I was at that Lakeland show. It was only 4 days before the plane crash. I still have the ticket stub. Also believe they would have ended up being America’s greatest rock band if not for the crash.
The Lakeland show was on a Saturday night. The crash was after a Sunday show the next day in South Carolina. So the crash was probably just over 24 hours after the Lakeland show. I was driving to class in my first year of college on Monday morning when it was announced on the radio. There were no details announced, just that there had been a crash.