MADAM X: High In High School 7″ + Metal In My Veins. Rare Metal single in jet Records. The Ultimate in METAL. Check video.

Description

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Sebastian Bach, Skid Row, Vixen,

Madam X is an American glam rock band first active during the 1980’s. Originally formed by two sisters, Maxine and Roxy Petrucci, the band also featured male members Bret Kaiser and Chris Doliber, and later included future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach.

A: “High In The High School” C.Doliber, B.Kaiser 3:36

B: “Metal In My Veins” C.Doliber, B.Kaiser 2:46

Personnel
Bret Kaiser: Vocals
Maxine Petrucci : Guitars, backing vocals [later with Vixen]
Roxy Petrucci: Drums, backing vocals [later with Vixen]
Chris “Godzilla” Doliber* : Bass, backing vocals
Released 1984
Recorded at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California.
Genre Heavy Metal
Label Epic, Jet
Producer Rick Derringer

This band really kicks ass. Too bad they only did one album. I really miss the 80´s because the bands today don´t really know how to party and have a good time. This turns me on more than having sex. Maxine and co rules.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great To See This 7″
At the time, Madam X had been featured in some of the music papers, and most if not all the interest was generated due to the two sisters on guitar / vocals and the drums.
Well, they may be ‘hair-rock’ and they may be American, and they may have a female lead singer who goes on stage dressed much like she is on this album cover, but THEY ROCKED! So much so, (and I feel like Victor Kiam on the Remington ads, who went out and bought the company), I went out and bought their album, on vinyl, no less.
And with the album still in the collection, I played it again and yes, this band still rock, so I am very pleased to see it, its a darned good rocking album as it stands, all these years later, it still does!

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You’re high in high school
That ain’t no way that you should be in school
“You’re high”, You’re high in high school
You should be thinkin’ ’bout you golden rules, your learnin’ tools

Its rough, I got it tough, any fool can see
It won’t be long till I’m gone and they’ll be rid of me
16 years been bored to tears, what will they make of me
I’m sick of books and dirty looks, it ain’t my cup of tea

CHORUS

Wake up, you’re late for school
Now thats history
One plus one equals fun Thats math to me
Roamin’ the halls without a pass
During biology
Duck out back and run with the pack
Before he calls on me

You’ll never pass by cuttin’ class
You’ll only pass by kissin’ ass
They got me luggin’ a ball and chain
Growin’ up is such a pain

CHORUS

Theres got to be a better way
To learn to live a better way
I start to dream the day away
And then I hear the teacher say

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MADAM X cult classic 1984  7″. Formed by sisters Maxine and Roxy Petrucci (later in VIXEN) among its several members there was a young future Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach.
With the US metal explosion in 1983, Jet Records signed MADAM X for the release of their debut LP next year, produced by Rick Derringer and engineered by legend George Tutko.
The aim was to present a half women / half men glam metal band with the typical anthemic sound from the era, something like QUIET RIOT meets TWISTED SISTER.

MADAM X did a comeback the last decade, in the ’80s only lasted 4 years and split when Roxy decided to form VIXEN, and only put out this one album at the time. They exemplified the stereotype of glam rockers, the term big hair is an understatement when describing the band.
But they also can play really well. And wrote some damn good rockin’ tunes. The 7″ has 2 catchy tracks ‘High in High School’ + ‘Metal in My Veins’ and the anthemic title track ‘We Reserve the Right… To Rock’.
Maxine Petrucci shreds like a maniac here, sister Roxy bash the drums with that classic metal fills, and there’s a strong vocalist in Bret Kaiser (he later founded his own band, and also performs as an Elvis Presley tribute artist).

The cover art for the 7″ might look a bit non P.C to some wankers, but back in 1984 it made an impact. There is no way that any 14 year old metal dude ever looked over this record in 1984 and did not at least ponder buying it, just for the cover. The band photo emblazoned across it, framed in red smoke, is one of the greatest images of the ’80s.
Roxy is wearing a leotard and a headband, just like Olivia Newton John in her “Let’s Get Physical” video. Bass player Chris “Godzilla” Doliber looks like he’s been constructed from old motorcycle parts. Just take a long look at this fella and tell me he’s not the inspiration for Edward Scissorhands. Maxine, the undisputed eye candy of the band, looks like a fluffer girl on the set of New Wave Hookers. Bret Kaiser, well, he just looks like a fuckin’ dirtbag… haha, oh the ’80s.

Going with the please-everybody-at-once concept, Madam X sound like a motor-riffing Brit metal band, like Judas Priest or Saxon, and a glammy-sleazy hard rock band, like Motley Crue or WASP, and a teenage-baiting party-anthem band, like Twisted Sister or Quiet Riot, all at once. That’s pretty much how they sound.

Brett Kaiser does a dead-on Rob Halford impression throughout the proceedings, screeching and growling like an arena monster, Maxine lifts Priest, Kiss, and Crue riffs like they were on sale, and effortlessly twists them into supersonic Cheezwhiz, and the band all yelp out a goofy refrain at every chorus.
Best of all, the lyrics read just like the ones you used to write in your notebook during study hall in the ninth grade. The songs on this record are just amazing in their obviousness.

Their only out and out heavy metal song on the record is called ‘Metal in My Veins’, and is led off with a gratuitous ‘metal’ guitar solo. You know, stuff like that. Cheap and wonderful.

The song you’d know MADAM X from, if you knew ‘em at all, is the A side ‘High in High School’, which was also a memorably goofy MTV video. The lyrics, in part, are as follows: “Wake up, you’re late for school, now that’s history/1 plus 1 equals fun, that’s math to me”. On a primitive, teenage hellraiser kinda level, it actually works. MADAM X was capable of writing instantly catchy pop songs with enough grit to make  rockers think they were getting their dose of metal mania.

This 7″ is state of the art ’80s Flash / Glam Metal, and unless you’re a total killjoy, it’s pretty much impossible not to like.

Bret Kaiser – vocals
Maxine Petrucci – guitars, backing vocals
Chris “Godzilla” Doliber – bass, backing vocals
Roxy Petrucci – drums, backing vocals

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Sebastian Bach (FAR RIGHT in this picture) was the frontman of Madam X:

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Rob Halford came to see us perform and ended up singing half a dozen Priest tunes: