Members whitepapagold Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 I felt obligated because of my avitar to post. When someone says Skynyrd its like a Batman signal in the sky for my family... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Okay, back to LS - there was a really detailed article on the recording of "Sweet Home Alabama" in the Classic Tracks column in the January 08 issue of Sound On Sound. You can read the first part of the article via that link, but you'll need to be a subscriber or will have to pay to read all of it though. But as a subscriber, I have to say I think it's a very well done magazine, and the article should be interesting for Skynyrd fans. It is definitely recording related in nature, but they also go into the instruments that were used and who played what, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whitepapagold Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Okay, back to LS - there was a really detailed article on the recording of "Sweet Home Alabama" in the Classic Tracks column in the January 08 issue of Sound On Sound. You can read the first part of the article via that link, but you'll need to be a subscriber or will have to pay to read all of it though. But as a subscriber, I have to say I think it's a very well done magazine, and the article should be interesting for Skynyrd fans. It is definitely recording related in nature, but they also go into the instruments that were used and who played what, etc. Good old Phil steers back on track. Thats a great article by the way. Also discusses how it was recorded as well. Very simple set ups and lots of skill from constant touring. Good read! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CaptHowdy Posted March 16, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Thanks Phil, seems like what I was looking for! Will check it out. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 hindsight is 20/20. they fought to protect their way of life. it was about state's rights more than slavery. people just love to bring that up. i refuse to let any dumbass KKK guys give that flag a bad name States rights to _________? (Hint: the answer is "own slaves," jackass) I like that the first answer was "LP into Marshall," the "rock standard" as drilled into minds by advertising (granted there were notable bands who pioneered the LP->Marshall mode of thinking, but even they have been somewhat distorted in years since - from Jimmy Page to Slash, some of your favorite songs have been recorded with a Strat or a Tele that never made it out on tour). I ESPECIALLY love that Skynard used Peavey, a company who essentially gets no respect from most amp snobs because of a mottled history and a commitment to keeping prices lower than the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Catfish Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 States rights to _________? (Hint: the answer is "own slaves," jackass) I like that the first answer was "LP into Marshall," the "rock standard" as drilled into minds by advertising (granted there were notable bands who pioneered the LP->Marshall mode of thinking, but even they have been somewhat distorted in years since - from Jimmy Page to Slash, some of your favorite songs have been recorded with a Strat or a Tele that never made it out on tour). I ESPECIALLY love that Skynard used Peavey, a company who essentially gets no respect from most amp snobs because of a mottled history and a commitment to keeping prices lower than the competition. They used Marshalls. They used Peaveys too, but I don't think anybody's claiming that they didn't use Marshalls. It's "Skynyrd", btw.But yeah, I think we all know specifically which "right" the confederacy was fighting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Sorry for spelling their screwy spelling incorrectly. Which Marshalls did they use, I wonder? And who was their amp tech? Everyone around that time period was hotrodding them, and they've certainly got a highly electrified tone, so I'm curious from whence it came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Catfish Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Sorry for spelling their screwy spelling incorrectly. Which Marshalls did they use, I wonder? And who was their amp tech? Everyone around that time period was hotrodding them, and they've certainly got a highly electrified tone, so I'm curious from whence it came. I don't know of many people "hotrodding" them in the early 70's, but I'm sure some people might have. Either way, I'd say just 50 and/or 100 watt superleads. There weren't a whole lot of different ones, at the time. They probably weren't "hot rodded", just cranked up. They used Peaveys, too, and are associated with them, mostly because of the last tour or two, when Peavey supplied the backline (I'm pretty sure). At any rate, a lot of pictures were took durning that tour, and they used some early, too. I've been looking for a picture, but I can't find any early ones that show the amps, very well (outside of an Ampeg Leon Wilkinson was playing through in one of the shots). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Agreed Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Plenty of folks were hotrodding them. There have been tricks to get more gain out of Marshalls since the first 50W heads were around. Of course, a lot of that was a side effect of efforts to get more volume, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReckedTrek Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Skynyrd's "Call me the breeze" has a pretty strong modulation effect on the intro. I'm guessing it's a Phase 90, but since that's been drilled into my head by advertising, I'll bet it was some kind of Peavey multi effect rack unit prototype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Catfish Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Skynyrd's "Call me the breeze" has a pretty strong modulation effect on the intro. I'm guessing it's a Phase 90, but since that's been drilled into my head by advertising, I'll bet it was some kind of Peavey multi effect rack unit prototype. Some of those old Peaveys had built in phasers, too...could have been one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReckedTrek Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 Some of those old Peaveys had built in phasers, too...could have been one of those. That's got to be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strangedogs Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 They used Peavey cause they were given to them along with $$$$$ to use them - Peavey at the time was a suck brand and they were trying to gain a foothold as Marshall was still King - they still suck as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members utterhack Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 As far as modulation, there's definitely a phaser on the lead guitar on Tuesday's Gone and I think the slide parts of Freebird. hmm... and the Peavey Mace has a built-in phaser... I wonder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Catfish Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 hmm... and the Peavey Mace has a built-in phaser... I wonder... The Mace wasn't the only one to have the phaser. The old Peavey Classics (NOT the tweed ones that came out in the early 90's...) had the phaser built in, too. They had the solid state preamp, and tube power section, backward from what "hybrids" later became (the old Music Mans were like that, too). I'm not sure of any besides those two...I didn't even realize the Mace had it, until your post. I was thinking about a friend of mine's old Classic that he used to have when I mentioned that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueJames Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 I've associate Allen Collins with a Firebird. He played a three pickup one on "Freebird" when I saw them back in '78 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric Catfish Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 I've associate Allen Collins with a Firebird. He played a three pickup one on "Freebird" when I saw them back in '78'78?He usually played an Explorer, but he did play a Firebird, sometimes. The image that always pops into my mind of Allen is him jumping 5 feet up in the air with that Explorer, on the Freebird movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members machine gunner Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 '78? Posting from somewhere above?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members machine gunner Posted March 16, 2008 Members Share Posted March 16, 2008 '78? He usually played an Explorer, but he did play a Firebird, sometimes. And Strat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueJames Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 Posting from somewhere above?? Jesus Christ, I was 17 in '78. I'm 47 but I'm not dead. The band I'm in covers We are Scientists, Kings of Leon, The Wombats and Franz Ferdinand. Age is an attititude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NoirAbattoir Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 I don't think this song was written by a band fueled by racial bigotry: The Ballad of Curtis Loew Lyrics Artist(Band):Lynyrd Skynyrd Review Allen Collins and Ronnie VanZant Well I used to wake the mornin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members machine gunner Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 Jesus Christ, I was 17 in '78. I'm 47 but I'm not dead. The band I'm in covers We are Scientists, Kings of Leon, The Wombats and Franz Ferdinand. Age is an attititude. Haha, wasn't referring to your age- referencing the fact that the plane went down in '77, so if you saw them in '78...unless you saw them post Ronnie, Steve and Cassie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members machine gunner Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 I don't think this song was written by a band fueled by racial bigotry: The Ballad of Curtis Loew Lyrics Artist(Band):Lynyrd Skynyrd Review Allen Collins and Ronnie VanZant Well I used to wake the mornin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jove Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 There is nothing hateful about Yeah but it looks an awful lot like one of thoseseriously depressed-looking Rothko paintings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jove Posted March 17, 2008 Members Share Posted March 17, 2008 I don't think this song was written by a band fueled by racial bigotry: The Ballad of Curtis Loew Lyrics Artist(Band):Lynyrd Skynyrd Review Allen Collins and Ronnie VanZant Well I used to wake the mornin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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