Maximilian Rix History

Maximilian Rix (Born Massimiliano Rizzo, 1969) approached music when he was seventeen years old, as Massimo Pupillo (Now bass player with Zu) chose him to sing in his first band (Candy Seeds) and made him learn the basic notions of bass guitar. Then Max started playing in a metal band that didn’t last much. The first important experience as a bass player came in the early nineties with a band called the Verve (Obviously we’re not talking about the famous ones, at that time they didn’t even exist!), an eighties rock cover band that allowed him to get on his first stages. Unluckily he was fired as the singer and him couldn’t stand each other. At the time he was very disappointed and decided to stop playing and earn a serious living as a cabin attendant. But, just as everything seemed said and done when he settled down in a different city, as now and then he came back to his hometown in the middle nineties, he met three fantastic guys that will change everything once again giving him the chance to discover his true musical feelings. These guys were known as The Lovecats and had a brief and intense experience covering the Cure. The split of the band, contemporary to the end of an important love affair, was very frustrating for Max, who suffered a complete mental breakdown that will almost made him forget who he was for years. A great help came from his cousin (A drummer) that wanted him in a U2 cover band he wanted to set up. As it’s always been in his life, music was a big therapy and in this period, the early zeros, Max approached guitar and keyboards as he had to do “The Edge part”. But after two years he realized he couldn’t go on acting as someone else’s clone and decided to write his own songs. He tried to set up a new band but soon he realized that, if he wanted to achieve decent results, he had to go solo, maybe with the help of another serious musician, as the guitar player Tony Vitali. So, as his favorite musician Trent Reznor did, he called his solo project with a band name, and so here we are, starting...

“I always wanted more from rock than easy money, chicks, drugs and other bulls***s like these. Rock is something that comes from within when everything inside and outside of yourself is a mess. That’s the reason why it’s real art and it may change evolving or involving as decades pass, but its true spirit will never die.”