Jeffery Louis Martin is an American singer and drummer who has sung for the rock bands Racer X, Bad Dog, Surgical Steel and St. Michael and played drums for the bands

Badlands Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded."Badlands" in '' Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 47. They are characterized by steep slopes, ...

, the

Michael Schenker Group The Michael Schenker Group (often abbreviated as MSG) is an English hard rock band, formed in London in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker. After the release of their second live album, 1984's '' Rock Will Never Die'', ...

, Blindside Blues Band, Red Sea, St. Michael and The Electric Fence, a side project with

Paul Gilbert Paul Brandon Gilbert (born November 6, 1966) is an American hard rock and heavy metal music, heavy metal guitarist. He is the co-founder of the band Mr. Big (American band), Mr. Big, and was also a member of Racer X (band), Racer X, with whom he ...

and Russ Parrish. Jeff Martin played drums for Paul Gilbert, George Lynch,

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, and P.K. Mitchell. Jeff became the new drummer of the Greg Golden Band in February 2023. Martin played drums in Surgical Steel before switching to lead vocals and was the drummer/lead vocalist for St. Michael, both of these being Phoenix, AZ-based bands that also featured his future Badlands bandmate Greg Chaisson. He released a lone solo album in 2006, ''The Fool'', featuring the guitar talents of Paul Gilbert and

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and has also sung backing vocals for

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and

The Scream ''The Scream'' is an art composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The Norwegian name of the piece is ('Screaming, Scream'), and the German title under which it was first exhibited is ' ('The Scream of Nature'). The agonize ...

. Martin appeared in the 1985 movie '' Thunder Alley'', starring

Leif Garrett Leif Garrett (born Leif Per Nervik; November 8, 1961) is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He worked as a child actor, then in the 1970s became famous as a teen idol in music. He later received much publicity for his drug ...

, with his band Surgical Steel.

Discography

Solo

* ''The Fool'' (2006)

Racer X

* '' Street Lethal'' (1986) * '' Second Heat'' (1987) * '' Extreme Volume Live'' (1988) * '' Extreme Volume II Live'' (1992) * '' Technical Difficulties'' (1999) * '' Superheroes'' (2000) * '' Live at the Whisky: Snowball of Doom'' (2001) * '' Getting Heavier'' (2002) * '' Official Bootleg: Snowball of Doom 2'' (2002)

Badlands

* ''

Voodoo Highway ''Voodoo Highway'' is the second studio album by the American hard rock band Badlands (American band), Badlands. After their first album, drummer Eric Singer left the band to join Kiss (band), KISS, and was replaced by drummer Jeff Martin (Ame ...

'' (1991) * ''

Dusk Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before nightfall.''The Random House College Dictionary'', "dusk". At predusk, during early to intermediate stages of twilight, enoug ...

'' (1998)

Blindside Blues Band

* ''Blindside Blues Band'' (1993) * ''Blindsided'' (1994) * ''Messenger of the Blues'' (1995)

Red Sea

* ''Blood'' (1994)

Paul Gilbert

* '' King of Clubs'' (1998) * ''

Beehive Live ''Beehive Live'' is a live album by Paul Gilbert, formerly of the heavy metal band Racer X and the hard rock band Mr. Big. It was released in 1999. Track listing Notes * Many of the tracks appear on the ''Eleven Thousand Notes'' DVD. "Heavy ...

'' (1999) * '' Alligator Farm'' (2000)

The Michael Schenker Group

* '' Be Aware of Scorpions'' (2001) * '' Tales of Rock'n'Roll'' (2006)

Guest appearances

– ''

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'' (1986) *

– '' Let It Scream'' (1991) * Various artists – '' Jeffology – A Guitar Chronicle'' (1995) * Craig Erickson – ''Two Sides of the Blues'' (1995) * Black Symphony – ''Breathe'' (1996) * Paul Gilbert & Jimi Kidd – '' Raw Blues Power'' (2002) *

Pete Way Peter Frederick Way (7 August 1950 – 14 August 2020) was an English bassist. He was the co-founder and original bassist of the rock band UFO from 1968 to 1982; he briefly rejoined the band in 1988–1989 and full-time from 1991 to 2008. He ...

– ''The Plot'' (2003) * George Lynch – ''Furious George'' (2004) *

Kevin DuBrow Kevin Mark DuBrow (October 29, 1955 – November 19, 2007) was an American singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until 1987, and again from 1993 until his death in 2007. Early ...

– '' In for the Kill'' (2004) *

Pat Travers Patrick Henry Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who began his recording career in the mid-1970s. Early life Travers was born and raised in Toronto. Soon after picking up the guitar at age 12, h ...

– ''P.T. Power Trio 2'' (2005) *

Frost Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface. Frost forms when the air contains more water vapor than it can normally hold at a specific temperature. The process is simila ...

– ''Out in the Cold'' (2005) * Indigenous – ''Time Is Coming'' (2014) * Empires of Eden – ''Architect of Hope'' (2015) * Rev Jones – ''Bakwash'' (2018)

Demos

* Surgical Steel – 3-song demo (1982) * Surgical Steel – 6-song demo (1984) * Bad Dog – demo (1990) * Leatherwolf – 3-song demo (2004)

Compilations

* '' Metal Massacre II'' (1982) with Surgical Steel – "Rivet Head" * ''U.S. Metal Vol. 4'' (1984) with St. Michael – "The Beauty, The Power"

References

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