@@yolandajohnson8685 the ticket is actually only worth about $200.00 US but I've seen them sell for as little as $100.... No vault necessary apparently.
April 23, 1977 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY. Two days later, on April 25, 1977 I seen Led Zeppelin live at Ky Fairgrounds. Both shows were friggin awesome!
Seen them on the last tour, JFK Memorial Stadium in Pennsylvania. They were opening for Peter Frampton, but they stole the show - by the time Frampton came on, most people had left.
I learned how to play sweet Home alabama on Brickyard rd . at a friends house who lived a couple houses down from Ronnie vanzants house , i grew up in o.p florida outside jaxville .when i was younger i used to cut thru the cemetery where Ronnie was buried , people always left bottles of jackDaniels poems also charlie Daniels had a bench put there with a poem on it Lynyrd Skynyrd is the most epic of all Southern Rock 904 Forever........ Fly on Freebird.........
2 things I won't do- Fly over the Ocean or take a cruise. I mean people disappearing from cruise ships is a thing..And then there's Malasian Flight MH370...I don't even like exstensive bridges over water. There's this one bridge that spans the ocean between Salem and Beverly, Ma.....Another in upstate, N.Y. on Rt 86 heading west btwn Olean and Jamestown..A little walkway tunnel running under the railroad tracks in Hornell.. I remember them all... Scares the shit out of me every time...
Never let a musician who believes he's going to be dead by the time he's thirty, bully you into taking a flight on a plane with obvious mechanical problems. It's that simple.
Jim Porter I'm from Jacksonville Florida we have always heard Ronnie Vanzant did not want to get on that plane. Ronnie was the one that didn't want to fly. Allen Collins convinced him to do so. Ronnie Didn't even want to tour anymore. He didn't even want to be in Lynyrd Skynyrd anymore. He wanted to do country music because that's where his love for music was. He did not want to do that tour.
@I ll that's why it's even more reason not to fly drunk or buzz. You need to have a clear head just in case some emergency happens. Like an engine catching fire. There are experts who blame pilot error on the cause of accident.
Yeah, it was sorta like, Well some people smoke, some people drink, and some people don't.You knew those were not good but nobody banned it publicly. You could smoke in a hospitals cafeteria up until about the 80s.
@@Tornado1994 stfu. Human errors are that and nothing more. Imagine if I called you names for human errors and another thing. This was the 70's. Things like that were normal
So 'normal' that Aerosmith's '70s management refused the 'plane & pilots on safety grounds? 'Human error' doesn't cover 2 sober pilots who know 26 lives depend on basic fuel checks & not flying with known engine problems. www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7806.pdf 'Crew failed to monitor fuel flow..failed to take appropriate pre-flight & maintenance action' - Baffling, totally avoidable, negligence.
My Dad saw Billy at Lowe's on Kingsley. He was telling my Dad ( who knew Billys Mom from working with her for years at NAS ) that they both had cardiologists in the same complex by OP Hosp. and he had an appointment coming up. Dad said.. I just saw mine.... So very sad Billy died. So sad many have died.... Billy was AWESOME playing the piano. Im sorry for your loss...
I don't think that's a fair statement, seems like several of them were concerned enough to tell Van Zant to get another plane. I think many of them were anticipating it, even if they didn't know it was going to happen until it did.
It is a fair statement though. Steven Tyler's father is a pilot and examined the plane before they even bought it. Find "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and Stephen Davis. That will be the proof. At least their point of view.
There was a member of the band who had a dream and she warned the band not to fly on that airplane. She just happened to be sick the day of the flight and that's why the backup singer was there. This lady later is known to become a Christian minister.
@@jr13227 But yeah, like the video showed, had they not run out of fuel they literally would have been on fire. Street survivor, maybe, but not plane crash survivor.
I was born October 20, 1977. At 7:12pm... I came in as they went out, and have loved them my entire life, always wondered what the world missed with their passing. RIP..
They say the most beautiful of flowers, bloom for the shortest time. I believe it. They are somehow very alive, everytime I hear Sweet Home Alabama. We can not know what disastors await us, just round the corner. Enjoy your day, Violet...HEY! You are my favorite color!! Party on.
“Good morning ladies and gentlemen, thank you for flying Buddy Holly airways, now sit back and relax and listen to a little Glenn Miller while we negotiate these storm fronts and divert via the Bermuda Triangle”
I know some folks don't agree but there should no longer be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. Trying to replace Ronnie is not even possible so lets celebrate the real band for the great rock n roll they gave us and go fishing in the rain.
Yes I was there at the emergency room in McComb Miss when they brought in the survivors. It was a terrible thing that happened that evening and I will never forget it, Rest in Peace LS!
I'm a recovering alcoholic of 30+ years. I've been trusted with many peoples LIVES on more than one occasion. I can be trusted to do the right thing. I know better than to get trashed anymore. Give yourself some credit too. Just the fact that you feel guilt tells me you are worth taking a chance on .... you're a better man than you think. God Bless you Sir !!
the plane, according to Aerosmith's pilot was poorly maintained and was an accident waiting to happen. Aerosmith declined leasing this plane because it was unsafe.
What a talented band skynyrd was . They were a great rock and roll band . Hard to believe they tried to carry on as skynyrd after the crash. You just cant carry that band on without Ronnie .
The principles of flight are the same for large planes as for small planes. Wind over the wings create lift and you need a fuel source. That’s basically it. So, don’t be afraid of small planes. Millions of flights occur every single day without incident. It’s rarely the plane that fails. It’s almost always pilot error. It actually takes a lot to bring down a plane. In this case, it was fuel starvation. In a nutshell, they ran out of gas because the pilots accidentally jettisoned the fuel instead of transferring it to the other engine. So, that’s my 2 cents. 🙂
@@pilotgal6191 We don't know if they dumped a fuel, but it doesn't change the fact that somebody fucked it up with tanking not enough fuel... that's why the engines stopped working imo
*Patsy Cline. She'd declined a car ride back saying "Don't worry about me, when it's my time to go, it's my time to go", similar to what Ronnie said on boarding his plane.
I was working on my instrument rating with a former airline pilot back in early fall of 1977 at Greenville Municipal Airport. We taxied past a Convair that had been sitting there for at least a few days. My instructor told me it was for sale for $90,000 but it had a bad jug in one of the radial engines, is what he said. It was old looking, but had an electric piano inside, and a sofa. It was like a charter plane. It sat there for a few more days I guess, then it was gone. Years later, I heard about the Skynyrd crash, and that it was on a Convair. It was the same plane.
I met Ronnie in 1975. There was no fuel lost in transferring from one engine to the other. It's a myth. There was no fuel to transfer to the other engine. The transferring lever was found to be shut (never used) in the plane wreckage. The pilots found that the second engine was nearly empty, so when it ran out, they crashed. The NTSB ruled pilot error for failing to top off the fuel tanks, even though the gages on those old planes were not very reliable.
Where do you guys get your data. Do you make it up? The pilots did not Jettison fuel nor did they not transfer fuel. Poor fuel management and monitoring was the reason for the crash. The bad engine did consume more fuel but leading up the final flight they fueled up along the way adding 200 gallons at one stop and a few hundred at another, etc. They did not do a visual fuel inspection and they poorly calculated the remaining gallons prior to the last flight. At least pull the NTSB report first. Makes me wonder how many other of your videos are accurate.
Not to mention that when they run out of fuel they decided to leave the gear down by while crashing into trees. Instead of trying to land in the wide-open area and belly flop. Course it was probably a gun Sam that they were out of fuel or they would have all burned to death. Piss poor planning results in piss poor performance! Pilot error and incompetence killed the band.
Exactly! The plane should have NEVER been allowed to take off. The fuel gauge was actually broken and had to be checked with a stick which they did NOT do! Their flight from Miami flames were shooting out of one of the engines and instead of hiring somebody to fix the problem the company leasing the plane wanted to use their own mechanics in Baton Rouge. In order to keep the engines going they were using an enriched fuel that burned faster than normal. So the decision to not stop in McComb,MS was what sealed their fate and it was 100% pilot's negligence to not know the fuel situation. Being out of fuel saved everybody from being burnt to a crisp! The leasing company should have grounded the plane straight away.
they dint. But you did. Regardless of it their videos is racking up a ton of viewers and likes while your little "Self proclaimed fact" sits down here collecting dust as it should be. Get a life Loser.
Kyle Shiflet My dad had tickets for the Baton Rouge show that they were flying to when they crashed. He was lucky enough to see them twice before the crash.
Just think of the albums that would have come out after SS they would have been the biggest band ever. What a shame Ronnie didn't listen to their advice about that damn plane!!
@@bill2527 Their manager made the decision to lease the plane with possible intent to buy it and probably never heard about Aerosmith's complaints. So the band was basically stuck with that mode of transportation and had schedules to meet.
Here a fun fact the lead singer of showdown did a cover (wells that's pretty known) but since he's married to Ronnie van zandts daughter all the songwriters royalties stayed in the family It's like writing a hit song twice
Maureen Santiago To you i guess no other song compares but music is a personal preference matter..You may have lots of people who agree but it's still a personal preference and preferences vary wildly and no one is incorrect when speaking of their own personal preference...
@@davidwright8371 Brent Smith was never married to Ronnie Van Zandt's daughter. Jason Todd was dating Ronnie's daughter and Shinedown kind of was the house band at the bar owned by Ronnie's widow and daughter.
I seen the last concert in Greenville, SC & it was great. I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news about the plane crash. They were such an awesome group & I still get sad about it today. Free Bird was the last song they played that night & I still have my ticket stub.
My ex husband actually declined to go on that flight with Ronnie & the band, due to his fear of flying. Only a few hours prior before take off, they shared a few shots of whiskey. He still owns the shot glass.
Fun fact: the members of the original line up hated the idea of being labeled a “Southern“ band. Their goal was to become the Rolling Stones of the United States. It’s mostly geography that was used to typify them as “Southern.“ And much to the surprise of many people today, they were not “conservative“ artists. In fact, they were extremely progressive for their time. Aside from being long-haired Southern boys (long hair on men being considered taboo by crew-cut-wearing men at the time), they wrote songs about gun violence, environmental degradation, racial injustice, etc. Hell. They even rallied for Jimmy Carter! They wanted the South to break out of its backward-thinking ways on its own by championing the great people and ideas that the South could produce. The Confederate battle flag? That was foisted upon them by their management as a publicity stunt. Sweet Home Alabama? Mockery of the backward ways of many of their fellow Southerners. Disbelieve this if you like but all of it was documented through interviews with the members and people who knew them.
Yeah.they did let the management run the show though...I'm not a huge fan.I thought most of the music too depressing..plus dude shamed them into getting on that plane...
Sickly ironic when they miss who L'S really were & tag on the far-right politics, same 1s who somehow miss the cynicism of 'Born in the USA'. 'Sweet Home Alabama' was a jokey re-buff to the idea all Southerners were small-minded bigots, not an anthem for those bigots. RVZ: "We wrote 'Alabama as a joke. We didn't even think about it, the words just came out that way. We just laughed like hell, & said 'Ain't that funny'. We love Neil Young, we love his music"
Fun Fact: people weren't that political then. No one thought anything about the rebel flag...it was about southern pride...nothing to do with racism. All the guys had long hair then had nothing to do with right or left, most of us didn't even know what that meant. There were NO crew cuts unless you were raised on a pig farm somewhere. People just got together, smoked a little pot, drank and nobody cared or identified with politics.
You got that right...I don't care who you are or how famous...I've done stupid stuff on my own..but I'm not gonna let some nut-job take me with em..(And let's face it alotta nut-job that I love did music)..
Ronnie did not have a death wish. Are you kidding? He loved life and he was fair and square. He had an intuition, or whatever you please to call it, that his time on earth would be short. He knew things that others usually dont. He did not advertise that either. He was a great believer in God
Hey bro, why dont you credit the video of the plane flying over the trees and crashing. Thats footage from a crash in the late 80s and both people on board died.
And Allen Collins was the one that Ronnie told that to. Allen was scared to death & DID NOT want to get on it. Ronnie said ''Get your ass on that plane, if it's your time to go it's your time to go". And as a family member I DO NOT LIKE OR APPRECIATE THE WAY SAID ''As Dean Kilpatrick lay dead in a swamp". REALLY MAN??? WOW!!!!!
Don't forget 2 of the remaining members, Allen Collins and Gary Rossington created the rossington collins band after the crash. This new band was by no means a lynyrd skynyrd continuation, but it was heavily influenced by the former bands southern sound.
My aunt still has the ticket from the Lakeland show. It's in a case with the original street survivor album. She willed it to me when she passed away. Long live Skynyrd. Yall are a great part of my childhood.
Howard stern had the band member that survived the crash tell the story of what happened. From someone being shot by a farmer because he looked like a zombie. Also told the story of guitar cases that flew around and broke Van Zandts neck when the plane was going down. Look it up on Howard Sterns web site
Artimus Pyle was shot in the shoulder trying to get help. Also, the "Street Survivors" album was re-released with a black cover because of its image of the band members being consumed by fire.
There was a warning shot fired because they looked like zombies when approaching Mote's property. From what I was told the plane hitting the trees sounded similar to gunshots to nearby residents.
catliftresearch no. No one from the crash walked out of it without rescue getting there first “it was silent and eerie. Helicopter hovering over. No screaming just a few call voices saying help or over here.”
This is so tragic, it has always haunted me. Sometimes it is for bands just not to be, just as it was for Badfinger. It's heartbreaking & all you can do is wonder why. 😢😢😢
And apparently the fuel gauges weren't working, so using a dipstick when on the ground they estimated how far they could fly. Unfortunately because the fuel/air mix was too rich they went through the fuel too quickly. Should have been enough red flags there to stop them from getting onboard.
They dumped the fuel, and it's technically not gas, I don't think...that's why the co pilot wasn't in his seat. Pilot knew they were crashing and told him to save himself.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Iirc he got that part wrong in the video. They were using a richer fuel mix to keep the damaged engine going, and didn’t bother to check the fuel and put more in to compensate for the faster burn rate. It didn’t help that the fuel gauge didn’t work
Leonard Skinner was the name of the gym teacher from the high school in Florida where the Van Zant's ( and maybe some of the others in the band, but I dunno ) went to school. The bands name is a take-off on his name, LOL.
She wasnt on no plane she was in Memphis ten when it happened she called the night before she had a dream but they voted and got on it any way she warned them
There fans were across American from the South to the North and East to West. I am BLACK and most blacks loved Southern Rock. In the South, Black and White lived together peacefully until the Government caused CHAOS! Our Government is the problem not our skin COLOR!!
I will allways truly Love Lynyrd Skynyrd. Im sorry Van Zant but seriously in all anousty. Why would you put your life and the rest of your friends and Band members at risk to believing its ok to take a plane ride with Drunk Pilots who don't inspect there planes and have multiple fuel spills when flying? He should have never suggested anyone to go aboard that plane. Because if they didn't. Lynyrd Skynyrd would have been continuing to make NEW Music over the years with the Same Band. After some of the members died it was never the same spark of talent ever again. Its hard to imagine what they could of been during the 80s. But stupid mistakes like this is why it could never be the same again without your friends. He should have cared more about living more and caring about his friends lives and try to keep the Band away from possible harm over there careers and life.
The pilots were not drunk. Thats how much Ronnie placed his life in the hands of God. He did have a premonition though that his life would be short. So he left it all in God's hands. It was meant to be and so it was. That's what Ronnie believed and that's how Ronnie lived.
Forgot to mention the manager and pilots flew to Florida for an all night gambling drinking party the night before and forgot to refuel and would explain why they had no gasoline at impacted his confession is in his video and in his book he takes all the blame
The Artimus Band is the best Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. They sound very close to the original. Better than the band that calls itself Lynyrd Skynyrd now.
As 13 year old kid doing his paper route after school. I remember seeing the headline. It was like a kick in the gut and punch to nose. At the time I remember singing that smell in the back seat of my sisters car. She said Tommy. Be careful with partying. I said nahh. I want to live fast die you in and leave a good looking corpses. It was a saying back then. We enjoyed life. We just didn't respect it. When we lost Allen. I put the brakes on. Glad to say. I made it.
@Lord Brain I get it. Lord knows it tried. Had a few close calls Must not have been my time to go. High school drug scene in the 70s was out of control. Acid pcp coke alcohol shrooms. Surprised I made it. Rock on!
@Michael Powell it's gone now I'm afraid..& it's not just the hip-hop hell that we've inherited,it's just about everything else too it looks like in this once glorious country...Hope this cheers you up..have a good 1!
Henri C Blackberry Smoke and Whiskey Myers is keeping the southern rock music alive in real time ! Not trying to compare them to L/S at all just saying at least they are carrying on the tradition so to speak !
@@rickynapier442why not?.In my opinion Marshall Ticket Band was better..Molly hatchets flirting with didastert better better than free bird too...but to each their own.. skynrd a little too much of a downer for me..
@@joejohnston2035 What a weirdly aggressive and uniformed thing to say. Van Zant wrote those lyrics about the increasing reckless indulgences of the band members culminating when Gary Rossington crashed his Ford Torino into an oak tree. I'd bet you're the guy that jumps to conclusions and is constantly confused by the world around you.
I was fortunate to see them live back in the 1970s at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA. I was planning on seeing them again at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia where they were scheduled to appear, but their plane crashed just a couple of months before that. I thought the world of Lynyrd Skynyrd back then, and what a tragic loss this was.
Less bad luck and more misguided judgement based on a pay day apparently. Just figures the nervous ones with some synapses snapping off regarding flaming engines and pilot sobriety are the ones who go out with Ronnie. Free bird indeed.
Saw them in their last concert and I’ll never forget that day 10/19/77. Such a huge loss, I can’t bring myself to see them, as they exist, after that night. They were the heart and soul of what “southern rock” was, they’re death was the end of that genre IMHO.
You forgot the part where VanZant was calling himself and telling everyone that he was the "Mississippi kid" before the next leg of the tour, all while never being to that state before in his life untill his plane crashed there.
What other music stories would you like Weird History to cover?
RANDY RHOADSS DEATH
Buddy Holly,Steave and Cassy Gaines, Patsy Clyne,Ricky Nelson,John Denver and more
Big Airplanes are normaly save! So why so many musicians die into private little Charter planes?? Randy Rhodes, Otis Redding, Aaliyah a.s.o.
I would like to know more about Jim Morrison of The Doors. And Robert Johnson.
Elvis.
I still have my ticket for that concert that never happened
Lie
They were supposed to play in Evansville, Indiana that Saturday !
Erona Calloway OOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! Put that ticket in a vault or better yet,. frame it in gold. You have a treasure!!!!!
Erona that is so cool.
@@yolandajohnson8685 the ticket is actually only worth about $200.00 US but I've seen them sell for as little as $100.... No vault necessary apparently.
I got to see the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band in Louisville Ky. before the crash. Great show! Rip.
Artimus Pyle's hometown.
Yes I was fortunate enough to see the original lineup 1977 Soldiers Field Long Live Lynyrd Skynyrd
Knoxville TN. 77
April 23, 1977 Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY.
Two days later, on April 25, 1977 I seen Led Zeppelin live at Ky Fairgrounds.
Both shows were friggin awesome!
Seen them on the last tour, JFK Memorial Stadium in Pennsylvania. They were opening for Peter Frampton, but they stole the show - by the time Frampton came on, most people had left.
*NOBODY DOES IT LIKE SKYNYRD*
I learned how to play sweet Home alabama on Brickyard rd . at a friends house who lived a couple houses down from Ronnie vanzants house , i grew up in o.p florida outside jaxville .when i was younger i used to cut thru the cemetery where Ronnie was buried , people always left bottles of jackDaniels poems also charlie Daniels had a bench put there with a poem on it
Lynyrd Skynyrd is the most epic of all Southern Rock
904 Forever........
Fly on Freebird.........
Yeah remember this into local radio getting ready to go to high school that morning whbc the Canton Ohio R.I.P
2 things I won't do- Fly over the Ocean or take a cruise. I mean people disappearing from cruise ships is a thing..And then there's Malasian Flight MH370...I don't even like exstensive bridges over water. There's this one bridge that spans the ocean between Salem and Beverly, Ma.....Another in upstate, N.Y. on Rt 86 heading west btwn Olean and Jamestown..A little walkway tunnel running under the railroad tracks in Hornell.. I remember them all... Scares the shit out of me every time...
Never let a musician who believes he's going to be dead by the time he's thirty, bully you into taking a flight on a plane with obvious mechanical problems. It's that simple.
No shit, huh?!
@Untrepid One At night, no less!
They must've been high and drunk as shit and took it as a joke
Jim Porter I'm from Jacksonville Florida we have always heard Ronnie Vanzant did not want to get on that plane. Ronnie was the one that didn't want to fly. Allen Collins convinced him to do so. Ronnie Didn't even want to tour anymore. He didn't even want to be in Lynyrd Skynyrd anymore. He wanted to do country music because that's where his love for music was. He did not want to do that tour.
"If its your time... its your time...
Dude the 70's were a messed up time! "CONCERNED ABOUT THE PILOTS DRINKING HABITS?!"
Benjamin Dominguez right? I can’t even believe that was allowed. Sheesh you’re not flying me drunk
Hey man, you should have seen that plane, flying it sober would have just made things worse. Needed to take some courage for that ride!
@I ll that's why it's even more reason not to fly drunk or buzz. You need to have a clear head just in case some emergency happens. Like an engine catching fire. There are experts who blame pilot error on the cause of accident.
Yeah, it was sorta like, Well some people smoke, some people drink, and some people don't.You knew those were not good but nobody banned it publicly. You could smoke in a hospitals cafeteria up until about the 80s.
Hahahah! It was 1959!
It seems musicians and charter planes don't mix well.
imortalfawn 45 hey!!!!! that's true!!!!! mmmmmmmmmmm
unless one of the band member(s) pilot the plane themselves (?)
well said, mate! the same can be said of pilots & alcohol
@@jojomarujo8704 Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson pilots their Ed Force One Boeing 747
Except for Jim Reeves
........"and some concerns over the pilots drinking habits"....seriously!?!
Times were different back then.
It was the 70s
Nonchalantly saying it like the guy does it all the time. It's like ok..... lol
I only drink after sunset, as long as we fly West we are good bro.
Edit: seriously that is what I would say.
When 1970's Aerosmith says you have a problem you should listen and consider it.
How that plane was still allowed to fly with so many issues and no efforts for repairs were made is beyond me......
The Aircraft at a 20% failure rate. But the Plane isn't at fault here. The Pilots are. They were both incredibly reckless and negligent idiots.
Pilots.............Booze Hounds................
@@Tornado1994 stfu. Human errors are that and nothing more. Imagine if I called you names for human errors and another thing. This was the 70's. Things like that were normal
So 'normal' that Aerosmith's '70s management refused the 'plane & pilots on safety grounds? 'Human error' doesn't cover 2 sober pilots who know 26 lives depend on basic fuel checks & not flying with known engine problems. www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7806.pdf 'Crew failed to monitor fuel flow..failed to take appropriate pre-flight & maintenance action' - Baffling, totally avoidable, negligence.
@@anonymousperson3023 read the report lol..
You know when Aerosmith is worried about your drinking, that saying something.
Billy Powell was my second cousin. Ironic twist to his death. He died of a heart attack two days after missing a cardiologist appointment
Billy Powell is absolutely the finest piano player I ever saw or heard play. Love his work in "The Breeze". He's the best.
WolfKnife10
A guy I worked with died in the waiting room of his cardiologist.
Sorry for your loss. I love his playing and he seemed like a really awesome guy.
My Dad saw Billy at Lowe's on Kingsley. He was telling my Dad ( who knew Billys Mom from working with her for years at NAS ) that they both had cardiologists in the same complex by OP Hosp. and he had an appointment coming up. Dad said.. I just saw mine....
So very sad Billy died.
So sad many have died....
Billy was AWESOME playing the piano.
Im sorry for your loss...
He had just gotten all his dental implants too and he was doing pretty well. Was having a rough time staying sober. May he RIP
"no one anticipated the tragedy...." well apart from Aerosmith who refused to fly in it...
I don't think that's a fair statement, seems like several of them were concerned enough to tell Van Zant to get another plane. I think many of them were anticipating it, even if they didn't know it was going to happen until it did.
It is a fair statement though. Steven Tyler's father is a pilot and examined the plane before they even bought it.
Find "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and Stephen Davis. That will be the proof. At least their point of view.
And there was a "mock" crash drill by the hospital crew, as if they were expecting it a week earlier.
There was a member of the band who had a dream and she warned the band not to fly on that airplane. She just happened to be sick the day of the flight and that's why the backup singer was there. This lady later is known to become a Christian minister.
These guys were absolutely on fire when they crashed. It still hurts every time I think about how avoidable this crash was and what could’ve been.
Actually they weren't, the plane ran out of fuel. Yes, I know what you meant...
@@dx1450 look at the original street survivors cover. They literally were on fire lol.
@@jr13227 But yeah, like the video showed, had they not run out of fuel they literally would have been on fire. Street survivor, maybe, but not plane crash survivor.
They would have ended up being the greatest band ever
@@mws755"not ended up being" - they were the greatest band ever!
You didn't mention that Cassie Gaines canceled her commercial airplane ticket de to teasing from others in the band, that is why she was on the plane.
Ted Bundy they also didn't mention that they were to meet Linda Blair to pick up whatever!!!!!!! that's the story a DJ on a classic rock station told
Oh hell nooo!!! Not Ted Bundy lmao
@@daniellemilia1974 of course he would know that... hes Ted Bundy
Then Ted Bundy gave her a ride from the airport in his yellow Volkswagon
No one gets out alive.
He was tripping over people who were still alive, "he then took out his hatchet." What an odd choice of framing
I caught that to
SMASH SMASH SMASHHH
He wanted to put them out of their misery.
I thought he was going to say “he then took out his hatchet and started copping them up to relieve them of their misery”.
Sounds like an entry for the category "... and then the murders started" 😄
I was born October 20, 1977. At 7:12pm... I came in as they went out, and have loved them my entire life, always wondered what the world missed with their passing. RIP..
Wow.
They say the most beautiful of flowers, bloom for the shortest time. I believe it. They are somehow very alive, everytime I hear Sweet Home Alabama. We can not know what disastors await us, just round the corner. Enjoy your day, Violet...HEY! You are my favorite color!! Party on.
@@alanmcneill2407I agree with you , loving the comment about the flowers, never heard that before, but I believe it now ❤️👏💯
Reincarnation?
“Good morning ladies and gentlemen, thank you for flying Buddy Holly airways, now sit back and relax and listen to a little Glenn Miller while we negotiate these storm fronts and divert via the Bermuda Triangle”
BUDDY HOLLY AIRLINES 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@funecheeseofficial3576 That Glenn Miller reference though
I know some folks don't agree but there should no longer be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. Trying to replace Ronnie is not even possible so lets celebrate the real band for the great rock n roll they gave us and go fishing in the rain.
RIP Gary Rossington. 12/4/51-3/5/23. He was the band's last surviving founding member, to pass away at 71.
what about Artimus? I know he came along 4 years later or before the end but still a solid member
This is so sad and Cassie was such an amazing backup singer .
So, so young!
Yes the Gaines lost two children that night
Yes I was there at the emergency room in McComb Miss when they brought in the survivors. It was a terrible thing that happened that evening and I will never forget it, Rest in Peace LS!
They should have given those freaks proper short haircuts.
@@ciscobudge159………… Wow
Cisco, go fuck yourself
@@Carolina_Leadslingers the guys name is cisco lmfao,I think that's punishment enough having to go through life with that name,lmfao.
I was a schoolgirl in that year and heard the sirens in mccomb. I believe the plane went down in Osyka, ms.
Cassie should have stuck with her gut feelings and stayed on commercial flights.... Its really sad 😒
You couldn't afford it as a backup singer. I'm sure plane tickets were much more expensive then.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 good though
This is what happens when you let alcoholics do anything. Should've got a different pilot. As a recovering alcoholic, NEVER TRUST ONE
That's cold man .....
@PinkGuy VEVO yeah man I'll pick you up around 8
@@LoneWolf-yp2mo cold, but true
I'm a recovering alcoholic of 30+ years. I've been trusted with many peoples LIVES on more than one occasion. I can be trusted to do the right thing. I know better than to get trashed anymore. Give yourself some credit too. Just the fact that you feel guilt tells me you are worth taking a chance on .... you're a better man than you think. God Bless you Sir !!
the plane, according to Aerosmith's pilot was poorly maintained and was an accident waiting to happen. Aerosmith declined leasing this plane because it was unsafe.
Skynyrd died Oct 20 1977...period...
Yep, seen them 74 Long Beach arena CA
His brother Johnny seems like the nicest guy but he can't sing for shit. Seriously.
My wedding anniversary
I agree. I think it's a shame their family keeps using the name.
Amen!! Nuff said
When he said "he quickly took out his hatchet and started " I thought he was gonna say "finishing them off."
_"...well, some of 'em _*_said_*_ they's alive, but they's hippies and tend to lie a lot..."_
Mark Frank survived and went for help. That was a neighbor of ours.
Did he ever talk about the crash to you?
It’s been 40 years. Seems like yesterday.
RIP the lost souls who passed that night .
TOO MUCH COKE & TOO MUCH SMOKE,,
I can't believe it's been that long
What a talented band skynyrd was . They were a great rock and roll band . Hard to believe they tried to carry on as skynyrd after the crash. You just cant carry that band on without Ronnie .
Or Gaines,great voice! Bad A@@ guitar player.
They just played the songs still. The creativity was gone.
I’ve heard enough cases like this to never get on a small/private plane ever. Or helicopters. Nope. Commercial planes only.
The principles of flight are the same for large planes as for small planes. Wind over the wings create lift and you need a fuel source. That’s basically it. So, don’t be afraid of small planes. Millions of flights occur every single day without incident.
It’s rarely the plane that fails. It’s almost always pilot error. It actually takes a lot to bring down a plane. In this case, it was fuel starvation. In a nutshell, they ran out of gas because the pilots accidentally jettisoned the fuel instead of transferring it to the other engine.
So, that’s my 2 cents. 🙂
@@pilotgal6191 We don't know if they dumped a fuel, but it doesn't change the fact that somebody fucked it up with tanking not enough fuel... that's why the engines stopped working imo
*Patsy Cline. She'd declined a car ride back saying "Don't worry about me, when it's my time to go, it's my time to go", similar to what Ronnie said on boarding his plane.
@@pilotgal6191 That can't be right. It's too dumb.
Aaliyah was the one that made me swore to never get on a small plane. Nope! I'll rent a car or go on a bus if there's no other option.
I was working on my instrument rating with a former airline pilot back in early fall of 1977 at Greenville Municipal Airport. We taxied past a Convair that had been sitting there for at least a few days. My instructor told me it was for sale for $90,000 but it had a bad jug in one of the radial engines, is what he said. It was old looking, but had an electric piano inside, and a sofa. It was like a charter plane. It sat there for a few more days I guess, then it was gone. Years later, I heard about the Skynyrd crash, and that it was on a Convair. It was the same plane.
I met Ronnie in 1975. There was no fuel lost in transferring from one engine to the other. It's a myth. There was no fuel to transfer to the other engine. The transferring lever was found to be shut (never used) in the plane wreckage. The pilots found that the second engine was nearly empty, so when it ran out, they crashed.
The NTSB ruled pilot error for failing to top off the fuel tanks, even though the gages on those old planes were not very reliable.
Exactly how I heard this
Where do you guys get your data. Do you make it up? The pilots did not Jettison fuel nor did they not transfer fuel. Poor fuel management and monitoring was the reason for the crash. The bad engine did consume more fuel but leading up the final flight they fueled up along the way adding 200 gallons at one stop and a few hundred at another, etc. They did not do a visual fuel inspection and they poorly calculated the remaining gallons prior to the last flight.
At least pull the NTSB report first. Makes me wonder how many other of your videos are accurate.
Not to mention that when they run out of fuel they decided to leave the gear down by while crashing into trees. Instead of trying to land in the wide-open area and belly flop. Course it was probably a gun Sam that they were out of fuel or they would have all burned to death. Piss poor planning results in piss poor performance! Pilot error and incompetence killed the band.
Exactly! The plane should have NEVER been allowed to take off. The fuel gauge was actually broken and had to be checked with a stick which they did NOT do! Their flight from Miami flames were shooting out of one of the engines and instead of hiring somebody to fix the problem the company leasing the plane wanted to use their own mechanics in Baton Rouge. In order to keep the engines going they were using an enriched fuel that burned faster than normal. So the decision to not stop in McComb,MS was what sealed their fate and it was 100% pilot's negligence to not know the fuel situation. Being out of fuel saved everybody from being burnt to a crisp! The leasing company should have grounded the plane straight away.
The Two Pilots were Drunken dumbasses who half assed all protocol. They failed to Check the Fuel Gauge and Failed to Inspect the Fuselage
they dint. But you did. Regardless of it their videos is racking up a ton of viewers and likes while your little "Self proclaimed fact" sits down here collecting dust as it should be. Get a life Loser.
Definition of 'loser' is subjective, but 'Get a life Loser' is the kind've thing only losers say.
My dad remembers the news he cried when he heard it RIP to the victims
I remember the plane crash. Walter Cronkite mispronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd in his news story.
Wow really
Kyle Shiflet My dad had tickets for the Baton Rouge show that they were flying to when they crashed. He was lucky enough to see them twice before the crash.
@Tommy Hammernots You are what you eat!
He did?
Miss a venue, or two, and live. Or, Miss all the venues altogether. Can you imagine if they had a few more years to jam out. We all missed out.
I so agree
True that! Sad but true! : ( RIP
Just think of the albums that would have come out after SS they would have been the biggest band ever. What a shame Ronnie didn't listen to their advice about that damn plane!!
@@bill2527 Their manager made the decision to lease the plane with possible intent to buy it and probably never heard about Aerosmith's complaints. So the band was basically stuck with that mode of transportation and had schedules to meet.
@@joleneloveland2942 I have nothing good to say about P.R....
RIP to a band that still means and will continue to mean, SO MUCH!!!!
Gary Rossington Is alive
And he is the ONLY remaining member, but Thanks
I love the original music. Listen to it almost daily. Makes me wonder what songs were in Ronnie’s head that we would never get to hear.
simple man was their crown jewel. no song compares to it. a masterpiece.
Here a fun fact the lead singer of showdown did a cover (wells that's pretty known) but since he's married to Ronnie van zandts daughter all the songwriters royalties stayed in the family
It's like writing a hit song twice
'Write it in song', is a good 'un too.
You're right, I just yelled at Alexa to play it. I'm listening to it now 🙂
Maureen Santiago
To you i guess no other song compares but music is a personal preference matter..You may have lots of people who agree but it's still a personal preference and preferences vary wildly and no one is incorrect when speaking of their own personal preference...
@@davidwright8371 Brent Smith was never married to Ronnie Van Zandt's daughter. Jason Todd was dating Ronnie's daughter and Shinedown kind of was the house band at the bar owned by Ronnie's widow and daughter.
I seen the last concert in Greenville, SC & it was great. I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news about the plane crash. They were such an awesome group & I still get sad about it today. Free Bird was the last song they played that night & I still have my ticket stub.
You know things are bad when mid 70s Aerosmith are making better decisions than you.
My ex husband actually declined to go on that flight with Ronnie & the band, due to his fear of flying. Only a few hours prior before take off, they shared a few shots of whiskey. He still owns the shot glass.
Bs
Kimberly J. Sullivan I believe you Kimberly, that’s a crazy story!!
It could be true, I wouldn't fly on that turd of a plane if it had issue on an earlier flight. Fuck that
Shut up weirdos.
Turd Ferguson
Somebody needs to get that poor girl some aloe, sunscreen, & a shirt.
Jesus, it's painful just looking at her sunburn.
The plane was junk and so was the pilot. Other rock bands said no way.
That southern pride got him. I have to say I disagree with his logic "when your time is up its up" God also gave you a brain.
Life is nothing much to lose
Exactly. You don't stand in the freeway traffic and speed it up
So much BS in this story. Probably about 10% is actually true.
Fun fact: the members of the original line up hated the idea of being labeled a “Southern“ band. Their goal was to become the Rolling Stones of the United States. It’s mostly geography that was used to typify them as “Southern.“ And much to the surprise of many people today, they were not “conservative“ artists. In fact, they were extremely progressive for their time. Aside from being long-haired Southern boys (long hair on men being considered taboo by crew-cut-wearing men at the time), they wrote songs about gun violence, environmental degradation, racial injustice, etc. Hell. They even rallied for Jimmy Carter! They wanted the South to break out of its backward-thinking ways on its own by championing the great people and ideas that the South could produce.
The Confederate battle flag? That was foisted upon them by their management as a publicity stunt.
Sweet Home Alabama? Mockery of the backward ways of many of their fellow Southerners.
Disbelieve this if you like but all of it was documented through interviews with the members and people who knew them.
Yeah.they did let the management run the show though...I'm not a huge fan.I thought most of the music too depressing..plus dude shamed them into getting on that plane...
Sickly ironic when they miss who L'S really were & tag on the far-right politics, same 1s who somehow miss the cynicism of 'Born in the USA'. 'Sweet Home Alabama' was a jokey re-buff to the idea all Southerners were small-minded bigots, not an anthem for those bigots. RVZ: "We wrote 'Alabama as a joke. We didn't even think about it, the words just came out that way. We just laughed like hell, & said 'Ain't that funny'. We love Neil Young, we love his music"
Fun Fact: people weren't that political then. No one thought anything about the rebel flag...it was about southern pride...nothing to do with racism. All the guys had long hair then had nothing to do with right or left, most of us didn't even know what that meant. There were NO crew cuts unless you were raised on a pig farm somewhere. People just got together, smoked a little pot, drank and nobody cared or identified with politics.
Ronnie Van Zant truly was a rock and roll icon we will never forget Lynyrd Skynyrd you truly are an icon Ronnie Van Zant
As for me, he was the magic. ❤
and now we,ve lost Ed King too......1 by 1 their all leaving.
no doubt about that...1 by 1.
That's what life and old age will do to you.
Not the best idea to follow a leader with a death wish onto a sketchy airplane to make fans happy. I’d rather fly coach.
You got that right...I don't care who you are or how famous...I've done stupid stuff on my own..but I'm not gonna let some nut-job take me with em..(And let's face it alotta nut-job that I love did music)..
@@vacool9421 You would have shut your damn mouth and did what Ronnie told you.
Ronnie did not have a death wish. Are you kidding? He loved life and he was fair and square. He had an intuition, or whatever you please to call it, that his time on earth would be short. He knew things that others usually dont. He did not advertise that either.
He was a great believer in God
@@joleneloveland2942 he took a fucking guess lol. he did not know he would die.
Hey bro, why dont you credit the video of the plane flying over the trees and crashing. Thats footage from a crash in the late 80s and both people on board died.
And Allen Collins was the one that Ronnie told that to. Allen was scared to death & DID NOT want to get on it. Ronnie said ''Get your ass on that plane, if it's your time to go it's your time to go". And as a family member I DO NOT LIKE OR APPRECIATE THE WAY SAID ''As Dean Kilpatrick lay dead in a swamp". REALLY MAN??? WOW!!!!!
They don't mention that the plane didn't have a working fuel gauge.
The Two Pilots were Drunken dumbasses who half assed all protocol. They failed to Check the Fuel Gauge and Failed to Inspect the Fuselage.
Who needs one of those, get er done.
@@Tornado1994 Not to mention they doomed the plane by dumping the fuel, and then made it worse by trying to make a 180 with it
@@sirboomsalot4902 Exactly.
Don't forget 2 of the remaining members, Allen Collins and Gary Rossington created the rossington collins band after the crash. This new band was by no means a lynyrd skynyrd continuation, but it was heavily influenced by the former bands southern sound.
Awesome album recorded in El Paso,Texas at Adobe Studio.
It was the cheapest aircraft they could hire for the tour. Too bad they couldn't afford better, or just take the bus !
Workin' for MCA???
My aunt still has the ticket from the Lakeland show. It's in a case with the original street survivor album. She willed it to me when she passed away. Long live Skynyrd. Yall are a great part of my childhood.
1:34 That woman has got some serious sunburn. 😂
Howard stern had the band member that survived the crash tell the story of what happened. From someone being shot by a farmer because he looked like a zombie. Also told the story of guitar cases that flew around and broke Van Zandts neck when the plane was going down. Look it up on Howard Sterns web site
Artimus Pyle is full of it. Also fought off half a dozen alligators while having to swim a mile to shore.
They died because they did something stupid& they knew the plane was broken& the singer bullied them in to getting on. Have a good 1!
Artimus Pyle was shot in the shoulder trying to get help. Also, the "Street Survivors" album was re-released with a black cover because of its image of the band members being consumed by fire.
You mean shot by a stranger..jeez.. really?
No he was not. My girlfriends grandfather transported him on the back of his pickup truck to the main road to an ambulance. It crashed on their farm
Charles Peter Watson Not true
There was a warning shot fired because they looked like zombies when approaching Mote's property. From what I was told the plane hitting the trees sounded similar to gunshots to nearby residents.
catliftresearch no. No one from the crash walked out of it without rescue getting there first “it was silent and eerie. Helicopter hovering over. No screaming just a few call voices saying help or over here.”
R.I.P. One of the best bands of its time
D H THE BEST BAND OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!
Nah
This is so tragic, it has always haunted me. Sometimes it is for bands just not to be, just as it was for Badfinger. It's heartbreaking & all you can do is wonder why. 😢😢😢
Rip ronnie van zant
Yeah it was terrible horrible news and if you didn't see the original you saw a cover band.
My dad was at the Greenville concert. It was his 20th b-day.
" my baby's gone. . . with the wind." Love ' em.
Jacksonville fla my home town they grew up near my grandma
The memory of Lynryd Skynyrd lives on!! My dad use to kick my ass with his Lynryd Skynyrd belt. I would say "Give me 3 steps" 😄
ugk74 Lmao wtf
LMFAOOO 🤦🏾♀️
Thats a good one. Ronnie would've appreciated that as well!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🏆🍾🥂❤❤❤❤🇺🇲👏
Skynyrd is the best band in the world
Some of this is not true, they did not dump fuel. The fuel to air mixture was too rich and they used more fuel than they expected and ran out.
And apparently the fuel gauges weren't working, so using a dipstick when on the ground they estimated how far they could fly. Unfortunately because the fuel/air mix was too rich they went through the fuel too quickly. Should have been enough red flags there to stop them from getting onboard.
True Story: THEY RAN OUT OF GAS, that’s it...little quick trip to NOLA
They dumped the fuel, and it's technically not gas, I don't think...that's why the co pilot wasn't in his seat. Pilot knew they were crashing and told him to save himself.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Iirc he got that part wrong in the video. They were using a richer fuel mix to keep the damaged engine going, and didn’t bother to check the fuel and put more in to compensate for the faster burn rate. It didn’t help that the fuel gauge didn’t work
Lynyrd, not Leonard.
Leonard Skinner was the name of the gym teacher from the high school in Florida where the Van Zant's ( and maybe some of the others in the band, but I dunno ) went to school. The bands name is a take-off on his name, LOL.
Cassie was on the plane it was jo-jo who flew on commercial plane get your facts write before you talk
She wasnt on no plane she was in Memphis ten when it happened she called the night before she had a dream but they voted and got on it any way she warned them
Top top guitarists
Dan Cooper in TRUE THAT!!!!!!
There fans were across American from the South to the North and East to West.
I am BLACK and most blacks loved Southern Rock.
In the South, Black and White lived together peacefully until the Government caused CHAOS!
Our Government is the problem not our skin COLOR!!
Thank you for the actual truth about what happened.
I didn't know anything about the details.
Not all of that is true.
I can't believe VanZant bullied people to fly on that hunk of junk. Safety over money ALWAYS1 that crash should never have happened
Drummer Bob Burns died in a Car Crash in 2016. Burns was replaced by Pyle
Guitarist Ed King died earlier this year. King was replaced by Gaines
I will allways truly Love Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Im sorry Van Zant but seriously in all anousty.
Why would you put your life and the rest of your friends and Band members at risk to believing its ok to take a plane ride with Drunk Pilots who don't inspect there planes and have multiple fuel spills when flying?
He should have never suggested anyone to go aboard that plane.
Because if they didn't. Lynyrd Skynyrd would have been continuing to make NEW Music over the years with the Same Band. After some of the members died it was never the same spark of talent ever again. Its hard to imagine what they could of been during the 80s. But stupid mistakes like this is why it could never be the same again without your friends. He should have cared more about living more and caring about his friends lives and try to keep the Band away from possible harm over there careers and life.
The pilots were not drunk. Thats how much Ronnie placed his life in the hands of God. He did have a premonition though that his life would be short. So he left it all in God's hands.
It was meant to be and so it was. That's what Ronnie believed and that's how Ronnie lived.
Thank you finally if he was alive he would. Fill so guilty
Looks as if Van Zant had a death wish. Unfortunately that death wish took others with him.
Every road trip I take I pop in the Gold & Platinum CD and enjoy the ride!
I own that album on vinyl ❤
@@adabofeverything7120
Haha!! I first had it on cassette tape!😎✌
Epic
I did too... gave my records to my daughter
Should try "Skynyrd essentials" there the holy grails
My dad had the album where they were on fire. Unfortunately, Hurricane Andrew destroyed it along with other records and the record player that he had.
Forgot to mention the manager and pilots flew to Florida for an all night gambling drinking party the night before and forgot to refuel and would explain why they had no gasoline at impacted his confession is in his video and in his book he takes all the blame
Yeah that's never good!..we all make mistakes.. that was a big 1. Take care!
Wrong.
The Artimus Band is the best Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. They sound very close to the original. Better than the band that calls itself Lynyrd Skynyrd now.
Love ya, Ronnie but that was a very stupid decision
i gave it a thumbs down because of the outcome the best band ever im 61 an still listen to them always. looking forward to meeting them soon
Why punish the uploader for this video? YT channels like this rely on thumbs up and subscriptions so they can get paid.
WOW!!!!!! How sad, sounds like they were cursed. my favorite song of theirs is Free Bird.
Yeah, the curse of the drunken pilot on the mechanically unsound aircraft; a dark mystery for the ages.
We all thought we wouldn't make it to 30 in the 70s
It was looking that way. We were taught to jump under our school desks in case the Russians nuked us.
Not true about the death of Leon Wilkeson, whoever wrote the script needs to get the facts straight. He did not die from substance abuse.
As 13 year old kid doing his paper route after school. I remember seeing the headline. It was like a kick in the gut and punch to nose. At the time I remember singing that smell in the back seat of my sisters car. She said Tommy. Be careful with partying. I said nahh. I want to live fast die you in and leave a good looking corpses. It was a saying back then. We enjoyed life. We just didn't respect it. When we lost Allen. I put the brakes on. Glad to say. I made it.
@Lord Brain I settled down at 25. Had beautiful girl. It was way more important than rock and roll life style.
@Lord Brain I get it. Lord knows it tried. Had a few close calls
Must not have been my time to go. High school drug scene in the 70s was out of control. Acid pcp coke alcohol shrooms. Surprised I made it. Rock on!
0:11 Skynard popularized southern rock after The Allmen Brothers created it🤓
I thought it was FAME recording studio owned by Rick Hall in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
@D H - Yea.....they were All men.
@Michael Powell it's gone now I'm afraid..& it's not just the hip-hop hell that we've inherited,it's just about everything else too it looks like in this once glorious country...Hope this cheers you up..have a good 1!
Henri C Blackberry Smoke and Whiskey Myers is keeping the southern rock music alive in real time ! Not trying to compare them to L/S at all just saying at least they are carrying on the tradition so to speak !
@@rickynapier442why not?.In my opinion Marshall Ticket Band was better..Molly hatchets flirting with didastert better better than free bird too...but to each their own.. skynrd a little too much of a downer for me..
“Oooo that smell. The smell of death surrounds you.”
Karma ... Alex I bet you'd be the one who'd piss on the toilet paper in the men's room too
@@joejohnston2035 What a weirdly aggressive and uniformed thing to say. Van Zant wrote those lyrics about the increasing reckless indulgences of the band members culminating when Gary Rossington crashed his Ford Torino into an oak tree.
I'd bet you're the guy that jumps to conclusions and is constantly confused by the world around you.
I was fortunate to see them live back in the 1970s at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA.
I was planning on seeing them again at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia where they were
scheduled to appear, but their plane crashed just a couple of months before that.
I thought the world of Lynyrd Skynyrd back then, and what a tragic loss this was.
We love this band. What a tragedy. They will be remembered always!
Less bad luck and more misguided judgement based on a pay day apparently. Just figures the nervous ones with some synapses snapping off regarding flaming engines and pilot sobriety are the ones who go out with Ronnie. Free bird indeed.
The original street survives album shows flames on all the members that died in the plane crash creepy
I have the original. I'll have to find it and see. I haven't looked at it or played it in years
Steve Gaines looked like he was in flames. The band and family had it changed. If anyone has the original album cover, its a collector item
Lots of coincidences.....Trust...one of my favorite songs.
So Sad Driven by Greed Fame Power RIP 🌹🌻🇺🇸👍 Flowers 4 U Guys 🌹🌹🌹
Saw them in their last concert and I’ll never forget that day 10/19/77. Such a huge loss, I can’t bring myself to see them, as they exist, after that night. They were the heart and soul of what “southern rock” was, they’re death was the end of that genre IMHO.
Never forget the survivors claimed Johnny Mote shot at them first before helping.
Wow. Damn god bless their soul. Still living legends and pioneers to the genre of music
You forgot the part where VanZant was calling himself and telling everyone that he was the "Mississippi kid" before the next leg of the tour, all while never being to that state before in his life untill his plane crashed there.