― James Blount, Friday, 13 December 2002 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
The first one.
I'd rather listen to them than Killing Joke any day of the week.
― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also resent them for the redneck following they've developed
I don't know if I like blaming bands for their audience.
Except for maybe ICP... No, they suck no matter who listens...
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Sunday, 15 January 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Lynryd Skynryd are a bunch of drunk rednecks from Florida who pretend to be from Alabama and have songs in commercials about food from Kentucky. Fuck them.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.
― rogermexico., Monday, 13 August 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the user name would certainly suggest so.
classic all day long, esp. first two lp's.
S: "Working For MCA" and "Gimme Back My Bullets" and whole lot of others.
― will, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh. I'd rather be a dick than like SKYNYRD, DUUUDDE!!
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
the vision of drunk, toothless rednecks with confederate flags plastered all over their rusting pick-up trucks, air guitaring to "Gimme Three Steps" in white trash bars has cemented my hatred for this sort of country-fried nonsense forever. and i'm not just knocking the band for their audience, either. their music is pure, unadulterated bullshit cooked down to its purest form and smeared all over the last few vestiges of passable artistic taste that still exist in this world.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
BAN RICHARD WOOD JOHNSON
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Dud. I know there's not much point in posting negative opinion here, but really people - two words: "Free bird". RWJ OTM.
― Soukesian, Monday, 13 August 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
DOM OTM
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Ban people who don't like Skynyrd. That's the kind of legislated sense of aesthetics that ILM really needs.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Ban people who don't like Skynyrd.
co-sign
people who don't like Skynyrd are one aesthetic step from not liking the Allmans, which in a just world would be a capital offense
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 14 August 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Really, people, two words: THAT SMELL
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I really am digging 'Simple Man' lately.
― Chelvis, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
*puts 'Ban people who don't like Skynyrd' on a t-shirt*
― Kerm, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP Billy Powell.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP indeed
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
play it pretty for atlanta
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Gee, I guess that means we should make alcohol illegal too, since people who drink are one step away from smoking pot.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
We should make pot legal because it makes the Allmans sound better.
― james k polk, Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
res with the penetrating insight into a joke post
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
a year-old joke post
also, james polk otm
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
you got whooshed dude
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
got any more awesome wikipedia links res
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i found this one yesterday.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Poor guy just got off the Skynyrd criuse:
http://www.simplemancruise.com/smc2009/lineup.php
― bendy, Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Rest in peace, Billy.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 29 January 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like many of the posters here have never listened to a LS album all the way through. How novel. Four of their five original studio albums are great. I was just listening to Street Survivors. It's actually relatively delicate and pretty.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
there's some crazy talk dissing the allman bros upthread.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
'sweet home alabama' might be the most popular pop/rock song of all-time, and for good reason, it's fuckin perfect.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Classic. Some clueless (and classist and elitist) posts on this thread, especially the late "Richard Wood Johnson", who truly is a dick.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Street Survivors': so so so CLASSIC. I really dig the alternate verison of You Got That Right on the re-release.
But in general...killer lyrics, awesome vocals, that band was TIGHT AS HELL...how can they be anything BUT classic.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought this might get bumped to talk about the new album. Haven't heard it, but saw it in the store and was mildly, mildly curious. Judging by the genesis of the album title, God & Guns, they don't like Barack.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I will admit that I have a mental block when it comes to incarnations of Skynyrd post-crash. It just doesn't sound right without Ronnie singing. Plus all that feuding and infighting afterwards really turned me off.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Ultra classic when Ronnie was alive. The reunited version bad in about 1000 ways.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
New Lynyrd Skynyrd thing in stores = flypaper for idiots.
― Gorge, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Whiskey botttle, brand new car, oak tree you're in my way"...talk about a great song opener.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't count post-plane crash Skynryd.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: new record is called "God & Guns". Yeesh
― bendy, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, kind of dumb. The real Skynrd at least had some subtlety to them, ie the anti-gun "Saturday Night Special"
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 8 October 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"Working for MCA" totally beat both "EMI" and "Complete Control" for classic major label songs about major labels not being classic. And wasn't "Gimme Back My Bullets" actually about not landing on the Billboard charts? And "That Smell" was anti-drug in the darkest way possible. So: so classic. Also, actually one of the few acts whose "Essential" collection I play as much as the albums proper. I find it makes the album tracks pop out even more when I play the albums.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, their Essential is fantastic.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like Platinum & Gold compilation (is that what it's called)?
All the eye-rolling over 'Sweet Home' and 'Free Bird' kind of bothers me. I know they've been played to death, and that they've become signifiers for something pretty far from what the band represented at the time...but it bums me out that everyone hears the cliche, rather than the actual songs.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, the Essential is a two-disc collection that is relatively recent (okay, maybe turn of the century-ish?). Speaking of "Freebird", while waiting to pick up a prescription at CVS last night the store was playing some horrible adult-contemporary medley that went into the chorus from "Freebird" out of a Richard Marx song. It was pretty bizarre.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought Artimus Starr was still with us...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
Not anymore unfortunately. Cause of death: bizarre archery accident.
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Original Skynyrd bus drive Optimus Prime is still with us, isn't he?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
john ingham, a uk writer who interview skynyrd in glasgow in the mid 70s, wrote this in a letter to bob lefsetz:
I joined them in Glasgow at the Albany Hotel (the only place musicians stayed). We were the only people sitting in the dining lounge. At the end of the room was a low stage and a keyboard and mics. After awhile a guy and girl combo climbed on to the stage and started to play in a very Carpenters style. Not brilliant, not terrible, an ordinary hotel band.As soon as they started Ronnie Van Zandt and Gary Rossington paid attention and listened to them and at the end of each song applauded. Then the record company lady made a disparaging comment about the playing. Instantly Ronnie spun on her and with real anger said, “They’re musicians. They’re working. You show them respect.”
As soon as they started Ronnie Van Zandt and Gary Rossington paid attention and listened to them and at the end of each song applauded. Then the record company lady made a disparaging comment about the playing. Instantly Ronnie spun on her and with real anger said, “They’re musicians. They’re working. You show them respect.”
A-plus
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 05:27 (one year ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 06:16 (one year ago) link
A+
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 07:24 (one year ago) link
RVZ OTGDM
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:28 (one year ago) link
that's awesome
rossington's slide work on "Freebird" is all time, beautiful
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
Singer-songwriter (and one-time '90s Blues dude) Ian Moore, from FB:
Gary Rossington- I want to tell a short story about his humanity.My band was touring with Skynard and Ted Nugent. It was, as you can imagine, a very trippy tour. I would spend a lot of evenings hanging with Gary and his wife Dale. Gary and Ted were very different people. Opposite ends of the spectrum. One night, during the show, Ted’s main guitar, a late 50’s Birdland, fell and the neck broke. I was hanging with Gary. He was distraught. Despite their differences, he couldn’t stand that Ted’s main guitar was broken. He stayed up all night, found the exact same guitar, bought it, and had it at the arena the next morning. That is the kind of guy Gary Rossington was
One night, during the show, Ted’s main guitar, a late 50’s Birdland, fell and the neck broke. I was hanging with Gary. He was distraught. Despite their differences, he couldn’t stand that Ted’s main guitar was broken. He stayed up all night, found the exact same guitar, bought it, and had it at the arena the next morning. That is the kind of guy Gary Rossington was
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
Gary and Ted were very different people. Opposite ends of the spectrum.
trying to think of higher praise that you could give someone
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
so tough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5gdTtBq90
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
the preeminent prog country band
I was caught off guard this morning by the mellotron on "Tuesday's Gone" and "Free Bird" before remembering this scientific fact
― Brad C., Wednesday, 8 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
captain beyond might like a word but i get it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
That respect thing says so much, don’t want to mess with it but summarizing or paraphrasing etc.
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2023 06:15 (one year ago) link
But=by
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
second helping was released 50 years ago today
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:22 (one month ago) link
turn it up
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:24 (one month ago) link
I'm *still* not sure of the politics of "Sweet Home Alabama." At the least it's probably the most maddeningly ambiguous/misunderstood/complicated song of its ilk aside from "Okie from Muskogee," with which is shares a lot of DNA. Even the band was inconsistent when talking about it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:44 (one month ago) link
Skynyrd are playing with ZZ Top not too far from me, but the line-up now is basically Ricky Medlocke, Ronnie Van Zant's brother and a bunch of random dudes. How they get to go out playing under the name is beyond me.
― the scouse that roared (Matt #2), Monday, 15 April 2024 23:02 (one month ago) link
“SWA” is a good sophomore year high school talent show entry, just be prepared that the bass player will be the only one in the band who remembers the F-E-D turnaround
― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2024 23:07 (one month ago) link
Ronnie was in his twenties when he wrote that and came from a very backward place. That song is well beyond him and his politics now. Anyway saying the governor’s true in that situation is pretty reprehensible.
“All I can do is write about it” is his best defense of the south.
― Heez, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:02 (one month ago) link
Disney Skynyrd ride when
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:24 (one month ago) link
yeah 'watergate does not bother me/does your conscience bother you' is pretty straightforward
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:26 (one month ago) link
but the Swampers
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:12 (one month ago) link
“Now watergate has got the swompers”
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:16 (one month ago) link
“Now we all did what conscience do”
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:17 (one month ago) link
I've got to admit, as a simple man, that I've never had any idea what "watergate does not bother me/does your conscience bother you (tell the truth)" was meant to convey.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:42 (one month ago) link
I think he’s questioning whether the average citizen should feel guilty about the behavior of their elected representatives.
― o. nate, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:57 (one month ago) link
Or is it kind of the same idea as Randy Newman's "Rednecks"? Like, you get all righteous about misbehaving politicians, but maybe you secretly harbor similar beliefs? ("Tell the truth")
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:19 (one month ago) link
You can't read too hard into these lyrics, folks.
https://i.imgur.com/wvB32jh.jpeg
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
different in that Randy gets to say the n-word cuzza he's such a Smart Guy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:49 (one month ago) link