That is too bad. He wasn’t on the airplane for that crash. But he found his own unfortunate crash.
Darn that car!
That band does not have good luck with transportation.
He left (the band) in 1974, after suffering mental problems on the road and being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He also was briefly hospitalized for the affliction.
I’m as much against mandatory seatbelt laws as anybody, but still, the benefits of wearing one tend to be rather obvious.
RIP.
when his car slammed into a tree,
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I would think he drove it into that tree...
RIP.
A good friend of mine from Nashville played lead guitar on a few of their tours several years ago. He hadn’t told me that he was touring with them’ One day I turned on Emeril, and the band that day was LS. I was stunned! There was Steve!
His car struck a mailbox and then a tree, just before midnight on Friday. He was not wearing a seat belt
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We need to ban violent vehicles..
and make it mandatory that cars wear seat belts...
Unfortunately, no one gets out alive.
Man, that band and crashes.
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
Sin' auld lang syne.
I think they mean Cartersville which is just North of Atlanta up I75.
Whiskey bottles and brand new cars, Oak tree you’re in my way.
That's usually a bad plan....
damn... unluckiest band ever...
There was a PBS program about Muscle Shoals that had a segment on Lynryd Skynyrd that was interesting if you are a music buff....
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muscle-shoals/credits.html
Back in 1984 off I-20 in East Texas I picked up a guy hitching a ride who told me he was Robert Burns the one time drummer for Lynrd Skynrd. Not knowing much about that band I wouldn’t have known. He told me a lot about the band and all. He was friendly but a little bit on the zany side i thought. He had a good crop of hair I remember.
Little personal story. In about 1975 our band, “Rampage,” was starting to get some larger audiences in the South. We had just opened for Steppenwolf, Savoy Brown, and Skynnard’s mgt. was in the crowd and offered to sign us. Said we’d be the #2 band in their organization behind LS, but they wanted a 50% cut (which was pretty outrageous). We said no. A couple months later, LS went down in the plane crash and we would have been their #1 band. Ya never know.