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Why Kix is Calling It Quits This Month
Kix will play their final show this month — and according to vocalist Steve Whiteman, not a moment too soon.
The Maryland rockers are set to end a 45-year career with a Sept. 17 hometown gig at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia. “I don’t want to go out sucking — I want to go out being pretty good,” Whiteman said on a recent episode of SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk (via Blabbermouth). “But age takes its toll,” he added, citing drummer Jimmy Chalfant’s 2021 heart attack and subsequent onstage collapse last November as contributing factors.
“There are nights, out of the past couple of years, where I’ve come offstage just humiliated because I can’t sing ‘Don’t Close Your Eyes’ like I used to, or I can’t sing ‘Cold Blood,’” Whiteman added. “These are the songs that the fans are out there waiting for. And that’s when I started to think I don’t want to do this if I can’t do it well anymore.”