Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
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Re: Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
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sodascouts
Glad you liked 'em, DJ! I found some more:
"Randy Meisner Leaves the Eagles" - Beaver County Times (Nov. 2, 1977)
"Randy Meisner" [mixed review of his first album] - The News and Courier (Aug. 19, 1978 )
"Meisner At UF Sunday" - Gainesville Sun (Dec. 10, 1982)
"Meisner Wins Suit" - The Times-News (Mar. 17, 1983)
"Ex-Eagle, Former Member of FireFall Lack Recognition of Their Former Bands" - The Miami News (Aug. 19, 1987)
"Marx Feathers Nest with Ex-Eagles" - Boca Raton News (Apr. 14, 1989)
"Randy Meisner [Can't Wait to Get Back on the Stage]" - Lodi News-Sentinel (Nov. 26, 1994)
"Randy Meisner Impersonator Caught After 10 Years on the Run" - Herald-Journal (Feb. 28, 1998 )
THANKS AGAIN SODA, YOU SHOULD BE A PI ON THE SIDE. :thumbsup:
Re: Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
Here's even more! This is the last batch for now, though.
"[Randy Will be Sorely Missed]" - The Michigan Daily (Oct. 18, 1977)
"Crack Line-up Will Back Rick" - The Milwaukee Journal (Nov. 10, 1978 ) [Rick Nelson talks about finding Randy]
"While the Great City Slumbers, Musicians Slave Over a Hot Disc" - The Milwaukee Journal (Aug. 2, 1980) [in the studio]
"[This Bud's for You]" - The Tuscaloosa News (Apr. 10, 1981) [This one pisses me off. Poor guy!]
"Cashbox" - Spartanburg Herald (Jul. 23, 1982) [A duet with Ann Wilson?]
"Old Rockers Never Die, They Just Form New Bands" - Spokane Chronicle (May 29, 1987)
"[Randy Hospitalized for Chest Pains]" - Bangor Daily News (Aug. 10, 2004)
"All Star Jam at Flip's" - The Catalina Islander (Feb. 3, 2006) [Randy played some songs live in 2006!]
Re: Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
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Originally Posted by
sodascouts
Here's even more! This is the last batch for now, though.
"[Randy Will be Sorely Missed]" - The Michigan Daily (Oct. 18, 1977)
"Crack Line-up Will Back Rick" - The Milwaukee Journal (Nov. 10, 1978 ) [Rick Nelson talks about finding Randy]
"While the Great City Slumbers, Musicians Slave Over a Hot Disc" - The Milwaukee Journal (Aug. 2, 1980) [in the studio]
"[This Bud's for You]" - The Tuscaloosa News (Apr. 10, 1981) [This one pisses me off. Poor guy!]
"Cashbox" - Spartanburg Herald (Jul. 23, 1982) [A duet with Ann Wilson?]
"Old Rockers Never Die, They Just Form New Bands" - Spokane Chronicle (May 29, 1987)
"[Randy Hospitalized for Chest Pains]" - Bangor Daily News (Aug. 10, 2004)
"All Star Jam at Flip's" - The Catalina Islander (Feb. 3, 2006) [Randy played some songs live in 2006!]
I am loving these articles!! Thanks so much for sharing these and finding them, too!! I totally agree about the one that pissed you off. That audience sure didn't know what was before them. Poor Randy; he deserved better!
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Thank you for finding all these snippets, even the ones that are a little negative but then that's life. Even Randy couldn't be perfect all the time but I still love him.
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sodascouts
Great finds, Soda, thank you so much!
Both Ann and Nancy Wilson sang on Randy's 1982 album, which had the same producer (Mike Flicker) as Heart's early albums. Heart guitarist Howard Leese also played on the record and seems to have been friends with Randy since the 70s - there's a photo of them from back in the day with their arms around each other and Randy is wearing a Budmaster t-shirt.
Re: Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
Just a brief mention of Randy in this March 1, 1969 Rolling Stone article on "Hollywood Hillbillies - What's Old is New Again,"
Others in the band are Randy Meisner, a Nebraska boy who plays bass and sings most of the songs demanding the highest range...
Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/fe...#ixzz3Yi7VULGD
And this 2013 RS article isn't exactly retro but it's about the making of James Taylor's 1969 classic album "Sweet Baby James" and contains an even more brief mention of our Nebraska fella: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...james-20130416
Re: Randy Meisner in the Press - Retro Edition!
Randy's art was featured in the 1994 book "Musicians as Artists," alongside contributions from such nobodies as John Lennon and David Bowie. :) The book's authors are Jim McMullan and Dick Gautier; photographs by Stephen Stickler - who has since become a very successful rock and fashion photographer.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...psrtcgu5tr.jpg