Molly Hatchet was better.
Ronnie Van Zant is the one who ‘discovered’ Molly Hatchet and worked on arrangements of their songs and provided the recording space for their first demos.
He was also going to be the producer of their first album.
Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old,
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama,
With a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I’d like to say, “I’m sorry”, but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid, ****.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With .38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.