On this day in 1977, a plane carrying several band members crashed, killing them and several others.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Yes, but on a happier note, Skynyrd is still around with Johnny Van Zant on vocals, Gary Rossington and Ricky Medlocke(Blackfoot) on guitars. They just released a new cd called "Last of a Dyin' Breed".
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These guys were pure Rock n Roll...Southern Rock has that strong taste. Their "dad" was literally Buddy Holly.
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I guess, but in my mind Ronnie was the heart and soul of the band. After his death, the magic was gone for me. Not unlike the Marshall Tucker Band. Tommy Caldwell died in a car accident in 1980, and within a few years many of the origional members had left to explore other intrests. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't care for much of anything they did after that time. The band is still around and touring last I heard, but I don't know if they have released anything in years.
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If the founder(s) goes, then the band goes. That is my opinion...
I am a huge Ben Foster fan, and he founded a band called Screeching Weasel. I do not agree with his politics, but I am a fan of his artistic creation. He is still alive, so his legacy is still 'green'. When he passes, so should his legacy. If Foster dies, so should Screeching Weasel. The mark they left will not degrade, but the legend is dead. Progress should continue to grow, but use a name(respectfully), and create your own legacy...
I am a huge Ben Foster fan, and he founded a band called Screeching Weasel. I do not agree with his politics, but I am a fan of his artistic creation. He is still alive, so his legacy is still 'green'. When he passes, so should his legacy. If Foster dies, so should Screeching Weasel. The mark they left will not degrade, but the legend is dead. Progress should continue to grow, but use a name(respectfully), and create your own legacy...
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I like Skynyrd's instrumentals. Hate their lyrics and vocals.
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The drummer is usually the winning ticket for me at first. The melody of the bass and guitarist is the next step. The lyrics and vocals(or, singing), comes last. The instrument arrangement is very important(in my opinion). 🙂
In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band Aerosmith inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for their upcoming tour—a Convair 240 operated out of Addison, Texas. Concerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith to look elsewhere—a decision that saved one band but doomed another.
The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date. On this day in 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd's tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines as well as the band's assistant road manager and the plane's pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.
The original core of Lynyrd Skynyrd—Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom—first came together under the name "My Backyard" back in 1964, as Jacksonville, Florida, teenagers. Under that name and several others, the group developed its chops playing local and regional gigs throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, then finally broke out nationally in 1973 following the adoption of the name "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in honor of a high school gym teacher/nemesis named Leonard Skinner.
The newly renamed band scored a major hit with their hard-driving debut album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) (1973), which featured one of the most familiar and joked-about rock anthems of all time, "Free Bird."
Their follow-up album, Second Helping (1974), included the even bigger hit "Sweet Home Alabama," and it secured the band's status as giants of the southern rock subgenre.
On October 17, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd—now in a lineup that included backup singer Cassie Gaines and her guitarist brother, Steve—released their fifth studio album, Street Survivors, which would eventually be certified double-platinum.
Three days later, however, tragedy struck the group when their chartered Convair 240 began to run out of fuel at 6,000 feet en route to Baton Rouge.
The plane's crew, whom the National Transportation Safety Board would hold responsible for the mishap in the accident report issued eight months later, radioed Houston air-traffic control as the plane lost altitude, asking for directions to the nearest airfield.
"We're low on fuel and we're just about out of it," the pilot told Houston Center at approximately 6:42 pm. "We want vectors to McComb [airfield] poste-haste please, sir."
Approximately 13 minutes later, however, the plane crashed just outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.
Thanks History.com.
The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date. On this day in 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd's tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines as well as the band's assistant road manager and the plane's pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.
The original core of Lynyrd Skynyrd—Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom—first came together under the name "My Backyard" back in 1964, as Jacksonville, Florida, teenagers. Under that name and several others, the group developed its chops playing local and regional gigs throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, then finally broke out nationally in 1973 following the adoption of the name "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in honor of a high school gym teacher/nemesis named Leonard Skinner.
The newly renamed band scored a major hit with their hard-driving debut album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) (1973), which featured one of the most familiar and joked-about rock anthems of all time, "Free Bird."
Their follow-up album, Second Helping (1974), included the even bigger hit "Sweet Home Alabama," and it secured the band's status as giants of the southern rock subgenre.
On October 17, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd—now in a lineup that included backup singer Cassie Gaines and her guitarist brother, Steve—released their fifth studio album, Street Survivors, which would eventually be certified double-platinum.
Three days later, however, tragedy struck the group when their chartered Convair 240 began to run out of fuel at 6,000 feet en route to Baton Rouge.
The plane's crew, whom the National Transportation Safety Board would hold responsible for the mishap in the accident report issued eight months later, radioed Houston air-traffic control as the plane lost altitude, asking for directions to the nearest airfield.
"We're low on fuel and we're just about out of it," the pilot told Houston Center at approximately 6:42 pm. "We want vectors to McComb [airfield] poste-haste please, sir."
Approximately 13 minutes later, however, the plane crashed just outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.
Thanks History.com.
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Looks like Skynyrd is having an awful lot of fun in this clip:
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