Originally Posted by Chula Vista

First off. Skynyrd had some great tunes but they were far from a great band historically speaking. If not for their live version of Free Bird becoming a bit of an anthem (I chock that up to all of the massive cocaine use of that era) they'd be a minor footnote, remembered more for the plane crash than their music.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.