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KIX
1991 - Hot Wire.
way more Helter Skelter.

July 9, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: Hot Wire.

Blow our fuses !

Another ass-kicker from the East-Coast. After the RIAA-certified Platinum 1988 Blow My Fuse LP, the cool kids are back ...and injecting a lethal shot of rocknroll-overdose. KIX kicks !

The speed pace of "Hot Wire" wipes the Sunset Strip scene in a single track. Lewd and crude, this is 90s hardrock: louder, meatier and obnoxious-ier. Slicker and mötley-er, the hit-single "Girl Money" has all the punches and rock hooks to satisfy. Shake those hips with the boogie-vibed "Luv-A-Holic" and the AC/DC oozin' "Same Jane".

The metal-edged bad-assery of "Bump The La La" and "Rock & Roll Overdose" elevate Steve Whiteman's vocals to commanding heights ...pure TNT-rock !

The accompanying tour generated the Live CD, where many more fuses were blown to smithereens. Sadly, the promotion-department at Atlantic Records stopped returning their calls in Autumn 1991.

Always packed with more rock and more roll, KIX would issue their Show Business CD ...in a hardrock-less 1995.

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Girl Money = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mLFiAYtI9I
Hot Wire = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBrf8MQvFVg
Same Jane = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMsTF6qIS3g
Tear Down The Walls = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVUv483n4I
Hot Wire = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSAPXiJz1dA&list=OLAK5uy_lK3Z1UYWPLaVqiH-bn9Plix2sT2paPQIM
Interview and performance in 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u668coa0LF4
Live in Baltimore in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG4u4-sgIG4