What Happened to Kenny Loggins?

He's aright. Nobody worry 'bout him.

I think the more apt question is what happened to Messina?

Nothing serious. He had a loose foot.

Yeah, I heard about that. He got it while being on the highway to the danger zone.

Party foul Ed, Danger Zone was used in the first post.

Fair enough, I'll have to consult Yacht Rock for further information about Loggins.

I heard he's going to count the bees in the hive. After his finished chasing the clouds from the sky that is.

And judging by that music video, Loggins has not only had a bit of work done around the face but he has been surgically shrunk. It probably helps him when he's playing with the boys.

Kenny Loggins is an actual person? I thought he was a brand name made up in the eighties.

I thought he was what my friend Kenneth used to access the computers at work.

Don't joke about this crap. I once had to sit through a Loggins & Messina set (they came on between Fleetwood Mac and The Faces, and it was put up with them or lose my seat), and I've never fully recovered.

Wow that's like a giant turd being put between two gigantic, tasty pieces of cinnamon bread.

After a nice BBQ rib appetizer: the opener on that bill was Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Jesus, Jeb. What year was that, and what albums were they all supporting for their sets? That must have been a killer concert.

Must have been summer of '75, as it was the initial tour of the Buckingham-Nicks Mac (I'm not even sure the album was out yet-- I know I hadn't heard it at that point). I know I was impressed that this new guitarist I'd never heard of was playing both parts of "Oh Well."

Skynyrd was, I believe, about to release Nuthin' Fancy, and why they were beneath Mac on the bill, I have no idea. I have to admit that I tended to take them for granted back in the day, and while I own their first couple LP's, it was only years later, after I got into Drive-By Truckers that I really went back and gave them a more serious revisit (still not a fan of Van Zandt's voice). I do remember the two guitars meshing nicely in concert.

Rod and Faces had released Smiler and Ooh La La most recently, and I believe it was their last tour together. My experiences with The Faces were a lot like the ones I had with The Pogues or The Replacements: I was always led to expect some drunken shambles, but each time I saw those bands, I thought they were just flat-out great shows. I must have got lucky.

That show, by the way, was the only time I ever heard a singer (Stewart) tell the audience that he hated doing encores, and then announce the last three numbers they were going to do ("Stay With Me," "Maggie May", and "Twistin the Night Away"), and say good night at that point.

It's funny that some people think Loggins is from the 80's.

Wow, Jeb!

How in the hell did Loggins & Messina get a higher billing than Skynyrd and Mac? Were they that big?

That was the Faces tour where (solo) Rod had eclipsed them in popularity, and the songs from his own album(s) took up half the show, right?

Yeah, Loggins & Messina had several hit singles and, as I say, at this point, with the first Buckingham-Nicks Mac album either being just out or about to be relased, Mac was really only known to British blues junkies (many of whom had also pretty much given up on them during the Bob Welch era).

By the way, this was also just after the era of dueling fake versions of Fleetwood Mac touring the States like some luded-out version of The Coasters or The Drifters (with every one who had ever been in the band touting their version as the "original"). How anyone got the idea that they were popular enough to make that worthwhile I never did understand.

Why Skynyrd was at the bottom, as I say, no clue. It had been a year or so since "Sweet Home Alabama," and they hadn't really been back on the singles charts since.

Rod's stuff had always been bigger than the Faces, so that was nothing new, and their sets were usualy heavy on his solo stuff.

And, frankly, I'll match Rod's first four solo albums with any similar run that any of his contemporaries had at the time. All of the Faces albums together didn't produce as many classics as side two of Every Picture Tells A Story.

(ETA: OK, that's a bit of hyperbole. But any Faces album would have been markedly improved by picking virtually any track at random from The Rod Stewart Album, Gasoline Alley, Every Picture, or Never A Dull Moment.

You've seen some fantastic concerts in your time, Jeb. You've mentioned others that you've seen in other threads, and I'm truly envious.

Bastard.

Yeah, but think of all the shows you'll get to see long after I'm gone.