Posted on 07/20/2019 5:30:46 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
I saw the original band a couple times in my teen years.
The first time they were falling down drunk, drinking Jack Black from the bottle, fighting with each other, and playing like poo. Terrible show.
The next time they came, a year or so later, I still went since I knew they were great. We were right on the stage wall in the days of festival seating, and they didn’t disappoint. It was stunningly awesome, Rossington and Collins trading licks while Ronnie belted it out. And us like 10’-20’ away, in a ~19,000 seat hall.
Dumb@$$ comment.
Do you actually play?
If you did, you wouldn’t say something like that.
“Stairway to Heaven” was a hit for Neil Sedaka in the spring of 1960. The one on Zeppelin IV is a different tune with the same title.
The guitar work was lyrical in itself, however, and somehow connected with a whole generation of youthful music consumers.
Let's see, for frankly insipid banality of lyrical quality, how does one beat such rock "greats" as...
Wooly Bully or...
Suzy Q...
.
Great lyrics?
Hows about Transfusion by Nervous Norvus?
.
(Yes, I'm kidding.)
“Interesting considering the hard living that Skynyrd was reputed to have experienced that they would write and sing such a song as That Smell....”
As I recall from one of the documentaries, it was their response to a pretty serious car crash by one of the boys (Rossington?) after he’d spent an evening engaged in some pretty serious abuse of chemicals. As he said in the film, it was bad enough that he could have died, but at least they got a good song out of it.
I just picked up a Blueridge a couple of weeks ago.
Lots of abalone.
Has great midrange. Not sure of the low end of the guitar.
I think on a live Jimmy Buffet album somebody yells out “Free Bird!”. I love the live album and have it. If I hear a studio recording of Buffet on the radio I switch channels!?
Yeah the Blue Ridge acoustics have a bit of a following. I’ve never played one but they’re supposed to be unusually good bang for buck.
Pawnshop junk electrics make perfect slide guitars because the fret placement and overall action doesn’t matter. Really the junkier the better because they have more quirky character and “authenticity”.
I am the same way. Hearing a song 500 times is enough. I can no longer stomach Classic Rock stations.
I will give that Iron Maiden song a listen.
Leaving this one right here.
SRV - a favorite guitarist from my younger days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1u_oHpSTKs
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (Live in Atlantic City)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ndb_lt4xA
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (Live In Atlantic City)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zup5Pg98m5U
Look for 2 gorgeous women starting at 45 sec or so and 1 min.
Guitar and drums
40 years each
another idiotic comment :)
You guys trying to outdo yourselves??
In 1980, I chronically played Frijid Pink’s House Of The Rising Sun [a LOT] often backed with These Eyes/No Time by The Guess Who.
Quite a few times a night.
On a REALLY loud jukebox.
/I blame tequila
:)
I’d have guessed Smoke On The Water.
*I never played Free Bird....not over fond of it.
I like Simple Man better.
:)
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