Meisner, Swan & Rich
Wise Guys, Pasadena, CA
April 2nd, 1994
Watch footage of the concert below.
Meisner misspelled as “Miesner”
The band was billed under their actual name: Meisner, Rich & Swan. The misnomer Meisner, Swan & Rich was due to an error on a CD insert in 2001, several years after the group had disbanded.
Meisner, Rich & Swan:
Randy Meisner: vocals, bass
Allen Rich (aka Charlie Rich, Jr): vocals, keyboards
Billy Swan: vocals, acoustic guitar
Vern Monnett: electric guitar
Ron Grinel: drums (Grinel had previously performed with the Roberts-Meisner Band, as well as Joe Walsh’s band in the 1970s. Both Randy and Grinel appeared on Walsh’s So What album in 1974)
Concert photos by Stephen Duncan, who also acquired the autographs.
Footage
Watch several songs from the group’s set below.
Pretty Baby
Try & Love Again
You Look Like Someone I Could Love
Lonesome Cowgirl
I Can Help
Take It To The Limit
Midnight Flyer
Footage @Stephen Duncan
Harriet Kaplan of Music Connection reviewed the concert. She described Meisner, Rich & Swan’s performance as “low-key & unpretentious” and noted that the three key members introduced each other’s songs with “obvious admiration.” She also highlighted the group’s vocal harmonies as their most impressive feature.
Randy with fan Stephen Duncan outside the Wise Guys nightclub:
