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In 1980 Jackie Lomax took part in a recording session for Rod Stewart's FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR LP, contributing backing vocals………
Very little seems to be known about the rest of the 1980s………
In the late 80s Jackie Lomax made Ojai, Ventura County his home, where he still lives………
In 1990 Jackie Lomax re-appeared as a contributor to the compilation album TRUE VOICES, covering Tim Buckley's Devil Eyes..…
In the early 1990s he was playing in LA with Terry Reid, Mick Taylor, Brian Auger and Jack Lancaster..…
JACKIE LOMAX says '… for a while I played bass for the Drifters, the Diamonds, the Coasters and the Shirelles as recently as 1993--four sets a night. I just really started getting comfortable playing guitar since I moved up here to Ojai in the late '80s. I didn't have the confidence to play before and I always hired guitar players for my albums. You take solos on guitars; no one wants to hear a bass solo…'
In 1996 he was involved in the Big Beat release of the Undertakers' CD, which featured all their Pye singles as well as an American single and unreleased material from the mid-60s and photographs provided by Jackie himself…..
Throughout 1997 he was playing R&B, blues and soul at the Café Voltaire in Ventura, the Coconut Teaser on Sunset Strip and Libby Park in Ojai..…
JACKIE LOMAX says '...there's lots of bar bands, lots of people doing good stuff. There's some good people. But there's not a big pool of musicians…. my roots were in R&B, then I learned the blues idiom. Blues is an idiom that everyone can feel. You can have all sorts of guitar solos, but if you don't have a groove, you don't have a thing…'
In 1997 he contributed background vocals to Michael Bruce's IN MY OWN WAY album…..
In 1999 he was playing first guitar and singing with the Ashford Gordon Band which also included Ashford Gordon on vocals and guitar, Orest Balaban on bass, Dynamic Dave Stewart on drums, and Hippie Mark on Blues Harp. He appeared as the featured 'first' guitarist on Ashford Gordon's SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE album released in 2000…..
And he was teaching music one day a week at Blue Sky Music in Ojai, California..…
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