That part he does in DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME kills me every time. you wouldn't have heard those great Harwood licks. I went backstage and plunked around with some of their guitars.notably, Allen's Explorer (which I'd never played) and this old black Strat with an old Tele neck (I think). That night in '79 was the first time I'd seen them since I'd left the band.and I didn't see any of them again until July, 1987. With that much gas, he didn't need to turn it up very 'd just shake your bones at a low volume.) I mean.LOUD! (Leon said he needed that much power to 'keep it clean'. By '79, he'd graduated to 2 or 3 - 500 watt Crown Amps. When I left the band in '75, Leon was using an Ampeg SVT. I went up to the Garden State Arts Center to see them play.
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So even if I HAD been asked, I was in no position to accept.
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Sometimes it's just good to GET AWAY FROM IT. I've done that a few times and it always comes back fresher than before.
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I was not into playing my guitar in 1979. Q - When the idea to form Rossington-Collins Band was being developed, were you asked to play? Were you even considered for that matter? Q -Would you like to change the fact that you left the band? Write more songs is the only thing I would've done different. Q - During you years with Skynyrd in the 70's, if you could change one thing under your control, what would you do? They couldn't cope with ANYTHING on the 'Torture Tour', so my leaving just added to their misery. Q - When you left the band, and there was obviously no one to teach them parts that you had played, especially solos.how do you think they coped with that? After all.he was the reason to be there in the first place.Īllen and Gary called.Kooper called.but not Ronnie. If he HAD called me and asked me to come back, I'm sure I would have. No, I never spoke to him after leaving the band. I'm not sure what he meant by that.but I'm still here. Q - Did you ever talk with Ronnie again after leaving the band in 1975, Ed? I hope he didn't carry a grudge.Ī year or so after I left Ronnie, in a magazine article, said "Ed King has one year to live". There were just some really crazy things that went on the last month I was with the band. I just said as long as you don’t aim it my way then I don’t care how you act. He thought that geniuses were crazy anyway. Our manager made the comment that the crazier we got the bigger we were going to be. It was not only towards me he was that way to everybody. Oh yeah, it was beyond description actually. Q - Did Van Zant become that much of a corporal punisher? Was it really that bad? I think we had another four weeks to go and I just knew I would not make it another four weeks. I kind of regret that I left in the middle of the tour that is really wrong. Q - Looking at what happened to the band, you made a good move. This came at the very end of all kinds of stuff on that tour. When we got back to the hotel, I just said that this is just really screwed up. All the way back to the hotel Ronnie was just raising hell about it. By the end of the night, I had broken two strings. My guitar strings weren’t changed for the show. They were really late getting to the show. (May 26, 1975) Ronnie and my guitar tech got thrown in jail the night before in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Q - What was the straw that broke the camels back?
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I think the manager talked to Ronnie and had Ronnie push me out. Q - Do you feel that your were really singled out? * Take a look at the photo (in the box set) of the band standing in front of "Hell House". Unfortunately, I just got tired of the "grind" and most of the people in the music business before that time. I figured, by that time, I could back myself out. That was the album I wanted to be a part of. But I always knew that I didn't "fit" into the band * - so I set my sights on the "live" album. There was never ANY question in my mind about Van Zant making a significant mark on rock music. The band had new management and I think that he really wanted me out too. Q - Why did you close the door only three years later? (after joing Skynyrd)Įvery tour got to be a ridiculous sideshow.