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I remember the first time I heard them... Sweet Home Alabama. Also the first time I tried weed. I liked the song better. :-)
I was a 16 year old budding guitar player at the time. Had an old Harmony electric and a Fender Princeton amp. Couldn't play worth a damn. The hardest part about learning to play was tuning the damn thing. I used to run down the street to a guy who played and have him tune it for me 2 or 3 times a day... until he moved. Probably got tired of me bugging him.
My grandfather, however, was a local established musician who played guitar, bass, and fiddle. I went out and bought that album and took it over to him and said "Hey Pap, teach me how to play this song." He listened to it once, picked up his old Fender Musicmaster an nailed it the first go 'round. Took me another year to figure out WTF he did, but I finally got it.
Great guitar and good songs out of that band in their short career. The one song I cannot stand from the first time I heard it is Free Bird. Go ahead and start bashing, but I cannot stand to hear that song. Don't know why. Love all the rest of their stuff. Particularly like The Ballad of Curtis Lowe.
RIP Mr. Rossington.
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It wasn't that many years ago, I wondered into Saloon10 during rally.
I snagged a beer, slid into the area where the band was playing, and jokingly yelled out "play Free Bird!" (loud enough for All to hear)
Damned if the band didn't just stop playing whatever song they were in the middle of and played Free Bird.
I grabbed the closest single gal and we did dance.
I caught up with one of the band members during their pause for the cause.
He told me that they vowed to do that every time someone blurts out as I did.
Ahhh...Good Times!
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Bought 'One More From the Road', the double live album when it first came out.I might have been twelve or thirteen. Bought it at Gold Circle. It's still in regular rotation at the house.
Oddly enough, I met the touring manager way back and been to his house numerous times. Never met Gary, but Leon Wilkinson use to hang with the guy. They were really good friends. The dude supplie footage and stuff for the one Skynyrd movie. Might be 'If I leave Here Tomorrow'
Really nice, mellow guy. went down with them in the plane and survived.
Gary Rossington's guitar playing in Lynyrd Skynyrd was excellent
Gary Rossington's guitar playing in LS to me was highly influential. I got to see Lynyrd Skynyrd live in Detroit at the Ford Theater in '77 (if memory serves me right on the year). I think the venue holds three or four thousand people. You could see the band member playing perfectly and the sound was great. Gary was a big part of a perfect show, especially for young budding guitar players... Oh My, that was about 49 years ago. I love that band still to this day. RIP Gary Rossington 1991 FLHS has been a part of my life that bring me satisfaction. I've done my own work on it from day one and will continue to do so until they chuck me in the clay... Shane
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