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'''Alex Grossi''' (born November 22, 1976) is an [[United States|American]] [[guitarist]], best known as the guitarist of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Quiet Riot]] and the hard rock [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] Hookers & Blow.
'''Alex Grossi''' (born November 22, 1976) is an American [[guitarist]], best known as the guitarist of [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Quiet Riot]] and the hard rock [[Supergroup (music)|supergroup]] Hookers & Blow with [[Dizzy Reed]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
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Grossi toured with [[Quiet Riot]] in 2005 and 2006 throughout America, Europe, South America and Asia and contributed songwriting on the songs "Free" and "Strange Daze" for the 2006 ''[[Rehab (Quiet Riot album)|Rehab]]'' and joined in for the album's 2007 tour, which included feature slots at the 2007 [[Sweden Rock Festival]] as well as the first annual [[Rocklahoma]] Festival. Grossi remained in the band until vocalist [[Kevin DuBrow]]'s death. Quiet Riot disbanded in January 2008, but has since been revived by [[Frankie Banali]] and has been touring again since 2010.
Grossi toured with [[Quiet Riot]] in 2005 and 2006 throughout America, Europe, South America and Asia and contributed songwriting on the songs "Free" and "Strange Daze" for the 2006 ''[[Rehab (Quiet Riot album)|Rehab]]'' and joined in for the album's 2007 tour, which included feature slots at the 2007 [[Sweden Rock Festival]] as well as the first annual [[Rocklahoma]] Festival. Grossi remained in the band until vocalist [[Kevin DuBrow]]'s death. Quiet Riot disbanded in January 2008, but has since been revived by [[Frankie Banali]] and has been touring again since 2010.


Along with [[Dizzy Reed]] of [[Guns N' Roses]], Grossi formed Hookers & Blow in 2003, shortly after Grossi's move to L.A. Dizzy Reed suggested the band's name as something for people to "Pay attention to."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://readbuzz.com/2018/02/01/qa-alex-grossi-talks-rock-rolls-past-present-future/|title=Q&A: Alex Grossi talks rock and roll's past present and future|date=2018-02-01|work=buzz|access-date=2018-02-07|language=en-US}}</ref> The group does not write music, and tours for fun with different lineups of all-star musicians.
Along with [[Dizzy Reed]] of [[Guns N' Roses]], Grossi formed [[Hookers & Blow]] in 2003, shortly after Grossi's move to L.A. Dizzy Reed suggested the band's name as something for people to "Pay attention to."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://readbuzz.com/2018/02/01/qa-alex-grossi-talks-rock-rolls-past-present-future/|title=Q&A: Alex Grossi talks rock and roll's past present and future|date=2018-02-01|work=buzz|access-date=2018-02-07|language=en-US}}</ref> The group does not write music, and tours for fun with different lineups of all-star musicians.


Grossi has also written, toured and recorded with such artists as [[Bang Tango]], [[Steven Adler]] of [[Guns N' Roses]], [[Adler's Appetite]], [[Jani Lane]] of [[Warrant (American band)|Warrant]], [[Beautiful Creatures (band)|Beautiful Creatures]], [[Love/Hate (band)|Love/Hate]], [[Skid Row (U.S. band)|Skid Row]], Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses (in Hookers & Blow), Orange County hardcore band [[Ignite (band)|Ignite]] and [[Elektra Records]] singer/songwriter [[Aimee Allen]].
Grossi has also written, toured and recorded with such artists as [[Bang Tango]], [[Steven Adler]] of [[Guns N' Roses]], [[Adler's Appetite]], [[Jani Lane]] of [[Warrant (American band)|Warrant]], [[Beautiful Creatures (band)|Beautiful Creatures]], [[Love/Hate (band)|Love/Hate]], [[Skid Row (U.S. band)|Skid Row]], Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses (in Hookers & Blow), Orange County hardcore band [[Ignite (band)|Ignite]] and [[Elektra Records]] singer/songwriter [[Aimee Allen]].
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In 2009 Grossi took part in the [PRS ROAD SHOW], put on by [[Paul Reed Smith]] guitars. In 2010 [[Adler's Appetite]] released "Alive", a new single. The song was released in conjunction with Adler's New York Times Bestseller tell-all biography "My Appetite for Detstruction: Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses" and debuted on [[The Howard Stern Show]] in July. The band also did a 50 city US tour in support of the release. On September 13, 2010, it was announced that [[Quiet Riot]] would be reforming with the line up which would include Grossi, Frankie Banali and [[Chuck Wright]].
In 2009 Grossi took part in the [PRS ROAD SHOW], put on by [[Paul Reed Smith]] guitars. In 2010 [[Adler's Appetite]] released "Alive", a new single. The song was released in conjunction with Adler's New York Times Bestseller tell-all biography "My Appetite for Detstruction: Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses" and debuted on [[The Howard Stern Show]] in July. The band also did a 50 city US tour in support of the release. On September 13, 2010, it was announced that [[Quiet Riot]] would be reforming with the line up which would include Grossi, Frankie Banali and [[Chuck Wright]].


In 2011 Grossi formed [[Hotel Diablo]]. The band entered the studio with former [[Guns N' Roses]] guitarist [[Gilby Clarke]] producing. They released the first track "Set it Off" via [[iTunes]] and band played its first show at the [[Whisky a go go]] in Hollywood on September 2, 2011. In July 2012 it was announced that [[Hotel Diablo]] had signed a worldwide deal with [[Scarlet Records]] and [[Entertainment One]] for the release of the band's full-length debut "The Return To Psycho, California", which will be released on September 25, 2012, worldwide.
In 2011 Grossi formed [[Hotel Diablo]]. The band entered the studio with former [[Guns N' Roses]] guitarist [[Gilby Clarke]] producing. They released the first track "Set it Off" via [[iTunes]] and band played its first show at the [[Whisky a Go Go]] in Hollywood on September 2, 2011. In July 2012 it was announced that [[Hotel Diablo]] had signed a worldwide deal with [[Scarlet Records]] and [[Entertainment One]] for the release of the band's full-length debut "The Return To Psycho, California", which was released worldwide on September 25, 2012.


Grossi has had music placed in multiple T.V. shows and motion pictures including the [[Quincy Jones]] produced film ''The Smokers'', the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] hit series ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' as well as the Walt Disney/Touchstone picture ''[[The Proposal (2009 film)|The Proposal]]'' and the ''[[VH1]] series [[Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew]]''. He has also done several TV appearances including a 2003 documentary on the Rhode Island nightclub fire for the [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] network.
Grossi has had music placed in multiple T.V. shows and motion pictures including the [[Quincy Jones]] produced film ''The Smokers'', the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] hit series ''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' as well as the Walt Disney/Touchstone picture ''[[The Proposal (2009 film)|The Proposal]]'' and the ''[[VH1]] series [[Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew]]''. He has also done several TV appearances including a 2003 documentary on the Rhode Island nightclub fire for the [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] network.


He appears on Dizzy Reed's debut solo album, ''Rock 'N Roll Ain't Easy'', a record that has been in the making for over ten years.
In addition to touring with Dizzy Reed in [[Hookers & Blow]] he also appears on Dizzy Reed's debut solo album, ''Rock 'N Roll Ain't Easy'', a record that has been in the making for over ten years. Most recently, Alex has appeared on the latest release from Hip-Hop icons [[Public Enemy]] appearing alongside [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] and [[Cypress Hill]] on the track "What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down"?.


==Discography==
==Discography==


=== ANGRY SALAD===
=== Angry Salad===
* ''[[The Guinea Pig EP]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The Guinea Pig EP]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Bizarre Gardening Accident]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Bizarre Gardening Accident]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Angry Salad (album)|Angry Salad]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Angry Salad (album)|Angry Salad]]'' (1999) (ATLANTIC RECORDS)


=== STAR 64===
=== Star 64===
* ''You May Be Beautiful'' (2001)
* ''You May Be Beautiful'' (2001)


=== BANG TANGO===
=== Bang Tango===
* ''[[Ready to Go (Bang Tango album)|Ready to Go]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Ready to Go (Bang Tango album)|Ready to Go]]'' (2004) SHRAPNEL RECORDS
* ''Pistol Whipped In The Bible Belt'' (2011)
* ''Pistol Whipped In The Bible Belt'' (2011)


=== BEAUTIFUL CREATURES===
=== Beautiful Creatures===
* ''[[Deuce (Beautiful Creatures album)|Deuce]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Deuce (Beautiful Creatures album)|Deuce]]'' (2005) (JVC RECORDS)
* ''[[Deuce Deluxe (Beautiful Creatures album)|Deuce Deluxe]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Deuce Deluxe (Beautiful Creatures album)|Deuce Deluxe]]'' (2017)

=== Aimee Allen===
* ''Revolution" (Elektra Records)

===John Corabi / Fred Coury===
* '' Home Sweet Home'' - An"All Star"salute to Motley Crue (2008)


===Hotel Diablo===
===Hotel Diablo===
* ''Psycho, California (ep)'' (2012)
* ''Psycho, California (ep)'' (2012)
* ''The Return To Psycho, California'' (2012)
* ''The Return To Psycho, California'' (2012) (eOne Entertainment)


===IGNITE===
===Ignite===
* ''[[Our Darkest Days]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Our Darkest Days]]'' (2006) (CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS)


===QUIET RIOT===
===Quiet Riot===
* ''[[Rehab (Quiet Riot album)|Rehab]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Rehab (Quiet Riot album)|Rehab]]'' (2006) (CHAVIS RECORDS)
* ''[[Quiet Riot 10 ]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Quiet Riot 10 ]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Road Rage (Quiet Riot album)|Road Rage (2017)]]'''''
* ''[[Road Rage (Quiet Riot album)|Road Rage (2017)]]'' (FRONTIERS RECORDS)
* ''[[One Night In Milan (Quiet Riot album)|One Night In Milan ]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Well Now You're Here, there's No Way Back]]'' (DOCUMENTARY FILM)
* ''[[Hollywood Cowboys (Quiet Riot album)|Hollywood Cowboys ]]'' (2019)
* ''[[One Night In Milan (Quiet Riot album)|One Night In Milan]]'' (2017) (FRONTIERS RECORDS)
* ''[[Hollywood Cowboys]]'' (2019) (FRONTIERS RECORDS)


===ADLER'S APPETITE===
===Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses===
* '' Alive – Single Release w/ My Appetite For Destruction – Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses'' (2010)
* '' Alive – Single Release w/ My Appetite for Destruction – Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses'' (2010)
* '' Stardog – Single Release'' (2010)
* '' Stardog – Single Release'' (2010)
* '' Fading – Single Release'' (2010)
* '' Fading – Single Release'' (2010)


===THE NEW STRANGE===
===The New Strange===
* ''Into The Night'' (2019)
* ''Into The Night'' (2019) (GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS)
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* ''Tomorrow Never Comes'' (2019) (GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS)


===THE NEW STRANGE===
===Public Enemy===
* ''What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?'' (2020) w/ GEORGE CLINTON and CYPRESS HILL (UNIVERSAL/DEF JAM)
⚫
* ''Tomorrow Never Comes'' (2019)


===PUBLIC ENEMY===
===Hookers & Blow===
* ''What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down'' (2020)
* ''Shakin'' (2020) Single
⚫
* ''Rocks Off'' (2020) Single
⚫
* ''Ziggy Stardust'' (2020) - Single
⚫
* ''Trampled Underfoot'' (2020) Single


===HOOKERS & BLOW===
===Maps To The Hollywood Scars===
* "VOLUME ONE" (NEW OCEAN MEDIA)
* ''Shakin'' (2020)

===HOOKERS & BLOW===
⚫
* ''Rocks Off'' (2020)

===HOOKERS & BLOW===
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* ''Ziggy Stardust'' (2020)

===HOOKERS & BLOW===
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* ''Trampled Underfoot'' (2020)


===DVD releases===
===DVD releases===
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*''Getting Started with Rock Drumming featuring Steven Adler'' (2009)
*''Getting Started with Rock Drumming featuring Steven Adler'' (2009)
*''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' season one (2009)
*''[[Sons of Anarchy]]'' season one (2009)

===Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses===
* '' [[Rock And Roll Ain't Easy]]'' 2018 (GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS)


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 11:32, 28 January 2024

Alex Grossi
Grossi in 2020
Grossi in 2020
Background information
Born (1976-11-22) November 22, 1976 (age 47)
OriginSouth Windsor, Connecticut, United States
OccupationGuitarist
InstrumentGuitar
LabelsAtlantic Records Century Media Scarlet Records Entertainment One
Websitewww.alexgrossimusic.com

Alex Grossi (born November 22, 1976) is an American guitarist, best known as the guitarist of heavy metal band Quiet Riot and the hard rock supergroup Hookers & Blow with Dizzy Reed.

Biography

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Early life and career

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Alexander Nicholas Grossi was born Alexander Nicholas Lesbines on November 22, 1976, and grew up in South Windsor, Connecticut. At age 17 he got a job teaching guitar lessons at Riccardo's Music Center in East Hartford.

While living in Connecticut, he was lead guitarist for the band Wake Up Jack. Upon finishing high school, he moved to Boston where he joined up with Angry Salad. The band was soon signed to Atlantic Records and toured extensively until 2001, when the AOL/Time-Warner merger cost them their deal. The band was bought out of their second record and went their separate ways. In 2002 Grossi re-located to Los Angeles and quickly became one the hardest working guitarists in town, eventually landing him the guitar spot in Quiet Riot when the band re-formed in 2004.

Grossi toured with Quiet Riot in 2005 and 2006 throughout America, Europe, South America and Asia and contributed songwriting on the songs "Free" and "Strange Daze" for the 2006 Rehab and joined in for the album's 2007 tour, which included feature slots at the 2007 Sweden Rock Festival as well as the first annual Rocklahoma Festival. Grossi remained in the band until vocalist Kevin DuBrow's death. Quiet Riot disbanded in January 2008, but has since been revived by Frankie Banali and has been touring again since 2010.

Along with Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses, Grossi formed Hookers & Blow in 2003, shortly after Grossi's move to L.A. Dizzy Reed suggested the band's name as something for people to "Pay attention to."[1] The group does not write music, and tours for fun with different lineups of all-star musicians.

Grossi has also written, toured and recorded with such artists as Bang Tango, Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses, Adler's Appetite, Jani Lane of Warrant, Beautiful Creatures, Love/Hate, Skid Row, Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses (in Hookers & Blow), Orange County hardcore band Ignite and Elektra Records singer/songwriter Aimee Allen.

In 2009 Grossi took part in the [PRS ROAD SHOW], put on by Paul Reed Smith guitars. In 2010 Adler's Appetite released "Alive", a new single. The song was released in conjunction with Adler's New York Times Bestseller tell-all biography "My Appetite for Detstruction: Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses" and debuted on The Howard Stern Show in July. The band also did a 50 city US tour in support of the release. On September 13, 2010, it was announced that Quiet Riot would be reforming with the line up which would include Grossi, Frankie Banali and Chuck Wright.

In 2011 Grossi formed Hotel Diablo. The band entered the studio with former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke producing. They released the first track "Set it Off" via iTunes and band played its first show at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood on September 2, 2011. In July 2012 it was announced that Hotel Diablo had signed a worldwide deal with Scarlet Records and Entertainment One for the release of the band's full-length debut "The Return To Psycho, California", which was released worldwide on September 25, 2012.

Grossi has had music placed in multiple T.V. shows and motion pictures including the Quincy Jones produced film The Smokers, the FX hit series Sons of Anarchy as well as the Walt Disney/Touchstone picture The Proposal and the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. He has also done several TV appearances including a 2003 documentary on the Rhode Island nightclub fire for the Lifetime network.

In addition to touring with Dizzy Reed in Hookers & Blow he also appears on Dizzy Reed's debut solo album, Rock 'N Roll Ain't Easy, a record that has been in the making for over ten years. Most recently, Alex has appeared on the latest release from Hip-Hop icons Public Enemy appearing alongside George Clinton and Cypress Hill on the track "What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down"?.

Discography

[edit]

Angry Salad

[edit]

Star 64

[edit]
  • You May Be Beautiful (2001)

Bang Tango

[edit]
  • Ready to Go (2004) SHRAPNEL RECORDS
  • Pistol Whipped In The Bible Belt (2011)

Beautiful Creatures

[edit]

Aimee Allen

[edit]
  • Revolution" (Elektra Records)

John Corabi / Fred Coury

[edit]
  • Home Sweet Home - An"All Star"salute to Motley Crue (2008)

Hotel Diablo

[edit]
  • Psycho, California (ep) (2012)
  • The Return To Psycho, California (2012) (eOne Entertainment)

Ignite

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Quiet Riot

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Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses

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  • Alive – Single Release w/ My Appetite for Destruction – Sex, Drugs and Guns N' Roses (2010)
  • Stardog – Single Release (2010)
  • Fading – Single Release (2010)

The New Strange

[edit]
  • Into The Night (2019) (GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS)
  • Tomorrow Never Comes (2019) (GOLDEN ROBOT RECORDS)

Public Enemy

[edit]
  • What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? (2020) w/ GEORGE CLINTON and CYPRESS HILL (UNIVERSAL/DEF JAM)

Hookers & Blow

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  • Shakin (2020) Single
  • Rocks Off (2020) Single
  • Ziggy Stardust (2020) - Single
  • Trampled Underfoot (2020) Single

Maps To The Hollywood Scars

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  • "VOLUME ONE" (NEW OCEAN MEDIA)

DVD releases

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  • VH1 Metal Mania Stripped on The Strip: Volume 1 (2006)
  • Getting Started with Rock Drumming featuring Steven Adler (2009)
  • Sons of Anarchy season one (2009)

Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses

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References

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  1. ^ "Q&A: Alex Grossi talks rock and roll's past present and future". buzz. 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
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