Ft. Sleeze Beeze, Roxx, Whitesnake.
Sleeze Beez are a glam metal band formed in 1987 in The Netherlands. They released four studio albums and one live album over a nine-year career before disbanding in 1996.
Roxx Gang was a band formed in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1982. They were fronted by Kevin Steele, who formed the band along with guitarist Eric Carrell. The band garnered record company attention in 1987 with their Love 'Em and Leave 'Em demo. They recorded their debut album Things You've Never Done Before on Virgin Records from which they released two singles "No Easy Way Out" and "Scratch My Back" with their lineup now consisting of Steele, Jeff Taylor Blanchard (guitar), Wade Hayes (guitar), Roby "Strychnine" Strine (bass), and David James Blackshire (drums). It was produced by Beau Hill and went on to sell a quarter million copies worldwide.
This version of the band broke up in 1991 due to infighting and record company issues. Steele then formed a new version of the band along with Roby Strine, guitarist Dallas Perkins and drummer Andy James. Later drummer Tommy Weder and guitarist Stacey Blades replaced James and Perkins. Strine left in 1994 and was replaced by Dorian Sage. The band released its first album since Things You've Never Done Before called The Voodoo You Love and went on to release several more albums in the late 1990s. The band added guitarist Jeff Vitolo and bassist Vinnie Granese replaced Sage. Soon after Roxx Gang created a blues/rock alter-ego "The Mojo Gurus". Blades left citing "musical differences" after which evolution into The Mojo Gurus became permanent.
In 2006 two of their songs off of the Things You've Never Done Before album, 'Ball 'N Chain' and 'No Easy Way Out,' were featured in the THQ game Saints Row.
Whitesnake are a British rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. Their early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but they slowly began moving for a more commercially accessible hard rock style. By the turn of the decade, the band's commercial fortunes changed and they released a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an' Willing (1980), Come an' Get It (1981), Saints & Sinners (1982) and Slide It In (1984), the latter of which was their first to chart in the US and eventually went 2x platinum.
The band's 1987 self-titled album was their most commercially successful worldwide, and contained two major US hits, "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love", reaching number one and two on the Hot 100. In 1988, Whitesnake was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group.Slip of the Tongue (1989), was also a success, reaching the top 10 in the US and UK, and receiving a 2x platinum US certification. The band split up shortly after this release, but had a reunion in 1994, and released a one-off studio album, Restless Heart (1997).
Whitesnake officially reformed in 2002 and have been touring together since, releasing two studio albums, Good to Be Bad (2008) and Forevermore (2011). In 2005, Whitesnake was named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1.
