The tortured argument is brought up by Rickey Medlocke himself over and over. He recorded with Skynyrd before they had an album deal.
Artimus Pyle was on the albums and played the shows. His band has Barry Lee Harwood who was hanging out with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1968 onward, and he was the male vocalist and songwriter in the Rossington-Collins Band.
Whose band is more original?