[leadpencil1]

My wife kills me about it, but I still like to listen to just about every Skynyrd song ever recorded. I'd have to say they are my all time favorite band. I still can't get enough southern rock.

By the way, did you know Ronnie was heavily influenced by Paul Rogers and Bad Company? Also, Ronnie was almost as much of a control freak as Fogerty from CCR. I guess he really tried to control almost every note on their recordings. Not complaining because it all turned out foot stompin' good.

[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).

[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