• Shrapnel Records is an American record label group founded by record producer Mike Varney. The group principally uses the Shrapnel Records record label...
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  • Mike Varney (category Record producers from California)
    American record producer and music publisher. He is the founder of the Shrapnel Label Group, which includes Shrapnel Records, Tone Center Records, and Blues...
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  • (Transformers) Shrapnel (American punk band), an American punk band Shrapnel (Welsh punk band), a 1981–1988 musical group Shrapnel Records, music label Shrapnel, a...
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  • recently added Tommy Paris (keyboard). They are currently signed to Shrapnel Records. The number "77" in the band's name is a reference to the 1970s, the...
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    Marty Friedman (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    has released albums with several record labels, including Avex Trax, Universal, EMI, Prosthetic, and Shrapnel Records. At the age of 14, after attending...
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    Malmsteen). Around 1981, Gilbert first contacted Mike Varney (founder of Shrapnel Records), asking for a gig with metal mega-star Ozzy Osbourne. At the time...
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    Neal Schon (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    Neal Joseph Schon (born February 27, 1954) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist for the rock band Journey...
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  • Mark Varney Project (category Tone Center Records albums)
    short-lived collaborative project put together by Mark Varney, brother of Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney. Truth in Shredding is the first studio album by...
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    Eric Gales (category Provogue Records artists)
    2001: That's What I Am (MCA Records) 2006: Crystal Vision (Shrapnel Records) 2007: The Psychedelic Underground (Shrapnel Records) 2008: The Story of My Life...
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  • Cacophony (band) (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, and signed to Shrapnel Records. They released two studio albums and remained active until 1989, after...
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    Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to a target area and then ejected them to allow them...
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    the catalogues of TVT Records, Premium Latin Music (home to Aventura), Blind Pig Records, Frenchkiss Records, Shrapnel Records., and Music of the World...
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    Vinnie Moore (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    playing is heard). Following this, Moore recorded his first solo album, Mind's Eye (1986), released on Shrapnel Records and featuring Tony MacAlpine on keyboards...
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  • Jason Becker (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    American composer and guitarist. At the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman, and they released...
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  • of flashy electric-guitar soloists who recorded mostly instrumental albums for Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label. Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen...
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    Richie Kotzen (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    discovered by Shrapnel Records' Mike Varney, and he recorded his first solo album by the age of 19, the first of two instrumental records, simply entitled...
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  • Phantom Blue (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    were the first and only female artists to be signed to Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records, only three months after forming. Phantom Blue was formed in 1988 in...
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    Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood. The group subsequently signed to Columbia Records. In early 2007, Pearl announced he would reunite with Love/Hate after ten...
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    Joey Tafolla (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    over the years for albums and live concerts. He joined Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label soon after leaving the band and released his debut album Out...
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    debut album, The First Record through Shrapnel Records. In August 2014, The Second Record was released, again with Shrapnel Records. In the summer of 2016...
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    Yngwie Malmsteen (category Swedish record producers)
    really cool." In early 1982, Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records first heard Yngwie Malmsteen's music through record store owner Bill Burkard, who played for...
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  • True Obsessions (category Shrapnel Records albums)
    April 17, 1996 through Toshiba EMI (Japan) and October 8, 1996 through Shrapnel Records (United States). It was also the last to feature Nick Menza on drums...
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    (Phlamencore Records) Colossal Myopia (2006) (Shrapnel Records) The Ultimate Devotion (2007) (Shrapnel Records) Legionnaire (2010) (Phlamencore Records) Singles...
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  • Technical Difficulties (Racer X album) (category Shrapnel Records albums)
    December 8, 1999 through Mercury Records (Japan), and on April 25, 2000 through Shrapnel Records (United States) and Mascot Records (Europe). The album's title...
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    Racer X (band) (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    Juan Alderete being the sole constant member. They were signed to Shrapnel Records. Guitarist Paul Gilbert first gained notoriety when he was featured...
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  • complaints that their CD was too hard to find to purchase. This was because Shrapnel Records, the first label they were signed to, had produced a limited run of...
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    Chastain (band) (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    David T. Chastain and signed by Shrapnel Records. The band was put together in 1984 by Mike Varney, president of Shrapnel for a David T. Chastain solo album...
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    L.A. Guns (redirect from Raz Records)
    with the result being Tales from the Strip, released in 2005 through Shrapnel Records. In a 2006 interview, singer Lewis stated that he would have preferred...
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    Chris Duarte (musician) (category Provogue Records artists)
    a combination of "rockin' blues" and "punk blues." He is signed to Shrapnel Records. Duarte was born in San Antonio, Texas, and was first inspired by music...
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    Greg Howe (category Shrapnel Records artists)
    Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney...
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