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I'm a member of the school of thought that thinks Skynyrd wasn't Skynyrd after Ronnie died, and the MTB wasn't the MTB after Toy Caldwell left the band. He was a virtuoso, the music just flowed effortlessly out of him.
I followed them from the first album. The old folks among us might remember the Friday night "ABC In Concert," pre-MTV, pre-YouTube, one of the very few ways to get a dose of live rock and roll at home. They had a show in either 1973 or 1974 that was split between the Marshall Tucker Band and The Allman Brothers...I'll never forget it. This would have placed the MTB within their first three albums, and the Allmans in their "Brothers & Sisters" period, following the loss of Duane. This was one of the first times I heard Gregg Allman change the lyrics at the end of "Whippin' Post" from "Sometimes I feel like I'm dyin" to "Sometimes I try to believe, there ain't no such thing as dyin"...When Frank Zappa covered "Whippin' Post" on his "Does Humor Belong In Music" album, keyboardist Bobby Martin went with the newer lyric on his vocals.
But I digress...when I lived in Nevada, around 2013, I was a DJ in a small club, and I had this song in my "heavy rotation" list:
