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What's your favorite Lynyrd Skynard song?
For me it's got to be
FREE BIRD Followed by Sweet Home Alabama & Ballad Of Curtis Loew |
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Free Bird is classic
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Free Bird here too, music to make your heart soar
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Always Freebird. The solo alone makes it worth listening to
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Freebird is a great song , loved it since I was young.
Sweet home Alabama is my favourite though. |
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Originally Posted by mb@2day
Freebird is a great song , loved it since I was young.
Sweet home Alabama is my favourite though.
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sweet home alabama for me too
particularly poignant as a young friend of mine from Alabama died just before Xmas
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and there is another song steve gaines did that i can't remember the title of atm, lovely bluesey song |
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Only Sweet Home Alabama...
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I can't say I've heard everything they did, but Sweet Home Alabama for me as well.
Slightly off topic, but the film of the same name was enjoyable too. |
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I've been searching winMX to find the longest freebird version, i've managed to get the 10min version and also a 12min version, but there is a 14min version, but theres always 100's of people queing for it.
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i like the longer version of freebird that suddenly switches to an acoustic guitar
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Absolutely...has to be Free Bird....my favourite guitar solo.
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YMCA!!!... oops i mean Freebird! Handsdown even sweet home albama can't compete with the amazing solo in Freebird!
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Sweet Home Alabama - fantastic song!
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its Lynyrd Skynyrd btw, no vowels!
looked up the title of that ace Skynyrd song with Steve Gaines on it, "one in the sun", better than freebird anyday
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I'm not really a LS fan, but if any of you are interested the remaining (?) member of LS is going to be playing in South London sometime next month - a couple of mates of mine will be playing with him - funny enough we were talking about it last night - they were meant to be playing with him tomorrow and rehearsing last night but one of them happened to look on his website and saw that he was in Finland or somewhere! They called the promoter and he told them it had been moved - as soon as I have a new date and venue I will post it on here.
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Originally Posted by Spiv
I'm not really a LS fan, but if any of you are interested the remaining (?) member of LS is going to be playing in South London sometime next month - a couple of mates of mine will be playing with him - funny enough we were talking about it last night - they were meant to be playing with him tomorrow and rehearsing last night but one of them happened to look on his website and saw that he was in Finland or somewhere! They called the promoter and he told them it had been moved - as soon as I have a new date and venue I will post it on here.
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Originally Posted by N-I-C-K
I've been searching winMX to find the longest freebird version, i've managed to get the 10min version and also a 12min version, but there is a 14min version, but theres always 100's of people queing for it.
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Who's this then Spiv? I doubt I'd be lucky enough to see Rossington live again....last time he was phenomenal and that Free Bird solo is totally my all time favourite.
I think I'll be seeing them next Tuesday SR, so will try and get more info for you then.. |
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anyone ever get one of the Rossington Collins Band albums? it was pretty good stuff.
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I think LS are a great band - they took there name as a bastardisation of the Gym teacher - a Leonard Skinner allegedly.
I had the privilege of meeting Ronnie Van Zant, Ed King and Ansell Collins in the 1970's on their first UK tour at the Kursaal in Southend. They were absolute Gents and spent about 20 minutes chatting to some rather scruffy wide eyed Essex lads. But I must say I hate Freebird - it just drones on and on and the becomes an excuse for some (IMO) not very good soloing. I recall seeing it on OGWT and everybody raving about it the next day and (like I suspect I am going to be after this post) being on my own wondering what the fuss was about. They did other stuff that was so much better. My favourites are other tracks from the 1st album particularly Gimme Three Steps and I Aint The One. Sweet Home Alabama is brilliant great riff, The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe, Swamp Music and The Needle And The Spoon are so much better. (Now covers himself in asbestos for the expected flaming!!) |
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Originally Posted by Urban Bassman
I think LS are a great band - they took there name as a bastardisation of the Gym teacher - a Leonard Skinner allegedly.
I had the privilege of meeting Ronnie Van Zant, Ed King and Ansell Collins in the 1970's on their first UK tour at the Kursaal in Southend. They were absolute Gents and spent about 20 minutes chatting to some rather scruffy wide eyed Essex lads. But I must say I hate Freebird - it just drones on and on and the becomes an excuse for some (IMO) not very good soloing. I recall seeing it on OGWT and everybody raving about it the next day and (like I suspect I am going to be after this post) being on my own wondering what the fuss was about. They did other stuff that was so much better. My favourites are other tracks from the 1st album particularly Gimme Three Steps and I Aint The One. Sweet Home Alabama is brilliant great riff, The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe, Swamp Music and The Needle And The Spoon are so much better. (Now covers himself in asbestos for the expected flaming!!) (until you did ) I haven't listened to it very much but the guitar solo just seems to hang around the same part of the neck playing the same licks over & over..
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Originally Posted by Spiv
I think I'll be seeing them next Tuesday SR, so will try and get more info for you then..
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Originally Posted by trash80
anyone ever get one of the Rossington Collins Band albums? it was pretty good stuff.
Fav Skynyrd track is "What's Your Name" it just about sums up life on the road. Others include Gimme three steps Saturday Night Special Whiskey-rock-a-roller and Sweet Home Alabama Freebird, although brilliant now tends to get right up my nose simply because it's the only song they're remembered for. I last saw them at Knebworth in 1976, having previously seen them on al least half-a-dozen occasions. Even sharing a bottle of (my) JD with Ronnie van Zandt in Cleethorpes Wintergardens. |
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