Ed was my favorite dude in that band, and I'm from Jacksonville Florida. Been here 62 years. Proud of the home boys but Ed was the cool one. He and Leon and Billy the peaceful members.
Southern Californian who's grandparents lived in Glendale originally from NC, I've always loved this song never knowing that and King came from California. Thank you again for your contribution. I always stand and salute every time I hear that song.❤
NO, it's not. Only loved by people who think "You know, the Civil War wasn't about slavery". A pure racist anthem. The rednecks got called out by Neil Young, who wrote about lynching. To go full reactionary about it is vile! If "Watergate does not bother..." then you're not a real American!
Ed was my best friend.in 1965.at Toll Jr. High in Glendale,. Calif.. He was a true talent..so sorry smoking. Killed him See you in heaven...my friend!!
Still my favorite band although we miss 3 dead by airplane crash. Ed was a true rhythmic and melodic artist and I love most that he never became an arrogant pos like the many others. All my fav songs from LySy have remarkable lines from Ed. I saw them in Germany and there was a direct connection between the German public and the music of LySy because we love and respect humble professionals and brothers.
As reported elsewhere RVZ recognized Ed's innate musical talent and also his education and recruited him for the 3 guitar army and next-level success.. Ed made the most of his heart transplant and continued his sharing and inspiration
That was a really cool bit of information. I loved strawberry alarm clock . What a name! And as a single ( which was almost impossible to find on vinyl in the 70’s) it was iconic. But this video just sheds light on a guy who didn’t seek glory but somehow notched two fabulous unforgettable songs. Kudos to the makers of the video. Even if you are a computer!
Lynyrd Skynyrd never would have made it without Ed King, when they first got things rolling he was the only one out of all of them that had any real time in a studio and understood how to be a professional musician in that environment, people have always tried to minimalize his part in that band because they always resented that he wasn't a good old boy, the band itself and the fans, just look at almost every picture taken of them, he's off to the side on his own where they'd push him when it was time for a picture, and Lynyrd Skynyrd fans have always tried acting like he didn't exist and everything was about Steve Gaines, he was there at the end, he didn't join them until they were already successful, and they never would have achieved the level of success at that point if it wasn't for Ed King, he showed the rest of those guy's what it was to be a professional musician and how to do it.
@@dukecraig2402 I've always said that if it weren't for Ed and Al Kooper, Skynyrd may have been a really good regional band at most. Ed had experience in putting a band over (SAC), and Kooper's resume speaks for itself...
Great info - unsung heroes of rock roll - I never really understood southern rock, for all its good ol’ boy posture, its electric blues and greasy soul.
Glenn Gunnels was from South Carolina, this family moved to California when he was about 12. He would occasionally visit family, Ed came with him at least once when they visited. Glenn left before I&P was finished, but came back I think in 1969. It was a great band with several guys moving in and out. Sadly Glenn passed away some years back.
I agree with all you said. I am 69 years old. I grew up in the south. I too am from the south. I always felt Ed King made that band professional. @@dukecraig2402
I first heard Skynyrd in 1974 in California at 16 years old. Dad was stationed at NAS Alameda. Transferred to NAS JAX in '75 after I grad'ed HS, we drove 3000 miles from my CA home to the deep south in N.E. FL... Dirt roads.. no street lights in parts of Clay County. Blanding Blvd was a two lane stretch with roadside vendors selling fruits and veggies, a couple businesses... Wells Rd was dirt. Turns out, the band I liked in CA was born and bred there in Jax & OP. I always thought, for years and forever, that Ed King was the cat NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH. On album covers, Ed King made me think I'd get my ass whooped if I looked at him twice. Which is how it was in Clay and Duval counties in the late '70's... a good place to get your ass whooped. Turns out Ed King had a lick o' sense. lol, I only saw the Incense & peppermint video a couple years ago.. funny stuff.
thanks! studio six', first time iv heard about him', great'! warm guitar tone'! too', love to hear a banjo'd version' of sweet alabama' love skinard!! peace😊
I played keyboards band in the 70 in NC and we pretty much played all Skynyrd. Working for MCA was the most challenging and interesting song we did IMO
Pretty remarkable how many of the Southern Rock giants of the 70's came from California, LOL. Little Feat, (early) Doobie Brothers, Credence Clearwater Revival. But I guess the whole world was into Southern music and even the Stones were sort of a Southern Rock band during Exile on Main Street.
The technical problems King experienced on stage was in Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor was the show the night before when Van Zant and Kings guitar tech got thrown in jail after the show, by the time they got bailed out and got to Pittsburgh the next day they got to the Syria Mosque (the venue) 10 minutes before the show started and as a result King was playing his guitar with the same strings from the night before because his tech hadn't been there to service his guitar between shows, he broke 2 strings that night and sounded horrible, after the show Van Zant tore into him about sounding so bad, well King figured that's just too bad, if Van Zant hadn't taken his guitar tech out drinking and gotten him thrown in jail the whole thing never would have happened in the first place so who was Van Zant to be getting in his face about it, so he walked, and if you know anything about the history of how he always had been treated in that band it was something that was inevitable anyway. It's a common misconception that the last show he played with them was Ann Arbor because that's where Van Zant and Kings guitar tech got thrown in jail, but the actual on stage incident and the fallout after it that caused King to leave was really in Pittsburgh the next night.
A blessing in disguise that all of that went down, right? Ed was out of the band when the black clouds really started rolling in (fame, pressure, alcoholism, car accidents...). Think of the people who were in that band, but did not step on to that plane... God blessed Ed King.
A friend and myself did an estimate for work at Ed's house in Florida years back we were so star struck we were in shock lol was funny looking back! Very nice family!
Very disingenuous title, which implies Ed King alone wrote the song. Gary Rossington came up with initial guitar riff, which Ronnie Van Zant asked him to keep playing. Rossington and King are responsible for the music, and Van Zant of course wrote the lyrics.
I saw that tour. FIrst time I got to see Ed. When I saw Skynyrd in the 70's it was in between King and Gaines. So it was only Collins and Rosssington. But they were touring with the Outlaws and they played a couple of tunes together.
Ed King was hands down the most talented musician in Lynyrd Skynyrd and was the primary songwriter of some of the band's classic songs, "Sweet Home Alabama" being one of them. Sadly the way he was treated by other members of the band, singer Ronnie Van Zandt particularly, was just wrong. I don't blame the guy for walking away from the band in the middle of an tour, a person can only stand constant physical and verbal abuse for a period of time before you simply decide that enough is enough and move on from what was clearly a extremely dysfunctional person who took out whatever perceived issues that he allegedly had with you with violence. Fortunately, Ed was able to continue with his career and was not so embittered by his experience in Skynyrd that he was able to be respectful of the opportunity Skynyrd gave him to be a part of the illustrious history of the band. Ed was class personified and always grateful for the opportunities the various bands he was a part of to have the ability to be the respected professional musician he became. Simply one of a kind. I personally want to thank Mr. King for all the hours I spent listening to the remarkable music that he created with the bands he played with that filled my life with so much joy.
Interesting , but I was in the Espresso Bongo Cafe in South Beach in the 90's when Dennis Britt of the Band the Beat Poets introduced me to Al Kooper of the original Blood , Sweat & Tears , Dylan's keyboardist on Like A Rolling Stone . Dennis said Al Kooper wrote Sweet Home Alabama . i found that odd , so asked Kooper what the line " and Muscles Shoals has the swamper's " meant . He answered without hesitiation , " Oh, the Swamper's were the Horn section at Muscle Shoals Studio ." Who's to believe what ? Perhaps King wrote the riff , and Kooper wrote the words . Who knows ...
Interesting! I didn't even know Al Kooper was connected to the song, so I searched the web for "Al Kooper" and "Sweet Home Alabama". Kooper produced the recording. A bunch of sites talked about various bits he added to the recording, but I didn't see him claiming to have written it. On his own website, he republished a newspaper column praising "Sweet Home Alabama" and then added his own note, beginning with: "It’s kinda wonderful to read such accolades thirty two years after you originally produced a record, signed a band, had a record company." He probably would have mentioned that he wrote the song if had actually done so. It was fun exploring the connection and learning more about the song and Al Kooper's role -- not as fun, I'm sure, as actually meeting and speaking with Kooper as you did!
@@obsess5 I think that's accurate . As I said , when I met him on South Beach , Al didn't say he wrote the song , Dennis Britt said Al wrote it . But , Al was so familiar with the details , it seemed he obviously was involved somewhere in the song . That he produced it is logical . Also, many people don't know Al was the original singer with Blood , Sweat and Tears . I always thought the Band was better off with Kooper as vocalist , but such is the way of life . Not to knock David Clayton Thomas , he was a better " singer " , but Al had a less somewhat commercial approach to music in general . Peace -
To tell you the truth the swampers was NOT a horn section at muscle shoals they were the studio musicians there was 4 of them they are all dead now but you need to reached them and you will be amazed of just what they played on and recorded for one the song old time rock n roll buy bob seger was the swampers on the radio recorded version not bob seger band and research david hood he was the bass player and my family member
Ed King co-wrote Sweet Home Alabama. Ronnie Van Zant wrote the lyrics (words) & Gary Rossington & Ed King wrote the music (guitar parts) but Ed King is credited with writing the famous opening guitar riff to the song though.
Ed White is a great. Even though Strawberry Alarmclock was a one hit wonder,I don't think I am the only old dude that grew up in the 60s that doesn't start rocking out every time Incense and Peppermint comes on the radio. And the song is great because of Ed.He was a easy goin guy who eventually could not take the wild lifestyle of Skynrd but went into the hall of fame with them and with the death of Gary they are reunited for an eternal tour.
As a fan of both Neil Young and Skynyrd since the seventies, Southern Man and Sweet Home are both great songs. I think Neil said his song was condescending to Southerners in his biography and didn’t like the lyrics anymore.
Ed King was a phenomenal guitarist and writer. He had a tremendous amount to do with the early success of LS. But he really was subpar live. It just wasn't his forte, he didn't have the energy, and he couldn't match the drive Allen and Gary brought to a live show. Ronnie just get fed up with it, and forced him out. As people have noted, it probably saved his life, as he had serious heart issues and the road was killing him. Rip Ed.
I know that LS fans are absolutely passionate, but in terms of musical quality among the band's guitarists, Ed King was number 1, Steve Gaines was second, Allen Collins was third and Gary Rossington was fourth.
Not true. Rossington was a Les Paul master, and as good as King or Gaines. Allen Collins wasn't as skilled as those 3, but he was a great player in his own right. He co-wrote many of their songs with Ronnie, and played lots of great fills and leads on their albums.
That's your opinion but many many people disagree with you. Why do you feel the need to rank these guitarists. Just appreciate the band as a whole entity.
l remembered Ed King and Robert Burns played on the first two albums and l heard Ed played in Strawberry Alarmclock and l never heard much about those two members except l heard about the passing of both Ed and Robert l believe l think that every original member is now deceased in the band and l never heard about Steve Gaines until the Street Survivors album l really never heard much about this band news wise except for little bits and pieces other well known bands like Led Zeppelin The Stones The Who and Pink Floyd you would hear a lot of news about these bands but this band seems to be private about what they want the public to know about them
I have Pics of them opening for SAC at my high school gymnasium. You can see Ed on bass for SAC and you can’t see that Skynyrd absolutely blew the crowds away. SAC sounded lame up against the band who would someday be the best Rock Band we might ever hear.
Kneel spent how many minutes in the South? I won tickets to his last concert in Tampa and gave them away to a young Violinist and who she may want to take. She came back and said "He's so old!". I didn't particularly like him either.
Plus he WAS NOT on a self destructive life. He was a Class Act. Having a successful career before SKINARD. NOT A BAD GUITARIST. IN FACT A DAMN GREAT MUSICIAN! Everyone else around him came and gone due to destructive tendencies. When it became obvious....he packed his guitar and left. He was the PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN! THE OTHERS, Wana be's.
He was a good man, but those song lyrics were a reply to Neil Young's song about the South being stuck in the past, he was right. The reply lyrics were kind of sick. YES, Watergate did bother the entire nation. Strange he was from California defending Southern racism....
He was a good man, but those song lyrics were a reply to Neil Young's song about the South being stuck in the past, Neil was right. The reply lyrics were kind of sick. YES, Watergate did bother the entire nation. Strange he was from California defending Southern racism....
I DISAGREE ..... I think THEIR SONG SWEET HOME ALABAMA IS EXACTLY A SHOT NOT ACROSS THE BOW BUT, RIGHT UP YOUNG'S ARSE ! Neil Young was, is a self centered man of little concern for other musicians he has worked with .... never really LOYAL TO - just using them for a time ....and then leaving to restore his own ideals. He did it to CSN (&Y) and he didn't even record WITH the the others .... he would disrespectfully have them add their parts later in a separate recording session.
it's a great song. but who the hell is this English guy telling us the meaning behind it, etc? what does he know? I mean, the band made the rebel flag their symbol for their whole career.
okay. Good video, except for all that nonsense about 'racism' and 'segregation'. I've traveled the entire world, and most populations prefer being with their own kind. In fact, even here in the Northern USA, most migrants stick together with their own cohesive ethnic groups. -good day.
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I bought a 52 Tele from Ed about 20 ago. Still have it, along with a note from Ed.
For real?
Hang on to that one, and dont tell it to everybody.
i knew ed. he had a room full of those "vintage" knock offs that he sold to rubes. you were had.
I bought an ounce of Ed fuckmo got high
Brilliant guitarist..... sadly missed..RIP Ed...👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ed was my favorite dude in that band, and I'm from Jacksonville Florida. Been here 62 years. Proud of the home boys but Ed was the cool one. He and Leon and Billy the peaceful members.
@softhotty 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
No question. Without out a doubt. Hands down. One, of the greatest songs ever written...
Ed King always entertained the people. Great player. 🎸💥
Southern Californian who's grandparents lived in Glendale originally from NC, I've always loved this song never knowing that and King came from California. Thank you again for your contribution. I always stand and salute every time I hear that song.❤
I’m from Louisiana but still feel this song is our southern anthem. Long live Lynyrd Skynyrd and the South. I love my Louisiana.
I’m 69 grew up with this music video all the clubs played live music a great time
I went to the Freebird concert back in 1975. Then I went to the Second Helping concert about a year or so later. Then I went off to the Army.
I went to the Freebird concert back in 1975. Then I went to the Second Helping concert about a year or so later. Then I went off to the Army.
I was in the Army in the early 80,s with.a guy that was a Rodie for Skynnard. Mid 70,s to 80.
He was truly an unsung guitar hero.
The odd man out who took them all to the next level. R.I.P. Ed
Most iconic song ever written, loved all over the world.
NO, it's not. Only loved by people who think "You know, the Civil War wasn't about slavery". A pure racist anthem. The rednecks got called out by Neil Young, who wrote about lynching. To go full reactionary about it is vile! If "Watergate does not bother..." then you're not a real American!
I really met him backstage around 1997 state fair rodeo,he was going to jam with Billy Ray Cyrus .RIP sir 🎸
Ed was my best friend.in 1965.at Toll Jr. High in Glendale,. Calif.. He was a true talent..so sorry smoking. Killed him
See you in heaven...my friend!!
Have you two keto in touch over the years?
Still my favorite band although we miss 3 dead by airplane crash. Ed was a true rhythmic and melodic artist and I love most that he never became an arrogant pos like the many others. All my fav songs from LySy have remarkable lines from Ed. I saw them in Germany and there was a direct connection between the German public and the music of LySy because we love and respect humble professionals and brothers.
As reported elsewhere RVZ recognized Ed's innate musical talent and also his education and recruited him for the 3 guitar army and next-level success.. Ed made the most of his heart transplant and continued his sharing and inspiration
That was a really cool bit of information. I loved strawberry alarm clock . What a name! And as a single ( which was almost impossible to find on vinyl in the 70’s) it was iconic.
But this video just sheds light on a guy who didn’t seek glory but somehow notched two fabulous unforgettable songs. Kudos to the makers of the video. Even if you are a computer!
Lynyrd Skynyrd never would have made it without Ed King, when they first got things rolling he was the only one out of all of them that had any real time in a studio and understood how to be a professional musician in that environment, people have always tried to minimalize his part in that band because they always resented that he wasn't a good old boy, the band itself and the fans, just look at almost every picture taken of them, he's off to the side on his own where they'd push him when it was time for a picture, and Lynyrd Skynyrd fans have always tried acting like he didn't exist and everything was about Steve Gaines, he was there at the end, he didn't join them until they were already successful, and they never would have achieved the level of success at that point if it wasn't for Ed King, he showed the rest of those guy's what it was to be a professional musician and how to do it.
@@dukecraig2402 I've always said that if it weren't for Ed and Al Kooper, Skynyrd may have been a really good regional band at most. Ed had experience in putting a band over (SAC), and Kooper's resume speaks for itself...
Great info - unsung heroes of rock roll - I never really understood southern rock, for all its good ol’ boy posture, its electric blues and greasy soul.
Glenn Gunnels was from South Carolina, this family moved to California when he was about 12. He would occasionally visit family, Ed came with him at least once when they visited. Glenn left before I&P was finished, but came back I think in 1969. It was a great band with several guys moving in and out. Sadly Glenn passed away some years back.
I agree with all you said. I am 69 years old. I grew up in the south. I too am from the south. I always felt Ed King made that band professional.
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Skynard doing Don't ask me no questions with Ed at winter wonderland is one of the greatest ever recorded
He wrote Saturday NIght Special too.
Ed King wrote the music (guitar parts) But Ronnie Van Zant wrote the words (lyrics)
Sweet home South Australia, where the skies are so blue, I've been singing it for years.
RIP Ed.
Rock on, brother!
His piece/solo of 'Workin' for MCA' is super natural. He did a lot of great stuff, but that jumped out at me when I was 10 years old.
I first heard Skynyrd in 1974 in California at 16 years old. Dad was stationed at NAS Alameda. Transferred to NAS JAX in '75 after I grad'ed HS, we drove 3000 miles from my CA home to the deep south in N.E. FL... Dirt roads.. no street lights in parts of Clay County. Blanding Blvd was a two lane stretch with roadside vendors selling fruits and veggies, a couple businesses... Wells Rd was dirt. Turns out, the band I liked in CA was born and bred there in Jax & OP.
I always thought, for years and forever, that Ed King was the cat NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH. On album covers, Ed King made me think I'd get my ass whooped if I looked at him twice.
Which is how it was in Clay and Duval counties in the late '70's... a good place to get your ass whooped.
Turns out Ed King had a lick o' sense. lol, I only saw the Incense & peppermint video a couple years ago.. funny stuff.
Ed King and Red Eye. Together their tone defined an era
thanks! studio six', first time iv heard about him', great'! warm guitar tone'! too', love to hear a banjo'd version' of sweet alabama' love skinard!! peace😊
I love this guy
My favourite Ed King solo was on Working For MCA, which featured one of Lyrnyrd Skynyrd's most rocked out riffs, also written by King.
I am with you, good one.
I played keyboards band in the 70 in NC and we pretty much played all Skynyrd. Working for MCA was the most challenging and interesting song we did IMO
Oh yeah...Ed smoking on that one!
1 of the best opening songs ever
Ed King rules!
Some of us native californians are Southerners at heart.. Its why I moved from socal to The South. I fit in here way better..
Nicely done. Thanks.
Ed King co-wrote Sweet Home Alabama with Ronnie and Gary
Met him several times at the Dallas Guitar Show. Tremendous guitarist
Pretty remarkable how many of the Southern Rock giants of the 70's came from California, LOL. Little Feat, (early) Doobie Brothers, Credence Clearwater Revival. But I guess the whole world was into Southern music and even the Stones were sort of a Southern Rock band during Exile on Main Street.
That is interesting. I feel like they were all trying to sound like the allman bros. And they were certainly from Georgia.
Excellent documentary thank you
The technical problems King experienced on stage was in Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor was the show the night before when Van Zant and Kings guitar tech got thrown in jail after the show, by the time they got bailed out and got to Pittsburgh the next day they got to the Syria Mosque (the venue) 10 minutes before the show started and as a result King was playing his guitar with the same strings from the night before because his tech hadn't been there to service his guitar between shows, he broke 2 strings that night and sounded horrible, after the show Van Zant tore into him about sounding so bad, well King figured that's just too bad, if Van Zant hadn't taken his guitar tech out drinking and gotten him thrown in jail the whole thing never would have happened in the first place so who was Van Zant to be getting in his face about it, so he walked, and if you know anything about the history of how he always had been treated in that band it was something that was inevitable anyway.
It's a common misconception that the last show he played with them was Ann Arbor because that's where Van Zant and Kings guitar tech got thrown in jail, but the actual on stage incident and the fallout after it that caused King to leave was really in Pittsburgh the next night.
A blessing in disguise that all of that went down, right? Ed was out of the band when the black clouds really started rolling in (fame, pressure, alcoholism, car accidents...). Think of the people who were in that band, but did not step on to that plane... God blessed Ed King.
ED made them a great band. !!!
@@kevincarey1453 Yep he's probably lucky to have left when he did- his replacement Steve Gaines was killed in the crash two years later.
Surely Ed was capable of changing his own guitar strings?
@@diannehogan7605 That's what I always say. So I don't buy the story he had dead strings.
Thanks for the video
Ronnie wrote the lyrics to S.H.A!! ( and almost all their songs ). Ed came up with the guitar INTRO!!
Lived in Tuckahoe NJ for almost two decades.
A friend and myself did an estimate for work at Ed's house in Florida years back we were so star struck we were in shock lol was funny looking back! Very nice family!
The Allman Brothers are THE DEFINITION of Southern Rock!!
Nah. Skynyrd holds that title.
Rock and roll was born in the south.Its all southern rock
They never considered themselves a southern rock band, and neither do I. They were twenty times better than Skynyrd.
😂😂😂😂😂@FlipDahlenburg you lost your damn mind they will never be better then skynyrd time has already told us that
Very disingenuous title, which implies Ed King alone wrote the song. Gary Rossington came up with initial guitar riff, which Ronnie Van Zant asked him to keep playing. Rossington and King are responsible for the music, and Van Zant of course wrote the lyrics.
He was with LS in 87 reunion tour.
I saw that tour. FIrst time I got to see Ed. When I saw Skynyrd in the 70's it was in between King and Gaines. So it was only Collins and Rosssington. But they were touring with the Outlaws and they played a couple of tunes together.
In the 60s Incense And Peppermints was as huge a hit as Sweet Home Alabama became.in the 70s..
Ed King was hands down the most talented musician in Lynyrd Skynyrd and was the primary songwriter of some of the band's classic songs, "Sweet Home Alabama" being one of them.
Sadly the way he was treated by other members of the band,
singer Ronnie Van Zandt particularly, was just wrong.
I don't blame the guy for walking away from the band in the middle of an tour, a person can only stand constant physical and verbal abuse for a period of time before you simply decide that enough is enough and move on from what was clearly a extremely dysfunctional person who took out whatever perceived issues that he allegedly had with you with violence.
Fortunately, Ed was able to continue with his career and was not so embittered by his experience in Skynyrd that he was able to be respectful of the opportunity Skynyrd gave him to be a part of the illustrious history of the band.
Ed was class personified and always grateful for the opportunities the various bands he was a part of to have the ability to be the respected professional musician he became.
Simply one of a kind.
I personally want to thank Mr. King for all the hours I spent listening to the remarkable music that he created with the bands he played with that filled my life with so much joy.
Sure, King was a great player, but he wasn't "better" than Rossington, or Gaines, both amazing guitarists.
News flash… you won’t “personally” thank Ed King through RUclips comments that he’ll never see. 😉
Ed King and Steve Gaines was way better than Rossington
Also insulting is that Gary Rossington had the simple picking pattern that inspired Ed King's main riff. THAT was the musical hook of the song.
I concur with that statement! 🎸
Gary was doing the chords and ask Ed.." what do you think would work on this"? So the rest is history.
I believe he was a from Glendale California which is where I come from I’ve heard this before I believe
Every member of CCR was from Southern Cal. It's called performing.
Interesting , but I was in the Espresso Bongo Cafe in South Beach in the 90's when Dennis Britt of the Band the Beat Poets introduced me to Al Kooper of the original Blood , Sweat & Tears , Dylan's keyboardist on Like A Rolling Stone . Dennis said Al Kooper wrote Sweet Home Alabama . i found that odd , so asked Kooper what the line " and Muscles Shoals has the swamper's " meant . He answered without hesitiation , " Oh, the Swamper's were the Horn section at Muscle Shoals Studio ." Who's to believe what ? Perhaps King wrote the riff , and Kooper wrote the words . Who knows ...
Interesting! I didn't even know Al Kooper was connected to the song, so I searched the web for "Al Kooper" and "Sweet Home Alabama". Kooper produced the recording. A bunch of sites talked about various bits he added to the recording, but I didn't see him claiming to have written it. On his own website, he republished a newspaper column praising "Sweet Home Alabama" and then added his own note, beginning with: "It’s kinda wonderful to read such accolades thirty two years after you originally produced a record, signed a band, had a record company." He probably would have mentioned that he wrote the song if had actually done so. It was fun exploring the connection and learning more about the song and Al Kooper's role -- not as fun, I'm sure, as actually meeting and speaking with Kooper as you did!
@@obsess5 I think that's accurate . As I said , when I met him on South Beach , Al didn't say he wrote the song , Dennis Britt said Al wrote it . But , Al was so familiar with the details , it seemed he obviously was involved somewhere in the song . That he produced it is logical . Also, many people don't know Al was the original singer with Blood , Sweat and Tears . I always thought the Band was better off with Kooper as vocalist , but such is the way of life . Not to knock David Clayton Thomas , he was a better " singer " , but Al had a less somewhat commercial approach to music in general . Peace -
Ronnie Van sand wrote the words . Ed and Gary did the cords
To tell you the truth the swampers was NOT a horn section at muscle shoals they were the studio musicians there was 4 of them they are all dead now but you need to reached them and you will be amazed of just what they played on and recorded for one the song old time rock n roll buy bob seger was the swampers on the radio recorded version not bob seger band and research david hood he was the bass player and my family member
Very interesting, wasn't aware of this collaboration
Ed King co-wrote Sweet Home Alabama.
Ronnie Van Zant wrote the lyrics (words) & Gary Rossington & Ed King wrote the music (guitar parts) but Ed King is credited with writing the famous opening guitar riff to the song though.
Absolute beast!
Ed White is a great. Even though Strawberry Alarmclock was a one hit wonder,I don't think I am the only old dude that grew up in the 60s that doesn't start rocking out every time Incense and Peppermint comes on the radio. And the song is great because of Ed.He was a easy goin guy who eventually could not take the wild lifestyle of Skynrd but went into the hall of fame with them and with the death of Gary they are reunited for an eternal tour.
Rossington had at least some part in writing the guitar parts for Sweet Home, it wasn't all King.
As a fan of both Neil Young and Skynyrd since the seventies, Southern Man and Sweet Home are both great songs. I think Neil said his song was condescending to Southerners in his biography and didn’t like the lyrics anymore.
Ed King was legit. He just didn’t fit. No biggie. Great output anyway.
Ed King was a phenomenal guitarist and writer. He had a tremendous amount to do with the early success of LS. But he really was subpar live. It just wasn't his forte, he didn't have the energy, and he couldn't match the drive Allen and Gary brought to a live show. Ronnie just get fed up with it, and forced him out. As people have noted, it probably saved his life, as he had serious heart issues and the road was killing him. Rip Ed.
He left and so did the hits
❤❤❤
He was also a big part of the amplifier company SWR
I know that LS fans are absolutely passionate, but in terms of musical quality among the band's guitarists, Ed King was number 1, Steve Gaines was second, Allen Collins was third and Gary Rossington was fourth.
Not true. Rossington was a Les Paul master, and as good as King or Gaines. Allen Collins wasn't as skilled as those 3, but he was a great player in his own right. He co-wrote many of their songs with Ronnie, and played lots of great fills and leads on their albums.
@@dklang Ok, just your opinion and my opinion. I won't get into a dispute with you lol.
Why, why, why do people feel the need to rank and rate music and musicians?? It completely misses the point of what music is about. Please just stop!!
That's your opinion but many many people disagree with you. Why do you feel the need to rank these guitarists. Just appreciate the band as a whole entity.
It was the combination of their playing that made the magic.
Great story!!
screw neil young! i am a 67 year old southern rednec!
l remembered Ed King and Robert Burns played on the first two albums and l heard Ed played in Strawberry Alarmclock and l never heard much about those two members except l heard about the passing of both Ed and Robert l believe l think that every original member is now deceased in the band and l never heard about Steve Gaines until the Street Survivors album l really never heard much about this band news wise except for little bits and pieces other well known bands like Led Zeppelin The Stones The Who and Pink Floyd you would hear a lot of news about these bands but this band seems to be private about what they want the public to know about them
didn't know anything about King ... that part was left out of early Skynyrd's history ....
Never seen any doc that "overlooked" King.
Ed King RIP.
I have Pics of them opening for SAC at my high school gymnasium. You can see Ed on bass for SAC and you can’t see that Skynyrd absolutely blew the crowds away. SAC sounded lame up against the band who would someday be the best Rock Band we might ever hear.
Really? A Fuckin Brit? Well Done sir, well done! As I sit here a mere 40 miles from the stories center point. I can feel it. We live it down here.
King avoided the plane crash wonder what he thought about that.
Kneel spent how many minutes in the South? I won tickets to his last concert in Tampa and gave them away to a young Violinist and who she may want to take. She came back and said "He's so old!". I didn't particularly like him either.
Skynyrd was good but IMO, they were their best with the outside influence of King and later Gaines in the band.
Ed was probably the best guitar player in Lynyrd Skynyrd
Not probably Ed was the best guitarist in skynyrd
Basically, Ed, had more to do with the bands success than most!
Plus he WAS NOT on a self destructive life.
He was a Class Act. Having a successful career before SKINARD.
NOT A BAD GUITARIST. IN FACT A DAMN GREAT MUSICIAN! Everyone else around him came and gone due to destructive tendencies.
When it became obvious....he packed his guitar and left.
He was the PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN!
THE OTHERS, Wana be's.
King left because or Ronnie's violence
That's insulting. Ed King was not a hippie but a great musician!
The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
True but when he was in strawberry alarm clock that was kind of a hippie band but you are right he wasn't a hippie after he left them
Kind of shows the pressures we feel to conform when we're young, and how it can take a few tries to find our groove in life.
He was a good man, but those song lyrics were a reply to Neil Young's song about the South being stuck in the past, he was right. The reply lyrics were kind of sick. YES, Watergate did bother the entire nation. Strange he was from California defending Southern racism....
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Ed didn't write that by his self Ronnie and Gary
Check the real facts
Sweet Home made him a millionaire
He was a good man, but those song lyrics were a reply to Neil Young's song about the South being stuck in the past, Neil was right. The reply lyrics were kind of sick. YES, Watergate did bother the entire nation. Strange he was from California defending Southern racism....
He did not write it he started playing a rift and Ronnie wrote the song
Young should stay in canada, we'll do fine here without him.
F RVZ. Standing on the shoulders of his betters ...
Free bird for everyone 🖕I hope you enjoy your free bird 😊😊😊😊😊
Molly Hatchet. Fall of the peacemakers
Hatchet fall of the peacemakers
@ do you want a free bird today
@ free birds for everyone 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕free birds for ever
This story is way off. The part about Neil Young anyway. Both sides have stated otherwise.
Neil Young’s best “song writing credit” right here - Sweet Home Alabama.
Neil Young is exhausting because his brain is SOOO big!
Young is a blitherig idiot, but yes a great musician, there's a difference
I DISAGREE ..... I think THEIR SONG SWEET HOME ALABAMA IS EXACTLY A SHOT NOT ACROSS THE BOW BUT, RIGHT UP YOUNG'S ARSE ! Neil Young was, is a self centered man of little concern for other musicians he has worked with .... never really LOYAL TO - just using them for a time ....and then leaving to restore his own ideals. He did it to CSN (&Y) and he didn't even record WITH the the others .... he would disrespectfully have them add their parts later in a separate recording session.
it's a great song. but who the hell is this English guy telling us the meaning behind it, etc? what does he know? I mean, the band made the rebel flag their symbol for their whole career.
Who is narating. Sounds AI.
There were at least 15 songs that were better than Sweet Home Alabama.
Canadians need to stay in Canada 😊
I get it.
*co-wrote* If you're going to publish a historical video, you should work a little harder to get your facts straight.
Screw Neil Young!
That's a lie period
okay. Good video, except for all that nonsense about 'racism' and 'segregation'. I've traveled the entire world, and most populations prefer being with their own kind. In fact, even here in the Northern USA, most migrants stick together with their own cohesive ethnic groups. -good day.
He didn't write it, he wrote one cord on it.
What a crock of propagandic BS.
Dudes got the stubbiest fingers I’ve ever seen for a guitar player.
Steve Lukather does, as well, but it didn't prevent him from becoming one of the greats
It is white people's song, pretty racist to me.
The music junked the video👎👎👎👎👎👎💩💩💩😉
Someone kick that guys ass! I'm so over that fricking song, mustve heard it a gazillion times and was sick of it a bazillion times ago!😏🙆♂️🙋♂️