You can think what you want but I can tell you having worked with them which one lasted longer and which still gets more AirPlay and downloads and had more so called hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I like the Allman Brothers.....they first established the genre genesis no question.....CCR was from California and sorta sneered at back then as AM hit makers.....which now sure seems silly no?
Duane with Boz on Loan me a Dime is arguably a premier solo guitar work
All the Allman work up through Brothers and Sisters was stellar....despite heavy personal loss and Greggs Laid Back is still great take the lady to bed background music rivaling Avalon
But they were a southern blues based Jazz Jam band ...like the mother of Panic today
I saw them in huge festival multi act venues from 71-77
Now the little band from the less than cool parts of Duvall county were a rock band....they made southern rock....well....literally rock and spawned everyone pretty much except ZZ Top and the ABB though you could say Marshall Tucker was more Allman like
Skynyrd sold far more records and filled by themselves bigger venues and made it scary for acts like the Who and Stones to top bill over them....kinda like when Chuck followed Jerry’s busted burning piano legend.....and “now top that “”.....””
Excellent live band and still are despite having half the band wiped out including the man that made the band
With his little brother they carried on really well live and even managed to sell a few albums and a buttload of TV commercials and movie soundtracks
And still have about the only single to rival Stairway
Personal preference is personal of course...I like both but I think Skynyrd ages better and I still listen to it more though Statesboro Blues is always good motivational music
Btw....I agree with LS post in entirety
People like us who lived it in real time have a persoective can’t be matched but I assume that includes you too with a nick like DMZ
But you could be referring to recent ROK tour?
Anyhow...can’t go wrong either way or enjoy both
Yes, I am the proper vintage to have heard skynyrd when they were new.
And I call out for Stairway to Freebird whenever the occasion warrants - usually for solo acoustic acts :-)
In 75 (?) Skynnrd’d’s mgr saw us play and offered to make us the #2 band in his organization. We thought he wanted too big a cut and said no. Six (?) months later Skynnrd’d’s went down in a plane crash & we would have been top band.
Thanks for that summary and insight. Enjoyed reading it.. Like Skynyrd especially Curtis Lowe
Imagine their body of work if the plane had not gone down.
:^(
“..CCR was from California and sorta sneered at back then as AM hit makers.....”
I loved Credence Clearwater Revival. Some of my blues-snob friends stick their noses up at the simple structure of CCR tunes, but I really enjoyed it. It’s upbeat music for me. And it helped that I had a girlfriend that I realllllly liked who I took to see them....