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Heard this on the way home from work today, and it's still as awesome now as it was 30 years ago. Simply the best southern rock band ever.

This never gets old.

If there was ever a better live band than LS, I want to know who it was.

Rack those drugged out hippies.

that's pretty rocking. but i'd say gimme 3 steps or i ain't the one.

WW...define what you consider live - I understand the basic premise of live music...but are you just talking overall? Stage prescence? Acutal musicianship? Etc etc...

I mean two of the best bands I have seen live are Rush and Pantera...diametric opposites but good for different reasons...Rush due to the musicianship and Neil is my favorite drummer, and Pantera just for the sheer power, adreniline, and assualt on all your senses...so different things we may look for...

but hey your opinion and it's all good...

Are you fucking crazy?

If your answer was something other than The Ballad of Curtis Lowe, then you have made a serious error in judgement.

Oddly enough, me and a couple of friends had a "best southern rock song" discussion within the last couple of days.

Saturday Night Special and Simple Kind Of Man

Call me mainstream, but Tuesday's Gone is still the shit.

Tuesday's Gone is definitely Rackable.

I'm also very fond of 'Gimme Back My Bullets'.

I'm not going to pass judgement on other folks favorite Skynyrd songs, just sayin' what mine are. Much like Led Zep, they didn't really record a bad song.

Some have been played to death to where you don't really enjoy them that much anymore. They're still good, mind you, but sometimes you might be tempted to change the channel if you've heard it for the 3rd day in row. Saturday Nite Special and Simple Man come to mind, for instance.

But for my taste, 'They Call Me The Breeze' just never gets old. The studio version where you really hear the sax's bustin' out is even better than the live version linked. What a band.

Ronnie VanZant is just about the coolest short dude ever. And the fact that he never tried to compensate for his TVO'ness and went barefoot on stage just made him that much fuckin' cooler.

Zepplin - one song for me...Tangerine

RumpleForeskin wrote:Zepplin - one song for me...Tangerine

Uh-oh, I'm feeling dirty...

I was about to point out Tangerine as an exception.

And sorry, but (correct me if I'm wrong) didn't Simple Kind Of Man get used in a shitty beer ad?


It's disqualified.

Dinsdale wrote:I was about to point out Tangerine as an exception.

As the exception to Wags' previous post? Surely you can't be serious.

RumpleForeskin wrote: As the exception to Wags' previous post? Surely you can't be serious.

Dead serious.

In high school, I used to make fun of Tangerine, despite my bedroom walls being completely covered in 6-foot Zep posters.


And stop calling me Surely.

Dinsdale wrote:And sorry, but (correct me if I'm wrong) didn't Simple Kind Of Man get used in a shitty beer ad?

Yes, it was for Busch.

As far as Led Zeppelin goes, Bring It On Home and When The Levee Breaks are 2 of my favorites.

War Wagon wrote:Simply the best southern rock band ever.

MuchoBulls wrote:Bring It On Home

In high school, me and mine went through a lot of cheap 6X9s, their deaths always seeming to come at the hands of the


"BADABADABAHHHHHH NEEEERNEEERNEEERNEEERNEER-NEER"


Electric geetar part.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Ahhh, the Golden Era of every hip band always trying to bust out their best Grateful Dead in the Haight pose.

by grateful dead pose you mean Harlem Jazz pose.

nice lame try, as usual.

Huh?


Take the marbles out of your mouth.


That pic has absolutely nothing in common with the pic I referred to, save for maybe standing in front of a building.

Dinsdale wrote:Huh?


Take the marbles out of your mouth.


That pic has absolutely nothing in common with the pic I referred to, save for maybe standing in front of a building.

which is kind of the point, though you are quick to suck off the Dead for the same thing.

Skynyrd and Zep should never be mentioned in the same sentence, except to say that Zep was one of the greatest and most original rock bands of all time, where Skynyrd was boring, repetitive and derivative. I guess they're OK if you've been drinking Southern Comfort just up to the point of puking. In that case they absolutely rock.

But then that's just my opinion.

Yea, that totally looks like that the ABB was doing in front of the Filmore.



BTW: Just for shits, here's an article Al Aronowitz wrote on Jerry and the boys circa 1972.

http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column14.htm

Wrong pic. I'm thinking of the one standing in front of the Haight/Ashbury house, with the guns and whatnot. That was The Original, and set the standard for giving the "smiling, but disinterested in the photoshoot" look. That "yeah, we're having fun, even though we're posing" deal.


To say its been "oft-imitated" would be a massive understatement.

i'l give Zep as one of the greatest, but not most original.

Willie Dixon, the North Country Roy Harper skiffle beat/folk and CSN-ish stuff on III, "Going to California", etc.

Pentangle and Bert Jansch were doing that skiffle folk too; in addition, to playing Miles Davis Kind of Blue type stuff. that was original.

Houses of the Holy has mediocre "r&b" stylings ("where's the confounded bridge") and eqaully mediocre reggae stylings (dancing days)--they are good songs in context, but neither is a good R&B or reggae song.

i think the collection of riffs on Physical Graffiti are pretty amazing. at that point, they weren't paying tribute or stealing.

Dinsdale wrote:Wrong pic.

yup, i know the pic you mean.

there's also a Jefferson Airplane/stairs pic too. i think.

Dinsdale wrote:Wrong pic. I'm thinking of the one standing in front of the Haight/Ashbury house, with the guns and whatnot. That was The Original, and set the standard for giving the "smiling, but disinterested in the photoshoot" look. That "yeah, we're having fun, even though we're posing" deal.


To say its been "oft-imitated" would be a massive understatement.

You mean group photos of guys set in relaxed, sort of casual poses originated with the Dead in Haight Ashbury?

Who would have known?
(this band came along way before the Summer of Love)

Sin,

Gen Sheridan

captain trips looks so young in that one.

heh.

They were still the Warlocks back when that pick was taken.

What the... I thought this thread would've been relegated to page two by now. I hadn't checked in here for awhile and then come across this:

Mikey wrote:Skynyrd and Zep should never be mentioned in the same sentence, except to say that Zep was one of the greatest and most original rock bands of all time, where Skynyrd was boring, repetitive and derivative. I guess they're OK if you've been drinking Southern Comfort just up to the point of puking. In that case they absolutely rock.

But then that's just my opinion.

Not surprisingly, your opinion sucks. No need to even elaborate.