Molly Hatchet vs Lynyrd Skynyrd

Any place i have ever seen them play is packed!Then and Now. They are the Hardest Working Band out there and one of the last bands playing Real Rock and Roll today.

By the way, Montgomery Gentry's Carrying On has a shot at being my album of the year. "Best southern rock album since the plane crash," said an officially important rock critic, supposedly.

Some of you that posted replies already know that Danny is seriously life-threating ill, so ya don't have to read this part.

For the others, I am going to give an overview. Well, Danny is a diabetic, and to the best of my knowledge, was probably born with the condition. The near-constant touring, not to mention the alcohol, eventually took its toll on him, and finally in 1995, Danny had to leave Hatchet,due to his declining health. He was hospitalized at the time of the recording of Devil's Canyon. The Drs. told him, no more travel, no more music, or he could die. In either June or July 1998, Danny suffered a severe stroke, and has been in and out of the ICU on an almost regular basis.

Please say a little prayer for Danny. I have seen too many good Southern Rockers go, I just couldn't bear to see Danny Joe added to that list.

You are all welcome to E-mail me at the above address.

Why does this sound sooooo ZZ Top?
Is it just because Dusty and Billy look like Santa Claus or is there some deeper connection?

I only wrote my post under one e-mail address, even tho I do have several. And I happen to like both bands, even tho I prefer the old versions from the 70's-80's and early 90's of both, the versions that had Ronnie and Danny Joe, respectivly, on vocals. Danny was one Hell of a singer, you really should get some old MH CD's and give him a chance.

Hey, wait a minute, there's somethin' funny goin' on 'round here. Alright you singular ultrarabid Molly Hatchet fan, fess up. How many of those posts did you write under all those different e-mail addresses? I thought there couldn't be that many people that would soil their shorts for a second rate southern rock band.

-- Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3@hotmail.com), November 08, 2001.

Lynyrd Skynyrd = roXor Molly Hatchet = suXor

God, of all the bands to have a "kill ya if you bad mouth 'em" cult following who'd of thought it would be Molly fuckin' Hatchet?

Danny Joe Brown is not doing very well at all, he needs our Prayers and Support at this time. Please Light a Candle.

"Well I've been to Alabama, people, ain't a whole lot to see
Skynyrd says it's a real sweet home but it ain't nothin' to me
Richard Betts'll tell ya, lord, he's a rambin' man
He can ramble on back to Georgia, I won't give a damn
Charlie Daniels tells us the good lord lives in Tennessee - HA!.."

etc., there's also a verse about Elvin Bishop involving a crude pun on "Mississippi"!

Skynyrd is one of the greatest bands in the history of the United States. Molly Hatchet is a good band that followed in Skynyrd's footsteps.

Good fite thread. Hatchet fans in fisticuffs with whoever gives 'em the stink eye. New live Hatchet CD + DVD, Flirtin with Disaster -- Live, is pure southern rock gold. Bobby Ingram's mom bought him his first guitar, a Les Paul, when he was in seventh grade, he says on the bonus material. Dave Hlubek weighs 350 lbs. Phil McCormack shouts the pledge of allegiance! The band lines up on the lip of the stage and shakes their guitars in synchrony at the audience. Two bikers chicks in black T's dance onstage during 'Flirtin with Disaster' and they're not even that good looking. Well, good enough, considering.

Many of Hatchet's Kentucky fans are proudly overweight and middle-aged, at least as much so as Skynyrd's. "Whiskey Man" is crushing and then it's hammerdown for another twenty minutes before someone breaks out an acoustic guitar. A five minute drum solo to make you forget Tommy Aldridge and a ten minute guitar solo. Then when they went into Dixie and the the end part of Layla it brought a tear to my eye. There is a surprising and total lack of beer cans and whiskey bottles amid the audience.

Lynyrd Skynyrd is Skynyrd plus Blackfoot plus Outlaws but Hatchet is still only one old guy from Hatchet, another guy from Rum Creek and a bunch of nobodies who play really good, eve the piano player. Hatchet has the secret-that's-not-a-secret of southern rock. It doesn't matter who is playin' the tunes cause you can't remember what they look like after the show except they were big and hairy and white and loud. It just matters that they be good enough to play the songs flawlessly and carry out the vibe and attitude.

looooooooooool

I am listening to the 4th of July Credence Clearwater Revival Show on my college station. It is great.

This thread should be about CCR instead cause they own you.

No, Molly Hatchet own CCR now because those who are still alive didn't have to sell their tunes to some guy named Saul Zaentz. And they didn't have to change their name to Molly Hatcheted and hire the guy from the Cars to play guitar like Creedence Clearwater Revisited.

Well Hatchet fans and Skynyrd fans can all relax... Everyone knows that Jim Dandy & BOA will roll you up and smoke you like a bag of dirt.

(tho these days I kind of dig Hatchet's version of "Dreams" more than ABB.)

This thread should be about CCR instead cause they own you.

they already have their own thread(s) BIG HOOS aka the offtopicposter

"Flirtin' With Disaster" for teh win!

-- eman (eman), Tuesday, February 1, 2005 9:27 AM (2 years ago)

still TRU

twas 7/4 and i was drunk guys

With the exception of their first three records, I think Hatchet wins the award for shittiest album covers.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9552/molly_hatchet/images/kingdom.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9552/molly_hatchet/images/srh.gif
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9552/molly_hatchet/images/prowl.gif

who the hell dosed the water supply in this thread??

Those first two covers are kind of good in a Manowar-ish way. This shit's supposed to be fun.

the covers are the best part of molly hatchet records! and they don't fuck w/skynyrd anyway anyhow.

Sorry, the early Ken Kelly covers are indeed great, but the prison art spin-offs they're releasing 20 years later are roffle worthy.

what an awesome thread

it brings me great joy to peruse it

Ha ha Skynyrd are on a new comp from ultra hipster label Soul Jazz :

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=22999

with no Hatchet, Blackfoot, Rossington Collins Band or .38 Special unfortunately. But you do get "Thirteen" by Big Star?!

An oldie but goodie from The Onion... Molly Hatchet's Nightmare Descent Into Booze, Sex, Drugs 'Not All That Nightmarish,' Guitarist Admits

JACKSONVILLE, FL—The nation's celebrity-biography industry is reeling following Monday's admission by former Molly Hatchet rhythm guitarist Billy Joe Reeves that the rock band's so-called "nightmare descent into booze, sex and drugs" at the height of its late-'70s popularity was "actually not all that nightmarish at all."

"In the summer of 1979, Molly Hatchet was on top of the world. We'd just completed a sold-out tour opening for the likes of Bob Seger and Cheap Trick, and our sophomore effort, Flirtin' With Disaster, was a hit with audiences and critics alike," Reeves told Peter Briley, host of the daytime cable-access talk show Jacksonville Community Voices. "Almost overnight, we were big stars, and things started getting out of control: drugs, alcohol and constant anonymous sex with teenage groupies."

When asked if the experience had been a living hell, a nightmare descent into booze, sex and drugs that almost cost him his life, Reeves stunned Briley with his answer.

"I really wouldn't call it 'nightmarish,' per se, no," Reeves said. "In fact, it was really fucking great. Lord almighty."

Reeves' admission has set off shockwaves within music-bio circles, sharply defying many long-held assumptions about the high price of fame.

"This revelation has stirred up no end of controversy in virtually every corner of the country's $4.2 billion pseudodocumentary industry," said VH1 Behind The Music producer Doug Farelli. "If what this man is saying is true, the very foundation of everything we have come to believe about the celebrity rise-fall-redemption arc may be suspect."

Said E! True Hollywood Story producer Ellen Donovan: "One has to ask: If the excesses of fame are not, in fact, the living hell we have come to believe they are, what else is untrue? What about the heartwarming happy ending, when, after losing all their money, they go clean, settle down and start over again with a better life? Are we to believe that's all just some terrible lie, too?"

During his headline-grabbing interview with Briley, Reeves insisted that sudden fame and fortune did not result in deep inner turmoil and suffering on the part of Molly Hatchet's members, slowly tearing them apart until the band collapsed under the weight of its members' tortured self-destruction. Rather, Reeves said, the struggle, heartache and pain didn't kick in until well after the band had peaked.

"To be honest, if anything, it was the nightmare descent into a lack of booze, sex and drugs that really hurt," said Reeves, who has worked at his brother-in-law's bait shop since leaving Molly Hatchet in 1986. "The excesses of fame were just fine, thank you very much. It was the non-excesses of non-fame that were the hard part."

Jimmy Gaines, a back-up percussionist with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1977 to 1981, agreed.

"The booze, the sex, the drugs... Those are three great things, and I miss them all terribly," Gaines told MTV News' Kurt Loder during a special investigative report on the controversy Tuesday. "As a matter of fact, I'm looking forward to starting up a second, brand-new nightmare descent into all that stuff just as soon as I can manage it."

Despite the stir his remarks have created, Reeves is not backing down.

"Come on, I'd be high as a kite, a joint in one hand and a fifth of Jack Daniels in the other, and all I had to do was play the first four bars of 'Whiskey Man' and the panties would start dropping," said Reeves, eyeing with wistful longing the Frank Frazetta painting of a battle-axe-wielding barbarian on the cover of 1980's Beatin' The Odds. "And you're asking if it filled me with a gnawing emptiness and despair I couldn't escape? Hell, no. Those days with Danny Joe, Duane, Bruce, Dave and Banner were pretty much the best thing that ever happened to this here good ol' boy, and that's a fact."

RIP Dave Hlubek!
https://www.pollstar.com/article/david-hlubek-of-molly-hatchet-dies-132937

Rando Hatchet googlers, your hour cometh.