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I was disappointed that the Richard Marx/Poco Tour earlier in the year had never made it to Philly but now we were getting a HEADLINER from Poco with Dave Mason as opener! AHH! Could it get any beter than this! The show had to be one of the best ever I’d seen to that point from any artist. Poco just has that extra special something that really satisfies! If there were any disappointments they had to be the fact that Richie had left after the Marx tour and that the guys felt inclined to put in their better known hit songs and more familiar material from their other bands/solo albums, etc. Some of us diehards wanted more POCO. But it was a small quibble since I understood WHY they were doing it(to kind of draw in the other viewers who were not as familiar with them). You can’t argue with that! Good songs are good songs! After the show Poco heard that a few of us were standing outside waiting. “What, there’s people out there. Let ’em in”! We got to go backstage and talk to Jimmy, George, Jack and Randy(Rusty was showering on the bus) as he was boarding the bus. One guy asked Randy who said the infamous, “Thank you, Randy” after ‘Take It To The Limit’ on Live. Randy said it was Joe Walsh who said that, then probably said , “drink your milk” after that. Randy laughed at the memory.
Jim Mullen
Poco was one of the first bands I saw at the Valley Forge Music Fair. They all climbed onto this tiny revolving stage in the middle of a small theatre. I remember thinking that they’d start tripping over their guitars. Highlights included the Eagles’ ” Midnight Flyer” (everybody went crazy when Rusty brought out the banjo!), Sinners and Saints (I remember my joy when a new Poco album was announced, and my dismay when it was subsequently cancelled), and Rose of Cimarron (Rusty handled Tim and Paul’s parts beautifully). I remember Rusty ranking on a guy going to the john before ‘Call it Love’: “hey, where ya goin’, this is my highlight song!” Jimmy told everybody how he yearned for the girl from the ‘Call it Love’ video (some guy in the cheap seats screamed, “She’s up here, Jimmy!” And when a guy screamed out what everybody was wondering, “Where’s Richie?”, someone in the band replied, ” Well, it’s Sunday, isn’t it?” What a magical night; it also pains me to think that they tore down the Valley Forge Music Fair to build another crappy supermarket. Oh well, I’ll always have the memories.
Adam Gross