Posted on 09/20/2012 12:18:47 AM PDT by LaybackLenny
Now the band has suddenly decided to become political correct. Gary Rossington, the only original member, grovelled to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield. He says he doesn't want to offend anyone by using the Confederate flag. He said the band will no longer display the flag. Lynyrd Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama" in 1977. This was three months before the plane crash that killed three of the original members.
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The band released a new studio album just days ago ironically titled "Last of A Dying Breed." The band is preparing to go on tour to support their new album. However, there is a growing outrage among fans. Many say they have attended Lynyrd Skynyrd concerts for decades, but will never buy a ticket again. Twitter and Facebook have exploded with condemnation. Many are now calling the band a "fake," who just own the right's to the original band's name.
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Aw c’mon...
The best mom/son dance song is “Simple Man”...
And “Gimme Back My Bullets” cancels out “38 Special”...
you forgot the “sarc” tag, those urban types will never understand country/Southern values
*huge smile*
Very good!
This is what brought down the Iron Curtain...
This and Levi’s jeans....
-— Great bands only live forever if they hang it up BEFORE they jump the shark and are just playing fairgrounds. -—
Depends if they’re just phoning it in. For some reason, the public has a short attention span for popular music acts. Not many stay at the top for longer than 15 years. In rock, I can only think of U2, Elton John, Aerosmith, and Billy Joel.
If they’re in the “Puppet Show and Spinal Tap” stage of their careers, still writing songs, and still putting on a good show, I’m all for it.
I’ve enjoyed fairground shows by Eddie Money, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, Pointer Sisters, and War, among others. Intimate setting, great performances, and the price was right.
I’m an illustrator and plan on illustrating until I drop. I don’t have to fear a “fairground” stage of my career. Doesn’t seem fair that musicians have to.
When I was stationed in Germany, I did go home with a waitress, but she wasn't with the Russians.
Here's my offering of great Zevon lyrics:
Carmelita, hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
Well, I'm sittin' here playing solitaire
With my pearl-handled deck
The county won't give me no more methadone
And they cut off your welfare check
Carmelita hold me tighter
I think I'm sinking down
And I'm all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
I saw her leave luau
With the one who parked the cars
And the fat one from the swimming pool
They were swaying arm in arm
I can hear the ukuleles playing
Down by the sea
She’s gone with the hula hula boys
And she don’t care about me
Ahina ini Manu amu kapawana....
Isn't that funny? I love the hairstyles :)
Wallace, the man admired by James Earl Ray (see the book Hellhound on His Trail)
Where did anyone ever get the idea that Lynyrd Skynyrd or any other rock band from that era was conservative? Because they were from the South? Because they displayed the Confederate naval jack? Doesn't anyone remember how left wing the Allman Brothers were? Shoot, even Charlie Daniels used to be a liberal, reciting Uneasy Rider and endorsing Jimmy Carter in 1976.
As an afterthought (and as something that's probably going to get me in trouble), I must say that I sometimes get confused when conservatives attack the Democrat party but love the South. The South was solid Democrat until a few decades ago. They were the Blacks of their era, voting Democrat 100% of the time because they couldn't afford to dilute their influence by splitting their vote between two parties. Sound familiar? Something like "One people; one voice; one vote?"
My ancestors were Southern Unionists and we have been Republicans since Abraham Lincoln. It didn't take Goldwater to convert my family.
As a musician I instinctively adopted Laura Ingraham’s “Shut up and sing” philosophy. My politics weren’t anybody’s business and the sad fact was that nearly everyone I played with were raving liberal loons anyway. It was so refreshing when I discovered that the girl singer one one band was also a conservative.
We still have Drive By Truckers.
actually to be fair...having been peripherally involved with the band’s promotion in the mid 2000s I would attest that the later version was very good in fact even if they only had one nominal new hit...people go to see old bands replicate...even the Stones have had nothing truly notable since early 80s and some would argue since Some Girls but they can still play quite nice
Sabbath too btw...or ACDC or Van Halen who I just saw....new material dearth does not mean they suck
Does Beethoven suck now?
Folks will be listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd as some recap 50 years from now still...music of that era has proven contemporary life like nothing we have ever seen before...but stuff today dies quick.
the 1999-2007 band I saw was astonishingly similar to the originals who I saw several times from 1973 till 75
I don’t know what has gotten into Gary Rossington here..makes no sense...southerners and southern type folks are their fan base...PC folks even if they like SHA or Tuesdays Gone of Free Bird in movie soundtracks or Simple Man in commercials don’t go to Skynyrd shows which are sorta rowdy like Hank Jr or Montgomery Gentry
I know Ricky Medlock in passing who was sort of a quasi Skynyrd early member and sure knows how to play their stuff
and little Van Zandt sounds almost just like Ronnie
I can’t see either of them pushing this...but who knows
very sad...just another snapshot in an ever increasingly effed up cultural slide
and a crazy business decision
when I was working on them they pulled 150K and up per show for hard ticket venues
incredible given their longevity
but Billy Powell was the existing soul of the band like Allen was after the crash and well...he’s gone now so who knows
just a damned shame...they should be embarrassed to grovel so
That's Stuckey’s foolio
and they are now Yankee owned with more locations outside Dixie than within
and headquartered in Peoples Republic of Maryland
blue state snobby humour takes effort son, it doesn't just roll off yer fingertips
Does this make my flaming “Street Survivors” album more or less valuable?
[and FU, LS]
I live in Dixie now, been here two years
I have seen many streets named after Confederate leaders, seen many rebel flags
It is NOT the racist area many make it out to be, in fact, there is a greater mix of black Americans to White than up north, and down here, we work together in greater numbers than up north
However, that doesn’t mean that words long forgotten up north dont come out in public or private conversations
nor does it mean that some Black Americans down here aren’t racist, too
But I have made some wonderful friends, but it is embarrassing to have the Black friends act surprised and say to me, You northerners really are more friendly!
huh??
I think there are too many private conversations between people that color their views.
Anyways, to many whites here, that rebel flag just means redneck southern pride, it really does, but the media keeps bringing up the Confederate past connection to it.
While to some, I am sure it does mean their nastalgic love for the confederacy they read about, it just is not what people are afraid of
I think too many people complain about it now, but I do understand why many would, too.
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