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" We're about music. We're not about politics. "
Rickey Medlocke
Music
Politics
About
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Kid
Enjoy
" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "
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Heads
Use
" 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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Young Man
Growing
Man
" Music is a healing tool. "
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Tool
Healing
Music
" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "
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Keep
Lot
Mean
" 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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Guitar
Hero
Know
" 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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Free
Home
Sweet
" 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
" 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. "
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Survive
Here
Believe
" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
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You
People
" 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. "
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Rock
I Am
You
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Like
Basketball
Michael Jordan
" 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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Old
Guitar
Years
" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
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" 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. "
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" Recording should be fun. "
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Recording
Should
Fun
" 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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People
Loving
Humble
" 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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Bad
" 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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Guitar
Power
Rest
" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
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Huge
Old
Old Man
" 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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Find
America
Government