Rik Fox

Rik Fox ( born 1955 in Amityville, Long Iceland, New York ) is an American musician Polish -born parents, who became famous in the 1980s with the heavy metal band Steeler.

Biography

Rik Fox (real last name Sulima - Suligowski ) is the son of Polish immigrants. His first band called Virgin, he joined in the mid-1970s as a bass player. Other bands were lust and SIN, before he moved to the beginning of the 1980s to Los Angeles, California, where the original line-up of shock - rock band WASP belonged. According to Fox, the naming of the band go back to him when he takes on a wasp in the backyard of the tape sample space ( English: Wasp ) occurred and so came up with the idea. With W.A.S.P. Fox played a first demo, before he left the band Steeler, the band of Ron Keel and Yngwie Malmsteen joined. 1983 she released her first single at the same time, self-titled album, before the band fell apart. In the same year Fox renewed his band SIN and released a two -song single called " On The Run ". As a result of the release left all the musicians the band and named themselves in Jagwire order, with the former Rough Cutt member Joey Cristofanilli on bass. In 1985, Fox together a new SIN line-up, which recorded a demo called " Exploded " which was never published professionally. As SIN 1986 final was at the end, Fox rose at a Surgical Steel. In 1988, Rik again his own band together, which answered to the name Thunderball. Her biggest success was a commercial radiated across America Western Union, during which the band under the name Putrid Rage was visible. Fox was also recruited by the band Angel, Starz, and Quiet Riot, but turned down all the offers for different reasons. A head-on crash in a car and the subsequent rehabilitation phase meant that Fox took leave from the music scene. As a result of reorientation is Fox, among others on the set of the U.S. TV series " Air America " worked ( with Lorenzo Lamas ). Rik is also a member of the "Royal Spanish Court Guild", where he is a knight-errant ambassador from Poland under the name of " Chevalier Don Ryszard di Lis, Prince di Sulima, of Lechistan ", who resides in Spain.

Discography

With W.A.S.P.

With Steeler

With SIN

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