Posted on 04/04/2015 11:37:21 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Robert Burns Jr., a founding member of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, was killed in Georgia when his car slammed into a tree, authorities said.
The 64-year-old former drummer of the group went off a curve on a dark road in Catersville, Ga., according to Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Tracey Watson.
His car struck a mailbox and then a tree, just before midnight on Friday. He was not wearing a seat belt and was the only occupant in the vehicle.
No further details were available and an investigation is ongoing, said Watson.
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I think they mean Cartersville which is just North of Atlanta up I75.
Whiskey bottles and brand new cars, Oak tree you’re in my way.
The same people typically take risk after risk making it a statistical certainty that one day the risk will actualize.
The guys in that band have been living that way for going on 45 years now, no surprise that one by one they are picking themselves off.
That’s all it is. Nothing mystical about it.
That's usually a bad plan....
Heard an interesting story about LS a while back. They were down in Muscle Shoals recording their first album, and went out for a break. When they came back one of their roadies was sitting at the piano playing a beautiful piece of music he had just made up. Nobody in the band even knew he could play, and he didn’t want to tell them he was classically trained because he thought they might make fun of him. They turned on the recorder and the piece ended up being the intro to Freebird, and they had a keyboard player.
damn... unluckiest band ever...
Final Destination... i wonder if John Denver was playing over the radio right before he crashed...
With the Allman Brothers a close 2nd.
There was a PBS program about Muscle Shoals that had a segment on Lynryd Skynyrd that was interesting if you are a music buff....
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muscle-shoals/credits.html
If you can stream Netflix, I highly recommend watching the documentary “Muscle Shoals.” They cover that story and many others (although I thought he was doing an ad-lib to “Call Me the Breeze,” but I could be mistaken on that). That documentary is fascinating.
Yeah, that’s actually where I heard it. I always wondered what that last verse of Sweet Home Alabama was about. Great documentary for anyone who loves music or just a great all American success story.
Back in 1984 off I-20 in East Texas I picked up a guy hitching a ride who told me he was Robert Burns the one time drummer for Lynrd Skynrd. Not knowing much about that band I wouldn’t have known. He told me a lot about the band and all. He was friendly but a little bit on the zany side i thought. He had a good crop of hair I remember.
Some kind soul should introduce them to teleconcerts and iTunes.
To quote Marc Bolan: “What a place to plant an eff’ing tree!”
Little personal story. In about 1975 our band, “Rampage,” was starting to get some larger audiences in the South. We had just opened for Steppenwolf, Savoy Brown, and Skynnard’s mgt. was in the crowd and offered to sign us. Said we’d be the #2 band in their organization behind LS, but they wanted a 50% cut (which was pretty outrageous). We said no. A couple months later, LS went down in the plane crash and we would have been their #1 band. Ya never know.
Oh, Not THAT Robert Burns.
Was that Billy Powell?
RIP.
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