Randy Masters:  

I moved to Southern California (Orange County) in 1986 with the local Portland band "Betrayer". Myself and a few guys from Centennial class of 86, along with a friend from another school. We had some mild success playing L.A. and O.C. clubs etc. and writing and recording songs but it didn't last long and we dis-banded in late 1987. I met new musician friends over the next couple of years and we formed a new band in 1989 called Backstreets. Backstreets had considerably more success in Hollywood. Headlining shows on Saturday nights at the famous Whiskey, Roxy and Troubadour. We had a producer, a manager and a lawyer. We spent lots of time in the recording studio and shopped our music and the band to record companies in hopes of getting that elusive "contract". Sadly it did not happen for us and eventually we called it quits in 1994. I do miss getting together from time to time to write and play music. Music is still a very important part of my life. During that time, I got married to my wife, Sheri (no kids), actually created a nice career for myself doing software design and programming for technology companies in the Travel industry. (Don'...Expand for more