That time Rickey Medlocke told me that he was hired to play Allen Collins’ guitar parts in Skynyrd
By Steve Newton
Back in 1997 Lynyrd Skynyrd was headed to Vancouver for a show with Paul Rodgers and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, so you bet your ass I was gonna go.
I was also gonna interview Rickey Medlocke, who had rejoined the band to play guitar alongside founding member Gary Rossington and former Outlaws picker Hughie Thomasson.
At one point in the conversation I asked Medlocke if he and Hughie played the Skynyrd licks in concert the same way they were recorded in the studio.
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