A look back at September 11, 1977 backstage at Milwaukee County Stadium for the Fleetwood Mac show.

December 30, 2019

Hope everyone is having a nice holiday season with family and friends!

While cleaning up the photo closet lately, I came across some forgotten film and movies.

Here we have part of that find with a few photos of a show at Milwaukee's Performing Arts Center in 1978 with Steve Forbert and Kenny Loggins.

Always have loved them both!

Check out a few photos and have a Happy New Year!

Just an added discovery that our great Milwaukee local promoter Peter Jest and Shank Hall are bring Steve Forbert to town January 11th!!!! Come on down for a great show.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Kenny Loggins at Milwaukee's Performing Arts Center in 1978.

January 8, 2018

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had a very nice holiday season.

I had a pretty nice year of photographing Indy Cars and IMSA racing at Road America in Elkhart Lake.

Had an even better year with photographing some great musicians we haven't seen in a long time!! John McLaughin, Kenny Loggins and Steve Miller being the most notable. Jeff Beck or John is a hard choice as to which is the best guitar player!

Happy birthday to Kenny Loggins who turned 70 on January 7th! You would never know he is 70 the way he sounded this past summer.

Our Marty party last year with Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives was the first time we saw him do an acoustic show! Great seeing my friend Marty who is sounding better every time. His new album Way Out West is the best one yet.

So, here are a few favorite photos of the past year. See how many folks you can identify.

We have;

Steve Miller

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

John McLaughlin

Jimmy Herring

John Oates

Hall and Oates

Roger Waters

Roger McGuinn

Michael McDonald

Kenny Loggins

Daya

Helio Castro Neves

Marco Andretti

Katherine Legge

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

July 17, 2017

Wow!! I need more time in life and a minion to help me out! I'm a busy photographer in addition to regular life stuff.  It's all good though.

This past weekend was Gathering On The Green in Mequon.  Rob Kos and his crew do such a great job of putting this together.

Friday night was Michael McDonald and then Kenny Loggins!! During each of their sets, one came out to play with the other which made for a great show.

Saturday, you had to be a young one to know who Daya was but check her out!  She's very good and I was impressed with the young girl!!!

Enjoy and I have to get back to editing this fun weekend! Here is a bit of it with more to come.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

March 9, 2015

This blog is different from blog #58 which is also labeled Loggins and Messina 1974. Blog #58 was about a show at UW Oshkosh and this blog is about a performance that was in September of 1974 at Milwaukee's Performing Arts Center.

Some of these photos were taken from right in front of the stage. Others were taken from my favorite secret spot at the Performing Arts Center, or the PAC as we called it! The PAC was a beautiful performance hall. My secret spot is now presently locked up and you can't take photos from there anymore. It was so cool because you would walk through this door and you had a little spot about ten foot square with a railing. I would sit on the floor usually and photograph the show and then just sit and enjoy the show alone in my little secret spot. There were actually four secret spots with two on each side of the stage at the second and third levels. The sound was a little weird because you were off to the side but the view made up for it.

Loggins and Messina, was a great band and I was very sad when they broke up. They were so good and the whole band had a lot of good energy and sound. I photographed them several times through the years.

Enjoy a look at the band from my secret spots and have a great week.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Loggins and Messina, at Milwaukee's Performing Arts Center in 1974.

Loggins & Messina at UW Oshkosh in 1974.

April 29, 2013

This week's blog is hard to do because it's finally nice in Wisconsin and I want to be outside! That means bike riding, fishing and of course, Spring house chores.We have been cleaning the outside of the house and cleaning all of the windows! Hard work, but it's done now and it looks great.

Other than talking about Spring cleaning chores, our blog is about one of the best country rock bands to ever come about. That would be Loggins and Messina, shown here in 1974 at the University of Wisconsin in Oshkosh. In 1974, they played a lot of college shows and were very popular on FM radio.

Jim Messina, after being in the bands Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he met Kenny Loggins. The two recorded some songs in Jimmy's living room in Colorado and Loggins and Messina was born. The teacher/apprentice duo had a great following and Kenny Loggins had to put his solo career on hold because they were so successful. This was a very good thing.

Their debut album, Sittin' In, was released in November of 1971 and five more albums would be released before Kenny Loggins went on his own to become a solo act.

They have done a few tours since the old days. One in 2005 and another in 2009 and I missed them both unfortunately!

Enjoy the photos and if you would like a copy for your walls at home or office, an 8 X 10 limited edition print is on sale this week for $50.00.

Have a great week and don't do too many Spring chores!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann