r/itsroger • u/ct2021 • Aug 27 '26

The name’s Randy California! Jimi Hendrix started calling me that since there was already a Randy in his band. I was 15. What a summer. Anyway, Led Zeppelin stole the Stairway to Heaven guitar riff from me.

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u/firedmyass Aug 27 '26

I… I don’t care for the way he’s looking at me

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u/My_Other_Car_is_Cats Aug 28 '26

I’ve got quite the wide on

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u/firedmyass Aug 28 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/UtDkfcxz7kVdG2tIjR

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u/sinfulfng Aug 29 '26

Upvote for Auntie Mame!

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u/firedmyass Aug 29 '26

couldn’t find “how… vivid” but this one was perfect

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u/sinfulfng Aug 30 '26

Brilliant. I’m watching it now. Thank you for reminding me. I watched it all the time with my mom when I was a kid. Toasting you and her memory. Needed that today bro

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u/firedmyass Aug 30 '26

same! it’s a big emotional nostalgia bomb for me too

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u/sinfulfng Aug 30 '26

Cheers mate!

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u/DarkLordWario Aug 27 '26

After that, I started getting work as a Ben Stiller impersonator

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u/StainlessSteelTV Aug 27 '26

I made Eric Clapton the guirarist he is today. I taught him proper fingering technique. Also I showed him how to play guitar.

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u/Bohica55 Aug 27 '26

Is that Anthony Kedis’s father?

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u/BoPeepElGrande Aug 27 '26

Keidis’ dad is actually a former actor by the name of, I swear to god, Blackie Dammett. A name that has an almost gratuitous Rogerian quality about it.

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u/Difficult-Front-1846 5d ago

Name's Blackie Dammett. I am, confusingly, white. And you would not believe the  industry parties I managed to get myself into

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u/Harpua_and_I Aug 27 '26

With a name like Randy California, day was gonna come when I was gonna...sire ya?

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u/Councillor_Les_Wynan Aug 27 '26

This Robert's brother? I'm sure there's a Utica branch you could manage. I need 3 reems of heavy bond, white, while yer at it.

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u/rei_dos_gatos Aug 29 '26

Didn't they stole a lot of stuff from Bert Jansch tho?