This post may scare off what few people come to this site but wait till I post some Grateful Dead. I am not a big Lynyrd Skynyrd fan in general but I do like this song. By themselves they aren't too bad but I can't get past that southern rebel flag thing. Another thing that I have in the back of my mind is that they remind me of getting drunk in a bar. I'm not talking 2 or 3 beers buzzed, I mean stupid drunk. I have been to LOTS and LOTS of bars in my day and 90% of those had LS on the jukebox playing over and over again. Every night you can count on someone dropping quarters in the machine and playing LS. I think it would be safe to say that 75% of bars in the U.S.A. have Freebird and/or Sweet Home Alabama on the jukebox. Am I trying to say they were played out? I guess for me that's part of it but the reality is that it reminds me of being a drunk loser and what drinking did to my life. Boo Hoo right? It would have been nice to have been able to be one of those occasional drinkers like so many people I knew. If you would have seen me you would have called me a loser too.
Anyway, about a month ago my wife and I were driving to Salina, which is about a 2 1/2 hour drive to take our granddaughter back to her dad's and this song came on the radio. It definately sounded like LS but to be honest it was a song I had never heard before. There aren't a lot of choices in radio stations around where we live and they all fall into the categories of country, top 40 and classic rock. Of those choices my wife and I prefer the classic rock. It's amazing what they consider classic rock but I'm always happy on those rare occasions when they play Black Sabbath or even rarer, Motorhead and the Stooges. My wife is always waiting for the AC DC. Now I just liked this song and maybe it was just that moment but the music was pretty good and the lyrics kind of spoke to me. Guitar rock, just like you would have found on one of those K-TEL compilations back in the day. I couldn't find this song when I looked around the net except on Youtube so I used the Vdownloader to pluck the song out of the videos.
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