Greenhouse Effect "Racers" is the phenomenally "ahead of it's time" grunge song anthem from 1987 that establishes Phil Keegan and Greenhouse Effect early on as one of Rock's Greatest Bands !! This very important crucial group is played heavily all around the world on the internet but thankfully especially at JANGO RADIO. "People are learning about us and they've discovered that there is more to garage alternative rock than just Nirvana and the Pixies,..G.e. was there first" says Keegan. And true it is, Greenhouse Effect have hit the world hard with some classic songs among them 1991's "Brandy" and 1988's funk inspired classic "The Magic Man" where Keegan plays some of rock's earliest Grunge guitar. "We were way ahead of our time,.." says Clark Hagins "We were a three piece with me singing from the drums and it was tough to get taken seriously,..later i moved up to lead vocals but that actually made it even WORSE,...then people thought that we were one of those lame metal bands like a Pearl Jam,..when I moved to guitar myself in 1990, thats when we came into our own as a band ,..with 'Star' and "Ben is dead",..we trully became grunge rock superstars then" G.E's Fortunes were crushed by the tidal wave of major label bands that burst onto the scene in 1992 and soon after the band was effectively broken up with bassist Rick Carmody joining up with Redondo Beach's One handed Readers......"those were sad times,..1992 was the worst year of my life" says Hagins ,...