Allen Collins

This was a three-guitar lineup.

Gary Rossington plays a Gibson Les Paul, Alan Collins on Gibson Firebird, and Ed King on a Fender Stratocaster.

All the good old ones.

Here's the other J.J. Cale tune that they like to do.

I said, brother, you owe me one.

He says, what took you so long, brother? So anyway, and I welcome everybody to call, and if they got any questions for Craig, it was the Leonard Skinner, the original band, guitar tech, foreigner, journey, Allen Collins band, so...

What he remembers, he will sure tell you.

He said, Larry, it's been 49 years.

It's one of my favorites.

Um, guitar, of course, played by Allan Collins and, uh, Gary Rossington.

They did a double guitar solo, and, ugh, it's just so good.

I mean, the amount of talent, truly, I, I respect the hell out of it.

And a lot of that stuff that went on then, I wasn't privy to it because I wasn't that close to Gary Rossington.

So that's where it started at, in Bob's garage, and then Ronnie heard about Allen Collins, so he wanted to get Allen Collins in the band.

Gary didn't want Allen in the band, but Ronnie did.

So I was working.

I was married then.

I was working.

And, um, Ronnie, Allen Collins was riding his bike from his house to where he would rehearse with The Mods, J.R. Rice's band, and everybody, J.R. was friends with everybody.

So Allen was going to the practice one day, and Ronnie saw him, and Ronnie had his M- Mustang.

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Gimme Three Steps was written by Ronnie Van Zandt and Alan Collins and appears as the third cut on side one of Leonard Skinnerd's debut album, Pronounced Lay Nerd Skinnerd.

The song was written about an incident involving singer Ronnie Van Zandt at a bar in Jacksonville, Florida, called The Pastime.

Ironically, Gimme Three Steps failed to chart when it was released as a single in November 1973.

It has since become one of the band's most popular songs.

On a side note, mega-selling Los Angeles band Poison played this song regularly as a part of their set in Louisiana clubs before being signed to their first record deal.

Personnel on the record were Ronnie Van Zandt, vocals, Gary Rossington, lead guitar, Alan Collins, guitar, Ed King bass, Billy Powell, keyboards, and Bob Burns, drums.

Pronounced Lay Nerd Skinnerd was recorded between March and May of 1973 at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia, with Al Cooper producing.

And they play team clubs and everything, you know, every time we'd go every week, every Saturday, you know, we're kids, you're teenagers.

You see Alan one week, Alan Collins was better than Gary Rosington.

And then next week, Gary was better than Alan.

And they, we watched their, their evolution and they, you know, they learned as they were going.

And I got to tell you this, it's kind of off the subject here, but these guys started on a carport in the West, West side of Jacksonville.