Randy videos on YouTube and other video sites

[East Texas Girl]

This is a beautiful song called "Lonely Alone" that Randy recorded with Brooke Lizotte (one of his current collaborators) back in the 90s. One of Randy's finest mature vocals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKPE...=RDvKPEtKkIG-A

This is a lovely song, but just seems so sad... He has a way that just pulls you into the song and all the emotions.

[Delilah]

This song showcases the lovely tender side of Randy's voice. I agree, ETG, there is a hint of sadness in the vocal. He probably never sang it live.

[Dawn]

I just love this short clip of Randy singing TITTL with Poco.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-VTDtAx0ss

[Dawn]

Nature of Love - this is great!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3FuKyyRZU

[Funk 50]

I just love this short clip of Randy singing TITTL with Poco.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-VTDtAx0ss

Poco were very jealous of the Eagles success. Making the decision to perform Take It To The Limit as part of a medley might show one of the band's weaknesses. They didn't seem to believe in 'Song Power'.

I heard a UK radio interview with this version of Poco. They did loads of promotion. They sounded very awkward in each others company. I felt uncomfortable just listening to it.

Thanks everybody for all the Meisner clips.

Did anybody get to hear that Meisner bootleg from 1978?

[NightMistBlue]

Did anybody get to hear that Meisner bootleg from 1978?

Oh heck yeah, it's amazing. Thank you for telling us about it.

Neither Donny Ullstrom or drummer Kelly Shanahan has any memory of "Summer Wind," the unreleased song that was played.

Funk, that's so cool that you heard an interview from the Poco reunion. Do you recall if Richie Furay was still in the band at that point? He seemed to be the main source of tension, though they had other travails as well as Randy pointed out in part 3 of the John Beaudin interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yuFuh09yQ&t=211s

[Dawn]

I love Poco and wish they'd had better commercial success not sure why they didn't but agree it most likely all comes down to song power. Something the Eagles clearly possessed at a time when radio friendly music had a hige impact both with fans and record labels/companies.

[NightMistBlue]

In a recent Timothy interview, he addressed those very issues: Poco's envy of the Eagles and why Timmy thinks (in hindsight) that they had good and near-great but no truly great songs.
http://bestclassicbands.com/timothy-...rview-5-17-17/

[Funk 50]

Funk, that's so cool that you heard an interview from the Poco reunion. Do you recall if Richie Furay was still in the band at that point? He seemed to be the main source of tension, though they had other travails as well as Randy pointed out in part 3 of the John Beaudin interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0yuFuh09yQ&t=211s

Thanks for the interview links. I must check them out. Randy's been out of the business so long that I'm just presuming that I've heard them before.

According to the amazing angelfire archive http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/deliverin/poco89-90.htm the interview I heard was from 1990, after Furay had departed. I remember there being three interviewees, probably Messina, Meisner & Young. They sang an acoustic medley which included a snatch of Take It To The Limit.

Even without Furay, it was obvious that this was a short term project. They were trying to be funny during the interview but it was falling flat to say the least. I noticed on the angelfire archive that the trio performed a few shows in Japan in 1991 with Bernie Leadon joining in with the encores.

Here'e a LA Times article from the Legacy era;
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-...86_1_band-poco

[Delilah]

Thanks for the interview links. I must check them out. Randy's been out of the business so long that I'm just presuming that I've heard them before.

Even without Furay, it was obvious that this was a short term project. They were trying to be funny during the interview but it was falling flat to say the least. I noticed on the angelfire archive that the trio performed a few shows in Japan in 1991 with Bernie Leadon joining in with the encores.

Check out the picture that is posted in the "Earlybird-The Band" thread. I'll have to verify but I think Don Felder may have been in Japan around that time too.

As for Poco's Eagles envy--I haven't listened to all of Poco's albums; they do have some good songs. But I've never heard anything that makes me wonder, why weren't these guys as big as the Eagles? Yet that seems to the big question in Poco fandom.