We’ve covered a lot of your Lynyrd Skynyrd history in a previous interview but if you would, and in light of Leon’s death, could you share any thoughts about Leon? Any memories? What about the “throat cutting” in SPIN magazine? I heard from Leon that that was bs.Īgain, I’m glad to hear Leon didn’t believe I’d do something like that. (More on this in our previous Ed interview) When the tour ended I told Ronnie to call me if he ever needed a guitar player or bass player. We got ripped off by the promoters day after day. That was a real fun tour, the most fun I’d had in years. In 1970 we did a three-month college tour in Florida. High intensity discord and bad management (and bad material) caused the breakup. What caused the band to break up and how did you end up in Skynyrd? So that’s how I spent my 8 hours in Honolulu. Maybe I got some bad advice but I was told to shave the entire area and pick those little guys off with tweezers. I’d wondered what the hell that was that made me itch and scratch all the way there - geez, it was torture. You must mean the time we flew from Jacksonville to Honolulu to do a gig for a Dick Clark show and then to Miami in the same day to rejoin the Beach Boys tour. What were some of the high points with SAC? I was in learning mode and it was a lot of fun even though we suspected we were being exploited financially to the max. My solo on “Tomorrow,” “Black Butter” and “They Saw the Fat One Coming” are my favorites. I think my lack of knowledge of the instrument was supplemented by my inspiration. Some of it, however, provided me with an opportunity to play what I consider to be my best playing ever. I’d rather not go into the albums recorded at this time - they were very forgettable as very little of the material was any good. How many albums did you record? Tell us about them.
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That evening a gun salesman went from room to room with a flight case full of handguns. The tour started the day after Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis - and we were scheduled to play there! There were reports of snipers at the airport so we went to Nashville to spend the night. That winter we did a tour with the Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield and the next spring we did it again, this time on the Beach Boys' own private plane. Our first tour of the States was in November ‘67. “Incense.” came back except our names weren’t on the sheet music as writers. Mark Weitz and I wrote the music track to “Incense.” then our manager took it to a publisher in town who, in turn, sent it off to some lyricists in Denver. Were you in the band when “Incense & Peppermints” hit big? Tell us about the beginnings of the band? It was in this version of the Clock that I met Skynyrd on a tour in Florida in 1970. Paul Marshall didn’t join the band until around 1969-70, after Mark left. that’s where a lot of us hippies wound up. From what he says, he’s real busy working with politicians! Funny. I’d probably be up for a Clock reunion if we could drag him out of the D.C. At that time he had a real good musical vision for his age (16, I believe). He would’ve been a real asset to the band. The guy who sang on the record, Greg Munford, was asked to join but declined. Then Randy became appointed to sing “Incense & Peppermints” on stage because Lee’s voice wasn’t right for it. Randy mainly joined our band because our drummer, Gene Gunnels, had quit prior to the release of our hit single. Mark lived in Sherman Oaks, Randy and George in Woodland Hills and the rest of us were from Glendale. Mark Weitz, Lee Freeman, Gary Lovetro and myself were in Thee Sixpence - Randy Seol and George Bunnell were in another band - can’t recall the name. The “Clock” was really put together out of two bands. How did you guys come to form Strawberry Alarm Clock? Who was in the band to begin with? Was Paul in at the beginning? This issue, we are proud to feature an interview with an old bandmate of yours, Paul Marshall. GRITZ wishes Ed continued success and we hope to see much more of him in the near future. As always, King was a pleasure to speak with. This is our second helping of Ed. In light of Mitch Lopate’s interview with the Alarm Clock’s Paul Marshall we decided to revisit King and toss out a few questions about both the “Clock” and Skynyrd. From his teenage success with The Strawberry Alarm Clock to his cult status as guitarist for everybody’s favorite Southern Rockers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, King has written and played on some major recordings. Ed King is a walking rock and roll lesson.
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