Lynyrd Skynyrd: Classic or Dud?

I pretty much stopped caring at "Ace of Spades." I mean, where can you go after deriding that? And it's the first entry.

^^^

Magic Man. COME THE FUCK ON.

This is the same guy who put "Supernaut" on his list of Worst Riffs of the Millenium. He has good taste.

The fact the guy runs down Rory Gallagher as "soulless" makes me think this list is some kind of joke.

Seriously, that's some hipster contrarian bullshit.

i'm kind of annoyed w/myself for letting such transparent trolling get to me

Speaking of Skynyrd haters, this profoundly misses the point, and embarrasses itself in the process.

lol I appear to have started a thread about it in 2004: Pitchfork resurrects old feature: 50 Worst Guitar Solos of the Millenium

i'm kind of annoyed w/myself for letting such transparent trolling get to me

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:45 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Good point!

Speaking of Skynyrd haters, this profoundly misses the point, and embarrasses itself in the process.

― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jesus, i think i just turned to stone reading that.

Dear Ronnie, wherever you are, please avert your eyes.

What. The. Fuck.

What them say. Made it about 2/3 of the way through, and I deserve a fucking medal.

"DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT RONNIE LIKE THAT" *cries*

WTF, is she suggesting she is more southern than Skynyrd?

I mean, damn, that excerpt is stupid on so many different levels.

play it pretty for atlanta

<3

Man, that boy is funky

it's hotter'n a fox in a forest fire

New album now available for pre-order, comes with best T-shirt of 2012.

Yeah, I would wear that with no shame.

wow

but that's the Yankee flag!

branchin' out:

1. Last of a Dyin' Breed
2. One Day at a Time
3. Homegrown
4. Ready to Fly
5. Mississippi Blood
6. Good Teacher
7. Something to Live For
8. Life's Twisted
9. Nothing Comes Easy
10. Honey Hole
11. Start Livin' Life Again

It's actually a pretty good record - I bet xhuxk will love it. Blurs the line between Southern rock and modern hard country, in a non-suck way. My favorite song is "Homegrown."

I can't handle anything after 77...

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The Liberals and Radical Extreme Leftists would wet their pants if they ever heard Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd is definitely not friendly to Liberals or Radical Extreme Leftists.

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HEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW

y'all heard saturday night special

what do y'all think about curtis loew

currrrtissss loew was the fiiiinest pickah to evaaaahhh play the blueeeeess

otm

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

These idiots would probably be shocked to know how much money Skynryd and the Allmans raised to help Jimmy Carter get elected president. Carter was essentially unknown and they helped a ton.

Plus Saturday Night Special advocates tossing all guns into the sea. Not exactly NRA-friendly. Workin for MCA denigrates the "pencil pushers", which Mitt Romney seems to epitomize.

One could go on and on....

These idiots would probably be shocked to know how much money Skynryd and the Allmans raised to help Jimmy Carter get elected president. Carter was essentially unknown and they helped a ton.

I agree with you completely, but as a footnote, the same could be said for Rick Perry.

looking at them right now...

fkn perfect summer music really, innit? sweating my ass off in the car right now, skynyrd making it tolerable

"[The Confederate flag] was strictly an MCA gimmick to start us off with some label. It was useful at first, but by now it’s embarrassing except in Europe, where they really like all that stuff because they think it's macho American." - Ronnie Van Zant

Seriously, if he were to resurface as a zombie, his second thought (his first thought being "braaaiins") would be, "Who the fuck are these fuckers claiming to be fucking Lynyrd fucking Skynyrd?!"

fkn perfect summer music really, innit?

Turn it up

So many good stories about Skynyrd, but I love how they discovered Billy Powell could play piano

[from Wiki]

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Powell grew up in a military family (his father was in the U.S. Navy) and spent several years of his childhood living in Italy where his father was stationed. After his father died of cancer in 1960, he moved with his family back to the United States and settled in Jacksonville, Florida. He met his lifelong friend, Leon Wilkeson in elementary school. Billy's interest in piano began to grow and he began taking piano lessons from a local teacher named Madalyn Brown. She swore he did not need her, claiming that Billy was a natural and picked things up well on his own. When it was time for high school, his mother enrolled Billy and his brother, Ricky at Sanford Naval Academy in Sanford, FL.
Musical career

Billy returned to Jacksonville where he enrolled at Bishop Kenny High School. When he graduated in 1970, he enrolled briefly in a community college, majoring in Music Theory. Around this time he found work as a roadie for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Billy remained a member of the Skynyrd crew for two years (which included, amongst the grittier shows, highlights such as Skynyrd landing a support slot for Leslie West's "Mountain") In his second year with them, 1972, Skynyrd played one particular gig, a show at the Bolles school prom. After his usual routine working with Kevin Elson, Billy had time to rest for a short while. In the corner he spotted a piano, so Billy went over and sat down with it. Just fooling around, Billy launches into his piano based version of Freebird for the boys in the band to listen to. Ronnie, astonished at his roadies hitherto secret ability said 'You mean to tell me, you've been playing the piano like that and you've been workin' for us for a year....'. Billy replied, "Well, you know, I've been classically trained most of my life.' He was then told Skynyrd were looking for a keyboard man, and Billy was in![1]

Love that. Also, supposedly, Ronnie locked Leon Wilkeson and Bob Burns in a room for 8 hours a day to get them to properly gel as a rhythm section. Dunno if that's true, but it sure sounds like it.

damn good story either way

Gary Rossington finally turns his back on the Confederate flag! I guess he just realized it was sort of racist or something?

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-lynyrd-skynrd-denounces-confederate-flag-angering-some-fans-20120920,0,4023988.story

Ha, was just about to post that. Right on, Rossington.

Just posted this in the comments section, but it hasn't shown up yet: "It's hilarious to me that old school Lynyrd Skynyrd fans conveniently gloss over the fact that the original band was actually left-leaning (they campaigned hard for Carter in 1976, wrote a pro-gun control song called "Saturday Night Special"). It's only after the replacements came in that they started spoonfeeding their conservative fanbase exactly what they wanted. The confederate flag may mean heritage to some people, but I grew up in Alabama and I know what it really means. It means that there was a point in history that states were willing to go to war with the union over the right to own human beings."

*applause for Johnny Fever*

fuck yeah

Rossington backpedaled on their facebook page though.

I wanted to clarify the discussion of the Confederate Flag in our recent CNN interview. Myself, the past and present members (that are from the South), are all extremely proud of our heritage and being from the South. We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
We still utilize the Confederate (Rebel) flag on stage every night in our
shows, we are and always will be a Southern American Rock band, first and foremost. We also utilize the state flag of Alabama and the American flag, ‘cause at the end of the day, we are all Americans.
I only stated my opinion that the confederate flag, at times, was unfairly being used as a symbol by various hate groups, which is something that we don’t support the flag being used for. The Confederate flag means something more to us, Heritage not Hate…
-Gary Rossington

Eh, that's as fair a backpedal as one can likely manage for flying the Confederate flag.

Of course, I have a hunch Skynyrd fans don't necessarily agree on what constitutes "hate." Like, I bet many of them, too, decry Nazis and the KKK, yet have no problem demanding illegal aliens be sent back to Mexico, where they belong, or that the socialist secret African Muslim president is destroying everything that made our country "great" or "good" or "white."

Considering that the guy who wrote and sang their songs was against using the flag in 197fucking5, the backpedal is disappointing.

And Ed King, Bob Burns, and Artiumus Pyle might take issue with the statement that Rossington is "the group's lone surviving original member."