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Ryan Roxie (born Ryan Rosowicz, December 1, 1965) is an American guitarist, singer/songwriter best known as a solo artist and for his guitar work with Alice Cooper, Casablanca and Slash's Snakepit.
Roxie was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in the East Bay in Pleasanton. Ryan's father, Polish, used to play trumpet and his mother was a drummer in her high school marching band. Around age five Roxie picked up the guitar but was more interested in drums. It wasn't until he was around eleven or twelve that he started taking guitar seriously.
Roxie learned to play guitar from an old record player and invented his own form of scratching, going through many records in the process, picking out guitar parts. He was influenced by albums like Van Halen and has had many guitar heroes including Brian May from Queen, Steve Stevens, Elliot Easton from The Cars, Neil Geraldo from Pat Benatar and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick.
Candy were a band featuring original members Kyle Vincent, Jonathan Daniel, John Schubert, and guitarist Geoff Siegel. Gilby Clarke replaced Siegel after 6 months. They had an album release in 1985 titled Whatever Happened To Fun. Later that year, Gilby Clarke replaced Kyle Vincent as lead vocalist, and guitarist Roxie joined the lineup. After Gilby parted to form his own band Kill for Thrills the rest of the guys joined up with new lead vocalist Shane and became the Electric Angels.
Roxie formed Electric Angels with Shane, Jonathan Daniel and drummer John Schubert. They moved to New York where they signed to Atlantic Records. The show they are signed at is opening for Dogs D'amour and Mother Love Bone (some of whose members went on to form Pearl Jam) and their self-titled album is released in 1990 produced by Tony Visconti (best known for his work with T. Rex, David Bowie and Thin Lizzy to name a few). The band works on a second album to be called New York Times but is dropped by Atlantic before it is released.
Between '94 and '96 Roxie worked with various artists. He provided guitar on Gilby Clarke's albums, Pawnshop Guitars, Blooze, The Hangover and Rubber. Roxie also lent his guitar styling to the un-credited work with Tal Bachman. Roxie's guitar work is displayed on the hit single "She's So High" produced by Bob Rock. Roxie played guitar on James Michael's (from Sixx:A.M.) Inhale release as well. In 2000 Roxie also wrote and recorded on Slash's Snakepit's second album Ain't Life Grand.
In 1997 Roxie joined up with long-time friends drummer Mike Fasano and bassist Will Effertz and created the band Dad's Porno Mag. After Effertz left, guitarist Keri Kelli and bassist Stefan Adika joined. The album was released on Wax-Tone Records. This item is now out of stock but was re-released in 2000 from Robinson Records. Produced by Jim Mitchell of Ugly Kid Joe fame and Mark Schulman (Simple Minds) with additional production by Alex Woltman and friend Gilby Clarke. The album has fourteen tracks and one special hidden track entitled "My Bad Knee" on track 77.
Roxie began working with Alice Cooper in 1996 after a few good words were put in for him by Gilby and a shady character known as 'Bobby from Mates' while proving himself in an audition. He was offered a 'one year tour' playing with Alice. His first show with the Cooper band was at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo club in Cabo San Lucas.
In 1999, Roxie formed GlamNation under the alias Peter Kensington, a Glam cover band that played covers of early glam bands such as The Sweet, David Bowie, Queen, T. Rex and Gary Glitter the band played a number of shows in L.A. in 1999 with a regular spot at The Gig (Club American Style) and a show in Scandinavia in 2000. Apparently, a live CD was made but is yet to be released. The band consisted of the following musicians playing under their GlamNation Aliases, Peter Kensington (Ryan Roxie) – guitars, Doyle Harris (Eric Singer) – drums & vocals, J.C. Jackson (Eric Dover) - vocals & guitars, Yashiya (Stefan Adika) – bass, Ricky Lemons (Derek Sherinian) – keyboards. There was a line-up change for 2000 with Dr. Midnight (Teddy Andreadis) – keyboards, replacing Derek Sherinian. With the exception of Stefan Adika the other members formed part of the band for the Alice Cooper, Brutal Planet Tour and then without Teddy Andreadis went on to co-write and record the 2003 Alice Cooper release The Eyes of Alice Cooper.
In 2000 Roxie recorded his first studio album with Alice Cooper, Brutal Planet. Through 2000 to 2005 Roxie collaborated with Cooper on several albums including Dragontown, The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds, co-writing a number of songs on the latter two albums.
In March 2012 it was announced that Ryan Roxie was rejoining the Alice Cooper band for the forthcoming 2012 tour. He will be joining Tommy Henriksen and Orianthi on guitar, Chuck Garric on bass and Glen Sobel on drums.
R77 formed in 2002 and wrote a songs whose influences lie somewhere in between the Beatles and the Beastie Boys. They played the usual suspect clubs around the L.A. area for the next year, and then recorded their debut CD.
Roxie 77's 11-song debut album, Peace, Love & Armageddon, was released under the small indie Wax-Tone Records label. The spectrum of music and song subject matter span from acting like a punk-ass kid to facing the reality of actually having a kid. Two Sides to Every Story, was released in July 2009. The band added a downloadable song every week, with 24 songs in all. Each song is a regular and an acoustic version.
In 2014 Roxie 77 released a six-song EP, The Ameriswede. This is a unique release out on Bellyache Records and is available in a package that includes vinyl, CD, and digital download. The album's two sides include an "American side", mixed by Tommy Henriksen, and a "Swedish side", mixed by Jon Bordon with a more garage-indie sound.
Roxie has also recorded two albums with the Stockholm-based, Casablanca: Apocalyptic Youth and Riding a Black Swan.
On July 7, 2005, Roxie aired the first Roxie 77 podcast – Roxie's Big Rock Show. There were seven Podcasts in total which featured interviews with long-time friend Stefan Adika, as well as Calico Cooper, Damon Johnson, Eric Singer, Alice Cooper and Cheap Tricks Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos. The podcast also featured Roxie's favourite songs, some rare tracks and two unreleased Roxie tracks including "Consequence of the City" with ex-Alice Cooper band member and friend Eric Dover on vocals.
October 2006 saw Roxie hosting his own radio show on Rocket 95.3 FM (The Rock Home of Stockholm) The show ran every Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm (Stockholm time) and played a variety of music. The website featured live streaming, an online chat and webcam of Roxie in the studio.
March 2016 Roxie currently hosts a web-based Blab show called Big Rock Talk. The show features special guest interviews along with music videos. Some have compared it to the early days of MTV style programming.
Late 2017 while on the road with Alice Cooper, Roxie released a new solo single "California Man" featuring guest vocals from Robin Zander of Cheap Trick.
2018 Roxie continued touring with Alice Cooper and also released two new solo singles the first "Over & Done" in March followed by "To Live and Die in L.A." in May.
25th of May 2018 Ryan Roxie's first official solo album "Imagine Your Reality" is released.
June 2018 Ryan Roxie announces a July 2018 U.S. Tour in support of "Imagine your Reality", the tour billed as the Planet Axe Tour features The Ryan Roxie Band (Joel Kosche, Robby Miller and Kenny Bailey), The Brandon Gibbs Band and The Joel Kosche Band.
August 2018 after completing a successful solo tour, Ryan Roxie rejoins the Alice Cooper band for the next leg of the "Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper" tour and releases "Me Generation" the fourth single from "Imagine your Reality".
October 5th 2018 Ryan Roxie releases his 5th single "God Put A Smile On Your Face" from "Imagine your Reality".
November 2018 Ryan Roxie announces a February 2019 U.K. Tour in support of "Imagine your Reality", the tour is billed as the "To Live and Die in the U.K. 2019"
November 2018 Ryan Roxie appears on TEDxStockholm Wonderland, Ryan was praised for his entertaining segment (particularly as it was at short notice with very little preparation time) he played a number of songs and spoke in between, he went on to state that his success was based on the ‘’three P’s practice”: Practice, Persistence and Patience, work towards a goal and it will happen. Ironically after seeing his first TEDTalk some years before, it had become a goal of Ryan’s to one day deliver a TEDTalk himself…
December 2018 Ryan Roxie is announced as a Headline act for "The Cancer on the Rocks Macmillan Benefit Fundraiser 2019" to be held on the 23rd and 24th February in Cheshire.
December 2018 Ryan Roxie releases the 6th single "Big Rock Show" from "Imagine your Reality" the song guests his band mates from the current Alice Cooper band Glen Sobel on drums and Tommy Henriksen on bass. The lyric video was filmed on an iPhone XR designed for viewing in portrait mode on smartphones and tablets. On the day of the single release Ryan had the unique idea to stream a LIVE guitar lesson on how to play the song with help from his friends at PlayAlong Music. The idea was a success with viewers able to ask Ryan questions live via Facebook or Instagram through the duration of the stream.
31st of December 2018 Ryan Roxie reforms with GlamNation to perform at Rava Wines in Paso Robles, California with the original GlamNation (2000) line up and special guests Brent Woods, Sebastian Bach, FIFI LaRUE, Jesse Adika, Kenny Lee Lewis and Brett Scallions.
January 2019 Ryan Roxie announces first solo show of 2019 for February 2nd Thessaloniki, Greece.
January 2019 New Official Ryan Roxie Website released
January 2019 following the popularity of the Big Rock Show single release live guitar lesson, Ryan continues to take requests from fans of songs they would like to learn and every few weeks broadcasts a new lesson including Ryan’s track “Me Generation”, Alice Coopers “Brutal Planet” and Cheap Tricks “Surrender”.
February 2019 Ryan Roxie is announced as guest on the 2019 Bandit Rock Awards and performs songs from Imagine Your Reality.
February 2019 Ryan Roxie announces an April 2019 U.S. Planet Axe Tour with Brandon Gibbs, Joel Kosche, Robby Miller and Kenny Bailey in addition to a busy schedule with Alice Cooper on the “Old Black Eyes is Back” 2019 Tour
March 2019 Ryan Roxie to appear at the Crow Club in Athens Greece with Alice Cooper tribute band Snakebite, the show is billed as “Ryan Roxie of the Alice Cooper Band meets Snakebite the Alice Cooper Tribute Band”
April 2019 Ryan Roxie tours the U.S. with Brandon Gibbs, Joel Kosche, Robby Miller, Kenny Bailey, and Jacob Cade for the Planet Axe 2.0 Tour
April 12th 2019 Ryan Roxie releases his 7th single "Look Me In The Eye" from "Imagine your Reality". The video is directed by Gustav Kronfelt & filmed by Anton Körberg and in true Roxie style includes hidden messages throughout the video which Ryan uses to run competitions on social media.
April 23rd 2019 Ryan Roxie (known for his huge presence on social media) posts his 1000th Facebook post
May 2019 Ryan Roxie to again join Alice Cooper on the “Old Black Eyes” Tour through the U.S and Europe beginning on the 4th of May at the Domination Festival, Mexico and finishing at the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff in the UK on the 12th of October.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Roxie Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Roxie was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in the East Bay in Pleasanton. Ryan's father, Polish, used to play trumpet and his mother was a drummer in her high school marching band. Around age five Roxie picked up the guitar but was more interested in drums. It wasn't until he was around eleven or twelve that he started taking guitar seriously.
Roxie learned to play guitar from an old record player and invented his own form of scratching, going through many records in the process, picking out guitar parts. He was influenced by albums like Van Halen and has had many guitar heroes including Brian May from Queen, Steve Stevens, Elliot Easton from The Cars, Neil Geraldo from Pat Benatar and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick.
Candy were a band featuring original members Kyle Vincent, Jonathan Daniel, John Schubert, and guitarist Geoff Siegel. Gilby Clarke replaced Siegel after 6 months. They had an album release in 1985 titled Whatever Happened To Fun. Later that year, Gilby Clarke replaced Kyle Vincent as lead vocalist, and guitarist Roxie joined the lineup. After Gilby parted to form his own band Kill for Thrills the rest of the guys joined up with new lead vocalist Shane and became the Electric Angels.
Roxie formed Electric Angels with Shane, Jonathan Daniel and drummer John Schubert. They moved to New York where they signed to Atlantic Records. The show they are signed at is opening for Dogs D'amour and Mother Love Bone (some of whose members went on to form Pearl Jam) and their self-titled album is released in 1990 produced by Tony Visconti (best known for his work with T. Rex, David Bowie and Thin Lizzy to name a few). The band works on a second album to be called New York Times but is dropped by Atlantic before it is released.
Between '94 and '96 Roxie worked with various artists. He provided guitar on Gilby Clarke's albums, Pawnshop Guitars, Blooze, The Hangover and Rubber. Roxie also lent his guitar styling to the un-credited work with Tal Bachman. Roxie's guitar work is displayed on the hit single "She's So High" produced by Bob Rock. Roxie played guitar on James Michael's (from Sixx:A.M.) Inhale release as well. In 2000 Roxie also wrote and recorded on Slash's Snakepit's second album Ain't Life Grand.
In 1997 Roxie joined up with long-time friends drummer Mike Fasano and bassist Will Effertz and created the band Dad's Porno Mag. After Effertz left, guitarist Keri Kelli and bassist Stefan Adika joined. The album was released on Wax-Tone Records. This item is now out of stock but was re-released in 2000 from Robinson Records. Produced by Jim Mitchell of Ugly Kid Joe fame and Mark Schulman (Simple Minds) with additional production by Alex Woltman and friend Gilby Clarke. The album has fourteen tracks and one special hidden track entitled "My Bad Knee" on track 77.
Roxie began working with Alice Cooper in 1996 after a few good words were put in for him by Gilby and a shady character known as 'Bobby from Mates' while proving himself in an audition. He was offered a 'one year tour' playing with Alice. His first show with the Cooper band was at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo club in Cabo San Lucas.
In 1999, Roxie formed GlamNation under the alias Peter Kensington, a Glam cover band that played covers of early glam bands such as The Sweet, David Bowie, Queen, T. Rex and Gary Glitter the band played a number of shows in L.A. in 1999 with a regular spot at The Gig (Club American Style) and a show in Scandinavia in 2000. Apparently, a live CD was made but is yet to be released. The band consisted of the following musicians playing under their GlamNation Aliases, Peter Kensington (Ryan Roxie) – guitars, Doyle Harris (Eric Singer) – drums & vocals, J.C. Jackson (Eric Dover) - vocals & guitars, Yashiya (Stefan Adika) – bass, Ricky Lemons (Derek Sherinian) – keyboards. There was a line-up change for 2000 with Dr. Midnight (Teddy Andreadis) – keyboards, replacing Derek Sherinian. With the exception of Stefan Adika the other members formed part of the band for the Alice Cooper, Brutal Planet Tour and then without Teddy Andreadis went on to co-write and record the 2003 Alice Cooper release The Eyes of Alice Cooper.
In 2000 Roxie recorded his first studio album with Alice Cooper, Brutal Planet. Through 2000 to 2005 Roxie collaborated with Cooper on several albums including Dragontown, The Eyes of Alice Cooper and Dirty Diamonds, co-writing a number of songs on the latter two albums.
In March 2012 it was announced that Ryan Roxie was rejoining the Alice Cooper band for the forthcoming 2012 tour. He will be joining Tommy Henriksen and Orianthi on guitar, Chuck Garric on bass and Glen Sobel on drums.
R77 formed in 2002 and wrote a songs whose influences lie somewhere in between the Beatles and the Beastie Boys. They played the usual suspect clubs around the L.A. area for the next year, and then recorded their debut CD.
Roxie 77's 11-song debut album, Peace, Love & Armageddon, was released under the small indie Wax-Tone Records label. The spectrum of music and song subject matter span from acting like a punk-ass kid to facing the reality of actually having a kid. Two Sides to Every Story, was released in July 2009. The band added a downloadable song every week, with 24 songs in all. Each song is a regular and an acoustic version.
In 2014 Roxie 77 released a six-song EP, The Ameriswede. This is a unique release out on Bellyache Records and is available in a package that includes vinyl, CD, and digital download. The album's two sides include an "American side", mixed by Tommy Henriksen, and a "Swedish side", mixed by Jon Bordon with a more garage-indie sound.
Roxie has also recorded two albums with the Stockholm-based, Casablanca: Apocalyptic Youth and Riding a Black Swan.
On July 7, 2005, Roxie aired the first Roxie 77 podcast – Roxie's Big Rock Show. There were seven Podcasts in total which featured interviews with long-time friend Stefan Adika, as well as Calico Cooper, Damon Johnson, Eric Singer, Alice Cooper and Cheap Tricks Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos. The podcast also featured Roxie's favourite songs, some rare tracks and two unreleased Roxie tracks including "Consequence of the City" with ex-Alice Cooper band member and friend Eric Dover on vocals.
October 2006 saw Roxie hosting his own radio show on Rocket 95.3 FM (The Rock Home of Stockholm) The show ran every Wednesday from 2pm to 4pm (Stockholm time) and played a variety of music. The website featured live streaming, an online chat and webcam of Roxie in the studio.
March 2016 Roxie currently hosts a web-based Blab show called Big Rock Talk. The show features special guest interviews along with music videos. Some have compared it to the early days of MTV style programming.
Late 2017 while on the road with Alice Cooper, Roxie released a new solo single "California Man" featuring guest vocals from Robin Zander of Cheap Trick.
2018 Roxie continued touring with Alice Cooper and also released two new solo singles the first "Over & Done" in March followed by "To Live and Die in L.A." in May.
25th of May 2018 Ryan Roxie's first official solo album "Imagine Your Reality" is released.
June 2018 Ryan Roxie announces a July 2018 U.S. Tour in support of "Imagine your Reality", the tour billed as the Planet Axe Tour features The Ryan Roxie Band (Joel Kosche, Robby Miller and Kenny Bailey), The Brandon Gibbs Band and The Joel Kosche Band.
August 2018 after completing a successful solo tour, Ryan Roxie rejoins the Alice Cooper band for the next leg of the "Paranormal Evening with Alice Cooper" tour and releases "Me Generation" the fourth single from "Imagine your Reality".
October 5th 2018 Ryan Roxie releases his 5th single "God Put A Smile On Your Face" from "Imagine your Reality".
November 2018 Ryan Roxie announces a February 2019 U.K. Tour in support of "Imagine your Reality", the tour is billed as the "To Live and Die in the U.K. 2019"
November 2018 Ryan Roxie appears on TEDxStockholm Wonderland, Ryan was praised for his entertaining segment (particularly as it was at short notice with very little preparation time) he played a number of songs and spoke in between, he went on to state that his success was based on the ‘’three P’s practice”: Practice, Persistence and Patience, work towards a goal and it will happen. Ironically after seeing his first TEDTalk some years before, it had become a goal of Ryan’s to one day deliver a TEDTalk himself…
December 2018 Ryan Roxie is announced as a Headline act for "The Cancer on the Rocks Macmillan Benefit Fundraiser 2019" to be held on the 23rd and 24th February in Cheshire.
December 2018 Ryan Roxie releases the 6th single "Big Rock Show" from "Imagine your Reality" the song guests his band mates from the current Alice Cooper band Glen Sobel on drums and Tommy Henriksen on bass. The lyric video was filmed on an iPhone XR designed for viewing in portrait mode on smartphones and tablets. On the day of the single release Ryan had the unique idea to stream a LIVE guitar lesson on how to play the song with help from his friends at PlayAlong Music. The idea was a success with viewers able to ask Ryan questions live via Facebook or Instagram through the duration of the stream.
31st of December 2018 Ryan Roxie reforms with GlamNation to perform at Rava Wines in Paso Robles, California with the original GlamNation (2000) line up and special guests Brent Woods, Sebastian Bach, FIFI LaRUE, Jesse Adika, Kenny Lee Lewis and Brett Scallions.
January 2019 Ryan Roxie announces first solo show of 2019 for February 2nd Thessaloniki, Greece.
January 2019 New Official Ryan Roxie Website released
January 2019 following the popularity of the Big Rock Show single release live guitar lesson, Ryan continues to take requests from fans of songs they would like to learn and every few weeks broadcasts a new lesson including Ryan’s track “Me Generation”, Alice Coopers “Brutal Planet” and Cheap Tricks “Surrender”.
February 2019 Ryan Roxie is announced as guest on the 2019 Bandit Rock Awards and performs songs from Imagine Your Reality.
February 2019 Ryan Roxie announces an April 2019 U.S. Planet Axe Tour with Brandon Gibbs, Joel Kosche, Robby Miller and Kenny Bailey in addition to a busy schedule with Alice Cooper on the “Old Black Eyes is Back” 2019 Tour
March 2019 Ryan Roxie to appear at the Crow Club in Athens Greece with Alice Cooper tribute band Snakebite, the show is billed as “Ryan Roxie of the Alice Cooper Band meets Snakebite the Alice Cooper Tribute Band”
April 2019 Ryan Roxie tours the U.S. with Brandon Gibbs, Joel Kosche, Robby Miller, Kenny Bailey, and Jacob Cade for the Planet Axe 2.0 Tour
April 12th 2019 Ryan Roxie releases his 7th single "Look Me In The Eye" from "Imagine your Reality". The video is directed by Gustav Kronfelt & filmed by Anton Körberg and in true Roxie style includes hidden messages throughout the video which Ryan uses to run competitions on social media.
April 23rd 2019 Ryan Roxie (known for his huge presence on social media) posts his 1000th Facebook post
May 2019 Ryan Roxie to again join Alice Cooper on the “Old Black Eyes” Tour through the U.S and Europe beginning on the 4th of May at the Domination Festival, Mexico and finishing at the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff in the UK on the 12th of October.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Roxie Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.