http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...s-aged-56.html
Did't see anything posted about this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...s-aged-56.html
Did't see anything posted about this.
I heard about it on the news yesterday.
Fwiw, the upcoming show here in LA at one of the casinos has been cancelled. They say to get your refund where you bought your tickets.
Heard the news this morning on the way to the game -
Only ONE original member left alive -
BTW Powell was only 56...
Hate to disagree DFM, but there are two "original" member still left alive. Gary Rossington, whom I believe you're refering to in the quote above, and Ricky Medlocke, an original drummer are still with us. Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia on Ricky:
Medlocke grew up with the founding members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. When Blackfoot's attempts to move north and play places like New York and New Jersey weren't successful enough for him, he called up Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant and was asked to play drums for that newly-formed band. Medlocke played the drums and sang lead on a few songs for them during 1970 but came to feel that sitting behind a drum kit could never satisfy his energetic personality, so in 1971 he reformed Blackfoot and began touring incessantly with them, producing hits like "Train Train" and "Highway Song" until he finally decided to disband the group in the early 1990s.
For a while in the 1990s Rickey thought about pursuing other careers (such as acting) until he received a phone call in 1996 from Gary Rossington inviting him to rejoin Lynyrd Skynyrd as a lead guitarist and primary songwriter. Rossington asked Medlocke if he remembered how to play such tunes as "Freebird", "Tuesday's Gone", and "Workin' For MCA", to name a few. Medlocke gave Rossington the reply he wanted, rejoined Skynyrd and has been a member of that band ever since.
Rickey sang vocals on the Lynyrd Skynyrd songs White Dove, Ain't Too Proud to Pray and The Seasons, and You Run Around all early 1970s Skynyrd songs. These three are most of the few Skynyrd songs recorded without Ronnie Van Zant singing lead vocals (guitarist Steve Gaines, who joined Skynyrd in 1976, sang lead vocals on "Ain't No Good Life" and shared lead vocals with Van Zant on "You Got That Right", both from the original band's final album "Street Survivors", released just before Van Zant and Gaines died in the crash of Skynyrd's charter plane). White Dove and The Seasons can be found on "Skynyrd's First and ... Last" album.
The only surviving member of the band's line-up from the 1977 plane crash...