Since Cheaha is this weekend......
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977. On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and five shows into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina, where they had just performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, the plane crashed in a forest in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
Most of the band is gone now - what a loss - what a shame....THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES and the TUNES! Safe winds to everyone riding to Sweet Alabama this weekend.
RIP:
Ronnie Van Zant - Oct 20, 1977
Steve Gaines - Oct 20, 1977
Cassie Gaines - Oct 20, 1977
Kathy Collins - 1980
Allen Collins - Jan 23, 1990
Leon Wilkeson - July 27, 2001
Billy Powell - Jan 28, 2009
