Alex Grossi
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| Alex Grossi | |
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| Born | November 22, 1976 |
| Origin | South Windsor, Connecticut, United States |
| Occupations | Guitarist |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Associated acts | Steven Adler Angry Salad Bang Tango Beautiful Creatures The Flames Jani Lane Quiet Riot Skid Row (U.S. band) |
| Website | http://www.alexgrossi.com |
Alex Grossi (born November 22, 1976) is an American guitarist, best known as the guitarist of heavy metal band Quiet Riot.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life and career
Alexander Nicholas Grossi was born Alexander Nicholas Lesbines on November 22, 1976 and grew up in South Windsor, Connecticut. At age 17 he got a job teaching guitar lessons at Riccardo's Music Center in East Hartford. While living in Connecticut, he was lead guitarist for the band, Wake Up Jack. Grossi legally changed his name from Lesbines before finishing his high school career. Upon finishing high school, he moved to Boston where he joined up with Angry Salad. The band was soon signed to Atlantic Records and toured extensively until 2001, when the AOL/TIME WARNER merger cost them their deal. The band was bought out of their second record and went their separate ways. Grossi then re-located to Los Angeles and quickly became one the hardest working guitarists in town, eventually landing him the guitar spot in Quiet Riot when the band re-formed in 2004.
Grossi toured with Quiet Riot throughout 2005,including the "Rock Never Stops tour" that featured CINDERELLA, RATT and FIREHOUSE, and returned in August 2006 after the departure of Neil Citron. Although Citron appears on the Quiet Riot album Rehab, Grossi contributed songwriting on the songs "Free" and "Stange Daze" and joined in for this album's tour, which included feature slots at the 2007 Sweden Rock Festival as well as the first annual Rocklahoma Festival. Alex remained in the band until vocalist Kevin DuBrow's death. Quiet Riot disbanded in January 2008.
Alex has also played with such artists as Bang Tango,[1] Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses, Jani Lane of Warrant, (with whom he performed the Warrant classic "I saw Red" for VH1'S "METAL MANIA:STRIPPED ON THE STRIP DVD, Beautiful Creatures, Love/Hate and Skid Row (U.S. band)
In 2008, Grossi put together the "DIZZY/JIZZY tour which featured Dizzy Reed's Hookers N' Blow and Jizzy Pearl's Love/Hate. In addition, Grossi contributed Guitar to Dizzy Reed's upcoming solo record, which is being produced by GN'R alumni Del James. No release date has yet been set.
In early 2009 Grossi signed on to tour with original Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler following his stint on the hit VH1 series Sober House for a U.S. tour with his band Adler's Appetite.
Alex's music has also been used in multiple T.V. and motion pictures including the Quincy Jones produced film "The Smokers", the FX hit series Sons of Anarchy as well as the Walt Disney/Touchstone picture The Proposal, He has also done several TV appearances including a 2003 documentary on the Rhode Island nightclub fire for the LIFETIME network.
In 2009 Alex took part in the [PRS ROAD SHOW], put on by Paul Reed Smith guitars (Alex has been an endorsee for 10 years and counting). Currently Alex and Adler's Appetite are laying the groundwork for a new record, as well as the release of Adler's first ever drum instructional DVD, which is set to be released in the fall/winter on 2009.
In 2010 Adler's Appetite debuted their first original material with the release of "Alive", a new single. The song was released in conjunction with Adler's New York Times Bestseller tell-all biography "My Appetite for Detstruction: Sex, Drugs and Guns N'Roses". The band also did a 50 city US tour in support of the release. On Sept. 13 2010 it was announced that Quiet Riot would be reforming with the line up which would include Alex, Frankie Banali and Chuck Wright.
In 2011 Alex formed Hotel Diablo with W.A.S.P. bassist and drummer Mike Duda and Mike Dupke and Adler's Appetite vocalist Rick Stitch. The band entered the studio with former Guns N' Roses and Rockstar Supernova guitarist Gilby Clarke producing. They released the first tarck "Set it Off" via itunes in July.The band played it's first show at the whisky a go go in Hollywood on September, 2nd 2011 and is planning on releasing a full length album in 2012.
[edit] Discography
[edit] With Angry Salad
- The Guinea Pig EP (1995)
- Bizarre Gardening Accident (1997)
- Angry Salad (1999)
[edit] With Bang Tango
- Ready to Go (2004)
[edit] With Beautiful Creatures
- Deuce (2005)
[edit] With Hotel Diablo
[edit] With Ignite
- Our Darkest Days (2006)
[edit] With Quiet Riot
- Rehab (Quiet Riot album) (2006)
[edit] With Adler's Appetite
- Alive - Single Release w/ My Appetite For Destruction (2010)
- Stardog - Single Release (2010)
- Fading - Single Release (2010)
[edit] Compilations
- It's So Easy: A Millennium Tribute to Guns N' Roses' (2006)
- Too Fast For Love: A Millennium Tribute to Mötley Crüe (2007)
- Whole Lotta Love: An All-Star Tribute to Fat Chicks (2010)
[edit] DVD Releases
- VH1 Metal Mania Stripped on The Strip: Volume 1 (2006)
- Getting Started with Rock Drumming featuring Steven Adler (2009)
- Sons of Anarchy season one (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ "Bang Tango Guitarist Alex Grossi Interviewed On Rockin' Metal Revival". Blabbermouth. April 13, 2010. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=138390. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
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