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Jim Messina & His Jesters
12+ albums
Surfsurf rock
about
An 18 year old Jim Messina, before joining Buffalo Springfield or Poco,and becoming a well known 70's folk rocker with Kenny Loggins, released an instrumental surf rock album circa '64 that was credited to "Jim Messina and his Jesters". Besides Messina on lead guitar, members included guitarists Bill Beckman and Ron House,Jim Sholstedt on bass, Dave Archuleta on saxophone, and Larry Cundieff on drums. They won a lot of local mid-60's band competitions in Southern California, and were good enough record an entire LP for Audio Fidelity The album was entitled The Dragster and featured 14 songs, 11 of them credited to Jim Messina that showed obvious stylistic debts to Dick Dale. The covers included surf-guitar versions of Bill Doggett's Honky Tonk and Bill Justis' Raunchy, both popular 50's instrumental hits. The album was first re-released in 1973 to capitalize on the success of Loggins and Messina. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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albums
The Dragsters
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Legends Of Guitar - Surf Vol. 1
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The Birth Of Surf Volume 2
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Raunchy
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Legends of Guitar-Surf (Vol One)
Jim Messina And The Jesters
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Halloween Instrumentals 3
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Surf Guitars Vol 2
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The Birth Of Surf Vol. 2
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Guitar Player Presents Legends Of Guitar - Surf Vol. 1
Adrian & The Sunsets <--> Jim Messina & The Jesters
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Guitar Player Presents Legends Of Guitar - Surf. Vol.1