Hi Jamaica, Here is the information from Wikipedia. I've not yet listened to the album so I'll tell you more about it later... Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd/) is an American Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977. The band reformed in 1987 for a reunion tour with Ronnie's younger brother, Johnny Van Zant as the frontman, and continues to record music today. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
Hi collins I think Earth Wind and fire are a disco band. All the lead singers sing with very high pitched voices. And their are a lot of back round singers to. their isn't really a lot of crazy! guitar soloing in it, but I still really like it a lot. if you want I could burn some music off my Ipod and put it on to a C.D for you.
In 1972 the band was discovered by musician, songwriter, and producer Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, who had attended one of their shows at a club in Atlanta. They changed the spelling of their name to "Lynyrd Skynyrd",[4] (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) and Kooper signed them to MCA Records, producing their first album the following year. 1973's featured the hit song "Free Bird", which received national airplay, eventually reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and is still considered a Rock and Roll anthem today. Lynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on The Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. Their 1974 follow-up, Second Helping, was the band's breakthrough hit, and featured their most popular single, "Sweet Home Alabama" (#8 on the charts in August 1974), a tongue in cheek response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man." (Young and Van Zant were not rivals, but fans of each other's music and good friends; Young even wrote the song "Powderfinger" for the band, but they never recorded it[5]). The album reached #12 in 1974, eventually going multi-platinum. In July of that year, Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the headline acts at The Ozark Music Festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. In 1974, Burns left the band and was replaced by Kentucky native Artimus Pyle on drums. Lynyrd Skynyrd's third album, Nuthin' Fancy, was released the same year, though guitarist Ed King left midway through the tour. In January 1976, backup singers Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines and JoJo Billingsley (collectively known as The Honkettes) were added to the band. Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth album Gimme Back My Bullets was released in the new year, but did not achieve the same success as the previous two albums. Van Zant and Collins both felt that the band was seriously missing the three-guitar attack that had been one of its early hallmarks. Although Skynyrd auditioned several guitarists, including such high-profile names as Leslie West, the solution was closer than they realized. Soon after joining Skynyrd, Cassie Gaines began touting the guitar and songwriting prowess of her younger brother, Steve. The junior Gaines, who led his own band, Crawdad (which occasionally would perform Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" in their set), was invited to audition onstage with Skynyrd at a concert in Kansas City on May 11, 1976. Liking what they heard, the group also jammed informally with the Oklahoma native several times, then invited him into the group in June. With Gaines on board, the newly-reconstituted band recorded the double-live album One More From the Road in Atlanta, Georgia, and toured the UK with The Rolling Stones. Both Collins and Rossington had serious car accidents over Labor Day weekend in 1976 which slowed the recording of the follow-up album and forced the band to cancel some concert dates. Rossington's accident inspired the ominous "That Smell" - a cautionary tale about drug abuse that was clearly aimed towards him and at least one other band member. Rossington has admitted repeatedly that he's the "Prince Charming" of the song who crashed his car into an oak tree while drunk and stoned on Quaaludes. Van Zant, at least, was making a serious attempt to clean up his act and curtail the cycle of boozed-up brawling that was part of Skynyrd's reputation. 1977's Street Survivors turned out to be a showcase for guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, who had joined the band just a year earlier and was making his studio debut with them. Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the multiple talents of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day." Gaines' contributions included his co-lead vocal with Van Zant on the co-written "You Got That Right" and the rousing guitar boogie "I Know A Little" which he had written before he joined Skynyrd. So confident was Skynyrd's leader of Gaines' abilities that the album (and some concerts) featured Gaines delivering his self-penned bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - the only song in the pre-crash Skynyrd catalog to feature a lead vocalist other than Ronnie Van Zant. The album also included the hit singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell". The band was poised for their biggest tour yet, including fulfilling Van Zant's lifelong dream of headlining New York's Madison Square Garden.
Hi Collins, I'm really glad you are liking Lynyrd Skynyrd. I like a few of their songs, but I haven't listened to whole albums. Which of their lesser known songs are you liking??
I think Lynard Skynard is a very skilled guitar player. Two things I like about his music are; the ways he adds stories into the lyrics, and the other is the way he adds the piano into the background. (Sorry if the info i gave above a few posts before now was too large.)
One of the songs I like from the album I am listening to is, The Balled of Curtis Loew. I enjoy the album, but for some reason this song stands out. And one interesting fact about this song is that it was only performed once by the original band before the plane crash. Oh! I just realised i have been spelling Lynyrd Skynyrd Wrong. I was recently spelling it Lynard Skynard. Sorry
Hmm, I want to hear the Ballad of Curtis Loew. I'm not sure I've heard it before! Way to catch your spelling error, Collins. I think there's an interesting story behind the spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd. You might want to research that.
Here are the lyrics to, "The Balled of Curtis Loew".
Lyrics: Well I used to wake the morning before the rooster crowed Searching for soda bottles to get myself some dough Brought em down to the corner, down to the country store Cash em in and give my money to a man named curtis loew
Old curt was a black man with white curly hair When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care He used to own an old dobro, used to play it across his knee Id give old curt my money, hed play all day for me
(chorus) Play me a song curtis loew, curtis loew I got your drinking money, tune up your dobro People said he was useless, them people are the fools cause curtis loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues
He looked to be sixty, and maybe I was ten Mama used to whip me but Id go see him again Id clap my hands, stomp my feets, try to stay in time Hed play me a song or two Then take another drink of wine.
Chorus
Yes sir
On the day old curtis died, nobody came to pray Ol preacher said some words, and they chunked him in the clay But he lived a lifetime playin the black mans blues And on the day he lost his life, thats all he had to lose
Play me a song curtis loew, hey curtis loew I wish that you was here so everyone would know People said he was useless, them people all are fools cause curtis youre the finest picker to ever play the blues
The song is a story about a kid who would go and listen to a black man play his guitar. The Balled Of Curtis Loew iss about a real story, wheather the names are right or not, there was a kid and a black man who the song was about.
Here is some info on the song The Ballad of curtis Loew. (I caught another spelling error, I have spelled Ballad, Balled. Ballad is the correct spelling.) And the info;
Synopsis: A young boy wakes up "before the rooster crows" and searches for soda bottles to cash in. He gives the money to a man named Curtis Loew, who buys wine and plays his Dobro guitar for the boy all day. Curtis is described as a "black man with white curly hair" and the boy idolizes him, returning despite whuppings by his mama to hear the old man play, clapping his hands and trying to stay in time. "People said you was useless," the boy recalls. "Those people all were fools." Instead Curtis is "the finest picker to ever play the blues," the boy professes.
Curtis eventually dies and the boy notes that nobody "came to pray." The song ends with a lament to Curtis: "I wish you was here so everyone would know."
Hi. Listening to them right now, they are pretty good! The guitar is really good. Curtis Loew is good, and so is Sweet Home Alabama. My dad says there are three different guitarists in the end of Free Bird.
I figured out why the band is named Lynyrd Skynyrd. Lynyrd Skynyrd was the name of a High School Basketball coach that nobody liked. The band was named after the coach. Ronnie Vanzant named the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Wait, does the basketball coach KNOW that they named the band after him, and more importantly: does he know they named the band after him because no one liked him? And more importantly than the first two: Why did they name their band after a publicly despised basketball coach???
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Yeah... I can't see why. I am glad that my name is not Lynyrd Skynyrd... ...I am also glad that I am not a publicly despised basketball coach (whether or not I have a publicly celebrated band named after me.)... So will you listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd after the Stretch? (Most likely you have answered this previously, however I am too tired, and my wrists and fingers are too soar from playing guitar for four hours straight, to scroll up at the moment and answer my own question.) If you do listen to them, will you dance to them? Provide musical accompaniment? Sing along? Only listen to when you are on a really long bus ride, and you have run out of anything else to listen to? Cry out with recognition when you hear them on the radio, but merely to prove the extent of your musical knowledge, and not out of real enjoyment for the band? Or perhaps will you listen to nothing but them, wear Lynyrd Skynyrd T-Shirts for the rest of your life, start a fan club and build a statue in their honor? Or are you so devoted that you would willingly be a publicly despised basketball coach with a name like Lynyrd Skynyrd for the honor of being the namesake of such a wonderful band? or maybe you have to plug your ears and scream while listening to them because you cannot bear it? I do not know.
I rather pity the publicly despised basketball coach... Haha... When we make an Acappella band, we should name it The Publicly Despised Basketball Coach's Fan-Club. Not really: Who the heck goes to a band called the Publicly Despised Basketball Coach's Fan-Club???
Then again, who the heck listens to a band called Lynyrd Skynyrd? Apparently a lot of people, so it would seem...
Hi, I kind of asked if Hannah could change the background on the Middle School's blog, because it was really dark. I abandoned the middle school blog temporarily, because your's is bright and cheery. Now they both are: yay! Sorry if you liked it better the other way. I am really, really picky about colors... I get a migrane after ten minutes in a room with florescent lighting, and I have to look outside every once and a while when I use the computer, otherwise I start to feel really sick. I have no clue why, possibly it is because I am an artist, and possibly it is just because I am a strange person. Who knows! I wonder if the PDHSBC is still alive. That would be awfully weird if he was... Not that I wish him dead or anything...
hi collins! is "the ballad of Curtis Loew" your favorite song on your L.S album? (I really liked that song!) Oh and I did know the abbreviation for Stevie Ray Vaughan:) how did Lynrnd die exactly? you said he died in an air transportation accident:)......
Wait, the publicly despised despised basketball coach is dead? Ronnie Van Zant, the leader of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in 1977. In an airplane crash (I know, freaky, right? ALL musicians die in flight crashes!).
Wikipedia: After considering a few different names "the group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, a mocking tribute to a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School. Leonard Skinner was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. The more distinctive spelling was adopted before they released their first album. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a more friendly relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum."
Ha! That is hilarious. So the publicly despised basketball coach cut people's hair off or something? No wonder the public despised him...
But guys, the band is named Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's lead singer is Ronnie Van Zant, who died in 1977 in a airplane crash, and Leonard Skinner was the publicly despised basketball coach.
By the way, this is Amelia, I just changed my name again.
Wait, Ronnie Van Zant died in a plane crash, or the whole band died in a plane crash? I thought it was just Ronnie. But that is what I said. I do not know what happened to the PDHSBC.
My name doesn't HAVE to be Amelia. You could call me whatever you wanted to call me. I could call myself whatever I wanted to call myself. It wouldn't change who I am as a person. That wasn't actually irrelevant. It was quite relevant to my post on the other blog. But never mind, it will seem irrelevant to you all.
Yay pink blog... Sad that the whole band died though... Was the PDHSBC in the crash as well?
Virginia, Lynyrd Skynyr is not the name of a person, especially not a musician. LEONARD SKINNER is the name of a Publicly Despised High School Basketball Coach (PDHSBC, publicly despised because he cut kid's hair off when it was too long.)
The band disliked the PDHSBC so much that they named their band after him, but calling it Lynyrd Skynyrd, for the unique spelling.
Ronnie Van Zant is the name of the leader of the band. And Mischa, you are an awfully inquisitive person.
This is my second favorite song in my album, "2nd Helping"
Lyrics: Thirty days, lord and thirty nights Im comin home on an airplane flight Mama waitin at the ticket line Tell me son why do you stand there cryin
(chorus) It was the needle and the spoon And a trip to the moon Took me away, took me away
Ive been feelin so sick and tired Got to get better, lord before I die Seven doctors couldnt help my head, they said You better quit, son before your dead
(chorus) Quit the needle. quit the spoon Quit the trip to the moon We gonna take you away. lord, we gonna take you away
(spoken) It was the needle and the spoon
Ive seen a lot of people who thought they were cool But then again, lord Ive seen a lot of fools Well, I hope you people, lord can hear what I say Youll have your chance to hit it some day
(chorus) Dont mess with the needle or a spoon Or any trip to the moon Itll take you away
Lord, their gonna bury you boy Dont mess with the needle Now I know, I know, I know...
Did he write that before or after dying in an airplane crash? Because if before, he is clairvoyant, and if after he has some serious ISSUES, because normal people don't write songs when they are dead.
This is my third favorite song. :) (There is no dying in this one) :)
Song: "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
Lyrics:
Well everytime that I come home nobody wants to let me be It seems that all the friends I got just got to come interrogate me Well, I appreciate your feelings and I don't want to pass you by But I don't ask you about your business, don't ask me about mine
Well its true I love the money and I love my brand new car I like drinkin' the best of whiskey and playing in a honky tonk bar But when I come off the road, well I just got to have my time 'Cause I got to find a break in this action, else I'm gonna lose my mind
(Chorus) So, don't ask me no questions And I won't tell you no lies So, don't ask me about my business And I won't tell you goodbye
That's right
Well, "what's your favorite color and do you dig the brothers," is drivin' me up a wall And everytime I think I can sleep, some fool has got to call Well don't you think that when I come home, I just want a little peace of mind If you want to talk about the business buddy, you're just wastin' time
(Chorus)
I said don't ask no stupid questions and I won't send you away If you want to talk fishin, well I guess that'll be OK
Hi Collins. Who is Lynyrd Skynyrd?
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ReplyDeleteHere is the information from Wikipedia. I've not yet listened to the album so I'll tell you more about it later...
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd/) is an American Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977. The band reformed in 1987 for a reunion tour with Ronnie's younger brother, Johnny Van Zant as the frontman, and continues to record music today. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
Hi Collins, can't wait to hear how you like it!!
ReplyDeleteHI Collins Lynyrd Skynyrd is a great i think you'll like him
ReplyDeleteHey Black Dog. How do you like your album? And what is the name of the album?
ReplyDeleteSo far I am enjoying the album. I am learning how to play one of the songs on guitar.
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collins i personally think that Earth Wind and fire are good but the lead singer has a nice voice but i don't like the dancing that he does.
ReplyDeleteWhat song are you learning on guitar collins
ReplyDeleteHi Jon!
ReplyDeleteThe name of the album i am listening to is called Second Helping.
Is it good? Because I might buy it off Itunes if it is worth it.
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ReplyDeleteI think it is worth it.
Good luck with the project.
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Hi collins I think Earth Wind and fire are a disco band. All the lead singers sing with very high pitched voices. And their are a lot of back round singers to. their isn't really a lot of crazy! guitar soloing in it, but I still really like it a lot. if you want I could burn some music off my Ipod and put it on to a C.D for you.
ReplyDeleteHi collins I think the best song by Lynyrd Skynyrd is Sweet home Alabama. Is that the one your learning on guitar because i learned that one.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer Jake, but i am okay.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck with Your Stretch Project
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yes, the song that I am learning is Sweet Home Alabama.
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Hey Jon, if you want i can burn you the album, Would that be okay?
ReplyDeleteIn 1972 the band was discovered by musician, songwriter, and producer Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, who had attended one of their shows at a club in Atlanta. They changed the spelling of their name to "Lynyrd Skynyrd",[4] (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) and Kooper signed them to MCA Records, producing their first album the following year. 1973's featured the hit song "Free Bird", which received national airplay, eventually reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and is still considered a Rock and Roll anthem today.
ReplyDeleteLynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on The Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. Their 1974 follow-up, Second Helping, was the band's breakthrough hit, and featured their most popular single, "Sweet Home Alabama" (#8 on the charts in August 1974), a tongue in cheek response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man." (Young and Van Zant were not rivals, but fans of each other's music and good friends; Young even wrote the song "Powderfinger" for the band, but they never recorded it[5]). The album reached #12 in 1974, eventually going multi-platinum. In July of that year, Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the headline acts at The Ozark Music Festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri.
In 1974, Burns left the band and was replaced by Kentucky native Artimus Pyle on drums. Lynyrd Skynyrd's third album, Nuthin' Fancy, was released the same year, though guitarist Ed King left midway through the tour. In January 1976, backup singers Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines and JoJo Billingsley (collectively known as The Honkettes) were added to the band. Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth album Gimme Back My Bullets was released in the new year, but did not achieve the same success as the previous two albums. Van Zant and Collins both felt that the band was seriously missing the three-guitar attack that had been one of its early hallmarks. Although Skynyrd auditioned several guitarists, including such high-profile names as Leslie West, the solution was closer than they realized.
Soon after joining Skynyrd, Cassie Gaines began touting the guitar and songwriting prowess of her younger brother, Steve. The junior Gaines, who led his own band, Crawdad (which occasionally would perform Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" in their set), was invited to audition onstage with Skynyrd at a concert in Kansas City on May 11, 1976. Liking what they heard, the group also jammed informally with the Oklahoma native several times, then invited him into the group in June. With Gaines on board, the newly-reconstituted band recorded the double-live album One More From the Road in Atlanta, Georgia, and toured the UK with The Rolling Stones.
Both Collins and Rossington had serious car accidents over Labor Day weekend in 1976 which slowed the recording of the follow-up album and forced the band to cancel some concert dates. Rossington's accident inspired the ominous "That Smell" - a cautionary tale about drug abuse that was clearly aimed towards him and at least one other band member. Rossington has admitted repeatedly that he's the "Prince Charming" of the song who crashed his car into an oak tree while drunk and stoned on Quaaludes. Van Zant, at least, was making a serious attempt to clean up his act and curtail the cycle of boozed-up brawling that was part of Skynyrd's reputation.
1977's Street Survivors turned out to be a showcase for guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, who had joined the band just a year earlier and was making his studio debut with them. Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the multiple talents of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day." Gaines' contributions included his co-lead vocal with Van Zant on the co-written "You Got That Right" and the rousing guitar boogie "I Know A Little" which he had written before he joined Skynyrd. So confident was Skynyrd's leader of Gaines' abilities that the album (and some concerts) featured Gaines delivering his self-penned bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - the only song in the pre-crash Skynyrd catalog to feature a lead vocalist other than Ronnie Van Zant. The album also included the hit singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell". The band was poised for their biggest tour yet, including fulfilling Van Zant's lifelong dream of headlining New York's Madison Square Garden.
(Info Source: http://www.wikipedia.org)
Hi Collins, I'm really glad you are liking Lynyrd Skynyrd. I like a few of their songs, but I haven't listened to whole albums. Which of their lesser known songs are you liking??
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ReplyDeleteSo far I am liking the album.
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I think Lynard Skynard is a very skilled guitar player.
ReplyDeleteTwo things I like about his music are; the ways he adds stories into the lyrics, and the other is the way he adds the piano into the background.
(Sorry if the info i gave above a few posts before now was too large.)
there is manly rhythm guitar, xylophone, drums, hand drums, piano,
ReplyDeleteOne of the songs I like from the album I am listening to is, The Balled of Curtis Loew. I enjoy the album, but for some reason this song stands out.
ReplyDeleteAnd one interesting fact about this song is that it was only performed once by the original band before the plane crash. Oh! I just realised i have been spelling Lynyrd Skynyrd Wrong. I was recently spelling it Lynard Skynard. Sorry
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you on that collins. WHY DO ALL THESE GREAT PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE SO YOUNG????!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHmm, I want to hear the Ballad of Curtis Loew. I'm not sure I've heard it before! Way to catch your spelling error, Collins. I think there's an interesting story behind the spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd. You might want to research that.
ReplyDeleteHere are the lyrics to, "The Balled of Curtis Loew".
ReplyDeleteLyrics:
Well I used to wake the morning before the rooster crowed
Searching for soda bottles to get myself some dough
Brought em down to the corner, down to the country store
Cash em in and give my money to a man named curtis loew
Old curt was a black man with white curly hair
When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care
He used to own an old dobro, used to play it across his knee
Id give old curt my money, hed play all day for me
(chorus)
Play me a song curtis loew, curtis loew
I got your drinking money, tune up your dobro
People said he was useless, them people are the fools
cause curtis loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues
He looked to be sixty, and maybe I was ten
Mama used to whip me but Id go see him again
Id clap my hands, stomp my feets, try to stay in time
Hed play me a song or two
Then take another drink of wine.
Chorus
Yes sir
On the day old curtis died, nobody came to pray
Ol preacher said some words, and they chunked him in the clay
But he lived a lifetime playin the black mans blues
And on the day he lost his life, thats all he had to lose
Play me a song curtis loew, hey curtis loew
I wish that you was here so everyone would know
People said he was useless, them people all are fools
cause curtis youre the finest picker to ever play the blues
Is Curtis Leow a real person?
ReplyDeleteThe song is a story about a kid who would go and listen to a black man play his guitar. The Balled Of Curtis Loew iss about a real story, wheather the names are right or not, there was a kid and a black man who the song was about.
ReplyDeleteHere is some info on the song The Ballad of curtis Loew. (I caught another spelling error, I have spelled Ballad, Balled. Ballad is the correct spelling.) And the info;
ReplyDeleteSynopsis:
A young boy wakes up "before the rooster crows" and searches for soda bottles to cash in. He gives the money to a man named Curtis Loew, who buys wine and plays his Dobro guitar for the boy all day. Curtis is described as a "black man with white curly hair" and the boy idolizes him, returning despite whuppings by his mama to hear the old man play, clapping his hands and trying to stay in time. "People said you was useless," the boy recalls. "Those people all were fools." Instead Curtis is "the finest picker to ever play the blues," the boy professes.
Curtis eventually dies and the boy notes that nobody "came to pray." The song ends with a lament to Curtis: "I wish you was here so everyone would know."
So actualy, yes. Curtis Loew was a real person.
ReplyDeleteSomething about the song really interests me.
ReplyDeleteWhether its the tune or the story i am not sure.
It just interests me.
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I think it's really interesting, too! Good synopsis of the story. I hope you share this song with us when it's your turn, 'cause I'd love to hear it.
ReplyDeleteHi. Listening to them right now, they are pretty good! The guitar is really good. Curtis Loew is good, and so is Sweet Home Alabama. My dad says there are three different guitarists in the end of Free Bird.
ReplyDeleteHi collins sorry our blog names are so similar just I said I wanted to be
ReplyDeleteGold Dog and then it said there was a Black Dog, And I don't know
how to change it.
It is fine Gunnar, I don't care.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to change your user name.
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I figured out why the band is named Lynyrd Skynyrd.
ReplyDeleteLynyrd Skynyrd was the name of a High School
Basketball coach that nobody liked.
The band was named after the coach.
Ronnie Vanzant named the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Wait, does the basketball coach KNOW that they named the band after him, and more importantly: does he know they named the band after him because no one liked him? And more importantly than the first two: Why did they name their band after a publicly despised basketball coach???
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Yeah... I can't see why.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that my name is not Lynyrd Skynyrd...
...I am also glad that I am not a publicly despised basketball coach (whether or not I have a publicly celebrated band named after me.)...
So will you listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd after the Stretch? (Most likely you have answered this previously, however I am too tired, and my wrists and fingers are too soar from playing guitar for four hours straight, to scroll up at the moment and answer my own question.)
If you do listen to them, will you dance to them? Provide musical accompaniment? Sing along? Only listen to when you are on a really long bus ride, and you have run out of anything else to listen to? Cry out with recognition when you hear them on the radio, but merely to prove the extent of your musical knowledge, and not out of real enjoyment for the band?
Or perhaps will you listen to nothing but them, wear Lynyrd Skynyrd T-Shirts for the rest of your life, start a fan club and build a statue in their honor?
Or are you so devoted that you would willingly be a publicly despised basketball coach with a name like Lynyrd Skynyrd for the honor of being the namesake of such a wonderful band?
or maybe you have to plug your ears and scream while listening to them because you cannot bear it? I do not know.
Darn, sorry, real long comment again...
ReplyDeletePublicly despised basketball coach...
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no i like the band but i could care less about the Basket ball coach since i have no info on who he really is
ReplyDeleteWHY DID THE BLOG BACKGROUND CHANGE?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteI WAS GETTING SO USED TO THE PINK. WHY????????
I rather pity the publicly despised basketball coach... Haha...
ReplyDeleteWhen we make an Acappella band, we should name it The Publicly Despised Basketball Coach's Fan-Club.
Not really: Who the heck goes to a band called the Publicly Despised Basketball Coach's Fan-Club???
Then again, who the heck listens to a band called Lynyrd Skynyrd? Apparently a lot of people, so it would seem...
This is a very funny discussion of the origin of Lynyrd Skynyrd's name. I changed the background, Collins . . . just to keep it interesting.
ReplyDeleteCollins, it was really good to hear the Ballad of Curtis Loew yesterday! Thanks for sharing it. I thought the guitar solo was awesome.
Hi, I kind of asked if Hannah could change the background on the Middle School's blog, because it was really dark. I abandoned the middle school blog temporarily, because your's is bright and cheery. Now they both are: yay!
ReplyDeleteSorry if you liked it better the other way.
I am really, really picky about colors... I get a migrane after ten minutes in a room with florescent lighting, and I have to look outside every once and a while when I use the computer, otherwise I start to feel really sick. I have no clue why, possibly it is because I am an artist, and possibly it is just because I am a strange person. Who knows!
I wonder if the PDHSBC is still alive. That would be awfully weird if he was... Not that I wish him dead or anything...
so Lynyrd Skynyrd is not the guys name? i always thought it was. i don't think i have ever heard the band. do you like it?
ReplyDeletehow old is he or is he dead?
ReplyDeletewhen did he first start singing?
ReplyDeletedo you enjoy listening to his music?
ReplyDeletehi collins!
ReplyDeleteis "the ballad of Curtis Loew" your favorite song on your L.S album? (I really liked that song!) Oh and I did know the abbreviation for Stevie Ray Vaughan:) how did Lynrnd die exactly? you said he died in an air transportation accident:)......
Wait, the publicly despised despised basketball coach is dead?
ReplyDeleteRonnie Van Zant, the leader of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died in 1977.
In an airplane crash (I know, freaky, right? ALL musicians die in flight crashes!).
Wikipedia: After considering a few different names "the group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, a mocking tribute to a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School. Leonard Skinner was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. The more distinctive spelling was adopted before they released their first album. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a more friendly relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum."
Ha! That is hilarious. So the publicly despised basketball coach cut people's hair off or something? No wonder the public despised him...
But guys, the band is named Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's lead singer is Ronnie Van Zant, who died in 1977 in a airplane crash, and Leonard Skinner was the publicly despised basketball coach.
By the way, this is Amelia, I just changed my name again.
NO AMELIA,
ReplyDeleteTHE BAND NAMED LYNYRD SKYNYRD DIED IN THE CRASH NOT THE COACH.
(oops, accidental caps lock)
Wait, Ronnie Van Zant died in a plane crash, or the whole band died in a plane crash? I thought it was just Ronnie.
ReplyDeleteBut that is what I said.
I do not know what happened to the PDHSBC.
The whole band, Amelia.
ReplyDeleteYay! The blog is pink again!
My name doesn't HAVE to be Amelia. You could call me whatever you wanted to call me. I could call myself whatever I wanted to call myself. It wouldn't change who I am as a person.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't actually irrelevant. It was quite relevant to my post on the other blog. But never mind, it will seem irrelevant to you all.
Yay pink blog...
Sad that the whole band died though... Was the PDHSBC in the crash as well?
When did Lnryrd Skynrd start recoriding his music? was he born with that name? I wonder if kids ever made fun of him?
ReplyDeletewhat exactly is he famous for?
ReplyDeletedid he play lots of concerts?
ReplyDeletewhen did you here about him?
ReplyDeletehow often d you listen to his songs?
ReplyDeleteVirginia, Lynyrd Skynyr is not the name of a person, especially not a musician.
ReplyDeleteLEONARD SKINNER is the name of a Publicly Despised High School Basketball Coach (PDHSBC, publicly despised because he cut kid's hair off when it was too long.)
The band disliked the PDHSBC so much that they named their band after him, but calling it Lynyrd Skynyrd, for the unique spelling.
Ronnie Van Zant is the name of the leader of the band.
And Mischa, you are an awfully inquisitive person.
The band Lynyrd Skynyrd started in 1970, and ended in 1977.
ReplyDeleteI see that some people are confused.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was a disliked high school basket ball coach.
The band was named after him. none in the band is named Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I first heard of Lnyrd Skynyrd when i was 5, but never listened to him much.
ReplyDeleteAlot of the albums they made were rated pretty high up. some times in the top 50's
(To 50's in albums does not seem well rated but if you compare it to the rest of the albums created, it is easier to say it is a good rating.)
ReplyDeleteThat is just some info on how they compared albums.
This is my second favorite song in my album,
ReplyDelete"2nd Helping"
Lyrics:
Thirty days, lord and thirty nights
Im comin home on an airplane flight
Mama waitin at the ticket line
Tell me son why do you stand there cryin
(chorus)
It was the needle and the spoon
And a trip to the moon
Took me away, took me away
Ive been feelin so sick and tired
Got to get better, lord before I die
Seven doctors couldnt help my head, they said
You better quit, son before your dead
(chorus)
Quit the needle. quit the spoon
Quit the trip to the moon
We gonna take you away. lord, we gonna take you away
(spoken)
It was the needle and the spoon
Ive seen a lot of people who thought they were cool
But then again, lord Ive seen a lot of fools
Well, I hope you people, lord can hear what I say
Youll have your chance to hit it some day
(chorus)
Dont mess with the needle or a spoon
Or any trip to the moon
Itll take you away
Lord, their gonna bury you boy
Dont mess with the needle
Now I know, I know, I know...
I listen to the album about every other day.
ReplyDeletethat was a response to your Q. micha
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ReplyDeleteThat was a really REALLY scary set of lyrics. I don't know why, but it is kind of... creepy...
ReplyDeleteDid he write that before or after dying in an airplane crash? Because if before, he is clairvoyant, and if after he has some serious ISSUES, because normal people don't write songs when they are dead.
ReplyDelete*Clairvoyancy is the ability to see events before they occur.
ReplyDeleteObviously before because dead people don't write songs.
ReplyDeleteWell not any that i know of.
60th post
ReplyDeleteThis is my third favorite song.
ReplyDelete:)
(There is no dying in this one)
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Song: "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
Lyrics:
Well everytime that I come home nobody wants to let me be
It seems that all the friends I got just got to come interrogate me
Well, I appreciate your feelings and I don't want to pass you by
But I don't ask you about your business, don't ask me about mine
Well its true I love the money and I love my brand new car
I like drinkin' the best of whiskey and playing in a honky tonk bar
But when I come off the road, well I just got to have my time
'Cause I got to find a break in this action, else I'm gonna lose my mind
(Chorus)
So, don't ask me no questions
And I won't tell you no lies
So, don't ask me about my business
And I won't tell you goodbye
That's right
Well, "what's your favorite color and do you dig the brothers," is drivin' me up a wall
And everytime I think I can sleep, some fool has got to call
Well don't you think that when I come home, I just want a little peace of mind
If you want to talk about the business buddy, you're just wastin' time
(Chorus)
I said don't ask no stupid questions and I won't send you away
If you want to talk fishin, well I guess that'll be OK
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ReplyDeleteWhoever wants to listen to my music tell me and i can burn you a CD.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry if this is off topic, but i have to say it.
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And I STILL have no clue what the heck thesis is. Well, kind of, but not really.
ReplyDeleteYou are lucky you don't know what it is.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, if anyone wants a copy of, "Second Helping," I can burn you a CD.
ReplyDeleteHi all
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