Lynyrd Skynyrd: Classic or Dud?

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oops, yeah right it's Tuesday that's gone isnt it.

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another useless classic. Important to know who they are, but not important enough to warrant putting any on the turntable. Kids should study it and then forget it until the subject comes up at a party.

And don't fuckin' yell "FreeBird!" at concerts. It isn't funny anymore.

Lloyd Cole said (when "FreeBird" was requested) "It's strange how that FreeBird guy shows up at every single concert, regardless of location or who's performing."

― Dave225, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When a band produces both "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird", they could produce a pile of shite for the rest of their career, and still be classic. Which is what Skynyrd did...

― Judd Nelson, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic AND fun to listen to. "Workin' for MCA" and "Call Me the Breeze" are uniformly excellent southern workouts...

― Joe, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's incredible how many hits, huh? They're like the southern boogie- rock AC/DC, just putting the same two great songs over and over. God bless those conservative little cockfarmers.

― Tracer hand, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"down south jukin'" and "gimme back my bullets are classic".

― jel --, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud.

― jonathan thrak, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'And don't fuckin' yell "FreeBird!" at concerts. It isn't funny anymore'

WHIPPING POST!!!

― dave q, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the allman bros aren't as good as lynyrd skynyrd

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Allman Brothers weren't even as good as the Outhere Brothers

― dave q, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I recommend going to audiogalaxy and downloading Freeway To Stairbird by the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz. It's better than everything Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded put together.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tracer's post is very much OTM.

― Sean, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

Tracer's post is very condescending. Conservative sure, after Ronnie died in the plane wreck, but listen to their early stuff and tell me they have a conservative pov.

― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Tell me how putting out the same song 40 times in a row isn't conservative!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Tell me how putting out the same song 40 times in a row isn't conservative!

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

― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

For you Skynyrd fans out there, have you heard the new Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera, yet? I've heard several tracks off of it, and they've all been quite good. I'm thinking I may have to buy it. The AMG review calls it "a song cycle about Southern rock, in particular Lynyrd Skynyrd" and says that it summons "a swampy intensity recalling a grittier, less commercially viable early version of Skynyrd".

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 December 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Patterson Hood's a HUGE Skynrd fan. That album was in the works forever also, was originally supposed to be titled Betamax Guillotine, which is a better title I think. It's very good, but it's not the Drive-By Truckers best album, just their longest.

― James Blount, Friday, 13 December 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What is their best album, if you don't mind my asking?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Dudyrd Dudyrd.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

(pronounced...

The first one.

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

― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Frankly, stencil, all consenting members of estimable Killing Joke alumni -- including its current administration -- concur that they'd RATHER you listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd than Killing Joke, as you have roundly fallen quite short in your duty to honor the fire and thus, do not deserve to listen to Killing Joke. So, why not go fetch yourself a nice tin of chewing tobacco and some moonshine and enjoy the fruits of the Van Zant Klan. Lynyrd Skynard can have you.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

But they honor the fire!

― hstencil, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

BAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

From the locked thread:

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 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

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 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.

― rogermexico., Monday, 13 August 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Wood Johnson, you're a dick.

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

― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

BAN RICHARD WOOD JOHNSON

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

DOM OTM

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I really am digging 'Simple Man' lately.

― Chelvis, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Kerm, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

RIP Billy Powell.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

RIP indeed

― double bird strike (gabbneb), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:03 (seventeen years ago)

play it pretty for atlanta

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

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

― james k polk, Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

a year-old joke post

also, james polk otm

― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

res with the penetrating insight into a joke post

you got whooshed dude

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

got any more awesome wikipedia links res

― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

i found this one yesterday.

― Pantheism F. Mohair (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 02:33 (seventeen years ago)

Poor guy just got off the Skynyrd criuse:

http://www.simplemancruise.com/smc2009/lineup.php

― bendy, Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

Rest in peace, Billy.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 29 January 2009 07:16 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

Looks like many of the posters here have never listened to a LS album all the way through. How novel. Four of their five original studio albums are great. I was just listening to Street Survivors. It's actually relatively delicate and pretty.

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 8 October 2009 05:15 (sixteen years ago)

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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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

But=by

― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2023 06:38 (three years ago)

one year passes...

second helping was released 50 years ago today

― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:22 (two years ago)

turn it up

― mookieproof, Monday, 15 April 2024 22:24 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

“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 (two years ago)

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 (two years ago)

Disney Skynyrd ride when

― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:24 (two years ago)

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

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 02:26 (two years ago)

but the Swampers

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:12 (two years ago)

“Now watergate has got the swompers”

― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:16 (two years ago)

“Now we all did what conscience do”

― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:17 (two years ago)

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.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:42 (two years ago)

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

― o. nate, Thursday, 18 April 2024 14:57 (two years ago)

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, 18 April 2024 17:19 (two years ago)

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

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

― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:40 (two years ago)

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

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:49 (two years ago)

six months pass...

instagram reminded me that the plane crashed on this day in 1977

the boys going ham mere months before in happier times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTgd5MWGtHA

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 October 2024 22:27 (one year ago)

two months pass...

skynyrd is a pretty good balm for depression imo

― mookieproof, Friday, 10 January 2025 00:28 (one year ago)

lord knows i (apparently) can't change

― mookieproof, Friday, 10 January 2025 01:24 (one year ago)

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 January 2025 19:01 (one year ago)

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

🖼

“Ok, who spilled Pepsi on my Peavey?”

― calstars, Friday, 10 January 2025 19:23 (one year ago)

three months pass...

Seven years of hard love

― calstars, Monday, 14 April 2025 00:18 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

9 o’clock in Boise, Idaho

― calstars, Thursday, 1 May 2025 00:13 (one year ago)

― calstars, Thursday, 1 May 2025 00:16 (one year ago)

wont you come upstairs girl and have a drink of chaaampaagne

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 May 2025 00:25 (one year ago)

I worked in every joint you could name

― calstars, Thursday, 1 May 2025 02:33 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Every honey tonk

― calstars, Saturday, 17 May 2025 03:13 (one year ago)

Nashville, Tennessee

― calstars, Sunday, 18 May 2025 00:32 (one year ago)

I bet yall didn’t remember that there’s a mellotron on free bird

― calstars, Tuesday, 20 May 2025 23:47 (one year ago)

"Tuesday's Gone" as well. Al Kooper plays it on both tracks.

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 May 2025 23:52 (one year ago)

As luck would have it, TG just came on at the bar and was promptly skipped by this increasingly annoying bartender

― calstars, Wednesday, 21 May 2025 00:53 (one year ago)

one month passes...

“Ooooooh. Mr Breeze…”

― calstars, Saturday, 5 July 2025 01:31 (eleven months ago)

“I got that green light babe…”

― calstars, Saturday, 12 July 2025 22:19 (ten months ago)

three weeks pass...

If it ain’t no pills or booze it got to be a honky tonk queen

― calstars, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 00:32 (ten months ago)

The other day I walked past a guy playing acoustic guitar and singing who had changed the chorus to "Sweet home a-Montana." I looked around but there were no bricks to throw, so I just got out of there as fast as I could.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 01:04 (ten months ago)

heh

― calstars, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 01:46 (ten months ago)

lol did he keep the verses as they are?

― a product of the times, those times being the end times (Matt #2), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 01:51 (ten months ago)

three months pass...

my best friend is a philistine

https://i.postimg.cc/637L7yf3/skynyrd.png

― mookieproof, Friday, 21 November 2025 08:40 (six months ago)

one month passes...

vegemite grrl’s youtube link of oct 21 2024 continues to bring me so much joy. i revisit “call me the breeze” from that show regularly. i can’t believe how tight they are. so hairy. so sweaty. so completely dialed in.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 January 2026 12:24 (five months ago)

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

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 January 2026 12:27 (five months ago)

^ convention hall 1977

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 January 2026 12:28 (five months ago)

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