Last tour starts 4 May in West Palm Beach. I know most people (prolly including the few left in the band) didn’t hardly believe that they’d have any career at all after 1977, but they did.
So much of my youth was stepped in the kind of country-fried rock that Skynyrd championed; how drearily spartan would my young life have been without the sounds of Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, the Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, the Marshall Tucker Band, Canned Heat, CCR, etc.
Congratulations to the band on a long career; I hope y’all enjoy yourselves even more in retirement than y’all did performing.
I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama in 2001 for training when Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town. I didn’t get tickets but it turns out I didn’t have to because I could hear them just fine from my apartment balcony right outside the gate in Huntsville. As I expected, the crowd went absolutely insane when they played “Sweet Home Alabama”.
I’ll never forget the night my best bud dropped in to pick me up on the way to the state line bar for one of our typical evening carousing sprees. I pulled the Street Survivors LP off the turntable to put away and he said “you better hang on to that, it’s the one with the flames on it.”
Seemed like it was all downhill with my favorite bands after that.
