Pogo At The Troubadour, February 4-9, 1969

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.

*Los Angeles Free Press*, February 7, 1969

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:}