Young is finally writing an autobiography chronicling his four crazy decades in country rock. Previous books, he says, “always got it wrong, which is infuriating.” So his account boasts characters such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons and renowned alums Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit, both of whom Poco lost to the Eagles.
But he’s not bitter. “If the Eagles weren’t so successful in the mid-’70s, we probably would’ve been dropped by our record company before our ‘Legend’ album happened in ’78,” he says.
The history is still being scripted. On a rare Eagles break, Schmit will rejoin Young and co-vocalist Paul Cotton for its Stagecoach Festival appearance in Indio on Sunday. Furay and Messina were already on board, Young says after playing a recent reunion gig in Missouri.
Poco will soon be staging “Rose of Cimarron” concerts, playing the watershed set from start to finish.
No new album to tout, Young says, but he’s content.
“The way I look at it is, I wish I had Don Henley’s ranch in Wyoming. But at every concert we play, I meet people who say, ‘This Poco song was played at my wedding’ or ‘This one was playing when I proposed to my wife.’ There are all these stories about how our music has affected people’s lives. And that, to me, is much more valuable."
Re: Timothy to appear with Poco at Stagecoach!
lol!
Originally Posted by eaglesvet
Re: Timothy to appear with Poco at Stagecoach!
-kinddah nice. 
THREE MORE DAYS
TWO MORE DAYS TO 
I can't see the picture. I've been waiting for this and now I can't see it! I may die from withdrawl... 
