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Remembering the “Forgotten Roadie,” Chuck Flowers

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Amidst all the Lynyrd Skynyrd tragedies, he’s not often spoken of. Even the headlines that announced his death misidentified him as a former backup guitarist. He’s been called the “forgotten roadie.” Ironically, if he’d been on that plane that crashed in 1977, he might still be alive.

Remembering the Be-Ins at Willowbranch Park

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For the briefest of moments, it was the most magical time, wild yet somehow innocent. The be-ins at Willowbranch Park in the late ’60s featured a broil of young musicians, out of which rose the Allman Brothers Band. The be-ins meant long hair, beads and tie-dye, hippies walking barefoot through Riverside, cheap rent in old mansions, but more than anything, they meant music.

New Story: The Jug, est. 1948, redneck rock, bullet holes

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There’s a bullet hole in the urinal.

Somebody says she’s come here so long she’s glad the walls can’t talk. Somebody says, “If this here parkin’ lot could talk, you’d need a goddam typewriter.” Somebody wonders how many virginities Lynyrd Skynyrd did away with at The Jug.