So that's how they spelled "Gimme Shelter" then?

They all look stoned. Do assjacks still shout out "Freebird!" at unlikely places such as the opera? I always found that funny, but I am juvenile at heart.

FREEBIRD!!!!

Yeah, I went there.

Robert1966

You can't compare the Stones to Skynyrd. Too different. But both great bands.

They were peaking right at the end, imo.

FREEBIRD!!!!

/yeah, I went there, too

Submitter is a god.

I have a sudden craving for some 'shrooms and a nasty lapdance.

benlonghair: They were peaking right at the end, imo.

That Smell is one of their best...

Respect the Collins!!

Woo-hoo!

{waves lighter}

I once called for "Freebird!" at a Dream Theater concert.

They played a couple of bars for me.

Skynyrd was awesome.
Bands nowadays suck the big wazoo.

ndotseth: Skynyrd was awesome.
Bands nowadays suck the big wazoo.

This is fact.
That is all.

Is it bad that I prefer 38 Special to Lynyrd Skynyrd?
I mean, Skynyrd has just become so cliche that it's hard to listen to it without groaning.

Two mics duct-taped together was very high tech for 1975.

Freebird was ruined forever for me by the Molly Hatchet version I heard back in the 90's, but I was already getting tired of the song....Kind of like Stairway to Heaven....I'd pay good money not to have to listen to that again. They were both great songs, but have been "CLASSIC ROCKed" to death for most of us old enough to remember the original album releases.....

no Skynyrd thread is complete with a DBT mention.

LIFE IN THE FACTORY
(Hood / DBT)

Let me tell ya'll a story
So far fetched it must be true
Bout a bunch of fatherless boys from Florida and a boy who was man enough for two.
Practiced twelve hours a day in the Hell House
In the swamps out side of town.
100 degrees without no open windows
Heat radiating off the tin.

They named their band Lynyrd Skynyrd, after the coach who kicked them out of school.
Practiced seven days a week cuz Rock's the only thing to save them from life in the factory.

They spent years inside the Hell House
Then they opened foe The Who
90 degrees, outdoor, summer festivals
Them, boy's wouldn't even break a sweat.
Played each show like their lives depended on it
300 a year will take its due
They kicked The Stones ass out at Knebworth
Ask anyone who was there and they'll tell you

They hit the road doing ninety
Leave them steel mills far behind.
Ain't no good life at the Ford plant
Three guitars or a life of crime

Sold out shows and platinum records, New York critics and redneckers
Bunch of boy's from Florida had them eating from their hands
They got the fame and all the glory
But folks, it's still a sad story when legend over shadows the songs and the band.

Let me tell y'all a story that more or less is the truth
From the swamps of Northern Florida to the swamps just north of Baton Rouge.

it cuts off the end

Quick, someone post "Stairway to Heaven" and "Hotel California."

Man they were some ugly dudes. No way they could get a record contract today.

/sad really.

Johnny C: Is it bad that I prefer 38 Special to Lynyrd Skynyrd?

Yes. Turn in your Man Card and your testicles immediately.

"Freebird" is not rock and roll. Rock and roll should always sound like some type of sex, (hence the name.) "Freebird" is a dirge with a guitar solo at the end.

When I was little, I always thought the slide of a slide guitar was a finger cast.

I was thoroughly unimpressed when I learned after breaking a finger in sixth grade that they can be used interchangeably.

Allman Brothers = men

Skynyrd = boys

"Freebird, the mantra of the moron."

I'll never tire of that song. I always finish playing Guitar Hero 2 for the night with that song. Wish they'd get that on Rock Band.

I live in a Skynyrd-free zone. Always have. Always will. But you folks enjoy.

radioman_: I live in a Skynyrd-free zone. Always have. Always will. But you folks enjoy.

This. Slagging Neil Young for NOT being a racist. It's always amazed me how this song never fails to light-up any room, yet somehow, everyone just lets that verse slip by without blinking an eye or wondering why...

big_pth: Robert1966

You can't compare the Stones to Skynyrd. Too different. But both great shiat bands.

FTFY

On September 11, 2001 Built To Spill played here in Cleveland. The last song they played was Freebird. It gave me a whole new respect for the song as it was done in a completley unironic, completely genuine kind of way. Probably my all time favorite concert moment ever.

Wookie Milson: radioman_: I live in a Skynyrd-free zone. Always have. Always will. But you folks enjoy.

This. Slagging Neil Young for NOT being a racist. It's always amazed me how this song never fails to light-up any room, yet somehow, everyone just lets that verse slip by without blinking an eye or wondering why...

Crush some more tinfoil on your antenna, you're gettin' an assload of snow....

(A) Not why they "slagged on" Neil Young. They slammed him for making generalizations about all Southern men based on the fact that some of them are asshats.
(B) Wrong song, moran. Their response to "Southern Man" was "Sweet Home Alabama".
(C) The alleged "racism" consists of the following lines:

Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her.
Well, I heard old Neil put her down.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember...
Us southern men don't need him around anyhow.

Wow. That is so incredibly racist.
Did you take "Hating on things you never bothered to check out yourself" lessons from Jack Thompson?

They were great musicians & all, but honestly, "Freebird" is almost my least favorite song by anyone.

Wookie Milson: radioman_: I live in a Skynyrd-free zone. Always have. Always will. But you folks enjoy.

This. Slagging Neil Young for NOT being a racist. It's always amazed me how this song never fails to light-up any room, yet somehow, everyone just lets that verse slip by without blinking an eye or wondering why...

.

Cuz we all cross burnin, negro hangin kkk members.

I hate Freebird with a passion. And I'll take the Allman Brothers over Skynyrd any day.

My band, which does not play anything like "southern rock", started doing "Freebird" at shows a couple years ago because we thought it would teach the smartasses who always yell for it. Instead, the audience goes freakin' bananas for it...we do it completely straight and un-ironic, and afterward people always tell us how awesome they thought it was.

What do you do with that?

carmody: My band, which does not play anything like "southern rock", started doing "Freebird" at shows a couple years ago because we thought it would teach the smartasses who always yell for it. Instead, the audience goes freakin' bananas for it...we do it completely straight and un-ironic, and afterward people always tell us how awesome they thought it was.

What do you do with that?

.
Hopefully get laid.

madmann:

Wow. That is so incredibly racist.
Did you take "Hating on things you never bothered to check out yourself" lessons from Jack Thompson?


Please... I'm quite familiar with the lyrics, (thanks for the effort, though), but you missed my point: their response to Southern Man, when in context with Neil's lyrics, is totally racist. That's what has lead me to avoid any and all songs from 'Skynard for "Decade"s. I'm just not big on Hillbilly-anthems, I guess. So are you saying that, if I was to spend more time with their catalogue, I'd be able to recognize that they were only racist for that one song?

Wookie Milson

"their response to Southern Man, when in context with Neil's lyrics, is totally racist."

Please enlighten us with just *how* it is racist, otherwise you qualify for dumbest statement of the week.

"I'm just not big on Hillbilly-anthems, I guess."

Good generalization there. You don't share *anything* in common with actual racists, really.

The confederate flag shouldn't be a symbol of racism because the Civil War had as much to do with slavery as the Iraq War had to do with Osama bin Ladin.

/ read yer hist'ry books people. The civil war was over money and political power.


// the south wanted newly admitted states to be free states, amazingly enough.

Moses To Sandy Koufax 2008-02-01 12:54:00 PM
The confederate flag shouldn't be a symbol of racism because the Civil War had as much to do with slavery as the Iraq War had to do with Osama bin Ladin.

/ read yer hist'ry books people. The civil war was over money and political power.


A. Skynyrd kicks ass.
B. The Vice-president of the Confederacy, plus the state constitutions of most of the Confederate states would like to have a word with you.
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition.-from The Cornerstone Speech, delivered by Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Savannah; Georgia, March 21, 1861.

When the Confederates themselves state that they founded their nation on slavery, neo-Confederate apologists looks pretty silly.

C. Pinning racism on the South ignores racism in the North, for example Yankee Bostonians setting school buses on fire in the 1970 to protest racial integration in the schools.

D. Skynyrd kicks ass. (Because they were so awesome it needed to be said twice)

// the south wanted newly admitted states to be free states, amazingly enough.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the violence in Bleeding Kansas would also like to have a word with you.

Don't tell people to read history books when it is clear you know nothing of the causes of the Civil War.

You can find all the fancy quotes you want (and I can find dozens from higher-ups that say exactly the opposite), but the South new that fewer slaves meant that not only were the ones they had rarer and thus worth more, but that they (Industry) would have an advantage over free states because they didn't have labor costs. The North didn't want the South to have all that money (and thus power), so they tried to dilute it the value of the slave by flooding the marketplace with them.


The Kansas-Nebraska act had nothing to do with acquiescing to the south, and everything to do with making slavery a more widespread phenomenon.


If you're not following the money, you're not on the right track as to explaining the cause of the war. Wars are never, ever, about idealism.

Wookie Milson: madmann:

Wow. That is so incredibly racist.
Did you take "Hating on things you never bothered to check out yourself" lessons from Jack Thompson?


Please... I'm quite familiar with the lyrics, (thanks for the effort, though), but you missed my point: their response to Southern Man, when in context with Neil's lyrics, is totally racist. That's what has lead me to avoid any and all songs from 'Skynard for "Decade"s. I'm just not big on Hillbilly-anthems, I guess. So are you saying that, if I was to spend more time with their catalogue, I'd be able to recognize that they were only racist for that one song?

No, what I'm saying is that you're an incompetent asshat with poor reading comprehension and horrible spin-fu.

Oh, I see... what Neil said in Southern Man affects how racist Skynyrd (not Skynard) is. That just makes tons of sense. I especially love this gem:

Please... I'm quite familiar with the lyrics, (thanks for the effort, though)

Ya know, condescension works best if you use it in a thread where you actually spell the band name correctly and know what song you're talking about (otherwise, you look like.... well, you). Or did you forget that you didn't even know the difference between "Freebird" and "Sweet Home Alabama"? Yep, you're an expert, all right. There are plenty of racist bands out there; if you took the time to actually find one you might not reek of FAIL so badly.

So what's the real problem here? You a Neil Young fan, pissed off because their response song sold way more than his steaming whine-fest? Southern guy steal your woman away? Or are you just one of those a-holes that got 52 race cards in your pack? OR IS THAT YOU, NEIL?

Ronnie Van Zant was actually one of the most "progressive" lyricists of his time. He wrote "That Smell" (anti-drugs) and "Saturday Night Special" (anti-guns) in the freakin' 70's! For a Southern "good ol' boy" in danger of alienating his audience, he took quite a few stances which would seem to portray him as different from his peers.

Ya know... the ones you lumped him in with?

As has been noted above by angryflower, your views would fit right in with the KKK. Just a different target group, that's all. And I second your nomination for dumbest statement of the week.



Big steamin' cup of FAIL for ya.

Endzone108: I hate Freebird with a passion. And I'll take the Allman Brothers over Skynyrd any day.

My all-time favorite Allman tune (pops)

/named my daughter Elizabeth because of this song

madmann: blah, blah, blah...

I understand that you and your mullet have put a lot of effort into this thread, so... you win. 'Skynyrd is and always has been an industry trend setter for progressive socio/political thinking. Have a nice day.

frostus: /named my daughter Elizabeth because of this song

Our first child, if a girl, was to be named Elizabeth Reed. Unfortunately my wife had a miscarriage and we decided not to use the name later. Gives the song a lot of different meaning now.

Wookie Milson: madmann: blah, blah, blah...

I understand that you and your mullet have put a lot of effort into this thread, so... you win. 'Skynyrd is and always has been an industry trend setter for progressive socio/political thinking. Have a nice day.

Funny how you decry racism you perceive in a totally non-racist group, yet you love to throw around stereotypical terms like "hillbilly" and "mullet".

Bigotry is bigotry.

SkyDog: frostus: /named my daughter Elizabeth because of this song

Our first child, if a girl, was to be named Elizabeth Reed. Unfortunately my wife had a miscarriage and we decided not to use the name later. Gives the song a lot of different meaning now.

Sorry to hear that, Dog. I'll think of you next time I fire up that disc.

Wookie Milson: madmann: blah, blah, blah...

I understand that you and your mullet have put a lot of effort into this thread, so... you win. 'Skynyrd is and always has been an industry trend setter for progressive socio/political thinking. Have a nice day.

Ahhhh... I love the smell of someone falling back on lame namecalling in the morning.

Smells like.... victory. And chickenshiat.