Lynyrd Skynyrd (1 Viewer)

[Apple Jack]

Well done! Call Me the Breeze might be my favorite song ever. Even the original is a banger. If you can't at least tap your toes, check your pulse.

Huge JJ fan here. Spiritualized was love at first listen for me due in large part to this:

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

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

Never saw Skynyrd, but saw SRV shortly before he died. It was such an amazing show, and it was so great to see him clean again after dancing with death for so many years. I cried when I heard the news. 

It's like you are me.

I saw SRV in May 88 on his Live Alive tour, opening up for Robert Plant. It was his first tour sober, and he purportedly was nervous as hell about it, but he had zero reason to be.

It was literally boring having to watch Plant after SRV, he was fantastic and blew Plant and his Honeydrippers out of the water. Surfing around for the date online, I stumbled across a few videos of his performance that night.

Then I remembered I actually still had the ticket stub from that night.

I still remember the day he died two years later. Was right after a show with Clapton in Milwaukee, and he was supposed to fly to Chicago on a later flight, but hopped an earlier time when seats became available (eerie parallel to Buddy Holly et al, and just as eerie, the last song SRV played that night was "Sweet Home Chicago.")

Broke down and cried myself.

 

[bigbottom]

It's like you are me.

I saw SRV in May 88 on his Live Alive tour, opening up for Robert Plant. It was his first tour sober, and he purportedly was nervous as hell about it, but he had zero reason to be.

It was literally boring having to watch Plant after SRV, he was fantastic and blew Plant and his Honeydrippers out of the water. Surfing around for the date online, I stumbled across a few videos of his performance that night.

Then I remembered I actually still had the ticket stub from that night.

I still remember the day he died two years later. Was right after a show with Clapton in Milwaukee, and he was supposed to fly to Chicago on a later flight, but hopped an earlier time when seats became available (eerie parallel to Buddy Holly et al, and just as eerie, the last song SRV played that night was "Sweet Home Chicago.")

Broke down and cried myself.

Thanks for the links. Behind the head solo right out of the gate in that second video. So good. 

 

[E Street Brat]

LS was my favorite band for such a long time.  "Gimme Three Steps" pointed me towards my love of story telling in music/lyrics 

I never got to see the band pre-crash but seen the Rossington Collins Band twice, and was front row when the 87 tribute tour played the Sundome in Tampa. Everything after that just didn't feel right for me. 

Considering how many survived the plane crash, I see it more as a miracle then a tragedy.

The real tragedies came later. Most notable to me was the death of Allen Collins wife, and his downward spiritual that lead to the car crash that killed his girlfriend and left him in a wheelchair. 

 

[Fuller]

I saw a documentary on them that was pretty awesome...can't recall where but highly recommended if you like that stuff.

If I leave Here Tomorrow. really good documentary. 

 

[Penguin]

7/13/77  A little over 3 months before the plane cash

That's 3 miles from me

 

[WDIK2]

7/13/77  A little over 3 months before the plane cash

iconic album cover

So good.  Forgot how much I like "You Got That Right" with the Gaines and Van Zant vocals.  I never really knew much about Steve Gaines but it sounds like it was a shame to lose his talent.

From Wiki:
Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the vocal and instrumental skill of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day".

 

[leftcoastguy7]

I think That Smell is my favorite Skynyrd tune.

....one hell of a price to get your kicks....

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

I think That Smell is my favorite Skynyrd tune.

....one hell of a price to get your kicks....

A hell of a good tune. And one hell of a premonitory song. From it's Wiki article:

Van Zant's inspiration for the song was the increasing reckless indulgences of the band members...Later when asked, Van Zant said, "I had a creepy feeling things were going against us, so I thought I'd write a morbid song."[1] The lyrics cautioned that "tomorrow might not be here for you", and that "the smell of death surrounds you". Three days after the album was released, the band was devastated by a plane crash. The crash killed several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, including Van Zant.

 

[Nipsey]

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

 

[Nipsey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7p2ogicS1U

 

[simey]

If I leave Here Tomorrow. really good documentary. 

There is another good documentary on AXS TV called "Gone with the Wind: The Remarkable Rise and Tragic Fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd." There is a repeat of it on Saturday night at 10:05 ET.

 

[Apple Jack]

Never saw Skynyrd, but saw SRV shortly before he died. It was such an amazing show, and it was so great to see him clean again after dancing with death for so many years. I cried when I heard the news. 

Is this a DBT's Let There Be Rock reference?

Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama,
With a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I'd like to say, "I'm sorry", but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid, ####.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With 38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.

One night when I was seventeen, I drank a fifth of vodka,
On an empty stomach, then drove over to a friend's house.
And I backed my car between his parent's Cadillac's without a scratch.
Then crawled to the back door and slithered threw the key hole,
And sneaked up the stares
And puked in the toilet.
I passed out and nearly drowned but his sister, DD, pulled me out.

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
And the band that I was in played "The Boy's are Back in Town".

Skynyrd was set to play Huntsville,
Alabama, in the spring of 77, I had a ticket but it got canceled.
So, the show, it was rescheduled for the "Street Survivors Tour".
And the rest, as they say, is history.

So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd
But I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads in 82
Right before that plane crash.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw AC/DC
With Bon Scott singing, "Let There Be Rock Tour".

With Bon Scott singing, let there be rock!

 

[bigbottom]

Hmmm, maybe that was rattling around in my head.