You would be amazed how much El Cerrito, Lodi, Stockton, etc. are in many ways more "south" than much of the south, there's more cows in Lodi than there are in almost any place in Louisiana.

Places the members of CCR came from like Lodi, Stockton, El Cerrito are in almost every sense FAR more "southern like" than most of the actual south, they are farm towns where crops and cows live, and in El Cerrito's case, now a bunch of refineries, just like the south.

Which Lynyrd Skynyrd do you mean? I mean which of the 27 members the band has had? All of them? Do you understand why that's kinda a silly statement to make?

You can't understand why John knew how to craft them lyrics because you've never been to "the salt marshes outside San Francisco" to realize that places where the band grew up like Lodi(which they wrote a song about as well) are farm towns more "southern" than most of the people in Texas live..

This is just ignorance. Nobody sounds like Aphex Twin, nobody sounds like Oskar Schuster, and the only reason everyone sounds and sounded like Kraftwerk is because EVERY ARTIST YOU LOVE SAMPLED THE SHIT OUT OF KRAFTWERK.

"digital music" is neither new, nor did it "kill" or even harm anyone or anything, except a few cave men with boomer meme level "if it ain't real guitars it ain't real music" complexes. Your fucking "The Doors" and "The Grateful Dead" and "The Beatles" fucking used a MOOG ELECTRONIC SYNTH IN THE 1960'S. Oh and unless you're rich or you deal with SUPER hot and annoying tube amps your stereo makes your music digital at some point any way, and even if you DO have tube amps, you either waste a fuck ton of time and money every other year replacing them or it sounds like SHIT.

While all of this may be varying degrees of true, it's almost certain that the main MAJOR reason for this is that Chinook Salmon that spawns at the Klamath is endangered and the next step beyond that is "Critically endangered" which is often impossible to come back from. This being the largest and most valuable fish for consumption on the west coast and perhaps for much of America, and it's pretty clear much of this decision is to prevent the loss of a billion dollar industry..

It's not JUST about that one fish, but it IS ALMOST ENTIRELY about that one fish and the knockdown effects if it goes bye bye, which it may any way - Their main food source is invertebrate and the increasing acidification of the ocean by the increased co2 absorption is making "Exoskeletons" unable to form as easily, soon they will not form at all, boom collapse from the bottom up.