Rickey Medlocke Quotes

Rickey Medlocke

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 17, 1950

We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.

Rickey Medlocke

The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going.

Rickey Medlocke

We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.

Rickey Medlocke

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

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

Recording should be fun.

Rickey Medlocke

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

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

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

Rickey Medlocke

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

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

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

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

We're about music. We're not about politics.

Rickey Medlocke

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

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

Rickey Medlocke

I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.

Rickey Medlocke

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

Rickey Medlocke

I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.

Rickey Medlocke

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

Rickey Medlocke