35 years ago today

[Dan Dlabay]

35 years ago a plane crash took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Skynyrd is my favorite southern rock band and I admit that I shead a tear when I heard the news on 10/20/1977. May they rest in peace and be blessed by God.:sadangel:
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[mrvette]

Van Zant is buried right across the highway from me, about a mile away, Orange Park Cemetery....there is another person of that name doing politics here locally.....

:shots::sadangel:

[Cybercowboy]

Steve and Cassie Gaines were from Miami Oklahoma, just a few miles from here, and a cousin of their's was my neighbor when my family first moved here in '74. Steve used to come over to his house now and then, he was just an older kid who I talked to occasionally.

I saw them in concert about a month before they died, the only one I saw, at the Tulsa fairgrounds. There were so many people there that I never even caught much of a glimpse of the stage but you sure could hear them! :lol:

[lspencer534]

I live about 55 miles from the crash site. Locals who went to the scene said the bodies were horribly mangled. RIP. :sadangel:

[Burro (He/Haw)]

I remember reading somewhere when the rescue people got to the scene, there would be a mangled body in one seat, and right next to him someone was sitting there with hardly a scratch on them.

[lspencer534]

I remember reading somewhere when the rescue people got to the scene, there would be a mangled body in one seat, and right next to him someone was sitting there with hardly a scratch on them.

Yep, I remember reading that, too.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

I was 15 when this happened. I didn't really catch the Southern Rock bug until few years later.

[PortDawg]

I remember the day vividly....

[Jeff '79]

I was 14. There were a lot of disappointed people here as the tour was cancelled. I was 2 years shy of going to concerts, but the music coming out of the radios then was the best ever made. That was such a tragedy for music in general, as the talent lost there was immeasurable.:sadangel:

[Grey Ghost]

I remember walking into the house and my dad saying that band you like had a plane crash. I turned on the TV and the news had a story running about it. One of those times in life that you forever remember the who/what/where of hearing the news.