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30 years ago today we lost members of one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time,LYNYRD SKYNYRD. Ronnie Van Zandt,Steve Gaines,Cassie Gaines,and Dean Kilpatrick were lost in a plain crash just south of here,near McComb,Ms. I will be listening to SKYNYRD all day in there honor:rock: Since that crash they have lost a couple of more original members but they still ROCK in concert! I know some of you will disagree with the GREATEST part, but I am a "SIMPLE MAN"
TIMELINE
July 15, 1948: Drummer Thomas Delmar “Artimus” Pyle, who joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
January 15, 1949: Ronnie Van Zant, vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 14, 1949: Ed King, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Steve Gaines, who replaced him in 1976, are born on the same day.
December 4, 1951: Gary Rossington, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
April 2, 1952: Leon Wilkeson, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 3, 1952: Billy Powell, pianist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 19, 1952: Guitarist Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd is born in Jacksonville Florida.
1972: Lynyrd Skynyrd records a full album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. It will remain unreleased until 1978, when it is issued (with some overdubbing) as Skynyrd’s First and...Last.
April 3, 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd records the classic “Free Bird” at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia, during sessions for its debut album, “pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.”
August 13, 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases “pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.” It joins the Allman Brothers Bands’ Brothers and Sisters, released the same month, in igniting the Southern-rock craze.
November 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd opens for the Who at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. It is the first date on the Who’s Quadrophenia tour, for which they’re the opening act.
April 15, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Second Helping is released.
August 24, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first Top Forty single, “Sweet Home Alabama,” enters the charts, where it will peak at #8.
October 1974: Drummer Artimus Pyle (who replaces Bob Burns) debuts with Lynyrd Skynyrd at a in Jacksonville, Florida.
January 4, 1975: “Free Bird,” originally released on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1973 debut album, makes its belated appearance in the Top Forty, where it will peak at #20.
March 24, 1975: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Nuthin’ Fancy, their third album - and the last one produced by Al Kooper, who’d discovered and signed them.
May 27, 1975: After a show in Pittsburgh, guitarist Ed King leaves Lynyrd Skynyrd in the middle of a raucous live outing dubbed the “Torture Tour.” They finish the tour as a six-piece and replace King with Steve Gaines in 1976.
July 1976: Lynyrd Skynyrd performs a three-night stand at Atlanta, Georgia’s Fox Theatre. Highlights are culled for One More from the Road, a live double album released in September.
October 9, 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s fifth studio album, Street Survivors, is released. The cover shows the group engulfed in flames, and “That Smell” contains the line “The smell of death surrounds you.”
October 20, 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour plane, Free Bird, crashes in a field near Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing group members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, as well as their road manager and two pilots. Twenty other passengers are taken to the hospital with various injuries.
January 7, 1978: “What’s Your Name,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd, enters the Top Forty three months after the plane crash that killed three group members. It will peak at #13.
January 1979: Surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite for a one-off performance at Charlie Daniels’ fifth annual Volunteer Jam.
September 1987: The surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd - joined by guitarist Randall Hall and the late Ronnie Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny - begin a tribute tour on the tenth anniversary of the plane crash that claimed three band members’ lives.
March 21, 1988: Southern by the Grace of God, a double live album recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd on the previous year’s tribute tour, is released.
January 23, 1990: Allen Collins, guitarist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 37 of pneumonia. He’d been confined to a wheelchair since an automobile accident in 1986.
July 17, 1991: Lynyrd Skynyrd kicks off a world tour on the heels of the reconstituted band’s first studio album (Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991) in fourteen years. The first date is in Baton Rouge, where they were slated to play when their plane crashed in1977, thus completing a bit of unfinished business.
November 12, 1991: The plainly titled three-disc box set Lynyrd Skynyrd is released. It mixes hit songs and popular album tracks with rarities, live versions and demos.
April 29, 1997: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Twenty on the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed three band members. The album inaugurates a long-term relationship with C&C International and its parent company, Sanctuary Records.
July 27, 2001: Leon Wilkeson, bass player and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of natural causes at home in Jacksonville, Florida.
May 20, 2003: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Vicious Cycle, their first studio album in five years, which comes forty years after their first album.
March 13, 2006: Lynyrd Skynyrd is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 21st annual induction dinner. tk is their presenter.
Essential Recordings
Free Bird
Sweet Home Alabama
That Smell
Simple Man
Saturday Night Special
Gimme Three Steps
You Got That Right
Workin for MCA
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
Whats Your Name
Recommended Reading
Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History.
Lee Ballinger. Los Angeles: XT377 Publishing, 2003.
Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story.
Marley Brant. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Down South Jukin.
Rick Clark. Goldmine (May 29, 1992): 8-18+.
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Lynyrd Skynyrd. MCA, 1994. (Note: The booklet accompanying this box set contains biographical essays and discographical information.)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock.
Gene Odom and Frank Dorman. New York: Broadway, 2003.
Lynyrd Skynyrd at Thyrty.
Michael Buffalo Smith. Goldmine (March 5, 2004): 14-20.
Lloyd Price Singles (On The Specialty Label)
"Forgive Me Clawdy," "Baby Please Come Home," "Rock 'n' Roll Dance"
TIMELINE
July 15, 1948: Drummer Thomas Delmar “Artimus” Pyle, who joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.
January 15, 1949: Ronnie Van Zant, vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
September 14, 1949: Ed King, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Steve Gaines, who replaced him in 1976, are born on the same day.
December 4, 1951: Gary Rossington, guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
April 2, 1952: Leon Wilkeson, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
June 3, 1952: Billy Powell, pianist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 19, 1952: Guitarist Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd is born in Jacksonville Florida.
1972: Lynyrd Skynyrd records a full album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. It will remain unreleased until 1978, when it is issued (with some overdubbing) as Skynyrd’s First and...Last.
April 3, 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd records the classic “Free Bird” at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia, during sessions for its debut album, “pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.”
August 13, 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases “pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.” It joins the Allman Brothers Bands’ Brothers and Sisters, released the same month, in igniting the Southern-rock craze.
November 1973: Lynyrd Skynyrd opens for the Who at San Francisco’s Cow Palace. It is the first date on the Who’s Quadrophenia tour, for which they’re the opening act.
April 15, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Second Helping is released.
August 24, 1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s first Top Forty single, “Sweet Home Alabama,” enters the charts, where it will peak at #8.
October 1974: Drummer Artimus Pyle (who replaces Bob Burns) debuts with Lynyrd Skynyrd at a in Jacksonville, Florida.
January 4, 1975: “Free Bird,” originally released on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1973 debut album, makes its belated appearance in the Top Forty, where it will peak at #20.
March 24, 1975: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Nuthin’ Fancy, their third album - and the last one produced by Al Kooper, who’d discovered and signed them.
May 27, 1975: After a show in Pittsburgh, guitarist Ed King leaves Lynyrd Skynyrd in the middle of a raucous live outing dubbed the “Torture Tour.” They finish the tour as a six-piece and replace King with Steve Gaines in 1976.
July 1976: Lynyrd Skynyrd performs a three-night stand at Atlanta, Georgia’s Fox Theatre. Highlights are culled for One More from the Road, a live double album released in September.
October 9, 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s fifth studio album, Street Survivors, is released. The cover shows the group engulfed in flames, and “That Smell” contains the line “The smell of death surrounds you.”
October 20, 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour plane, Free Bird, crashes in a field near Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing group members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, as well as their road manager and two pilots. Twenty other passengers are taken to the hospital with various injuries.
January 7, 1978: “What’s Your Name,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd, enters the Top Forty three months after the plane crash that killed three group members. It will peak at #13.
January 1979: Surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite for a one-off performance at Charlie Daniels’ fifth annual Volunteer Jam.
September 1987: The surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd - joined by guitarist Randall Hall and the late Ronnie Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny - begin a tribute tour on the tenth anniversary of the plane crash that claimed three band members’ lives.
March 21, 1988: Southern by the Grace of God, a double live album recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd on the previous year’s tribute tour, is released.
January 23, 1990: Allen Collins, guitarist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 37 of pneumonia. He’d been confined to a wheelchair since an automobile accident in 1986.
July 17, 1991: Lynyrd Skynyrd kicks off a world tour on the heels of the reconstituted band’s first studio album (Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991) in fourteen years. The first date is in Baton Rouge, where they were slated to play when their plane crashed in1977, thus completing a bit of unfinished business.
November 12, 1991: The plainly titled three-disc box set Lynyrd Skynyrd is released. It mixes hit songs and popular album tracks with rarities, live versions and demos.
April 29, 1997: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Twenty on the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed three band members. The album inaugurates a long-term relationship with C&C International and its parent company, Sanctuary Records.
July 27, 2001: Leon Wilkeson, bass player and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of natural causes at home in Jacksonville, Florida.
May 20, 2003: Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Vicious Cycle, their first studio album in five years, which comes forty years after their first album.
March 13, 2006: Lynyrd Skynyrd is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 21st annual induction dinner. tk is their presenter.
Essential Recordings
Free Bird
Sweet Home Alabama
That Smell
Simple Man
Saturday Night Special
Gimme Three Steps
You Got That Right
Workin for MCA
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
Whats Your Name
Recommended Reading
Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History.
Lee Ballinger. Los Angeles: XT377 Publishing, 2003.
Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story.
Marley Brant. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Down South Jukin.
Rick Clark. Goldmine (May 29, 1992): 8-18+.
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Lynyrd Skynyrd. MCA, 1994. (Note: The booklet accompanying this box set contains biographical essays and discographical information.)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock.
Gene Odom and Frank Dorman. New York: Broadway, 2003.
Lynyrd Skynyrd at Thyrty.
Michael Buffalo Smith. Goldmine (March 5, 2004): 14-20.
Lloyd Price Singles (On The Specialty Label)
"Forgive Me Clawdy," "Baby Please Come Home," "Rock 'n' Roll Dance"
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Also one of my favorites :rock: I wish this for my son every day 
