Classic Rock Won't Die: New Lynyrd Skynyrd Album in '09

I saw Randall with the World Classic Rockers at a show in Kauai where they performed some Lynyrd Skynrd classics. It was great!

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I got both the pictures from a friend that knew i loved there music.

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I listen to Skynyrd each day. I stay on the computer a lot and there songs never get old. I can remember were i was when i got the news of there plane crash just like i remember were i was when Kennedy got shot. I have followed there music since about 1975. They are the best. I have a confederate flag tattoo on my shoulder and fly the flag outside my house to Honor them. Long may they ROCK.

This is my original copy of the album but here is some information i found on Wikipedia

 On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and three dates into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 developed mechanical difficulties near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in a forest near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were all killed on impact. Other band members were injured, some seriously. Drummer Artimus Pyle crawled out of the plane wreckage with several broken ribs, but was able to walk, 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. N55VM Summary Date October 20, 1977 Type Stalled due to Fuel Exhaustion, destroyed on impact during emergency landing attempt. Site Heavily-wooded Swamp, five miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi Passengers 24 Crew 2 Fatalities 6 Survivors 20 Aircraft type Convair CV-240 manufactured in 1947 Operator L & J Company of Addison, Texas Tail number N55VM Flight origin Greenville, South Carolina Stopover McComb-Pike County Airport, Pike County, Mississippi (emergency attempt) Destination Baton Rouge, Louisiana Medical personnel arrived and began to ferry out the injured and the dead. Allen Collins suffered two cracked vertebrae in his neck, and both Collins and Leon Wilkeson nearly had arms amputated as a result of crash injuries. Wilkeson suffered severe internal injuries, including a punctured lung, and had most of his teeth knocked out. Gary Rossington broke both his arms and both his legs in the crash, and took many months to recuperate. Leslie Hawkins sustained a concussion, broke her neck in three places and had severe facial lacerations. Road crew member Steve Lawler suffered severe contusions and facial lacerations. Security manager Gene Odom was seriously burned on his arm and face and lost the sight in one eye as a result of an emergency flare on board the plane that was activated during the crash. Victims were taken to the hospital in McComb, Mississippi by ambulances and other vehicles. Keyboardist Billy Powell's nose was nearly torn off as he suffered severe facial lacerations, and he later caused a controversy by giving a lurid account of Cassie Gaines' final moments on a VH-1 Behind The Music special about the band, claiming that the backing singer's throat was cut from ear to ear and that she bled to death in his arms. Powell also claimed that Ronnie Van Zant's head had been smashed. Powell's version of events has been discounted by both Artimus Pyle and Judy Van Zant Jenness, who posted the autopsy reports on the band's website in early 1998 in order to set the record straight.[citation needed] Despite this faux pas, Powell has been on good terms with the remaining band members since the incident. Notably, the third member of The Honkettes, JoJo Billingsley, was not on the plane and in fact was home tending to a family member's illness. She was planning to join the tour in Little Rock on October 23, three days after the crash. According to an interview in the book Freebirds, Billingsley had dreamed of the plane crash and begged Allen Collins by telephone not to continue using the Convair. On hearing of the accident, Billingsley was so shaken that some of her hair fell out. The Convair 240 itself had been inspected by members of Aerosmith's flight crew for possible use in the early summer of 1977, but was rejected because it was felt that neither the plane nor the crew were up to standards. In an interview in the book Walk This Way, Aerosmith's assistant chief of flight operations Zunk Buker tells of seeing pilots McCreary and Gray trading a bottle of Jack Daniels back and forth while Buker and his father were inspecting the plane. Aerosmith's touring family was also relieved because the band, specifically Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, had been trying to pressure their management into renting that specific plane. "The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of this accident was fuel exhaustion and total loss of power from both engines due to crew inattention to fuel supply. Contributing to the fuel exhaustion were inadequate flight planning and an engine malfunction of undetermined nature in the right engine which resulted in higher-than-normal fuel consumption." —NTSB Accident Report[7] It was known that the right engine's magneto — a small power generator that provides spark and timing for the engine — had been malfunctioning (Powell, among others, spoke of seeing flames shooting out of the right engine on a trip just prior to the accident), and that pilots McCreary and Gray had intended to repair the damaged part when the traveling party arrived in Baton Rouge. It is possible that the damaged magneto fooled the pilots into creating an exceptionally rich fuel mixture, causing the Convair to run out of fuel. It was suggested on the VH-1 Behind The Music profile on Skynyrd that the pilots, panicking when the right engine failed, accidentally dumped the remaining fuel. Pyle maintains in the Howard Stern interview that the fuel gauge in the older model plane malfunctioned and the pilots had failed to manually check the tanks before taking off, although it is common practice in all but the largest transport-category aircraft to manually check fuel quantities to verify fuel gauge indications. Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy (although the surviving members, plus Judy Van Zant and Teresa Gaines, reunited to perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam in January 1979). Following the crash and the ensuing press, Street Survivors became the band's second platinum album and reached #5 on the U.S. album chart. The single "What's Your Name" reached #13 on the single airplay charts in January of 1978. <8> MCA Records withdrew the original cover sleeve of Street Survivors and replaced it with a similar image of the band against a simple black background out of respect for the deceased. #1 ^ Robert E. Lee high school website #2 ^ "Origins of bands' names" # 3^ Cox, Billy (2006-06-02). "Skynyrd Namesake in Brevard". Florida Today. Retrieved on 2007-07-15. #4 ^ Lynyrd Skynyrd history, by Judy Van Zant Jenness #5 ^ Simmons, Sylvie. Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass. ?: Canongate, 2002. 135. Google Books. 10 May 2008. . #6 ^ US National Transportation Safety Board 1978 Accident Report, p. 3. #7 ^ 19 June 1978 Aircraft Accident Report - L & J Company, Convair 240, N55VM, Gillsburg, Mississippi, October 20, 1977 US. National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, D.C. Sec 3.2 Probable Cause page 16 #8 ^ The 'Lynyrd Skynyrd' Crash, Check-Six.com. courtesy * This page was last modified on 2 September 2008, at 00:10. * All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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So its said , I just know the album is very rare.

here's a few links

• http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/
• http://tennesseeconcerts.com/freebirdplane

Lynyrd Skynyrd are truly survivors in every sense of the word.

Image taken at a great concert at Harrah's Cherokee Casino.

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