James Messina (born December 5, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer and record producer. However, he vigorously and repeatedly denied any involvement in the spot. [42], Messina has Italian ancestry; in 2013 he received the Machiavelli Award as the Italian American Democrat of the Year. Soprano sax and fiddle pepper Loggins and Messinas Thinking of You, a number with an easy 70s groove that gets audience members fingers and toes tapping. Jim Messina Loggins & Messina Poco Buffalo Springfield Back In The Day Fan Downloads Tour Band Merch Contact Agency Home Welcome About Jim. Public records I found suggested that last May he had purchased a $1.9 million home in one of Washingtons swankiest neighborhoods. Hes out there taking shots at Obamacare and saying we need a single-payer system, when a huge number of Democrats and especially in Michigan fought so very hard to pass Obamacare. Following Donald Trumps victory in November, many outside observers have noted that Sanders would have been the stronger candidate. [9][10], In January 2013, the Obama administration announced the launch of Organizing for Action, an advocacy organization that would promote President Obama's policies, with Jim Messina as national chair. The Intercept is an independent nonprofit news outlet. OK, he said. Opening with the title track from their latest recording, the group performs a lively rendition of All Fired Up.. That's the big question after new revelations buried in this week's fluffy Businessweek profile of Messina. In various roles he has advised a number of international campaigns and candidates, including former UK Prime Minister David Cameron,[13] Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy,[14] Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi, and UK Prime Minister Theresa May. As audience members make their way out of the historic Scottish Rite Auditorium, we chat with several music lovers in the house who share their thoughts with us about tonights performance by Poco and Jim Messina. The audience reacts with avid applause and the band responds with an instrumentalGrand Junction. Opening with Youngs steel guitar intro, the band country-rocks its way into the audiences hearts on this upbeat bluegrass number set to a rock beat. How this happened is a classic Washington Cinderella story. [40] Theresa May and the Conservatives suffered a very underwhelming performance, in which she successfully remained Prime Minister, however, did not manage to keep Conservatives in the majority. [39], Messina worked with Prime Minister Theresa May as a campaign strategist for the 2017 United Kingdom general election. Sun room leads you to backyard that is a private oasis.. Messina continues to provide insight on news outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox News, BBC and others. After announcing, This is a song which I wrote for the guys in the band, the sound of acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and fiddle permeate the auditorium as Young sings, Here we are after all these years/Still the same as we were back when, on the easy country rocker, My Friend.. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning, Dep. Over the years, Jim Messina left Poco to join Loggins & Messina. The ad, set to a porn soundtrack, caused Taylor to drop out of the race. Drums keep the beat going as the crowd claps along to the infectious rhythm of Pickin Up the Pieces an arrangement of another Richie Furay song for Poco which features a trio of solos including fiddle, steel pedal, and electric guitar. I saw from public records that you owned this house and just wanted to make sure, I said. Dec 13, 2022. On Lovin Me, Messina sings, Take me in your arms/And let me love you again/I bet you wont get up and walk it on out the door, as audience members clap along and nod their heads to Messinas lyrical electric guitar solo. After three successful albums, Jim was ready for a change and left to return to his passion for producing music. Politico November 18, 2017. Summarizing the national uproar over the ad, the Denver Post at the time noted that "only the most naive adult would miss the implication that Taylor is a homosexual" and that clearly "the supposedly inclusive Democrats deftly played on the right's homophobia.". - Page 3", "Obama Campaign Manager Behind Anti-Gay Ad", "Low-Profile Aide Messina Tackles Obama's Tough Political Problems", "James A. 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"[7] Dan Pfeiffer called Messina "the most powerful person in Washington that you haven't heard of. GRAMMY Award Nominated Rock Legend JIM MESSINA is a Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter with an undisputed expertise in the fine art of making hit music. Access the best of Getty Images and iStock with our simple subscription plan. And then there are still more fees he nets for sitting on the boards of green energy companies like LanzaTech, which has received money from the Obama administration. In any case, here we are today, shortly after the Republican health care proposal failed spectacularly. Moving on to Richie Furays Pickin Up the Pieces, the group sings, Well there goes another day/Now I wonder why/You and I/Keep telling lies, as Les Browning serenades on the mandolin. We just saw Poco last night, but they were even better tonightthe sound in this hall is just incredible., Adding, Poco happens to have four of the most accessible musicians anywhere, Dolores concludes by stating, They are all just so incredibly good to their fans., Mike from Milford calls Pocos performance tonight Great! before exclaiming, and Jim Messina was on fire tonight!, Taylor from Wildwood agrees, commenting, Both groups sounded greatand their music is timeless!, Of course! adds Keith from Brookfield CT, before he wryly concludes with a smile, They were all fired up!. Former Obama aide and Hillary Clinton booster Jim Messina sent out a tweet soliciting donations for a former Obama staffer who is currently facing a serious health issue, and potential bankruptcy under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). After completing their line-up with drummer George Grantham and bassist Randy Meisner, they called the group, Pogo, after the comic strip character, but soon after changed the name to Poco. Jim's Bio Loggins and Messina (2005 & 2009) Loggins and Messina (1971-1976) Poco (1968-1970 & 1989) . In 1978, the pair createdLegend,an album which became Pocos most commercially successful recording and which contained a song which Rusty Young wrote and sang lead vocal onCrazy Love. The album was certified gold. Following avid applause, Messina welcomes Rusty Young to the stage. He is married to Michaela Eldridge. It featured footage from a 20-year-old TV ad for a hair salon run by Baucuss opponent, Mike Taylor who at the time was 20 points behind in the polls and had no chance of winning who was seen massaging a mans face while wearing an open-front shirt, and hence was obviously supposed to be gay. On the other hand, youve got Secretary Clinton, who has been working on these issues since the 1990s and understands them very well, can speak very authentically. Following the You and I must start to realize/Blindness binds us in a false disguise lyric, the audience claps along double time at Messinas direction. He's also toured extensively throughout . 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Segueing into To Make a Woman Feel Wanted, the audience sings along on the well-known Tell her shes the kind of a woman/That can send you home knowing that you really been loved refrain before Messina comes forward to solo on his guitar at the foot of the stage. Music lovers are streaming into the SOPAC auditorium in South Orange, NJ, this Thursday, November 3, 2022 evening for a concert by the celebrated singer, songwriter, and music producer, Jim Messina. The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. To learn more about Poco, please go topocoband.com. The ad charged Taylor with having embezzled student loans from a cosmetology school hed owned in the 1980s. National Security Advisor, Homeland Security, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Dep. Messinas work against government-funded health care did not stop after he left the White House in 2011. How many covert wars, miscarriages of justice, and dystopian technologies would remain hidden if our reporters werent on the beat? Messina "refused to let Baucus attend any debate that didn't include a third-party candidate whose skin had turned blue from drinking an anti-infection solution",[18] which was a distraction to help take attention away from the more credible Republican candidate. Poco originated when the 60s rock band, Buffalo Springfield (For What Its Worth) was recording its final album and group members Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay started recording their own material without the other band members present. [1] Contents 1 Early life Here's the back story: In the annals of political television advertising, very few spots are so indelible as to be considered iconic, and almost all of those are national presidential ads, like the 1964 Johnson campaign's "Daisy" spot; the 1988 Bush campaign's racially charged "Revolving Door"; and the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on John Kerry's war record. In January 2011, Messina left his job at the White House and began "a rolling series of personal seminars with the CEOs and senior executives of companies that included Apple, Facebook, Zynga, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and DreamWorks. Drums pound the beat on the rockin Hey There, as Lex Browning and Young pick and strum on their electric guitars. ", "May Hires Jim Messina for U.K. Conservative Election Team", "Obama Hires Boise High Graduate as Chief of Staff", "How to get an Obama staff job - Andie Coller", "Can Jim Messina get it done for President Obama? Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. When asked about how he enjoys performing here in New Jersey, Messina smiles and exclaims, I do love this state!, Noting, Id like to be able to get back here in the summer, Messina jokes, After driving through hell to get here, just being here tonight is like going to heaven!. One of Furays projects at the time was his country rock classic, Kind Woman, which he recorded with the help of producer/engineer/bassist Jim Messina, Over the years, Jim Messina left Poco to join Loggins & Messina. Messina was Obama's campaign manager during the 2012 Presidential Election. And then theres the money hes raking in for speaking engagements at the American Petroleum Institute and at an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan, whose president was compared in a Wikileak-ed cable to Michael Corleone. Crooning, Neil Young is not my brother/Bad news for my mother, Rusty imitates Neil Young both with his guitar and his harmonica playing along with his spot-on vocal inflection on this humorous tongue-in-cheek composition. ", Thanks to the deliberate choice of music, the footage of man-on-man physical contact and the voice-over message, the ad is considered the epitome of homophobic demagoguery -- a spot ostensibly about Taylor's Department of Education loans, but really designed to raise questions about Taylor's sexuality in a culturally conservative state. The lights dim and Act II begins as the musicians of Poco Rusty Young on guitar, lap steel, and steel pedal; Jack Sundrud on bass; Rick Lonow on drums; and Lex Browning on fiddle, mandolin, and guitar take the stage to excited applause. Dep. [11] That same year, Messina became co-chair of Priorities USA Action.[12]. Baucus almost certainly issued such blanket denials both because he didn't want to be tagged as an anti-gay bigot, and because even back then, before the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation, it was blatantly illegal for a candidate and his campaign to directly "coordinate" ads paid for by political party organizations like the DSCC. A big, bouncy dog curled up on the floor in the living room and cheery Christmas stockings over the crackling fireplace. [37] Messina received 400,000 euros for his advice. As the extended arrangement plays out, it features a top-notch sax solo; Messinas masterful guitar solo; a guitar, sax, and fiddle trio; and a flute solo, the audience rising to its feet as Messina exclaims to the crowd, Goodbye and God bless!. After bassist Jack Sundrud announces, Rustys in the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame! the sound of Youngs crying steel guitar swirls throughout the Scottish Rite Auditorium as Sundrud handles the lead on Indian Summer.. The audience hoots and hollers as the auditorium lights dim and Jim Messina and his band take the stage. After announcing, This is a song which I wrote for the guys in the band, the sound of acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and fiddle permeate the auditorium as Young sings, Here we are after all these years/Still the same as we were back when, on the easy country rocker, My Friend.. Lastly, the group performs Peace of Mind. Strong vocals take center stage before tenor sax and guitars take over. His birthday party ROCK OUT WITH JIMMESSINAAS HE TURNS 40!, said the emailed invitation was held at the Gibson, a trendy D.C. bar, and hosted by Baucus, Emanuel, Pete Rouse, then a senior Obama advisor, and Jim Crounse, one of Messinas closest friends, a former Baucus chief of staff and now one of the top Democratic direct mail consultants in the country. [41] For May, the election has been called a "disastrous gamble". Lights flash on the crowd as Messina leads the audience in a heartfelt rendition of the Peace/Peace of mind lyrics which ultimately elicits a standing ovation from the crowd. If there is a problem with the rights to any image, please contact us and we will look into the matter. Great to see the White House closing out the year celebrating their wins for the American people & freedomespecially given that the vast majority of congressional Republicans are still fighting against marriage equality as I type this. At the conclusion, Young responds to audience cheers, exclaiming, Thats the first song I ever wrote but I didnt know how to write words!. Long before Jim Messina became a trusted aide to President Barack Obama and one of the most powerful men in Washington, he was just a simple boy from Boise. After completing their line-up with drummer George Grantham and bassist Randy Meisner, they called the group, Pogo, after the comic strip character, but soon after changed the name to Poco. 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