The Vixen Biographies
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JAN KUEHNEMUND
Lead & Rhythm Guitars
(original member)
Played on the albums Vixen and Rev It Up and the Hardbodies soundtrack.
- Middle name: Lynn
- Birthdate: November 18th
- Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota
- Height: 5'9"
- Eye color: Blue
- Hair color: Blond
- Favorite food: Spicy oriental food and chocolate
- Favorite drink: Coffee
- Favorite meal: Chinese or Italian food
- Favorite number: 18 since it's the date of my birthday
- Favorite colors: Purple, pink or a bright combination of the two, like a fuchsia.
- Favorite movies: Spinal Tap, Arthur and The Dead Zone
- Favorite TV shows: "Saturday Night Live" and "David Letterman"
- Favorite actors: Mel Gibson, Al Pacino and Christopher Walken
- Favorite actresses: Debra Winger and Tracey Ulman
- Favorite guitarists: Jeff Beck, Neal Giraldo, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai and Eddie Van Halen
- Favorite bands: Van Halen, Whitesnake, Aerosmith and ZZ Top
- Hobbies: Going to movies and shopping
From a musically inclined, "normal" midwestern family. Her mom and brother played accordion and keyboard. Her grandmother played the organ and harmonica. She worked as a cocktail waitress, in a factory "...where the big machines were shredding paper and wrapping stuff with cellophane and putting it through the shrink tunnel." and for a guitar company setting up the guitars before shipment to music stores. She had a few lessons on the guitar "here and there." Started Vixen when she was "14 or 15." Sources say she is in California playing in nightclubs with her new band.
Reported to be working on new material.
Equipment:
- Guitars: JB Player, Gibson and Fender
- Amps: GMBH, Marshall, Soldano and Metaltronics, GMBH, Marshall and Kittyhawk cabinets
- Effects: Bradshaw switching system controling a Yamaha SPX-90, Korg-A3 a TC-2290 and Hush II
- Misc.: Samson wireless, GHS strings and medium heavy picks
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SHARE PEDERSEN
Bass
Played on the albums Vixen and Rev It Up
- Nickname: Share is my nickname, It's short for Sharon
- Birthdate: March 21st
- Birthplace: Glenco. Minnesota
- Height: 5'6'
- Eye color: Blue
- Hair color: Blond
- Favorite food: A day doesn't go by that I don't eat cereal,
- Favorite drink: Water
- Favorite color: Blue or pink
- Favorite number: 7
- Favorite movies: King of Comedy, Lethal Weapon and Spinal Tap
- Favorite TV show: "21 Jump Street"
- Favorite actor: Robert DeNiro
- Favorite actresses: Meryl Streep and Katherine Hepburn
- Favorite sport: Bicycling
- Favorite season: Spring because it always has that feeling of change and my birthday is in it and that means I'll be getting some presents.
- Favorite bassists: Jaco Pastorius, Will Lee, Billy Sheehan and Sting
- Favorite bands: Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Van Halen and The Police
- Hobbies: motorcycles (race bikes)
Brought up in a "typical midwestern lifestyle," her mother was a piano teacher. She worked in a music store, read mail for a blind man who worked in a government office in Minneapolis, packed items in a shipping department, played bass for singer Helen Reddy and taught at the Bass Institute of Technology. She studied piano for 10 years. First learning to play the bass from a book, she then attended the Berklee College of Music her junior and senior year of high school. Dropping out of high school six months before her graduation because "I wasn't getting anything out of it and didn't want to waste my time studying other crap." She then went back to Berklee, worked as a session bassist, moved to LA. She met Jan at a gig who gave her, her phone number. Later she joined Vixen. Was said to have went back to teaching bass at the Bass Institute of Technology in California. Sources tell us she is married and was in a band with her husband called Sub Cool.
Now in a band called Bubble.
Equipment:
- Guitars: Ibanez
- Amps: Trace Elliot Heads, Hartke cabinets
- Misc.: Hipshot, GHS strings and Telex wireless
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JANET GARDNER
Lead Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
- Middle Name: Patricia
- Birthdate: March 17th
- Birthplace: Juneau, Alaska
- Height: 5'8"
- Eye color: Blue
- Hair color: Blond
- Favorite food: Thai food
- Favorite drink: Water
- Favorite meal: Tom Kar Kai Soup, Beef Satay and Garlic Chicken
- Favorite colors: Purple and blue
- Favorite movie: Too many to name
- Favorite TV shows: "Larry King Live" and "Late Night with David Letterman"
- Favorite actors: Harrison Ford and James Spader
- Favorite actresses: Glen Close and Jessica Lange
- Favorite sports: Golf and skiing
- Favorite vocalists: Aretha Franklin, Ann Wilson, David Coverdale and Richard Marx
- Favorite bands: Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Smithereens, Def Leppard and Whitesnake
- Pet peeves: Long airline flights
Brought up in the small town of Bozeman, Montana, her mother played the piano and her father the violin. She worked at a golf shop, and for a guitar company. She had piano and guitar lessons as a child then studied music in college for two years, then classical voice for about five. Met a friend of Jan's at a club while in a different band, she auditioned several times and got the job. The only one of the four married at the time (Fall 1990). Sources tell us she married Deep Purple's manager and was living in Connecticut playing golf and relaxing. Now of course, back at it in Vixen.
Equipment:
- Guitars: JB Player, BC Rich
- Amps:
- Misc.:
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ROXY PETRUCCI
Drums
- Nickname: Rox 'n' Roll
- Birthdate: March 17th
- Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
- Height: 5'3"
- Eye color: Brown
- Hair color: Brown/Black
- Favorite Food: Italian
- Favorite drink: Cranberry juice
- Favorite meal: Pasta
- Favorite number: 21 because l had tons of fun when I was 21 years old.
- Favorite color: Hot pink
- Favorite movies: Arthur, Nightmare on Elm Street III -The Dream Warriors, The Godfather, Scarface and Spinal Tap
- Favorite TV shows: "Married with Children" and "Cheers"
- Favorite actors: Robert DeNiro and AI Pacino
- Favorite actress: Meryl Streep
- Favorite drummers: Carmine Appice, Terry Bozio, Tommy Aldridge, John Bonham and Lenny White
- Favorite bands: Aerosmith, Judas Priest, ZZ Top, Accept, Led Zeppelin, Whitesnake and Metallica
- Hobbies: Going to movies, dancing, music and reading
From a musical Italian, Catholic family, her father was a saxophone player and she picked up the clarinet, flute, guitar, saxophone, bass and of course drums. She worked at Big Boy for about a week, attended Oakland University at Michigan, taught music lessons and sold guitars to dealers by phone. Stated playing clubs with a band at 18, which went on the road as Madam X playing the U.S., England and Scotland, splitting up after several years on the road. She got engaged at 19, but it didn't last long, she "gave it up for rock and roll." Then Vixen sent her a tape and she joined them...the rest is history. Was rumored to be back in the Detroit, Michigan area playing with Madame-X. Now of course, back in Vixen.
Equipment:
- Drums: Tama
- Cymbals: Zildjiian
- Misc.: Drum Workshop pedals, Pro Mark sticks, Kawasaki motorcycle parts
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Other Former Members
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GINA STILE
Guitar- aprox. 2 year (1997-2000) played on 'Tangerine'
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MAXINE PETRUCCI
(not sure of the spelling of her first name)
Bass- aprox. 1 year (1999-2000), replaced Rana Ross
Roxy's sister.
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RANA ROSS
Bass- aprox. 1 year (1997-98) played on 'Tangerine' (?)
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Pia Vai
Bass- (Mrs. Steve Vai) 1 year, replaced Liza Carbe
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Liza Carbe
Bass- 1 year (1983) played on the EP that Vixen released on Word Records, which was used in the movie "Hardbodies". She was writting for television with her partner, J.P. Durand, and hoped to someday start her own knife museum. She and J.P were in a band called Book Of Storms.
Their new band's, Incendio,
most recent project "Misterioso" has made the New Age chart.
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Tamara Ivanov
Rhythm Guitar- 3 years
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Laurie Hedlund
Drums- original member for 15 years, replaced by Roxy. We're told she is still actively singing, playing drums in L.A. and currently teaching astrology at the Carrol Righter Institute in Hollywood.
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Noelle Bucci
Vocals- 2 weeks
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Gayle Erickson-DeMatoff
Bass- original member, reported to be now living and writing in Colorado.
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Cindy Boettcher
Keyboard- original member
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