Just listening to skynrd’s “I’m a country boy” which fucking rules but it made me think of this thing southern people do by calling themselves “country.” The pov of this dude is literally I’m not a big fan of city but you’re good I’ll be down here picking cotton so why don’t you do like me and mind your own business. Positioning themselves as country or redneck which none of them actually are, they’re essentially denying any of their agency in struggle of black people by saying we’re all just down here struggling the same as each other which is bullshit apologetics. Anyway that songs a jam
pretty much OTM
I guess I would file this song between the post-Altamont ready-for-the-country trend and the glory days of Jimmy Carter. It's not "Sweet Home Alabama" but it feels more aligned with the counter-culture, such as that was in their time and place, than with reactionary rural conservatism. It has a very different vibe than, say, Hank Jr.'s "A Country Boy Can Survive."
Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History by Lee Ballinger is supposed to be good but I haven't read it yet; the documentary If I Leave Here Tomorrow is wonderful on the pre- and early history of the band and is available on Netflix.
― Brad C., Thursday, 16 February 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
RIP Gary Rossingtonlast of the og’safterlife skynyrd in their ABSOLUTELY NO PLANES tour idk that was corny sorry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIqEq9OFxE
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
One of a rare handful of bands where everyone is now dead?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
seriious q: what do you mean rare handful? lots of bands are dead surely
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:08 (one year ago) link
where literally everyone is dead? not many, iirc!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:17 (one year ago) link
Though this band still has Artimus Pyle around from the end of the classic era.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
The only other one I can think of is the Ramones.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:23 (one year ago) link
All two members of the original Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jimi Hendrix Experience ... not many!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiwEvslZGWk
seems kind of distasteful to say a band was hampered by a monumentally tragic/disastrous/lethal plane crash but good lord, we might live in a very different world I think, I mean who can say but losing the preeminent prog country band couldn't have helped
― Florin Cuchares, Monday, 6 March 2023 03:31 (one year ago) link
Everyone on the debut Canned Heat album is now dead. xp
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:40 (one year ago) link
I'm sure a bunch of the doo wop groups are all dead now, but I guess it depends on when you're starting the clock.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
anyway rip garyhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/4d/c1/844dc14b31edfa6eb7f9d563808b029c.jpg
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
A little wild to think Al Kooper has survived his most famous discovery.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link
nice shoes gary https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/a7/9a/99a79a7a50ba4a2550a00b60bc1b623f.jpg
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:47 (one year ago) link
ronnie & gary with tom hamilton of aerosmith - file HIM under bands you never thought would survive “hey ronnie you’ll never believe this”https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/f4/16/34f416fe0efb788983dbad9b36cb7b42.jpg
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah, the '50s and early Rock/R&B are a different thing. Johnny Burnette & the Rock'n'Roll Trio--all dead. The Crickets are down to Sonny Curtis etc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 March 2023 03:50 (one year ago) link
I worked for Skynyrd's label - CMC, not MCA - so I saw the band a bunch, though not the classic incarnation.
Now everyone from then is gone.
For my money they are in the conversation for best American rock band ever.
RIP Gary. I'll still remember you.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 6 March 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link
Listening to the One For The Road live double album i love the studio albums but the band just sound so much like ~themselves~ livepure electric boogie
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
Classic trio line-up of Motorhead all gone too.
RIP Gary
― this set is totally lame but of course I bought it (Matt #2), Monday, 6 March 2023 07:44 (one year ago) link
fwiw artimus pyle still lives
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 March 2023 08:21 (one year ago) link
When you inspire the line “Whiskey bottles, brand new cars, oak tree you’re in my way”, survive a plane crash and still make it to 71, you are a tough old bird.
Fly on freebird…RIP Gary
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
Ramones all gone too
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
Except late-era drummer Artimus Ramone
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
The original lineup of The Beatles aka The Quarrymen
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 12:46 (one year 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