Seventies rock icons Kenny Loggins and Jimmy Messina will take the stage at the Greek Theatre, Friday October 2nd. Over 35 years since first Sittin’ In together, Loggins and Messina are again side-by-side for a new nationwide tour that picks up where 2005’s hugely successful “Sittin’ In Again” reunion tour left off.

When they first met, Jimmy Messina was already a well-established success story, having produced and played with the legendary Buffalo Springfield. Kenny Loggins, meanwhile, was a young singer songwriter with far less experience and a lot of talent to burn. Then Sittin’ In (1971), originally envisioned as a one-off joint release intended to introduce Loggins as part of a Messina six-album production deal with Columbia Records, became a smash hit. By public demand Loggins and Messina, this accidental duo, was created and in the next few years, a series of albums would follow in rapid order selling more than 16 million albums. They became one of rock’s most popular draws and despite the success, by the end of the ‘70s Loggins and Messina decided to part ways. In retrospect, the duo realized their once close connection between them was torn apart by the unusual nature of their working relationship. “The trouble with duos is inevitably it becomes a competition,” explains Loggins. “We were just kids in search of our individuality. Being suddenly cast in a duo makes it very hard to find yourself.”

A series of low-key benefit performances together in the middle of this decade brought Loggins and Messina back together and when Jimmy joined Kenny at a benefit at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theater in 2004, Loggins noticed something else: “As soon as we hit the harmonies, I was struck by the fact that I hadn’t heard that sound in a long time,” he says. “There was something that in thirty plus years I had not been able to duplicate with anyone else.”

For both men the new tour represents what Jimmy Messina calls “a great and meaningful opportunity.” Kenny Loggins adds “I’m especially looking forward to the L&M audiences. I love to see the good old friends from the 70's, and the ones we made in '05 too, as well as the friends I’ve picked up as a soloist along the way. This reunion proves to me that anything is possible. Now we get to see where it goes from here.”