Brian Rademacher
Owner
Administrator
Staff Writer
Staff Photographer

USA

Brian Rademacher, Born in Brooklyn, NY. First concert was Alice Cooper back in the late 70's. Worked as a staff photographer for Metal Forces Magazine in the UK for 5 years. Had photos in various other magazines such as Hit Parader, Metal Edge, Enfer, and many more. Ran a Kiss fanzine called Kiss Klassics for four years.Worked as a staff writer/photographer for a Swedish webzine before starting Rockeyez.com. Also has his own Rockeyez Photography site.

Interview with Brian Rademacher

Stephanie Rademacher
Editor-in-Chief
Site Maintenance
Staff Writer

USA

Stephanie was born in Newark, NJ, raised on Jazz, Blues, R&B, Old Rock N Roll, and classical music, which accounts for her varied musical interest. In the ‘80’s she worked for a high-speed duplicator of cassettes and 8-tracks, which exposed her to a world of varied musical interests. She shared this love of music with her mother both being fans of AC/DC, Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Guns & Roses, Van Halen, etc; while still maintaining their love for Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, The Temptations and various others that molded their love of music. In the ‘90’s Stephanie married a Rock Photographer, and continued to collect CD’s and change their music collection over from LP’s. Right now Stephanie is stuck in the ‘80’s and the ‘50’s where Rock was fun!!!.

David Felix
Staff Writer

USA

David was a writer/photographer for a local New Jersey publication called ROUGH MIX and has also been published in METAL EDGE & CREAM. He has literally done hundreds of interviews over the years including AEROSMITH, TESLA, RONNIE JAMES DIO, DOKKEN, BLACK SABBATH, MOTLEY CRUE, and QUEENSRYCHE just to name a few. But, he is probably best known for actually turning down an interview with NIRVANA.

Mark Balogh
Staff Writer
Treasurer

USA

Long time friend of both Brian and Dave, Mark has assisted both of them on numerous projects throughout the years. With a CD collection numbering well over 5000, Mark is finally putting his extensive musical knowledge and creativity to the test and has become one of ROCKEYEZ's shining stars.

RockEyez Staff - left to right: Mark Balogh, Carlos Rodrigues, Pedro Lopes, David Felix, Brian Rademacher.
Photo of the goatee brigade by Judy Latham.

Contributors

Friends with Brian for over 20 years, he has worked with him on numerous adventures, happily to be working on another one.
Raised on 70's music (courtesy of older brothers 8-tracks) listening to Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Allman Brothers but it was in 1975 when 10 year old Bill heard “KISS ALIVE” for the very first time and that’s when it all came together. Since then he’s been KISS fanatic/collector up until now. "It's great to look at items you have or memories you think of and remember how much part of your childhood is in this stuff.” He re-paid older brother by introducing him to Metallica in 1982 courtesy of Rock And Roll Heaven at Route 18 flea market in New Brunswick, N.J.
Fave bands-- KISS (naturally) Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and 70's guitar rock.

Tom Stewart (aka Staszewski) is a life long music fan and professional musician(drummer) of 23 years in the Philadelphia/NJ area. Tom ran a KISS fanzine (Animalized) in the mid-1980s, and started playing the same local NJ club scene as CINDERELLA, BRITNY FOX, and HEAVEN'S EDGE in the late 1980s with the band JOYRIDE . From there, he joined NJ rockers CRISTEEN , opening up for bands like BRITNY FOX, KIX, TRIXTER, THE ZEROS etc. and eventually recorded demos produced by BRITNY FOX guitarist Michael Kelly Smith. Tom also played drums on pre-production demos for the BRITNY FOX album Springhead Motorshark while Johnny Dee was on tour with DORO . From there he went on to do his best Keith Moon in SUBSTITUTE a tribute to THE WHO in the mid 1990s, original power pop project THE FABULOUS (who appears on Stiff Competiton-A Tribute To CHEAP TRICK tribute CD), has appeared on Beautiful Escape: Songs Of THE POSIES Revisited tribute CD, and also appears on a track on the self titled debut from rootsy powerpop band 56 MEN . Tom's current musical projects include modern country/southern rock cover band TEQUILA ROSE (www.tequilaroseband.com) and JOURNEY tribute band LOVIN' TOUCHIN' SQUEEZIN' (www.ltsrocks.com). With more than 3500 albums/CDs in his collection, Tom's passion for music translates into his writing style. "I grew up reading Circus, Hit Parader, Trouser Press , and later on Kerrang, Metal Edge, RIP , etc. but my favorite magazine was always Creem . They had witty, sarcastic reviews, and they always covered my favorite bands, even the cutting edge of New Wave and Punk." Tom's first concert was KISS in Philadelphia December 1977 and that changed his life. Favorite bands? "Well, I love so much music it's hard to say, but my consistent top bands are probably early KISS , early CHEAP TRICK , early VH , AC/DC , Moon era WHO , THE BEATLES, ZEP , early RUSH , early ALICE COOPER , etc. Reading and writing about music is a passion of mine and I'm glad to be part of the Rockeyez staff! Send all hate mail to Brian!! Ha!!"

Greg Schmitt was born in New Milford, CT. His 70's childhood revolved around KISS, after receiving "DRESSED TO KILL" for his 6th birthday. His record collection later expanded into classic 70's hard rock (Queen, Rush, Ozzy, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin et al) and then exploded during the 80's metal renaissance. He spend the late 80's in the New York area pop-metal band PASSION RISK. Around this time is when he first befriended Brian & Bill through their mutual KISS activities. Greg currently resides in Connecticut with his wife, Jennifer, working in music video production. He is also a staple vendor in the New England record convention circuit.

Toe Knee
Writer

USA

I am a true miscreant and rebel within the social context. Dark and Light personified and joining hands in eternal matrimony. I perform "Backwards Drums", lung regurgitations, fire breathing, poetic ramblings and The Trash Can Murder Ritual in The world's Foremost Eccentric / Experimenta l/ Gothic / Black Metal freaks WILLOW WISP!! I also play in Death rock Legends Astrovamps. I live to explore this mystery called life as i await that bigger mystery called death. Collecting Heavy Metal merchandise as well as Horror movies. Who I'd like to meet: All of my Heroes are dead.......(Well, most anyway) Vincent Price, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Lavey, Darby Crash, Wendy O. Williams, Quorthon, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Bon Scott, Salvador Dali, Dead, Euonymus, Erzebet Bathory, GG Allin, Jeffery Dahmer, Marquis De Sade, Albert Fish, Ed Wood, Bella Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Short, Keith Moon, Buddy Rich, etc...Etc...

My photography career started on 5/8/04 when I went to see The Machine at BB Kings. I took the advice from a friend who told me to bring a camera with me because of their psychedelic light show. On that day, I fell in love with concert photography. I literally "focused" most of my free time on shooting live musicians and performers. Then in Sept of 2005 a band called Almost Queen took a serious interest in my work and introduced me to their manager who also manages many national artists. He asked me if I was interested in shooting a rock opera called Van Helsing's Curse with Dee Snider. I jumped at this opportunity, and many others after that.. In August 2007 I was introduced to the owner of Dexter's Entertainment Complex in Riverdale, NJ. I was hired as the house photographer where I currently shoot many National Artists, Originals, Tributes and Covers. I love them all!
I also recently began doing some Studio photography.

Maria Ventura / Lady Ace

Rock Queen aka Tina USA

Rob Benaquista USA

Nicole USA

Patty Brady USA

Brian Monteiro USA

Pedro Lopes USA

Joe Merante USA

Jeff Mastin USA

Sara Rademacher USA

Judy Felix USA

Joe Manno USA

Danae Rosen USA