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  1. Cyclotourist

    Cyclotourist iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Redlands
    Name:
    David
    Current Bike:
    Don't fence me in!
     
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  2. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    You all need to go ride yer bikes!
    ...to include me. :oops:
     
  3. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    Didjever hear what Neil had to say about that later???

    He realized he was over the top. Most people don't realize what "Sweet Home Alabama" is about. They don't actually listen to the lyrics.

    Yeah, I'm from the South(ish) my own self.
     
  4. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    I’ll take that on...
    Sweet Home Alabama, I believe is about two things. First it’s a retaliatory to Neil Young’s “Southern Man” and “Alabama” songs. Not in a spiteful way but in a pro Alabama way. Lynard Skynard and Neil Young are not enemies, far from it!
    The second part of the song is about that jackwad George Wallace, the Governor then who was pro segregation, which is outlandish and racist.

    A lot of folks think SHA is a racist song and I think the band made it clear with the boo boo boo, that they were opposite of that. Interviews with Van Zant prior to that fateful day he said they were anti George Wallace and what he stood for.

    Neil Young has stated later referring to Southern Man and the push back of Sweet Home Alabama, he had it coming, he also has said he would rather play Sweet Home Alabama instead of Southern Man in concert. In fact, after the plane crash, Neil Young has never played his song “Alabama” live since.

    Birmingham was a tragedy, a disgusting tragedy.

    Watergate refers to troubles up North, everyone has troubles, so don’t t just point to the South was the reference.

    That’s my take...
     
  5. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Well done, sir!
     
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  6. mike

    mike iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Western US
    Name:
    Mike O
    Current Bike:
    HT, FS
    Ronnie and Neil





    Church blew up in Birmingham
    Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
    All this hate and violence can't come to no good end
    A stain on the good name.
    A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass
    Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame

    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
    To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound
    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
    To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

    And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great songs about the
    Bad Sh!t that went down
    "Southern Man" and "Alabama" certainly told some truth
    But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn't around

    Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
    To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
    And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of Sh!t
    And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit

    Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
    Rock stars today ain't half as real
    Speaking there minds on how they feel
    Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

    Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
    Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
    So He wrote "Powderfinger" for Skynyrd to record
    But Ronnie ended up singing "Sweet Home Alabama" to the lord
    And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
    And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around

    Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
    Rock stars today ain't half as real
    Speaking their minds on how they feel
    Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil
     
  7. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    I had no idea.
    I was a Skynyrd fan, and to a lesser extent a Neil Young fan, but I had no idea they ended up as friends, and if it's true that Neil Young carried Ronnie's casket - wow.

    Thanks for this. Skynyrd was anti racist, anti-violence and to some degree anti-gun, but they somehow became the poster band for the racist idiots who were too stupid to actually listen to or read the lyrics.
     
  8. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    East Sacramento
    Name:
    Ross Lawson
    Current Bike:
    Highball
    Same people that think Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is some kind of birthright anthem when it's a critical look at the government's treatment of Vietnam vets.
    Keep cutting those education dollars and keep getting TV voters....
     
  9. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Not just the treatment of Vets, but the entire Vietnam conflict..."so they put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man..."
    I face-palm every time some stupid-ass politician uses that song as a reference to being patriotic.
     
  10. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    East Sacramento
    Name:
    Ross Lawson
    Current Bike:
    Highball
    "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong!"
     
  11. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Source?
     
  12. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    East Sacramento
    Name:
    Ross Lawson
    Current Bike:
    Highball
    New York Times, 1967. Muhammad Ali tells the Court why he won't enter the draft...
     
  13. Cyclotourist

    Cyclotourist iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Redlands
    Name:
    David
    Current Bike:
    Don't fence me in!
    Did nobody listen to the song I posted above!?!?!?
     
  14. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Nope. But now I feel ashamed and embarrassed that I didn't. :oops:

    (7 minutes later...)
    Hey, whaddya know - it explains everything we were just lamenting. :thumbsup: Why didn't you say so? :confused:
     
  15. Cyclotourist

    Cyclotourist iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Redlands
    Name:
    David
    Current Bike:
    Don't fence me in!
    Well get to it, then Ronnie & Neil in @mike's post!
     
  16. rossage

    rossage iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    East Sacramento
    Name:
    Ross Lawson
    Current Bike:
    Highball
     
  17. kingaucho

    kingaucho Well-Known Member

    Location:
    South OC
    Name:
    Lubo
    Current Bike:
    Giant Anthem 29er
    Good thing this is in Truckee and not Berkeley. Nobody is wasting our tax $ on fixing the signage!

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  18. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Vewy Funny Doctah Jones Vewy Funny! :Roflmao:laugh::thumbsup:
     
  19. Racer X

    Racer X Member

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    A valid location
    Name:
    B
    Current Bike:
    Kona Explosif
  20. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
  21. Cornholio

    Cornholio iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    CA
    Name:
    B
    Current Bike:
    Huffy
  22. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    Its gotten to the point now where the only thing good about being here is the weather, which is why the people came here in the first place.

    So at least I know that I am here for the right reason. o_O
     
  23. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Mission Viejo
    Name:
    Dan
    Current Bike:
    Epic Evo
    Without reading the spin this article give cash bail, I've read a bit on this.
    cash bail in my opinion gives those more fortunate and wealthy an advantage to release on bail. Those poor and without assets do not have that advantage.
    Now it's based on offense and likely hood of re offending. Much more equitable IMO.
     
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