Friday, March 21, 2014

March 22, 1948: Randy Jo Hobbs hit the planet...

R.I.P. Randy Jo Hobbs












Randy Jo was born in Winchester, Indiana. He played bass for The McCoys during the 1965-1969 period…



 

And in the bands of the brothers Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter during 1970-1976…
 Check out Johnny and Randy Jo
 in Detroit 1971…





Tandy also played bass with Jimi Hendrix on some 1968 live sessions which were later released unofficially as Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead (1980) and New York Sessions (1998), and officially as Bleeding Heart (1994). He also played bass with a later version of Montrose, appearing on the Jump on It album, released in 1976…

That same year, he also played bass on Rick Derringer's album with Dick Glass, Glass Derringer






Randy Jo Hobbs was found dead of heart failure, aged 45, in a hotel room in Dayton, Ohio in 1993 and is buried in his hometown of Union City, Indiana…

R.I.P. Randy Jo

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