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" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

Live

Goal

Rock And Roll

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" Recording should be fun. "

" 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. "

" We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it. "

Rickey Medlocke

Song

Good Teacher

" We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious. "

" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "

" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "

" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "

" We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "

" 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. "

" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "

" We've always been hardcore rebels. "

" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "

" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "

" 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. "

" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "

" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "

" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "

" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

Love

Play

" We're about music. We're not about politics. "

" 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. "

" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "

" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "