Lynyrd Skynyrd

Thoughts?

 

I'm listening to them all over again..

I have a double cd of concert which is seriously doing them the justice I knew I have have given them when I was younger!

Sorry I can't add more yet but I AM being blown away as we speak

 

'Free Bird' is my favourite, and I love 'Saturday Night Special', 'Tuesday's Gone', 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Mr. Banker' and 'I Ain't The One' at the moment. I love their sound.

 

yes they are great.I love them

 

Love everything the original band ever did.

 

2 big thumbs up

 

Same here.

 

Every Mother's Son and Simple Man are classics in their own right, but I love the whole sound.. And the era that they represent has pretty much become THEIR era..

I'm still working thru my best friends collection whenever she lets me, and she's only 27! Just shows that they are very very timeless..

 

I thought you were a metalhead?

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd is not my cup of tea. I only truly like one of their songs, and I don't even like that one that much.

 

Play me a song curtis loew, hey curtis loew
I wish that you was here so everyone would know
People said he was useless, them people all are fools
cause curtis youre the finest picker to ever play the blues
LS

 

On the day old Curtis died, nobody came to pray
Ol' preacher said some words, and they chucked him in the clay
But he lived a lifetime playin' the black man's blues
And on the day he lost his life, that's all he had to lose

 

Play me a song curtis loew, curtis loew
I got your drinking money, tune up your dobro
People said he was useless, them people are the fools
cause curtis loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues

 

I like music with big heart, & Ronnie has big heart indeed. You can just tell. I wish I knew more of their songs... like all of them (w/ the original band members, anyhow). Lotsa love in those songs & I'm only on the surface.

 

Big jims been drinkin whiskey
And playing poker on a losin night
Pretty soon, big jim starts a thinkin
Somebody been cheatin and lyin
So big jim commences to fightin
I wouldnt tell you no lie
And big jim done grab his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes

 

God i love Skynyrd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
best band ever...

 

Awsome band!!!!! The best southern rock band ever.

 

My very first concert I ever attended was The Day on the Green concert in the Oakland Coliseum with Frampton, Nugent, Foghat, Outlaws, and Skynyrd. I think this was the very last concert the original band played before the plane crash. The original band was the best, but I did not like the reincarnation very much, especially with Johnny on vocals. Johnny always seemed to try and copy his brother Ronnie instead of doing his own thing.
Then, after the crash, there was the Rossington -Collins band. I loved this band, and Dale Krantz was a great vocalist. There were other spinoffs such as the Artimus Pyle Band and the Allen Collins Band, but they were nothin special.
And the band today is just a former skin of itself, still playing good tunes and quality musicians, but they are not and will never be what they used to, the best southern rock band and one of the best rock bands ever.

 

I won tickets from the radio today to see Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at the Hard Rock Casino here in Las Vegas on Friday night. It has been about 4 years since I saw them last, so I am looking forward to it. I wish Hughie Thommason was still with the band, but he isnt, so RIP Hughie. Also, and this might strike some as absurd, but I wish Johnny Van Zandt wasnt there and that Rickey Medlocke would take over the vocal duties. I always liked Rickey when he sang with Blackfoot. Oh well, its been awhile, and I hope for a good show this Friday.

 

Skynyrd is amazing, I heard someone sum it up best once, "the allman brothers invented southern rock, but skynyrd perfected it"

Tuesday's gone with the wind, my baby is gone with the wind..........