This is why Michael Ray Fitzgerald cannot be taken seriously in his so called history of jax crap...
Jacksonville, an UNLIKELY INCUBATOR that produced more than a dozen greats- legends such as Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Dave Hlubek, Jeff Carlisi, Mike Campbell, and Derek Trucks. All emerged from Jacksonville.
STOP the video at exactly 45 seconds and tell me what you see? What you see is cultural destruction. MRF is intentionally separating and visually disparaging Gary and Allen on purpose. This is hate and evil emerging from POS MRF. He did this on purpose. And he also purposely ignored mentioning Skynyrd greats.
So what is the main problem here with the lame brain of Michael Ray Fitzgerald?
His choices of guitarists is selective and exclusive at the same time.
He picks and chooses who he wants to highlight while ignoring all the others.
But the real problem with how this fucking asshole Michael Ray Fitzgerald approaches his claims selectively is completely wrong and he can only include some guitarists in Jacksonville history by using the word "emerges" from Jacksonville- but NOT From Jacksonville!
Take for example the marxist hippie band called Allman Brothers. This band is NOT from Jacksonville. Did they emerge from Jacksonville? One could call it that.
But if you look at their history, Duane and Gregg Allman were born in Nashville, Tennessee and their divorced single mother MOVED Duane and Gregg to Daytona Beach, Florida where they grew up with other musicians like Floyd Miles and Bob Greenlee. So Jacksonville was the closest music town they chose to go to. And yes, the Allman Brothers did form in Jacksonville in summer of 1968, but they were not from there!
Why is Duane Allman included as a "Jacksonville" great when history PROVES he is not?
Duane Allman was FROM Daytona Beach. Dickey Betts is from west Palm Beach Florida and lives in Bradenton area. These people are NOT from Jacksonville, but are only included because they EMERGED from Jacksonville.
And we all know Michael Ray Fitzgerald is red commie flag waving marxist of the democrap party of hate America enemies of America. The democrap party is a party of domestic terrorists and Michael Ray Fitzgerald is certainly one of them and a revisionist writer based on his own nasty hateful prejudices of pure bullshit. What he is doing is historical terrorism. Its cultural heritage terrorism coming from the mind of a hate America and HATE the South marxist terrrorist. How many ways can we say the arrogant condescending MRF is a piece of shit not worth listening to. And in the future JACKSONVILLE RESIDENT HISTORIANS will correct and undo and discredit and disgrace this piece of shit in print.
Let's continue with his bullshit selective revisionist crap...
Did any of you HEAR any verbal audible mention of Jacksonville's HOMETOWN greats like Allen Collins and Gary Rossington? Nope. But he showed their images, but failed to mention them. And for this reason MRF is exposed as a fraud.
How dare he fail to mention HOMETOWN home GROWN guitar greats! No, he's too busy including into his list anyone who emerges out of Jacksonville and could care less about those actually FROM Jacksonville! MRF UNDERMINES his own credibility with this stupid shit.
So if we use his liberal lunatic logic, who else was NOT from Jacksonville that can be included in his "EMERGED" from bullshit logic?
Steve Gaines.
Warren Haynes EMERGED in Allman Brothers so using liberal lunatic logic he should also be included.
And when he includes Dave Hlubek, why does he ignore the other two guitarists in the Molly Hatchet band like Duane Roland and Steve Holland? How stupid is this?
And in Blackfoot, MRF includes an image of drummer Rickey Medlocke as a guitar great and everyone knows Rickey is a lame as loser wannabe on guitar and is at the bottom of the barrel of Jax guitarists. Charlie Hargrett, who was NOT even included here is a far superior musician and guitarist than wannabe Rickey Green will ever be. Why was Charlie Hargrett ignored and overlooked?
And folks we have Curtis Willis, another almost unknown great guitarist from Jacksonville. Where is his mention and INCLUSION into Jacksonville guitar greats?
Again, this is why MRF is a fucking joke not worth listening to. He is NOT revealing true history. His writings reveal his own personal HATE campaign against the South, against Jacksonville, and against our town's true history.
He also failed to mention any guitarists from the Johnny Van Zant band. I guess they will never matter to him. Well asshole, they MATTER to many of hometown citizens which Michael Ray Asshole will never be.
And look how he carved up 38 Special. He points out Jeff Carlisi, but fails to include the man who wrote and defined the sound of 38 Special, Don Barnes.
Dru Lombar of GrinderSwitch was from Jacksonville and died there. Forgotten.
Again, Michael Ray Fitzgerald cannot be trusted with OUR fucking history. Leave our town alone MRF if you are NOT going to get it right and only want to spew your commie marxist hate on us all like pushing that Derek Trucks player on us all.
The only reason anyone ever heard of him is because Derek is a classic piggyback rider who only gained fame and fortune because his FAMILY earned the fame, the status, and this was HANDED to Derek Trucks on a silver platter. If not for that the world never would have heard of him on his own. So Derek can't count because he did NOT do it on his own. It was handed to him, and because Derek is a bird of a feather left wing liberal lunatic hippie POS marxist enemy of all things Southern to this day, MRF hails him up there with Duane Allman himself.
And folks, he put Bobby Ingram on the front cover of his new book of Jacksonville guitar greats. BOBBY INGRAM is on the cover ABOVE Skynyrd! While really great guitarists are excluded. MRF is agenda based. Not a true historian. A complete fraud from top to bottom.
This shit is pathetic.
Tony Smotherman is a home grown Jacksonville great!
Buddy Crump is a home town Jacksonville great!
And if you want to keep including the "emerging" players out of Jax then Ace Moreland and Greg Baril need to be on the list.
This is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak.
Shame be upon the infected domestic terrorist mind of marxist POS Michael Ray Fitzgerald!
Michael Ray Fitzgerald DISCREDITS HIMSELF and DISGRACES HIMSELF with everything he does- even pretending to teach. That man should not be allowed around students he can fuck up.
Every word and every publication this enemy of Jacksonville publishes is a hate crime against us all.
Can anyone photoshop this crap? Remove Booby Ingram from the cover and remove Dickey Betts and remove Derek Trucks and put real guitar greats in their place. Men who EARNED it by paying their dues. Men born and raised on Southern soil of north Florida. People like Derek had it handed to him. If not for his family no one ever would have heard of him. The MEN who deserve to be on that cover are those who worked for it from the bottom up. Allen Collins deserves to be on the cover. Gary Rossington deserves to be on the cover. Don Barnes, Charlie Hargrett, Erik Lundgren, Robbie Gay, Dru Lombar, Curtis Willis, Tony Smotherman, Buddy Crump and the list goes on of those who actually deserve it, not those who have it handed to them like Derek and the boob job who stole Molly Hatchet. Dickey Betts deserves to be on the Bradenton Guitar Greats book cover, not a Jacksonville guitar greats books. Pure fraud here folks! Hateful fraud.
You know Michael Ray Fitzgerald, you may hate us Southerners, but you and your fraud words will never hurt us like Allen Collins hurt you. I get it you want revenge and that every word you write is hateful revenge and this is how you expose yourself as a fraud and it will catch up to you. One day there will be new books that will say in print what you have done. Since your hateful words discredit and disgrace yourself, you make it easy for the rest of the world to catch up and they will. WE will.
Any true historian who writes truthful accurate "history" should only include into a book about Jacksonville greatest guitarists shall only be those guitarists BORN and RAISED within the borders of Jacksonville. Anything else is fraud.