l to r: John Alderete, Paul Gilbert, Jeff Martin, Bruce Bouillet, and Scott Travis in 1987
Paul graduated high school and moved to Los Angeles to entered G.I.T in 1984.
Mike Varney talked to him, "How about forming the band?".
And RACER X was formed in 1986.
The original plan was......
Paul was going to play with Greg Chaisson from ROMEO (later, he joined BLINDSIDE BLUES BAND that Jeff Martin belong to,too) or Mark Staine from ex-VANILLA FUDGE that passed an audition, but it wasn't realized.
So He found his band members; Harry Gschoesser (Ds), John Alderete (B), Jeff Martin (Vo) from BIT (Bass Institute of Technology) and PIT (Percussion Institute of Technology), MI.
They finished making their debut album for 10 days!!!! And later, Harry had to go back to Australia, so they need a successor to Harry.
They welcomed to be joined Scott Travis (ex-HAWK, JUDAS PRIEST, FIGHT) and Bruce Bouillet ( he was a Paul's student at GIT).
RACER X become a "SUPER FASTEST TWIN GUITAR BAND".
At the same time, they released their 2nd album; "SECOND HEAT".
In 1988, they released their first live album; "LIVE-EXTREME VOLUME".
But they had some problems with a band.
At that time, Billy Sheehan talked to Paul, "Do you wanna join my new band?".
Paul quit RACER X in 1988.
In 1989, he joined MR.BIG. They released first album,"MR.BIG" in the same year.
Later, Jeff becomes a drummer of BADLANDS, and Scott joins JUDAS PRIEST. The rest, Bruce and John had kept being active.
A few years later, They changed the band name RACER X for THE SCREAM.
THE SCREAM released the debut album "LET IT SCREAM" in 1991.
In 1999, I heard BIG news from Paul.
Paul, Jeff, Scott and John get together again, and they reform RACER X. Why Bruce doesn't join reunion RACER X? Because he has a disease of arms. How sad....
The same year, they released reunion album ( actually, 3rd album ): "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES".
Also, they released 4th album: "SUPERHEROES" in 2000.
Next year, in 2001, they play the live show at Whisky a go go in L.A. on May 25th.
They haven't played for 13 years!
It's unnecessary to say, the show was AWESOME!!
Don't take your eye off NEW RACER X from now on!
Source: http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/k2green/racerx/rx-bio/e-rx-bio.htm
