Word: messina
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Tickets are easier to come by for the Sunset Series concerts, so I was able to see Loggins and Messina, with the Mahavishnu Orchestra at Boston Common on the 21st. Kenny Loggins, with Jim Messina, as they are show precisely at six, and it was instantly evident that this is nobody's backup net. Loggins and Messina are as good a rock band as any that's come out of California in a long time. Their strength lies not so much in virtuosity us in versatility...
...hornmen, played country fiddle quite well on "Listen to a Country Song," and "Dixie Holiday" was performed as only a country rock band would perform a country style song, with an emphasis on bounce. Throughout the set the band's Springfield-Poco influences became evident. Loggins and Messina play the same kind of joyous country rock that Poco is able to succeed so well at. There are no frills, and yet, there's a feeling that this band has much more range than Poco. It's the horns. Garth and Jon Clarke add a new dimension to the music...
...version exploits the rhythms of the West Indies in a long purely percussive break, anchored by Mexsina's chopped chords played through a wah-wah pedal, and numerous straight percussion. Al Garth followed with a fiddle break break that was equal parts acid guitar solo and pure country fiddle. Messina's lyrical wah-wah solo took the song...
Skezag (a slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have...
...wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio. The Highway of the Sun, Italy's main north-south autostrada, was sealed off. With the port blocked, hundreds of trucks and freight cars stood idle on the other side of the Straits of Messina...