![]() Van Zant’s younger brother, Johnny, taking over as vocalist. Rossington helped bring about a tribute tour, reuniting surviving members, with Mr. In 1987, the 10th anniversary of the crash, Mr. “We don’t do the vocal on it because that was Ronnie’s. Rossington told The Orlando Sentinel in 1980. Rossington would later marry.īut the new band did play “Free Bird” at its shows. Collins formed the Rossington Collins Band, which strove to distinguish itself from Lynyrd Skynyrd, in part by hiring a female vocalist, Dale Krantz, whom Mr. After a few years to recover physically and psychologically, Mr. The crash was the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd, for a time. Rossington, who sustained numerous broken bones. The 20 other passengers were injured, including Mr. Gaines’s sister and a backup vocalist the band’s road manager the pilot and the co-pilot. 20, the band’s chartered plane ran out of fuel and crashed in a thicket in Mississippi, killing Mr. King) and other songs, and was one of the best-known bands of the day. Even though you could play, you leave the space and room.”īy the fall of 1977, the group had released four more albums, had hits with “Sweet Home Alabama” (which Mr. Growing up, we learned where not to play. “It’s hard to get all those strings together, and the hardest part is not playing. “Back in the day, we had three guitars and a keyboard, so that’s all strings,” he told the website Premier Guitar in 2017. Rossington was adept as a lead and also had a knack for adjusting his style to support the other guitarists when one of them was front and center. The guitarists would alternate as lead, sometimes in the same song. Rossington, Allen Collins and Ed King (later replaced by Steve Gaines) - backing Mr. The band, playing countless bar dates around Florida and eventually beyond, evolved into a seven-piece with three guitars - Mr. Van Zant, too, had rock-star aspirations, and the three began playing together, adding other members and trying out group names - the Wildcats and Sons of Satan were among those considered.Įventually they settled on Lynyrd Skynyrd, a bastardization of Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who had hassled them in high school because of their long hair. That same summer, according to a portrait of the band written for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted the group in 2006, another teenager, Ronnie Van Zant, was playing in a baseball game when he hit a foul ball that struck a spectator, Mr.
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