WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR???

Montius, did you know Rickey was in Skynyrd before he started Blackfoot? So it's only natural he's been back with them for years now.

                                                                                           J Dawg

There's a whole lotta bands out there still that are fragmented, but it's about the music. If a particular band only has a member or two from the original line up and they still deliver and the crowd digs it, WHO CARES!!! Look at the Allman Bros., Styx, Grand Funk, The Guess Who, hell The Who for that matter, and more. I've seen the current Skynyrd line up about as many times as the original, do I miss the old band, hell yeah, but there ain't nothin' gonna bring that back. Trust me the new/old guys do deliver the goods whether you're high or not. If you have reservations, stay home, nobody is forcing the issue.

                                                                                               Freedom Of Choice, It's What you Got,

                                                                                               J Dawg

Oh of course, but I just think Blackfoot was a better band is all.....

Skynyrd never fails to stir up opinions, which isn't a bad thing on a music forum. Another aspect of this band is they have trancended about three generations. My son is 18 and I thought his love for Skynyrd came from me dragging him to some of their shows and listening to me play their music. During his high school years I couldn't help notice when I'd shuttle him to school the other kids wearing the occasional Skynyrd t-shirts. Also you'll see a broad demographic when you attend their shows nowadays. I thought the line up with Hughie was as close to the original as they've ever been as eveidenced by watching Lyve From Steeltown or Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve (Nashville 4th of July) Man I miss that dude. I got to see The Outlaws in '05 with Hughie and Henry Paul together again, it was dynamite.

                                                                                                    J Dawg

I did catch them on that first tour in SF. They also hung a hat like Ronnie's on the mike stand. As we approached the Warfield Theater the first thing we noticed was they came by buses, not by plane.

                                                                                                    Fly High Freebird,

                                                                                                    J Dawg

Don't misunderstand me..........You know life ain't easy to take.   RCB

As a drummer, no less. Prior to Artimus Pyle.

it is a different band.  doesnt mean they can't be good, but can't compare them to the old lineups that just doesnt even make sense raving crowds or no.  my opinion on bands going on after members are dead is go on if you want to.  however i agknowledge that it is not the same band and don't try to make it so.

The summer of '74 I met Cassie Gaines at a Gap Band concert and liked her immediately.   She was singing gospel (sorta) with two of her friends.  We laughed about being from two different Miamis.  She introduced me to her brother Steve, a little later and then a year or so later to LS.  Steve then joined LS shortly after that(if memory serves).

Hadn't seen her in about a year when some guy at some dive put money in the jukebox and announced that he was playing this tune because the plane went down...Halloween 1977...when I found out who all died I got very, very drunk and just wept.  I was so evil in those days, the bikers, (my buds) just kept people away from me that night.  I finally just went home.

Kinda lost track of Skynard after that.  I liked Dale Krantz voice when she played with Gary, Allen & co.  I guess she still sings with LS now.

Ronnie saw what alcohol & drugs were doing to the band.  "ThatSmell" came to be and what a hit.  They are keeping the music alive.  More power to them...survivors.

pardonme I haven't told that story in years.  Not even sure why I did now.

ohwell
jeff