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Being a Sunset Strip regular, Tim joined the band in 1983, and quickly rounded out the quartet's sound with his bass, background vocals and keyboard skills. Gaines recorded the band's debut EP The Yellow and Black Attack and their follow up full-length album Soldiers Under Command in 1985.
Gaines briefly left the band during the pre-production period of the band's platinum selling album To Hell with the Devil but rejoined the band after the sessions were concluded in order to tour. Gaines did not play on the band's follow up In God We Trust but did tour in support of the album.
Gaines contributions to the band's next release Against the Law were evident in his playing on the release but he did not play on the band's cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star" (The track was recorded by Randy Jackson).
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