Randy - lead vocals, keys and assorted noise making devices
Biography:
Randy Inman comes from a hard working, middle class family, born and raised in Westminster, California. Growing up, his sister subjected him relentlessly to the drug-induced music of the sixties and the disco madness of the seventies. She also worked at a few of the local radio stations, where Randy got to tag along from time to time and help out the DJ’s and other various staff members do God knows what. First at KEZY radio, and then KROQ radio, he got to see how some of the music business rolled along. He even made a few commercials, from convenience store jingles to horror movie promos. ‘Twiiiiiggssss!’ might actually get produced after all.
Randy eventually got older and by the 80’s, was a true throw back to the time. Around this time he found out that he wasn’t the only musical spirit in his family; his father, who really didn’t listen to much music except for Snowbird from Ann Murray, or anything by Engelbert Humperdinck, had actually recorded a Rock and Blue-Grass little number, pressed onto a 78 speed, steel, phonographic record. Image the ‘Superman’ like stylus needed to play that record!
Soon, he was actually listening to the same radio stations that his sister had been listening to. KMET, KLOS, KROQ, KEZY and KIIS were all blasting on the radio in his room, all the time, and eventually in his cars to come. There was practically never a time when he wasn’t singing along to something, even when he probably shouldn’t have been. Boston, Kansas, Journey, Styx, The Tubes, and then later on Rick Springfield, Richard Marx, The Cars, Wham!, Lionel Richie, Tears For Fears, Diamond Rio and Restless Heart became some of influences that have come to live deep within him. At 17 years, he finally found enough courage to sing in front of a live audience during a Church youth function. He has been hooked ever since.
Trying his luck on the stage later in life with a 5-piece Country Western band, he really started to hone his chops. Although that was short lived and never really went anywhere, he never ‘lost that loving feeling’. Soon after, he found the love of his life... and after filling the shoes of a friend, lover and husband in 1995 to a beautiful lady named Mitzi, he soon fathered a beautiful little boy, who is ‘Truly’ the inspiration of his life today. He hopes that one day, after the hoopla and successes of the band Wall of Shadows have started to let up ever so slightly, he might be able to make beautiful music along side that one, true ‘Pride and Joy’, whom also loves to sing, named Chase. By the way, he has said to Daddy many times, “Those guys in your band are really cool!”
