5/21/2023 0 Comments Lucy is Lost by Ed King![]() ![]() I never drank, but I was into drugs pretty good. ![]() “I was out of my mind for quitting,” he said. King - who was also a member of the 1960s psychedelic band Strawberry Alarm Clock and co-wrote (without credit) their hit “Incense and Peppermints - quit the band in May of 1975 after the tension between him, Van Zant and their manager became too much for him to handle. Finally, after maybe 10 to 15 minutes, he got up and sang a verse and a chorus. I started off with that riff and Ronnie was sitting on the edge of the couch, making this signal to me to just keep rolling it over and over. “We wrote that song in half an hour,” King told Classic Bands in 2006. “The song came real quick. But the bassist/guitarist - who died of cancer this week - was in Lynyrd Skynyrd when they recorded their first three albums, playing on classics like “Free Bird,” “Simple Man,” “Gimme Three Steps” and their immortal classic “Sweet Home Alabama,” which he co-wrote. Ed King wasn’t a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd and he wasn’t with them on October 20th, 1977 when their plane crashed and killed frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and several others. ![]()
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