Brad and Rosemarie Randall were riding their motorcycle in Connecticut when a driver struck them Monday night.

Courtesy photo / Freddy Komiega

They met country line dancing at the Diamond Rodeo in Cranston.

She was the fun, peppy gal.

He was the laid-back, solid guy.

About 1½ years later, Brad and Rosemarie Randall –– Rosie to her friends –– got married in a country-style wedding.

That was 10 years ago.

Brad, 52, and Rosemarie, 44, of 80 Clearview Drive, North Kingstown, died Monday in Connecticut after the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a Subaru Legacy, the police said.

Within hours, news of their deaths reached their friends at the Band of Brothers, a classic rock cover band out of East Providence for which Brad Randall played bass guitar and sang. They gathered that night at band leader Fred Komiega’s house.

Brad was “just a great bass player. More than that, he was one of the guys,” Komiega said. “And the band grew with Brad.”

“We went from being a coffee house, private party kind of band to getting all kinds of calls,” added band member Joe Caron.

“It wasn’t just a job. It was a family, [a] close-knit bunch of guys,” Komiega said.

Randall, a general contractor who never said no to a friend, played for years in country rock bands, performing briefly with Caron.

He and Caron remained close after Brad stopped playing.

When Band of Brothers lost its bass player, Caron thought of Randall.

The Randalls went to see the band at the Nirvana Lounge in Warren. Brad Randall decided to audition. All he had to do was to play one song, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” performed by Crosby, Stills and Nash.

“He nailed it,” Caron recalled. “Perfect inflection. Everything was right there.”

“He was very particular in his work as well as in his music,” said Jim Salamon, a former band member.

For the next four or five years, Brad was an intricate part of the band: he doubled as the sound man, assembled and dissassembled the stage, and it was in his basement that the band practiced every Thursday.

Rosemarie would offer drinks and food and catch up on her studies.

She even took her books to her hair salon appointments, said her friend and stylist Susan Mello.

In January 2007, the sparky gal with the bright colored hair and finger nails graduated cum laude from Rhode Island College’s Feinstein School of Education and Human Development.

The band was there to celebrate her accomplishments.

That summer she took a job as a special-education teacher at Meeting Street’s The Carter School in Providence, where she was still working.

She was studying to take her state certification test on June 14, Mello said.

Another celebration was in the works.

THE BAND PLAYED its last gig Friday night at Effin’s Resort & Pub in Smithfield.

The place was packed, said Komiega.

During one of the breaks, Brad Randall told Komiega he would ask his wife to go on a motorcycle ride over the weekend.

Rosemarie Randall had promised her friends she would spend the weekend studying for the test, but agreed to the ride.

On Saturday, she went to Mello’s hair salon.

This time, she had her hair colored “flaming, purple red” and painted her fingernails fluorescent yellow, Mello said.

“She just had that bubbly personality [and] a heart of gold.”

“She was like the Energizer Bunny,” said Caron. “Always positive, always upbeat, always seeing the best in everyone and she was definitely his soul mate, no doubt about it.”

The two headed to Connecticut.

According to a Connecticut State Police report, Brad Randall, with his wife as a passenger, was driving his 2005 Honda motorcycle north on South Canterbury Road (Route 169) near the Depot Road extension.

Both were wearing helmets, the police said.

At approximately 11:34 a.m., a car driven by Lisa Ramos, 23, of 293 South Canterbury Rd., Canterbury, crossed the center line and struck the motorcycle, the police said.

Brad Randall was pronounced dead at the scene.

Rosemarie Randall was pronounced dead at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich.

Ramos was taken to Backus Hospital for observation.

The accident remains under investigation.

BAND MEMBERS have canceled upcoming shows and will be pallbearers at the double funeral.

Their funeral will be held on Saturday at 8:45 a.m. at the Nardollillo Funeral Home at 1278 Park Ave., Cranston. It will be followed by a Mass of Christian burial in St. Anns Church, Cranston Street, Cranston at 10 a.m. Visiting hours will be held Friday 5 to 8 p.m.

Band members are brainstorming a memorial to honor their friend.

Friends and fans are posting sympathy messages on the band’s MySpace page.

School officials plan to include a tribute to Rosemarie Randall at the graduation June 21, said Fred Schockaert, team leader of the Carter School.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the accident was at night. It was 11:34 a.m. on Monday, according to a police report.

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