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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, Gilby Clarke and Slash's Snakepit.
Background
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, 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 AM) Inhale release as well. In 2000 Roxie also wrote and recorded on Slash's Snakepit's second album Ain't Life Grand.
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 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. It is currently available at this site: ([1])
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.
2002 Roxie formed Roxie 77 and wrote a song 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.
2004 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.
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 2:00 to 4:00 pm (Stockholm time) and played a variety of music.The website featured live streaming, an online chat and webcam of Roxie in the studio.
2009 Roxie 77's second album Two Sides to Every Story, was released in July. The band added a downloadable song every week, with 24 songs in all. Each song is a regular and an acoustic version.
2010 through to 2014 Roxie recorded two albums with the Stockholm-based, Casablanca: Apocalyptic Youth and Riding a Black Swan.
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.
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.
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.
May 25, 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 5, 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 23 and 24 February in Cheshire.
December 2018 Ryan Roxie releases the 6th single "Big Rock Show" from "Imagine your Reality" the song guests his bandmates 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.
December 31, 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 2 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 a 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 12, 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 23, 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 May 4 at the Domination Festival, Mexico and finishing at the Motorpoint Arena Cardiff in the UK on October 12.
May 18, 2019 Ryan Roxie returns to Rava Wines in Paso Robles CA for a special performance with "The Sunset Winos", the all-star band also featured Eric Dover, Stefan Adika, Teddy Andreadis, Johnny Griparic, Jimmy DeGrasso, Slim Jim Phantom and Paul Black.
June 8, 2019 Ryan Roxie plays with Blue Coupe at the Sweden Rock Festival. Blue Coupe features Dennis Dunaway (Bass player and founding member of the original Alice Cooper Group), Joe Bouchard and Albert Bouchard original founders of Blue Öyster Cult.
July 7, 2019 (7/7 Roxie day) Ryan Roxie releases a special edition of Ryan Roxie's Imagine Your Reality through Bellyache Records, known as the ‘Alternate Reality - Purple Skull’ Special Edition LP. The record is pressed on ‘Translucent Purple’ vinyl in honour of Purple Skull Music, the studio in Stockholm Sweden where the bulk of the album was recorded. To mark its exclusivity each copy is hand-numbered and only 85 copies were pressed.
July 16, 2019 Ryan Roxie debuts "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" a new podcast series promoted as a show that features in depth conversations with the world's hardest working musicians...the ones that grind, the ones that commit, the ones who make their dreams come true...in the trenches. Some of the featured interviewed artists include Phil X, Steve Brown of Trixter and Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke.
July 2019 Ryan Roxie joins the Alice Cooper band for the "Alice Cooper - O’l Black Eyes Is Back Tour " in early July and "Alice Cooper/Halestorm Motionless in White Summer Tour 2019 " (a double headline tour which runs through from mid-July to mid-August) before returning to the Alice Cooper-O’l Black Eyes Is Back Tour which will visit UK, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe’
August 20, 2019 Ryan Roxie appears on the Pink Carpet At the ‘Live from the Astroturf w/ Alice Cooper" premiere event in NYC.
September 2019 Ryan Roxie announces he will be joining supergroup Lost Angels for the "Good to the Last Drop UK Tour" for a series of shows beginning on the 17th October in Grimsby with Troy Patrick Farrell, EJ Curse and his old Alice Cooper/Glamnation bandmate Eric Dover.
October 11, 2019 Ryan Roxie releases a new chat for "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Podcast Episode #7004 featuring Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra
October 16, 2019 Ryan Roxie Releases the first of three lyric videos for ‘Nevermind Me' from the Ryan Roxie solo album 'Imagine Your Reality'. In true Roxie style access to versions two and three of the ‘Nevermind Me' video you must follow the hidden clues within the preceding video to work out the links…
November 26, 2019 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7005 Podcast featuring one of N.Y.C.’s coolest rock n’ rollers Mr. Jimmy Webb
November 28, 2019 Ryan Roxie is a guest on Couch Riffs with Mike Squires. The concept of the show being Mike gives the artist a list of songs to choose from, builds the drum track to record on it...however, you only get one opportunity to record the entire song from start to finish. The chosen song was Cheap Tricks 'He's a Whore' which was just about perfect...
December 26, 2019 Ryan Roxie begins... The 12 Days of 'Pickmas' and continues to release a new pick each day on social media for the following twelve days allowing fans to get a glimpse of the upcoming 2020 guitar pick range with varying themes.
January 13, 2020 leading into the upcoming 2020 Australian Tour it is announced Ryan Roxie will join Alice Cooper at a fundraising concert at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney Australia, billed as Fire Fight Australia on the Sunday 16 February 2020 playing alongside multiple international and local acts including other headliners Queen + Adam Lambert, Olivia Newton-John and k.d. lang to raise funds for the 2019–20 Australian Bushfire Crisis. The concert sold out in roughly 5 hours selling in excess of 65,000 tickets.
January 27, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7006 Podcast featuring journeyman guitarist Michael Staertow, guitarist for Slaughter, Lou Gramm (Foreigner).
February 23, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7007 Podcast featuring his Alice Cooper bandmate and guitarist extraordinaire Nita Strauss also known for her work with Femme Fatale and The Iron Maidens. This was the first time Ryan had interviewed a bandmate for "In the Trenches".
March 10, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7008 Podcast featuring Swedish musician Johan Becker
March 2020 Ryan Roxie releases a special live stream edition another chat for "In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7009 Podcast featuring Alice Cooper bandmate and Hollywood Vampire Tommy Henriksen
March 20, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7010 Podcast featuring guitarist superstar Steve Stevens known for his work with Billy Idol, Michael Jackson, Bozzio Levin Stevens, his amazing solo work and many more...
March 24, 2020 Ryan Roxie debuts "Sunday Livestream Sunday" a live stream show where Ryan performs some songs acoustically, general chit chat and news, most importantly he uses the platform to launch his new online guitar lesson platform the System-12 Guitar Method.
March 24, 2020 Ryan launches his new System-12 Guitar Method, the online guitar lesson platform is received well by both the public and fans alike, Guitar International Online magazine releases an interview with Ryan and promotes the release. Popular website Blabbermouth also take interest and release a story on the project.
March 25, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another live stream chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7011 featuring original Alice Cooper Band Bassist Dennis Dunaway also known for Blue Coupe
April 1, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another live stream chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7012 Podcast featuring guitarist and vocalist Brandon Gibbs known for his work with Planet Axe and Devil City Angels
April 5, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7012 Podcast featuring guitarist Jared James Nichols
April 8, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another live stream chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7013 for Podcast featuring Beasto Blanco vocalist and Alice Cooper band performer Calico Cooper
April 14, Ryan Roxie is interviewed by Metaltalk.net and speaks about, lockdown, guitar lesson, Alice Cooper, Slash, Motely Crue and much more
April 15, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7014 Podcast featuring Musician Actor and Radio host Michael Des Barres
April 17, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another live stream chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7015 Podcast featuring guitarist and vocalist Matt Heafy known for his work with Trivium
April 18, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7016 Podcast featuring his friends, actors and musicians Andreas Jones and Andy Dick
April 22, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another live stream chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7017 Podcast featuring guitarist extraordinaire and songwriter Kane Roberts known for his work with Alice Cooper and as a solo artist
April 24, 2020 Ryan Roxie releases another chat for "In The Trenches with Ryan Roxie" Episode #7018 Podcast featuring guitarist and vocalist Joel O’Keeffe of Australian band Airbourne
Discography
Albums
| Year | Artist | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Candy | Teenage Neon Jungle | Song Tree Records |
| 1990 | Electric Angels | Electric Angels | Atlantic Records |
| 1994 | Gilby Clarke | Pawnshop Guitars | Virgin Records |
| 1995 | Gilby Clarke | Blooze | Virgin Records |
| 1997 | Dad's Porno Mag | Dad's Porno Mag | Wax-Tone Records |
| 1997 | Gilby Clarke | The Hangover | Paradigm Records |
| 1997 | Alice Cooper | A Fistful of Alice | Guardian Records |
| 1998 | Tal Bachman | eponymous title | Columbia Records |
| 1998 | Gilby Clarke | Rubber | Pavement Records |
| 1999 | Dad's Porno Mag | Dad's Porno Mag (Re-Release) | Robinson / Conspiracy Records |
| 2000 | Slash's Snakepit | Ain't Life Grand | Koch Records |
| 2000 | Alice Cooper | Brutal Planet | Spitfire Records |
| 2000 | Alice Cooper | Brutally Live | Eagle Records |
| 2001 | Alice Cooper | Dragontown | Spitfire Records |
| 2003 | Alice Cooper | The Eyes of Alice Cooper | Spitfire Records |
| 2004 | Roxie 77 | Peace, Love and Armageddon | Wax-Tone Records |
| 2005 | Alice Cooper | Dirty Diamonds | New West / Eagle Records |
| 2005 | Alice Cooper | Live at Cabo Wabo '96 | Angel Records |
| 2006 | Alice Cooper | Live at Montreux | Eagle Records |
| 2008 | Happypill | This Year (Single Release) | R77Sound Records |
| 2009 | Roxie 77 | Two Sides To Every Story | Bandcamp/R77Sound Records |
| 2010 | Casablanca | Downtown (Single Release) | |
| 2010 | Casablanca | La Voix (Single Release) | |
| 2012 | Casablanca | Apocalyptic Youth | Rocket Songs |
| 2013 | Ryan Roxie(collaborative with DPM, Roxie 77, and various artists) | The Roxie Box | R77 Records |
| 2014 | Casablanca | Riding a Black Swan | Sony/Gain Records |
| 2014 | Alice Cooper | Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken | UDR Music |
| 2015 | Roxie 77 | The Ameriswede EP | Bellyache Records |
| 2016 | Alice Cooper | Live From The Astroturf | Good Records |
| 2017 | Alice Cooper | Paranormal (bonus live tracks) | earMUSIC |
| 2017 | Ryan Roxie | California Man - Featuring Special Guest Robin Zander (single release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | Over & Done (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | To Live and Die in L.A. (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | Imagine Your Reality | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | Me Generation (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Alice Cooper | A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia, Paris | earMUSIC |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | God Put A Smile On Your Face (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2018 | Ryan Roxie | Big Rock Show (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2019 | Ryan Roxie | Look Me In The Eye (Single Release) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2019 | Ryan Roxie | Imagine Your Reality (‘Alternate Reality - Purple Skull’ Special Edition LP) | Lenata Records, Cargo Records, Bellyache Records |
| 2019 | Alice Cooper | The Breadcrumbs EP (writing credits - Detroit City 2020) | earMUSIC |