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" All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe. "
Audience
Think
Say
" As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did. "
Young Man
Growing
Man
" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
Keep
Long
Being There
" Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds. "
Live
Goal
Rock And Roll
" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "
Now
Lines
Just
" Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts. "
Know
Song
Band
" Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history. "
Free
You
Think
" I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living. "
Want
Speak
Rock
" I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me. "
Find
America
Government
" If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago. "
Guitar
Hero
Know
" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "
People
Against
Got
" I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone. "
You
History
Bad
" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "
Native
American
Home
" I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture. "
Guitar
Power
Rest
" I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here. "
Survive
Here
Believe
" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "
Old
Guitar
Years
" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
Will
Never
Rock
" It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. "
Listen
Kid
Enjoy
" It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least. "
Rock
I Am
You
" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "
Live
Heads
Use
" I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that. "
Big
Original
Band
" Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men. "
Blue
Political
Red
" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "
Like
Basketball
Michael Jordan
" Music is a healing tool. "
Tool
Healing
Music
" My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that. "
Life
Family
Road
" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
Huge
Old
Old Man
" Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother. "
Brother
Stand
Talk
" Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it. "
Down
Politics
River
" Recording should be fun. "
Recording
Should
Fun
" That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music. "
Love
More
Play
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