Talk:Ronnie Van Zant

message: The song was not written as a tribute to Duane Allman, only later did Van Zant begin the song by mentioning his deceased friend.
The article makes it seem as if the song was written with him in mind, which is not the case.
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No, it clearly says Ronnie would often tribute the song to him.
Free Bird was first written and played in early 1970.  Duane Allman died on Oct. 29, 1971.  This song was not written as a tribute, but after Allman's death, it was often performed in memory of him. I've corrected the entry to reflect that. Redland19 (talk) 15:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC
Freebird was NOT written as a tribute to Duane Allman.  The part of the song that was added in tribute to Duane was the Slide guitar played by Gary Rossington.  If you listen to the Muscle Shoals recordings, which were recorded before Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd, you can clearly tell that the song Freebird lacks slide guitar.
Duane Allman's guitar style sounded like a bird, it was a high pitched ringing sound , his nickname came from BB King who told him to use very thin guitar strings to reach a certain refran - this was the same lesson BB King gave Billy Lee Gibbons which is why ZZ top songs sound the way they do - I also see no mention of the fact that the name  lynyrd skynyrd was  from their High School Gym Coach . Free Bird - lessons in the chords of life- Bird Man - Free bird - Duane Allman.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwbird (talk • contribs) 21:45, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Free bird as Tribute

message: Why does the page for Judy Van Zant direct here, since this page doesn't mention her at all? Mrwhizzard 17:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judy Van Zant 

message: The article has both Van Zant and Van Zandt, please clean it up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 149.55.30.100 (talk) 01:48, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Van Zant or Van Zandt 

message: Is it true Neil Young was an honorary pall bearer at Ronnie's funeral?
I never heard of such a thing until some years back, when I heard the Drive-By Truckers album Southern Rock Opera and such a scenario is talked about in the track "The Three Great Alabama Icons."
RadioKAOS (talk) 05:08, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Neil Young 

message: both dates seem to exist all over the internet, IMDB and his main wiki page being wrong could easily be responsible for perpetuating a false birthdate. It doesn't seem right that he'd be older than Robert Plant for some reason. Stephen's black friend 02:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The sources now seem to back up 1948, and on the "technically unverifiable" side, my mother was close friends with him and that is indeed his birthdate. Mike H. Celebrating three years of being hotter than Paris 20:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  how can we find out for sure whether he was born in 1948 or 1949 ? 

message: There's a line in the article "Many of his bandmates said of him that "he would give the shirt off his back to anyone".[citation needed] "... RE: the "citation needed" - this quote is made by one of the band members (Artimus Pyle, maybe?) in the documentary film "Freebird" produced by Cabin Fever. I won't be back home til Oct 2009, and will have to watch it again to know for sure which bandmember said it. But the quote is in the film for certain. Anybody else have a copy? Engr105th (talk) 03:13, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Shirt off his back" quote 

message: I have removed the following section.  Firstly, it has no references. Secondly it reads more like a press release than an encyclopedic article, and thirdly it seems to cover far more ground about the band than Van Zant. It smells horribly of fancruft to me. Any suggestions ?
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed section 

message: Something I read, but don't have a handy reference for, might be a helpful addition to the page.  I read that Van Zant sang on stage barefoot, and gave his reason as being that it was his way to feel the crowd and also feel the electricity in the room.
RadioKAOS (talk) 05:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barefoot 

message: I have removed several quotations, which are all unsourced.  Please read Wikipedia:Verifiability - particularly the line "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source using an inline citation". Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 10:29, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotations

message: Is the van zant family descendants of jewish people? Zant is a jewish surname that means sand.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.103.129.149 (talk) 00:29, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish? 

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