Lynyrd Skynyrd: Classic or Dud?

I don't know much after the 1st 3 alb's tho. Diminishing returns I wd imagine.

Yeah, all their songs sound alike, blah blah blah, BUY YOURSELF SOME NEW EARS, MISTER.

The first one.

I'd rather listen to them than Killing Joke any day of the week.

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...

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, you're a dick.

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.

Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.

Eh. I'd rather be a dick than like SKYNYRD, DUUUDDE!!

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.

BAN RICHARD WOOD JOHNSON

Dud. I know there's not much point in posting negative opinion here, but really people - two words: "Free bird". RWJ OTM.

DOM OTM

Ban people who don't like Skynyrd. That's the kind of legislated sense of aesthetics that ILM really needs.

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

Really, people, two words: THAT SMELL

I really am digging 'Simple Man' lately.

*puts 'Ban people who don't like Skynyrd' on a t-shirt*

RIP Billy Powell.

RIP indeed

play it pretty for atlanta

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

Gee, I guess that means we should make alcohol illegal too, since people who drink are one step away from smoking pot.

We should make pot legal because it makes the Allmans sound better.

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

a year-old joke post

also, james polk otm

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

you got whooshed dude

got any more awesome wikipedia links res

i found this one yesterday.

Though this band still has Artimus Pyle around from the end of the classic era.

The only other one I can think of is the Ramones.

All two members of the original Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jimi Hendrix Experience ... not many!

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

Everyone on the debut Canned Heat album is now dead. xp

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.

anyway rip gary

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/4d/c1/844dc14b31edfa6eb7f9d563808b029c.jpg

A little wild to think Al Kooper has survived his most famous discovery.

nice shoes gary

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/a7/9a/99a79a7a50ba4a2550a00b60bc1b623f.jpg

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

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.

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.

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.

Listening to the One For The Road live double album
i love the studio albums but the band just sound so much like ~themselves~ live
pure electric boogie

Classic trio line-up of Motorhead all gone too.

RIP Gary

fwiw artimus pyle still lives

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

Ramones all gone too

Except late-era drummer Artimus Ramone

The original lineup of The Beatles aka The Quarrymen

I thought Artimus Starr was still with us...

Not anymore unfortunately. Cause of death: bizarre archery accident.

Original Skynyrd bus drive Optimus Prime is still with us, isn't he?

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.”

A-plus

<3

A+

RVZ OTGDM

that's awesome

rossington's slide work on "Freebird" is all time, beautiful

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

Gary and Ted were very different people. Opposite ends of the spectrum.

trying to think of higher praise that you could give someone

so tough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5gdTtBq90

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

captain beyond might like a word but i get it

That respect thing says so much, don’t want to mess with it but summarizing or paraphrasing etc.

But=by

second helping was released 50 years ago today

turn it up

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.

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.

“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

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.

Disney Skynyrd ride when

yeah 'watergate does not bother me/does your conscience bother you' is pretty straightforward

but the Swampers

“Now watergate has got the swompers”

“Now we all did what conscience do”

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.

I think he’s questioning whether the average citizen should feel guilty about the behavior of their elected representatives.

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")

You can't read too hard into these lyrics, folks.

https://i.imgur.com/wvB32jh.jpeg

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, 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