WOW! A new Skynyrd CD on January 11th! On the cover they'e posed in front of a HUGH 'murcan FLAG!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: WOW! A new Skynyrd CD on January 11th! On the cover they'e posed in front of a HUGH 'murcan FLAG!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BTS88C/ref=pe_5080_18121590_snp_dp

[jobycom]

1. There oughta be a law. nt

[denbot]

2. If they ain't zombies..

It ain't Skynryd

[jmowreader]

3. What if you didn't like Free Bird?

They ort'a play Free Bird at redneck funerals instead of that hoity toity Chopin Funeral March--after all, it drags just as badly.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Hey, we've all got to make a living somehow.

I used to play in a weird fusion band with guitarist "Sparky" Matejka during the late 80's.

If he can tour and record with that ghost band and take home a decent paycheck while doing it, I certainly don't begrudge him that.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I hear you, and I only have one objection regarding the current band...

...the new album, posed in front of the flag, the last one, called "God & Guns"...

...I dunno...Ronnie was definitely a redneck, but if he were alive today, I'm not sure if he'd be this ham-fisted with this stuff.

Of course, Ronnie didn't live to see 9/11...and I am guessing that would have been a major game-changer for him. I don't think he would have emerged from that unchanged, without it coming out in the music somehow.

[Orsino]

6. Yes. We all have to make a living...

...but we don't have to make that living via hacksploitation of stupid, misguided patriotism and faux-Christianity.

I haven't paid attention to Skynyrd since the mid-nineties, so perhaps my impression of them is dated or unfair.

[Generic Brad]

7. They can still rock out

I love the song "Bernice" they do.