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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Loggins
& Messina
Kansas City
1972 [no label 1CD]
Live
at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, June 30,
1972.
This is one of the
earliest shows by Loggins & Messina properly recorded and almost complete,
just missing minutes at the beginning. They were opening for The New Riders
of the Purple Sage, hence a wonderful cover of Friend Of The Devil, a
Grateful Dead-New Riders tune, not found on the official On Stage album
released in 1974. The atmosphere is relaxed and the recording is quite
fantastic, uncompressed with the full dynamic range. No hiss.
All the radio-friendly
songs that made them popular are here - Danny’s Song, House At Pooh
Corner, You Could Break My Heart, the rockin’ Your Mama Don’t
Dance and the lengthy Vahevala. Hardly distinctive except for the 14-minute
long Vahevala which served country with a Caribbean rhythm via the fiddle.
Loggins & Messina wrote pop songs, from ballads to rockers that pleased
radio stations, record companies and their fans. Wikipedia says "they
are noted for popularizing the subgenre of Yacht rock, which soon became
prominent in the 1970s."
They basically gave
a youthful friendly face to the fuzzy country rock of The New Riders Of
The Purple Sage, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their growly ilk. For
the next four years, they released an album a year till 1977 when Loggins
broke away to find a successful solo career - think Top Gun soundtrack.
If "Yacht rock"
is what we think it is, then this is one mellow sea cruise. Not a humpback
whale in sight to prick your conscience. This recording has very little
background tape hiss, is less compressed and much less distorted in the
louder sections. Lineage: SBD 7.5 ips Nagra reel master recorded by Betty
Cantor > PCM Beta tape digital copy.
Thanks to grner1
for sharing this music. Never released before.
– The Little Chicken 
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A Reader Writes
In
Just a note
to say thanks for the ongoing effort to surprise the hell out me with
the selection of ROIOs!
The Loggins &
Messina '72 just introduced is a real treat. The liner notes are a bit
condescending, but the show is great. Of course Betty Cantor, the long
time Grateful Dead sound engineer, knew how to make a tape.
There's a funny story
associated with this performance of Friend of the Devil, a GD standard.
In this breakout performance Kenny Loggins misses quite a number of lyrics,
but more importantly, he slows the tempo considerably from the bluegrass
breakdown originally developed by Jerry Garcia and John "Marmaduke" Dawson
of the NRPS. Deadhead legend has it that Garcia heard this recording of
Kenny Loggins slower version and is said to have remarked "This makes
a great ballad". Thereafter the Grateful Dead abandoned the bouncy rhythm
of the American Beauty original and played it as a slow ballad for well
over a decade until Jerry's death.
Then there are those
that say the change to the slower tempo was symptomatic of Jerry's heroin
use, as he did the same treatment to a number of tunes, like They Love
Each Other, Sugaree, and the later incarnations of St. Stephen. I think
it was a bit of both.
At any rate, thanks
again for the tunes. I'm going to zone out with "Vahevala", the 14-minute
jam where Logins and Messina actually sound a lot like the Grateful Dead.
Cheers!
Michael Converse
Via internet
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Note from Society’s Pliers:
This
is in re: Loggins & Messina’s "Friend of the Devil"
cover. I’m not sure about the slowing down of the song being attributable
to Jerry’s heroin smoking, as it was in 77 or 78 he had his first
hit of Persian Base and it seem to me I have a couple slower versions
from before 78. I could be wrong.
They
did, however, restructure a LOT of songs when Mickey rejoined the band
post-hiatus, as he was somewhat out of the loop on reading the others’
minds, so to speak. I’d wager that this, along with Jerry’s
affirmation (alleged by David Dodd in The Annotated Grateful Dead lyrics
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/fotd.html#title)
that he was inspired to slow it down after experiencing L&M playing
it.
On
a semi-related note, I saw NRPS in the early 80s, and they broke out with
FotD for what they sort of insinuated was the first time. He said, "Since
I wrote a third of the song, I guess it’s about time the New Riders
took a shot at this one!"
They
played it fast and electric, by the way. :)
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Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks
are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com
if you want to download these tracks at a later time.
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Acoustic
Kenny Loggins:
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| Track
01 |
[03:54]
Danny's Song [one short dropout near the beginning] (5.3MB) |
| Track
02 |
[02:28]
House at Pooh Corner (3.3MB)
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| Track
03 |
[03:27]
Friend of the Devil (4.7MB) |
| Track
04 |
[03:26]
You Could Break My Heart (4.7MB) |
| Track
05 |
[03:18]
Long Tail Cat (4.5MB) |
| Track
06 |
[00:45]
Jim Messina intro talk (1.0MB) |
| Track
07 |
[02:44]
Listen to a Country Song
(3.7MB)
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Electric:
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| Track
08 |
[00:52]
band intros (1.1MB) |
| Track
09 |
[03:15]
Back to Georgia (4.4MB) |
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Trilogy:
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| Track
10 |
[04:32]
Lovin’ Me (6.2MB) |
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11 |
To
Make a Woman Feel Wanted (5.3MB) |
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12 |
[04:05]
Peace of Mind (5.6MB) |
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13 |
[03:36]
Your Mama Don't Dance (4.9MB) |
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14 |
[14:26]
Vahevala (19.8MB) |
| Track
15 |
[00:42]
thanks, crowd and talk before encore (987k) |
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Encore:
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[03:47]
Nobody But You (5.1MB) |
Lineup:
Kenny Loggins - guitar,
vocals
Jim Messina - guitar, vocals
John Clarke - sax
Al Garth - fiddle
Larry Simms - bass
Merle Bregante - drums
In
1974, Loggins & Messina released On Stage a double LP that through a
compilation of three different shows tried to recreate a complete Loggins
& Messina show. Two shows were from 1973 and one from Winterland in
April 1972. Click on the link to order the reissued CD by Loggins & Messina .
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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25, 2007
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