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Originally Posted by Force10
Love southern rock!
That Molly Hatchet clip reminded me of that old Molly Hatchet joke:
"We were trying to get a Molly Hatchet cover band to play at our reunion, but they wanted too much money...so we got Molly Hatchet instead!" lol
That joke could be applied to SO many bands.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4342883 - 03/08/1707:29 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 49,716Jedi Master
Entil'zha
Heh. "Freebird" is like "Stairway to Heaven". "Oh no, not again!"
Yet, without those songs in their appropriate themed playlists, they would be incomplete.
These overplayed songs will always have a place on my playlists and it never fails, I'm only tired of hearing them until I actually start hearing them again. In other words, I never truly tire of them.
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Great stories, DBond! I have a couple Skynyrd-related stories (none nearly as good as yours) and I'll come back after dinner and post them.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
#4342984 - 03/09/1701:38 AMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
Ok, here goes (I'll keep it as short as possible)...
Story #1: Love interest, you knew this was coming.
Summer of '84, between 11th and 12th grade. Dating my wife (my only real girlfriend) for about half a school year and getting cold feet, feeling smothered. The real problem was that the relationship wasn't...progressing...like I wanted. Worse was that I was complaining to my friends about it, getting laughed at between tokes. Lol. Gave her the speech, "Let's take a break, a little space, I'll see you back at school after summer vacation." She took it ok (no drama), maybe more disappointed than I expected. Well, good, it would give her something to think about.
I was good for a couple of days but she called my bluff and made no attempt to contact me (remember corded phones?). Uh oh, did I fork up? Then about a week later, one fateful night after my parents had gone to bed, I locked my bedroom door and made a mistake...
I had two white matching pump hairspray bottles, one full of hairspray, the other full of whatever cheap hard liquor I could swipe from the cabinet (dad loved cheap K&B Drug Store gin, I'd replenish with water to the marked line). Popped in a Skynyrd 8-track (their debut “Pronounced...” I believe) and by the time “Tuesday's Gone” came around, I was kinda gone myself. Then it hit me and I knew, I was going to cave...completely.
Lesson is, if you're playing chicken with a relationship and you don't want to be the one who flinches, don't drink and listen to “Tuesday's Gone” (or modern day equivalent)! Seriously, that song will always be in my musical holy of most holies, one of only a handful that really send me back in time.
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Story #2: Middle School (5th or 6th grade?), a good friend takes me into his older sister's room and shows me a concert ticket to see Lynyrd Skynyrd at LSU (Assuming the Assembly Center [basketball arena]). Their plane crashed on the way to that concert, she couldn't part with it for a refund (bet she still has it).
I remember the crash was a really big deal around these parts.
BTW, lot's of interesting connections between Lynyrd Skynyrd and 38 Special, besides Ronnie/Donnie Van Zant.
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Not something I'd want to run or workout to, but what a great damn song (as are the other Skynyrd songs posted)!...
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
#4343029 - 03/09/1701:32 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: DBond]
Haha, they're one of my favorites of all time. I've been playing guitar for almost 40 years, and I've always looked up to the guitarists in Skynyrd. For most of their existence they used three guitars. I love the way they wove those three together, without stepping on each other. It's beautiful really, in my view.
Sure, Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird get too much airplay, and I bet the vast majority of folks couldn't name another Skynyrd song. Well, maybe Simple Man, That Smell or Gimme Back My Bullets, but beyond that I have my doubt. But there is so much more to them than the mainstream hits. I'll name a few of my (not-so-well-known) favorites
Needle and the Spoon You Got That Right I Know a Little Saturday Night Special On the Hunt Cry for the Bad Man Ballad of Curtiss Loew Preacher's Daughter Poison Whiskey
So many more. Great band. Top three for me. But I get that others won't agree.
Semi-interesting sidebar.... Ed King (Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama et al) attended my grandma's church after he left the band. The man himself showed me Sweet Home Alabama, and showed me how he played all of the little fills in that song.
It's kind of funny, maybe 20 years or so ago I had a few of their CDs, and a 3-disc best of set that had all the songs you listed and then some (Double Trouble, White Dove, a shortened acoustic version of Free Bird, etc), and it was almost like one day I put a disc in and said "I don't like any of these songs any more!"
The classic rock stations up here play all the songs you listed. In fact, you can tune in to them and odds are that at least one of them will be playing Skynyrd, Aerosmith, AC/DC, The Doobie Brothers, or 1 or 2 other bands. That's the main reason I don't listen to the radio, I doubt I like 1 in 50 songs they play. Aerosmith in their drug years is the only band of those 4 that I can somewhat stomach LOL.
Phil
“The biggest problem people have is they don’t think they’re supposed to have problems.” - Hayes Barnard
#4343064 - 03/09/1703:13 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
It's cool Phil. There's no accounting for taste. I don't like the Grateful Dead or Kiss, but everyone else seems to like them.
MarkG, I'm afraid that's my only cool Skynyrd story. Wait there's one more...
Back in like 1992 we were playing a gig and some drunk guy in the crowd starts yelling Free Bird. We were essentially a grunge cover band playing Nirvana, STP, Pearl Jam and that sort of stuff. We were in the middle of Black Hole Sun if I recall correctly. Well, the guy keeps saying it and soon half the crowd is chanting/screaming Free Bird. On stage, we're all looking at each other with grins on our faces. I mean, Free Bird is a jam we've played a thousand times in the practice cave.
The singer smiles and nods and I unplugged and jumped off stage to find a beer bottle. I mean there's no slide in grunge and I didn't have one with me. So I find a hot chick with a beer, I ask her for it (manners, you see) she gives me the bottle, I guzzle what's left and break it over the corner of my Marshall stack. So rock and roll. I take the bottle neck and slip it over my finger and the whole band stops dead. It;s like we had rehearsed it. At this point I'm laughing hysterically. I have a beer bottle slide with a very jagged edge over my finger. The jagged part is at such an angle that if I hold it normally it would play the adjacent strings and it would sound like crap. So I have to extend the wrist out and away so the slide just contacts the E string so I plug the Les Paul back in and start playing Free Bird's opening. The place goes freakin' nuts. I mean, we are a grunge band and everyone there is for that music, as it's the in-thing back then. But when they heard the opening notes to Free Bird they just went crazy. What a night
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#4343072 - 03/09/1703:17 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: DBond]
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Originally Posted by DBond
I don't like the Grateful Dead or Kiss, but everyone else seems to like them.
I've tried a few times to get into the Dead but they're just not my cup of tea. As far as Kiss goes I only like their hit songs.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4343074 - 03/09/1703:19 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 49,716Jedi Master
Entil'zha
Oh in follow-up to the story in my last post, we ended up just taking requests for the rest of the night. We thought the bar's owner would be pissed as he paid us to play the grunge stuff. But when we were loading the truck afterwards he came up to us and told us that our version of Kashmir was the best he'd heard and it was his favorite song. Gave us an extra $100 and invited us back in two weeks. He wanted us to do a Zep set. So we did. I love Zep
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#4343109 - 03/09/1704:39 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: DBond]
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Originally Posted by NH2112
Hey, I think Rush is the best band of all time, more than anyone else I know what it's like to hear people say they don't like your favorite band LOL
LOL
Personally I love Rush even though they've really not made anything memorable in my opinion after about the year 2000. I remember listening to "Clockwork Angels" and then about 2 weeks later I could barely remember what I listened to. None of it stuck.
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4343123 - 03/09/1705:18 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
When I have time, I need to update (replace) some broken-linked pics in a few threads here.
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Rush sucks. Lol.
I know people who *really* dislike anything Rush. That's cool, there's allot of music I don't like, it's all preferences. When asked what's the appeal, I guess because I was a messed up weird kid (not uncommon) and Rush was kinda weird. It was by chance, really, had a cousin ditching all his 8-tracks (including all Rush through Moving Pictures), sold them to me cheap. Hey, what's this? That's pretty good.
PM, I've said it before, I wish you would have gone to the previous "Time Machine" concert vs. "Clockwork Angels", you would have enjoyed it allot more. Still, CA was worth it to me to make the trip to Orlando, also spent a day Disney. Probably my last since they no longer cater to people who want to walk.
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I'm listening to Skynyrd and .38 Special all day today while I hang blinds and shudders.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
#4343131 - 03/09/1705:30 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
I'm a member at the Gear Page too but I haven't posted there in a long time. Skimmed over that thread. My Marshall is a JCM800 too. 2203 100 watt monster of tone!!
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
#4343132 - 03/09/1705:33 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: MarkG]
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Originally Posted by MarkG
Probably my last since they no longer cater to people who want to walk.
LOL! Yeah the demographics of the audience for the Rush concert I went to in Ft. Lauderdale was interesting. It was entirely white and I'd say the median age was probably around 40-45.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
I agree Weez, and do not forget one of the current best at it bands, The Cadillac Three (previously The Cadillac Black, American Bang & Bang Bang Bang )
TBH any song that is well-liked and really quite good can be ruined by overexposure.
I know of many songs that I've heard people say they hate and the ONLY reason they could express as to why was "heard it too much." Often they'll admit they liked it the first few times they heard it, but after the dozenth time got sick of it.
The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
#4343227 - 03/09/1708:53 PMRe: Southern Rock, Hell Yeah!
[Re: DBond]
DBond, I don't play, only a Fender acoustic to unwind, and I'm not very good (no rhythm or sense of timing). I had an Ibanez once with a Peavey amp, sold it (and quit guitar lessons) to buy an engagement ring. I sucked anyway, but I do miss trying. Now I'm playing around on my mom's keyboard in my man cave, I suck at that too.
However, I really do enjoy live performances, looking on with appreciation and envy.
I found that webpage because I was looking for reviews before seeing ZoSo.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
TBH any song that is well-liked and really quite good can be ruined by overexposure.
I know of many songs that I've heard people say they hate and the ONLY reason they could express as to why was "heard it too much." Often they'll admit they liked it the first few times they heard it, but after the dozenth time got sick of it.
Personality? I'm simple (it would *really* show in PWEC) and when I find something I like, I usually don't tire of it, at least not indefinitely.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run