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Ivan,
As you are obviously a huge fan, have you thought about asking Mr.
Messina himself? A quick check of jimmessina.com provides this
imaginative email address:
According to his site, his musical life begins in in '67 with Buffalo
Springfield.
Give it a go, he might be interested to know that a lot of people care
about the start of his career. Inquiring minds want to know!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ipongrac
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> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:19 AM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Jim Messina and His Jesters: "Dragsters" -
> review, and the mystery
>
>
> ...The original Jesters LP was released sometime in '64 and was credited
> to "Jim Messina and his Jesters"...This album
> was rereleased in '73, when NOBODY had any interest in surf music!
> ...Probably cause Messina was becoming a well-known name, and
> somebody wanted to capitalize on it...the packaging looks
> like it was from the sixties...the front cover is different than the
> original one...these are DIFFERENT versions of the tracks!...I suspect
> that Messina couldn't give a crap about surf music by '73, and anyway,
> the sound quality and the recording is very
> authentic: it SOUNDS like a cheap early- to mid-sixties recording,
> for better or worse. I can't imagine they would have struggled to
> get such an authentic sound in '73. They probably would have wanted
> to "improve" it! So, I'm pretty much 100% sure that's not it.
>
> My conclusion is that whoever rereleased the album got a hold of a
> bunch of master tapes which were not marked very clearly....
>
> (BTW, looking at the front cover of the album, where I could see
> Messina's white Strat in a great deal of detail, you can see that
> Messina left off the volume and tone knobs on his Strat - again, just
> like DD!! Man, this kid had a BAD case of hero-worship! Good for
> us, though, he created some awesome music as a result.)
>
> Iven
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