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On this day 46 years ago Lynyrd Skynyrd celebrated our Independence in Oakland, CA.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:18 pm
This ain't Taylor Swift.
No assigned seating.
No bodyguards in front of the stage.
Flags everywhere.
Hot young girls.
Lots of drugs.
Rock and Roll with real instruments.
All analog.
At this point in their careers, the band was heavily into cocaine, heroin, and qualudes. Ronnie Van Zant who in the earlier years was known as a perfectionist was now just an ill tempered a-hole.
Piano player, Billy Powell had to beg for years to be a part of the band. Van Zant didn't think piano belonged in a band like theirs. - This appears false. He is very talented, however.
October 20, 1977, would be all but the end for them.
No assigned seating.
No bodyguards in front of the stage.
Flags everywhere.
Hot young girls.
Lots of drugs.
Rock and Roll with real instruments.
All analog.
At this point in their careers, the band was heavily into cocaine, heroin, and qualudes. Ronnie Van Zant who in the earlier years was known as a perfectionist was now just an ill tempered a-hole.
Piano player, Billy Powell had to beg for years to be a part of the band. Van Zant didn't think piano belonged in a band like theirs. - This appears false. He is very talented, however.
October 20, 1977, would be all but the end for them.
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 7:36 pm
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Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:20 pm to Btrtigerfan
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heavily into cocaine, heroin, and qualudes.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:26 pm to Btrtigerfan
They don't make em like this anymore
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:27 pm to Btrtigerfan
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Flags everywhere
Stars and Bars too
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:29 pm to Btrtigerfan
That's a good one. For the spirit of the holiday, let's throw in them blowing the Stones off the stage at Knebworth, too.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:32 pm to Btrtigerfan
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Ronny Van Zant who in the earlier years was known as a perfectionist was now just an ill tempered a-hole.
*Ronnie
And I mean.. an ill-tempered a-hole who also happened to be a musical genius who steered his band to simultaneously define and become the gold standard of a genre. But whatever.
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:33 pm to Btrtigerfan
Pretty girls - the ones that are of age of course.
No caked on makeup and lip fillers and Instagram filters and smartphones recording the entire show
All natural and living in the moment
Looked like a blast
Edit: man can you imagine how big of a badarse you had to feel like just being on stage and shredding that Explorer in everyone’s faces ???
No caked on makeup and lip fillers and Instagram filters and smartphones recording the entire show
All natural and living in the moment
Looked like a blast
Edit: man can you imagine how big of a badarse you had to feel like just being on stage and shredding that Explorer in everyone’s faces ???
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:35 pm to Btrtigerfan
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Piano player, Billy Powell had to beg for years to be a part of the band. Van Zant didn't think piano belonged in a band like theirs.
Not at all what I have read or watched in any documentary regarding the band. If Ronnie didn’t want a piano, there would be no piano.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:37 pm to Naked Bootleg
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*Ronnie
Correct I'll edit
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:37 pm to Naked Bootleg
Free Bird isnt even a top 15 Skynyrd song. It's mind-boggling overrated.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:38 pm to Jack Ruby
Needle and the Spoon is my current favorite Skynrd song.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:40 pm to Naked Bootleg
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And I mean.. an ill-tempered a-hole who also happened to be a musical genius who steered his band to simultaneously define and become the gold standard of a genre. But whatever.
It is pretty well unanimously acknowledged that he was the driving force behind the band. It is about equally acknowledged that as his dependence on booze and drugs grew those traits were amplified. He didn't hold is liquor all that well, and the a-hole part of him too often won out.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:41 pm to Jack Ruby
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Free Bird isnt even a top 15 Skynyrd song. It's mind-boggling overrated.
Free Bird live was a different animal.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:42 pm to Naked Bootleg
100% correct.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:43 pm to Btrtigerfan
quote:
No assigned seating.
No bodyguards in front of the stage.
Flags everywhere.
Hot young girls.
Lots of drugs.
Rock and Roll with real instruments.
All analog.
Also, if I might add, not a single damn cell phone sticking up in the air!
They might have been all strung out and on who knows what, but that live performance will make your neck hair stand up.
This post was edited on 7/2/23 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:45 pm to Jack Ruby
Freebird is a great song and is a top five Skynyrd song.. it is not overated.
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:45 pm to Btrtigerfan
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qualudes
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:46 pm to dukke v
I didn't realize Meteora20 from Linkin Park 
came out this year - heard Lost on the radio recently. Thinking about throwing some coin at the package 
came out this year - heard Lost on the radio recently. Thinking about throwing some coin at the package Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:46 pm to tiggerfan02 2021
Lots of exposed boobs tho
Posted on 7/2/23 at 3:48 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:
Free Bird isnt even a top 15 Skynyrd song. It's mind-boggling overrated.
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