Imagine Robert Plant showing up to one of your gigs and joining you on stage...

[Bill]

I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, they're in my top 3-5 "stuck on a deserted island" picks. But count me in the group that's 'meh' about Freebird - I think the rock ballad beginning is just ordinary. Now their live version of "T for Texas"??? Yes, please!

While the studio version of Freebird is just above 'elevator music' to me, the live version video [that I posted above] is truly awesome. And this is likely more due to the energy & emotion the band members put into it and the way the audience reacted to it. It's far better to listen to [and watch] the live version.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

While the studio version of Freebird is just above 'elevator music' to me, the live version video [that I posted above] is truly awesome. And this is likely more due to the energy & emotion the band members put into it and the way the audience reacted to it. It's far better to listen to [and watch] the live version.

Yeah, I listen to One More From the Road a decent amount. I do find myself liking it about halfway in.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

 

[BigOdin504]

Likely just looking to steal music from smaller artists. The Beatles are infamous for such practices.

Ok, but you can say that about all music. Even “your” bands.

 

[sfidc3]

It wasn't me, I swear. For the longest time now upon hearing that song, my first thought has been Jenny slipping on the balcony railing in platform shoes high as a kite amazingly managing not to swan dive. Forrest Gump kinda ruined that song for me. It's just too cliche of a "radio play" (that and Sweet Home Alabama) to call it a LS favorite song. But the build-up to the guitar solo in the right frame of mind still hits you.

Of course, hearing Robert Plant do Black Dog live would be amazing even today. But that and Stairway are just too overplayed, I think, to reach for on your playlist time after time when you're listening alone anyway.

I guess they're golden oldies now.

I remember thinking how That Smell was the perfect song to describe that scene.....

And yes we are old......and if I never hear Stairway again that's just fine....

I love Lynyrd Skynyrd, they're in my top 3-5 "stuck on a deserted island" picks. But count me in the group that's 'meh' about Freebird - I think the rock ballad beginning is just ordinary. Now their live version of "T for Texas"??? Yes, please!

I don't love them, I liken them to the ABB's annoying little brother that occasionally write a really, really great song......like....

Tuesday's Gone or
Gimme Back My Bullet......

 

[HoustonSaint68]

…I don't love them, I liken them to the ABB's annoying little brother…

Not sure that’s giving them their due…and the ABB is also included in my 3-5 deserted island picks.

 

[saintmdterps]

It looks as if he's in his element and enjoying the heck out of it!
I really get the feeling that he appreciates the depth of NOLA's musical heritage.

Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and the Who among other British acts like John Mayall's Blues Breakers always gave credit to the black southern blues musicians from whom they gained inspiration for much of their music. These British musicians thought the fact that our own Blues musicians weren't more famous in their own country was a travesty, and it was.

 

[saintmdterps]

I remember when the Zeppelin concert in the Dome was canceled when Plant got the news about his son’s death. That was going to be my chance to see LZ in person.

We had tickets for Led Zeppelin in DC when John Bonham died...

 

[saintmdterps]

While at dinner last night, Freebird came on. Just made me think about this thread. That's not even my favorite Skynrd song; and, God knows, by the end of the '70s, no one really cared if they heard that or Stairway to Heaven ever again. However, I couldn't help thinking how amazing it would have been to have been lucky enough to have heard Freebird live between '73 and '77.

I see your Freebird and raise you The Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides... Better musicianship and stronger lyrics. Hughie Thomasson and Billy jones trading lead is guitar duel gold. IMHO, of course.

Back in college it was Little Feat. Not really southern rock, so I've strayed a bit off topic. Waiting for Columbus is a great live album, and was very popular with my nincompoop University of Virginia friends.

 

[woohoosaint]

While at dinner last night, Freebird came on. Just made me think about this thread. That's not even my favorite Skynrd song; and, God knows, by the end of the '70s, no one really cared if they heard that or Stairway to Heaven ever again. However, I couldn't help thinking how amazing it would have been to have been lucky enough to have heard Freebird live between '73 and '77.

I remember back in 1993, WRNO was changing their format and played Zep's Rock And Roll for 2 days straight (felt like a week) on a loop.
Was never a big fan of that song to begin with, I really wasn't a fan after tuning in on the second day and hearing it lol
To this day I turn the radio off when I hear the intro.
Oversaturation at its finest.

 

[woohoosaint]

Most of you guys know that I'm a huge Randy Rhoads fan.
But, for a few years I couldn't listen to Crazy Train because it was overplayed.
Hearing it everywhere in its original form and hundreds of variations/interpretations...it became watered down IMO
For 2 years, I would hit skip on that song every time I would listen to the album on CD.
When I finally came back to really listening to it, I had a new appreciation for it.

 

[sfidc3]

Not sure that’s giving them their due…and the ABB is also included in my 3-5 deserted island picks.

Despite what some lazy idiotic writer for RS thought back in the 70's, ABB is not a southern rock band, they are a fusion band.....their music was way more complex than LS and they touched on many genres (including jazz) than any other US band.....I would also say that while not nearly as popular that the Marshall Tucker band had more skilled/dynamic musicians than LS as well.....I'm not knocking LS here, they were really good but ABB and MTB were on a different level.....

Most of you guys know that I'm a huge Randy Rhoads fan.
But, for a few years I couldn't listen to Crazy Train because it was overplayed.
Hearing it everywhere in its original form and hundreds of variations/interpretations...it became watered down IMO
For 2 years, I would hit skip on that song every time I would listen to the album on CD.
When I finally came back to really listening to it, I had a new appreciation for it.

I learned most of my early guitar from Rush songs, so got burnt out on them by the time I was in college, I now have a new found appreciation for them.....particularly Permanent Waves, just a great record.....

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Despite what some lazy idiotic writer for RS thought back in the 70's, ABB is not a southern rock band, they are a fusion band.....their music was way more complex than LS and they touched on many genres (including jazz) than any other US band.....I would also say that while not nearly as popular that the Marshall Tucker band had more skilled/dynamic musicians than LS as well.....I'm not knocking LS here, they were really good but ABB and MTB were on a different level.....

I’ve got a friend whose favorite band by a great distance is the ABB - I remember him looking at me like I was nuts when I told him that I thought their toying with jazz influences really made them special. It simply hadn’t occurred to him.

 

[El Caliente]

When I was younger 92.3 fm (here in New Orleans) ruined Led Zeppelin for me with their “getting the Led out” break in music (which meant playing Zepplin at the top of each hour). Having no other rock station to listen to at the time (106.1 the zephyr had shut down, and The End hadn’t started yet), meant having to listen to Zepplin every hour in order to get to the music that you did want to listen to. It felt like a chore, or having to eat your vegetables in order to get to your dessert.

But now, 30 years later, I’m sitting at a steakhouse in Kingwood, TX minding my own business when “In the Evening” came on. I had heard this song 30+ years ago (but had completely forgotten about it until that evening), and it just hit so perfectly. I remembered every word, and every drumbeat. It was such a great song, and I put it on my Spotify running playlist because it has just the right rhythm for what I need.

 

[Madmarsha]

Back in college it was Little Feat. Not really southern rock, so I've strayed a bit off topic. Waiting for Columbus is a great live album, and was very popular with my nincompoop University of Virginia friends.

Oh, I think Little Feat is described as Southern rock, though, they are definitely not from the south.


For me, the song that my local station played for an entire weekend when changing formats was the Eagles "James Dean". 48 hours of James Dean. I didn't know other stations did that kind of stuff to their listeners.