Another Love cousin from Laguna Beach, California in a band called Wildfire. Randy Love and Jameson had previously been members of Phil Pearlman's band that recorded the rare surf 45 as Phil and The Flakes. Looks like Randy also played with the Beach Boys during the late 1990’s!?!?!
Got a full listen to this album called Smokin' recently. A nice B-grade 70's rock album, great/loud guitars. The vocals/lyrics need some polish but overall ok and it was news to me so thought I'd share the info.....
Wildfire band website with CD store and audio clips here:
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Wildfire - Smokin' - 1970 Demo Album
When Wildfire determined it was time to cut a demo album, they began in California at the Beach Boys studio, putting down the bass and guitar tracks.
Wildfire guitarist Randy Love is Beach Boy Mike Love's cousin. A Texas promoter convinced the band that Texas was the place they wanted to be and the place they wanted to record, and the boys returned to Austin, eventually ending up at Sonobeatís Western Hills Drive studio toward the end of the year. There they cut a demo of original music, 8 power-packed songs of timeless rock and roll. Sonobeat owner Bill Josey, Sr. produced and engineered this demo album which, like all of Sonobeatís classic demos, was released in a plain white jacket with hand-written numbers on white stickers.
According to Pat Quilter, to my knowledge, this was the only recording of Quilter amps used at full power.
In addition to the few copies given out in Austin, the demo was sold at Sound Spectrum, a record store in Southern California owned by Jimmy Otto at the time. Wildfire gave only 100 albums to the store, and they were sold out in 2 days. The store begged fore more, and Sound Spectrum was given an additional 100 albums. They were sold out in a matter of hours, setting an all-time record albums at the store, per Jimmy Otto.
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