For baby boomer guitar players, Mr. Randall was a well known member of the Fender brain trust, along with Leo and George Fullerton. These guys put solid body electric guitars on the map. It would have happened eventually anyway, as there were other people, like Paul Bigsby( who helped design and fabricate the Crocker bike), and Rickenbacher, and Les Paul who would have made it popular eventually. But Fender mass produced the suckers first and without guys like Randall, rock and roll would not have evolved in the way it has.
