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About Randu
The profile picture is a pastel painting I drew of one of my musical idols, Jaco Pastorius. Been around as a drummer for a long time. I was fortunate enough to work with and learn from such tremendous local musicians as Billy Haynes, Marty Townsend, Mike Hall, Bobby Santa Cruz, Kenny Senter, Mark Yeary, Rick Troxel, Glenda Robles and many more as we played in local bands like Steppin' In, BT Champion, Pressure Point, Rage and others. I had the "dream come true" good fortune of playing and touring the world for a couple of years with Tina Turner and, entertainment-wise, you couldn't ask for a better role model! I had a brain abscess which put me in a coma for a while and knocked out my left-side motor functions. I also had a seizure condition that would enact its debilitating nature at the most inopportune moments (especially onstage!) and made me feel I was unreliable to offer my services to the music world in general. These circumstances caused me to quit playing for about 8 years but, with the help of improved medication for my neurological disorder, I'm back at it. Hopefully, I'll be around for quite a bit longer as my chops slowly come back. For the time being, I'm very happy to be playing in a band with Bunky Spurling and Rob Thomas and thoroughly enjoying every opportunity to be actively involved in something I passionately love........PLAYING MUSIC!...........Now that I'm in my "Golden Years" (truthfully, I don't understand what's so f***in' GOLDEN about 'em.....Everything in the body stops working right, slows down considerably or needs replacement parts!!), I'm hoping to rejuvenate the youth-oriented world of entertainment by participating in a long-overdue resurgence of the quality of music only the experience of a "Gray Panther" can offer......That is, if I don't wind up in a rest home first!!
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