Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd was a band formed around 1970s, it was a band formed by a lot of men, around 10, they were very famous,they were formed by singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Ed King, and Steve Gaines, bassist Leon Wilkeson, keyboard player Billy Powell, and drummers Bob Burns and Artimus Pyle, and the Chorus person, and more. Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the most critically acclaimed Southern Rock groups; the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. The group suffered a very bad accident, on Thursday, October 20, 1977, three days after the release of Street Survivors, the band was three dates into their most successful headlining tour to date, and the Skynyrd touring party was in a relaxed, joyful mood. However, near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 began to develop mechanical difficulties, and the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip. Just short of its goal, the plane crashed near a forest in McComb, Mississippi. The crash killed singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. Other band members were injured, some seriously. Drummer Artimus Pyle crawled out of the plane wreckage with several broken ribs, but was ambulatory, as were road crew members Kenneth Peden Jr. and Mark Frank. The three injured men hiked some distance from the crash site, through swampy woods, and finally flagged down farmer Johnny Mote, who had come to investigate. Varying accounts have Mote either firing a warning shot into the air or actually shooting Pyle in the shoulder — no report is completely reliable. Pyle claimed in a February 2007 appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius radio program that Mote had shot him; Mote has always denied shooting the drummer. Video of a barechested Pyle at the 1979 Volunteer Jam does not show evidence of a gunshot wound. The favorite song was Free Bird, which lasted almost 10 minutes, and it was wrote by the singer.