Extreme Volume II Live

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Extreme Volume II Live
RacerX-LiveExtremevol2.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1992
Venue Country Club, Reseda, California
Studio Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre Heavy metal
Length36:54
Label Shrapnel
Producer Ron Bloom, Ricky Delena, Racer X, GGGarth, Mike Varney
Racer X chronology
Extreme Volume Live
(1988)
Extreme Volume II Live
(1992)
Technical Difficulties
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]

Extreme Volume II Live is the second live album by Racer X, released by Shrapnel Records. Although it succeeds the release of Extreme Volume Live by four years, the songs on the album were actually recorded at the same time. At the time of the album's release, Racer X was on hiatus.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Gilbert and Jeff Martin except where noted.

  1. "Hammer Away" – 4:10
  2. "Poison Eyes" – 4:04
  3. "Heart of a Lion" (K.K. Downing, Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton) – 4:36 (Judas Priest cover)
  4. "Moonage Daydream" (David Bowie) – 3:17 (David Bowie cover)
  5. "Sunlit Nights" (Bruce Bouillet, Gilbert, Martin) – 4:04
  6. "Give It to Me" – 3:07
  7. "On the Loose" – 3:02
  8. "Rock It" – 5:10
  9. "Detroit Rock City" (Bob Ezrin, Paul Stanley) – 5:20 (Kiss cover)

Personnel

Racer X
Production

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References

  1. Hinds, Andy. "Racer X - Live Extreme, Vol.2 review". AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved 2021-04-10.
  2. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 359. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.