Kik Tracee formed in LA in 1988 by guitarists Greg Hex and Michael Marquis, bassist Rob Grad, and drummer Scott Donnell (who was later replaced by Johnny Douglas) eventually recruiting Minnesota transplant Stephen Shareaux to be the band’s vocalist. The band signed to RCA / BMG and recorded their Dana Strum (Slaughter) produced debut No Rules, that quickly became a fan favorite, with the band being prominently featured in the Rock Press, and finding some success with their singles “Don’t Need Rules” and “You’re So Strange” which landed just outside of the Billboard Top 40 (and No Rules landing at #46 on Rolling Stone’s “Best Hair Metal Albums of All Time”).
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The band veered left for their follow up, 1992’s Field Trip EP, produced by “Godfather of Desert Rock” Masters Of Reality’s Chris Goss, who would go on to produce influential records for Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age. Field Trip showed the band moving in a direction away from the LA Hard Rock of its predecessor, and into the more eclectic alternative direction the band had originally intended for No Rules.
After recording their second full length, the unreleased Center Of A Tension, with producer Garth “GGGGarth” Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Mudvayne), Kik Tracee disbanded in 1993, with Shareaux becoming a contender for not only the vacant vocal spot in Motley Crue, eventually filled by John Corabi, but a frontrunner for the vocalist position in Velvet Revolver, as showcased in the documentary The Rise Of Velvet Revolver.
Sheareaux released his first solo LP Golden independently in 2013, and is in the final stages of recording the debut LP by Zen From Mars.