#1 2009-01-28 16:33:02
Nothing to see here.
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#2 2009-01-28 16:34:50
and I deleted your double post
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#3 2009-01-28 16:40:18
I be sorry, every time I switched between the two websites it sent my posting.
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#4 2009-01-28 16:43:08
Your link from the other post.
Dayum.
I was in high school when the plane went down all those years ago. I thought they were a cool band and all but many of my classmates were wandering the halls in tears, inconsolable.
I guess Skynyrd was the rednecks' Kurt Cobain. Or maybe the rednecks' Jim Morrison...the rednecks' Jimi Hendrix?...the rednecks' Stevie Ray Vaughn...
--No, wait! They were the rednecks' Hank Williams Sr.!
...No, wait, um...
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#5 2009-01-28 23:19:26
George Orr wrote:
Your link from the other post.
Dayum.
I was in high school when the plane went down all those years ago. I thought they were a cool band and all but many of my classmates were wandering the halls in tears, inconsolable.
I guess Skynyrd was the rednecks' Kurt Cobain. Or maybe the rednecks' Jim Morrison...the rednecks' Jimi Hendrix?...the rednecks' Stevie Ray Vaughn...
--No, wait! They were the rednecks' Hank Williams Sr.!
...No, wait, um...
Like you, I was in high school (a Southern boarding school) when the plane went down, and almost immediately the gallows humor started:
Q: Where did the plane crash?
A: Sweet Home Alabama.*
I didn't much care for the original band when they were alive, preferring British rock, but in the time since then, I've grown to respect their material. (Again, I'm talking about the original Skynyrd.) But Southern rock (.38 Special, et al) has never really held any appeal for me...
I do remember a rock critic around 1980 calling Skynyrd "a Southern man's Roots"; I wonder who would've been Kunte Kinte...Ironic that they died just weeks after Elvis, leaving it up to Ric Flair to carry the mantle for the Southern white male...
*Actually in Mississippi (for those of you not old enough to remember)
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#6 2009-01-28 23:31:40
AladdinSane wrote:
George Orr wrote:
Your link from the other post.
Dayum.
I was in high school when the plane went down all those years ago. I thought they were a cool band and all but many of my classmates were wandering the halls in tears, inconsolable.
I guess Skynyrd was the rednecks' Kurt Cobain. Or maybe the rednecks' Jim Morrison...the rednecks' Jimi Hendrix?...the rednecks' Stevie Ray Vaughn...
--No, wait! They were the rednecks' Hank Williams Sr.!
...No, wait, um...Like you, I was in high school (a Southern boarding school) when the plane went down, and almost immediately the gallows humor started:
Q: Where did the plane crash?
A: Sweet Home Alabama.*
I didn't much care for the original band when they were alive, preferring British rock, but in the time since then, I've grown to respect their material. (Again, I'm talking about the original Skynyrd.) But Southern rock (.38 Special, et al) has never really held any appeal for me...
I do remember a rock critic around 1980 calling Skynyrd "a Southern man's Roots"; I wonder who would've been Kunte Kinte...Ironic that they died just weeks after Elvis, leaving it up to Ric Flair to carry the mantle for the Southern white male...
*Actually in Mississippi (for those of you not old enough to remember)
Ric Flair was a great man. I will not have his name maligned. I say to you, "Good day," sir.
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#7 2009-01-28 23:32:17
Only song of theirs I have any fondness for. Firstly, I once went to a biker wedding where this was the funeral march. 2 See Above.
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#9 2009-01-29 00:28:51
Two songs I did like: one was "Workin' for MCA", I don't know the name of the other, but it was used on CSI: Miami a few years ago.
Final story: I was at an Atlanta Thrasher hockey game a few years ago, and members of Skynyrd were sitting in one of the suites, scheduled to play a concert the following night at Philips...Some clown from the scoreboard TV crew decided to interview one of the members, and a guy sitting behind me said, "Why doesn't that band fuckin' die already like Ronnie (Van Zant) did?"
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