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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 2:04:23 GMT -5
If Sweet Home Alabama aint your taing, fast fwd to round about 4:30 for dont ask me no questions.
And hurry up and get it because this is the kind of thing (authentic) that the money grubbing new iteration LS band will quickly take this down.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 2:14:00 GMT -5
Bob Burns.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 2:29:20 GMT -5
Sorry about the cut off....YouTube sucks.
Ed King Allen Collins Gary Rossington LEON Wilkeson RVZ and BBurns.
Billy Powell. omg bpowell.
Miss 'em.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 2:45:33 GMT -5
Audio better quality and no premature ending.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 2:52:50 GMT -5
YouTube messin wimee.
Yall gonna have to go on and bounce around to find the dang thing.
Worth it non the less.
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Post by gramps on Mar 18, 2016 8:18:52 GMT -5
Coinkidink. I was actually listening to this on the Bose when I opened this thread.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 12:42:26 GMT -5
Yass.
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Post by relic on Mar 18, 2016 17:07:06 GMT -5
Well, I watched these 2 again and they wither in the light of day. Looks and sounds to me like a studio recording being aped by the boys in front of a non-audience for whatever reason. I hear the Honkettes but do not see them. Timing is off on a lot of the guitar work. Ronny is lip synching the vocals. Sorry for posting this. Guess I was overexcited to see some video of Ed King that I've not seen. Ain't much of that around.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Mar 20, 2016 16:17:34 GMT -5
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Mar 20, 2016 16:45:56 GMT -5
I don't believe that there's ever been a band with four better guitar pickers better than Skynyrd's original four. I give a slight edge to Ed King and Gaines, but Rossington and Collins had played together for so many years that they blended together very well. Rossington co-wrote some of their best stuff. King probably had the best technique and Gaines the most natural born talent. I miss them boys. That thing they roll out on tour today is a complete abomination. Money grubbing posers.
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Post by relic on Mar 21, 2016 0:02:23 GMT -5
Don't know as I can go along with your "original four". Ronnie ran Ed off (or maybe Ed simply ran off) and then there was a multi-year gap in time where it was back to Gary Rossington and Allen Collins for all of the guitar work (think Gimme back my Bullets). www.woodytone.com/2009/10/20/32-years-today-steve-gaines-remembered/www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Lynyrd-Skynyrds-Ed-King-913.aspxNothing negative, but I always thought RVZ felt it critical to fill the void left when Ed King bailed. So then, I think, here go we with JoJo Billingsley and the Honkettes, of which Cassie Gaines was a member. Steve Gaines was/is Cassie's brother (RIP both of them) and she facilitated RVZ & SG getting together. G>Rossington was vocally against looking at anybody else. But Gaines was simply too good a fit and RVanZant prevailed. Street Survivors ensued. And then it all went Down.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Mar 21, 2016 1:52:56 GMT -5
Gimme Back My Bullets was the only album with two guitar players. Ed King quit in 1975 due to his health and Gaines joined in May 1976. Gaines played on One More From the Road. I've never read anything about King being run off by RVZ and don't believe that to be the case at all.
RVZ had 4 guitar players. Those are the "original four". They're also the only pickers (along with Wilkeson) that were inducted into the R&R HOF as LS (2 drummers, no backup singers). "Lynyrd Skynyrd" has had about 15-20 guitar pickers, but the real LS band ended in Oct 1977 and only had those 4 on the 6 string.
BTW, I understand that Rossington is very much a prick. Don't know if he was in the early days, but he is nowadays. Could be pain and pain meds... he got messed up bad in the plane crash.
Bill Sykes is a crash survivor and has lived in Knoxville for 20 years or so. He was a videographer for the band. I think another survivor might live in Cocke County. There were about 30 people on that plane if I'm remembering it correctly. I read the NTSB crash report a few months ago.
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Post by Orange Daddy on Mar 21, 2016 6:35:35 GMT -5
74 the year I graduated from High School... Them Good O Days
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Post by relic on Mar 21, 2016 11:46:02 GMT -5
I've read 2 Skynyrd biographies - 1 authored by Gene Odom, the other by Mark Ribowsky. The events leading to Ed's departure that I referenced appear in at least one of them if not both. Odom's is probably the better of the 2. TB interviewed Ribowsky on Book Corner. I'm thinking Ed's heart issues became critical later, but don't have time right now to look into it.
Okay, now I get what you meant by "original four".
And I think your take on the current day Rossington is probably true, though it likely depends on who you listen to.
Pretty much lost interest in the various iterations of the band post crash.
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Post by relic on Mar 24, 2016 18:26:12 GMT -5
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