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

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

Career

Gane was born in

Mount Clemens, Michigan Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,314 at the 2010 census. It is the seat of government of Macomb County. History Mount Clemens was first surveyed in 1795 after the American Revolutionary War by Christ ...

. He later moved to Washington, where he played in the

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band Myth, among others with

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

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

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, Bobby Blotzer,

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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'' 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