“I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Spectrum in Philly not long before the plane crash. That was a great band. These new guys are a bunch of leeches profiting off the name. It’s a shame.”
Good for you. I never saw either version, but I remember when they died, like it was yesterday. I’ve never trusted their 2.0 version, and if they’ve decided to insult their fan base, that’s fine - I won’t have to hear their name anymore when it comes to concert advertising.
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