Post by cofi on May 30, 2007 20:53:57 GMT
This week on Wolfgang's Vault have Lynyrd Skynyrd live at Cardiff 1975,
i have a copy of this show, and it is excellent
so get over there and listen to it it's a great show.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff, England (This was in Wales not England)
11/06/1975
Tracks: 9
Total Time: 49:41
Double Trouble4:31 I Ain't The One2:19 Needle And Spoon4:32 Saturday Night Special5:25 Gimmie Three Steps5:22 Whiskey Rock-A-Roller4:09 Call Me The Breeze5:36 Sweet Home Alabama5:27 Free Bird1
Concert Summary
Allen Collins - lead guitar
Billy Powell - piano, Keyboards
Artimus Pyle - drums
Gary Rossington - lead guitar
Ronnie Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass, vocals
Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing in the United Kingdom on a tour promoting its third studio album, Nuthin’ Fancy. The band was coming off two hugely successful albums, its debut Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and 1974’s Second Helping, and it had recently changed both its drummer (from Bob Berns to Artimus Pyle) and lost one its original guitarists, Ed King. The changes had appeared to revitalize the band, which, although down to six pieces, played with more energy and passion than it had before.
This show features Lynyrd Skynyrd in an environment where the band felt comfortable and at the top of its game. With the exception of The Allman Brothers, most Southern Rock bands had stayed away from England during this period because the country’s music scene was so wrapped up in the emerging punk scene. But that didn’t scare Skynyrd, who, confidently played its brand of riff-driving Southern fried rock boogie to near capacity crowds on this tour.
Kicking off with the raucous "Double Trouble", they quickly move into " I Ain’t The One," from the band’s debut album. Poignant songs like "Needle And Spoon" are balanced against established Skynyrd rockers such as, "Saturday Night Special" and "Gimmie Three Steps." Songs like "Whiskey Rock A Roller", "Call Me The Breeze", and "Sweet Home Alabama" are played here in their original form, and it is somehow strangely ironically that many of these classics would re-emerge as part of the must-do repertoire of so many Country artists.
The band ends the show with a predictable, but crowd-pleasing, version of its radio hit, "Free Bird," which clocks in at 12:20. Sadly, the band would change drastically when some of its members, including lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, would die in a plane crash less than two years after this show was recorded.
i have a copy of this show, and it is excellent
so get over there and listen to it it's a great show.Lynyrd Skynyrd
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff, England (This was in Wales not England)
11/06/1975
Tracks: 9
Total Time: 49:41
Double Trouble4:31 I Ain't The One2:19 Needle And Spoon4:32 Saturday Night Special5:25 Gimmie Three Steps5:22 Whiskey Rock-A-Roller4:09 Call Me The Breeze5:36 Sweet Home Alabama5:27 Free Bird1
Concert Summary
Allen Collins - lead guitar
Billy Powell - piano, Keyboards
Artimus Pyle - drums
Gary Rossington - lead guitar
Ronnie Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass, vocals
Lynyrd Skynyrd was performing in the United Kingdom on a tour promoting its third studio album, Nuthin’ Fancy. The band was coming off two hugely successful albums, its debut Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and 1974’s Second Helping, and it had recently changed both its drummer (from Bob Berns to Artimus Pyle) and lost one its original guitarists, Ed King. The changes had appeared to revitalize the band, which, although down to six pieces, played with more energy and passion than it had before.
This show features Lynyrd Skynyrd in an environment where the band felt comfortable and at the top of its game. With the exception of The Allman Brothers, most Southern Rock bands had stayed away from England during this period because the country’s music scene was so wrapped up in the emerging punk scene. But that didn’t scare Skynyrd, who, confidently played its brand of riff-driving Southern fried rock boogie to near capacity crowds on this tour.
Kicking off with the raucous "Double Trouble", they quickly move into " I Ain’t The One," from the band’s debut album. Poignant songs like "Needle And Spoon" are balanced against established Skynyrd rockers such as, "Saturday Night Special" and "Gimmie Three Steps." Songs like "Whiskey Rock A Roller", "Call Me The Breeze", and "Sweet Home Alabama" are played here in their original form, and it is somehow strangely ironically that many of these classics would re-emerge as part of the must-do repertoire of so many Country artists.
The band ends the show with a predictable, but crowd-pleasing, version of its radio hit, "Free Bird," which clocks in at 12:20. Sadly, the band would change drastically when some of its members, including lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, would die in a plane crash less than two years after this show was recorded.
