Guitarist, Multi-Instrumentalist and Composer, Pete McRae, currently working out of Philadelphia, was born in Austin Texas in 1955, at age 3 moved to Odessa-Midland Texas and spent most holidays at his maternal grandparents ranch in nearby Rankin (he still has some cowboy in him). The McRaes moved to Jacksonville, Florida (aged 5), then to St Petersberg, spent some time with fraternal gradparents in Bockton, MA. In the Summer of 1965 his family moved to Marin County CA (just ouside SF) where he attended Bernard Hoffman Elementary, in Terra Linda. By age 13, McRae was on his way to becoming a hippie, he started playing guitar and listening to The Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane. McRae spent most of his life in California.         <details>    Pete graduated from Terra Linda High School, in Marin County a few years after Freddy Moore had studied there.     In the 1970s he migrated to Los Angeles and became a founding member of "The Kats " (as the world came to know them).

  
   Both McRae and Bobbyzio Moore offered their talents to several LA Produced studio recordings, including The Faraghers (Polydor 1979). 

   Pete McRae and Freddy Moore co-wrote and recorded several songs together including: Money, Prelude to Reason, Pushed Me To It, Wait for the Night, and World All Alone.

   After the managerial/political debacle of "The Great Lost Kats Album", Pete went on to become a successful gun-for-hire guitarist and has performed and recorded with a wide range of musical artists ever since. 

McRae went on to work with:
Roach and the White Boys,
Josey Cotton,
Bobbyzio,
The Kat Club!,
Connie Stevens,
Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music; Zappa),
Mr. Mister,
Peter Kingsbery (Cock Robin),
David Baerwald, and
Stan Ridgway.
McRae also toured with The Rembrandts playing Cello and Mandolin.

Most notable, is his guitar work as a session and touring musician.
Pete incorporates his distinctive (some say genius) style of guitar and slide into each band's sound. You really have to see him to believe him.