BRIAN FORSYTHE of KIX - A Story of Rock N Roll & Survival 

Kix were indeed a terrific band, and Brian's a really good guy, glad he's still going and well

I was born and raised in Baltimore The God Damn KIX band was always a blast to see at Hammerjacks!. Honorable mention to Crack the Sky another great band.

Such an awesome band. Brian’s guitar style is so underrated.

Kix is one of the best live bands I have seen and they will put on the same show if its 3000 or 300 people.

Amazing band. They deserved to be so much bigger than they were

Kix is awesome...

KIX rocks love this band

Being from Central Pennsylvania Kix has always been huge in our area. I was very fortunate to see them many times back in the day - in addition they were Hammerjacks house band ( or so it seemed ) - fantastic interview - and they are still fantastic live (one reason to always go to M3)

What an absolute superstar Bryan is! So humble, so honest and he looks like a true rocker of that Rolling Stones-generation. Remember first time hearing Kix, "Don't close your eyes" on Headbangers Ball and thinking it was a great tune. Bought "Blow my fuse" and was blown away...since then this band is one of my all time favourite bands. When "Hot wire" was released I read an album review in a swedish newspaper and the journalist wrote something in the style of: this is one of few bands who should have a "officially licensed to kick ass"-sticker on their albums.

I loved Kix from the first time I heard them. Saw them in a little birthday party setting for their promoter at the time in '86 and they truly are an AWESOME live show band as well. Wrathchild (later had to add America to their name) and The Road Ducks opened for them. Time sure does fly by!! Glad to hear Brian's story and that he made it through the wringer and was able to come out the other side and feeling well! Wish I could have made it to their final show in MD.

Just watched this Interview. This is my favorite Interview yet. What an Amazing story. I Love Kix. Thank you Jason and Brian.

Another stellar interview, Jason, thank you so much, gritty and really highlights the triumph and tragedy of the true Rock and Roll life. Brian was fantastic. I saw the boys back in the day and they were shocking live, Ronnie especially was a high energy stage presence you had to see to believe,

One of the cool kids all the way out in Seattle tipped me off to these guys circa 1980. No radio play or shows, they were non-existent in Seattle, but one of the kids in the cool crowd played the first record for me. I became an instant fan and no one in the area that I played the record for could believe they were largely unknown.

Thanks Jason for doing this interview

Walking away is one of my favorite songs. I know Don't close your eyes is their big song but it sucks.. everything on their 1st 2nd 3rd albums are just awesome.

Great interview so glad Brian is doing well. 🎸🎶🙏

I wish Y&T and Kix would tour together. The two bands that are really great, that didn't get to the heights of the scene.

Brilliant!

This was a great interview and I really enjoyed it. What a nice guy! He was the cute one I thought. 😊 I appreciate looking back and also hearing how my musical idols went through similar addictions as I had. So stoked to be clean/sober/healthy!!

Kix has never been one of my favorite bands, but this interview was very interesting. Thank you both.

Fantastic interview Jason. Really enjoyed it. Kix are a very underrated band. Brian has such an amazing story. Really glad he overcome his addiction. Wishing you both good health. Keep up the great interviews. Love your RU-vid channel.

Rhino Bucket also!

Kix is one of the best live bands I've had the pleasure to see. I got my wife hooked on them and we went to Slaughter and Kix in Las Vegas last year.

Big Fan of KIX ⚡Brian is Kool

Kix fan for life

Speaking of Poison. The reference of them not being very good musically but being great showmen reminds me of a interview I once saw with C.C. DeVille. It was a question about how people say he wasn't a great technical guitarist/musician. C.C.s response was "I never wanted to be a great musician, or a technical guitarist. I wanted to be a rockstar. That's what I became".. He didn't lie. Lol

I saw Kix play at L'Amour East in Queens (99% sure it wasn't in Brooklyn). Great show. Some of the best live bands I saw up close were King Diamond (at L'Amour in Brooklyn) and Kix.

I was in DC at that time, and "The Itch" was huge. Got that first album pretty quick, and continued to follow them.

Great interview! Kix were and still are one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever. Nice work, Mr Green!!

Great playing guitar 🎸🎼🎶

Funny to just happen across this interview 1 day after their last show.

That was a great interview; very informative and well done. I’ve been listening to KIX since their first record, they were my first rock show in 1985 and I’ve seen the countless times since and they never disappoint. I really hope Brian will in fact write his biography and the full story of his life in and out of KIX. Great stuff, thanks.

Im from Baltimore and Kix and this guy my man Brian were so priceless to me what a great interview thank you so much. Im looking into Nashville as a move and it sounds like being a guitarist myself that many of my favorites are in Nashville now very vrery kool kids. Kix should have and deserved to be huge Kix and Hammerjacks were unbeatable as a combo. 🫶🫶👑👑🔥🔥🧨🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎵🎵🎼🎼📀💿📀💿

Thanks Jason! Loved the interview! Saw Ratt and kix together in 89! God bless you buddy!

Hammerjacks baby !!!

Great band. They never got enough exposure. They are like an underground band to this day. I have send them in the 80’s many times and a few years ago in a small venue. They are still great.

I wish I got a chance to see them live !!! 😢

Liberty house was a good place! Larry and Lance!

I am a lifelong KIX fan and I LOVE this man!! ❤❤ Thank God he is alive (like, seriously)....kudos to him for owning up to his experiences and being an inspiration to others. He is an AMAZING player and has as much swag today as ever! He would always make swoon every time I saw the band live and of course that was 10-fold every time I met him 😸...he was always very kind and gracious. Jason - my husband is also a Type 1 diabetic and I admire you for advocating awareness! ❤🤘

Brian is a true to the heart guy. Always did everything full force. Even addictive life. I was running in different circles. But always knew about Brian. I wish him much luck he deserves it !

Interesting to see how Kix guys were around early on with the Crack The Sky guys .... (and, that must be how Donnie came to write Don't Close Your Eyes with John Palumbo of Crack The Sky) -

♥️ KIX

Although I am a huge 80’s rock fan I had never heard of Kix until a friend showed me their music in around 2003. I literally spent a full year listening to Kix exclusively. I love this band and agree they didn’t get enough exposure back in the day. Their record company blew it!

Exellent interview. Brian seems like a terrific guy. Midnight Dynamite was my first and favorite Kix record. I have musician friends that absolutely love the first two records, though. I liked Blow My Fuse quite a bit, too. I’ll have to check out Hot Wire at some point this weekend.

A really good interview Jason,thanks. Kix are a great band,was really lucky to get to see them a few years back in Nottingham. They were brilliant.

This was an incredible interview. AMAZING job!

First band I was in the90s we played all thise KIX songs. IT was killer

Great interview. Remember seeing Kix as 13 year old kid open for Britney Fox and Ratt. Immediately after I started buying any Kix cassettes I could find.

Loved this guy in my day... Dated him many of us assume

Great interview! Kix are one of my all time favorites!

Thank you very much for the honesty.. Keep it real.. . I hear you..The

What a great interview and great job by Jason.

Thanks Brian! Do the book...

Might just be my favorite interview. Amazing job, Mr. Green. Great story from a genuine guy...and a helluva guitarist.

Fantastic interview and insight 👍🏼

Great interview. I love Kix!!

Cold Shower is the jam. Great interview and story.

Amazing interview! Love the work you're doing. Brian has such an amazing story, hope he writes the book

That was a very fun and interesting conversation, i really liked it and me too i discovered them with the Blow My Fuse record back in the day. Great job on this interview Jason and thanks to Bryan for sharing some very personal issues. I went through the whole drug/rehab thing in my life also.

First saw Kix in west Springfield va at Jaxx club. Loved them ever since.

Great interview pal. ❤️

I went to alot of Kix shows and met Brian a few times. Very nice guy and great guitarist.

KIX changed the scene in the DELMARVA area in the early 80s. First saw them at U of M on a weekday night in Spring of 1983, they blew the roof off the place. Stage show was spectacularly HUGE for a non-arena band. Thank you so much for covering the Poison rip-off thing, I moved to LA in 85 and it was so obvious by the color scheme, the choreographed stage moves, and the name that Poison stole much of KIX's shtick. And Brian is right, they were never that good in the early days, they just got a lot of chicks to their shows and blew up from there. I do admit that I like the first Poison album, though...cheesedick guitar tone and all. KNAC made that band. Hey Brian, if you ever read this, please tell me what ever became of that live song you guys did back in the day that had the choruses "Come on over, my dog won't bite ya". That wasn't the tune that Donnie & Steve had a falling out over, was it? That was a cool song! Edited to add: Jason, you are such a great interviewer, you always know the best stuff to ask about and you elicit such great info. LOVE THIS CHANNEL.

LOVE KIX ! Great interview. Brian is such a great person. Loved RYFO. Definitely one of the greatest live bands ever.

Great interview with one of the planets most beautiful humans. Fantastic interviewer too!

What an awesome interview. Brian's one of the nicest guys in the business. Glad he's still keeping it together. Hoping for another KIX album personally.

Great interview jason....was never into kix but what a great story..btw im jezz from england ❤❤

Great interview!

That was a great interview. You really some how make us all feel where part of it. Like being on the inside with you and Brian. Thank you.

Saw Kix many times back in the day , in Raleigh NC at the Switch, Wilmington NC and Myrtle Beach. SC I love them as much today as back then EVERY time they were absolutely amazing. Such a great Interview , Brian... you and Ronnie were great influences on my playing. So glad to hear your story. Would gladly buy your book LOL Keep Rocking Brother

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Damn I loved Kix when I was in high school and have been listening to them a lot lately. Just a kick ass blues based kick you in the face rock band. Love them!

Kix last show tommorow. Very sad its over but what a run. Kix seems like a band that would be very hard to cover, especially Who sings, but it would be great at some point for a Kix tribute band and i would call the band Cool Kids, the music of Kix.

Brian is a great guy and Kix still sounds great! Saw them recently, and I will be seeing them in NJ in December (I know one of the opening bands!)

Great interview Jason, Brian’s a great guy and as real as you can get. And yeah, jail is a very humbling place. You don’t even want to visit.

Awesome. Subscribed. Used to see Kix at Coast to Coast and Hammerjacks. I believe they used to pile into a pale blue Pinto to get to shows in the mid 80's. I've seen them on I-70:)

Their original ballad was “For Shame”. Great song! I’d never heard it before until they opened for Whitesnake at the Hampton Roads Coliseum, VA on February 17, 1990. The lighters came out , they sat down with acoustics and everyone was singing. Great band, and as they say, Steve could ‘choke a harp’!!!! The man had a bandolier of harps around his waist and ripped the roof off. Great band, hard won fans by putting in constant touring. Maybe if they relocated to L.A. they’d have been even bigger. Great interview Jason. If anyone wants to see them in their prime, check out the video on here of them at Hammerjacks.

Kix is better today. I love how they've grown on me over 30 years.

Kix is underrated band. Kick ass Rock and roll

Great time listening to Brian's story! I'm soooo glad he escaped the heroin!

Another amazing interview as usual.! I do have a request...when you interview our favorite bands making videos , could you ask about what they remember about making the videos? Not an important topic, but im always interested. Thank you always! 🤘

Remember when they were the The Shooze. Great band, great music and great players!

Brian should publish those videos of all his parts in the song to document them for future cover bands.

Yep, Crack The Sky are still around and are still great.👍

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He was on some where are they now show on billboards painting

Liked the interview a lot but I wish you would've asked him about the carnivore diet he has adopted. He inspired me to try it and after losing 45 pounds this is the best I've felt in decades. A very misunderstood lifestyle and way of eating that people should be more aware of.

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dang i missed it ...

Bring back Donnie!

Saw them when they were called the Cute Diks.......

What was it like working with Jacob Dylan ? Was Bob Dylan ever hanging around?

The bonus story is messed up. 😡😔

What was the downfall behind Brad divens leaving the band after cool kids and who had bigger musical contributions brad or Ronnie 10/10???????

Love your show, but please eat something

Such a great band! I love this interview thank you @jsin_green and I totally agree with you Jason about the technology this days would've been great back then to keep update with bands like @kixband thank you Mr @forsythe.brian for such great Albums Blow my fuse and Hot Wire. I still hope see Kix in México someday #kix #legend #briandamageforsythe

Saw Brian give head to Steven Tyler.

How the F@#$ do you pay car u strange making $20 a gig??? And pay rent! Not to mention eat!