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It was their "God & Guns" tour.

Damn, I do like Southern Rock! Also nice to see some old guys that can still play awfully good music.

Craziest show I went to in high school was a Skynard show where they played with Hank Williams Jr (in Alabama, which is like kicking a hornet and a wasp in the balls in their own nest). Great show, but the fights and drunken debauchery led to the police and security at the amphitheater shooting tear gas into the crowd before the end of the show.

When the show was over and the crowd lit their lighters asking for more, Skynard and Hank did a duo version of Freebird... bad a$$!

Heh, this was mostly an older crowd. Heck, the oldest member of the band is 60 and the rest are mostly in their 50's or at least late 40's.

I went to see them several years ago and it was about the same. They always do Free Bird as an encore and this time they played the song for 15 minutes.

LUVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Lynard Skynard. Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird are two of my all time favorites. I'm a Lynard Skynard nut. Have never seen them in concert, though. I've been working over the holiday so I'm quite jealous RDS :) You lucky dawg!!!

Would also love to have seen the concert you saw, Kimble. I would have LOVED that concert, LOL, ..... to watch the drunken debauchery and the tear gas (from afar of course). And here I thought you were such a serious guy, Kimble. :)

Bet you're loving daddyhood, by the way :)

Heh, this was mostly an older crowd. Heck, the oldest member of the band is 60 and the rest are mostly in their 50's or at least late 40's.



For some reason, those guys seem more ageless...not like the Beach Boys who LOOK aged, LOL.

Would also love to have seen the concert you saw, Kimble. I would have LOVED that concert, LOL, ..... to watch the drunken debauchery and the tear gas (from afar of course). And here I thought you were such a serious guy, Kimble. :)

I was at the show, but not one of the drunk idiots looking to fight others. Which made it easy for me and my buddies to tell with the police came in with tear gas, instead of finding out the hard way by breathing the stuff in up close.

That whole tear gas incident lasted less than an hour, and if I remember correctly, happened after the encore song, so the concert was essentially over anyway. I'm not surprised retdetsgt's show was calm, that's typical for a Skynard show from what I've seen and heard, but this was also a Hank Jr show, which is another animal (and another type of fan).

I'm not surprised retdetsgt's show was calm, that's typical for a Skynard show from what I've seen and heard, but this was also a Hank Jr show, which is another animal (and another type of fan).

I doubt the members of Skynyrd are angels, but when Gary Rossington (the only original member) crashed his car drunk and loaded on drugs in 1976, the other members were so pissed they wrote the song "What's That Smell" behind it. They also fined him $5K for making them late starting their tour.

I like country music, but the bars on my district that had those bands were always a PITA. The coliseum where the Blazers used to play and where all the major events happened used to be on the edge of a district I used to work. I never had the problems even with hard rock bands that I had when a country music star played there. Rowdy rock fans would generally calm down some when they saw us, but the rednecks would turn into even worse idiots. But it was always worse when one of the "outlaw" country stars were in town.

Im so jealous!!!!!