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Johnny Dee on Britny Fox reunion
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Uh, while we're talking about reunions,
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I saw a post a few days ago, I think, on
0:05
blabbermouth about you talking about
0:07
Britney Fox. What's happening with that?
0:09
I mean, it's going to happen or no,
0:11
never.
0:12
No, I don't think so. Um it's, you know,
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it's been back and forth so many times
0:18
and so much um sort of h man I mean for
0:25
me it's like I I never really gave up on
0:28
the idea but uh after the last time
0:32
I think it was closest ever that you
0:36
know everybody sort of was finally
0:38
communicating which with each other you
0:41
know
0:42
cuz Ian disappeared appeared for years
0:45
and didn't, you know, was very uh vocal
0:48
about the fact that he didn't want to do
0:50
it, you know, but then Michael came out
0:53
of, you know, out of hiding and he
0:56
actually called Dean and spoke to him
0:58
and I thought, "Wow, you know,
1:00
somebody's maybe Mike's finally getting
1:03
through." But, uh, in the end, it didn't
1:06
happen. And, um, I think, you know, the
1:10
chances are very slim. I don't think it
1:13
will happen at this time, you know. It's
1:15
we've gotten so far
1:17
past the time of when we should have
1:19
done it, you know.
1:22
So, I leave it up to those guys, you
1:24
know. I'm here. I'm still playing. I
1:27
feel good about, you know, playing. I
1:30
would love to do that for the fans as
1:32
well. Just as we were saying with
1:34
with Twisted, you know, there's just
1:36
fans out there that would want to see
1:38
the band and hear those songs again. And
1:41
uh you know the only way to do it is to
1:44
do it with as many people from the
1:47
original thing as possible. So you know
1:50
but that uh
1:53
it's a long winded way of saying you
1:55
know I pretty much said that it wouldn't
1:58
happen and that's kind of how I feel
2:00
right now.
2:03
One of the questions that I wanted to
2:04
ask you but it was like later on in the
2:06
interview but uh now I'm going to ask
2:08
you because we're talking about Britney
2:09
Fox. Uh
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did did you uh they once reunited
2:15
without you? Why why why it happened
2:18
without you, you know?
2:20
Yeah. Um, well, what happened was after
2:23
the band decided to just basically call
2:27
it a day after I think it was around
2:32
91 or 92, no, 2000,
2:36
we did a a couple things where, you
2:39
know, interest was starting to peak up
2:41
again and uh there was all of a sudden
2:43
some opportunities for that era of bands
2:48
to go out and play again, you know cuz
2:51
it's it was impossible for us to tour
2:54
because we just we weren't a weren't big
2:57
enough b weren't making enough money to
2:59
survive
3:01
you know on a longer tour.
3:03
Yeah. So, you know, all these things
3:05
started popping up like some 80s
3:08
festivals and cruises and things and
3:11
weekend shows at casinos, which a lot of
3:14
the '8s fans could finally
3:17
uh could finally do, you know, and get
3:21
out there and play on the weekends and
3:23
then go back home and all that kind of
3:25
stuff. So, um we did that in 2000.
3:29
uh did a live record and um yeah, then
3:33
we kind of went to sleep again. And
3:35
while while that was happening uh the
3:39
bass player, Billy
3:41
uh went and did some research on the
3:44
name and the trademark
3:47
and realized that it was expired. So, he
3:50
just took it upon himself to trademark
3:54
it in his own name.
3:56
So now he owns the name and he went out
3:59
with a bunch of, you know, guys that he
4:02
hired to just be Britney Fox, which, you
4:06
know,
4:06
to the rest of us wasn't really fair or
4:10
uh true. You know, it wasn't really
4:13
Britney Fox. But you know at this time
4:17
in history you know whoever owns the
4:20
name or whoever can use the name is
4:22
basically like you know
4:26
Yeah. Something that like that happened
4:28
with the Red and with LA Guns and stuff
4:30
like that. I know.
4:31
Yeah. Many bands have uh you know not
4:34
only fought over you know being a band
4:37
but also now you have that kind of thing
4:40
in the mix where it's like okay we're
4:44
performing as so and so but we're not
4:46
really so and so or there's one member
4:49
or you know this guy thinks he owns the
4:52
name but the other one feels like he has
4:54
the right to use it. So, it's it's just
4:57
a show, you know, and I wish it
4:59
wasn't the case, but uh it's really,
5:02
you know, that's how it kind of started.
5:06
And then
5:08
in 2018,
5:12
uh, you know, Billy and, uh, his manager
5:15
at the time approached
5:18
me about trying to do it, you know, to
5:22
the best of our abilities with with me
5:25
and Tommy Paris involved cuz Dean and
5:28
Michael didn't want to didn't want to
5:31
tour. Um, so yeah, we did some stuff
5:34
together.
5:36
uh as Britney Fox in 2018 or so. And um
5:42
yeah, that didn't last very long either.
5:45
You know, it always seems to be,
5:48
you know, as soon as we get together, we
5:50
kind of fall apart again. you know, just
5:53
because of a lot of old
5:56
that comes up or just the fact
5:59
that, you know, it's been so long since
6:02
we've been together and putting up with
6:05
one another and trying to make music
6:08
together. It's like everybody has
6:10
different opinions and
6:11
you know they always kind of get in the