For Lynyrd Skynyrd, time is now

jax.com ^ | September 19, 2004 | MARK WOODS

[Dan from Michigan]

Hey, I could listen to my NR Greatest Hits CD (yep, I have it) over and over. Diff'rent strokes...

That's alright, I got a Damn Yankee's CD that I still sometimes listen too.

[Cutterjohnmhb]

Thanks Navy I'll give it a look. Like many of the truly great bands of the R&R Era. Lynyrd Skynyrd appreciated the Blues and wove it into of many of their songs. Curtis Loew is a perfect example and a damn good song. Simple Man, began one day when the band was sitting around and just talking about how their Moms would give them advice, on how to be a man and live their lives.It was later on that day when the song's title and lyrics were created...a nice story.I had heard them relate this in a interview years ago they had given to a national radio program .

If the R&R HoF cannot give them the honor of acceptance in their shrine then they deserve ever piddly a$$ non R&R band they can suck up too.

[Dan from Michigan]

How Seger got in before them, i'll never understand.

Seger deserved it. Straight up no BS rock.

Skynyrd should be in though.

[TheBigB]

Absolutely Bob Seger deserved to be in...after Patsy Cline's "Crazy", "Old Time Rock & Roll" is the most-played jukebox tune of all-time.

[Dan from Michigan]

By the way, did you know Ronnie was heavily influenced by Paul Rogers and Bad Company?

They were? I figured it would be the other way around since Skynyrd was big before BadCo(another great band).

[bullzeye66]

>Yeah, what's up with Al Green and Chet Akins, not to mention some other questionables?

I agree [about alot of the names]..... BUT, Chet Atkins did an album with Mark Knoppfler that is kick a$$, two great guitarist! That's my 2 cents :)

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

Pickup trucks, redneck gals, cheap beer and guitar rock wailing through the night air. Its a wonder I lived past my early 20s. ;-)

LOL Me, too. Those were the days.

[Ghengis]

Yeah, what's up with Al Green and Chet Akins, not to mention some other questionables?

Chet Atkins has been listed by more rock guitarists than you can count as a primary influence. I believe that he served as a session guitarist for many early, influential rock performers.

[A Navy Vet]

"Dale Kravantz isn't an original."

My mistake. I was thing of Cassie Gaines who was married to Steve Gaines. Dale Krantz (spelling another bad) is married to Rossington. Interesting about Saturday Night Special. I wondered what happened to Pyle.

BTW, I mentioned above an album called Voodoo Lounge - WRONG, it's called "Twenty" and the single on it is called Voodoo Lake. I'll back out now since I obviously have no clue what I'm talking about.

[shuckmaster]

The main artists that Skynyrd covered and learned a lot of their most influential licks from in their pre-original days were Free, Bad Company, Cream, Merle Haggard, an obscure two album band named Illinois Speed Press and that equally obscure pre-Allman Bros "Hour Glass" album. I also believe they took a lot of their style & stage presence from the Stones even if they didn't cover them

[A Navy Vet]

"Chet Atkins has been listed by more rock guitarists than you can count as a primary influence. I believe that he served as a session guitarist for many early, influential rock performers."

Yes, I'm aware of his influence...I just see him more as a country "artist" than R&R.

[shuckmaster]

The core of Bad Company was in an earlier band named "Free". "Fire & Water" is worth finding if you want an excellent example of Skynyrd's roots.

[NCC-1701]

FYI, on CMT's "Crossroads" series, the remainig members of Skynyrd will appear with Montgomery-Gentry Dec. 10th at 9:00 pm CST. Should be an entertaining hour.

[Rebelbase]

Remaining members = Powell and Rossington. (well maybe Medlocke, if you count one alubum).

[fredhead]

My favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song is Simple Man.

It is mine also. I also like the Ballad of Curtis Loew.

Half of the names in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are hardly Rock and Rollers. If Skynyrd aint in the hall, it aint legit.

Those two songs are great!! But my favorite Skynyrd jam is one of the songs that was on the One More From The Road album, but left off the CD...T For Texas...the guitar duel on that song is awesome!!

Why won't MCA release One More From The Road on CD as it was originally released, with T For Texas and Travellin' Man?

[Paloma_55]

LOL... shortly after I posted that... I went over to my MP3 library and realized my mistake. Ooops! :)

Still love both songs I mentioned.

[Paloma_55]

yup. that was a mental typo so to speak.

Thanks.

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. As soon as I posted my reply, I said to myself: "Maybe that Allman Brothers tune was originally a Lynyrd Skynyrd work after all."

:-)

[uncitizen]

Bon Jovi is in and Skynyrd isn't!? That's it! i'm glad i didn't visit the R&RHOF when i was in Cleve last month. My sister warned me it was crap anyway!

[uncitizen]

My daughter reminds me how embarrassed she was when i "toined it up!" at 8 am while washing my car one Saturday morning last spring (probably woke up the neighborhood).