Lynyrd Skynyrd had just released their fifth studio albumStreet Survivorsand were on their way to Baton Rouge, La. from Greenville, S.C. for a show when their plane ran out of fuel mid-flight. The pilots attempted to carry out an emergency landing in a nearby open field, but ultimately ...
Guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, pianist Billy Powell and drummer Artimus Pyle reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd for a one-off instrumental performance of “Free Bird” with the Charlie Daniels Band some two years after the infamous 1977 plane crash that took the life of frontman Ronnie Van Za...
So, it's no surprise that the excellent 'At Fillmore East' was also their breakthrough record, making them jam-band stars. Sadly, guitarist Duane Allman – the linchpin here – died in a motorcycle accident in October 1971, just three months after the album's release. Bad Company, Bad C...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973):Lynyrd Skynyrd defined Southern rock forever with an album that built outward from the Allman Brothers' blues and country influences with a lean, rock-focused sound -- and lyrics that were just as hard-eyed. Montrose ...
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Greg T. Walker and Jakson Spires reformed Blackfoot in the '00s; Spires died suddenly, and the others eventually left too. Rickey Medlocke then started an entirely new edition of the group in 2012, installing himself as producer while he continues to work with Lynyrd Skynyrd. The entire line...
We’ve done it many times before like that, just Pete [Townshend] and I, with him on acoustic guitar and me singing. Then, I start to enjoy myself with it. You can explore the melody and you can jazz it up. You can do all kinds of movement in it. But once it’s on the ...
Lynch explained his take on the band's reunion chances in a 2023 interview with VintageRock Pod. " I think that ship has sailed, as I said in other interviews, because we tried so many times to put it together, and it's like Humpty Dumpty. Don's got his thing. He owns the [Dokke...