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Roxx Gang
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All absent minded deedling and moronic lyrical nonsense intended to impress dull-witted women who are out cheating on their tool boyfriends in scuzzy niteclubs. These cliche' ridden sex ballads are supposed to be seductive, but one shudders to imagine the sorta skeezes who could fall for this ho-hum horndoggery. Kevin Steele obviously fancies himself some kinda suave and desirable hairy chested playboy from the "still kickin' ass" school of Simmons, Stanley, and Sixx. Apparently imagining his cheap come-ons and sophomoric, fifth-hand double entendre-ing are titillating his many fans. The video for "No Easy Way Out" has Kevin preening and slithering around in his lace-up Lip-Service TM threads and purple contacts like some one-cowtown cover band vocalist, copping all of Paul Stanley's goofy goat-man moves from the "Tears Are Falling" video. (And you just kinda sense how feverishly determined Kev is to track down a pair of those fringey pink gloves like Paul Stanley wore!) Makin' eyes for the camera like some repulsive middle-aged letch seducing a pudgy 14 year old farmgirl. It's pretty horrible. I dunno why I liked it so much! |
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| The other Gang bangers are indistinguishable from every other pure shit, bargain-basement, Sunset Strip glam-metal band from back then. You could switch any of these characters with somebody from Vain or Tuff or Pretty Boy Floyd and no one would be the wiser. The drummer did, memorably, play standing-up in the video, like Slim Jim Phantom from the Stray Cats, or Bobby Gillespie in his Jesus & Mary Chain days before Primal Scream, and that always looks sorta cool to me. They all had the exact same bleached or black, big, teased hair. All the same poses, as all the other bands. All the same songs. Summa Roxx Gang's titles included, "No Easy Way Out", "Live Fast Die Young" , "Race With The Devil", "Scratch My Back", "Ball & Chain", "Fastest Gun in Town" and their ballad, "Red Rose". I coulda substituted any other metal-merchant's track-listing from that era and they'd be nearly identical. You just know Kev "wrote" one called "Sweet Addiction" at some point! I've never stopped wondering how all these Aqua-Netted, brainless mooks are always able to drum up the money it takes to record! Do ALL their parents own niteclubs or modeling agencies? It just baffles me how all the Ted Poleys and Steve Summers and Jesse Camps and Stevie Rachelles and Kevin Steeles are always able to find an angle and get a record deal! Roxx Gang were irrefutable proof that the audience who dug 80's "glam" will buy absolutely anything. Just slop some hair-dye on it! Where's Kim Hooker when you need 'im?! |
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ROXX GANG sucked so bad they made you appreciate RATT. Roxx Gang were like, the bottom of the barrel, the very bottom rung - just barely better than Danger Danger or Sweet F.A. or Slaughter or Warrant or Winger. At least White Lion had "Wait"! ROXX GANG had "No Easy Way Out". So bland, it was sub-L.A. Guns! Trite, dumb, formulaic eighties hairband, corporate cock rock of the lowest order. ...I remember really liking these guys alot! I'd listen to their cassette while I was getting duded up to go out to the white trash heavy metal bar. Putting on my eye-liner and waiting for a sluttish car fulla drunken chicks to pick me up in somebody's Transmaro. 18 years later (18 and life to go...) and I'm still ranting about these goons. No Easy Way Out. |
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Further: Roxx Gang -At least PEPSI SHEEN never had cornrows! *not black, death. Totally different head, man. - Sleaze |
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Alot of things come from Florida - oranges, Anita
Bryant, Marilyn Manson, Katherine Harris, stolen elections, monotonous
black metal*, Disney lawyers, and...Roxx Gang! Roxx Gang starred Ohio
native Kevin Steele on lead vocals and were one of those hackneyed,
formulaic "rock" (without the roll) bands that have plagued me my whole
life. These dudes were the same kinda opportunist hacks we always see
hijacking the animal-printed stack heels of 70's glam, but their music was
always the most plodding, tedious, pedestrian variety of watered down KISS
riffs imaginable. Think Kiss without Ace. 