Randy Cierley

Randy Cierley — who’s frequently credited as Randy Sterling, and sometimes as Randy Steirling, Randy Stierling, and Randy Cerley — was raised in Bakersfield, CA, and used guitar and bass young, just with time to capture the entire second influx of rock and roll & roll by the end from the ’50s as a higher school college student. In senior high school, he used Rick Lee & the Barons, support the Paradons on the single “Gemstones and Pearls” in 1959. Immediately after that he performed on another solitary, “Lovers Isle” from the Blue Jays, and from then on he going to LA with the purpose of being a specialist musician. He performed hundreds of classes over another couple of years — he wasn’t usually sure the actual program was for or who the designer was whose tone of voice would finally end through to it — in 2004, he recalled some classes with Gerry McGhee and Larry Taylor (later on of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart’s support band) beneath the name the Blue Hillsides, of an recording of “folk tunes having a defeat,” but he by no means knew if it had been released. He will keep in mind playing on plenty of classes with Randy Sparks of the brand new Christy Minstrels, nonetheless it was when he visited function for Sonny & Cher and in addition for Cher like a single designer that he strike his stride, playing on “All I MUST SAY I Wish to accomplish” and “I ACQUIRED You Babe,” among additional songs to them. Partially complicating a summary of his credits was the actual fact that he transformed his name to Randy Sterling during this time period, due to people’s problems spelling or pronouncing Randy Cierley — but that was still how he got his assessments, and he discovered some of four variants arriving on program information, when he was acknowledged in any way. Among the stranger periods that he performed in the middle-’60s was the main one for the Kingston Trio record Somethin’ Else, which the folk trio attempted, for the initial and only period, for a power rock audio. He recalled that group of periods as “really somethin’ else,” as the three folk music artists clearly weren’t more comfortable with the sound these were targeting — “John [Stewart] believed he was even more of a rock and roll and roller than he actually was,” he remarked from the periods, which yielded music that sounded just like the folk trio getting backed, variously, with the Byrds, the Standells, as well as the Sir Douglas Quintet, and do obtain Cierley a composing credit. It had been out of these periods that he visited use the trio’s supervisor, Frank Werber, organizing “You Had been on My Brain” and co-producing the Sons of Champlin as well as the Association, among additional acts. He later on engaged within an abortive try to cut an recording within the official group with drummer Jim Keltner for Warner Bros. that got buried under studio room politics, though he and Keltner finished up operating together for a long period afterward on other’s classes. He spent 3 years operating within the street music group behind Neil Gemstone and finished up becoming among the busiest program music artists in LA because of this, using Frank Zappa, J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne, Frank Sinatra, and Cal Tjader, among several others. Over time of this, nevertheless, he made a decision to draw back again and spent seven years like a photographer, finding yourself employed in video and sound production for advertisements. His plans to determine his own organization found an abrupt end, nevertheless, when a motorbike accident remaining him paralyzed below the upper body and limited to a wheelchair. In the wake of this disaster, he dropped his wife and his family members, He survived very long enough to meet with various other music artists and become portion of a trio known as Spare Switch with David Morgan and Stacey Slaughter in the first ’90s. He offers continued to try out — and documented four albums with Extra Change — since that time.