Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was a mentor to us and we all grew up in the same neighborhood. When we first started out, we were kind of a clone of other Southern rock bands like the others that had come before us.
You’re trying to vie for a position to get your song played so you tend to keep your ear to the ground to what’s going on with styles around you. MCB: How has the band’s musical style evolved since you first started nearly four decades ago?īarnes: Well, everybody’s trying to get on the radio, and there’s only 24 hours in a day with a lot of commercials. When we played our first club, we didn’t have name for the band and thought back to that funny story. 38 special that was going to do the talking for him. To preface this, we had lost the key to the chain on the door, so we all had to climb in through the window - and we heard one of the guys out there say he had to shoot the lock off like the old westerns. They were yelling on the bull horn and everything. We were in the middle of playing and didn’t hear the banging on the doors until we stopped the song.
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We had this whole place and boarded up the windows and chained the doors to leave our equipment out there since we had day jobs at the time and would practice at night.Ībout two months went by with us practicing in this old shed in the woods and one night the cops in the area decided to raid this building since they figured some wild parties were going on in there. So, we would come to these places in the middle of the woods, so far away from civilization. MCB: Can you tell me about the significance of the band's name "38 Special"?īarnes: We used to rent a warehouse somewhere to rehearse, ‘cause if we were in someone’s garage we would get the cops called for noise. The band's lineup has also changed over the years with guitarist Don Barnes, keyboardist Bobby Capps, drummer Gary Moffatt, bassist Barry Dunaway, and guitarist Jerry Riggs currently on tour.Ĭonnecting with frontman Don Barnes, reporter Haley Handelman learned the story behind the band's iconic name, about the band’s changing dynamics across the years, and more. They have since gone Gold and Platinum while releasing more than two dozen albums over four decades. Starting off with a strong Southern influence of blues jams, the group's style transitioned to commercial rock, selling out large arenas. Admission is free.įormed in 1974 by Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant (younger brother of Ronnie Van Zant, former lead singer of Lynyrd Skynrd), 38 Special debuted their eponymous album in 1977. with the southeast Minnesota rock group Fred the Bear opening at 7 p.m. The band will take the Think Bank Down by the Riverside stage this Sunday at Mayo Park at 8 p.m. Here are all of 38 Special albums ranked.Known for top hits “Hold on Loosely” and “Caught Up in You,” the famed classic rock band 38 Special will light up Rochester this weekend. This paved the way for their platinum supercharged fourth record, Wild-Eyed Southern Boys (January 1981), and its bigger hit “Hold On Loosely” (which reached #27 in 1981). Sung by 38’s guitarist Don Barnes (who would sing lead vocals on all of the band’s hits through 1987), the tune became their first song to receive national airplay, peaking at #43 on Billboard Hot 100 in early 1980. “Rockin’ into the Night”, the title track from the group’s third album (released in October 1979), which Peterik and his bandmates had originally written for Survivor, was instead given to 38 Special. Engineer Rodney Mills, who had worked with Atlanta Rhythm Section and others, assumed the producer’s reins from here on and Survivor co-founder Jim Peterik became a frequent songwriting collaborator of the band’s from 1979 on, which helped account for this change in sound and subsequent success. By the early 1980s, 38 Special had shifted to a more accessible guitar-driven arena rock style without completely abandoning its Southern rock roots. This shift helped to usher in a string of successful albums and singles. The band’s first two albums had a strong Southern rock influence. 38 Special) is an American rock band that was formed by neighborhood friends Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant in 1974 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
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