so there i am....wait, what?...oh yeah, i've missed ya'll too...anyway, i'm air guitarin' in my underwear to my new JOURNEY dvd of live concerts from '81-97 and i see this big, black dude(in spandex no less) playin' the bass on stage. so i look at the liner notes and see he is RANDY JACKSON...ain't RANDY JACKSON the fat black dude on AMERICAN IDOL?

Yep! Same guy.

See here. That third link looks like it was made just for you. Wow.

hey, he's from baton rouge!!!

if you go to his site and scroll down to his pictures with journey, the outfit he's in, with the numbers...that's the one in the video.

don't get me wrong...he's killin' the bass and he can sing too...but JESUS...in that outfit his ass (in the literal sense) looks like a umpa loompa.

Heheh. I can't get a good view of it, but I totally trust you, Dan. He does have a pretty nice flat top though.