OFF: OB: Molly Hatchet, Skynyrd,....

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 25 jun 1998 15.52 +0200 "Hulsebos A" wrote:
> On Jun 25,  9:45am, Nick English wrote:
>>I was just about ready to completely write Skynyrd off, but their
>>latest album, 'Twenty', has some really decent cuts on it. Plus, in
>>my opinion, which will most likely NOT be shared by many, their song
>>'The Last Rebel' ranks among the all-time greatest Skynyrd tunes.
>
> Agreed.

     The rest of that album was pretty grim though, IMO.

>>Overall, though, Johnny is a very poor replacement for Ronnie, and
>>the songwriting doesn't even compare.
>
> Hmmmm, comparing their CD's, I'd say Johnny's got a better voice than
> Ronnie, and Johnny's phrasing's slightly better. As for songwriting, I
> don't think they'll come up with something like Alabama, or Freebird,
> but besides that, not much difference. Otherwise, I can't judge
> them, as I've only seen Skynyrd II on TV.... :-(

     I saw them on the 1991 tour and they rocked.  I thought the
_1991_ album was superb, as well.  I saw them in, hmmm, 94 or 95
and the sound was so awful I couldn't tell what they were like.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/