Steve Brown and Bumblefoot Team Up In Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale
Leave it to renaissance man Steve Brown! Whether he’s leading Trixter, touring as part of Def Leppard or shredding in The Jersey Sound documentary, the dude looks, sounds, plays and acts like a Rock Star. That’s because he is. Femme Fatale was a band from New Mexico that hit it big in Los Angeles with its one and only self-titled studio album in 1988, opened for Cheap Trick all over the world in 1989 and broke up in 1990. Guitarist Mazzi Rawd went on to get a PhD in physics. Guitarist Bill D’angelo died at 43 from a meth overdose. Lead singer Lorraine Lewis went on to front Vixen and reformed a short-lived all-female version of Femme Fatale with Courtney Cox in 2013 that lasted about five minutes.
Now they’re back again with Paramus guitarist-composer-producer Steve Brown who brought in New Brunswick guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal. “I’m lucky to work with Steve,” gushes Lorraine. “He is always magic.” Their “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow” splashed down earlier this year and now comes “Bad Love” and, as Lorraine says, “that’s real fire in the video. We brought in some incredible fire performers and even a real firefighter from the adult [film] industry named Eva Angelina. Without giving too much away, let’s just say the video is hot. `Bad Love’ is about that magnetic kind of connection you know isn’t good for you, but you keep going back anyway. It’s messy, it’s addictive, and it’s real. I wanted to capture that push-and-pull between desire and self-preservation. We’ve all been there. We see the red flag and still jump in headfirst…but if that red flag’s on fire? Baby, that’s your cue to run.”