have had cancer and I am here to tell the tail
I am one of the lucky ones but her music will live forever, long after we have all gone .
She is rocking the gods
Amen...
Looking back on the 80's, I'll never understand why Vixen weren't more popular? Great songs, musicianship, and gorgeous women! Who doesn't like that? Plus, Janet Gardner was an outstanding singer. She could hold her own against some of the best female singers of the time plus she had the looks to add to her appeal. I am shocked the record companies never offered her a solo record deal? Crazy, crazy!! Are those record execs both blind AND deaf? Disgrazia!
Apparently there was factionalism in the band, which lead to the break up. Gardner then got married and had a child and she decided being a mother was more important so respect to her for that.
Growing up back then, I can say, honestly, it was hard for women in metal to be taken seriously. Yeah, you had acts like Lita Ford, Vixen, Doro from Warlock, Wendy O Williams and a few others but none of them really made it HUGE. Women and non whites were, sad to say, more like novelty acts. When bands like Living Color or Loudness etc came out it was like wow that black/Japanese guy can play great. Sad, but true, it was mostly the white guys club back then.
Janet Gardner rocks your hearts out..hell yeahhhhh....80s Rock metal 4evaaa.....eternally goddess
Ah, god. This is bittersweet. I miss this era so much. If only I were a little older back then, I would have blasted this track at max volume from the speakers of my 1989 Mitsubishi Starion with the windows down while speed shifting as the intercooled turbo hisses in perfect harmony with the music! The eighties were so RAD!
Doesn't get anymore 80s heavy rock than this :-).
Talented and absolutely precious . Awesome band
OMG ... Vixen songs are applied to my broken heart life 💔 ... I'm amazed how Vixen songs from 30 years ago can mean so much today in 2022!
Harmonically and melodically, this song is absolutely GLORIOUS. Cheers to these girls. You girls ROCK
All the girls were accomplished musicians, and Janet's vocals and style so perfect. Their live recordings are great too. In this song you can clearly hear Jan's vocals in the chorus with Janet and that was a good choice, it sounds really good.
Classic hard/rock 80 years ,nostagic gilrs metal band !!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Met these girls at the writz in detroit. Great bunch of girls. So much talent not recognized. And roxy was so fucking cool. . I miss my 80's so much.
I'm going to see Vixen at Summerfest in Milwaukee this weekend!
I remember when Vixen came to play in our city in support of this album. They went to our local music store for a signing, with a long line waiting. Me and four of my male friends were able to get a spot behind where they were seated, about 15 feet from them, as they sat at their table and signed with pictures, etc. We didn't get in line because we were heavy metal dudes! We can't get in line for a *girlie* band!! ;) Every now and then one of them would look around, and see us, among others standing in the background. Then, when they had to leave, they got up, and headed straight for us, needing to get to our aisle of the store in order to get out, since it was totally jammed in there between the records (CD's?) and fans, and them. As they approached, my heart started racing, I got flushed, and they each said "Hi" to us with smiles; and it was such a tight squeeze that Janet rubbed the side of her arm/shoulder/elbow against my torso to get by in her ultra-glam black outfit hotness, makeup, awesome blond hair and heels, and I just about dropped a load right there (sorry). They smelled amazing, their size surprised us (seeing them on TV you think they're all tall, etc)...Janet was outright petite, as were two of the others, all with perfect bodies...they were all friggin GORgeous, not kidding when I say even more stunning than in their videos, seriously. I later read an interview where they remarked about "the guys who come to our signings but won't come up to us because they're afraid of us..." (lol...she was definitely referencing us among how many others?...). ;)
Tom Miller
lol re Janet...And you nailed it on the Nirvana thing; grunge came out and just destroyed music. Corporate music was pushing what amounted to three-chord garage band music as hard as they could, and the music world changed dramatically almost overnight. It was just appalling, because (in my opinion) grunge was just really bad music. I'm convinced the record companies were desperate to make more money, and garage bands didn't cost anything compared to the technology that was evolving back then, etc (I could continue to rant but will restrain myself).
+facelessfatloss .....great story, those were the days.
+facelessfatloss I'm getting a little flushed just reading this! But anyway, it's OK to be a metal dude and love Vixen -- they've got some songs that seriously rock. I'm a metal dude who loves Renaissance.
Lol
+known fact I, TOO, am a male rocker/headbanger/metalhead and, LOVE Vixen! In my opinion, Vixen, were, and still are, proof or confirmation, that female rockers don't (always or necessarily) have be or act "tomboy"-ish to be in a rock/metal band.
Best times of my life was during the 80's thats when rock was rock
I wish girls still looked this good!!! Not anymore!!! Boy haircuts!!! I am glad I got to see it all!! I set up for these lovely ladies!!! And they were very talented ladies!! They could play!!!! Period!!!!! Respect and love!!! I am blessed to have met you and set up for them!!! I have drum stick and guitar picks from setting up for them!!!
love vixen! female rock bands totally rock just as good as male rockers
i want them all!
Sharon Fehr Absolutely!
Sharon Fehr Umm, Vixen was better than most male bands.
I've been obsessed with them lately. I'm just now discovering how talented they were.
I'm love Vixen too
Mr. B wouldn't say better than most male bands, having rivals like Dokken, White Lion, Ratt, Motley Crue, Winger, Warrant, Skid Row, among others who seriously kicked ass. That said, Vixen was a very talented group of gorgeous ladies
i met them at the house of guitars in the 80's. i talked to Jan face to face. she is absolutely gorgeous tall beauty. RIP!!
For me, Jan Kuehnemund will always be the most beautiful and one of the most talented woman in music. So sad she suffered cáncer and passed away.
Damn, I wasn't born until 1986, I seriously absolutely love the 80's music. I should have lived through this Era. Bring it back Please!!
I saw them in concert in March 1989 Spring Break at South Padre Island. Awesome 😎
I'm a 47, I grew up in the 80s there are definitely a lot of heroes that are being passing lately.. it truly is sad when you find a band like this where they definitely had to fight and try and play a little harder to make it in that world, they definitely proved that they could and they rocked thank you for Vixen and there music..
2:13. To this day I can’t stop listening to this solo! Seamless transition into the relative minor scale and it is really fitting for the song... she kept it an octave lower than most guitarists of the era and really let those sour notes cry. Perfect solo for a song called cryin. I just wish it was longer. The solo could could have went another 8 bars or even longer, that tone sounded really good.
It disappointed me that they didn't get to be as big as Bon Jovi, Guns n' Roses or other great 80s band. They definitely were underrated.
or joan jett
Como elas estão hoje?
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Unfortunately, they started very late, about 1988. They had a few hits, but before they could make it big, the grunge music scene shut down talented acts such as theirs.
@@markymark0417 lol you can't blame a genre for shutting down a musician that's total B.S, a LOT of bands evolved through MANY different decades of different popular genres. Of course you have to have persistence, drive, determination, and talent if you want to evolve as a band through different genres, let's not forget grunge died too as a genre but just because grunge eventually died doesn't mean ALL those bands just stopped making music because grunge wasn't mainstream anymore.
Loved that Aqua net hair, all the Big Hair and the music was and will always be great. I'm glad I got to grow up in the 80s and was able to play and sing some of music with various Bands at parties.
1:09 - 1:17 perfection. Cryin' indeed. RIP Jan.
Nice band, the other day they were opening for Bon Jovi and that's how I got there. I wish I lived in 80's ✊
Seriously, seriously under-rated band. They came along at the wrong time, just as hair-metal was gradually being pushed out for grunge.
The fact they were a smokin' hot, all-girl band probably counted against them and were likely considered a gimmick, despite obvious talent.
That plus Thrash Metal was reaching it's peak, Death Metal and Grindcore was on the rise and the 2nd wave of Black Metal was starting to take off. By the time Vixen arrived on to the scene, they, like many of the Glam Metal acts in the late 80s was in an ever narrowing corridor. By 89-90 it was pretty much a spent force.
Been screaming this for years! Lol.
Grunge (Also a term to describe the rawness of the heavy music) existed before Nirvana and all the other grungy End-Eighties-Bands happend.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge
down to earth group aswell meet them
@James Spun , this stuff was just as real. I was in a hair metal band back in the day, and we cut our teeth on everything from punk to really heavy stuff. We had a male lead , then a female and male duo, then only a female ( she could cover anyone without missing a lick, huge range ), then we wound up with an equally incredible male vocalist. By the time the personnel changes were through, the genre was about dead. I left for a second bout of college and a marriage, and the band cut another album, but there were no real sales.
Nobody wanted hair metal anymore. That didn't make the music any less real, and didn't take away any skills from the excellent musicians I was blessed enough to play with. I was the weak link in the lineup when I was in it as the synth player, and they wound up with a better musician. The band reformed after being asked to do so for a local festival for fans, and then went to play the NASCAR race at Bristol a month later. I couldn't gig with them, due to my health, but, they were tight as hell still after only about a month's practice, playing mostly covers, Skid Row, Judas Priest, Van Halen / Hagar, Dokken etc. It was a great show even as an audience member and my teenage son, who was still in the womb the last time I was in the band, was absolutely astonished at how tight they were.
There were thousands of musicians and bands that were as good or better than anything you've ever heard on the radio that never got big for different reasons. You can look at most successful artists and see that they've been in a lot of bands before they broke big, and listen to those bands and they sounded fantastic. Any music is real if the musician's heart and soul is in it, and I can tell you, that the hair metal scene had a hell of a lot of that. It was real.
I don't denigrate any genre of music. There's great and talented musicians in all of it, and in all of it, there are performers that give their heart and soul to the music and to their fans.
The only thing that is crap, and that isn't "real", is the critic who's never laid his ass on the line in front of a small crowd in a crappy , smokey bar full of drunks, or few thousand or a few tens of thousands of people.
These girls were real. They were all very talented, and top players. Pia, the bassist, even graduated from Berklee and was a classmate and friend of Aimme Mann's. Pia is Pia Vai, Steve Vai's wife, and has played on his recordings.
God, I love Vixen, they were all so amazingly gorgeous AND talented, just like their male counterparts of the 80's. Love how Jan made her guitar sound like a sax in the solo, so unique. Hair metal had such talented musicians. Wish these girls had more attention than they got, so beautiful!
Absolutely loved Jan! She could jam that guitar
I'm going to hug my daughter after seeing this video. Can't wait to introduce her to this wonderful band & music of the 80's.. I still Love heavy metal & glam metal (aka arena rock) as many do. R.I.P. Jan*
Beautiful girls playing beautiful music.
Hey, if you like Vixen and this kind of 80's rock, you should really check out the new video by Chez Kane. th-cam.com/video/FIqSK4K-ki8/w-d-xo.html
I miss the 80’s hair metal. So much fun. I will never forget seeing Vixen during Spring Break in Galveston, TX. Great show in the sweltering heat. The best time I ever had in swim trunks!
It's simply... A hymn of glam metal. I love it! I love vixen!
These songs, videos, were the best of the 80's...and I greatly appreciate and love their contributions...they are definitely worth listening to! Rock on! Lonnie
Greatest all female rock band. EVER.
Vixen remember late 80s and early 90s
Why wasn't Vixen given more recognition is beyond me, an injustice if there was ever one.
Que canción, me revitaliza y me hace sentirme joven otra vez¡¡¡¡¡¡¡.
It's my 40th time listening to this song today. Very addictive and seductive. This song is like piece of a diamond in the dessert.
These girls were the real deal. Pure talent
Miss these years
I saw this band live back when this song was on the charts. They played in a small venue for a one night show. One of the best live bands that I have ever seen. They were touring with the Scorpions. Not hard on the eyes either.
amazing vocals!
I was born in the early 80s & remember the 80s but the 90s defined my childhood & teenage years. My point is how cool it would have been to been born 10 years earlier than I was to be a part of the 80s music scene. But now that I think about that I realize I'm glad I was born when I was because had I been born to truly enjoy 80s music I'd now be in my late 40s or early 50s. But 80s music is awesome!
The 80s 90s hair needs to come back! Loved those hairdos!!
vixen in my opinion will go down in history the best womam band ever!
my favorite guitar solo by Jan
This is music what they put out now days can never compair I am a 80s baby love this band
Many many Infinity speaker components gave their lives up to these ladies, 15 inch woofers and a bunch of those little foil tweeters
thank you ladies.
this album got me through some of the toughest times in my life ,but also went along with some of the best.
this album will forever be at the top of my list. only wish there were more like it
Brilliant band great vocals from lead singer all brilliant and very beautiful ladies 👌👌👌👏👏👏
I was today years old when I first heard this band.... And I grew up in the 80s
Vixen to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now!!!
Como eu queria ter sido jovem na década de 80! Se eu tivesse oportunidade de usar uma máquina do tempo com certeza iria dar uma voltinha nessa época kkkk bom demais!
Legend of the 80s. One awesome female band. Vixen. Rocking Roll Will Never Die. 🎸🤘
I was born in 1959 and as a Teenage Boy I feel in Love with Female Bands and Female Singers 😂. Fanny, The Runaways, Suzi Quarto, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, ❤Ann & Nancy Wilson❤ and thats just a Few. ❤Fanny "PLAY LIKE A GIRL"❤. Women can Rock & Roll just a Hard as the Boys.
I was born in 1990. How I wish I was raised in the 80s. Definitely I would love being in high school in this a
Era. The metal, heck even the new wave was awesome.