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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone (live at Winterland, 3/7/1976) (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2022 OP
Everyone remembers Skynyrd for... SergeStorms Jun 2022 #1
I think of Skynard as better musicians than your typical BootinUp Jun 2022 #2
Al Collins was a hell of a guitar player. SergeStorms Jun 2022 #3

SergeStorms

(18,882 posts)
1. Everyone remembers Skynyrd for...
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 10:40 PM
Jun 2022

their "guitar army", but Billy Powell made that group with his keyboards. Without Powell they were Molly Hatchet (while not a bad thing, who needed two Molly Hatchets?).

Al Collins, Gary Rossington, Ed King, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Artimus Pyle, and Ronnie Van Zant. They could crank out some decibels.

BootinUp

(46,924 posts)
2. I think of Skynard as better musicians than your typical
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:30 PM
Jun 2022

Southern Rock group, Hatchet while writing some great original tunes probably somewhere in between on that measure

SergeStorms

(18,882 posts)
3. Al Collins was a hell of a guitar player.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:55 PM
Jun 2022

Imagine if he hadn't spent his young teen years sniffing glue?

Gary Rossington wasn't any slouch either. Leon Wilkeson was a helluva bass player, and Ed King....well, he was Ed King. I liked the group better when Steve Gaines replaced King. Bob Burns was way over his head with the group, and Artimus Pyle was a fantastic replacement.

You know how I feel about Billy Powell.

Those wild eyed country boys were never destined to make old bones. They were just too damned wild to live long. If the plane crash didn't get them, the bottle and drugs soon would. I think Rossington is the only one remaining one of the original band.

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