TIL in 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, & Cassie Gaines died in an airplane crash in Mississippi. The crash came 3 days after the release of 'Street Survivors' which went platinum & reached #5 on US charts. Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn…
On October 17th in 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their fifth album „Street Survivors“, the last album recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and the sole studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines.
On October 17th in 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their fifth album „Street Survivors“, the last album recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and the sole studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines.
On October 17th in 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their fifth album „Street Survivors“, the last album recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and the sole studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines.
Are there any stories or documentation on why Ronnie Van Zant recorded with an American Midwestern Accent instead of his natural Southern drawl he talked and sang live with?
On October 20th in 1977 Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash
Leon Wilkeson - Bass player for Lynyrd Skynyrd - Buried in Riverside Memorial park, Jacksonville, Florida. Died in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida July 27, 2001 in his hotel room. Also buried nearby in Riverside Memorial is lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and further back in the cemetery is Allen Collins
TIL Two of the writers of "Sweet Home Alabama" disagree if it was written in defense of George Wallace. Ed King claimed the former governor"stood for the average white guy in the South" while Ronnie Van Zant said he didn't like "what he says about colored people." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swe…
Skynyrd's original frontman and founding member Ronnie Van Zant would have turned 73 years old today.
If you got time check out my RONNIE VAN ZANT video youtu.be/JcexlHl0aPs
On April 29th in 1997 Lynyard Skynyrd released the album ‚Twenty‘. The album title of the album refers to the fact that it had been twenty years since the plane crash which killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines.
This dude looks like a dollar store version of Ronnie Van Zant v.redd.it/nfar96akdr461
TIL the guitar solos finishing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd were added to give lead singer Ronnie Van Zant a chance to rest while playing several sets per night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…
Lynyrd Skynyrd "groupie" Linda Blair and Ronnie Van Zant 1976
Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 by Michael Zagaris
TIL when in 1964 Ronnie Van Zant wanted to recruit Allen Collins to his band (which would later become Lynyrd Skynyrd), Collins fled Van Zant when approached by him and hid in a tree; Ronnie had to convince the guitarist that he meant no harm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn…
TIL that the guitar solo in the song "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd was originally implemented to give the vocalist, Ronnie Van Zant, a rest as they played several songs per night in clubs at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…
Ronnie Van Zant, 1976 backstage at Rolling stones concert.
TIL the country store from the song "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is based on a real location - Claude's Midway Grocery (now Sunrise Food Store) from singer Ronnie Van Zant's childhood neighborhood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
Ronnie Van Zant as a teenager in the mid-1960’s. A decade later he would help create a new genre of rock n’ roll as the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member and original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant regularly predicted that he would never make it to 30 years old - he died in a plane crash on October 20th, 1977, less than 3 months before his 30th birthday. wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie…
Lynyrd Skynyrd "groupie" Linda Blair and Ronnie Van Zant 1976
If musicians such as Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie Van Zant, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Janis Joplin were still with us, how do you think this would have altered the course of music history, and what do you think the scene would look like today?
TIL that Ronnie Van Zant, former Lead singer of Lynryd Skynyrd, told his father "Daddy, I'll never be 30 years old," before dying in a plane crash four months before his 30th birthday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron…
TIL 3 days after Lynyrd Skynyrd released the song "That Smell", featuring lines like "the smell of death surrounds you", several members of the band, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha…
TIL-Ronnie Van Zant, told his band he will never live to see 30.Van Zant's father said when Ronnie was younger,"He said to me many times, 'Daddy, I'll never be 30 years old.' I said, 'Why are you talking this junk?' and he said, 'Daddy, that's my limit.'" He died at the age of 29 in a plane crash. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron…
Lynyrd Skynyrd's singer Ronnie Van Zant with his father in 1976
Sept 5,1976 - Gary Rossington wrecked this car, inspiring Ronnie Van Zant to write "That Smell". Image found online.
TIL Ronnie Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, used to say he would never live to be thirty years old. He died in a plane crash less than three months before his 30th birthday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron…
When Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd comes on and Ronnie Van Zant says “turn it up” most people do, in fact, turn it up.
Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant clowning around with the girls backstage at the Rolling Stones concert at Knebworth in 1976
On October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors tour came to an abrupt end when a plane crash claimed the lives of Ronnie Van Zant and several other members of the band en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn…
TIL the guitar solos finishing "Free Bird" were added to give Ronnie Van Zant a chance to rest while playing several sets per night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre…
Lynyrd Skynyrd partying with guns in 1976 - Ronnie Van Zant with a gun to his head.
TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant once did so much damage to a hotel room while on tour that he was given a $29,000 damage bill. theuncool.com/2015/11/16/…
Found this in the comments section of a Roblox video.. looks like we've got a young Ronnie Van Zant.
Keith Moon, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, and Ronnie Van Zant 1976
TDIH: October 20, 1977 - Plane Crash in Mississippi Kills 6, Including Members of the Rock Group Lynyrd Skynyrd; Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and Vocalist Cassie Gaines tennesseeconcerts.com/pla…
TIL the song "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd was written in about an hour in Ronnie Van Zant's apartment after his grandmother died en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…
