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Digital re-mastered and expanded two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of the Southern Rock band's 1976 album. This expanded edition comes expanded with bonus tracks and a DVD featuring performances from 1975 appearance on old grey whistle test! Originally released on February 2, 1976, Gimme Back My Bullets was the fourth album from Florida-born Lynyrd Skynyrd, the now legendary southern rock band. Features six audio bonus tracks including 2 previously not released commercially and new DVD liner notes, plus complete CD reissue notes. MCA. 2006. .com ---- Other records from the late, great, and original Lynyrd Skynyrd were more barroom raw (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd), indelibly rocking (Second Helping), and radio-ready (Street Survivors), but none was as endearing and cohesive as Gimme Back My Bullets). The 1975 LP, whose title referred not to ammunition, but to the Billboard term "#1 with a bullet," found the normally three-fisted Florida guitar army one axe short. But it allowed Gary Rossington and Allen Collins to work more intuitively on the songwriting chores with vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, while providing room to groove in the process. The results, though underrated in the band's epic pre-c catalog, sweep into rock ("Trust," Searching"), blues ("I Got the Same Old Blues"), folk ("Every Mother's Son"), and country ("All I Can Do Is Write About It"). This deluxe edition includes alternate takes and live cuts. It also includes a bonus DVD featuring seven songs from the band's November 1975 performance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test. The crystal-clear video shows Skynyrd in all their grandeur: raucous and polished, scorching and compassionate. And lights-out loud. --Scott Holter P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist ---------------- Originally released on February 2, 1976, Gimme Back My Bullets was the fourth album from Florida-born Lynyrd Skynyrd, the now legendary southern rock band, with singer-songwriter Ronnie Van Zant at the helm, welded rock onto blues and country to create a new sound greater than the sum of its musical parts. Skynyrd originally had a different title in mind. "We were gonna call that record 'Ain't No Dowd About It', after producer Tom Dowd," guitarist Gary Rossington laughs. "Gimme Back My Bullets" was the last track recorded for the album. "That was just a riff I had," Rossington remembers. "Ronnie wrote that about bullets on the charts, not bullets. We were talkin' about Billboard, rise with a bullet, ten with a bullet. We had to quit doin' that song live 'cause people would throw bullets up when we'd play it, .22 cartridges and sometimes shells." Lynyrd Skynyrd's Old Grey Whistle Test appearance demarcates the halfway point in the original band's meteoric four-year odyssey. It was two years since they first burst on the rock scene, hailed by many as "the world's next super group." In the following two years they were to fulfill that promise, achieving their greatest triumphs and experiencing their darkest tragedies. Skynyrd gave better performances than The Old Grey Whistle Test and they gave worse. But one thing you could say about this band: no matter what the situation, whether it was an on-day or an off-day, no matter what the adversity, they always took pride in giving audiences their best . Perhaps that is what makes them the quintessential American Rock 'n Roll Band and why their legacy has endured and grown for over three decades. See more ( javascript:void(0) )