Southern Rock thread - Post your favorite. I'll start with "One Way Out"

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45. You know I like you... you have good taste.

I had just been discharged from the Navy and was living in Austin when Stevie Ray died. Bad times.

Some day I'll tell you about Halloween Night in '82. I was in the Navy in Jacksonville, FL and some friends and I met some people in a bar. They invited us to a party. We rode with them, and when we got to the party, there were about 100 other people. It was in a freakin' cemetery. It was really quiet; not like a party at all. To be honest, I was kinda scared at first. Someone handed me a beer, passed me a joint, and I asked what the FUCK was going on. Little did I know; we were next to the graves of Ronnie Van Zant, and Steve and Cassie Gaines. We partied silently and respectfully until about 4 in the morning until about 10 cop cars showed up. The Cops (Very cool guys) passed out trash bags and told us it was time to leave. There was NO tension, NO worry, no one panicked. It was something that had happened for the last few years.

Silently and efficiently, everyone picked up every beer can, every cigarette butt, every roach, every trace of trash and when we were done there was probably less evidence that we were there than before anyone got there. The cops waited at the gate and locked up behind us. As God is my witness I swear this to be true. Had I not been there I wouldn't have believed it myself.

I read a few years ago that their graves were desecrated and moved. My, how times have changed.