#Lynyrd skynyrd nuthin fancy full#
Listening as King ran everyone through the changes, Van Zant felt inspiration hit, walked over to him, cupped King’s ear into his hand, and sang the first verse for the first time: “Two feets they come a-creepin’ like a black cat do / And two bodies are layin’ naked, creeper think he got nothin’ to lose / So he creeps into this house, yeah, and unlocks the door / And while a man’s reachin’ for his trousers, shoots him full of thirty-eight holes.” The rest of the band drove up from Jacksonville a few days later. The three hit the studio the next day and laid down the basic track. King’s new idea sounded like the perfect fit. He had some good news: it seems that Paramount Pictures had a film in the works called The Longest Yard starring Georgia boy Burt Reynolds and they wanted a big rock song to frame the big chase scene between Reynolds’ character and the cops (a few years before the Bandit rolled through the south to the strains of Jerry Reed’s “East Bound and Down”). (Truth be told, neither did the band at that point.) Either way, the pressure was on.Īs a three-piece, King, Wilkeson, and Pyle ran through a few Skynyrd tunes-including a fusion-styled version of “I Ain’t The One” that sadly never made it to tape-and then decided to work up a new thing King had been messing around with that included a few licks inspired by The Who’s “Bargain.” Around this time, Skynyrd’s producer and music legend Al Kooper showed up. Pyle wasn’t sure if he was trying out to be their second drummer, like an Allman Brothers situation, or if he was replacing Bob Burns, who’d been handling the drum chair for their previous two albums. In fact, it was on a suggestion from Daniels to Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant that they ought to give the Louisville, Kentucky native a shot. Pyle had been marking time and making friends as a session drummer for the likes of both the Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels Bands. Still, being a former Marine, it was just like being back at boot camp for a while. The last thing he wanted was to be late, but lugging a full set of drums for two blocks on an August day in hot ‘lanta was not the way he planned to spend the afternoon. As luck would have it, it had broken down two full blocks from the club where he’d arranged to meet bassist Leon Wilkeson and guitarist Ed King, two members of one of the hottest bands in the country, Lynyrd Skynyrd, for an audition. At least that’s what Thomas Delmer “Artimus” Pyle was telling himself as he was making his second trip back to his VW bus. Happy 45th Anniversary to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s third studio album Nuthin’ Fancy, originally released March 24, 1975.
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