Post #141446 by donhonyc on Tue, Feb 15, 2005 10:08 PM

I was never really sure that 'Sweet Home Alabama' was to be taken literally or if Ronnie Van Zant was being somewhat ironic when he wrote the song. I'm not defending it in any way, I'm sure that there are tons of people out there that take the song at face value and revel in it. God knows...I grew up with a few people that did, but that's a whole other story.

In interviews, members of the group, specifically former drummer Artemis Pyle attest to Ronnie Van Zant's humanity and that he was not a racist at all. On the Neil Young angle, there is photo and concert footage of Ronnie Van Zant wearing a Neil Young 'Tonight's the Night' t-shirt, I guess a nod to the person he disses in the song.

Anyway...glad I missed the Gretchen Wilson performance, sounds like it was negative energy. And yeah Mrs. Pineapple, I never thought I would see the names Aerosmith & Britney Spears in the same sentence. Aerosmith was sucking since at least 1979 when they ended that first golden aged part of their career, They should have stayed on drugs! When they performed with BS at the Super Bowl that pretty much was the last nail in the coffin. Let's put it this way...do you think Aerosmith would have been performing along side of vapid pop stars like, oh I don't know... Marie Osmond in the 70s? NO F'in way! Britney is the equivalent except she shakes her ass around. Oh well...that's the world we live in.

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-02-15 22:12 ]