# Lynyrd Skynyrd say they're finally done **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465 "2018-01-25T18:07:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/1 "2018-01-25T18:07:57Z")
[Last tour starts 4 May in West Palm Beach](https://apnews.com/0ed8dbbcde504a7a85c30905066aef59/Lynyrd-Skynyrd-announce-farewell-tour-starting-May-4). I know most people (prolly including the few left in the band) didn’t hardly believe that they’d have any career at all after 1977, but they did. So much of my youth was stepped in the kind of country-fried rock that Skynyrd championed; how drearily spartan would my young life have been without the sounds of Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, the Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, the Marshall Tucker Band, Canned Heat, CCR, etc. Congratulations to the band on a long career; I hope y’all enjoy yourselves even more in retirement than y’all did performing. Now go on; get outta here. [I’ll give ya three steps out the door](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3jgkChV6M) before I start referring to y’all with past tense. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/2 "2018-01-25T19:13:23Z")
I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama in 2001 for training when Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town. I didn’t get tickets but it turns out I didn’t have to because I could hear them just fine from my apartment balcony right outside the gate in Huntsville. As I expected, the crowd went absolutely _insane_ when they played “Sweet Home Alabama”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/3 "2018-01-25T19:20:54Z")
Elton John has also announced that he’s quitting touring after this last one. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/4 "2018-01-25T21:18:45Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Elton John has also announced that he’s quitting touring after this last one. which is planned to be 3 years! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/5 "2018-01-25T21:54:43Z")
We’re all getting old. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/6 "2018-01-25T22:47:37Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > We’re all getting old. Not Ronnie Van Zant. ---
**Author:** ![BeenJammin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beenjammin/32/448_2.png) [@BeenJammin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeenJammin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/7 "2018-01-25T23:06:28Z")
I’ll never forget the night my best bud dropped in to pick me up on the way to the state line bar for one of our typical evening carousing sprees. I pulled the Street Survivors LP off the turntable to put away and he said “you better hang on to that, it’s the one with the flames on it.” Seemed like it was all downhill with my favorite bands after that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/8 "2018-01-25T23:19:14Z")
Sheesh. In the last week or so: Rush, Slayer, Neil Diamond, Elton John, now this? Wow, never thought I would be using all of them in one sentence. Yes, we are getting old, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/9 "2018-01-25T23:44:18Z")
Neil Young is still doing his thing. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/10 "2018-01-26T00:19:59Z")
Mr. Saturday Night Special! Pretty good for kickass rock. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/11 "2018-01-26T03:05:45Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Neil Young is still doing his thing. 😛 That just rubs salt in the wounds. Can’t stand his tuneless screeching. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lynyrd-skynyrd-say-theyre-finally-done/807465/12 "2018-01-26T03:15:42Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Neil Young is still doing his thing. 😛 A Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow