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"Rossington and company certainly have actually always had a knack for doing a lot with a little. Like virtually all of their material," Free Bird "was written as a partnership between Van Zant and one the group's guitarists. This loose however consistent formula served Skynyrd extremely well, producing classic tunes which quickly made them among the nation's most popular bands. By 1975, however, when third guitarist Ed King left the group struggling with burnout, Skynyrd had actually fallen under a little an imaginative rut, as reflected by Gim me Back My Bullets, an uncommonly drooping affair. The renewed band shines on 1976's live One More For The Road and the following year's Street Survivors. The latter is one of the best-arranged and played guitar albums in rock history. Unfortunately, prior to the group might enjoy the fruits of this rebirth, their chartered plane crashed into a Mississippi swamp on October 20, 1977, killing three membersincluding Gaines and Van Zantseriously hurting everybody else and relatively permanently putting an end to the group. Passionate audience response led to a full-time reunion. Rossington remembered the origins of a few of the band's best-loved tunes."FREE BIRD"pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd(MCA, 1973)"I don't remember that one. Could Reference sing it for me? Oh, alright.

Allen had the chords for the start, pretty part for two full years. He thought that he needed to change with every chord modification. We kept asking him to write something to these chords and he kept informing us to forget it!" Then one day we were at practice session and Allen started playing those chords, and Ronnie stated,' Those are quite

Play them again. 'Allen played it again, and Ronnie said,' Okay, I got it. 'And he composed the lyrics in 3 or four minutesthe whole damned thing! He came up with a great deal of things that way, and he never composed anything down. So we began playing it that way, but Ronnie kept stating,' It's not long enough. Make it longer. 'Due to the fact that we were playing three or four sets a night, and he was wanting to fill it up. Then among our roadies informed us we need to examine out this piano part that another roadie, Billy Powell, had.