He would soon switch back to electric guitar and would help write Sweet Home Alabama. He was originally in the Strawberry Alarm Clock and joined Lynyrd Skynyrd just in time for their original album and played bass on that. He said he felt like an outsider in the band. Ed was from Southern California and the only non-Southerner in the lineup. This was the last album that Ed King appeared on with the original band. Pyle was given just a couple of days to rehearse the song in a rented Atlanta club before they hit the road again. It would be their last album produced by Al Kooper.įor this song, drummer Bob Burns had to take a break from touring and Artimus Pyle was brought in to replace him.
The album peaked at #8 in the Billboard Album Charts and #43 in the UK. It was off of their Nothin’ Fancy album released in 1975. The song peaked at #27 in the Billboard 100 and #63 in Canada. Everybody immediately backed off and the show completed without any more trouble. When one fan got too close, Wilkeson drew his pistol and fired a blank over the heads of the crowd. Black Sabbath fans apparently didn’t like them and rushed the stage with taunts. On one tour they were opening for Black Sabbath at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island. Leon Wilkeson, the bass player, actually took to wearing a holster and a real gun onstage but it was only loaded with blanks. Lynyrd Skynyrd weren’t against legal guns. Van Zant was advocating more control over the illegal ones that were so easy to get. This song is about the cheap guns you could buy on the street for 20 bucks called Saturday Night Specials. This song seems strange knowing that many members had guns and were widely known as a wild band. As usual Van Zant’s lyrics fit the music perfectly. The riff in this song is ominous sounding.
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