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LYNYRD SKYNYRD

HOME: The Mobile Line AGE: Eight or twelve, depending on whether Johnny Walker Red or Black is coursing through their bloodstreams at the moment. PROFESSION: Growing their hair long to cover up distinct pick blotches on the back of their necks.

April 1, 1977

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD

CREEM’S PROFILES

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

HOME: The Mobile Line

AGE: Eight or twelve, depending on whether Johnny Walker Red or Black is coursing through their bloodstreams at the moment.

PROFESSION: Growing their hair long to cover up distinct pick blotches on the back of their necks.

HOBBIE S: Looting and pillaging at their own press parties, beating up other performers at their own press parties, looting, pillaging and beating up strangers at other performers’ press parties.

LAST BOOK READ: Northern Comfort/SouthemLies by Neil Young

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Winners of the National Cirrhosis Society Liver Of The Month Award.

QUOTE: “Either you gimme back my bullets or I’m gonna make this bottle of Jack Daniels a.permanent attachment of yo’ head.’’

PROFILE: Southern men with a macho swagger that make Margaret Mitchell cringe in shame. Noted for letting their fists relieve tension fast. One thing’s for sure: these boys ain’t wishy-washy about nothing. Once in a while they forget the fightin’ and drinkin’ and make some pretty good music, too.

BEER: Boy Howdy!

Authentic

There are Zillions of ways to get your name in the papers, but only one way to slake your thirst for CREEM. The quality standards we set down in the dawn of the Seventies have been on a Wild Mouse ride through the Highlands, the Lowlands, and the Barstools. Every drop's a hoot. A1 T¥ , ,,

Always say Boy Howdy!