Jay Truax (born Lynwood, California) is a bass player and singer with Love Song, a pioneer

Christian rock Christian rock is a form of rock music that features lyrics focusing on matters of Christian faith, often with an emphasis on Jesus, typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Ch ...

group. Jay formed a Salt Lake City rock group with

John Mehler John Mehler (born August 27, 1948 in Long Beach, California), is a drummer for Love Song, Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands. Biography Mehler graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City wi ...

and Fred Field called Spirit of Creation. Later he joined with Chuck Girard and Tommy Coomes in Love Song. Truax also played bass and sang backing vocals for former Buffalo Springfield member Richie Furay between 1975 and 1977 and played on Furay's 1976 album ''

I've Got a Reason ''I've Got a Reason'' is the debut solo album by American singer-songwriter Richie Furay, released in 1976. History After leaving Poco in 1974 and the country rock supergroup Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, Furay released his first solo album whic ...

''. He also played in The Surfaris, with Jim Fuller,

Jim Pash James Edward Pash (December 23, 1948 – April 29, 2005) was an American musician and recording artist. Pash was originally the surf saxophonist for The Surfaris, an early California surf rock group in the 1960s, known for the 1963 instrument hit ...

( Wipe Out), not

Bob Berryhill Bob Berryhill (born December 15, 1947) was a member of The Surfaris and co-writer and recording artist of " Wipe Out" and other Surfaris' hits. In 1960, when Berryhill was 13, he took a trip to the Hawaiian Islands and learned to surf and play uk ...

’s spin off version of The Surfaris, off and on from 1982 until 2017.

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