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Kix (stylized as KIX) was an American glam metal and hard rock band formed in 1976, that achieved popularity during the 1980s. The band's classic lineup consisted of guitarists Ronnie "10/10" Younkins and Brian "Damage" Forsythe, bassist Donnie Purnell and frontman Steve Whiteman and drummer Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant.
Whiteman was recruited to join Kix in 1978 while they were known as "The Shooze". Whiteman and then-drummer Donnie Spence would alternate between who would drum and who would sing until it was decided that since Whiteman could hit the harder notes that he should stay as lead singer, Spence would soon leave in 1979 and be replaced by current-drummer Jimmy "Chocolate" Chalfant.
Pinkly Smooth was an American heavy metal/avant-garde metal band. The band was formed in the summer of 2001 in Huntington Beach, California, as a side project of the Rev, and originally featured Rev (under the name "Rathead") on vocals, along with fellow Avenged Sevenfold member Synyster Gates on guitar and former Ballistico band members Buck Silverspur (under the name "El Diablo") on bass, as ...
Date Location of death Cause of death Jay Weaver Big Daddy Weave: 42: January 2, 2022: COVID-19 [1] Lewis 'Lew' Jordan The Jordan Brothers: 74: January 3, 2022: Undisclosed causes [2] Jessie Daniels Force MDs: 58: January 4, 2022: Undisclosed causes [3] Calvin Simon Parliament-Funkadelic: 79: January 6, 2022: San Antonio, Florida, U.S. Unknown ...
Chamberlin was born in Joliet, Illinois, one of six children in a Catholic family of English and Hungarian ancestry. [6] His father and his older brother Paul were both active in jazz bands, playing clarinet and drums respectively, and his brother Paul is still an active rock drummer, with a local cover band, Chasing Amy.
One of the last surviving figures from the golden age of Memphis’ Sun Records, drummer J.M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, has died.Van Eaton — who came to Sun as a teenager in the mid-1950s and made his ...
A California jury convicted a former jazz musician of murdering his scientist girlfriend who had vanished last December before being found the following month.
Joseph Fidler Walsh (born Joseph Woodward Fidler; November 20, 1947) [2] [3] is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Best known as a member of the rock band Eagles, his five-decade career includes solo work and stints in other bands: James Gang, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and New Zealand's Herbs.