The guitar solo section ramps things up a notch higher with a classic, high-energy Allen Collins solo, after which the song settles back into the quieter verse arrangement. The classic harder-edged Skynyrd feel comes in right at the song’s powerful chorus section, accentuated by Rossington’s bluesy and melodic slide guitar licks. “Comin’ Home,” an original track written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, displays more of a country/rock feeling than many of the harder, bluesier tunes recorded during these sessions, and displays the influence of west coast late Sixties rock bands like the Youngbloods and Quicksilver Messenger Service.Ĭollins’ flat-picked arpeggiated guitar part has a fingerpicked, banjo-esque feel, embellished by country style piano fills. I thought it was cool.This is another track recorded during the band’s initial Muscle Shoals studio sessions of 1971-72, released posthumously on Skynyrd’s First and…Last (and Skynyrd’s First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album) as well as 1998’s The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd. I just remember that I wanted to do something a little different from the same old slide guitar sound, so I came up with this unique kind of invention. "I don't know what inspired me to tune my guitar to E-A-D-G-G-E, or to use the screwdriver to raise the strings. I just have to make sure that I don't hit the B string when I'm playing the chords. For the jam at the end, I pull out the wire and play the rhythm part. I hit the third and second strings together and play them like they're one string – it's the same idea as a 12-string guitar. "When I play the slide part, I start on the third string, slide up to the 12th fret, and take it from there. When it was on my pinky I would play out of tune because I couldn't see the frets as well as when the slide was on my middle finger. I used to wear it on my pinky so I could use the other fingers to fret with, but I just never had the 'touch,' as I call it. He was always on pitch – never sharp or flat – and that's hard to do. Duane was one of my heroes and, in my opinion, he was the best slide player who ever lived. “He told me that a bottle sounds different than a steel slide,” recalls the guitarist, “and I think it does, so I copied him. (Image credit: Kevin Kane/WireImage)įor a slide, Rossington used a glass Coricidin bottle, just like Duane Allman. Gary Rossington and Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2006. He couldn't get it to sound right with a steel slide or a bottle, so he used a Zippo. It's like Jimi Hendrix on 'All Along the Watchtower.' He played the slide solo with a Zippo lighter. “I've never played that song live without it – it just reminds me of the way I did it originally. I don't really need to use that little wire anymore, but I just do it out of sentimental reasons,” he explains. And, rather than using a screwdriver, he used a little piece of wire about five inches long. 017-gauge G strings for the third and second strings to make the sound more consistent.
In more recent years, Rossington was known to use two Dean Markley. With the two Gs, it creates a drawling, doubled sound." Then, I tuned the B string down to G – so the G and the B strings were both tuned to G. “I took a screwdriver, of all things, and stuck it under the strings up at the nut, so it would raise the strings up like a steel guitar. But when I played, the bottle kept clinking against the frets because the strings were too low. “We kept playing the chords over and over, until Ronnie figured out some lyrics, and I came up with the slide part.
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