The bill was a three act show with Tommy & Billy Crain’s local Nashville band. It was early 1974 at a sold out 1500 seat club called Mothers Music Emporium in Nashville Tennessee. Let’s take a minute to remember those that didn’t make it on that tragic day back in 1977. In celebration of our invitation to be a part of the Lynyrd Skynyrd farewell tour I want to share my memory of the Outlaws first show with the Skynyrd Boys. However, the band would never be the same. Southern Swede: Hi, again everybody A couples of years ago since last time. Lyrnyrd Skynyrd has gone through various formations since then, and still tours regularly to this day. Taking over band leader Ronnie Van Zant’s role in the band would be, fittingly, his younger brother Johnny Van Zant. Killed in the crash were lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines along with three others. After a decade, they would reunite, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. On October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed in the woods eight miles west of the Gillsburg exit off of Federal Highway 55 after a concert in Greenville South Carolina. was treated for his injuries and was the only one of the surviving band members to be in good position to attend the memorial and funeral services for Van Zant, says Orlando Sentinel.
Drummer Artimus Pyle, along with two crew members, were able to escape the wreckage and seek help from a local farmer and assist other the rest of the survivors.Īfter the accident, surviving members of the band Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle officially disbanded. Lynyrd Skynyrd was first composed of guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, bassist Larry Junstrom, drummer Bob Burns, and vocalist Ronnie Van Zant. Following a concert at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, the band members boarded a chartered Convair CV-300 to head to a show down at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA the next night.ĭue to a faulty engine draining fuel at an excessive rate, the plane went down over the swamp while pilots attempted an emergency landing at local airport in Gillsburg, Mississippi. The group just had come off an epic summer tour, and had released Street Survivors a mere three days before the shocking accident. With hits such as “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Simple Man,” and “Free Bird,” which features one of the most memorable guitar solos ever, and is a tribute to fallen Allman Brothers Band founding member Duane Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd was well on their way. The Jacksonville, FL-based band was well on their way into the legendary canon of the rock n’ roll halls, having cleaned up their act of boozing and fighting, at the behest of Van Zant, and turning into an absolute juggernaut of an act, both live and in the studio. One of the most tragic stories in rock history has got to be the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash that took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and both pilots of the plane, Walter McCreary and William Gray.
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