ANTELOPE VALLEY PRESS, Au~.25, 1989 Notes on 'Rye' ...... 2 SHOWCASE 'Casualties' review ...... 10

Main musical attractions at the Antelope Valley Fair in- clude grandstand perform- ances by Kenny Loggins (at right), the Oak Ridge Boys (top photo, below) and the Everly Brothers (bottom photo, below). Acts such as the New Grass Revival (cen- ter photo, below) allow fair- goers to hear music for the price of admission. Inside, Karla Tipton interviews and previews many of 1989's fair performers. - Loggins, Oak Rldgephoroa by Rick Pernine Antelope Valley Press, Friday, August 25, 1989 Kenny Loggins still gets a kick out of single hits By KARLA TIPTON "My years with Jimmy Messi- short. I started throwing in more much as his softer material. Assistant Showcase Editor AV Fair: Aug. 28 na I look upon as a great time for and more rock'n'roll tunes. To "Each one has its moment," he hen pop rock artist me," he said. "Not only did we have 12,000 people dancing out said. "Sometimes you're in the Kenny Loggins see success, but it was a serious in an open field is really a kick." mood to hear something gentle hears one of his hit While it's still exciting for of apprenticeship. I Then there are other types of and pretty and sometimes you're sineles on the radio. him to hear a song become a hit, !gk",d how to make a record crowds, he described, "Slightly in the mood just to have a good W and how to put a band together older. They might want to sit time. So my songs reflect the his ieakion vaAes. "It's hard to compete with the "I still get a kick out of hear- first time anything happens to and keep it together and how to down and relax. So I get intimate moods that I might be in." ing a song on the radio," said you," he said in a phone inter- find a record label and a manae- with that audience and do more But always, when writing a Loggins, whose hits include view. er and different techniques fGr acoustic stuff." song, Loggins is concerned with "This Is It," "Footloose" and "I'm His first hits came in the ear- recording. ~o~sns- who handles loud- melody. "I think melody is proba- Alright." "But sometimes I'll lis- ly '70s with Jim Messina and in- "There was a tremendous er, faster numbers a5 well as the bly the most important element ten and I'll try just to let go and cluded such Top 20 songs as amount of information that I ballads - enjoys his rock songs for a pop song," he said. "I lean enjoy it and other times I'll listen "Thinking of You," "My Music" learned, both from the good (''or what I call rock'n'roll") as on melodies and I try to hook in critically, and start thinking and the ever familiar "Your things that Loggins and Messina the lvrics that have some emo- about things I would have done Mama Don't Dance." did and the mistakes that we .. . .. -. .... differently." Of those early days, Loggins made," he said. several-of his songs - "It's A Loggins kicks off the Antelope never fails to cite his six years as The duo's last record together Miracle," ''This Is It," "Forever" Valley Fair's Redman Grand- a part of Loggins and Messina as was more than a decade ago. Yet and "Back to Avalon" - have stand musical entertainment at both enjoyable and a learning ex- when Loggins plays a medley of one thing in common: Thev're all 8 D.m. Monday. nerience. their songs - as he did at a re- a~tobioga~hical,said higins. cent show at the Del Mar Fair - "I'd say 80 percent of the time tears come to the eyes of some at- (my songs) are autobiographical. tendees when they hear "Dan- The songs that probably work ny's Song" or "The House at the best are oersonal." he said. - - Pooh Comer." ''Then you can really tap into From H3 "The Loggins and Messina your own emotions and your odds formers starting out today. material still gets good re- are much better of hitting oth- "I wouldn't want to he a young sponses," said Loggins, who has ers." musician right now," he said. played about 50 shows so far this Currently, Loggins is writing "It's very difficult for talented year. songs for an album he expects rock'n'roll bands to bust through Yet it depends on the audi- will be released in the first half now unless they're playing met: ence what kind of show Loggins of 1990. And while it does have a al. Unless they look like metal will present: "When I was in Tai- specific direction, he wasn't giv- and act like metal, out-tough pei (Taiwan), that audience was ing any hints because "I don't each other." really into the rock'n'roll materi- want to box myself in." "Radio has become an ex- al," he said. "Most of the kids in As an established artist, Log- tremely repressive place to be," the audience had never heard of gins does have room to experi- said Loggins. "Now's the time to Loggins and Messina, so the ment - unlike many pop per- leave the framework." acoustic part of the show got real KENNY LOGGINS See LOGGINS on H4