Christine Beatty (aka Trixie Crystal) is the Ru Paul of Rock. She is a California Girl, born and raised... a boy. But this was nothing that female hormones and surgery couldn't cure. She's had more than her share of her Fifteen Minutes, having appeared on national and local talk shows, including Montel Williams. As Glamazon's lead singer, she seems to delight in sashaying out on stage in the most unwholesome apparel. Marie Osmond she is not. She also plays backup guitar and uses an plethora of vocal effects to spice up the sound. Her favorite pastime is "fornicating with Televangalists." She claims to have nude photographs of Pat Robertson cavorting in her pantyhose, but refuses to show them to anybody. Her big local band credit is the legendary all-transsexual band called Rubbermaid. Sadly, they only played one gig before drug problems and flagrant Revlon abuse tore the band apart. She's also a published author.

Shredmistress Rynata (pronounced "Ren-AH-ta") was voted Best Female Guitar Player at the Rock City Music Awards in Los Angeles for the last two years. A native of Germany, she has been in America since the mid-80's and has played in numerous original and cover bands during that time. If you love rock guitar, look no further. She does most of the arranging of Glamazon's material and almost all of the programming and engineering of R2D2. A listen of the band will prove this woman knows her stuff. She usually struts out on stage in some sort of leather thing or another, and she is not hard to look at. And she can play! The Shredmistress also gives lessons to aspiring female guitarists and will soon release a series of guitar instruction videos. Find out more at Rynata's Personal Webpage.

Christine Beatty and Shredmistress Rynata met in Summer of '93, a year when Rynata was playing with White Trash Debutantes and Christine did several shows as the "Queen of Metal" playing guitar and singing to a backing tape of bass and drums. Impressed by each other's talents and taking the name from Christine's publishing company, Glamazon Press, they resolved to form their own rock band, Glamazon.

Songwriting and fourtrack recording began in early '94. Working with a TASCAM Portastudio and a Roland R-5 drum machine, Rynata created 13 rich tracks using lyrics and basic song ideas from Christine. By February '95 they'd played their first live show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, backed up on bass by Rynata's former bandmate Joey Reyes and drummer David Quillin. Glamazon played 15 gigs until going into Hyde Street Studios in November to cut the basic tracks for their debut CD. After the rhythm tracks were in the can, Joey and new drummer Eddie Juhn (replacing David in July) left for other bands leaving Rynata and Christine to do guitar and vocal overdubs and mixdowns for the next five months. In July they coaxed back Eddie and found bassist George Shmagranoff to play their first CD release party at San Francisco's Paradise Lounge.

The following twelve months brought chronic instability to the rhythm section. Unreliability, unavailablity -- even canceling several prime shows because of backup musician problems -- finally prompted a long look at going electronic. With her "Queen of Metal" background, Christine was already comfortable with the idea, and Rynata welcomed the opportunity to arrange the rhythm section exactly as she wanted it. Plus they gained the ability to add in percussion and new, high tech sounds. With a few trips to Guitar Center and Computers & Music in San Francisco, they assembled a home studio. And after the Shredmistress spent several grueling weeks learning the new equipment and putting together a DAT tape, Glamazon made it's debut with R2D2 on June 28, 1997.

People think it's cool. You will, too.