Ed King

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• flagooner

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  6 years ago

  Their Gold and Platinum LP was one of the first I owned. So many great songs.
  
  I'd be embarrassed to admit the albums I bought before that one.
• 4got2wipe

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  6 years ago

  ^^^
  I think this means flagooner was a boy band afficionado!
  
  The thought of a young flagooner with boy band posters on his walls = brilliant!
• TheeOSU

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  6 years ago

  I always liked Skynard, still do.
• flagooner

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  6 years ago

  I think my first 2 albums were
  ELO - Discovery
  Elton John's Greatest Hits
• yahtzee74

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  6 years ago

  Ed King was originally from California.
  
  Gold and Platinum was my first Skynyrd cd - got it from BMG music club.
• twentyfive

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  6 years ago

  ^According to CNN the band members were classmates in Florida, Jacksonville. I didn’t actually check though.
• flagooner

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  6 years ago

  The band did originate in Jacksonville. I don't know anything about their pasts before that.
• Daddillac

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  6 years ago

  They were from Jacksonville.... Ed King was from California. He played with them a couple years left in the middle of a tour because Ronnie Van Zant (Lead Singer) and Ed's guitar tuner had gotten into a bar room brawl and spent the night in jail. They made it back to the tour 15 minutes before the show started, Ed said he broke 3 strings during Freebird.... After the show Ronnie gave him shit about not being as good as Allen Collins, so Ed left in the middle of the night.
  
  I have seen them 9 or 10 times in concert, all after the plane crash, I was 8 when they crashed. They have always been one of my favorite bands.
  
  Last night I saw a movie on showtime about them and heard Ed King tell the story of why he left the band.
• Daddillac

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  6 years ago

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6214722/
• Daddillac

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  6 years ago

  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music…
• azdd

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  6 years ago

  Yeah, Ed King was a phenomenal guitarist and songwriter. Ronnie appreciated his talent and brought him into the band, but I don’t think his Cali persona ever really meshed with the other Florida boys. RIP.
• Huntsman

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  6 years ago

  I bought the same albums as flag. Did you have Best of Bread too? Lol. I’ve still have some Lynard Skynard in my tunes and still like their sound.
• Countryman5434

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  6 years ago

  Have always loved lynyrd skynyrd!