I was at the Gazzaris guitar contest that night in 1985. Nobody knew who Paul Gilbert was but he blew everyone away. All the other players were in full 80’s hair metal regalia but PG walked out there is jeans and a tshirt and slayed them all.
@Trev0r98 nope. it’s an epiphone wiltshire style that he modded with a kahler tremolo. pretty sure it’s the one Wayne Charvel built for Paul that’s based off the wilshire body shape
Hmm, I don’t seem to remember it that way, the guy who came in second place was wearing pretty normal stuff for 1985, and people knew who he was, more than half the audience were MI students, so his reputation preceded him.
80s man🤘 Especially mid 80s, yngwie came out, vinnie moore, paul gilbert and bruce, tony mclpyne, greg howe, frank gambale, so many great guitar players around that time, these really were the good old days!
I was there in 85' GIT, remember Juan and Paul in a classroom going over a song, I opened the door, said, "Can I hang out"...they said sure!! Went back in 87' ...had Paul as a private teacher every week....timing was more than EPIC...Danny Gill, Jennifer Batten, Nick Nolan, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Tim Bogart I had voval lessons with as he stated "You dont need vocal lessons, your good to go"??.....so many to absorb from...blessed with memories.🔥🎸
Wow damn ur lucky 🤘 I wasn't born exactly yet 😅 From your recollection, What was one of the biggest sticking points that Paul may have stressed regarding picking fast and accurate?
@@herehere3139 "play slow and accurate then build up your speed" showed me the infamous DiMeola lick and I was off to the races 🤣 and yes...grateful to be their when this was all going down. I remember hearing "Lay It Down" walking down the sidewalk of Hollywood blvd as speakers were pumping that song at the front of a ROCK Shop that sold real photos of Randy Rhoads live behind a glass...Jake...WASP CRUE DeMar as Invasion Of Your Privacy was just released!!! Killer memories!!
@@RikkShredLifestyle hoooolllyyy shiiiiiiii Hahaha That's as good as it can get 🤘 Wicked cool thanks for the reply. Now I'm gonna have lay it down stuck in my head, but that's a good thing 😅 I've had cat scratch fever stuck in my head all morning so played the riff on guitar a bit, which my 7 year old son (who loves music like I do and he plays drums) was like "don't start singing it.." 😆
I met them a number of times in those days. I was a shredder in the L.A. scene in the 80s. Saw the live a bunch of times. Amazing band, far better than Mr. Big. When Paul left to join Mr. Big at Billy Sheehan's urging Racer X was done. I jammed with Jeff Martin when he went back to drums. He's as good a drummer as Travis. Seriously. He joined Badlands shortly after.
@@angusorvid8840 I would even argue that Jeff is a more versatile and complete drummer than Travis. Even in Badlands i liked his stuff better than Eric Singer. And Racer X over Mr Big any day. At least Paul came back with RX and gave us awesome records again. Nothing against Mr Big, super tight and phenomenal musicians, but something was missing for me.
It's lucky that you were able to hold onto those recordings and that they survived for a such long time. This is such a cool piece of history, thanks Harry
Harry…I could write endless paragraphs here about how Racer X has inspired my own playing and life direction, so instead I will just say THANK YOU SIR!!! Been in a rut lately, life gets unruly sometimes, woke up this morning a little down until I played this video that popped up, reminded me of what’s important and to not ever give up!!! 👏🎶🔥🎸💯
Thanks for posting this Harry. I've been a big fan. I was a studio engineer at Magic Traxx studio in Virginia Beach Va. back in the mid-eighties. I recorded a demo tape for Scott Travis back then when he was getting ready to go to L.A. You two are both incredible players and Racer X did not get the recognition you all deserved. \mXm/
The first time I heard Racer X was from one of those plastic 45 records that was included in one of the guitar magazines. I was hooked from the first moment! I think I still have that record somewhere.
And Jeff Martin goes onto play drums with one of my fave bands ever ! All had depth as brilliant musicians in their own right🙏 and Bruces Scream albums-killer! But Paul’s prodigious playing set the guitar world on fire - he took Malmsteen to another level , Paul is and Eddie in his own league,just a true master musician 👌 he’s technical abilities had more influence and copycats in the next decade and to this day YJM ..Max Ostro .Racerx has been the standard till now.as Jeff said at one of their gigs “the best in the west and best from the rest!”
I still have the street lethal cassette tape. Crap I'm old! Paul Gilbert is the human jukebox! If he can think it, he can play it. One of my overall favorite guitarists!
My friend Steve Evans told me back in the day one his former bass students was playing with this kid Paul Gilbert...saw them at the Stone SF a couple of times...Shred City 🤘
Crazy how fast time rolls. I was GIT with Paul 84/85. He had that crazy bowl haircut at the time lol. He'd practice in the window room right across from my closet lab.
Jeff Martin played me this cassette demo at an Arizona club called rockers. My guitar player at the time, David Janssen and I were blown away. Jeff dropped surgical steel like a bad habit and joined racer x.
Been a fan since the beginning. My best friend went to GIT in 1989 and I heard all the stories from the Golden Era of MI. Thanks for uploading this, it’s incredible
Yeah I was there too. In The beginning. Around MI. JUST after Street Lethal was released. Thanks for the post! Michael T Wyman. 2022. L.A. jam night guitarist. 2013-2019.
Awesome Harry! Thank you so for much for posting this! Cant believe I haven’t seen it till now. I put together a little Racer X tribute band together down in Melbourne Australia a few years back to play at The Melbourne Guitar Show, and it was great fun. Bloody hard! Haha. But that goes without saying. We put some songs up on my YT channel also, so I’m glad I have a record of it. Thank you for the great music and inspiration sir. Hope all is well. Simon Hosford, Melbourne. 🤟🤟
Cool stuff, Harry! 2:45 I can see that you also went to see the "Straight Between The Eyes"-Tour -82. ;-) 15:11 guaranteed filmed from the Holiday Inn, facing Yucca. Man, I miss my time at M.I.. Can you recall Donut Stop there on Highland? Cheers, and Thank you for the very cool footage! /Peter from Scandinavia
Some players like Mike Batio, have figured out alternate picking direction changes that work well and keep velocity going on guitar. After studying Paul's videos for a while, i have found playing sequences that are very fast, which are are actually hard to play on guitar. Paul is a freak to me for that reason . Paul's own interpretation of Fast Guitar Riffing, may be natural to him But it does not follow the easier route to the logistics of guitar as an instrument
@@silverpairaducks the video instruction after "Intense Rock" Showed some things that were Musicianship Skills that are really useable, like tapping out phrases like a drummer, and approaching lead guitar with rhythm . Also in the realm of technique, the terminology, " inside picking", and "outside picking" were something Paul emphasized.
@@silverpairaducks your right ! After sitting down with the tab to Street Lethal and working out the riffs slow, i can see how the velocity builds . Pauls' use of hammers and pulls in combination with picking build some really great sequences I do the main sequence in the bridge (B string) 14 15 17( E string)14 17 15 14 14 15 17 slide with pinky 19 (E string) 16 17 19 17 16 slide with index 14 (B string ) 17 15 14 Every note picked but with 4 notes on a string like shawn lane or John McLaughlin And segovia actually played 4 notes per string , but it helps to use tall frets It really works well with even numbers of notes My first guitar teacher Kevin Gallagher who is a You Tube Classical Channel was playing Randy Rhoades with 4 note per string sequencing which is where i got the idea
Theres a clip on here of a high rooftop view of Hollywood blvd?? Pretty sure thats where I stayed when I first landed in LA...at the HOLIDAY INN, I went up to the TOP Bar area that overlooked Hollywood/LA and the floor has a circular moving/spinning Bar that kept spinning round and round showing a spectacular panaramic view of Hollywood/LA!! I was trippin!! Oh the stories!
Harry was a badass drummer. I always thought it was Scott Travis the whole time. Juan, I loved you and Bruce in The Scream too bro. I wore out 3 or 4 of those cassettes of your first album.
Me 2. Always thought it was Scott Travis wanted 2 do side project outside of Judas Priest n thus he had been a founding father of this band(after all who else can say they played with two of the greatest Lead Guitar combos of all time with Racer X N Judas Priest?) Wonder would they been as cult faves had they never got Scott Travis N esp Bruce Boillet?
@@265308I might be misunderstanding your comment, but are you saying you thought Scott Travis was in Judas Priest before Racer X and that he played in Racer X as a side project in the 1980’s while also in Judas Priest? If so that is incorrect. Scott’s first album with Priest was Painkiller, which was released in 1990. He replaced Dave Holland who played with Priest from 1979 - 1989. So he was definitely in Racer X before joining Judas Priest.
@@gtdrummer6429 OH ok now makes a Lil sense..yeah thought Travis was in Priest first.....he always kinda looked out of place in Racer X bc of age difference kinda like Mick Mars in Motley Crue. Thx 4 info. WISH PG-13 n Boillet make a Racer X reunion.
I have been playing for almost 30 years and have never been ridiculous like that at any point. Paul was BEYOND ridiculous at 16...f**k me ! LOL This was still great to hear aside from the crushing blow it's going to be on my practice schedule. Why bother ?!?! HAHAHAHA
Very cool! I too made records at Prairie Sun studios. Mooka rocks! Ive also worked with Steve Fontano, the engineer who recorded Racer X's first few records. The similarity ends there.
MOAR! WE NEED MOOAARRRR!!!! Freaking awesome stuff! Thanks so much for sharing this! That riff starting at th-cam.com/video/KNKmLrBaYl0/w-d-xo.html is amazing! Never heard that before though.
Santa Rosa born, Petaluma homegrown here. Yep, all of those Shrapnel shredfest albums were recorded at Prairie Sun back in the mid-80s to mid-90s. Yngwie on the Steeler album, Vinnie Moore "Mind's Eye", Tony MacAlpine "Edge of Insanity" featuring Steve Smith on drums and Billy Sheehan on bass, Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen, Frank Gambale, the first Cacophony album with Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Y&T and Night Ranger would regularly play gigs at the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Petaluma, and they and Starship often headlined the Sonoma County Fair in Petaluma back then. I even remember Armoured Saint opening for Y&T just before Dave Pritchard got too sick to play, and The Squares (featuring a then-unknown Joe Satriani on guitar) opened for Eddie Money! Metallica, Starship, Journey and Santana used to rehearse down the 101 in San Rafael too. Eric Martin (then fronting his own band) lived about a half mile from my house--He would later go on to be the lead singer in Mr. Big with Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan and Pat Torpey. Lots of great rock going on in the North Bay back in those days.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 I moved to Fairfield, in Solano county in 1986 and ironically never got involved much in the music scene there like I did in my home state of Washington. I had delusions of grandeur about trying out for Metallica. I was aware of a Vacaville based band called Lawz Rockit (Jason Newstead says their bassist did also try out!) before I left home as well as The mighty Armored Saint, we had their album Rise of the Saint. I can only imagine what might have been if my whole band had moved to the North Bay in the late seventies and early eighties! I love all of the bands that you mention. Now I am in Ronnie James Dio home turf in New York State. Still rocking as much as I possibly can!
@@MichaelMaxwell747 Hey Michael, glad to here you are doing well and still keeping the faith musically. I imagine you got spell-checked on LAAZ Rockit. I remember them being a thing in clubs in the Bay Area along with another band called Roadrunner, and I think both of them had indie records out there, but no air play. in any case, I never heard much of their music. Possessed was another up and coming band at the time out Pinole, and one of their guitar players Larry LeLonde would later play with Primus--I think they started in Vallejo. Sounds like you are a little older than I am. I had just graduated high school in 1985 and was just a pup when most of these scenes were happening. A local guitar teacher at the Petaluma Music Center wound up playing in a glam band called Vain that did real well in the Bay Area and eventually got signed to Island Records. I think they still have a following in Europe and Japan. They also have a footnote claim to fame in that they partially broke up about the time Steven Adler was kicked out of Guns-N-Roses, and most of their members rounded out the band Steven Adler's Wrecking Crew, which never went anywhere as Adler was still deep into his addictions. But that starts opening up a whole other book on the Hollywood/LA era of my musical journey....
Thanks for uploading. So awesome to see this. Is the footage of the city taken at the time (1985) or is more recent? If taken at the time, why no footage of the band playing? Would’ve been awesome to see the band playing together on film. This is so sick though and I’m so appreciative for it.
I was at the Gazzaris guitar contest that night in 1985. Nobody knew who Paul Gilbert was but he blew everyone away. All the other players were in full 80’s hair metal regalia but PG walked out there is jeans and a tshirt and slayed them all.
What guitar is he playing?
@@vintagetubeamplifiers Gibson Melody Maker, dual cutaway.
@Trev0r98 nope. it’s an epiphone wiltshire style that he modded with a kahler tremolo. pretty sure it’s the one Wayne Charvel built for Paul that’s based off the wilshire body shape
Hmm, I don’t seem to remember it that way, the guy who came in second place was wearing pretty normal stuff for 1985, and people knew who he was, more than half the audience were MI students, so his reputation preceded him.
I have the entire video btw
80s man🤘
Especially mid 80s, yngwie came out, vinnie moore, paul gilbert and bruce, tony mclpyne, greg howe, frank gambale, so many great guitar players around that time, these really were the good old days!
I like your comment, I just wanted to make a correction on Tony MacAlpine's name in case anyone looks him up. Cheers!
I was there in 85' GIT, remember Juan and Paul in a classroom going over a song, I opened the door, said, "Can I hang out"...they said sure!!
Went back in 87' ...had Paul as a private teacher every week....timing was more than EPIC...Danny Gill, Jennifer Batten, Nick Nolan, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Tim Bogart I had voval lessons with as he stated "You dont need vocal lessons, your good to go"??.....so many to absorb from...blessed with memories.🔥🎸
Wow damn ur lucky 🤘 I wasn't born exactly yet 😅 From your recollection, What was one of the biggest sticking points that Paul may have stressed regarding picking fast and accurate?
@@herehere3139 "play slow and accurate then build up your speed" showed me the infamous DiMeola lick and I was off to the races 🤣 and yes...grateful to be their when this was all going down. I remember hearing "Lay It Down" walking down the sidewalk of Hollywood blvd as speakers were pumping that song at the front of a ROCK Shop that sold real photos of Randy Rhoads live behind a glass...Jake...WASP CRUE DeMar as Invasion Of Your Privacy was just released!!! Killer memories!!
@@herehere3139 th-cam.com/users/shortsh5j_yvB9tFo?si=lkDtQiEmvU7s-oYu all these years later...still LOVE 🎸 Guitar 🔥
@@RikkShredLifestyle hoooolllyyy shiiiiiiii Hahaha That's as good as it can get 🤘 Wicked cool thanks for the reply. Now I'm gonna have lay it down stuck in my head, but that's a good thing 😅 I've had cat scratch fever stuck in my head all morning so played the riff on guitar a bit, which my 7 year old son (who loves music like I do and he plays drums) was like "don't start singing it.." 😆
@@herehere3139 you and your son enjoy brother!! ROCK together ❤️ make great memories!!
I've been waiting 35 years for this video. I've always been a super Racer X freak.
Your Not Alone !!
@@lancerx1759 Indeed! Count me in as well!
This footage is fantastic - what a treasure for Racer X fans.
It’s pretty cool if you don”t much about Paul’s days with Racer X too!
The beginning of this band sounds better than most established bands
Yeah cause Paul and the bass player went to MIT do they knew their stuff...
100% Funny how that works huh?
I met them a number of times in those days. I was a shredder in the L.A. scene in the 80s. Saw the live a bunch of times. Amazing band, far better than Mr. Big. When Paul left to join Mr. Big at Billy Sheehan's urging Racer X was done. I jammed with Jeff Martin when he went back to drums. He's as good a drummer as Travis. Seriously. He joined Badlands shortly after.
@@angusorvid8840 I would even argue that Jeff is a more versatile and complete drummer than Travis.
Even in Badlands i liked his stuff better than Eric Singer.
And Racer X over Mr Big any day. At least Paul came back with RX and gave us awesome records again. Nothing against Mr Big, super tight and phenomenal musicians, but something was missing for me.
Never a fan of shredding but agree with your comment
Paul is absolutely physically gifted to play guitar. Also he worked his butt off
It's lucky that you were able to hold onto those recordings and that they survived for a such long time. This is such a cool piece of history, thanks Harry
NOVAK !!! Acid Wire here. Nice to catch you !
@@KingGrio I guess we're both still around! ^^
Harry…I could write endless paragraphs here about how Racer X has inspired my own playing and life direction, so instead I will just say THANK YOU SIR!!! Been in a rut lately, life gets unruly sometimes, woke up this morning a little down until I played this video that popped up, reminded me of what’s important and to not ever give up!!! 👏🎶🔥🎸💯
Harry is a beast on drums!
Very impressive, powerhouse drummer. 🥁 👏
Brings back the good old days seeing them at the country club. Couldn't hear for a week after.
Was Lucky To See RACER X Play The Los Angeles Club Circuit. Great Band & Always Mind Blowing To Watch Paul Gilbert Rip It Up!
Legendary band. Especially when Bruce was still on the second guitar. Shred duo that is unmatched to this day
Thanks for posting this Harry. I've been a big fan. I was a studio engineer at Magic Traxx studio in Virginia Beach Va. back in the mid-eighties. I recorded a demo tape for Scott Travis back then when he was getting ready to go to L.A. You two are both incredible players and Racer X did not get the recognition you all deserved. \mXm/
The first time I heard Racer X was from one of those plastic 45 records that was included in one of the guitar magazines. I was hooked from the first moment! I think I still have that record somewhere.
Same exact story for me. I had been playing for years. That square plastic record changed my life.
I'll give you $2000 for it
I’ll give $2001.99
And Jeff Martin goes onto play drums with one of my fave bands ever ! All had depth as brilliant musicians in their own right🙏 and Bruces Scream albums-killer! But Paul’s prodigious playing set the guitar world on fire - he took Malmsteen to another level , Paul is and Eddie in his own league,just a true master musician 👌 he’s technical abilities had more influence and copycats in the next decade and to this day YJM ..Max Ostro .Racerx has been the standard till now.as Jeff said at one of their gigs “the best in the west and best from the rest!”
I still have the street lethal cassette tape. Crap I'm old! Paul Gilbert is the human jukebox! If he can think it, he can play it. One of my overall favorite guitarists!
Bands wish they could sound this good live.
Great stuff, I can't thank you enough. History. What a great band.
Hey hey 👋 😄
“ Street Lethal “ - is one great album, cassette, CD 🔥
Yup got both Racer X on cassette, back during the Shrapnel days, shred was king
@@MRX2099 th-cam.com/video/3y99zAdMKGc/w-d-xo.html
wow that drummer was pretty thight never heard of this guy awsome, crazy how good these guys where and sounded at that early age
My friend Steve Evans told me back in the day one his former bass students was playing with this kid Paul Gilbert...saw them at the Stone SF a couple of times...Shred City 🤘
Crazy how fast time rolls. I was GIT with Paul 84/85. He had that crazy bowl haircut at the time lol. He'd practice in the window room right across from my closet lab.
Love all these guys! Amazing how great they were at such an early age.
Jeff Martin played me this cassette demo at an Arizona club called rockers. My guitar player at the time, David Janssen and I were blown away. Jeff dropped surgical steel like a bad habit and joined racer x.
Been a fan since the beginning. My best friend went to GIT in 1989 and I heard all the stories from the Golden Era of MI. Thanks for uploading this, it’s incredible
Thanks for uploading Harry. I’m a big fan of Racer X so this was really interesting to see👍
Yeah I was there too. In The beginning. Around MI. JUST after Street Lethal was released.
Thanks for the post! Michael T Wyman. 2022. L.A. jam night guitarist. 2013-2019.
Incredible material. Thanks so much
Thanks Harry! This is a beasty tape! Y'all were untouchable from Day One!
I’ll bet back in the day these guys walked into a club to play and everyone thought “who are these dorks?” Then they played and minds were blown.
Awesome 👍!! Thx for posting!
This is great to hear - thanks from the bottom of my heart for posting!
Awesome Harry! Thank you so for much for posting this! Cant believe I haven’t seen it till now. I put together a little Racer X tribute band together down in Melbourne Australia a few years back to play at The Melbourne Guitar Show, and it was great fun. Bloody hard! Haha. But that goes without saying. We put some songs up on my YT channel also, so I’m glad I have a record of it. Thank you for the great music and inspiration sir. Hope all is well. Simon Hosford, Melbourne. 🤟🤟
This is AWSOME!!! Thanks HARRY your drumming really made the first album The Best Really like your style sound tuning etc.
Amazing! Starting at 19:22! Mind blown! Listen 👂 on repeat this amazing riff!
That 1985 Gazzari's may be Paul's fastest, most-accurate ever. Seriously.
Right...
Very very very cool,Harry !
I love RX since 1989
That was back when Paul had that reverse 45 degree with his thumb.
Very very cool! Thanks for the upload, Harry. btw, you’re one hell of a drummer 😎
And before he changed his right hand technique. He's still playing with the pick slanted backwards in the Gazari's video.
And three finger pick-grip alla Morse
He is the chosen one.
Awesome, been a fan since I heard Street Lethal way too many years ago. Great job Harry
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated :)
Those couple of songs after the 15 minute mark are amazing!
Never heard them, before.
Thanks for posting this. ❤️
I had Racer X on Vinyl, that’s how far we are going back.
This is absolutely beautiful!!!! Thank you for sharing !!!
Whoa. EPIC upload! Have never seen/heard any of this footage. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank you for this great historical account!
I really miss those indelible and moving moments. Thank you very much for all
Awesome video! Thank you much for posting it.
Awesome! Thank you.
Bruce was a great addition to the band . He didnt sound like Paul so you could always tell who was soloing .
He sounded almost exactly like Paul lol.
@@Fearzero Which one string skipped and which one sweep picked ?
@@RobertSmith-lg7jp They both did both. I've transcribed a ton of it. Paul definitely does more string skipping though.
Props to Bruce for matching ferocious Paul's guitar playing. Don't know if there were many able to do it back then.
Cool stuff, Harry! 2:45 I can see that you also went to see the "Straight Between The Eyes"-Tour -82. ;-) 15:11 guaranteed filmed from the Holiday Inn, facing Yucca. Man, I miss my time at M.I.. Can you recall Donut Stop there on Highland? Cheers, and Thank you for the very cool footage! /Peter from Scandinavia
Great drumming Harry. I was at MI during those days. It was magic...
Hope Juan's recovery still going well..
Thought we were going to lose him. Can't keep a good man down.
His wife posts regular updates. He’s kicking ass and is back to picking up his bass
Splendid! Thank you for that!
Thanks for Sharing HG !!
Awesome stuff.........
Paul looked like a young Pete Willis!! 😛
Jeff Martin was a beast of a vocalist. Anyone know why Surgical Steel fell apart? They were amazing.
Some players like Mike Batio, have figured out alternate picking direction changes that work well and keep velocity going on guitar.
After studying Paul's videos for a while, i have found playing sequences that are very fast, which are are actually hard to play on guitar.
Paul is a freak to me for that reason .
Paul's own interpretation of Fast Guitar Riffing, may be natural to him
But it does not follow the easier route to the logistics of guitar as an instrument
He makes it work
@@silverpairaducks the video instruction after "Intense Rock"
Showed some things that were Musicianship Skills that are really useable, like tapping out phrases like a drummer, and approaching lead guitar with rhythm .
Also in the realm of technique, the terminology, " inside picking", and "outside picking" were something Paul emphasized.
@@johnmcminn9455 I mentioned intense rock in another comment. My ex wife hated his stupid guitar trix...probably because I edited them together
@@silverpairaducks your right ! After sitting down with the tab to Street Lethal and working out the riffs slow, i can see how the velocity builds .
Pauls' use of hammers and pulls in combination with picking build some really great sequences
I do the main sequence in the bridge
(B string) 14 15 17( E string)14
17 15 14
14 15 17 slide with pinky 19
(E string) 16 17 19 17 16 slide with index 14
(B string ) 17 15 14
Every note picked but with 4 notes on a string like shawn lane or John McLaughlin
And segovia actually played 4 notes per string , but it helps to use tall frets
It really works well with even numbers of notes
My first guitar teacher Kevin Gallagher who is a You Tube Classical Channel was playing Randy Rhoades with 4 note per string sequencing which is where i got the idea
Thankyou . Respect
Always heard about the guitar wars win! Some lucky people here who got to be in MI or around that scene at the time!
Hope Juan is doing fine.
Juan is kicking ass with the Mars Volta!
@@tedcabana sadly This is not the case. Juan suffered a TBI in Jan 2020 while riding his bike in LA. He is kicking ass in recovery though!
@@SeanPierceJohnson I wish him the best.
Love the Toronto Maple Leaf hat.👍
I knew this band was named after the character from Speed Racer.
Great Drumming 👍
I love the tune beginning at the 15:25 mark.
The guitar and the drums locked in, such a badass riff.
Yeah, what is that song caled? Isn't it some cover? I never heard it before.
Thats it! I'm selling my guitar, many guitarist said after seeing Paul.
Not Brian Carroll though...man swear 2 this day the early shred PG-13 eras is like Buckethead without a mask!
Thanks so much....
Really great to hear this!
Thanks for sharing these clips Harry. Super awesome \m/
Theres a clip on here of a high rooftop view of Hollywood blvd?? Pretty sure thats where I stayed when I first landed in LA...at the HOLIDAY INN, I went up to the TOP Bar area that overlooked Hollywood/LA and the floor has a circular moving/spinning Bar that kept spinning round and round showing a spectacular panaramic view of Hollywood/LA!! I was trippin!! Oh the stories!
Harry was a badass drummer. I always thought it was Scott Travis the whole time. Juan, I loved you and Bruce in The Scream too bro. I wore out 3 or 4 of those cassettes of your first album.
Me 2. Always thought it was Scott Travis wanted 2 do side project outside of Judas Priest n thus he had been a founding father of this band(after all who else can say they played with two of the greatest Lead Guitar combos of all time with Racer X N Judas Priest?) Wonder would they been as cult faves had they never got Scott Travis N esp Bruce Boillet?
@@265308I might be misunderstanding your comment, but are you saying you thought Scott Travis was in Judas Priest before Racer X and that he played in Racer X as a side project in the 1980’s while also in Judas Priest? If so that is incorrect. Scott’s first album with Priest was Painkiller, which was released in 1990. He replaced Dave Holland who played with Priest from 1979 - 1989. So he was definitely in Racer X before joining Judas Priest.
@@gtdrummer6429 OH ok now makes a Lil sense..yeah thought Travis was in Priest first.....he always kinda looked out of place in Racer X bc of age difference kinda like Mick Mars in Motley Crue. Thx 4 info. WISH PG-13 n Boillet make a Racer X reunion.
Nice. I'll share this with Doug Morrison today. He'll get a kick out of it. ,Austin Tx
I have been playing for almost 30 years and have never been ridiculous like that at any point. Paul was BEYOND ridiculous at 16...f**k me ! LOL This was still great to hear aside from the crushing blow it's going to be on my practice schedule. Why bother ?!?! HAHAHAHA
Just get out "intense rock" and weep
Thanks!
Very cool!
I too made records at Prairie Sun studios. Mooka rocks!
Ive also worked with Steve Fontano, the engineer who recorded Racer X's first few records.
The similarity ends there.
Gila msh muda udh sangar aja nih si paul maen nya.keren keren 👏👏👍
This is awesome
Amazing
Kickass!
Awesome to hear - not sure if it’s here but how come you aren’t able to continue on? Ever think of or try to get a jam with them in years passed?
Thought that was Jeff Watson from Night Ranger at 00:40 . LOL
Sounds awesome
13:16 Dat bass solo, wow!!
MOAR! WE NEED MOOAARRRR!!!! Freaking awesome stuff! Thanks so much for sharing this! That riff starting at th-cam.com/video/KNKmLrBaYl0/w-d-xo.html is amazing! Never heard that before though.
I love Racer
nice yamaha recording custom there in that black and white photo
9;19 is very similar to VH light up the sky..
Harry’s playing reminds me of Tommy Aldridge.
THEY WENT TO COTATI!?!?!? where my sonoma county people at?!?!
Yeah,Cotati...right?
Long live Prairie Sun
Soco Rocked back in the day
707!
Santa Rosa born, Petaluma homegrown here.
Yep, all of those Shrapnel shredfest albums were recorded at Prairie Sun back in the mid-80s to mid-90s. Yngwie on the Steeler album, Vinnie Moore "Mind's Eye", Tony MacAlpine "Edge of Insanity" featuring Steve Smith on drums and Billy Sheehan on bass, Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen, Frank Gambale, the first Cacophony album with Marty Friedman and Jason Becker.
Y&T and Night Ranger would regularly play gigs at the Phoenix Theatre in downtown Petaluma, and they and Starship often headlined the Sonoma County Fair in Petaluma back then. I even remember Armoured Saint opening for Y&T just before Dave Pritchard got too sick to play, and The Squares (featuring a then-unknown Joe Satriani on guitar) opened for Eddie Money! Metallica, Starship, Journey and Santana used to rehearse down the 101 in San Rafael too. Eric Martin (then fronting his own band) lived about a half mile from my house--He would later go on to be the lead singer in Mr. Big with Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan and Pat Torpey. Lots of great rock going on in the North Bay back in those days.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 I moved to Fairfield, in Solano county in 1986 and ironically never got involved much in the music scene there like I did in my home state of Washington. I had delusions of grandeur about trying out for Metallica. I was aware of a Vacaville based band called Lawz Rockit (Jason Newstead says their bassist did also try out!) before I left home as well as The mighty Armored Saint, we had their album Rise of the Saint. I can only imagine what might have been if my whole band had moved to the North Bay in the late seventies and early eighties! I love all of the bands that you mention. Now I am in Ronnie James Dio home turf in New York State. Still rocking as much as I possibly can!
@@MichaelMaxwell747 Hey Michael, glad to here you are doing well and still keeping the faith musically. I imagine you got spell-checked on LAAZ Rockit. I remember them being a thing in clubs in the Bay Area along with another band called Roadrunner, and I think both of them had indie records out there, but no air play. in any case, I never heard much of their music.
Possessed was another up and coming band at the time out Pinole, and one of their guitar players Larry LeLonde would later play with Primus--I think they started in Vallejo.
Sounds like you are a little older than I am. I had just graduated high school in 1985 and was just a pup when most of these scenes were happening. A local guitar teacher at the Petaluma Music Center wound up playing in a glam band called Vain that did real well in the Bay Area and eventually got signed to Island Records. I think they still have a following in Europe and Japan. They also have a footnote claim to fame in that they partially broke up about the time Steven Adler was kicked out of Guns-N-Roses, and most of their members rounded out the band Steven Adler's Wrecking Crew, which never went anywhere as Adler was still deep into his addictions.
But that starts opening up a whole other book on the Hollywood/LA era of my musical journey....
What paul is playing some REH licks from Greg Howe haha nice
OMG !!!!!!
Love YRO !
Note right hand wrist position he kept at beginning then changed in the later years
I wish there was a racer x street legal full demo tape
Thanks for uploading. So awesome to see this. Is the footage of the city taken at the time (1985) or is more recent? If taken at the time, why no footage of the band playing? Would’ve been awesome to see the band playing together on film. This is so sick though and I’m so appreciative for it.
looks like Spiccoli on drums!