Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke had a alternative gesture for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for excluding him from the band’s 2006 induction.
Medlocke first performed drums and sang with Skynyrd from 1971 to 1972 earlier than returning to his former band, Blackfoot. He rejoined Skynyrd as a guitarist in 1996 and has carried out with them ever since. Medlocke’s drumming and vocals appeared on 1977’s Street Survivors by way of the unique 1971 demo of “One More Time,” in addition to on the 1978 compilation album Skynyrd’s First and … Last, launched after singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines had been killed in a airplane crash.
Despite these contributions, the Rock Hall didn’t think about Medlocke a classic-era member and thus didn’t induct him. “The thing that was kind of a blow to me was that I didn’t get invited or I didn’t get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the band,” Medlocke just lately advised Iridium Rock and Metal Reviews.
“The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame stated that I have not had any link or that I wasn’t significant to the career, and it didn’t want me being inducted with them,” he continued. Medlocke then prolonged a center finger and proclaimed, “Here’s what I say to them.”
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The Honor That Matters More to Medlocke than the Rock Hall
Despite being excluded from his band’s Rock Hall induction, Medlocke finds validation elsewhere. “I mean, I’m watching them induct people that I go, ‘What? Are you kidding me?’ But you know what? That’s OK. It is what it is,” he stated. “My Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is the fans out there and the music that I play and the band that I play in, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and my own stuff.”
Medlocke, who claims Lakota Sioux and Cherokee ancestry, additionally mirrored on being inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2008. “You know, I got inducted to the Native American Music Hall of Fame, and my speech was, I stood up at the podium, and I looked around, and I went, ‘Wow. This is way better than any damn Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction could be.'”
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