Lynyrd Skynyrd
 

Anyone love their music? If so, name some songs, members, guitar solos, or lines from lyrics you like.

I like their songs Simple Man, Freebird, and Sweet Home Alabama. It's just sad all of them has passed!. O'well aslong as we have their music.

I do. Not a huge fan but I listen to them. "freebird" is a fav.

My favorite song: Tuesday's Gone
Favorite member: Ronnie (of course)
Favorite guitar solo: Solo from "Call Me The Breeze"
Favorite Lyrics:

For the record, not all of the memers died, just about half.

Good to see there's people here who remember REAL music, though.
Keep on rockin!

favourite songs: simple man, tuesdays gone, that smell

favourite guitar solo: freebird (i know, its pretty generic, but its stellar)

Lynyrd Skynyrd
 

i dont really know many of their songs just wondering what everyonethinks of them? (and also there are no new threads)

Well the big ones are
Sweet home alabama
Free Bird
Three Steps
That smell
Simple Man
Tuesdays gone
Whats your name

yeh i wanted to know what you thought though?

There not bad for classic rock, but I don't own any CD's. im not really a fan, but I think their good.

not bad? theyre AWESOME!

They are the greatest. If I'm driving and Free Bird comes on.......theres a good chance I will die.

free bird is a classic. like big3, im not an album fan, but i appreciate them. classic band.

free bird rules kick ass solo

Yeah, as everyone has said...I love Simple Man. Great lyrics and nice solo...I think but Skynyrd really isnt my style but I still like them. I loved Freebird after I heard it in the last part of the Devil's Rejects.

well, i grew up in the most redneck white trash yankee place there could possibly be, and there was sooo much skynyrd played on every radio there they turned a great band into something i got real tired of. it's kind of like getting ripped off. they are great, but i'm so sick of hearing their stuff it's not even funny. but that makes me think of another really awesome southern rock band. i'll have to make an exploratory post and see who likes them.

I've only listened to a few tracks, but I wasn't impressed from what I heard.

I like Skynyrd.

But if a redneck asks me about them, I'll talk trash about them and see what happens, just for fun.

You gotta be careful though, dishing Skynyrd in the state of Tennessee is very dangerous.

Listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd right now.
"The Ballad of Curtis Loew"
Great song.

Great band.

The only music-related t-shirt I have is of Skynyrd, actually. Awesome band. Sweet Home Alabama and Simple Man are my favs.

My uncle was a big Skynyrd fan and he adopted Simple Man as a nickname. So when he passed away, we played that song at his funeral.

Pretty common but "freebird" is amazing!!!!

it's a pretty common joke to shout freebird as a request at bar bands, wedding dj's and the like

The part of freebird before the solo is good with that great slide guitar, but the solo isn't very interesting, doesn't do all that much for me.

I like them well enough, not a mega fan or anything though I own all of the pre crash albums. I suppose Gary would be my fave member, he tends to get overlooked compared to Alan, Ed and Steve but I prefer Gary's playing to theirs. Favorite era was the time between Ed and Steve, honestly I wish they would have continued with the 2 guitar lineup instead of bringing Steve in.

Diversify your repertoire
 

One of my major gripes when it comes to Lynyrd Skynyrd is the selection of songs that are in the main rotation of classic rock radio. Free Bird is a decent song at 5 minutes, at 10:30 I want the south to secede again. Gimmie Two Steps and What's Your Name are the same damn song and both are grating somewhere around the 10,000th play. And the main riff of Sweet Home Alabama is so effed out Stairway to Heaven thinks it's cliche.

This wouldn't bother me if I didn't have a sort of sentimental adoration for the band and somewhere within in me. They didn't suck and they didn't write whining annoying hillbilly music, they were a fast paced, exciting rock and roll band. They have two excellent albums and a place in history for the foreseeable future. So...knock it off DJ's diversify your repertoire

This is very much a blanket statement.

Their music is simple and repetitive and they get too much radio play? It's not like you let out some huge cat out of the bag.

Everyone knows that I'm the number one supporter of super technical, complex, overblown, pretentious pomp rock. But I also like my share of the simple stuff. There's nothing wrong with being basic, Lynyrd Skynyrd were basic, but they did a damn good job, they had their own voice and they were by no means incompetent.

I still love my Free Bird. Probably because it's a little.... pomp? Yeah that's the word.

what do you mean blanket statement? Of what, the four most popular songs they have all of which I mentioned specific?

I don't follow.

And I never claimed to be rocking the boat with my take, just offering my observations

i still think they hit the nail on the head with their breed of Southern rock. everywhere else i look there seems to be misgivings or variations in songwriting to the point where it sounds feeble and bleak. at least with Skynyrd there's some depth and constancy to the material that they wrote (and i gotta say, a lot of it is rather decent). they managed to blend hard rock and country together without sacrificing songwriting quality, something not many other acts could ever claim.

the only valid criticism you could really make for LS is they suffer from wanton overexposure, which really isn't anything within their control.

What I mean is you seem to criticize the songs for being simple and repetitive, but that's what rock n roll is, and I've never gotten the logic behind "once a great song is played on the radio thousands of times, it's no longer great".

"Simple and repetitive" is just the easy, cookie cutter criticism everyone makes of bands like Skynyrd and AC/DC because they can't find anything truly constructive to say. Having been in the company of many prog fans, I get that kinda stuff a lot. And I'm very tired of hearing it. :mad:

I think if you read my post again, you'll see I'm not criticizing the band for being overly simple or repetitive. I am criticizing DJ's for melting a solid and deep music catalog down to four-seven songs which may or may not be their best anyway.

Whenever people think of Skynyrd they think they are Sweet Home\Free Bird and the like and nothing else. It sells them short as I noted.

That is true for many, many bands and I think it gets worst as time goes by, the radio market is over-satuated with groups and which songs to play and the programmers fall into a rut of only playing the most popular. That is why God created freedom of choice - so we can use vinyls or CDs, I-pods or Youtube etc.

Wait. Are you saying god created iPods?

No, he's saying God created that Devo album Freedom of Choice.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t5zlhz88x_...omofChoice.jpg

I have a strong passion for Lynyrd Skynyrd. I own their documentary type video called Free Bird and I would suggest this to any of you fans out there. They have been through some major crap over the years. It pretty interesting, I have a new appreciation for their music now and it helped me get to know all of the member of the band more (there were tons of members!). I have listened to them sooooo much, though, I have gotten burned out of their most famous songs so I went on a mission to find some of their more obscure stuff that they put out and found some real jewels. Some of these I like better than their more famous songs

Ones you need to check out Lynyrd Skynyrd Fans!!!!!!!

Four Walls of Raiford

Was I Right Or Wrong

Mr. Banker

I promise you will not be dissapointed.

Since when is rock 'n' roll simple and repetitive?

Is this a trick question?

Not really.

I'm not so much a fan of Skynyrd anymore but that person who recommended Free Bird: The Movie is right...it's great for fans.

I think its become pretty popular for people to **** on Lynyrd Skynyrd. Probably because songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Freebird" have become synonymous with fat, dumb rednecks, NASCAR and nasty, flapjack titties being flopped out at Southern Bike Week rallies. That, and it doesn't help (at least from a musician's standpoint) when you allow a ****head like Kid Rock to use the rights to your music (see also: Metallica).

I think that this is undeniably true, but undeserved. Lynyrd Skynyrd was a great ****ing band in their time, and they wrote some great ****ing songs. The memories of their past glory still outshine any blemishes caused by the usage today of the music that they wrote in the 70s. I'm just glad that Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins and Leon Wilkeson were all dead before they had to hear Kid Rock violently rape one of their songs (see also: Warren Zevon).

I'm not ashamed to say that I'm still a fan of certain Skynyrd tunes. Namely, "Gimme Back My Bullets" and "Simple Man".

Sweet Home Alabama
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
Free Bird
Simple Man
Down South Jukin'
Tuesday's Gone
Call Me The Breeze

All brilliant.