Technical Difficulties

by Racer X

Technical Difficulties cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 December 1999
  • Label: Universal Japan
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:07
  • Community rating: 3.38/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Paul Gilbert, Tim Heyne, Larry Freemantle, Steve Hall, Scott Travis, William Hames, Jeff Martin, Tom Size, John Alderete, John Greenberg

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The third Racer X album and the band's first after reforming, 'Technical Difficulties' is a benchmark of speed metal virtuosity. It reunited every original member except guitarist Bruce Bouillet, sidelined by carpal tunnel syndrome, and its instrumental title track became a standard reference for Paul Gilbert's string-skipping technique, with drummer Scott Travis simultaneously holding the same post in Judas Priest.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, melodic, virtuosic, riff-heavy, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Phallic Tractor (0:56)
  2. Fire of Rock (4:56)
  3. Snakebite (4:23)
  4. Technical Difficulties (4:20)
  5. Miss Mistreater (4:31)
  6. Bolt in My Heart (4:10)
  7. 17th Moon (4:06)
  8. Waiting (4:29)
  9. Poison Eyes (4:17)
  10. B.R.O. (1:20)
  11. God of the Sun (5:15)
  12. Give It to Me (3:15)
  13. The Executioner's Song (4:09)

Credits

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