FIGHTIN' MUSIC: BULL GATOR STEVE MAKES US SAD

lynyrd skynyrd is from florida, i think.

bull gator steve sucks.

Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville.

hate for NPR!!

for shame, orson. for shame.

also, i’m willing to give lynyrd skynyrdto alabama

Molly Hatchet! “Gator Country!”

Adam—we love it, too. However, the tweedier fringes of the NPR sphere give us hives—like their trend stories, for example, or their insistence on saying “double u” when everyone on the American planet says “dubayew.” Including yours truly.

This American Life may be the worst and best of NPR all at the same time. We’ll love one story and detest the next.

TAL the tv show premiers on showtime tonight though!

we are having an effete intellectual homosexual party at my house!

At least they aren’t saying doubla-vay

And for those of you who don’t go to effete homosexual parties…the liquor is incredible.

orange mocha frappaccino martinis!

Since Tom Petty and Lynyrd Skynyrd have already been mentioned, how about I thow out Stephen Stills? Lived in Gainesville at some point, possibly went to UF.

Yeah, Petty’s from Gainesville. Actually, so is Sister Hazel. They’re actually pretty quality…well, at least they have a really good guitar player.

[Martin Prince]
In actuality, the radio program you mistakenly ascribe to NPR is, in fact, distributed by Public Radio International. NPR and PRI are competing entities, you see, battling mightly yet nobly on the periphery of the vast radio wasteland for the hearts and minds of the intellectually pure.
[/Martin Prince]
(Martin takes a shoe to the head)
[Nelson Muntz]
Ha-ha!
[/Nelson Muntz]

I’ve never called Sarah Vowell or anyone else “droll,” but…I have to admit I pretty much love “This American Life” all the way to its pretentious little core (no interest in the TV show, though, mostly because I don’t have any way to watch it). “A Prairie Home Companion” is the show that usually has me torn. I’ve called it the Upper Midwest version of ‘John Boy and Billy,’ and not in a good way. Garrison Keillor a lot of the time sounds like he’s about to die, but I’m kind of a sucker for skillful nostalgia porn, anyway.

Also, Creed fucking rocks, dude. ‘With Arms Wide Open’ was my class song at graduation (it’s about the pride you feel when you knock your girl up, I think, which was an appropriate theme at that time).

We just hate most of the music on PHC. It’s feel-good, faux-bluesy tweedle that makes us think of Woody Allen films.

Anything sponsored by “the National Association of English Majors” amuses us, though.

Y’all are also forgetting that the Allman Brothers, the awesomest fucking blues-rock band to ever fucking (blues-)rock, are from Florida. Plus, Dickey Betts is a serious bad ass, considering he has CATTLE RUSTLING charges on his rap sheet (I believe his explanation was that he was riding down the highway on his motorcycle, got hungry, pulled over next to a cattle farm, hopped the fence and was in the process of slaughtering one of the cows when the state troopers showed up). Further, Greg Allman may have had the poor sense to marry Cher, but he made up for it by disappearing for two weeks shortly after they arrived in Jamaica for the honeymoon and then showing up in Miami with no money, ID, or recollection of where he’d been and how he got there. Gregg Allman=supreme douche (is it too late to nominate him for the Face Punching tournament?), but damn, that’s a story.

Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, much as I would like to claim them for my own state. Also, Mike McCready, Pearl Jam’s guitarist and a complete badass, is from Pensacola. That’s good enough for me.

The Allmans are generally considered to be a Macon band.

And we would prefer the sound of our ass shitting out a kidney to anything Sister Hazel has ever produced. When we think of the sound of evil, it’s them mated with Matchbox 20.

To bridge the gap between the two states, here’s a Leprechaun story from the city of Mobile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

Who is seen the leprechaun say YeaYahhh!!!!!

The Allman Brothers Band is from Macon, GA. It’s impolite to steal. They did get the band itself together while in Jacksonville, but they themselves maintained their ties to Georgia, lived in Macon, and generally rocked the face off of anyone who understood blues and southern rock. They paved the way for those nancy-boys from Lynyrd Skynyrd as well, and were the awesome inspiration for the band in “Almost Famous.” Plus, “Live at the Fillmore East” is the best live album ever, hands down.

You do have Matchbox Twenty on your resume though. They’re from the FL. Congrats?

Besides the obvious ones, Skynyrd and Tom Petty, Florida is also responsible for the last real punk band. Against Me!

Who are all sorts of awesome.

Also, while Jimmy Buffet isn’t from Florida, as far as I know, he’s claimed Key West as his second home and has become an icon down there

Which really needs to stop, go on one scuba trip and you hear Margaritaville ten million times.

Please… we have so little… can’t Florida keep The Allman Brothers? Little Martha is one of my favorite melodies ever… please?

Jimmy Buffett is actually from Mobile. If I remember correctly he started college at Auburn and graduated from Southern Miss. I don’t think he ended up in Key West until after his first Marriage was over.

Against Me! is a pretty good punk band from Gainesville.

Florida can lay (in most cases, dubious) claim to at least the following:

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
0.38 Special
Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
Two Live Crew
’N Sync
Sister Hazel
Big D!ck and the Extenders
Saigon Kick \,,,/ \,,,/

Overall not an impressive resume for entry into the Rockin’ States Club. More appropriate for entry into a school for the musically retarded.

graham parsons was the true hank williams jr. hes a florida guy

Two Miami musical legends have not been mentioned yet: KC & the Sunshine Band and, (deep breath), Vanilla Ice.

On another note, Derek Trucks hails from Jacksonville.

KC and the Sunshine Band are from Miami? Fuck yeah!

Iron & Wine is Florida based I believe.

Against Me falls into the seedy Gainesville college hippy “activist” crowd that ride their bikes around all the time and unfortunately manage to avoid on coming traffic. The Beltones were a much better band, and they are fully capable of washing and bathing themselves.

You have to give it to the sunshine state though. It’s the death metal capital of the US.

“Please… we have so little… can’t Florida keep The Allman Brothers? Little Martha is one of my favorite melodies ever… please?”

No. That’s one of the few call backs we Georgia fans have to the days when men were men and Georgia owned Florida on a yearly basis. The Allman Brothers stay ours.

Obviously, each member of Skynyrd is a man’s man and Floridians ought to be proud as hell of them.

Jim Morrison (The Doors) was born in my hometown of Melbourne, and later was convicted of indecent exposure down in Dade County, although that may be considered more Latin America than Florida.

Bo Diddley was born in Mississippi, but now lives outside of Gainesville and is a cool guy. I’ll go ahead and claim him for Floridians.

Good point 30! I completely forgot about the great metal bands like Death, Obituary, Deicide, Trivium, Morbid Angel, and of course everyone’s favorite…Limp Bizkit.

Against Me! cannot be claimed by the hippies. Against Me! are too into drinking Irish Beer and dying alone to be part of the hippy crowd.

The hippies have Of Montreal and all of those little bands.

AM! is a real punk band, maybe the last one. Not a trendy-wannabe hippy band.

1. I think Derek Trucks goes along with the rest of the Allman Brothers Band. I just happened to see him play this past weekend with Eric Clapton and he was in fine form.

I think I lost the photo I had from an Offspring concert a couple of years ago when the singer was wearing a shirt that said “Even Jesus Hates Creed”.

NPR and PRI are both awesome.

Sometimes they’ll talk about something so gay it makes me shiver, but all in all it is the best news out there.

I do bristle at the pretension of This American Life, but then it goes and entertains the hell out of me.

I have to say that as an NPR addict, I am fed up with interviews and reviews about the new movie made by some indian woman called the Namesake. Jesus Christ enough already. It’s like the NPR equivalent of Notre Dame or USC.

Limp Bizkit is from Florida, and they suck, so we should keep that in mind.

Orson, when is your rent due? Holla.

That was just disgusting. NPR’s intellectual gayness, instead, is just so classy!

Sister Hazel? Are you fucking kidding me? I would put Less than Jake on the list of “good” Florida bands before them, but even then I’d hope someone would smack me and make me take it back. If we’re going to keep deluding ourselves, why not put Matchbox 20….excuse me, “Twenty” on the list too?

I’m a big NPR fan as well. The new version of “This American Life” might tip me into paying for Showtime (and I can check out the pot dealing mom and the lesbians as well).

Before the Namesake the topic of the week was the book by the African kid (Ishmael something) who became a child-soldier in Ivory Coast. In the past when I’ve checked out a book, film, or CD that NPR gives a hard sell to I have seldom been disappointed.

And that reminds me, There was a good story on ATC about the Fugees soccer team a couple of weeks ago. Apparently the coach signed a movie deal for millions and is using the money to help the kids.

I caught that story on the Fugees and I told my wife in the car with me that EDSBS scooped NPR months ago on this story. It was a good story to hear again though.

As for 26 Irwin claiming Two Live Crew should be in the school for the musically retarded, Nigga Puhleeze. Obviously you’ve never discussed the merits of “The Train” while drinking PJ trying to convince two hottie asian girls to say, “Oh, me so horny”- yeah, well I didn;t either, but it still good shit to listen to in middle school.

By the way – quick temporary change of subject -

Harris – did you ever convince your wife to bring home a hot latino beauty for you both to enjoy?

To be fair, Florida really has a claim on one of the greatest of all time, Ray Charles. Though he was originally from GA (like many great things) and sang the official state song, he grew up and studied music in Florida. Besides, he’s big enough for two states to get some glory. His awesomeness should (somewhat) mitigate some of the above mentioned shortcomings…

You do not get Bo Diddley, Matt. The blues is Mississippi’s contribution to the world and even we non-Delta WASP types have to fight for it.

Another Miami Legend: The 7th Floor Crew.

No mention of Florida’s singular contribution to hip-hop, the Miami bass genre? For shame, for shame. Without innovators like DJ Magic Mike and 2 Live Crew, the only thing you’d hear at strip bars would be Motley Crue.

Also, just wanted to mention a great South Florida punk band name of the early ’90s: Dead German Tourist.

It’s almost as good as the Dead Kennedys and The Fat Chick in Wilson Phillips.

Sorry, guys. You cannot claim Vanilla Ice. Despite his lyrics proclaiming supremacy on the Miami streets, Ice is from the suburban jungle of Plano, Texas.

You can, however, have Creed and all of Scott Stapp’s late night dope fiend escapades at Denny’s. Fair game.

Orson,
Even if you are picking on the state of Alabama too much, you shouldn’t miss this one.

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070323/fans.shtml

Saban joins Tyde in Bama-fan clan
Couple name sons for team, new head coach

Excerpt:

So, what if Saban doesn’t succeed as Alabama’s football coach?

“We’ll tell our son he was named after one of the highest paid coaches in college football,” the father said.

What if Saban Witt turns into an Auburn fan?

“We’ll put him up for adoption,” his father, joked. “I’m not worried about that. He was bleeding Crimson before he was born, and I’m going to make sure he continues to bleed Crimson.”

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Finally and mercifully, the post with the neked bunny huggers doing their best Bergen-Belsen imitation is relagated to the older posts.

creed shouldn’t count toward florida as an entire state- can we please restrict the shame and embarassment to the tallahassee area instead?

everyone is forgetting mofro, a band from north florida…. nothin like some good ole front porch soul

Mississippi is where it all came from:

WC Handy – father of the blues, Jimmy Rodgers – father of country music, Willie Dixon, BB king, Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King, Bo Diddley, Sam Cooke, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, jamonie (allman bros band), Robert Johnson – first satanicly enhanced performer, Junior Kimbrough, jerry lee lewis, rufus thomas,Ike Turner – greatest spousal abuser in rock history, Sonny Boy Williamson, Johnny Winter and Elvis Presley.

AUAlum—check new post. Wow.

GatorKK – I love Less Than Jake. Losing Streak is a great album!! Their newest one – In With the Out Crowd – is good as well. And they do a pretty awesome cover of I Think I Love You.

New Found Glory and Yellowcard are also from Florida. Sorry.

Kill me now.

What about the Vulgar Boatmen? They were a Gainesville standby for years…

And NPR…I gave them up after three days of “tree poetry” or some such new age nonsense… If I want to hear from a frickin’ tree I’ll ask it, dammit.

yeah. TAL on showtime last night was awesome. they hated on “Improv Everywhere.”

Florida also spawned Marylin Manson, New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional, Trivium, Mase, Blackfoot, and Trick Daddy.

Orson,

Don’t forget the dynamo recording skills of Bobby Bowden. Ol’ Deddy is from out of state, but he has a new home thankfully.

You’re welcome.

52: I believe you would find that the Quad Cities of north Alabama would fight you for W.C. Handy. http://www2.una.edu/library/handy/

Let’s not forget Hot Water Music. The guy has a voice that sounds like he’s been gargling tacks for the past 15 years. From Gainesville.

Jerry Lee Lewis is from Louisiana. As was “Singin’ Jimmy” Davis, probably the only two term governor in Louisiana history not indicted.

Florida Music:

Skynyrd, Petty, Jim Morrison, Trick daddy (MIA in da house!), Pitbull (for the rap fans), Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory, (I hate them, but they are from broward), matchbox 20 was orlando area, and sister hazel are g-ville legends, personal faves Less Than Jake are g-ville, too… and don’t forget the music of how the state of florida should be remembered… LUTHER CAMPBELL’S 2 LIVE CREW!!

Y’all get your facts straight: Hank Sr. did not in fact die of heart failure, he died the way any legend should, alone in a car on New Years Eve being chauffered to a show, of a mysterious combination of alcohol and pills. Can’t get much better than that, especially when you throw in the fact that his mamma ran a whorehouse in Montgomery when he was a youngster.