Lynyrd Skynyrd

[yoni]

Was it the heavy guitars or American music that pissed them off?

They hate America as much as they hate Israel. So a Jeep that was unmarked but for sure part of Israeli security blasting southern American rock with the stars and bars with 3 guys in it or around it in balaclavas was sure to get the rocks and molotovs flying.

[markm]

There was an interesting Bio on the band on the Circle channel a while back. Never realized they were originally from Florida.

[Sam]

And GOD WHY IS IT that every person with an acoustic guitar feels qualified and compelled to subject us to Free Bird.

Because all you need are three chords: G, D and Em.

[hotbiggun42]

They hate America as much as they hate Israel. So a Jeep that was unmarked but for sure part of Israeli security blasting southern American rock with the stars and bars with 3 guys in it or around it in balaclavas was sure to get the rocks and molotovs flying.

Great story. You would get the same reaction in most major cities in the US.

[hotbiggun42]

Because all you need are three chords: G, D and Em.

Those 3 cords sure soung good played together.

[Sam]

Those 3 cords sure soung good played together.

Lots of songs start with those 3 chords. The old blues song (Clapton), Running on Faith, also begins with them.

[yoni]

I live on a Moshav which was as close to having my own place as you can get in socialist Israel.

I have a sign over the drive way to my house "3 Acres and a mule" I have one flag pole and flew the Texas state flag, since it was good to my family after the war. They lost everything they had to carpet baggers in Alabama and then moved to Texas and started to rebuild, by the time I came along my parents were out of the south, but it is part of our family history.

You could hear music coming from my house most days, Israeli, middle east, Marshal Tucker, Eagles, Lynryd Skynyrd, Linda Ronsdadt, etc

[fedupflyer]

I was at a New Years party in Milan and one guys only English was "Sweet Home Alabama".
Over course he kept finding me and saying it over and over, meanwhile he was getting in myway and the little hottie that invited me to said party.

[chuckman]

Is it permissible for an Indiana Yankee with Tennessee in his veins, transplanted from the High Desert of Oregon and Nevada to appreciate the ballads of Southern Rock? A simple man wanting to be left alone. Beautiful.

(Conferring with fellow Southern natives in a whispered enclave). Ahem (clearing throat). The enclave has spoken. We shall allow it. Pass through and enjoy the music.

[pinzgauer]

Because all you need are three chords: G, D and Em.

G D Em F C and Bb, to be exact

Were they redneck? Clearly

Trash? Certainly some were. They even used cheap Peavey amps when the rest of the world worshiped Marshall, vox, and orange. No $10,000 guitars and complicated pedals with guitar techs to maintain them.

Just some dudes who really liked to play.

Overrated? Overplayed, certainly in the US. To the point that many of us got worn out.

But it's a testament to their songwriting that new generations continue to discover them.

It's a bit entertaining to watch professionals and amateurs alike react to them on YouTube who have never heard some of these songs.

It's clear that Free Bird was well crafted, almost to the point of being epic. And well performed long before the days of central mixes and auto-tune.

I had never noticed, but one reaction by a vocal coach pointed out how the band members would back off volume manually to let different pieces shine. They did this manually, not some guy back in the audience controlling the mix. It takes a real cohesive and experienced band to be able to do that well.

Consistently two of their songs make the top 10 best guitar intros lists. Freebird joins Hotel California and comfortably numb on the best guitar outros. And it is also right up in there in the best guitar solos/duets

I had my family thousands of miles from home, and we had driven to a very remote corner of the country we were in to an area that had virtually no tourism. We picked a local restaurant that was not at all touristy and went in, as we like to find local food.

We are sitting there in the restaurant basking in the ambience, then all the sudden "sweet home Alabama" came on their music and we all burst out laughing. Thousands of miles away and you can't escape the D Cadd9 G, and one of the most recognizable riffs there is.

Not my favorite group, and certainly overplayed.

Lord knows I can't change, but don't diss freebird!