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" I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different. "

Gary Rossington

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" Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else. "

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