Word: poco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along come Eagles. "The News Buffalo Springfield." Even with the success of the Springfield offspring Poco, Loggins and Messina, the time is still somehow ripe for another Buffalo Springfield. And Eagles seem to fit They're torn from the Los Angeles tradition. The four members have done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band...
...Most of us are Sad" is Springfield pulled through Poco with the primary difference that its mournfulness is more western than country and western Roughly it recalls Richie Furays "Kind Woman" as done by Poco but the former's country feel is lacking Eagles tries to make a connection with a vibrato solo that comes close to the sound of the debre. Overall another Stills styled song...
...another Buffalo Springfield. And in this they've failed, because Springfield was as much a case of hitting the industry at the right time as it was a case of a good innovative band. Eagles simply appears to overlead a genre probably sainted by the success of Poco and Loggins and Messina...
...chair, and plays on his knees, and then he plays pedal steel with the chair. More Hendrix; then feedback; and finally some Moog licks. The element of surprise is as effective as the sheer wildness of the music. The listener is utterly destroyed. And the song is over. Poco leaves in arm-wrestling, hugging disarray...
...Poco's so folksy that they just naturally appeal to that romantic, simple soul that resides within a lot of us: you gotta like them just for their attitude of easy rollin' good country fun. Not that they're antiseptic, God knows, just cleaner than most. Though I admire them for that alone. Besides. Anne's never been wrong about a group yet. She and her friends practically made Elton John...