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LYNYRD SKYNYRD
You Got That Right [Pluto Records-9233, 2CD]
Live at the Sportshalle, Hamburg, Germany; February 15, 1992. Very good to excellent soundboard.
Southern rock never had a finer spokesman than the Lynyrd Skynyrd band. - Nocaster
Thanks to ercipolla44 for sharing the show at Dime.
However, as guyvickers pointed out at Dime, the actual date/venue is February 15, 1992; Hamburg, Germany. You can hear Johnny Van Zant make reference to Germany at several points in the show. The bootleg cover (as was common) is simply wrong.
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Rob Hughes, uncut.co.uk:
“We were kinda rebels,” says Gary Rossington (guitarist and sole survivor of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd lineup. “From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town. [Fellow founder] Allen Collins, Ronnie [Van Zant] and myself had this dream to be a big rock’n’roll band. We had fire in our eyes. And we vowed never to quit until we made it”…
“We just went out with guns ablaze,” explains keyboardist Billy Powell. “We wanted to blow the doors off. In some places, Skynyrd went down better than The Who. We were drinking and acting crazy, tearing up dressing rooms”…
Van Zant was the undisputed leader of the band. But there was a dark side to his presidency. “Ronnie would give the shirt off his back for anyone,” recalls Powell. “But he could also get pretty damn mean when he was drinking - the Jekyll & Hyde syndrome. I remember arguing with him once, after a few whiskeys, about Allen Collins’ volume and tuning up onstage. Next thing I know, I got my teeth knocked out. That’s how he led the band. But at the same time, if there was trouble from outside, he’d fight for us. He went to jail for us a few times. And when it came down to business, he was always right. We could always trust him”…
Rossington learnt to roll with the punches, too. Touring Hamburg’s notorious Reeperbahn, they got drunk on Schnapps. “Somehow, a bottle got broke and I ended up with slashes across my hands and wrists. But the next day, we were the best of friends again. That’s how it was, like a family”…
October 20, 1977. A fatal miscalculation of fuel, allied to an already spasmodic right engine, led to Skynyrd’s Convair 240 plummeting into a wooded Mississippi swamp. Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick and Gaines’ sister Cassie were all killed instantly, as were both pilots…
Indeed, the disaster has haunted the survivors down the decades. In January 1986, guitarist Allen Collins crashed his car in Jacksonville, killing his girlfriend and paralysing himself from the waist down. He pled no contest to a drink-drive manslaughter charge. Four years later, after prolonged alcohol abuse, he died of pneumonia. Bassist Leon Wilkeson was jailed for beating up his girlfriend in 1993. He died in a Florida hotel room in 2001, after years of toxic indulgence. In 1992, drummer Artimus Pyle was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl, although he was later cleared. The following year, however, he was given eight years’ probation for molesting two sisters after pleading guilty to attempted capital battery and lewd and lascivious assault. In September ’96, Powell was charged with domestic violence after allegedly attacking his wife at their Jacksonville home. He, too, was cleared.
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Disc 1
Track 101. Smokestack Lightning 4:24 (7.4MB)
Track 102. I Know A Little 4:06 (6.9MB)
Track 103. Saturday Night Special 4:51 (8.1MB)
Track 104. You Got That Right 4:13 (7.1MB)
Track 105. What’s Your Name 3:47 (6.4MB)
Track 106. Keeping The Faith 5:34 (9.3MB)
Track 107. Good Thing 5:54 (9.9MB)
Track 108. Simple Man 7:59 (13.4MB)
Track 109. The Ballad of Curtis Loew [Write Me A Song] 5:21 (9.0MB)
Track 110. I’ve Seen Enough 4:50 (8.1MB)
51 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. That Smell 6:04 (10.2MB)
Track 202. Gimme Three Steps 6:01 (10.1MB)
Track 203. Call The Breeze 15:29 (26.0MB)
Track 204. Backstreet Crawler 7:31 (12.6MB)
Track 205. Sweet Home Alabama 7:04 (11.9MB)
Track 206. Free Bird 14:26 (24.3MB)
57 mins
Lineup:
Gary Rossington - guitar
Ed King - guitar
Randan Hall - guitar
Leon Wilkerson - bass
Billy Powell - keyboards
Artimus Pyle - drums. percussion
Johnny Van Zant - vocals
Dale Krantz Rossington - background vocals
Carol Bristow - background vocals
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