1960: learned Morse Code in Seattle and became radio amateur K7MRG ... .... .. ___
1964: built a Colpitts Oscillator and a TV camera and played at broadcast TV in the basement in Minnesota
1965: met all four Beatles while giving George Harrison a Rickenbacker guitar in Minneapolis
1967: played six nights a week at a bar called the Vincent Van Go Go in Minneapolis
1968: Spent six months in San Antonio, TX at Lackland AFB
1968: Spent several months near Sacramento at Travis AFB and lived in Iowa City, IA for a while
1969: played 6/7 at a bar called Pier 11 in Costa Mesa, California, moved to The Attic in Newport Beach
Played 6/7 in a Fresno bar called Ara'a Apartments.
1972: Pioneered the now ubiquituous guitar 'tapping' technique in the late 60's in L.A.
Described by Ted Greene as "far ahead of what we had heard other guitarists doing"
1972: Met Milton Berle in an L.A. recording studio
Played with legendary blues violinist Don 'Sugarcane' Harris
Played in a band called Pure Food & Drug Act with Victor Conte of BALCO
1974: Toured Europe and Asia with John Mayall's Blues Breakers
1974: Met Gala Dali in Barcelona during the Franco era and was invited to Dali's castle
1975: Played with saxophonist John Klemmer in New York and Washington Jazz clubs
Worked as an electronics technician at Universal Studios in Los Angeles
Got a job at KMEX Spanish language TV station in L.A. but never actually worked there
1979: Worked as Laserist Manager at Laserium as well as laserist at Griffith Park Observatory
1981: Move to Paris, France and worked for laser entertainment company
Wrote a couple of articles on the TRS-80 printed in 80 Microcomputing
Mentioned or quoted in books Blues-Rock Explosion, Van Halen 101 and Game of Shadows
Met and performed a laser show for Shirley MacLaine and Mel Brooks the same evening
1996: Built a Twitter-like chat site in French in 1996
1996: Consultant for Bordeaux and other French wine producers including two of the five first growths
2007: Raised (pre-Oprah) awareness of Kiva.org in 2007 with 24 hour live podcast. Funded 200+ loans to date
2007: Began Asterisk Users Conference, now VoIP Users Conference
2008: Video conferenced with Phil Zimmermann on a PGP-encrypted Zfone at Asterisk Tag
2009: Mentioned in Conversations with Great Jazz and Studio Guitarists
by Jim Carlton
2009: MC'ed an Astricon 2009 track and gave away VUC T-shirts there
2009: Still alive as of Feb 2010 ! <-- NOT automatically generated :)
I can be reached at 'randulo2008' at Google's famous webmail server.