Gary Rossington sold the couch
Jesus Christ I love his slide work
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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.
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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.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.
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Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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Free like a bird now
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Confirmed by WikipediaYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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@mudshark82 is my source
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I wrote a great song about Mudsharks back in '71.RaceBannon said:@mudshark82 is my source
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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
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They should have never re-united.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
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Wikipedia is your source?DerekJohnson said:
Confirmed by WikipediaYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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Was Artimus an original member though?YellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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No. He joined in like 74. But he was on the Street Survivors LP and on the plane. Pretty OG IMO.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Was Artimus an original member though?YellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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Yep Rossington was the last original member not the last survivor
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Franco is notYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?RaceBannon said:
Franco is notYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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In case your serious, ClarkYellowSnow said:
Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?RaceBannon said:
Franco is notYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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My Boomer cultural reference knowledge is exceptional for a Gen X'er. But it's not perfect @RaceBannon .RaceBannon said:
In case your serious, ClarkYellowSnow said:
Who’s Franco ? I thought Bob Burns was the drummer on the 1st and 2nd LPs?RaceBannon said:
Franco is notYellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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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.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Was Artimus an original member though?YellowSnow said:
Artimus Pyle is still alive I believe.RaceBannon said:Headed to that big oak tree in the sky
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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]
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It's kind of trash AF that they got to keep the name and doing tours in the 80's through the 2000s. I know it's tragic and all what happened to the band, but you ain't Skynyrd w/o RVZ. It should have been like Creedence Clear Water Revisited (i.e., Doug and Stu with no John Foggerty). Skynyrd's Second Helping would be a good one.RaceBannon said: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
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Citation not needed. Skynyrd was a great jam band.RaceBannon said: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]
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Skynyrd was NOT a jam band. They were know for playing their songs live note-for-note from what was on the vinyl.
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Please don't feed the centrist trollsSwisherSweetboy said:Skynyrd was NOT a jam band. They were know for playing their songs live note-for-note from what was on the vinyl.
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I have a Skynard station on Pandora and luckily I believe it only plays the OG stuff. I love the music and would have zero interest in seeing zombie Skynard. Besides, they haven’t been the same since Ronnie died.YellowSnow said:
It's kind of trash AF that they got to keep the name and doing tours in the 80's through the 2000s. I know it's tragic and all what happened to the band, but you ain't Skynyrd w/o RVZ. It should have been like Creedence Clear Water Revisited (i.e., Doug and Stu with no John Foggerty). Skynyrd's Second Helping would be a good one.RaceBannon said: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]
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The meme of referring to bands as jam bands which aren’t, in fact, jam bands, is one of the more forgotten HHB memes. It is a relic of a forgotten age.DerekJohnson said:
Please don't feed the centrist trollsSwisherSweetboy said:Skynyrd was NOT a jam band. They were know for playing their songs live note-for-note from what was on the vinyl.
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I rememberedMelloDawg said:
The meme of referring to bands as jam bands which aren’t, in fact, jam bands, is one of the more forgotten HHB memes. It is a relic of a forgotten age.DerekJohnson said:
Please don't feed the centrist trollsSwisherSweetboy said:Skynyrd was NOT a jam band. They were know for playing their songs live note-for-note from what was on the vinyl.
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"That Smell" was directed at Gary Rossington who washed down a couple ludes with Whisky then drove his new Ford (brand new car) out and smacked into an Oak that was in his way.RaceBannon said: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]
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I saw a clip of Gary telling that very storyBaseman said:
"That Smell" was directed at Gary Rossington who washed down a couple ludes with Whisky then drove his new Ford (brand new car) out and smacked into an Oak that was in his way.RaceBannon said: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
They called him prince charming. Couldn't say a word when he was high on ludes -
Too much coke, and too much smoke…
