lynyrd skynyrd

Two summers ago I went to
Milwaukee’s famous Summerfest and after my experience there, I have vowed never to return. I happened to go to Summerfest on a night full of washed up rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Steppenwolf and mediocre blues bands like Los Lonely Boys.

Before I even got to the Summerfest grounds, I knew that the night would probably disappoint just by seeing the line-up. But still, I thought it might be cool to see the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynrd.

As my friends and I approached the stage where Skynyrd was playing, we could tell it wouldn’t be easy to get a good view. The surrounding area was packed with thousands of middle aged intoxicated
Wisconsin country folk standing on top of picnic tables. My group attempted to weave our way through the crowd to get past the picnic tables so we could see the stage. About two rows of picnic tables before we could get a good view, a few rough biker looking guys threatened to beat us up if we got in their way. Fearing for our lives, we left the crowd and listened to Skynyrd from a distance. After 4 songs, they hadn’t played any of their hits. No “Tuesday’s Gone” “
Sweet Home Alabama” “Ooh That Smell” “Simple Man” or “The Ballad of Curtis Lowe.” I didn’t want to wait through an hour of bad Skynyrd songs to hear them possibly finish with “Freebird.”

Off to the next stage. We stopped to Steppenwolf for a very brief period, but after an excessive amount of keytar playing, we decided to leave. Seriously, who plays a keytar and thinks it makes you look cool?

Our final destination was Los Lonely Boys. Now the music from Los Lonely Boys wasn’t terrible, but their over-the-top religious praising just got annoying. After each song, the lead singer and bassist would say, “Thank you Milwaukee, and thank you God for blessing us,” or, “I just want to take a moment to thank God for the blessings he gave our family to play music.” As if God only blessed Los Lonely Boys to be good musicians because they have big cross stickers on their guitars and wear big cross necklaces, and not other bands. It was ridiculous.

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