― gareth, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I don't know much after the 1st 3 alb's tho. Diminishing returns I wd imagine.
― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Dave225, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
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― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 17:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 December 2002 17:44 (10 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, all their songs sound alike, blah blah blah, BUY YOURSELF SOME NEW EARS, MISTER.
― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 17:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 December 2002 18:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
― James Blount, Friday, 13 December 2002 19:22 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
The first one.
I'd rather listen to them than Killing Joke any day of the week.
― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 22:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:12 (10 years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (7 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.
― rogermexico., Monday, 13 August 2007 18:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
Eh. I'd rather be a dick than like SKYNYRD, DUUUDDE!!
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
BAN RICHARD WOOD JOHNSON
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
DOM OTM
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 01:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
I really am digging 'Simple Man' lately.
― Chelvis, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
*puts 'Ban people who don't like Skynyrd' on a t-shirt*
― Kerm, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
RIP Billy Powell.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
RIP indeed
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
play it pretty for atlanta
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
We should make pot legal because it makes the Allmans sound better.
― james k polk, Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
res with the penetrating insight into a joke post
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
a year-old joke post
also, james polk otm
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
you got whooshed dude
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
got any more awesome wikipedia links res
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
i found this one yesterday.
― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
What them say. Made it about 2/3 of the way through, and I deserve a fucking medal.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
"DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT RONNIE LIKE THAT" *cries*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
WTF, is she suggesting she is more southern than Skynyrd?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, damn, that excerpt is stupid on so many different levels.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, that boy is funky
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 8 March 2012 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's hotter'n a fox in a forest fire
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
New album now available for pre-order, comes with best T-shirt of 2012.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, I would wear that with no shame.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
wow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
but that's the Yankee flag!
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
branchin' out:
1. Last of a Dyin' Breed2. One Day at a Time3. Homegrown4. Ready to Fly5. Mississippi Blood6. Good Teacher7. Something to Live For8. Life's Twisted9. Nothing Comes Easy10. Honey Hole11. Start Livin' Life Again
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:16 (11 months ago) Permalink
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."
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
I can't handle anything after 77...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100908173410AAulTB3
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 3 August 2012 03:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
Best Answer - Chosen by AskerThe 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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y'all heard saturday night special
what do y'all think about curtis loew
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 August 2012 03:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
currrrtissss loew was the fiiiinest pickah to evaaaahhh play the blueeeeess
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 August 2012 04:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
otm
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 August 2012 08:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― how's life, Friday, 3 August 2012 14:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
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....
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
I agree with you completely, but as a footnote, the same could be said for Rick Perry.
― pplains, Friday, 3 August 2012 14:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
looking at them right now...
― Mark G, Friday, 3 August 2012 23:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
fkn perfect summer music really, innit? sweating my ass off in the car right now, skynyrd making it tolerable
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 August 2012 23:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
"[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?!"
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
fkn perfect summer music really, innit?
Turn it up
― Brad C., Saturday, 4 August 2012 00:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
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]
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2012 01:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Sun? Sun? It's your cousin, Marvin Ra (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
damn good story either way
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ha, was just about to post that. Right on, Rossington.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
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."
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:47 (8 months ago) Permalink
*applause for Johnny Fever*
fuck yeah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 September 2012 06:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
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 ourshows, 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
― how's life, Saturday, 22 September 2012 08:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
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."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2012 14:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
Considering that the guy who wrote and sang their songs was against using the flag in 197fucking5, the backpedal is disappointing.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 September 2012 14:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
And Ed King, Bob Burns, and Artiumus Pyle might take issue with the statement that Rossington is "the group's lone surviving original member."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
sigh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
I might have to check out this fresh new Southern band, 'Obama's Politically Correct Sell Your Soul Make Believe Impostors'.
― pplains, Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Ed King and Artimus def. not original members, though they were every bit as essential to the Skynyrd story and rise as Burns. Also, Artimus Pyle is one of the coolest names ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
35 years
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 October 2012 22:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
35 years, and go figure, most of the rest of them are dead, too. RIP, guys.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 October 2012 23:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
re-listening to Skynyrd's First: Complete Unreleased this afternoon
happy place, imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:24 (6 months ago) Permalink
Feelin this
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:54 (4 months ago) Permalink
"Freebird" is soooooooo underrated.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
It's as affecting to me as Simple Man, for a lot of the same reasons. I think it's a really beautiful song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
Ed King = underrated
had no idea he was a Strawberry Alarm Clock guy.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 31 May 2013 01:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
WAY underrated. He contributed more than a few signature Skynyrd licks/riffs, but has largely been frozen out of most of the reunions.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 31 May 2013 02:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink