The plane crash that muted Southern rock

Florida Times-Union ^ | October 19, 2007 | ROGER BULL,

[ConservativeStatement]

Thirty years ago today, a rented plane took off from Greenville, S.C., headed for Baton Rouge, La. Just before dark, just before it reached the Louisiana line, the plane ran out of fuel and sank toward the Mississippi landscape below.

It first grazed the tops of the pine trees.

"It was like the sound of a billion baseball bats beating the side of the plane." Lynyrd Skynyrd bass player Leon Wilkeson described in an interview a decade ago.

The plane crashed down through the trees to the ground, breaking apart as it went. In the twisted, broken pieces of that 1947 Convair lay what was left of Jacksonville's greatest musical legacy.

Though there were 26 people on the plane, only six died that evening, Oct. 20, 1977. But killed along with the two pilots were three band members and the road manager for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks! That was great!

[zipper]

I was talking to a friend about them the other day — Rudy Guiliani needs to court southern voters, but he listens to dead opera singers on his ipod, telling people Pavarotti was a friend of his — while down south we listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I went to a concert of theirs back in the mid-70’s with ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult and the Outlaws — I was up front with festival seating. ZZ Top was the headliner but Skynyrd was everyone’s favorite.

Second Helping is my personal fave.

[Lancey Howard]

Here’s something totally different. It was one of my favorites as a high school yoot. Circa 1968.
Blue Cheer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kJONgWKFi0

[Lancey Howard]

Heh. I saw Blue Oyster Cult at Bucknell circa 1975 (Me and my buddies came down I-80 from Penn State.) Blue Oyster Cult was the headliner while Rush opened and Kiss went second. My ears rang for a week after that one.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Rudy Guiliani needs to court southern voters, but he listens to dead opera singers on his ipod

As you can see by my tagline, I am second to none in opposing Rudy, but I am hard pressed to imagine a worse reason to support a Presidential candidate than his taste in music. Especially since I share his!

[Lancey Howard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xBJxtlwalE

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQBU0uoR-W0&mode=related&search=

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZreZYPXJAW4

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNry6m3Kwo

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The Moody Blues, another great group, and Pink Floyd

[BunnySlippers]

Patsy Cline ...

[BunnySlippers]

A name from the past. I went to see them at the Shrine Auditorium way back them ... Summertime Blyes.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks! (I still have my ‘Go Now’ 45rpm record up with the rest of my attic treasures.)

Also, I remember listening to ‘Nights in White Satin’ on my Sony Walkman while sleeping under a zillion stars in the Mojave Desert (Twenty-Nine Palms) back in 1984 during my Marine days. The perfect song.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, this might crack you up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVmsPv6_Ic

Good night!

[Rome2000]

[john drake]

Yep, and otis redding, too. His plane went down in wisconsin on the way to a concert in Madison, Wi.
And don’t forget Stevie Ray Vaughan, although his was a helicopter crash.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFfZFvvuXWc&mode=related&search= )
Moody Blues and Justin Hayward were in this musical version of War Of The Worlds. I remember when it first came out.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFfZFvvuXWc&mode=related&search=

[helen crump]

Wow! Has it really been 30 years... I was 13 at the time and lived in those Mississippi woods near where the crash happened. I was a candy striper at the local hospital. I wasn’t at the hospital that day but we got a call that they were looking for some people to help at the hospital, they were being overwhelmed with stuff. My brother went. He said it was a gory scene. All the band members were taken there first. This was a pretty small town, about 20,000 or so. The hospital was not equipped to hand this kind of emergency but they did a great job of getting emergency personnel in. The most serious cases were taken on to Jackson. I worked at the hospital the following Sunday. We weren’t allowed in the rooms, they couldn’t have people coming in and out. Plus, if I remember right, in the beginning the remaining ones were all in intensive care. It was definitely interesting around the hospital, though. And as a wide eyed young teenager I was amazed at all the “strange-looking” people coming in and out.
They were in the hospital a while, some longer than others and by all accounts they were all very polite and gracious. They credited the hospital staff and quick actions of the emergency personnel with their survival.
Hadn’t thought about all this in a long time.

[feeler poobah]

yes it has go to fye records they can have it ordered.