Jim Messina
Jim Messina
James Melvin "Jim" Messinais an American musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer. He was a member of folk rock group Buffalo Springfield, a founding member of country rock pioneer Poco, and half of the soft rock duo Loggins and Messina with Kenny Loggins...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth5 December 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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I was concerned with him losing attendance, because of the conflict of me doing my show, ... So I told him I would lend my name to the benefit, so we could advertise it as 'Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sitting In.'
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That set it for me that it was possible to capture an audience,
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It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
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Because Kenny mainly wrote folk songs, I was giving him some of my songs to see if we could get more of an edge, get more rock with it, and also rearranging some of his tunes to have different flavors other than folk stuff, ... So I had gotten a little more involved than I would have preferred to have, and also I realized that I couldn't just send him out to the world, that I should be there (too).
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Kenny and I, and I'm very glad we did this, decided that if we were going to work together we weren't going to complicate it by letting management push us into putting out a new record,
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We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise,