Rik Fox

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rik Fox
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Dec 28, 1955(1955-12-28)
Age	69
Birthplace	Amityville
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Rik Fox Biography

Rik Fox is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on December 28, 1955 in Amityville, New York, United States.

Fox was born in Amityville, New York, on Long Island, and raised in the Polish neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. While in high school, Fox was interested in rock music and photography, choosing as his subjects, the flashy personalities of the New York City glam scene of the early 1970s. Among many other famous New York City bands performing on the city’s club scene at such famous locales as Max’s Kansas City and CBGB (clubs he would also later perform in with a group he joined during the height of the New York City club scene marking his professional debut on Halloween in 1975 at Max’s, the Martian Rock Band), he also photographed early Kiss. During this period, he dated a younger sister of original Kiss drummer Peter Criss. Fox and Criss became friends and Fox witnessed the formation of legendary rock band KISS from the very beginning, including the addition of lead guitarist Ace Frehley. During his formative club band years, after establishing himself on the ‘scene’, with the Martian Rock Band and performing at the famed NYC club Max’s Kansas City and CBGB, in 1976, Fox found himself joining a well-established New Jersey glam-heavy club band making the rounds named Virgin. Virgin eventually became known as Sin upon Fox’s suggested band name change. From the band’s biography: “SIN was originally formed in New York/New Jersey in 1976 -77, coming out of the ashes of New Jersey club circuit bands VIRGIN and LUST, with the name SIN first being coined by bassist Rik Fox, bringing with him, drummer Basil Stanley (Stan Bassel from Long Island), joining Ian Criss and Keith (Vinny Matthews) Starz. In this line-up the band performed until 1978-79, when Criss left to join another band called Angelface. Fox retained the rights to the name SIN and, after moving to L.A. in 1982 to join Sister and name the heavy metal band W.A.S.P.. After departing W.A.S.P., Fox networked around L.A. and eventually rehearsed for a short time with both Warlord and Hellion (although never recording or performing live with either band), eventually joining Steeler for one album and after leaving Steeler, with now-proven club-drawing power, reformed two Los Angeles versions of SIN once again.”

Meanwhile, after leaving Steeler, Fox was now ‘on the map’ and had a bankable reputation and sizable following, enough to now attempt to sell out clubs on his name alone. And so, Fox re-founded the band SIN. (This happened when he formed a band and referred back to the band name he used back in his New Jersey club days going back to 1977-SIN). Fox’s first L.A. line-up began to sell out clubs rapidly drawing attention, following on the heels of his popular notoriety from Steeler. However, within six months, despite recording and releasing a ‘heavy’ Angel-meets Judas Priest sounding, now-rare, snake- shaped collectors’ picture disc single of the Fox/Drossin penned “On the Run” backed with “Captured in Time”, disagreements erupted over a potential new band management direction that Fox questioned, which resulted in the previously unknown band members beginning to publicly entertain ideas of stealing the SIN band name and kicking Fox out of his own band and replace him. Things came to a head during recording what would have been their first album when, after apologizing to the producer of these sessions, Bill Metoyer, Fox stormed out of the session. Wasting no time, Fox quickly re-formed another line up using three newly relocated members of the New York band, Mongol Horde recording artists Alien, who had recently disbanded in New York, contacted Fox and came to Los Angeles to join him in reforming a new line-up of SIN. This line-up enjoyed some well-noticed success, and outstandingly outdid his previous band’s accomplishments, finding themselves being voted in a Los Angeles music magazine’s fans poll for ‘The top drawing rock/metal band cumulative for 1984 over Keel, Stryper and Odin.’ They headlined in dozens of packed-house concerts and shows, including the annual ‘Los Angeles Street Scene’ before some 5,000 people. This line-up of Sin also co-headlined a show with Christian metal band Stryper and directly supported a show with his former Steeler bandmate band Ron Keel’s band Keel.

Rik Fox Net Worth

Rik Fox is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rik Fox 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richard Suligowski (born December 28, 1955), better known today as Rik Fox, is an American heavy metal bassist. He was active mainly during the 1970s and 1980s, in the New York City and Hollywood area rock and metal scenes.

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Upon the break-up of Sin, Fox was quickly approached by Niji Management (associated with Wendy Dio, wife of Ronnie James)’s band Burn (formerly Hellion), who shared the same producer (Dana Strum), and was accepted into the band, spending several months rehearsing with them in 1986. Shortly after, the band eventually dismissed their singer, Richard Parico. Fox then approached a fellow New Yorker, former Anthrax lead singer Neil Turbin to offer him the gig, which Turbin turned down in favor of his own project. During a break in rehearsals, Fox flew to Arizona to scout potential gigs for Burn. At a Loudness concert there, he was approached to join Arizona heavy metal band Surgical Steel, (a band formerly fronted by Jeff Martin later in Badlands and Racer X, and featuring Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford on one of their demos). This meeting led to spending several months performing and recording an album with them and supporting the Lita Ford band for a 1987 New Year’s Eve concert. Unfortunately, misfortune struck again when Surgical Steel’s financial backing fell through to finish the album, and the recording deal fell through leaving the album unfinished. Fox eventually left the band, returning to Hollywood, (with apparently no ‘playing issues’ at fault claimed there, either). Fox had successfully recorded with Dokken drummer Mick Brown (musician) for the Surgical Steel sessions. Fox stated in his interviews that “this pattern of bad luck began to take on the appearance of his developing a penchant for joining popular name bands that, despite looking very promising going in, were, in effect, already sinking ships… it began to look like I couldn’t stay with a band for very long, which, despite outward appearances, as anyone can easily see, was not the case, since they fell part on their own soon after I left them and I had moved on to other ventures.”

Facts & Trivia

Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rik Fox celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

Not one to stand still, despite some mistaken rumors being circulated that Fox has ‘not done anything significant since he left Steeler’, nothing could be further from the truth; Fox’s music career may have taken a slight turn, but never entirely ended. After he abandoned his last popular band, Thunderball, and then Flyboyz, in the early 1990s. He abandoned his ‘pretty-boy look’ and played in a local, low-key Hollywood band Wiseguys, (not ‘The Wiseguys’), radically camouflaging himself into a rather incognito image that better fit the band Ministry, than the more Glam-looking bands he created or performed with. Seeing the writing on the wall, with the arena styled rock music of the 1980s being phased out in the 1990s, many musicians began to look elsewhere for employment to survive, and so, Fox began to broaden his horizons and take a personal break from music for a while, and try some new ventures.

Top Facts about Rik Fox

1. Rik Fox is an American bassist and songwriter.
2. He was a member of the bands W.A.S.P., Steeler, and Sin.
3. Fox played on the debut album of WASP in 1984.
4. He also played with guitarist Lita Ford in the 80s.
5. Fox has been active in the music industry since the 1970s.
6. He has collaborated with many famous musicians throughout his career.
7. In addition to playing bass, he is also a skilled vocalist.
8. Fox has released several solo albums over the years.
9. He is known for his flamboyant stage presence and fashion sense.
10. Despite not achieving mainstream success, he remains a respected figure in rock music circles.