Skynyrd

crap. the surviving members have successfully ruined the memory of the several pretty good records the original band made. all the wrong people died in the plane crash.

crap

Oh My God, so if Hitler's little brother was in Led Zepplin that would make him, Hitler that is, cool?

the plane crash didn't kill the wrong people, it just didn't kill all of the right people. the way he pronounces "champagne" in "what's your name" is nauseating to me.

irritating hick rock with duelin' cock guitar solos = CRAP

i love lynyrd skynyrd

a great band, almost too on top of it musically

ronnie van zandt wrung more out of his voice than should have been possible

and the songs are often great and very sharp lyrically

i wish i could hear 'free bird' in a cultural vacuum sometime, but otherwise: not crap

I have heard Freebird in a cultural vacuum, where that cultural vacuum equaled the hipster audience at a live Built to Spill show. Or maybe that's just supremely out of context. But the results were the same:

Let me tell you, for umpteen minutes, that fucking song (of all songs) totally rocked. I got the whole point of the song, despite all of the novelty/cultural reflex about that song.

Lynyrd Skynyrd = Crap.

I agree with Mr. Midgett about the musicality. I want to dismiss their music, but it is actually good. A little too boogie for me sometimes, but good. I like "Freebird", too (although I hate that everybody yells it out at shows - can we just kill that idea for good?). NOT CRAP

NOT CRAP
Tuesday's Gone is one of the most beautiful songs in classic rock history. It makes that Stairway To Heaven song look like Hit Me Baby, One More Time.

I think Artemis Pile is an awesome name, and in the Behind the Music episode he seemed like a beautiful guy who had to carry a serious sadness. I wish I knew him somehow.

But Skynyrd are among the most hate-able bands ever for me. Truly redneck in every redneck sense. They were the Nascar of the rock scene of their era and I hated them and their audience and all the music and everything all of it implied. Jocks and speed cookers and toothless Florida longhair losers and everything. Hated it hated it hated it.

Up there with the Nuge and KISS in most hate-able bands who are popular with some of my friends.

Their music embodies the worst aspects of the bar band, the Vegas-style show band, the artless ululations of a man-of-the-streets vocalist, southern chauvinism, party as a verb, guitar-store-caliber "bluesy" leads full of oodly-oddly and ernie-ernie and an occasional group-and-audience rebel yell. Fuck this lowbrow shit in the eye.

Lynyrd Skynyrd were a bad band with a stupid audience. I hold those things against them to this day. Sorry about the crash. The End.

right up there with the eagles.
crap!