Bullets
By talking to METAL, Madam X’s lead singer Bret Kaiser is avoiding soundcheck. “Soundchecks are a bitch. You have to get up there and sing early. My voice doesn’t wake up till 11 at night.” That’s when this coed band is scheduled to perform their 90-minute set—which includes some literal headbanging from bassist Chris Doliber.
Bullets
REVOLUTION NUMBER X
Anne Leighton
By talking to METAL, Madam X’s lead singer Bret Kaiser is avoiding soundcheck. “Soundchecks are a bitch. You have to get up there and sing early. My voice doesn’t wake up till 11 at night.”
That’s when this coed band is scheduled to perform their 90-minute set—which includes some literal headbanging from bassist Chris Doliber. He looks like a refugee from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and he smashes his bass against his head, claiming ‘‘the notes sound different this way.” (No doubt his ears hear differently after this sort of headbanging.)
The audience supplies some of the entertainment for Madam X’s shows. People push up close to the stage, exposing forbidden body parts. Nobody in the band is sure why the audience behaves in such a way, but they like it and they look at it. ‘‘I look at the girls,” Bret emphasizes. ‘‘I don’t look when the guys do it.”
C’mon Bret, you’re not the least bit curious about the other guys?
‘‘I don’t have to be curious. I’m satisfied with what I have.
I may run over and step on if if they put it on the stage!”