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Randy Gane (born Randall Rutherford Gane, November 30, 1959), also known as Random Damage, is an American

keyboardist A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instr ...

. He currently plays in former

Queensrÿche Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band. It formed in 1982 in Bellevue, Washington, out of the local band the Mob. The band has released 16 studio albums, one EP, and several DVDs, and continues to tour and record. The original lineup ...

vocalist

Geoff Tate Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate, January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey) (Pp. 11, 48). is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial ...

's band Operation: Mindcrime.New Lineup
. Queensrÿche (2012-09-01). Retrieved on 2012-09-16.

Career

Gane was born in

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. He later moved to

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, where he played in the

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Myth, among others with

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Kelly Gray Kelly Gray (born April 7, 1981 in Palo Alto, California) is a former American soccer player. He does commentary for San Jose Earthquakes games on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area Career College Gray played forward and midfielder at the University ...

. Myth was joined by Geoff Tate in 1980, who left in 1982 to pursue a career as the lead

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for Queensrÿche, while Myth went on to record the album ''Arabia''. Gane and Tate remained friends, and Gane has worked with Queensrÿche several times, helping Tate with the harmonies on the Queensrÿche EP, playing support keyboards on the 1986–1987 ''

Rage for Order ''Rage for Order'' is the second studio album by the American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on June 27, 1986. The album was re-released on May 6, 2003 with four bonus tracks. Overview ''Rage for Order'' was more progressive than ...

'' tour, contributing the

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messages on the 1990 album ''

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'', playing keyboards on the 2009 '' American Soldier'' album, and performing keyboards and writing music on the 2011 ''

Dedicated to Chaos ''Dedicated to Chaos'' is the twelfth studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche The album was released first in Japan on June 21, 2011, and a week later in the United States on June 28, 2011, and is the band's first album for Ro ...

'' album. Gane was credited on eight of the 11 songs on Tate's second solo album, ''Kings & Thieves'', released in 2012. In 1993, Gane played the

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's song "He Calls Home" on their eponymous debut album, and has been working as a

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at the

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. On June 20, 2012, Queensrÿche announced they had fired Tate, who on September 1 presented his own lineup, which featured Gane alongside

Rudy Sarzo Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont (born November 18, 1950) is a Cuban American hard rock/ heavy metal bassist. He remains best known for his work with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake, and has also played ...

Bobby Blotzer Robert John Blotzer (born October 22, 1958) is an American musician best known as the drummer for metal band Ratt. He attended Torrance High School in Torrance, California along with his Ratt bandmate Juan Croucier. Ratt Blotzer began his car ...

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(who left the band on November 23), and fellow Myth alumnus, Kelly Gray. The band performed an Operation: Mindcrime Anniversary Tour, which started April 6, 2013, celebrating the album's 25th anniversary, and which was to continue until September 2014. Gane suffered a

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on December 26, 2012. He writes about his experiences in the song "The Weight of the World", which features on the album ''

Frequency Unknown ''Frequency Unknown'' is a studio album released under the name Queensrÿche; it was released by Geoff Tate's temporary version of the band, before a settlement determined that only the other band members were entitled to use the name Queensrÿche ...

'' released by Tate's lineup. Gane explained: "that was a very difficult piece to produce and to arrange, 'cause I was going through some recouping and that song was quite autobiographical for me."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gane, Randy American heavy metal keyboardists People from Mount Clemens, Michigan 1959 births Living people Operation: Mindcrime (band) members