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Over the years, I've always played that solo note for note--again, one
of the few where I've done that--but it just got faster and faster
onstage because we would drink more and more whiskey. Jon would have
to play his already difficult part faster and faster and he would get
very annoyed about it.
Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.
I do not feel punished, but cleansed!
Everyone should sing, whether they're good at it or not
I thought 'Stairway' crystallized the essence of the band. It
had everything in there, and showed the band at its best. Every
musician wants to do something that will hold up for a long time, and
I guess we did that with 'Stairway.'
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is
slavery.
'Free Bird' was actually one of the first songs we ever wrote.
[On the studio version,] The whole long jam was Allen Collins
himself. He was bad. He was super bad! He was bad to the bone bad.
When we put the solo together, we liked the sound of the two guitars,
and I could've gone out and played it with him. But the way he was
doin' it, he was just so hot! He just did it once and did it again
and it was done.
It takes courage to grow up & turn out to be who you really are.