Everyone concerned describes themselves as fans of the other’s work. Much was made at the time (and since), of the so-called “feud” between Neil Young and these sons of the south but that drama may be a wee bit, overblown. The band never looked back.Īn opening slot on the Who’s Quadrophenia tour of late 1973 cemented the band’s popularity proceeding to the follow-up album “Second Helping”, in 1974. In 1972, songwriter, musician and record producer Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat and Tears saw the band on performance in Atlanta and signed them to his “Sounds of the South” label to produce their first album: “Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd” featuring the hit song “free bird“ debuted in August 1973. Fans would call him up at all hours to ask “who’s speaking”? What followed was invariably “far out” at the response “Leonard Skinner”, but the retired PE teacher said such calls at 4:00am tended to be, anything but. Skinner went on to sell real estate and even had his sign and phone number (for which he gave permission) included in the cover art for the band’s third album. Associated Press Leonard Skinner, in later life As a way of getting back, they named the band for Skinner, changing the vowels to avoid a lawsuit and becoming famous enough to make the story a rock legend. A run-in with him helped get the boys suspended.
“It seems a physical education teacher named Leonard Skinner didn’t cotton to long hair or loud music. Forby Leonard Skinner was his name, the band at first calling itself Leonard Skinnerd and later morphing into, Lynyrd Skynyrd. In 1969, the boys took a backhanded swipe at a flat-topped gym teacher who didn’t care for all that hair. Ronnie Van Zant (guitar), Bob Burns (drums), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar) and Larry Junstrom (bass) went through several band names from ’64 on, including The Noble Five, The One Percent, and My Backyard. Back in 1969, five Lee High school buddies, were in a band. Lee High School of Jacksonville Florida was renamed, Riverside High. In the insanity that was the summer of 2021, the Robert E. Groups like Marshall Tucker, ZZ Top and Molly Hatchet rocketed to stardom during this period but none so much, as Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band led the 1970’s Southern rock phenomenon with hits like “ Ramblin’ Man” and “ Jessica“, both from the Brothers and Sisters album.
The 1972 double album “ Eat a Peach” turned the corner to a more “Southern Fried” sound led by guitarist Dickey Betts’ epic, “ Blue Sky“. Up to this point, the Allman Brothers’ sound may be described, as blues rock. “You can’t help the revolution, because there’s just evolution … Every time I’m in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace” Duane Allman A year later, bassist Berry Oakley was himself killed in a motorcycle crash only three blocks from the spot, where Allman had perished. On October 29, 1971, a motorcycle crash on the streets of Macon Georgia ended the life of Duane Allman. Following session work on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Eric Clapton himself described Allman as the “ musical brother I’d never had but wished I did.” The Allman Brothers Band established in 1968 never played so much as a single gig before cutting their first album and yet, went on to become “ the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years,” according to George Kimball of Rolling Stone. In the end, the song was ruled “ unintelligible at any speed”. Witnesses were interviewed and Louie Louie played forward, backward and at varying speed. As it is, the FBI’s archival website contains no fewer than 119 pages, covering the investigation. The G-Men could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and asked lead singer Jack Ely about those lyrics, but that would have made sense. The FBI launched a year-long obscenity investigation directed at the Jamaican sailor’s ballad “Louie Louie”, as performed by an obscure Portland Oregon outfit, called the Kingsmen. Religious leaders, government officials and parents’ groups decried the new style, as the “devils music. If you’d permit me a gross oversimplification, the answer may be found in the collision of black and white culture of the 1940s and 50s, an amalgamation of style and instrumentation exceeding the sum of its parts and resulting in nothing short, of cultural revolution. And then sit back because I guarantee you, hours of entertainment. If you’d like to start an argument, find yourself a pair of music enthusiasts and ask them, about the origins of rock ‘n’ roll.
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