Lynyrd Skynyrd

[Dirk]

Bit late posting this.......time flies.
It was 40 years ago, yesterday - 20th October 1977 - that the fateful plane crash occured.
One of the best gigs I ever went to was the Lynyrd Skynyrd show at the Birmingham Odeon in February of 1977. I also saw them at the same venue about 2 years earlier.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...-skynyrds-plane-crash-ronnie-van-zant-w509500

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Always liked the footage from their OGWT appearance.



One More From The Road, 2 CD version is a great way to hear a bunch of their stuff, recorded in 1976 so pre-crash band.

 

[raleighnut]

Still going with Rickey Medlocke back in the band but playing guitar these days (instead of drums)

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiTydqAooHXAhWC6RoKHR8jBXMQFgisATAE&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickey_Medlocke&usg=AOvVaw0TikYxBKMg_va-jS4MXR4U



View: https://youtu.be/uOy6jCSauFw

 

[delb0y]

I always thought Steve Gaines, who died in that crash, would have been recognized as one of the greats given a few more years. He played on Street Survivors, where he also wrote a couple of the best songs and sang superb lead vocals on one track, and he played on One More For The Road where his playing is just sooo good.

His head was surrounded by fire on the album cover too...

 

[Drago]

I can never quite decide if I like them or not.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I can never quite decide if I like them or not.

You don't then.

 

[Drago]

See, I don't dislike them. I'll tap along on the steering wheel if they're on then radio, but wouldn't go asmfar as buying their music.

 

[Beebo]

Freebird is an undisputed classic.

 

[Lozz360]

I saw them at the Bristol Hippadrome late in 1977. I believe it was their last gig in the U.K. before the tragic plane crash. Fantastic band and very sad loss.

How did you manage to see them two years later (in 1979), did they reform?

 

[Andrew_P]

Completely unrelated but one of those youtube led me to this, which I enjoyed. Freebird is a favourite on my bike, in one ear of course.

Blatant rip off of I'd rather go blind.

 

[Dirk]

How did you manage to see them two years later (in 1979), did they reform?

One of the best gigs I ever went to was the Lynyrd Skynyrd show at the Birmingham Odeon in February of 1977. I also saw them at the same venue about 2 years earlier.

ie. October 1975

 

[ianrauk]

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I always thought Steve Gaines, who died in that crash, would have been recognized as one of the greats given a few more years. He played on Street Survivors, where he also wrote a couple of the best songs and sang superb lead vocals on one track, and he played on One More For The Road where his playing is just sooo good.

His head was surrounded by fire on the album cover too...

Agreed. His songwriting and singing was a revelation for the band. RVZ also said as much. You just have to listen to 'You Got That Right' from the album. A wonderful crafted song.

They also changed the cover removing the flames.

 

[Lozz360]

ie. October 1975

Thanks. My silly brain read it as two years later.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I saw them at the Bristol Hippadrome late in 1977. I believe it was their last gig in the U.K. before the tragic plane crash. Fantastic band and very sad loss.

How did you manage to see them two years later (in 1979), did they reform?

ie. October 1975

Ackshly didn't they reform in 1979, I'm off to check.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yeah, just for one song!

Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy, reuniting only on one occasion to perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam V in January 1979. Collins, Rossington, Powell, and Pyle performed the song with Charlie Daniels and members of his band. Leon Wilkeson, who was still undergoing physical therapy for his badly broken left arm, was in attendance, along with Judy Van Zant, Teresa Gaines, JoJo Billingsley, and Leslie Hawkins.