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" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "

Rickey Medlocke

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

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" 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. "

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

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" Music is a healing tool. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band. "

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