Ed King

And then Steve Gaines, oh, my God, when he came in, he was probably the most...

Um, he could play anything, you know, I mean, he could, uh, you know, he was more diverse than, than any of the other ones I have to say, but then Ed King, oh my God.

I mean, there's like four guitar players that are just like phenomenal, you know, I mean, it's really hard to, uh, to distinguish between them.

And then, you know, of course, Mick Jones was wasn't no slouch either, you know.

Who's the missing member?

Ed King, who passed away, who went to play with Leonard Skinner.

I

was just telling you, Ed King was in Leonard Skinner.

Yes, yes.

And then the flute player went and played with, I can't think of his name on my mind, Oingo Boingo.

It's got a great hook, a great guitar riff on it.

I think Ed King was the one that came up with that particular riff, so it's pretty cool.

But do yourself a favor.

Put some Lynyrd Skynyrd

Yeah.

And The Sixpence was Ed King and Lee Freeman and myself and...

Gary Levitro.

Yeah, Gary Levitro.

here.

Well, what we did is we did a lot of cover songs and we recorded a few originals and then Mark Mark wrote Heartful of Rain and the basic track to Incense and Peppermints.

Ed King and Mark and myself were basically the ones that were in the studio doing that, the basic track.

That part of the story never kind of comes out right.

Oh, yeah.

Bon Jovi's up there, Jason Isbell with his super nice Ed King guitar he bought, all these different things.

And I'm just kind of like hovering in there and my stomach dropped.

The picture of me was on the wall there.

You do?

Ed King, right?

Uh, y- yeah.

It, it's a-

... it's a weird song.

Yeah.

Ed King is, he was the man.

No, w- well, what am I...? Yeah, Los Angeles, of course, uh, they were previously known as The Sixpence and The Waterford Train.

They did four albums, appeared in a couple of films, and their guitarist, Ed King, ended up, uh, playing in Lynyrd Skynyrd until he left because he was scared [laughs] of Ronnie whatever his name was, who was going- threatened to kill him.

Um, so there you go.

Yeah.

It's an interesting album because it...

The, the, the tune is written by Ronnie Van Zant and Ed King, who was the original guitarist.

But Ed King left during the tour for this, for this album.

Um, and, um, Artimus Pyle had just started playing as the drummer, and I think that, um, Ricky Medlocke came back, who when we saw Skynyrd, he was obviously one of the guitarists.

Um, I think Ricky Medlocke came back, uh, during the tour for this or kind of shortly thereafter.

... as J- as Jeff said, it's, um, Shorty Medlock who was indeed the grandfather of Ricky Medlock.

And Ricky Medlock was an early member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and by that I mean he was with them before they recorded Pronounced.

So by the time they released their first album he'd left, but he then rejoined them after Rob Burns had left and after Ed King had left.

And the songwriters are the ones that makes the big money.

Ronnie, Allen, Gary, Ed King.

There's, they would make the big money from songwriting.

So some of them were broke.