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
american-musician money quickly realized time
I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
bigger explore realized together
I realized being together was a bigger thing than any of us alone. So that clinched it for me. That made me want to explore it further.
flavors folk giving gotten involved kenny mainly preferred realized rock send songs tunes wrote
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).
choice continue discovered fact leave led life love music patterns people songwriter struggle studying understood
The studying led me to the fact that I really am a songwriter and music is what I love to do, ... I also understood the patterns in my life and discovered that I wasn't so unique. I was very much like many other people who had a choice to get well and leave a narcissistic world or continue to struggle with it.
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.
maybe
You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.
recorded several songs
We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.
brought decisions dressing falling kids share
We could now make intelligent, grown-up decisions to keep us from falling into the same trap, ... We're interacting more as friends and companions. We share the same bus, sometimes the same dressing room, and have brought our kids out to share the silliness.
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,
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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audience decided essence four hours inspired night performance supposed true turned
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,