AUDIO ARCHIVES: Nita Strauss (2018)

I was reading an old Jimi Hendrix interview a few years ago, where Hendrix said something, like “Women who play Rock & Roll are looked at like they’re aliens.” Of course, Hendrix made this statement to say that some males act as if women ‘can’t rock’ when in fact we know they damn well can. This has me thinking back to to NAMM 2012, when Nita Strauss was on the convention floor jamming through some Iron Maiden tunes in that now infamous Youtube clip. I witnessed some onlookers who were ‘dumbfounded’ that Strauss could play like that! I immediately thought back to that Hendrix quote.

Nita Strauss has spent a portion of her musical career as a ‘hired gun’ performing with the likes of Jermaine Jackson, Femme Fatale, The Iron Maidens and most recently with her day gig with Rock & Roll Hall OF Famer Alice Cooper. She’s been a part of Alice Cooper’s band since June 2014, when she stepped into the vacancy left by Orianthi. The virtuoso will issued her first ever solo album titled Controlled Chaos on November 16th, 2018. We Go To 11 have an archived phone interview conducted with Strauss from 2018. Check it out.