O Curso de Geologia de 85/90 da Universidade de Coimbra escolheu o nome de Geopedrados quando participou na Queima das Fitas.
Ficou a designação, ficaram muitas pessoas com e sobre a capa intemporal deste nome, agora com oportunidade de partilhar as suas ideias, informações e materiais sobre Geologia, Paleontologia, Mineralogia, Vulcanologia/Sismologia, Ambiente, Energia, Biologia, Astronomia, Ensino, Fotografia, Humor, Música, Cultura, Coimbra e AAC, para fins de ensino e educação.
Escreveu a maioria das músicas para os Outlaws, incluindo "Hurry Sundown", "There Goes Another Love Song," e "Green Grass and High Tides". Após a separação dos Outlaws, Thomasson entrou para os Lynyrd Skynyrd.
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) is the debut studio album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on August 13, 1973. Several of the album's tracks remain among the band's most well-known: "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man", "Tuesday's Gone", and "Free Bird", the last of which launched the band to national stardom.
The album was certified gold on December 18, 1974, and double platinum on July 21, 1987, by the RIAA. It peaked at 27 on the US Billboard 200 in 1975.
Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill (Dallas, May 19, 1949 – Houston, July
28, 2021) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known
as the bassist and secondary lead vocalist of the American rock group ZZ Top; he also played keyboards with the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of ZZ Top, in 2004.
On January 29, 1986,
Collins was driving a new black Ford Thunderbird when he was involved
in a car accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend, Debra Jean
Watts, and paralyzed the guitarist from the waist down, with limited use
of his arms and hands. Collins pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter as well as driving under the influence of alcohol. Due to his injuries, he would never play guitar on stage again.
Collins' last performance with Lynyrd Skynyrd was at the band's first reunion after the plane crash
at the 1979 Volunteer Jam V in Nashville, Tennessee. All remaining
members of Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited officially in 1987, but Collins
served only as musical director, due to his paralysis.
As part of his plea bargain for the 1986 accident, Collins addressed
fans at every Skynyrd concert with an explanation of why he could not
perform, citing the dangers of drinking and driving, as well as drugs
and alcohol. Also because of Collins' accident, the band donated a
sizable amount of concert proceeds from the 1987–88 tour to the Miami Project, which is involved in treatment of paralysis.
Collins founded Roll For Rock Wheelchair Events and Benefit Concerts in
1988 to raise awareness and to provide opportunities for those living
with spinal cord injuries and other physical disabilities.
Allen Collins died on January 23, 1990, from chronic pneumonia, a complication of the paralysis. He is buried beside his wife, in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 2006, Collins was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Nos seus últimos anos de vida, Vinnie Paul tocava na banda Hellyeah mas alcançou a fama quando fez parte da banda de thrash metalPantera, na qual foi co-fundador. Ele também foi em 2004, co-fundador da banda Damageplan, juntamente com o seu irmão, Dimebag Darrell.
A banda era bem aclamada pela crítica e fazia sucesso, até o
assassinato de Dimebag Darrell, em pleno palco, levando a banda a
encerrar suas atividades em dezembro daquele mesmo ano.
Ficou em 19° lugar na lista dos "50 melhores bateristas de hard rock e metal de todos os tempos" do site Loudwire. Também foi citado na lista dos ''Melhores bateristas da atualidade'' do site MusicRadar.
Donald Newton "Donnie" Van Zant (Jacksonville, 11 de junho de 1952) é um guitarrista e vocalista americano, mais conhecido como membro da banda 38 Special, que ajudou a fundar em 1974. O seu irmão mais velho era Ronnie Van Zant vocalista original da banda Lynyrd Skynyrd e que morreu num acidente de avião, em 1977, juntamente com outros dois membros da banda e outros três passageiros do avião. O seu irmão mais novo, Johnny Van Zant, é o vocalista atual dos Lynyrd Skynyrd, desde a sua reformulação em 1987.
Derek Trucks (Jacksonville, Florida, June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. In 2010, he formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, blues singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He is the nephew of the late Butch Trucks, drummer for The Allman Brothers.
Começou como roadie da banda em 1970, até que em 1972, durante o aquecimento de um show do Lynyrd em Jacksonville, tocou uma versão de "Free Bird" no teclado. O vocalista Ronnie Van Zant ficou tão impressionado que imediatamente o convidou para ser o teclista oficial do grupo.
Sobreviveu ao desastre aéreo que abateu a banda em 1977, sofrendo apenas ferimentos no rosto. Entre essa época e 1987, esteve numa banda chamada Vision.
Voltou aos Lynyrd em 1987 para uma turnê-tributo, permanecendo com a banda até à sua morte, em 28 de janeiro de 2009, em Orange Park, Flórida.
John Cameron Fogerty e o seu irmão, Tom Fogerty, formaram uma banda no final dos anos 50 que se chamava Tommy Fogerty and the Blue Velvets e em meados dos anos 60 trocaram de nome para The Golliwogs.
Em 1968, já com o nome de Creedence Clearwater Revival, a banda editou o seu primeiro álbum que continha o grande êxito, Suzie Q.
Em 1971,
devido a tensões entre ambos, Tom deixa o grupo. John tenta manter o
grupo unido que ainda edita mais um álbum com o título de Mardi Gras que seria no entanto, o último.
Em 2003, a Revista Rolling Stone incluiu John Fogerty no nº 40 da sua lista dos melhores guitarristas de todos os tempos.
Em 1999, foi-lhe diagnosticada hepatite C e vinha a enfrentar problemas de saúde desde então, tendo passado por um transplante de fígado, em 2010. Morreu a 27 de maio de 2017, aos 69 anos, em sua casa em Savannah, Geórgia, devido a complicações causadas por um cancro no fígado.
Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill (Dallas, May 19, 1949 – Houston, July
28, 2021) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known
as the bassist and secondary lead vocalist of the American rock group ZZ Top; he also played keyboards with the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of ZZ Top, in 2004.
Second Helping reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21, 1987.
Background
After the success of their debut album, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), Lynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on the Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. Second Helping features King, Collins and Rossington all collaborating with Ronnie Van Zant on the songwriting, and cemented the band's breakthrough.
Critical reception
Reviewing for Rolling Stone in 1974, Gordon Fletcher said Lynyrd Skynyrd performs a consistent style of Southern music-influenced blues rock similar to the Allman Brothers Band
but lacks that group's "sophistication and professionalism. If a song
doesn’t feel right to the Brothers, they work on it until it does; if it
isn’t right to Lynyrd Skynyrd, they are more likely to crank up their
amps and blast their way through the bottleneck." Fletcher concluded
that Second Helping is distinct from (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) "only by a certain mellowing out that indicates they may eventually acquire a level of savoirfaire to realize their many capabilities".
Robert Christgau was also lukewarm in Creem,
saying Lynyrd Skynyrd is "still a substantial, tasteful band, but I
have a hunch they blew their best stuff on the first platter."
Christgau warmed to the album later, however, reappraising it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
(1981); he observed "infectious putdowns of rock businessmen, rock
journalists, and heroin", and "great formula" in general: "When it
rocks, three guitarists and a keyboard player pile elementary riffs and
feedback noises into dense combinations broken by preplanned solos,
while at quieter moments the spare vocabulary of the best Southern folk
music is evoked or just plain duplicated." In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said Second Helping "replicated all the strengths" of the first album's expert Southern rock "but was a little tighter and a little more professional." Houston Press named it in #2 on its list "Five Essential Boogie-Rock Albums".
Wilkeson died in his sleep on July 27, 2001, at age 49 at the
Sawgrass Marriott Resort & Beach Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
He was pronounced dead by St Johns County Fire Rescue Paramedic,
Charlie Galambos. Galambos reports that leaving the scene moments after
pronouncing Wilkeson dead, news had already leaked to the media, as he
listened to the report on local FM radio. Wilkeson was in town to
address charges of driving under the influence, for which he had been
cited earlier that year. A medical examiner reported that Wilkeson was
suffering from chronic liver and lung disease and died of natural
causes.
Wilkeson's death put the group in a difficult position since an
agreement with Ronnie Van Zant's widow, Judy Jenness, mandated that at
least three of Skynyrd's longtime members would have to appear in order
for the band to use the name Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jenness waived this
proviso, and the group continued with replacement bassist Ean Evans.
Lynyrd Skynyrd dedicated the song "Mad Hatter" from their 2003 album Vicious Cycle to Wilkeson's memory.
O seu álbum de estreia, Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast, foi lançado em 1991 pela editora Jive Records, mas o sucesso no top americano só veio em 1999, com o seu sexto álbum, Devil Without A Cause,
que com o hit "Bawitdaba", que vendeu mais que 12 milhões de cópias.
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