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" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
Rickey Medlocke
Huge
Old
Old Man
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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. "
Rickey Medlocke
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River
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Big
Original
Band
" 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. "
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Love
More
Play
" 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
Me
" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "
Rickey Medlocke
Native
American
Home
" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "
Rickey Medlocke
Song
Only
I Believe
" Recording should be fun. "
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Recording
Should
Fun
" Music is a healing tool. "
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Tool
Healing
Music
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
You
History
Bad
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Rock
I Am
You
" 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.' "
Rickey Medlocke
Free
Home
Sweet
" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "
Rickey Medlocke
Sweet
You
Alabama
" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "
Rickey Medlocke
Country Music
Country
Show
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Life
Family
Road
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Listen
Kid
Enjoy
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
People
Loving
Humble
" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "
Rickey Medlocke
Tough
You
Possible
" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
Rickey Medlocke
Will
Never
Rock
" We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care. "
Rickey Medlocke
She
Care
Dog
" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
Rickey Medlocke
See
You
People
" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "
Rickey Medlocke
Old
Guitar
Years
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
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. "
Rickey Medlocke
People
Against
Got
" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "
Rickey Medlocke
Keep
Lot
Mean
" We're about music. We're not about politics. "
Rickey Medlocke
Music
Politics
About
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Find
America
Government
" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "
Rickey Medlocke
Now
Lines
Just
" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
Rickey Medlocke
Keep
Long
Being There
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Guitar
Power
Rest
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Book
Southern
You