ON THIS DATE (18 YEARS AGO) January 2, 1997 - Randy California R.I.P. (Spirit, The Blue Flames, solo) drowned in the ocean while rescuing his twelve-year-old son from a rip current in Molokai, Hawaii. He managed to push his son Quinn (who survived) towards the shore. (b. February 20, 1951) Randy was one of the original members of the rock group Spirit. He moved to New York City in the summer of 66, it was there, at Mannys Guitars, that Randy met Jimi Hendrix. He played in Hendrixs band Jimmy James & the Blue Flames that summer. The stage name Randy California was given to him by Hendrix to distinguish him from another Randy in the band, who Hendrix dubbed Randy Texas. Together with his stepfather Ed Cassidy, songwriter/front-man Jay Ferguson, bassist Mark Andes, with whom Randy and Ed had formed a band called the Red Roosters, and keyboardist John Locke, he founded the band Spirit, originally named Spirits Rebellious, after Kahlil Gibrans poem in 1967 Spirit (band) Randy California
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