Today I talk about my personal feelings regarding Lynyrd Skynyrd.
*Ahem*
Fuck classic rock
Fuck 3 guitars
Fuck solos
Fuck that hat
Fuck saying fuck Neil Young
Fuck multiple bridges
Fuck back-up singing wives
Fuck pride
Fuck confederate flags
Fuck stupid spellings for stupid band names
Fuck reunion tours
Fuck plane crashes
I'll try to get it some day, I really will. In another life, I'll say that my 3 years in Arkansas were an elaborate field study of southern culture. I'll actually chart the estimated thousand times a month that Clearchannel stations play "Sweet Home Alabama" in a given month and publish colorful spreadsheets. I'll listen to more than the first 3 minutes of "Freebird" before getting sick of it and turning it off. I promise I'll try. But now, at the age of 26, I know that I've spent enough of my life peripherally engaged by Lynyrd Skynyrd to know that I've never been ready to give them a fair shake. And I'm still not now.
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Immortals #95 - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Another reason to hate them: They are singlehandedly responsible for creating the idiots who shout "Freebird!" at every concert ever.
Ps. I had a dream that you wrote an entry on Pink Floyd. No idea why...
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