Jimmie Randall
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Jimmie Randall is a bass guitarist
best known for his work with Jo Jo Gunne
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, but Randall was a huge success and remained with the band until it folded.
His bass-playing was a complete departure from Andes's heavy drive. His jetglo Rickenbacker
4001 produced a brighter sound with more complicated basslines. Randall's influence is also credited with Jo Jo Gunne's hihigher volume at live shows. Big of stature, his presence dominated the stage visually as well as musically.
He played on three Jo Jo Gunne albums: Bite Down Hard, Jumpin' the Gunne and So Where's the Show.
Jimmie Randall lives in Austin, Texas
, and now plays with fellow Jo Jo Gunne member John Staehely in The Dead Pyrates Society.
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
best known for his work with Jo Jo Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne
Jo Jo Gunne is a rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes after they had left Spirit...
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Career
Jimmie Randall had been playing in several Texas bands since the early 1960s when, in 1972, he was invited to join Jo Jo Gunne as bass guitarist. It was a difficult task to replace a someone as highly regarded as Mark AndesMark Andes
Mark Andes is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, Heart, and Mirabal.-Early life:...
, but Randall was a huge success and remained with the band until it folded.
His bass-playing was a complete departure from Andes's heavy drive. His jetglo Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California...
4001 produced a brighter sound with more complicated basslines. Randall's influence is also credited with Jo Jo Gunne's hihigher volume at live shows. Big of stature, his presence dominated the stage visually as well as musically.
He played on three Jo Jo Gunne albums: Bite Down Hard, Jumpin' the Gunne and So Where's the Show.
Jimmie Randall lives in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, and now plays with fellow Jo Jo Gunne member John Staehely in The Dead Pyrates Society.