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RANDY CALIFORNIA - The Euro-American Years 1979-1983US Release : ACAD8141 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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| Guitarist/singer/songwriter
Randy California is best known as the leader of Spirit, although
he occasionally made solo albums. A guitar prodigy, California played
in Jimi Hendrix's pre-Experience group the Blue Flames in New York's
Greenwich Village in the summer of 1966. It was Hendrix who named
him Randy "California." Spirit, an eclectic band with
rock, jazz, and folk tendencies, was formed in Los Angeles in 1967.
After four albums, the original quintet split up in 1971. California
suffered a serious riding accident and after his recovery made a
solo album, Kapt. Kopter and The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds (1972),
which featured uncredited appearances by Hendrix's Experience rhythm
section of Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. He rejoined Spirit in
1974 and assumed lead of the band. (Spirit charted with ten albums
between 1968 and 1976.) Several subsequent Randy California solo
albums were released in Europe. Randy California died tragically in January of 1997, when he was gripped by an undertow while swimming on the coast of the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Before he died, he was able to save his 12 year-old son, Quinn. |
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