He dropped me off at the studio & the boys and I got down to business.
Femme Fatale is Courtney Cox from the Iron Maidens – lead guitar & back up vocals, Nita Strauss also from the Iron Maidens & now touring with Alice Cooper - rhythm & lead guitar & back up vocals, Janis Tanaka from L7 & Pink – bass guitar & back up vocals, Katt Scarlett – keyboards & back up vocals, Athena Kottak – drums. “I love the girl power on stage and in the rehearsal room, plus these girls are a big blast”, says Lewis. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. “I remember being at a meeting with MCA because they were now thinking of keeping me as a solo artist. A second album 'Lady in Waiting' was rumoured to have been recorded but never released, and that's a shame. They have been mastered by FnA Records and it is important to note that even though the quality is not perfect, these recordings were made over a quarter of a century ago with the original members of Femme Fatale. From the Abundance of the Heart, the Mouth Speaks, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. There were big plans for this “baby band” & an industry “buzz” had been established primarily from Femme Fatale’s popular videos and their live shows. A Femme Fatale, French for “Fatal Woman”, refers to a mysterious and seductive woman who uses her feminine charms in order to get what she wants.
“Yeah, it was all really exciting to think we were going to get back in the studio since we had really cut our teeth out on the road” says Lorraine Lewis – singer & songwriter for the band. Let’s take a closer look at some of the sexy and dangerous femme fatales … I transferred them from the cassette tape to a cd and I have been carrying them around for over 25 years in between 2 pieces of paper inside a copy of “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Day 5: Eclipse, Nelson, The Quireboys, Soto, Femme Fatale, Kings X & Queensryche – 2/28/19", "Banana Shenanigans: Q&A with Musician Janis Tanaka", "THE IRON MAIDENS Guitarist NIKKI STRINGFIELD Releases 'As Chaos Consumes' Single, Video", "Femme Fatale Chart History > Billboard 200", History of Femme Fatale w/ Lorraine Lewis, 2009 SplatterTribe.TV Interview With Lorraine Lewis, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Femme_Fatale_(band)&oldid=964362548, Heavy metal musical groups from California, Heavy metal musical groups from New Mexico, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Mazzi Rawd - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals (1987–1990), Rick Rael - bass, backing vocals (1987–1990), Bobby Murray - drums, backing vocals (1987–1990), "Falling in and Out of Love" (1989, b/w ", This page was last edited on 25 June 2020, at 02:09. There was a U.S. tour with Cheap Trick & dates in the U.K. and heavy rotation for the videos. Leave feedback, There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Ann East York, Ontario-based band, and is the side project of Jesse F. Keeler, bassist of. I was lucky enough to land some of the best musicians around that just happen to be female”. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Andrea had an episode during the meeting and excused herself to the ladies room. The band was setting up equipment at the studio and I was cruising around L.A. on the back of Rikki Rockett’s Harley. Femme Fatale is an American hard rock band. The Albuquerque Tribune reported on March 26, 2006, that D'Angelo's death was due to methamphetamine misuse.[6]. Femme Fatale 1988 was Bill D’Angelo – lead guitar (RIP), Mazzi Rawd – rhythm guitar & keyboards & back up vocals, Rick Rael – bass & back-up vocals, Bobby Murray – drums & back up vocals, Lorraine Lewis – lead vocals & back up vocals.
JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. We all were pretty stoked at how things came out. “The boys had been working hard on arrangements & I was busy spending my time hanging out with Sunset Strip bands like D’ Molls & Poison, and Rock City Angels. He had planned to use the G n R boys on my recording, but then Andrea got more sick, I got more freaked out and I decided to leave Los Angeles”! Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. “It made sense to use musicians that were here in Los Angeles so that we could be super rehearsed before our debut on the boat. In 1988 Hair Band “Femme Fatale” made some big noise on radio and MTV with 2 very popular songs and videos - “Waiting For The Big One” & “Fallin’ In and Out of Love” from their first release on MCA Records.
Lewis claims to have always wanted to put an all girl band together and was now getting her chance. Rock and Roll Vending has been in the works for a while and the support has been really positive.
We took a lot of meetings and Clink would say “it only takes one” to encourage me and he called me the “female Axl Rose”. I was scared to death! Femme Fatale was formed in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
Lorraine's voice is always on key, and the hooks make you want to dance.
In 1988 Hair Band “Femme Fatale” made some big noise on radio and MTV with 2 very popular songs and videos - “Waiting For The Big One” & “Fallin’ In and Out of Love” from their first release on MCA Records. In January 2019, Lewis was named as the new vocalist for another all-female band, Vixen,[8] Femme Fatale's contemporaries during the glam metal heyday. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery. With this list, I will be visiting the most memorable, profound, deadly and iconic femme fatales to ever grace the silver screen. Lewis recalls, “Yeah we played him the demos & they weren’t really his thing. “I remember the recording day like it was yesterday.