Jim Messina
 | Born |
| December 5, 1947 in Maywood, CA | |
| Active Decades | |
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As a singer, writer, guitarist, producer and engineer, Jim Messina made major contributions to music in the 1960's and 1970's, as a key contributor to the Buffalo Springfield at the tail-end of their history, a co-founder of the country-rock band Poco, and as one half of Loggins & Messina.
Born in Texas in 1947, Jim Messina's life was divided between his mother's home in Texas and his father's home in California. His father was a semi-professional guitarist and greatly influenced his son's musical career. Messina began playing the guitar at the age of five. As time progressed, he became interested in the guitar parts on Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson records, and later acquired an interest in surf music, a natural outgrowth of living in California. He was heavily influenced by the hits of such outfits as Dick Dale and the Deltones and the Champs. During his late teens, he organized a group of his own called Jim Messina & The Jesters, their sound heavily indebted to that of the Champs, and their were good enough to win a string of local band competitions. They managed to grab the last vestiges of the surf music craze and got an album out entitled The Dragsters in 1966, on the Audio Fidelity label. The release of an album was an impressive achievement for a teenager, but not much came of that record at the time, the surf music boom having pretty much ended by the time of its release.
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Born in Texas in 1947, Jim Messina's life was divided between his mother's home in Texas and his father's home in California. His father was a semi-professional guitarist and greatly influenced his son's musical career. Messina began playing the guitar at the age of five. As time progressed, he became interested in the guitar parts on Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson records, and later acquired an interest in surf music, a natural outgrowth of living in California. He was heavily influenced by the hits of such outfits as Dick Dale and the Deltones and the Champs. During his late teens, he organized a group of his own called Jim Messina & The Jesters, their sound heavily indebted to that of the Champs, and their were good enough to win a string of local band competitions. They managed to grab the last vestiges of the surf music craze and got an album out entitled The Dragsters in 1966, on the Audio Fidelity label. The release of an album was an impressive achievement for a teenager, but not much came of that record at the time, the surf music boom having pretty much ended by the time of its release.
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