We all know the youtube video is a setup/fake. Just wasn't sure what your point was. It's hammered home now.
I mean, I think Led Zeppelin II is a phenomenal album if you ignore the fact that most of the music was stolen.
Free Bird is regularly considered as the best rock song of all time along with STH. Skynyrd may not be on the same plane is Zeppelin, but Free Bird as a stand-alone song holds it own against any other.
I don’t care too much for Skynyrd either, but at least they had a unique sound and didn’t steal music.
I love both songs. I think they are both great. But my point was saying that the two songs are equally recognizable is not true. Him saying I’ve heard of STH so people must have heard of FB was crazy to me.
You couldn’t have asked me to name the band behind Free Bird for a million dollars and I would never have come up with Skynyrd. I grew up in SW Florida but not like in the woods.
I’m extremely far from a punk aficionado. I think one of the main reasons I like the Sex Pistols is because I’ve always been enamored with the Sid and Nancy dynamic for some reason. Give me some recs to listen to if you don’t mind. I’m always looking to expand my horizons.
Daniel Ocean told me there's a niche band from the Pacific Northwest called "Nirvana" who has a song about teen spirit or something like that. Very few people know them because of their geographic location.
i find the "stolen" stuff fascinating because up until the 60's range everyone literally stole everything and it was just what you did. if you could do a song/joke/act better than someone else that's what mattered. once big money got involved when selling recordings started to become a thing it got real sticky. lots of the vaudevillian comedians who lived to be a thousand years old ran into this problem a lot in their later careers
I think they’re equally identifiable but that my be my bias due to my life. Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands and I consider them in the top 3 of all time, but the Free Bird solo is number 1 for me. I’ve met many many people while living in Atlanta who couldn’t identify either when they hear them. So I get it from both perspectives.
Nah. And I’m guilty of the ‘2010’, but this is nowhere close to that. I don’t see how this is anything other than civil discussion about individual music preference.
Maybe if I were in here arguing gator country by molly hatchet was one of the greatest songs of all time this argument would fly
honestly not sure on fried catfish BBQ and Donuts I can help a little, but I have spent so little time in Memphis since 2007 I really don’t know what’s going on anymore btw Gibsons Donuts are the best so if you can make that happen do it
Damn. Iggy Pop talking about Kurt Cobain: “As for his legacy: He was Johnny B. Goode. He was the last example that I can think of within rock & roll where a poor kid with no family backup from a small, rural area effected a serious emotional explosion in a significant sector of world youth. It was not made in Hollywood. There were no chrome parts. It was very down-home at its root. Somebody who is truly nobody from nowhere reached out and touched the world. He may have touched it right on its wound.”