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What happened to the band Britny Fox who was behind hits including Girlschool & Long Way to Love? Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! -----CONNECT ON SOCIAL----- TIKOK:@rocknrolltruestory Instagram: Facebook: Twitter: Blog: #britnyfox I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. These videos are for entertainment purposes only. READ OUR DISCLAIMER Britny Fox would be one of the last glam metal groups to emerge out of the scene before it all came crasing down in the 90’s. The band, which hailed from the east coast music scene was made up of half ofCinderella’s original lineup. Last week I did a video on the band Cinderella. I had a number of people in that video and on the request form saying i should do britny fox next. So without further adieu lets do the band Britny Fox. Brittany Foxx’s origins date back to the east coast music scene - more specifically New Jersey and philadelphia and it begins with guitarist Michael Kelly Smith who was from Reading, Pennsylvania. He would to move to Philadelphia to be closer to the local music scene. One of his first bands he would play in would be called Telepath & they played covers. They would lose their second guitar player and auditioned some people including future Cinderella member Tom a few members of Telepath preferred someone else, Smith was adamant that Keifer was the guy and he got the gig. Smith and Keifer soon became best friends and played in several cover bands together, before forming Cinderella. Prior to naming themselves Cinderella they had floated the idea of using the monicker Creep Show. Cinderella were one of the first bands at the time to do original songs on the east coast since playing covers was super lucrative at the time. The pair soon hooked up with drummer Tony Destra and bassist Eric Brittingham. The quartet recorded a demo and had their manager shop it around to different record labels. The problem was, virtually every label turned them down claiming they sounded too much like AC/DC and Aerosmith. Smith however, at one point had nearly auditioned for Kiss and still had Gene Simmon’s number. Simmons took a liking to Cinderella and tried to land them a deal with Polygram records. But Gene wanted to sign them to a deal whereby he would write their songs and by the members of Cinderella’s own admission, Simmon’s songs weren’t very good so things didn’t work out at the time It would be Jon Bon Jovi who was in town in Somerdale (Somerdale), New Jersey working on the band’s second album 7800 degree fahrenheit and he saw Cinderella perform at the galaxy club, a place where the band had a regular residency. Jon loved the band and notified derek schulman of polygram records Shulman who had previously passed on the band after hearing a demo they cut. But at the insistence of jon he asked schulman to go check the band’s live show out. Schulman still wasn’t sold on the band, but he recognized Keifer and Brittingham’s talent. He would tell Cinderella’s manager a guy named Larry Mazer that he would sign the band to a development deal worth $30K if they got rid of their guitarist and drummer - Michael Kelly Smith and Tony Destra. Keiffer was actually having disagreements with both Smith and Destra over musical ideas, so they were fired from the band. Cinderella would go on to have a good deal of success with their first album 1986’s night songs selling over 3 million copies, making it the biggest debut record since boston’s ten years prior. Smith was perplexed at the decision telling vwmusicrocks At that point, with MTV and the image and the songs, it didn’t matter if you had a great drummer or an adequate drummer. Same with [guitarist] Jeff LaBar
