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Rickey Medlocke

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My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. - Rickey Medlocke
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I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that. - Rickey Medlocke
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We're about music. We're not about politics. - Rickey Medlocke
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You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band. - Rickey Medlocke
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history. - Rickey Medlocke
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I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone. - Rickey Medlocke
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I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me. - Rickey Medlocke
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago. - Rickey Medlocke
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As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did. - Rickey Medlocke
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Recording should be fun. - Rickey Medlocke
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When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. - Rickey Medlocke
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Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it. - Rickey Medlocke
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men. - Rickey Medlocke
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I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. - Rickey Medlocke
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. - Rickey Medlocke
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We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it. - Rickey Medlocke
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