Poco
American Music Festival
Winter Park, CO, July 7, 1990
Poco played the American Music Festival in Winter Park, CO on July 7th, 1990. Richie Furay, who had left the band at the beginning of Poco’s summer tour, returned for this show as a favor to the promoter, Chuck Morris.

Photos: David Dyrkopp.


Pogo played a six-night stand at the Troubadour in West Hollywood beginning February 4th, 1969. The band was billed under their original name, Pogo. This was most likely Randy’s final appearance with the band until the original five members reunited in 1989.

In Michael Etchison’s review of the opening night in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, he proclaimed Randy’s performance of Richie Furay’s “Anyway Bye Bye” as the “high point of the set” and noted how the song rose to a “falsetto climax.” This is nearly seven years before Randy was wowing audiences with the falsetto ending to “Take It To The Limit.”
“The high point of the set I saw was bassist Randy Meisner’s singing of ‘Anyway Bye Bye,’ in which he started sounding something like Rusty Draper in ‘Night Life'”‘ and rising to a falsetto climax that sparked cheers from the partisan audience.”
“Anyway Bye Bye” was one of only two songs mentioned in the review. “How Many More” (aka “Hurry Up”) was the other. Both of these songs ended up on Poco’s self-titled second album in 1970, with Richie Furay singing “Anyway Bye Bye.” Randy recorded the song eleven years later on his second solo LP, One More Song. He told BAM magazine in 1980 that he relearned the song from a recording of himself singing it with Poco at the Troubadour in 1969.
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 7, 1969:
Review from the Los Angeles Free Press, February 9th, 1969. Randy was incorrectly referred to as “Randy Messina.”
Pogo photographed on the roof of the Troubadour, circa February 1969:




POGO
Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
December 26-29, 1968
Also on the bill were The Steve Miller Band & Sly and The Family Stone.
The following poster was created for the Fillmore show by psychedelic poster pioneer, Wes Wilson, who was commissioned by concert promoter Bill Graham to design posters for the Fillmore in the late 1960s. These posters have become legendary.
“The Sound We’ve All Been Waiting For” – Pogo at the Troubadour, November 1968
In November 1968, Pogo (aka Poco) played a legendary two-week stand at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. It was an appearance that would put them on the map.
POCO
The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
November 17th, 1989
Poco performed their hit “Call It Love”
Show schedule signed by the band.
Poco in TEEN SCREEN, August 1969
Poco visited the offices of TEEN SCREEN magazine in this rare article from 1969.
Photo Archive: Poco, 1989

Photo Archive: Poco, 1989



Photo Archive: Poco by Jeff Katz, 1989




Photo Archive: Poco by James Shea, LEGACY Cover, 1989
Photographer: James Shea. Art director: DZN, the Design Group.

Original photo used for back cover, plus outtake.Â
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Photo Archive: Poco, circa February 1969
Location: Roof of Doug Weston’s Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA.
These photos were most-likely taken around the time of the band’s week-long run at the venue: February 4-9, 1969.















