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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You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.
columbia demos finally recording records rehearsing signed spent weeks
At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.
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What was supposed to be two hours a night turned into four hours. The audience was so excited, so inspired and mesmerized. I thought: 'This is what it's all about. This is the true essence of what performance is supposed to be.' That's why I decided to do this tour,
spoil word
We've put the word out for a lot of our friends in Hawaii, but we're not going to spoil the surprise,
bought charity event few offered songs tickets worth
I didn't want my event to take away from his charity, ... We bought something like $3,000 worth of tickets for his event and I offered to play a few songs with him if he wanted.
came driveway last night walking year
One of our canvassers was walking down a driveway last night when he came upon two bears, between a year or two weighing 150 to 180 pounds,
experience
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
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door embrace kenny open
I think it was just the right moment, ... Kenny was open to it and wanted to embrace old friendships. The door was open.
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I think that was very good for both of us, ... I think Kenny got to see how people reacted to us, and also he could hear, as could I, a sound that we hadn't heard in 30 years.
cheaper eight hall rehearsal
It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
advertise concerned conflict jim lend losing name sitting
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.'
came expecting solo turned
From Kenny's perspective, when he came into Loggins and Messina, he had been expecting a solo career, but it turned out to be a duo,
complicate decided glad kenny letting management push putting together work
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,