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" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "
Rickey Medlocke
Country Music
Country
Show
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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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Want
Speak
Rock
" 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
" Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother. "
Rickey Medlocke
Brother
Stand
Talk
" 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
" 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
" We're about music. We're not about politics. "
Rickey Medlocke
Music
Politics
About
" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "
Rickey Medlocke
Now
Lines
Just
" 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
" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "
Rickey Medlocke
Song
Only
I Believe
" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "
Rickey Medlocke
Sweet
You
Alabama
" 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
" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "
Rickey Medlocke
Keep
Lot
Mean
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Survive
Here
Believe
" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "
Rickey Medlocke
Live
Heads
Use
" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "
Rickey Medlocke
Like
Basketball
Michael Jordan
" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
Rickey Medlocke
Huge
Old
Old Man
" 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
" 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
Down
Politics
River
" Recording should be fun. "
Rickey Medlocke
Recording
Should
Fun
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Young Man
Growing
Man
" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
Rickey Medlocke
Will
Never
Rock
" 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
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Free
You
Think
" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "
Rickey Medlocke
Native
American
Home
" We've always been hardcore rebels. "
Rickey Medlocke
Been
Always
Rebels
" 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
More
Play
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
You
Legacy
Heart
" 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
" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
Rickey Medlocke
See
You
People
" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
Rickey Medlocke
Keep
Long
Being There