Gary Rossington sold the couch

SwisherSweetboy

Goodbye, Prince Valiant

Jesus Christ I love his slide work

SwisherSweetboy

Wow. OK. Some info for Gen-Z faggots on this site:

Original guitarist for the 70's Southern Rock Band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Played a Les Paul most of the time. His solos were known by his double stops and effortless slides of notes. Not to mention his slide guitar work. You just KNOW when Gary was playing. Kind of lazy, kind of late on the beat. Love his shit.

Sad day in the Swisher household.

DerekJohnson

SwisherSweetboy said:

Wow. OK. Some info for Gen-Z faggots on this site:

Original guitarist for the 70's Southern Rock Band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Played a Les Paul most of the time. His solos were known by his double stops and effortless slides of notes. Not to mention his slide guitar work. You just KNOW when Gary was playing. Kind of lazy, kind of late on the beat. Love his shit.

Sad day in the Swisher household.

I only know him from the Skynyrd documentary on Netflix I saw a few months ago. He didn't look very healthy. I think he had some brain injury from the plane crash.

God bless

RaceBannon

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

dnc

Free like a bird now

DerekJohnson

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Confirmed by Wikipedia

RaceBannon

@mudshark82 is my source

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

@mudshark82 is my source

I wrote a great song about Mudsharks back in '71.

Joey

They need to stop playing for real now. I always thought Gary was the lesser of the axemen because Collins, King and Gaines were better but he’s still a legend. RIP

YellowSnow

JoeEDangerously said:

They need to stop playing for real now. I always thought Gary was the lesser of the axemen because Collins, King and Gaines were better but he’s still a legend. RIP

They should have never re-united.

YellowSnow

DerekJohnson said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Confirmed by Wikipedia

Wikipedia is your source?

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Was Artimus an original member though?

YellowSnow

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Was Artimus an original member though?

No. He joined in like 74. But he was on the Street Survivors LP and on the plane. Pretty OG IMO.

RaceBannon

Yep Rossington was the last original member not the last survivor

RaceBannon

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Franco is not

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Franco is not

Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?

RaceBannon

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Franco is not

Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?

In case your serious, Clark

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Franco is not

Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?

In case your serious, Clark

My Boomer cultural reference knowledge is exceptional for a Gen X'er. But it's not perfect @RaceBannon .

WoolleyDoog

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Headed to that big oak tree in the sky

http://twitter.com/mudshark82/status/1632542714599227392?s=20

Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.

Was Artimus an original member though?

Not original, but I think he's the only living one now who was actually a real member on an album. My friend has a great story of a local fire department calling him about tickets to a fundraiser headlined by Artimus Pyle. He was a big Skynyrd fan and was stoked, but asked the guy what Artemis was playing. Guy's answer "all the hits." Friend explained Artemis was a drummer - is he drumming the hits or singing them? Guy ran out of answers.

Don't know why I like this story so much.

RaceBannon

In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the pre-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter. Due to founding member Allen Collins' paralysis from his 1986 car accident, he was only able to participate as the musical director, choosing Randall Hall, his former bandmate in the Allen Collins Band, as his stand-in. In return for avoiding prison following his guilty plea to DUI manslaughter Collins would be wheeled out onstage each night to explain to the audience why he could no longer perform (usually before the performance of "That Smell", the lyrics of which had been partially directed at him).[citation needed] Collins was stricken with pneumonia in 1989 and died on January 23, 1990, at age 37.[38]

The reunited band was intended to be a one-time tribute to the original lineup, captured on the double-live album Southern by the Grace of God: Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour 1987. That the band chose to continue after the 1987 tribute tour caused legal problems for the survivors, as Judy Van Zant Jenness and Teresa Gaines Rapp (widows of Ronnie and Steve, respectively) sued the others for violating an agreement made shortly after the plane crash, stating that they would not "exploit" the Skynyrd name for profit. As part of the settlement, Jenness and Rapp collect nearly 30% of the band's touring revenues (representing the shares their husbands would have earned had they lived), and hold a proviso requiring any band touring as Lynyrd Skynyrd to include Rossington and at least two of the other four surviving members from the pre-crash era, namely Wilkeson, Powell, King and Pyle.[39] Following this rule, the band would have been forced to retire in 2001, but they have still continued to tour for another two decades.[citation needed]

Someone get @MelloDawg his citations please