A decade after the plane crash, the surviving members of Skynyrd regrouped under the legendary name and played a series of dates to mark the anniversary with Johnny Van Zant, the youngest brother of Ronnie Van Zant, stepping in as his permanent replacement. Two years later, survivors Gary Rossington and Allen Collins (guitars), Billy Powell (keyboards) and Leon Wilkeson (bass) formed a new group, the Rossington-Collins Band. He says, 'He just looked like he was laying there asleep.'”Īll the other members of the band suffered horrific injuries, from which they eventually recovered. And Lacy (Van Zant) didn't know his leg was broke. He said that he just had a little bump right here behind his ear - a little cut. His own father, when he went to identify the body the next day - October 21st - said also, that when they pulled Ronnie out, Ronnie looked like he was asleep. Lynyrd's Skynyrd's head of security Gene Odom, who was on the plane and one of the 20 survivors, spoke to filmmaker Tony Beazley and recalled the state of Ronnie Van Zant's body after the fatal crash: “Ronnie Van Zant had an eight-inch little nick and a fractured bone in his leg. In 2007, the 30th anniversary reissue reinstated the original album cover. Three days before the crash (October 17th), the band released its fifth album, Street Survivors, which featured the soon-to-be classics “What's Your Name” and “That Smell.” The album cover, which featured the band seemingly engulfed in flames, was eventually substituted with another photo in light of the horrific plane crash. The crash took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines Skynyrd manager Dean Kilpatrick, as well as the plane's two pilots Walter McCreary and William Gray. At the time, the group was en route to its next show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was 45 years ago today (October 20th, 1977), that a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi.
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