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Randy California is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on February 20, 1951 in California, United States. Spirit was the original member of the psychedelic rock band Spirit, and he is now a deceased rock guitarist.
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California was born as Randy Craig Wolfe into a musical Jewish family in Los Angeles and spent his early years studying varied styles at the family’s Los Angeles folk club, the Ash Grove. His uncle, Ed Pearl, was the founder of the Ash Grove. He was 15 years old when his mother Bernice Pearl and new stepfather, Ed Cassidy (later to become a founding member of the band Spirit, with Randy), moved to New York City in the summer of 1966 because Cassidy had a number of jazz gigs lined up. It was there, at Manny’s Music, that Randy met Jimi Hendrix. He played in Hendrix’s band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames that summer. California, Cassidy and Pearl lived in an apartment building in Forest Hills (Queens), New York called the Balfour, whose other residents included future Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker, who cited California’s blues-based guitar style as an influence on his own playing.
Their first, self-titled, album was released in January 1968, a month before California’s 17th birthday. He then wrote the band’s biggest hit, 1968’s “I Got a Line on You” for Spirit’s second album, The Family That Plays Together. He also wrote the single “1984”, released in early 1970 and banned from most AM radio stations at that time. He also penned Spirit’s other hit, “Nature’s Way”, for the band’s best-selling album, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Christopher Cross covered “Nature’s Way” on his 1994 album “Windows.”
He was a member of a musical family.
| Name | Randy California |
| First Name | Randy |
| Last Name | California |
| Occupation | Guitarist |
| Birthday | February 20 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Home Town | California |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Quinn Wolfe |
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When Ferguson and Andes left Spirit to form Jo Jo Gunne due to the slow sales of Sardonicus, and then his dear friend Hendrix died, a depressed California left Spirit. He recorded Kapt. Kopter & The Fabulous Twirly Birds, which included California and Cassidy’s version of Paul Simon’s “Mother and Child Reunion” plus a slew of authentically Hendrix-like tracks (also featuring former Experience bassist Noel Redding, AKA ‘Clit McTorius’). In 1972 the album was released at virtually the same moment as Jo Jo Gunne’s first, eponymous album that featured “Run, Run Run” and a Spirit album called Feedback that was recorded by Cassidy and Locke (who were Spirit’s jazz influences) and guitarist/bassist brother duo Al and John Staehely, who wrote and sang most of the material on the LP.
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