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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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- There's a whole new
generation of people
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that they don't know
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what the breadth and width
of Skynyrd is,
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and I say, "Have you heard
Lynyrd Skynyrd?"
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and they said,
"Yeah, yeah, 'Free Bird,'
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'Sweet Home Alabama.'"
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And I said,
"No, I mean anything else?"
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"No."
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And I'd sit them down,
and I'd play them stuff,
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and they'd go, "Wow,
that's great,"
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like that.
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- One, two, three.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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- ♪ Well, I'll tell you
plainly baby ♪
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♪ What I plan to do ♪
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♪ Because I may be crazy
woman ♪
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♪ But I ain't no fool ♪
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♪ Your daddy's rich, mama ♪
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♪ You're overdue ♪
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♪ Now I ain't the one, baby ♪
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♪ Been messing with you ♪
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♪ Got bells in your mind,
lady ♪
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♪ Ain't it easy to see? ♪
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♪ I think it's time for me
to move along ♪
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♪ I do believe ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ I must be in the middle of
some kind of conspiracy ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ Oh, no ♪
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♪ Ooh ♪
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- Three members of
the Lynyrd Skynyrd band
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were among the six persons
who died in the crash
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of that twin-engine plane near
McComb last night.
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The plane apparently
was running low on fuel
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and tried to make
an emergency landing,
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clipped some treetops
and crashed into a swamp.
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I just want to straighten out
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that there's not a person
by the name of Lynyrd Skynyrd,
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for those who are not
so informed,
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and therefore
that person cannot die.
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Ronnie Van Zant
was the leader
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and the vocals you usually
heard from Lynyrd Skynyrd,
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and he was one of
the six killed in the wreck,
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and that's about the latest
we have on it right now.
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- Ronnie, he called himself
the Mississippi Kid.
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I never understood that
'cause I'm from Mississippi,
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and I asked him
about that one time.
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I said, "Ronnie,
you know, wh--"
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and he said, "I don't know,"
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but he died in Mississippi.
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See? His songs
were really prophetic.
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Everything he ever wrote
was true.
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It was a true story,
or it came true later.
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Ronnie Van Zant,
he's a prophet.
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♪ ♪
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- Man, a lot of this
I haven't been to.
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- Well, it's all changed
in this area.
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- I miss the moss.
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There's no moss
in Jackson or Atlanta.
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I never see it, anyway.
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I love moss.
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It's crazy, man,
how long it's been.
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- I know.
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- The stories from the original
band was 52 years ago.
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Most people can't remember
that far back,
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let alone rock-and-rollers.
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♪ ♪
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So we came down to a baseball
game here to watch Ronnie.
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He was on a baseball team
called the Green Pigs.
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Ronnie got up and went bam
and hit a line drive
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right to Bob Burns' temple.
Boom, it hit him.
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- Looked like a aspirin
coming straight to me,
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and I wheeled around to--
to turn, try to miss it,
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and it caught me right behind
the shoulder blades
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and took every breath
I ever had in my whole life,
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and I think Gary said
it hit me in the head,
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but I--maybe it should have.
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- So everybody running over.
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"Oh, you killed this guy.
It's go--"
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you know,
we thought he was dead.
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- And Ronnie walked up
and looks down there.
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He got this Mona Lisa
type grin, you know?
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Like, a, "Well, I'm trying
to act serious,
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but actually,
I think it's funny as hell,"
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kind of look, you know?
And he went, "Sorry, kid."
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- It came up that I had
a guitar,
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and Bob played drums,
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and we said,
"Ronnie, we know you sing.
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Why don't you come
sing a song with us?"
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and he went, "Yeah, let's go,"
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and we went down to Bob Burns'
carport and played, I think,
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"Time Is On My Side"
that day after the ballgame.
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We went, "Wow, this is great.
Let's start a band," you know?
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- ♪ Like to tell you all a
story ♪
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♪ About a friend of mine ♪
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- And I was just still
learning the chords and stuff.
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We said, "Let's get somebody
that's got a guitar."
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It didn't matter who, just
that they owned the equipment,
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and Allen Collins
was in a band called the Mods.
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He had a amp and guitar,
so we went looking for him,
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and he was riding his bike,
and he saw Ronnie in the car
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and went riding his bike
through the woods
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and climbed a tree way up tall
so we couldn't get him.
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He thought we were gonna
beat him up, or Ronnie was,
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and Bob had a little bit
of a reputation too, you know?
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And we said, "No, no, Allen.
Come down.
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We want you to play
in a band," you know?
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- Ronnie kind of raised
Gary and Allen.
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Their fathers was gone.
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- So we kind of were a family,
and I mean,
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Ronnie kind of taught me
and Allen how to drive.
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He was three years older,
so he taught us all that stuff
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you learn when you're
14, 15, 16,
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driving and girls.
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- He took care of the band
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just like a father would
a family, you know?
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- And I wasn't real athletic,
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and I ended up playing
in the school band, clarinet
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and then later saxophone,
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and I got tired of marching
around all football fields,
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and one Friday night I decided
I'd rather play teen dances,
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and that's when I got
with Ronnie and the boys.
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Besides Bob Burns, Allen was
the next-craziest person
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on the face of the earth.
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- We all wanted
Allen's bellbottoms.
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His sister made them.
He was so tall and skinny,
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they looked good on him.
If we would have tried them,
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they'd have been way too big
and looked goofy on us.
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Allen was really loud,
and when he came in the room,
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you knew it.
He'd knock stuff over.
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- He used to sniff glue
when we first met him.
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We could put a model airplane
together with his breath.
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- Everybody took speed back
then, little uppers.
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It was hard keeping a
girlfriend or going to school
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or anything, learning stuff,
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'cause we just wanted
to play guitar all night.
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Allen and I used to talk.
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We wished we could get thrown
in jail with a guitar
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so that's all we could do,
is play.
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Seventh, eighth grade,
and we were just playing
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to teen dens and garages
for people at school.
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They'd throw weekend parties,
you know?
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And I quit sports,
and we quit baseball,
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and just music, music,
guitar, guitar, guitar,
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that's all we thought,
you know?
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- We used to be called The 1%.
Here's our first band card.
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It says the 1%.
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That's--was made in '64 or '65.
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- That was our home
phone number.
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- Most everybody went
to the high school here.
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I just went to tenth grade.
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- Then Leonard Skinner
kicked me out.
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After gym every day
you'd be getting dressed,
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and he'd walk through
the dressing room
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checking your hair.
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If it touched your eyebrow
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or touched the top of
your ear, it was too long.
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That was the rules,
and he'd see that,
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and he'd kick you out
to go get a haircut,
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and finally one day
I just said,
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"I ain't coming back."
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- There was a song called
"Camp Grenada."
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- ♪ Hello muddah,
hello faddah ♪
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♪ Here I am at Camp Granada ♪
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- ♪ Camp Granada ♪
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- ♪ You remember
Leonard Skinnerd ♪
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♪ He got ptomaine poisoning
last night after dinner ♪
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- That's where I heard
the name from; it's in there.
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I laughed my ass off.
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A door would blow open.
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Nobody's there.
"What the hell is--"
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"That's Leonard Skinnerd."
They'd start laughing.
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They picked up
on it a little bit,
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and they'd use it.
Somebody's on the phone.
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Nobody's talking, see?
Leonard Skinnerd.
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A noise over there, and there
ain't nothing over there,
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it's Leonard Skinnerd.
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The dangedest thing happened.
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A year and a half later
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Gary got Leonard Skinner
as a gym coach,
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and he was making them
cut their hair,
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and here we were trying
to be rock legends, see?
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Ronnie decided it was time
to change the name
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'cause some of the people
were saying 1% talent,
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and it pissed him off, so when
we were thinking of names,
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I said, "Leonard Skinnerd."
They said, "Where?"
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I said,
"No, Leonard Skinnerd."
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They said, "Well, where, Bob?"
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"Name of the band!"
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and they--everybody
just busted out laughing,
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and Ronnie said,
"By God, that's it.
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You know, that is it."
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♪ ♪
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- I was in this band,
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the Strawberry Alarm Clock,
west coast band.
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We had a number-one record
in the fall of '67.
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I had been to the South before
with the Beach Boys,
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but you don't really see much
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when you're just going
from hotel to gig,
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and I really liked
what was going on down there.
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It was a lot more real
than L.A. was.
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It just seemed, like,
really down to earth,
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and I figured if there was any
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real good rock music
happening,
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it probably had
to be down there.
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When I saw Skynyrd play
the first time,
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and I really liked them,
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particularly the lead singer,
Ronnie.
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He was just so charismatic,
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and music just seemed
to flow out of him,
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and I said, "Well, you guys
got to keep on writing,"
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you know, and a couple weeks
later
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he called me at my hotel room,
and he said,
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"I want you
to come down to this club
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"called the Comic Book.
We're rehearsing down there.
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We wrote a new song,
want you to hear it."
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So I went right down,
and they played me this song
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called "Need All My Friends,"
and a chill went down my back.
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It just--I was seeing it,
you know?
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- ♪ It's been so long
since I've been gone ♪
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♪ Lord, I'm tired,
and I want to go home ♪
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♪ My throat is raw
from singing the blues ♪
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♪ Need all my friends
to talk to ♪
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♪ Now, yes, I do ♪
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♪ Need all my friends
to talk to ♪
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- I said,
"I know you got a full lineup,
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"but if you ever need another
guitar player or bass player,
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please give me a call 'cause
I'd love to play with you."
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- This pictures,
this is my mother
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and my father
and my sister and Ronnie
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in my mother's house
up in Georgia.
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After I graduated
from high school, I left home
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and ended up down here,
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and I was ready to get out of
Waycross, Georgia,
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and I met Ronnie,
and we were together,
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like, nine years.
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When I met Ronnie,
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he was working at Morris
Auto Supplies as his day job.
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As you can see in the picture,
he has on a wig
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'cause you couldn't go to work
with long hair.
245
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Dean Kilpatrick
was my roommate,
246
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and I went over to the
Comic Book Club with Dean.
247
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I met Gary first and then
hung out with Gary and Dean,
248
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and then I met Ronnie,
and, you know,
249
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after that was it, you know?
250
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- ♪ Woman of mine ♪
251
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♪ Can't let her go ♪
252
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- I know they were good,
253
00:12:54,753 --> 00:12:56,420
and I knew
that they were passionate,
254
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and, you know, that's kind of
255
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why I told Ronnie
to quit his job,
256
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and I worked, and he got to do
what he needed to do.
257
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Musicians are a rare breed.
258
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It's, like, you know,
it gets in their blood.
259
00:13:07,961 --> 00:13:10,753
They have to just go after it.
260
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That's Dean in drag.
261
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Dean was a character.
262
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- I guess so.
263
00:13:17,629 --> 00:13:19,711
- Dean actually dressed better
in--like, in the band,
264
00:13:19,795 --> 00:13:22,420
and he looked like
the rock star.
265
00:13:22,504 --> 00:13:25,045
He took--personally
took care of everybody.
266
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Dean was
the personal assistant.
267
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I guess that's
a good title for him.
268
00:13:29,753 --> 00:13:32,003
- He was from New York City
and kind of wild
269
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and knew all the ins and outs
of city life
270
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that we didn't know.
271
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He was, like,
a bartender roadie
272
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where he took care of us
really good, you know?
273
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Anybody who was sick or needed
a little more attention,
274
00:13:44,670 --> 00:13:46,920
you know,
he was just there for you.
275
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He was like the big brother
and sister and your mama
276
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and everything.
277
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I got a picture of him
I keep out over there.
278
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I put it away recently
279
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'cause some--certain times
I start missing people,
280
00:14:00,170 --> 00:14:03,253
and it's hard to see them
every day without crying,
281
00:14:03,337 --> 00:14:06,711
and he was just
a real great guy.
282
00:14:08,836 --> 00:14:10,504
- As far as Ronnie,
I go back
283
00:14:10,587 --> 00:14:14,253
before Gary and Allen and Bob
and
284
00:14:14,337 --> 00:14:16,003
We used to play
a lot of sandlot
285
00:14:16,087 --> 00:14:17,878
and hang out at the racetrack.
286
00:14:17,961 --> 00:14:19,836
I mean, what's better
for 12-year-old kids
287
00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,420
than having a racetrack
in your neighborhood, you know?
288
00:14:22,504 --> 00:14:24,337
And we were what
you called west side.
289
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We called it shantytown.
290
00:14:26,504 --> 00:14:28,337
It was woods and swamps.
291
00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:30,212
People were blue collar,
292
00:14:30,295 --> 00:14:31,795
and a lot of people
didn't get out of high school.
293
00:14:31,878 --> 00:14:33,711
There was a lot of people
we grew up with
294
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didn't probably get out
of junior high school.
295
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- ♪ Have you ever lived down
in the ghetto? ♪
296
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♪ Have you felt
the cold wind blow? ♪
297
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♪ ♪
298
00:14:46,253 --> 00:14:47,795
♪ If you don't know
what I mean ♪
299
00:14:47,878 --> 00:14:51,836
♪ Won't you stand up
and scream ♪
300
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,337
♪ 'Cause there's things
going on that you don't know ♪
301
00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:56,753
- Look down here.
The damn buzzards
302
00:14:56,836 --> 00:14:57,753
are in the road.
303
00:14:57,836 --> 00:15:00,337
Look there. Look at them.
304
00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:01,629
- This is Johnny's
305
00:15:01,711 --> 00:15:03,753
and Ronnie's old house.
- Yeah.
306
00:15:03,836 --> 00:15:05,045
Y'all need to lock
your cars out here.
307
00:15:05,128 --> 00:15:08,795
- Ha ha!
- Wow, it freaks me out, Gary.
308
00:15:08,878 --> 00:15:10,420
- I know.
309
00:15:10,504 --> 00:15:12,087
I ain't been over here
in I don't know when.
310
00:15:12,170 --> 00:15:15,045
- It just don't seem the same.
- Yeah, I know.
311
00:15:15,128 --> 00:15:17,212
This is the old trophy room
where daddy had
312
00:15:17,295 --> 00:15:19,795
all the gold records,
and everything was in here.
313
00:15:25,337 --> 00:15:27,212
- Daddy loved the music stuff,
314
00:15:27,295 --> 00:15:29,920
but my mom didn't care two
bits about it. She was like,
315
00:15:30,003 --> 00:15:33,462
"Oh, them damn boys.
When you gonna get a real job?"
316
00:15:33,545 --> 00:15:36,629
- "They'll just play that music
for a while. They'll grow up."
317
00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:41,295
Growing up in the west side,
it was a bad area of town.
318
00:15:41,379 --> 00:15:43,170
There was a lot of rednecks,
and, you know,
319
00:15:43,253 --> 00:15:45,295
being in a band
and having long hair,
320
00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:48,629
people didn't like us,
and they would come to fight
321
00:15:48,711 --> 00:15:50,878
and see who could
beat each other.
322
00:15:50,961 --> 00:15:53,711
Ronnie was quite the choice
before he got into music.
323
00:15:53,795 --> 00:15:55,920
Basically,
Ronnie was into kicking ass.
324
00:15:56,003 --> 00:15:59,045
- He wasn't scared
of situations, you know?
325
00:15:59,128 --> 00:16:02,629
If there was ten guys
coming at you with clubs,
326
00:16:02,711 --> 00:16:04,836
he just walked right to them.
327
00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,878
Jacksonville's got, like, five
or six different navy bases,
328
00:16:08,961 --> 00:16:11,504
so we'd play a lot for
sailors.
329
00:16:11,587 --> 00:16:15,379
Now, what does a sailor want
to do besides be with a chick?
330
00:16:15,462 --> 00:16:19,295
Fight. So we had to fight
our way out every night,
331
00:16:19,379 --> 00:16:22,337
and Ronnie would always win.
Yeah, he was a great boxer.
332
00:16:22,420 --> 00:16:26,170
- You know, it's not manly.
When you went to school,
333
00:16:26,253 --> 00:16:29,711
you know, the athlete guys
and stuff didn't do poetry,
334
00:16:29,795 --> 00:16:32,920
but Ronnie started
making up poems about sports.
335
00:16:33,003 --> 00:16:35,670
He used to put them
in a three-ring binder.
336
00:16:35,753 --> 00:16:37,337
He used to have that
under his bed.
337
00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:38,711
I remember spending
the night under there,
338
00:16:38,795 --> 00:16:41,420
and he'd have
his poetry in there.
339
00:16:41,504 --> 00:16:43,920
I can't say I knew another guy
that was writing poetry
340
00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,045
when I was in high school,
you know? I mean.
341
00:16:46,128 --> 00:16:48,920
- We tried to write
common songs,
342
00:16:49,003 --> 00:16:51,253
well, com--for common people,
for the street people,
343
00:16:51,337 --> 00:16:53,045
and all the guys
in Lynyrd Skynyrd are nothing
344
00:16:53,128 --> 00:16:54,212
but street people,
stay off the streets,
345
00:16:54,295 --> 00:16:57,253
Skid Row,
the whole works,
346
00:16:57,337 --> 00:16:59,629
and it's very easy for us,
347
00:16:59,711 --> 00:17:01,545
you know,
to relate to that, you know?
348
00:17:01,629 --> 00:17:04,003
We relate to that much more
than anything else.
349
00:17:04,087 --> 00:17:05,961
- Lynyrd Skynyrd's home,
of course, was not Alabama.
350
00:17:06,045 --> 00:17:07,795
It was Jacksonville,
351
00:17:07,878 --> 00:17:10,212
and the group did not become
a success overnight.
352
00:17:10,295 --> 00:17:12,878
In the beginning,
back in the early 1960s,
353
00:17:12,961 --> 00:17:16,379
there were no fancy recording
studios or gold albums.
354
00:17:16,462 --> 00:17:18,545
The group did a lot
of their rehearsing right here
355
00:17:18,629 --> 00:17:21,878
in this field
in Green Cove Springs.
356
00:17:21,961 --> 00:17:23,462
- You ever come out
to the Hell House much?
357
00:17:23,545 --> 00:17:25,337
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
358
00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:26,795
I remember it was
a piece of crap.
359
00:17:26,878 --> 00:17:30,795
- Yeah, it was horrible.
360
00:17:30,878 --> 00:17:32,629
Well, see,
I don't see the slab.
361
00:17:32,711 --> 00:17:34,504
It should have been
right arou--about here.
362
00:17:34,587 --> 00:17:36,253
- Right here.
- Yeah.
363
00:17:36,337 --> 00:17:37,753
- Right in here.
364
00:17:37,836 --> 00:17:40,420
- Our road manager,
Dean Kilpatrick,
365
00:17:40,504 --> 00:17:44,003
he knew of a cabin on the creek
that was for rent,
366
00:17:44,087 --> 00:17:45,753
and he said
we could rehearse there.
367
00:17:45,836 --> 00:17:48,253
We asked permission
to rehearse,
368
00:17:48,337 --> 00:17:51,920
so that started
the whole thing right here.
369
00:17:52,003 --> 00:17:54,670
Hey, we wrote "Free Bird'
here, you know,
370
00:17:54,753 --> 00:17:58,753
and all the so-called hits.
371
00:17:58,836 --> 00:18:01,337
People used to come up in
boats
372
00:18:01,420 --> 00:18:03,337
and come in and steal mikes
373
00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:06,253
or--not big things
but little things.
374
00:18:06,337 --> 00:18:08,795
And then one day we came in,
and a window was knocked out,
375
00:18:08,878 --> 00:18:11,420
and there was a whole
amp gone,
376
00:18:11,504 --> 00:18:15,212
so we started staying out here
with guns
377
00:18:15,295 --> 00:18:18,087
to protect our equipment
every night,
378
00:18:18,170 --> 00:18:20,878
and whoever had to stay,
you know, it was, like,
379
00:18:20,961 --> 00:18:22,545
their day in the barrel
or something.
380
00:18:22,629 --> 00:18:24,587
It was terrible
'cause the mosquitoes
381
00:18:24,670 --> 00:18:26,836
would bite you
all night.
382
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,836
Roaches were everywhere,
and gators,
383
00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,420
and there was rattlesnakes,
water moccasins,
384
00:18:32,504 --> 00:18:34,836
anything you could find,
you know?
385
00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,753
We didn't have any money
or food or drinks or nothing,
386
00:18:36,836 --> 00:18:39,003
so it was hell,
387
00:18:39,087 --> 00:18:40,253
and we called it
the Hell House.
388
00:18:40,337 --> 00:18:43,045
♪ ♪
389
00:18:43,128 --> 00:18:45,295
I bet you still catch fish
down here easy.
390
00:18:45,379 --> 00:18:47,920
- Oh, hell, yeah, you can.
You can have a little--
391
00:18:48,003 --> 00:18:49,420
- Well, something
just turned right there.
392
00:18:49,504 --> 00:18:56,045
♪ ♪
393
00:18:56,128 --> 00:18:59,087
- Barry walks in and plays me
this tape,
394
00:18:59,170 --> 00:19:03,504
and I listened to it--you know,
just a little bit of it,
395
00:19:03,587 --> 00:19:05,128
and I just immediately,
396
00:19:05,212 --> 00:19:06,878
the second I got
the opportunity, I said,
397
00:19:06,961 --> 00:19:08,295
"I want to work
with this band."
398
00:19:08,379 --> 00:19:15,128
♪ ♪
399
00:19:16,504 --> 00:19:18,504
This band was so
extraordinary.
400
00:19:18,587 --> 00:19:20,545
We taught them how to count
off the song, you know,
401
00:19:20,629 --> 00:19:24,462
so they--"Count off the song."
They said, "What?"
402
00:19:24,545 --> 00:19:26,128
They didn't know--have a clue
on how to do that,
403
00:19:26,212 --> 00:19:29,045
but they were so good
and so disciplined
404
00:19:29,128 --> 00:19:32,295
and so rehearsed
405
00:19:32,379 --> 00:19:35,337
that I've never seen
the likes of them since.
406
00:19:35,420 --> 00:19:38,003
- We'd go back and forth
all year,
407
00:19:38,087 --> 00:19:39,920
record, like, two songs
and leave
408
00:19:40,003 --> 00:19:41,753
and come back
a few months later.
409
00:19:41,836 --> 00:19:44,212
We'd have to go tour
to get the money up, you know?
410
00:19:44,295 --> 00:19:47,420
'Cause we were paying for it.
Everything was new to us.
411
00:19:47,504 --> 00:19:50,462
I mean, we'd never been out
of Jacksonville ever,
412
00:19:50,545 --> 00:19:52,128
you know, never.
413
00:19:52,212 --> 00:19:53,629
Maybe to go camping out
in the woods somewhere,
414
00:19:53,711 --> 00:19:55,961
but that wasn't out of town.
415
00:19:56,045 --> 00:19:58,545
- We took our tapes, and we
shopped it every way we could,
416
00:19:58,629 --> 00:20:00,128
ev--to every record company.
417
00:20:00,212 --> 00:20:03,003
Believe it or not,
Lynyrd Skynyrd was turned down,
418
00:20:03,087 --> 00:20:05,003
and this is after hearing
"Free Bird,"
419
00:20:05,087 --> 00:20:08,711
now, turned down by nine
major record companies, flat.
420
00:20:08,795 --> 00:20:10,961
They were like, "No.
421
00:20:11,045 --> 00:20:13,170
We don't want them, period."
422
00:20:13,253 --> 00:20:16,462
- So we were traveling around,
riding on amps,
423
00:20:16,545 --> 00:20:19,420
having no money,
having empty bellies,
424
00:20:19,504 --> 00:20:22,795
just trying to make it, man.
It was just hard times.
425
00:20:22,878 --> 00:20:26,003
- Everybody was young
and stupid back then.
426
00:20:26,087 --> 00:20:28,920
I was struggling.
I didn't have a job.
427
00:20:29,003 --> 00:20:32,545
I was hurting,
so I packed up and left.
428
00:20:35,504 --> 00:20:38,587
- Leon was in a band called
the King James Version.
429
00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:40,212
It was a Christian band,
430
00:20:40,295 --> 00:20:42,795
but they weren't
really doing Christian songs.
431
00:20:42,878 --> 00:20:46,212
- The first time I saw them,
they were just real,
432
00:20:46,295 --> 00:20:49,379
you know, sort of a born
losers type image,
433
00:20:49,462 --> 00:20:51,753
you know, the underdogs.
434
00:20:51,836 --> 00:20:55,170
♪ ♪
435
00:20:55,253 --> 00:20:57,337
- Well, Leon could just play
any bass part;
436
00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:00,253
you'd never have
to show him anything.
437
00:21:00,337 --> 00:21:03,045
Any song you could start
playing he'd play,
438
00:21:03,128 --> 00:21:04,753
and he was funny and goofy,
439
00:21:04,836 --> 00:21:07,212
and he was just
a great addition.
440
00:21:09,212 --> 00:21:11,253
- Noted musician and producer
Al Kooper remembers
441
00:21:11,337 --> 00:21:13,045
the night he first discovered
442
00:21:13,128 --> 00:21:15,253
Lynyrd Skynyrd playing
in a sweaty bar,
443
00:21:15,337 --> 00:21:17,670
what else, in Atlanta.
444
00:21:17,753 --> 00:21:20,295
- The thing that caught me
first was Ronnie.
445
00:21:20,379 --> 00:21:24,711
I hated him, and I liked him
at the same time.
446
00:21:24,795 --> 00:21:27,337
I said, "This guy is weird,
you know?"
447
00:21:27,420 --> 00:21:30,003
He got me into it first
before anything else.
448
00:21:30,087 --> 00:21:31,462
I just couldn't take
my eyes off him.
449
00:21:31,545 --> 00:21:33,379
He was a very weird front man.
450
00:21:33,462 --> 00:21:37,087
- We loved Al Kooper's music,
and he had just played
451
00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:38,878
with Hendrix
on "Electric Ladyland."
452
00:21:38,961 --> 00:21:41,170
He did all the organ,
you know, and would sit
453
00:21:41,253 --> 00:21:44,253
and tell us all the stories
about how they recorded
454
00:21:44,337 --> 00:21:46,045
and what Jimi Hendrix did,
455
00:21:46,128 --> 00:21:48,462
and he had
one of his black Strats.
456
00:21:48,545 --> 00:21:50,587
We'd just sit there
and hold it, me and Allen,
457
00:21:50,670 --> 00:21:54,420
and just say, "Wow."
It was mind
458
00:21:54,504 --> 00:21:56,878
- I made a deal
with MCA records,
459
00:21:56,961 --> 00:21:59,337
a label deal,
and I called my label
460
00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:02,753
Sounds of the South,
and I signed Skynyrd,
461
00:22:02,836 --> 00:22:04,753
and we set to work.
462
00:22:07,878 --> 00:22:11,753
♪ ♪
463
00:22:11,836 --> 00:22:13,587
- That right there is
an example
464
00:22:13,670 --> 00:22:15,045
of the people--you know,
The Beatles.
465
00:22:15,128 --> 00:22:17,003
They're--they are
the first people
466
00:22:17,087 --> 00:22:20,253
that really changed
my style of music
467
00:22:20,337 --> 00:22:23,545
from a technical knowhow
to a little bit of feel
468
00:22:23,629 --> 00:22:25,170
and a little bit
of boogie-woogie.
469
00:22:25,253 --> 00:22:26,753
- Billy Powell,
our piano player,
470
00:22:26,836 --> 00:22:29,295
he used to be our roadie,
471
00:22:29,379 --> 00:22:31,128
and we didn't know
he play--he'd said,
472
00:22:31,212 --> 00:22:33,003
"Oh, I play piano,"
but we didn't care, you know?
473
00:22:33,087 --> 00:22:34,961
We were guitars.
474
00:22:35,045 --> 00:22:36,920
He liked Yes and Emerson,
Lake, and Palmer,
475
00:22:37,003 --> 00:22:40,212
and we didn't at the time,
but one night Billy said,
476
00:22:40,295 --> 00:22:43,795
"If I ever played 'Free Bird,'
this is how I'd play it,"
477
00:22:43,878 --> 00:22:45,295
and we weren't even
paying attention,
478
00:22:45,379 --> 00:22:48,545
and he started out
with his--everybody
479
00:22:48,629 --> 00:22:52,379
in the room kind of went,
and he played it all,
480
00:22:52,462 --> 00:22:54,379
and we were just going,
"Oh, my God, Billy.
481
00:22:54,462 --> 00:22:56,504
We didn't know
you were that good,"
482
00:22:56,587 --> 00:23:01,753
so we fired him as roadie
and hired him as keyboard.
483
00:23:01,836 --> 00:23:04,128
- I was playing a nightclub
in Greenville,
484
00:23:04,212 --> 00:23:06,795
North Carolina,
with just a bar band.
485
00:23:06,878 --> 00:23:08,379
We didn't do any originals,
but we really did
486
00:23:08,462 --> 00:23:09,795
some great cover tunes.
487
00:23:09,878 --> 00:23:11,170
Well, one night
out of the blue
488
00:23:11,253 --> 00:23:13,295
I got a call from Ronnie
at the bar.
489
00:23:13,379 --> 00:23:15,337
He said, "Look, you said
you wanted to join up.
490
00:23:15,420 --> 00:23:16,753
You know, can you come down?"
491
00:23:16,836 --> 00:23:18,629
I said,
"No, I don't have a car.
492
00:23:18,711 --> 00:23:21,212
Can you come up and get me?"
He said, "I'll be right up."
493
00:23:21,295 --> 00:23:23,670
So yeah, they came up
and picked me up,
494
00:23:23,753 --> 00:23:27,045
and I think we started
rehearsal the next day.
495
00:23:27,128 --> 00:23:28,711
It was a real pleasant setting
496
00:23:28,795 --> 00:23:30,379
out in the middle
of a pasture,
497
00:23:30,462 --> 00:23:33,337
but my either induction or
punishment
498
00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:35,587
for joining the band
499
00:23:35,670 --> 00:23:38,420
was to spend a whole week
out there at night by myself.
500
00:23:38,504 --> 00:23:41,128
I mean, for me
growing up in L.A.
501
00:23:41,212 --> 00:23:42,753
and you say touring
with the Beach Boys
502
00:23:42,836 --> 00:23:44,836
and some of the people
I had access to
503
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,003
is a completely
different environment.
504
00:23:48,087 --> 00:23:51,087
I wasn't sure if I was
gonna--going
505
00:23:51,170 --> 00:23:52,504
to survive in this
environment,
506
00:23:52,587 --> 00:23:54,295
but I was willing
to give it a shot,
507
00:23:54,379 --> 00:23:56,003
and everything was
real strange to me.
508
00:23:56,087 --> 00:23:58,379
What can I say?
I just felt so out of place.
509
00:23:58,462 --> 00:24:00,878
I think I felt out of place
the whole time,
510
00:24:00,961 --> 00:24:03,462
but that first day
I really felt out of place.
511
00:24:03,545 --> 00:24:10,128
♪ ♪
512
00:24:10,212 --> 00:24:12,878
- You know, there was all
those cows at the Hell House,
513
00:24:12,961 --> 00:24:15,629
so every morning
we would go out
514
00:24:15,711 --> 00:24:17,420
and get
psilocybin mushrooms
515
00:24:17,504 --> 00:24:21,420
from all the cow patties
and make tea,
516
00:24:21,504 --> 00:24:24,795
so we had a big pot of tea
on the stove all day,
517
00:24:24,878 --> 00:24:29,212
mushroom tea,
and if you'd take a few sips,
518
00:24:29,295 --> 00:24:31,087
and you'd be tripping,
you know?
519
00:24:31,170 --> 00:24:32,878
The keyboard
would be floating,
520
00:24:32,961 --> 00:24:36,920
or I watched the notes
coming out of my amp.
521
00:24:37,003 --> 00:24:40,545
We would just talk and feel
each other's stuff come out,
522
00:24:40,629 --> 00:24:41,753
you know?
523
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,170
- Well, when I joined the
band, the music is the thing
524
00:24:47,253 --> 00:24:49,253
that really threw me
more than the people.
525
00:24:49,337 --> 00:24:52,462
They had really come up
with such original tunes.
526
00:24:52,545 --> 00:24:55,629
I didn't expect them
to have progressed that much.
527
00:24:55,711 --> 00:24:59,462
♪ ♪
528
00:24:59,545 --> 00:25:02,670
- ♪ I was cutting the rug down
at a place called the Jug ♪
529
00:25:02,753 --> 00:25:05,670
♪ With a girl named
Linda Lou ♪
530
00:25:06,961 --> 00:25:10,545
♪ Well, in walked a man
with a gun in his hand ♪
531
00:25:10,629 --> 00:25:12,795
♪ And he was looking
for you know who ♪
532
00:25:12,878 --> 00:25:14,961
- The day rehearsal would be
pretty much like this.
533
00:25:15,045 --> 00:25:16,670
Everybody shows up,
puts on a guitar,
534
00:25:16,753 --> 00:25:18,670
and Ronnie'd go,
"Well, you have any ideas?
535
00:25:18,753 --> 00:25:20,379
Anything come to you
last night?"
536
00:25:20,462 --> 00:25:21,961
The chances were real good
that one of us
537
00:25:22,045 --> 00:25:23,087
had something on any day.
538
00:25:23,170 --> 00:25:24,504
That was the one advantage
539
00:25:24,587 --> 00:25:26,753
to having three
guitar players.
540
00:25:26,836 --> 00:25:28,462
We'd just keep playing till
we found something he liked.
541
00:25:28,545 --> 00:25:30,462
Once he'd write a lyric,
well, there you go.
542
00:25:30,545 --> 00:25:32,253
Our work's cut out
for us for the day.
543
00:25:32,337 --> 00:25:34,420
- Each line of each song
we knew,
544
00:25:34,504 --> 00:25:36,587
and we'd break them down
at the Hell House,
545
00:25:36,670 --> 00:25:39,462
and me and Leon would just
play it, then me and Bob,
546
00:25:39,545 --> 00:25:42,212
then Leon and Bob,
then me and Allen.
547
00:25:42,295 --> 00:25:44,545
We'd play all day
the same song
548
00:25:44,629 --> 00:25:46,504
over and over
and over and over.
549
00:25:46,587 --> 00:25:48,420
- I mean, what musicians
do you know would get up
550
00:25:48,504 --> 00:25:50,379
at 7:30 in the morning
and be out there by 8:30?
551
00:25:50,462 --> 00:25:53,545
Nobody, but we would, you
know, and that was the thing
552
00:25:53,629 --> 00:25:55,379
that Ronnie was able
to pull together,
553
00:25:55,462 --> 00:25:57,045
was guys that just really
wanted to work.
554
00:25:57,128 --> 00:25:59,045
It was really productive.
555
00:25:59,128 --> 00:26:01,587
It was the most fun part
about being in that band,
556
00:26:01,670 --> 00:26:04,504
was going out there
in the heat in Hell House
557
00:26:04,587 --> 00:26:05,961
and writing these tunes,
'cause you never knew
558
00:26:06,045 --> 00:26:07,629
what you were gonna write.
559
00:26:07,711 --> 00:26:09,253
I mean, for the musician
that just loves to play
560
00:26:09,337 --> 00:26:11,587
it was a dream job,
even with the heat
561
00:26:11,670 --> 00:26:13,212
and everything,
sweating all over your guitar.
562
00:26:13,295 --> 00:26:15,045
It was perfect.
563
00:26:15,128 --> 00:26:19,795
Hell House
was the reward, really, yeah.
564
00:26:19,878 --> 00:26:23,045
- Patrol's at the crash site
now trying to determine
565
00:26:23,128 --> 00:26:25,711
why a plane carrying
the Lynyrd Skynyrd entourage
566
00:26:25,795 --> 00:26:27,295
crashed near McComb
last night.
567
00:26:27,379 --> 00:26:31,379
At 7:47 Eastern Daylight Time,
568
00:26:31,462 --> 00:26:34,961
the aircraft disappeared
from the radar scope,
569
00:26:35,045 --> 00:26:36,795
and they lost radio contact.
570
00:26:36,878 --> 00:26:39,337
The FAA's Jack Barker
says the thick woods
571
00:26:39,420 --> 00:26:44,045
made the crash site difficult
to both find and get to.
572
00:26:44,128 --> 00:26:47,045
- If you dig around right here
right now in this general area,
573
00:26:47,128 --> 00:26:51,545
you're gonna find something,
I promise you,
574
00:26:51,629 --> 00:26:53,753
just scrap pieces that have
been here, and it's aluminum.
575
00:26:53,836 --> 00:26:56,629
It won't rust, so it's lasted
forever, you know?
576
00:26:56,711 --> 00:27:00,087
Holy smokes, look at there.
Look what I found, boys.
577
00:27:01,753 --> 00:27:07,629
Mm, here we go.
Now--good lord.
578
00:27:07,711 --> 00:27:12,170
That's a piece of the plane.
Look at that. That's it.
579
00:27:12,253 --> 00:27:15,212
- Yeah, that's it.
- It's got the rivet hole.
580
00:27:15,295 --> 00:27:18,545
It's gotten a little corroded.
Man, look at that.
581
00:27:23,753 --> 00:27:27,379
- Somebody, we don't know who,
put a marker here for--just
582
00:27:27,462 --> 00:27:30,212
last--on the 20th,
I understand.
583
00:27:30,295 --> 00:27:32,003
It just happens to be that
is the spot
584
00:27:32,087 --> 00:27:35,629
where the plane--the nose
of the plane hit right there.
585
00:27:35,711 --> 00:27:38,212
Most people don't know
where the plane crashed.
586
00:27:38,295 --> 00:27:41,170
- Right.
- Very few can tell you.
587
00:27:41,253 --> 00:27:43,253
They just come this way
and start asking.
588
00:27:43,337 --> 00:27:46,295
We're 40 years past it now,
589
00:27:46,379 --> 00:27:48,504
and I was 11 years old
and three hours north of here,
590
00:27:48,587 --> 00:27:50,878
but I knew what had happened,
you know?
591
00:27:50,961 --> 00:27:53,504
Well, I just always wanted
to find the story, the plane,
592
00:27:53,587 --> 00:27:56,170
the site, the whatever,
and the next thing I know
593
00:27:56,253 --> 00:27:59,295
I've talked to 20, 30 people
and gotten all their stories
594
00:27:59,379 --> 00:28:00,295
that were here that night.
595
00:28:00,379 --> 00:28:01,920
- You just don't forget it.
596
00:28:02,003 --> 00:28:04,128
I mean, it's something,
you know,
597
00:28:04,212 --> 00:28:08,045
tragic that's gonna be
in your mind always.
598
00:28:08,128 --> 00:28:10,545
See, by the time they got
to the--right in here,
599
00:28:10,629 --> 00:28:12,587
this point, they didn't have
any wings anymore.
600
00:28:12,670 --> 00:28:14,128
- They broke them
off back there.
601
00:28:14,212 --> 00:28:16,379
- It was just fuselage,
and that was it.
602
00:28:16,462 --> 00:28:20,545
Big split came down like a--
and went across this way,
603
00:28:20,629 --> 00:28:22,711
and when I pulled it up
like that,
604
00:28:22,795 --> 00:28:25,795
you know, just a big space,
and then somebody on the ground
605
00:28:25,878 --> 00:28:29,128
gave me a big,
long stick to prop it up.
606
00:28:29,212 --> 00:28:30,795
I shined my flashlight
up in there,
607
00:28:30,878 --> 00:28:33,253
and my first thought's,
you know,
608
00:28:33,337 --> 00:28:35,462
"What's a bunch of hippies
doing on an airplane?"
609
00:28:35,545 --> 00:28:37,670
'cause back in those
days hippies
610
00:28:37,753 --> 00:28:39,087
usually didn't have any money.
611
00:28:39,170 --> 00:28:40,711
You know, they were broke.
612
00:28:40,795 --> 00:28:42,587
But the playing cards
613
00:28:42,670 --> 00:28:45,920
was just--covered everything,
you know?
614
00:28:46,003 --> 00:28:49,379
And people were moaning,
you know, "Get me out of here,"
615
00:28:49,462 --> 00:28:52,836
and, you know,
we was just farm boys.
616
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,836
We didn't know
what we were doing, really,
617
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,711
but we just got them out.
I mean, it's just that simple.
618
00:28:56,795 --> 00:28:58,711
- Dwayne's sister,
one thing she told me,
619
00:28:58,795 --> 00:29:00,920
that all up in the trees--
she said,
620
00:29:01,003 --> 00:29:02,504
"From their suitcases
busting open
621
00:29:02,587 --> 00:29:05,003
and all that stuff,
there were socks."
622
00:29:05,087 --> 00:29:07,420
She said, "Just socks went
everywhere," you know?
623
00:29:07,504 --> 00:29:09,420
It was like Christmas,
like tinsel.
624
00:29:09,504 --> 00:29:11,128
- The boys walked up to me and
told me,
625
00:29:11,212 --> 00:29:13,504
they said, you know,
"You know who this is?"
626
00:29:13,587 --> 00:29:15,003
I said, "No, hmm-mm."
627
00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:16,629
He said,
"It's the Lynyrd Skynyrd band."
628
00:29:16,711 --> 00:29:18,587
I thought he was lying.
629
00:29:18,670 --> 00:29:20,212
They did a pretty
dang good job.
630
00:29:20,295 --> 00:29:22,504
It's the best thing
you can ever say
631
00:29:22,587 --> 00:29:24,545
for just a group
of come-together farmers
632
00:29:24,629 --> 00:29:26,462
and loggers and ranchers
and stuff like that
633
00:29:26,545 --> 00:29:28,295
and then a little volunteer
fire department.
634
00:29:28,379 --> 00:29:29,711
They saved 20 lives.
635
00:29:29,795 --> 00:29:32,003
Let's give them
full credit for that.
636
00:29:32,087 --> 00:29:33,670
You know, the band wouldn't
have still be going on today
637
00:29:33,753 --> 00:29:35,587
had they not done
what they did.
638
00:29:36,878 --> 00:29:38,836
It's just an old memory now,
you know?
639
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,795
♪ ♪
640
00:29:41,878 --> 00:29:45,753
- ♪ Train roll on ♪
641
00:29:45,836 --> 00:29:49,795
♪ On down the line ♪
642
00:29:49,878 --> 00:29:55,836
♪ Won't you please
take me far away? ♪
643
00:29:57,545 --> 00:30:01,253
♪ ♪
644
00:30:01,337 --> 00:30:05,462
♪ Now, I feel the wind blow ♪
645
00:30:05,545 --> 00:30:11,545
♪ Outside my door ♪
646
00:30:11,629 --> 00:30:18,128
♪ I'm leaving my woman
at home ♪
647
00:30:18,212 --> 00:30:21,420
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
648
00:30:21,504 --> 00:30:25,379
♪ Tuesday's gone
with the wind ♪
649
00:30:25,462 --> 00:30:26,795
- Do people literally knock
on your door?
650
00:30:26,878 --> 00:30:28,545
- Oh, yes.
- "Hey, I heard Skynyrd
651
00:30:28,629 --> 00:30:30,795
recorded here?"
- Yup, they do.
652
00:30:30,878 --> 00:30:34,836
A couple times a year they'll
come in, and we'll show them
653
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,212
and just walk them over
to the warehouse and,
654
00:30:37,295 --> 00:30:38,795
like,
"This is where it was."
655
00:30:41,253 --> 00:30:43,462
- Can't do that now, but you
kind of came through here
656
00:30:43,545 --> 00:30:48,253
and just opened up the door
to the control room,
657
00:30:48,337 --> 00:30:53,003
and you walked up these steps,
and you were there in the room.
658
00:30:53,087 --> 00:30:55,170
Besides Al Kooper, I was
kind of the main engineer
659
00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:57,212
for that first album.
660
00:30:57,295 --> 00:30:59,629
We really got lucky on sound
'cause when we started
661
00:30:59,711 --> 00:31:01,836
utilizing
the acoustics of the room,
662
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:06,878
it was really a great space
to record guitars
663
00:31:06,961 --> 00:31:09,961
because where it was the sound
like a live room.
664
00:31:10,045 --> 00:31:13,253
- Any studio, to us,
was cool as hell
665
00:31:13,337 --> 00:31:15,711
because it was
a recording studio.
666
00:31:15,795 --> 00:31:17,711
We were really loose in there.
667
00:31:17,795 --> 00:31:20,212
It was real laid back,
and we'd all sit in
668
00:31:20,295 --> 00:31:24,295
and listen to every part
of every song of every mix
669
00:31:24,379 --> 00:31:26,711
'cause where was
the cooler place to be,
670
00:31:26,795 --> 00:31:31,253
the hotel sitting
or at the studio?
671
00:31:31,337 --> 00:31:32,920
- ♪ Daddy was a Cajun, baby ♪
672
00:31:33,003 --> 00:31:36,253
♪ Raised on Southern land ♪
673
00:31:36,337 --> 00:31:39,087
♪ And so my kinfolks tell me ♪
674
00:31:39,170 --> 00:31:42,462
♪ Was a street fighting man ♪
675
00:31:42,545 --> 00:31:43,504
- Over the course
of the album,
676
00:31:43,587 --> 00:31:47,795
I learned how they worked.
677
00:31:47,878 --> 00:31:52,128
They had
an amazing methodology.
678
00:31:52,212 --> 00:31:56,087
They had that rehearsal place
out in the swamp,
679
00:31:56,170 --> 00:31:59,462
and there was
no improvisation whatsoever
680
00:31:59,545 --> 00:32:01,670
once they left the swamp.
681
00:32:01,753 --> 00:32:05,295
Now, as a producer,
that's a godsend.
682
00:32:05,379 --> 00:32:09,753
All the guitar solos
and keyboard solos
683
00:32:09,836 --> 00:32:13,087
were always played
exactly the same.
684
00:32:13,170 --> 00:32:17,087
I never heard of such a thing,
and they were great solos.
685
00:32:17,170 --> 00:32:19,128
♪ ♪
686
00:32:19,212 --> 00:32:21,295
- I remember back
to doing solos
687
00:32:21,379 --> 00:32:23,545
with Allen Collins,
and when he got through
688
00:32:23,629 --> 00:32:26,128
I cried,
it just was so emotional.
689
00:32:26,212 --> 00:32:28,212
I mean, the way he performed,
690
00:32:28,295 --> 00:32:30,753
you know, his whole body
was into it and everything.
691
00:32:30,836 --> 00:32:33,253
- We all kind of helped Billy.
692
00:32:33,337 --> 00:32:35,504
He wasn't no rock and roll
piano player.
693
00:32:35,587 --> 00:32:38,379
He was trained classical,
so we had to say,
694
00:32:38,462 --> 00:32:39,711
"Don't play all that there.
695
00:32:39,795 --> 00:32:41,711
Just go
dink-dink-dink-dink-dink."
696
00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:45,420
He'd go, "What? I can't just do
that the whole song,"
697
00:32:45,504 --> 00:32:48,670
but that would be great,
really fit.
698
00:32:48,753 --> 00:32:50,836
- Really,
it was a piano record
699
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,379
much as it is
a three-guitar army record.
700
00:32:53,462 --> 00:32:55,170
That's what made them Skynyrd,
701
00:32:55,253 --> 00:32:57,920
was them having different
styles in the band.
702
00:32:58,003 --> 00:33:00,379
- The first album cover
shows me standing there
703
00:33:00,462 --> 00:33:02,545
all by myself
on the far right-hand side,
704
00:33:02,629 --> 00:33:05,379
and that was the last shot
of a all-day photo shoot,
705
00:33:05,462 --> 00:33:07,420
and there's a lightning bolt
going right through my head.
706
00:33:07,504 --> 00:33:10,462
- ♪ Drank ole poison whiskey ♪
707
00:33:10,545 --> 00:33:12,170
- And right after that,
708
00:33:12,253 --> 00:33:13,711
Gary got up
and threw up on the curb.
709
00:33:13,795 --> 00:33:18,379
- ♪ Don't you drink it, boy ♪
710
00:33:18,462 --> 00:33:21,170
♪ Play guitar ♪
711
00:33:21,253 --> 00:33:23,295
- We are about to take
an interview
712
00:33:23,379 --> 00:33:26,212
of Ronnie Van Zant,
singer, songwriter,
713
00:33:26,295 --> 00:33:28,587
and lead redneck of the pride
714
00:33:28,670 --> 00:33:31,253
of Jacksonville,
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
715
00:33:31,337 --> 00:33:34,379
- We play exactly what we like
to play, and personally,
716
00:33:34,462 --> 00:33:37,795
we did like to play country
and blues, stuff like that,
717
00:33:37,878 --> 00:33:39,545
but Lynyrd Skynyrd's a rock
718
00:33:39,629 --> 00:33:41,587
and roll band
and boogie-woogie.
719
00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:45,337
That's what we get paid to do,
and this--we like that too.
720
00:33:45,420 --> 00:33:47,753
- Ronnie, his writing
has seeped
721
00:33:47,836 --> 00:33:51,629
into my sad blues guy
kind of voice.
722
00:33:56,253 --> 00:33:58,836
When I first picked up guitar
when I was 14,
723
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,711
I would go up
into my dad's music room.
724
00:34:01,795 --> 00:34:04,003
I'd play guitar to a bunch
of Allman Brothers records,
725
00:34:04,087 --> 00:34:06,504
and that's kind of
how I fell into that, like,
726
00:34:06,587 --> 00:34:09,212
'70s Southern rock world.
727
00:34:09,295 --> 00:34:12,836
♪ Mama told me ♪
728
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,504
♪ When I was young ♪
729
00:34:17,587 --> 00:34:21,961
♪ "Come sit beside me ♪
730
00:34:22,045 --> 00:34:25,379
♪ My only son" ♪
731
00:34:25,462 --> 00:34:27,629
I was hanging out
with a buddy of mine,
732
00:34:27,711 --> 00:34:29,045
and he was like, "Yo, man,
733
00:34:29,128 --> 00:34:30,878
"if you like
the Allman Brothers,
734
00:34:30,961 --> 00:34:32,795
you've got to listen
to Lynyrd Skynyrd."
735
00:34:32,878 --> 00:34:37,711
He showed me a video of Gary
just ripping a slide solo
736
00:34:37,795 --> 00:34:40,295
as he had, like,
a cigarette in his hand.
737
00:34:40,379 --> 00:34:43,253
I'm just like, "What is
this dude"
738
00:34:43,337 --> 00:34:47,087
- ♪ And be a simple ♪
739
00:34:47,170 --> 00:34:51,711
♪ Kind of man ♪
740
00:34:51,795 --> 00:34:58,629
♪ Oh, be something you love
and understand ♪
741
00:34:58,711 --> 00:35:03,045
♪ Baby, be a simple ♪
742
00:35:03,128 --> 00:35:07,337
♪ Kind of man ♪
743
00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:12,961
♪ Oh, won't you do this for
me, son, if you can ♪
744
00:35:13,045 --> 00:35:15,170
♪ Oh, yes, I will ♪
745
00:35:15,253 --> 00:35:22,379
♪ ♪
746
00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,961
- We played "Simple Man"
and Al Kooper,
747
00:35:32,045 --> 00:35:33,170
he didn't like the song.
748
00:35:33,253 --> 00:35:34,629
He said, "That's boring, man.
749
00:35:34,711 --> 00:35:36,545
It doesn't mean nothing,"
750
00:35:36,629 --> 00:35:39,045
but Kooper, we'd call him
a Yankee slicker.
751
00:35:39,128 --> 00:35:41,170
He was totally different
than us.
752
00:35:41,253 --> 00:35:43,920
We were all from simple
Southern home-cooking
753
00:35:44,003 --> 00:35:45,753
mamas, you know?
754
00:35:45,836 --> 00:35:47,920
And so we thought
it was a great song.
755
00:35:48,003 --> 00:35:50,961
- And so Ronnie takes Al
out to the car,
756
00:35:51,045 --> 00:35:54,003
and he opened up the door
to the--Al's Bentley
757
00:35:54,087 --> 00:35:56,420
and put him in the car
and shut the door,
758
00:35:56,504 --> 00:35:58,420
and Ronnie stuck his head
into the window, and he says,
759
00:35:58,504 --> 00:36:00,587
"When we're done cutting it,
we'll call you,"
760
00:36:00,670 --> 00:36:02,420
and that's the way it was.
761
00:36:02,504 --> 00:36:04,587
- He was the boss.
762
00:36:04,670 --> 00:36:07,504
I feared him.
763
00:36:07,587 --> 00:36:09,504
- I've tended to write
about places
764
00:36:09,587 --> 00:36:11,878
I've seen and things
that I've done, normal things,
765
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:13,795
things that
you've done, really.
766
00:36:13,878 --> 00:36:16,545
I think if you write it
really simple,
767
00:36:16,629 --> 00:36:18,629
then you can reach
more people that way
768
00:36:18,711 --> 00:36:20,337
because more people's
gonna understand
769
00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:22,087
what you're talking about
and what I mean.
770
00:36:25,587 --> 00:36:27,920
- I guess I showed up
to rehearsal a little bit
771
00:36:28,003 --> 00:36:31,087
after everybody else,
'cause when I got there
772
00:36:31,170 --> 00:36:33,087
Gary was playing
a riff sort of like this.
773
00:36:33,170 --> 00:36:34,753
It went...
774
00:36:34,836 --> 00:36:37,670
[playing slow,
descending melody]
775
00:36:37,753 --> 00:36:44,920
♪ ♪
776
00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:48,087
You know?
777
00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:49,587
And I walked in
and picked up my Strat
778
00:36:49,670 --> 00:36:51,587
and just bounced that--
mine off of his.
779
00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:58,629
♪ ♪
780
00:36:58,711 --> 00:37:01,170
And Ronnie's sitting over
in his--on the couch
781
00:37:01,253 --> 00:37:03,545
where he always sat,
and he kept going like this.
782
00:37:03,629 --> 00:37:05,711
That means don't stop.
Just keep running it,
783
00:37:05,795 --> 00:37:07,795
running it, running it,
you know?
784
00:37:07,878 --> 00:37:11,212
So within about 15 minutes
he started writing the chorus,
785
00:37:11,295 --> 00:37:12,795
so we had a verse
and a chorus.
786
00:37:12,878 --> 00:37:13,836
Then he says,
"Well, I'll see you later.
787
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,337
I'm going down to go fishing."
788
00:37:15,420 --> 00:37:16,920
"Okay."
So we stayed up there,
789
00:37:17,003 --> 00:37:18,920
and we're working on the music.
790
00:37:19,003 --> 00:37:20,795
He's listening down there
'cause the music traveled down
791
00:37:20,878 --> 00:37:23,504
the creek really well,
and he comes back, I guess,
792
00:37:23,587 --> 00:37:25,836
in about an hour
and a half and grabs a mike,
793
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,087
and he sings all the verses.
794
00:37:28,170 --> 00:37:30,128
He always wrote in his head,
he never wrote anything down,
795
00:37:30,212 --> 00:37:31,836
so we were able
to kind of arrange it.
796
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,545
- The week that first album
797
00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,295
was being pressed
798
00:37:37,379 --> 00:37:39,128
Ronnie called me up,
799
00:37:39,212 --> 00:37:41,753
and he said,
"We have a new song.
800
00:37:41,836 --> 00:37:43,753
"I love it
the way it is right now.
801
00:37:43,836 --> 00:37:45,629
"I'm scared it's gonna change
802
00:37:45,711 --> 00:37:47,711
by the time
we do the second album."
803
00:37:47,795 --> 00:37:50,420
They hadn't even toured
the first album.
804
00:37:50,504 --> 00:37:52,753
It wasn't even on
the street yet.
805
00:37:52,836 --> 00:37:56,045
He said, "I want to come up
and record it now,"
806
00:37:56,128 --> 00:37:58,795
and they drove
up and played me
807
00:37:58,878 --> 00:38:01,836
"Sweet Home Alabama."
808
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,587
I said, "I'll see you
in the studio tomorrow.
809
00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:06,670
This is a hit record."
810
00:38:10,836 --> 00:38:18,045
♪ ♪
811
00:38:26,253 --> 00:38:30,170
- ♪ Big wheels keep on
turning ♪
812
00:38:30,253 --> 00:38:33,128
♪ Carry me home to see
my kin ♪
813
00:38:35,462 --> 00:38:38,128
♪ Singing songs
about the Southland ♪
814
00:38:40,379 --> 00:38:44,045
♪ I miss ol' 'bamy once again,
and I think it's a sin ♪
815
00:38:44,128 --> 00:38:46,295
- We used to do clubs
and teen dens
816
00:38:46,379 --> 00:38:48,170
and stuff all around Alabama,
817
00:38:48,253 --> 00:38:49,629
and driving
through the country,
818
00:38:49,711 --> 00:38:52,587
it was beautiful
and great people,
819
00:38:52,670 --> 00:38:54,629
and if you had trouble,
they'd come out to help you.
820
00:38:54,711 --> 00:38:59,462
- ♪ Well, I heard Mr. Young
sing about her ♪
821
00:38:59,545 --> 00:39:04,337
♪ Well, I heard ol' Neil
put her down ♪
822
00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:08,504
♪ Well, I hope Neil Young
will remember ♪
823
00:39:08,587 --> 00:39:12,670
♪ A Southern man
don't need him around anyhow ♪
824
00:39:12,753 --> 00:39:16,087
- We just love the South
attitude and the people.
825
00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:18,087
That was our first experience,
826
00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:20,337
is playing
all the Southern states
827
00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:22,045
'cause we weren't known
anywhere else.
828
00:39:22,128 --> 00:39:24,379
We couldn't afford
to drive it,
829
00:39:24,462 --> 00:39:26,795
and we really weren't booked
anywhere else,
830
00:39:26,878 --> 00:39:30,379
and then Neil Young had wrote
"Southern Man" and "Alabama."
831
00:39:30,462 --> 00:39:36,462
- ♪ Southern man better
keep your head ♪
832
00:39:36,545 --> 00:39:41,920
♪ Don't forget what
your good book said ♪
833
00:39:42,003 --> 00:39:44,087
♪ Southern man ♪
834
00:39:44,170 --> 00:39:45,753
- We didn't like him
cutting down
835
00:39:45,836 --> 00:39:46,961
Southern guys, you know?
836
00:39:47,045 --> 00:39:49,295
♪ ♪
837
00:39:49,379 --> 00:39:51,504
- ♪ In Birmingham they love
the governor ♪
838
00:39:51,587 --> 00:39:53,587
♪ Boo, boo, boo ♪
839
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:56,379
♪ Now, we all did
what we could do ♪
840
00:39:56,462 --> 00:39:58,836
♪ ♪
841
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:04,170
♪ Now, Watergate
does not bother me ♪
842
00:40:04,253 --> 00:40:08,087
♪ Does your conscience
bother you? Tell the truth ♪
843
00:40:08,170 --> 00:40:11,504
- It was right at the time
that the Wallaces were out,
844
00:40:11,587 --> 00:40:14,128
and there was all this race
riots and stuff,
845
00:40:14,212 --> 00:40:17,212
and a lot of people believed
in segregation and all that.
846
00:40:17,295 --> 00:40:20,379
We didn't,
so we put the "boo, boo, boo"
847
00:40:20,462 --> 00:40:23,003
there so it was saying
we don't like Wallace,
848
00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:24,836
but I don't know.
849
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,462
There's a lot of
different interpretations.
850
00:40:27,545 --> 00:40:29,629
I'm sure if you ask
the other guys
851
00:40:29,711 --> 00:40:33,504
who are not with us anymore
up in rock and roll heaven,
852
00:40:33,587 --> 00:40:35,753
they have their story
of how it came about.
853
00:40:36,545 --> 00:40:37,629
- ♪ Alabama ♪
854
00:40:37,711 --> 00:40:42,753
♪ ♪
855
00:40:42,836 --> 00:40:43,961
- "Sweet Home Alabama,"
856
00:40:44,045 --> 00:40:45,961
probably one of the strongest
857
00:40:46,045 --> 00:40:48,545
and most controversial
musical statements
858
00:40:48,629 --> 00:40:51,045
ever about the South,
was really the first
859
00:40:51,128 --> 00:40:53,128
sweet taste of success
for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
860
00:40:53,212 --> 00:40:55,420
- We knew that by doing
that song
861
00:40:55,504 --> 00:40:57,212
and writing those lyrics,
we knew in the beginning
862
00:40:57,295 --> 00:40:59,003
that we'd get a lot of heat
from it, you know?
863
00:40:59,087 --> 00:41:02,003
And, you know, I did attack
Neil Young in that song.
864
00:41:02,087 --> 00:41:03,961
He says, "What are you
talking about, you know?
865
00:41:04,045 --> 00:41:07,462
From what I'm told, you was
born in Canada," you know?
866
00:41:07,545 --> 00:41:09,795
- Before the first album
came out,
867
00:41:09,878 --> 00:41:11,795
I bumped into Pete Townsend.
868
00:41:11,878 --> 00:41:13,920
I knew him quite well.
869
00:41:14,003 --> 00:41:16,045
I'd played on some Who things.
870
00:41:16,128 --> 00:41:18,212
I said, "What are you doing?"
871
00:41:18,295 --> 00:41:20,836
and he said, "Well, we're
going out on a big tour."
872
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,629
He said,
"Do you know a great act
873
00:41:22,711 --> 00:41:25,462
we could use for an opener?"
874
00:41:25,545 --> 00:41:27,462
I said, "You know,
it's funny you say that."
875
00:41:27,545 --> 00:41:29,003
♪ ♪
876
00:41:29,087 --> 00:41:30,878
- Let's pick it up!
877
00:41:30,961 --> 00:41:33,045
- The first night
we played with the Who,
878
00:41:33,128 --> 00:41:36,170
we were used to playing
clubs and dances
879
00:41:36,253 --> 00:41:39,087
at maybe 100, 200 people
at the most,
880
00:41:39,170 --> 00:41:41,170
so we were opening
at the Cow Palace
881
00:41:41,253 --> 00:41:45,295
the first night
for 18,000 people,
882
00:41:45,379 --> 00:41:47,670
and we looked out
and we were freaked out.
883
00:41:47,753 --> 00:41:49,462
We had to have a drink before
we could go out and play.
884
00:41:49,545 --> 00:41:51,836
We was so nervous.
885
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,212
They only gave us some nights
20 minutes and others 30.
886
00:41:56,295 --> 00:41:58,753
So we'd do "I Ain't the One,"
"Poison Whiskey,"
887
00:41:58,836 --> 00:42:02,045
and another song
and then "Free Bird."
888
00:42:02,128 --> 00:42:04,711
That was it, you know?
889
00:42:04,795 --> 00:42:11,711
- ♪ Oh, help me,
I can't change ♪
890
00:42:11,795 --> 00:42:16,170
♪ Lord, I can't change ♪
891
00:42:16,253 --> 00:42:18,920
- "Free Bird," it's just
a simple little love song
892
00:42:19,003 --> 00:42:20,878
about leaving a girl.
893
00:42:20,961 --> 00:42:23,545
Allen came up with that riff
in high school.
894
00:42:23,629 --> 00:42:25,836
We wrote it as a slow song,
895
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,920
and we didn't have the end
lead early in our career,
896
00:42:29,003 --> 00:42:32,253
but we were playing clubs.
We'd play "Free Bird,"
897
00:42:32,337 --> 00:42:34,629
and we would jam on it
so Ronnie,
898
00:42:34,711 --> 00:42:37,504
we could rest his voice,
so the first time was,
899
00:42:37,587 --> 00:42:41,337
like, a minute,
and then it'd be four minutes.
900
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:43,545
Then it would be
six minutes or eight.
901
00:42:43,629 --> 00:42:45,629
Then it got to be 20 minutes
at the end.
902
00:42:45,711 --> 00:42:48,337
♪ ♪
903
00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:51,045
I mean, Allen did that solo
at the end of "Free Bird,"
904
00:42:51,128 --> 00:42:54,878
when he was 17, 18.
905
00:42:54,961 --> 00:42:57,295
People just weren't playing
like that then, you know?
906
00:42:57,379 --> 00:42:58,379
Clapton was maybe.
907
00:43:01,003 --> 00:43:03,295
- We played an audience,
and they'd flip out,
908
00:43:03,379 --> 00:43:05,253
go wild, you know?
909
00:43:05,337 --> 00:43:08,587
Just gives you chills
all over, you know?
910
00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:11,295
- Something magical
about that song
911
00:43:11,379 --> 00:43:13,545
'cause when it gets
to the peak,
912
00:43:13,629 --> 00:43:16,629
it's sort of almost becomes
like a force of nature.
913
00:43:16,711 --> 00:43:19,170
Even playing it, you
can feel the force in that.
914
00:43:19,253 --> 00:43:26,379
♪ ♪
915
00:43:29,253 --> 00:43:32,087
- One night we got better
reviews than The Who.
916
00:43:32,170 --> 00:43:33,920
We didn't like that.
917
00:43:34,003 --> 00:43:36,295
We thought
they were the guys, not us.
918
00:43:36,379 --> 00:43:38,128
- We hit it every night.
We had a job to do,
919
00:43:38,212 --> 00:43:40,212
and we knew it.
We weren't gonna lay back.
920
00:43:40,295 --> 00:43:43,420
Our job was really to blow off
stage the band following us.
921
00:43:43,504 --> 00:43:45,462
Ronnie made that clear.
922
00:43:45,545 --> 00:43:47,545
It's a competition, and
whoever we're playing with,
923
00:43:47,629 --> 00:43:49,170
we're gonna
blow that band away.
924
00:43:54,045 --> 00:43:57,337
- The Who tour did a lot,
and "Free Bird,"
925
00:43:57,420 --> 00:44:00,253
although
it was not a hit single,
926
00:44:00,337 --> 00:44:02,253
it was better
927
00:44:02,337 --> 00:44:04,587
'cause it sold albums,
not singles.
928
00:44:10,504 --> 00:44:13,462
- To me there's nothing freer
than a
929
00:44:13,545 --> 00:44:15,670
Just flying wherever
it wants to go,
930
00:44:15,753 --> 00:44:19,379
and I don't know,
that's what this country's
931
00:44:19,462 --> 00:44:20,795
all about, you know?
Being free,
932
00:44:20,878 --> 00:44:23,545
and I think everybody
wants to be a free bird.
933
00:44:31,462 --> 00:44:33,504
- We did The Who tour,
934
00:44:33,587 --> 00:44:35,920
played in front of tens
of thousands of people, man.
935
00:44:36,003 --> 00:44:39,711
Then we still went back
to clubs and 100 people here
936
00:44:39,795 --> 00:44:42,711
and 50 people there,
and oh, my God.
937
00:44:42,795 --> 00:44:45,128
- Well, we'd stay at Days Inn
and get two rooms.
938
00:44:45,212 --> 00:44:48,087
I mean, just we had basically
four people in a double bed,
939
00:44:48,170 --> 00:44:49,587
and trying and sleep with
Ed King
940
00:44:49,670 --> 00:44:51,170
with four people
in a double bed, 'kay?
941
00:44:51,253 --> 00:44:58,253
♪ ♪
942
00:45:01,670 --> 00:45:04,878
- ♪ Oh, seven years
of hard luck ♪
943
00:45:04,961 --> 00:45:07,836
♪ Coming down on me ♪
944
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,462
♪ From the Florida border ♪
945
00:45:09,545 --> 00:45:13,087
♪ Yes, up in Nashville,
Tennessee ♪
946
00:45:13,170 --> 00:45:15,711
♪ I worked in every joint
you can name ♪
947
00:45:15,795 --> 00:45:19,379
♪ And for every honky-tonk ♪
948
00:45:19,462 --> 00:45:21,753
♪ Along comes a Yankee
slicker saying ♪
949
00:45:21,836 --> 00:45:24,170
♪ Maybe you're what I want ♪
950
00:45:24,253 --> 00:45:27,337
♪ Want you to sign
your contract ♪
951
00:45:27,420 --> 00:45:30,170
♪ Want you to sign today ♪
952
00:45:30,253 --> 00:45:34,711
♪ Gonna give you lots of money
working for MCA ♪
953
00:45:37,629 --> 00:45:40,045
- When we did the second
album, I wanted to do it
954
00:45:40,128 --> 00:45:41,670
in Los Angeles.
955
00:45:41,753 --> 00:45:43,795
They were not happy
about that.
956
00:45:43,878 --> 00:45:46,462
- ♪ They're gonna take me out
to California ♪
957
00:45:46,545 --> 00:45:50,128
♪ Gonna make me a superstar ♪
958
00:45:50,212 --> 00:45:55,253
♪ Just pay me all my money so
maybe you won't get a scar ♪
959
00:45:55,337 --> 00:45:56,920
- We didn't have much money.
960
00:45:57,003 --> 00:45:59,045
Everything we got
we had to spend,
961
00:45:59,128 --> 00:46:02,087
so we were playing
the Whisky a Go Go at night,
962
00:46:02,170 --> 00:46:05,128
and then
we'd go record all day
963
00:46:05,212 --> 00:46:08,003
and then sleep where we could
here and there, you know?
964
00:46:08,087 --> 00:46:10,170
- We were all in hotels,
and it was a new thing.
965
00:46:10,253 --> 00:46:12,920
The surroundings
were even more evil
966
00:46:13,003 --> 00:46:14,836
'cause it was Hollywood,
you know?
967
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,128
There's just too much
going on here, you know?
968
00:46:17,212 --> 00:46:20,128
It took them out of their
comfort zone, and, you know,
969
00:46:20,212 --> 00:46:22,587
they wanted to just go
into a room and just record.
970
00:46:22,670 --> 00:46:24,087
You know,
it was a record plant.
971
00:46:24,170 --> 00:46:25,711
You walk out the door,
and, you know,
972
00:46:25,795 --> 00:46:27,504
there's Joe Walsh
and Jackson Brown
973
00:46:27,587 --> 00:46:29,379
playing pinball,
you know, a big room
974
00:46:29,462 --> 00:46:30,795
that Stevie Wonder was in,
975
00:46:30,878 --> 00:46:32,504
and then one day
we're sitting there,
976
00:46:32,587 --> 00:46:34,295
and John Lennon
and May Pang walk in.
977
00:46:34,379 --> 00:46:35,128
We couldn't play
the rest of the day.
978
00:46:35,212 --> 00:46:37,337
- It was work.
979
00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:40,212
It was really work
pulling that record together.
980
00:46:40,295 --> 00:46:42,836
- One night we went into
the studio to record,
981
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,711
and they had power trouble,
982
00:46:44,795 --> 00:46:47,587
and we went down
and saw "The Exorcist."
983
00:46:47,670 --> 00:46:49,836
Bob Burns just had, like,
a mental breakdown.
984
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:51,836
It freaked him out, man.
985
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,545
Really, it--he thought
his wife was the devil,
986
00:46:55,629 --> 00:46:57,878
and he thought this cat
was the devil.
987
00:46:57,961 --> 00:47:00,295
There were a lot of things
going on.
988
00:47:00,379 --> 00:47:03,295
A wife would get pregnant,
or somebody'd break up,
989
00:47:03,379 --> 00:47:05,379
or there was, you know,
990
00:47:05,462 --> 00:47:08,212
all those complications
and being away from home,
991
00:47:08,295 --> 00:47:11,128
and we were still
in your early 20s.
992
00:47:11,212 --> 00:47:12,961
You don't know
what's happening, really.
993
00:47:13,045 --> 00:47:16,711
Didn't really take time off
much at all, you know?
994
00:47:16,795 --> 00:47:20,795
- ♪ Well, it's true
I love the money ♪
995
00:47:20,878 --> 00:47:25,170
♪ And I love
my brand-new car ♪
996
00:47:25,253 --> 00:47:28,087
♪ I like drinking
the best of whiskey ♪
997
00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:32,795
♪ And playing
in a honky-tonk bar ♪
998
00:47:32,878 --> 00:47:35,379
♪ But when I come off
the road ♪
999
00:47:35,462 --> 00:47:39,170
♪ well, I just got
to have my time ♪
1000
00:47:39,253 --> 00:47:43,212
♪ 'Cause I got to find a break
in this action ♪
1001
00:47:43,295 --> 00:47:45,711
♪ Else I'm gonna lose
my mind ♪
1002
00:47:45,795 --> 00:47:50,003
♪ So don't ask me no
questions ♪
1003
00:47:50,087 --> 00:47:53,545
♪ And I won't tell you no
lies, that's right ♪
1004
00:47:53,629 --> 00:47:58,670
♪ ♪
1005
00:47:58,753 --> 00:48:01,128
- When I joined the band
that first time,
1006
00:48:01,212 --> 00:48:02,253
I was the drummer.
1007
00:48:02,337 --> 00:48:04,629
We spent a lot of time
1008
00:48:04,711 --> 00:48:06,836
in Muscle Shoals
going back and forth,
1009
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,670
but I said, "The drums are just
really not for me," you know?
1010
00:48:10,753 --> 00:48:16,295
I missed playing guitar,
and I left the guys.
1011
00:48:16,379 --> 00:48:19,629
Less than a year later,
in '73, "Pronounced"
1012
00:48:19,711 --> 00:48:23,504
came out, and they were off
and running.
1013
00:48:23,587 --> 00:48:25,587
It really wasn't meant for me
to be there then.
1014
00:48:25,670 --> 00:48:27,170
It was meant for me
to be here now.
1015
00:48:28,961 --> 00:48:31,379
I was raised by a great
musician, my grandfather,
1016
00:48:31,462 --> 00:48:33,462
Shorty Medlocke.
1017
00:48:33,545 --> 00:48:37,420
He pretty well much was
a delta blues bluegrass player
1018
00:48:37,504 --> 00:48:41,045
and a solid foundation in music
around this town anyway.
1019
00:48:41,128 --> 00:48:42,711
Ronnie would come over here
and sit on the porch
1020
00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:45,920
watching my old man
play his Dobro.
1021
00:48:46,003 --> 00:48:47,753
My old man would sometimes
be out here at 2:00 a.m.
1022
00:48:47,836 --> 00:48:49,670
in the morning playing.
1023
00:48:49,753 --> 00:48:51,753
Me and him both would
stay out here for hours.
1024
00:48:51,836 --> 00:48:54,337
Ronnie had taken the influence
of my old man
1025
00:48:54,420 --> 00:48:56,545
doing that coupled
with the fact that he loved
1026
00:48:56,629 --> 00:48:59,462
Son House, the blues guy,
1027
00:48:59,545 --> 00:49:01,504
and out of it was born
"Curtis Loew."
1028
00:49:01,587 --> 00:49:06,504
- ♪ Play me a song, Curtis
Loew, hey, Curtis Loew ♪
1029
00:49:06,587 --> 00:49:13,379
♪ I wish that you was here
so everyone would know ♪
1030
00:49:13,462 --> 00:49:15,753
♪ People said you were
useless ♪
1031
00:49:15,836 --> 00:49:20,753
♪ But then people all
were fools ♪
1032
00:49:20,836 --> 00:49:23,920
♪ 'Cause Curtis,
you're the finest picker ♪
1033
00:49:24,003 --> 00:49:27,711
♪ To ever play the blues ♪
1034
00:49:27,795 --> 00:49:30,545
♪ ♪
1035
00:49:30,629 --> 00:49:31,961
- We heard about this band
1036
00:49:32,045 --> 00:49:33,836
called
the Lynyrd Skynyrd band.
1037
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:34,753
They were kicking it up
and tearing it down,
1038
00:49:34,836 --> 00:49:36,711
and we were booked together
1039
00:49:36,795 --> 00:49:38,295
on a string of dates,
and I played with them.
1040
00:49:38,379 --> 00:49:40,128
That's the first time
I remember meeting them.
1041
00:49:40,212 --> 00:49:42,337
With this guys, it was like
working with family,
1042
00:49:42,420 --> 00:49:44,253
which it was not always
like working with family
1043
00:49:44,337 --> 00:49:45,587
with a lot of other people.
1044
00:49:45,670 --> 00:49:47,504
Southern boys played blues.
1045
00:49:47,587 --> 00:49:48,920
There's no two ways about it,
1046
00:49:49,003 --> 00:49:51,128
but Ronnie Van Zant,
1047
00:49:51,212 --> 00:49:55,711
he was a master at doing
redneck, working men's lyrics.
1048
00:49:55,795 --> 00:50:01,420
♪ ♪
1049
00:50:01,504 --> 00:50:04,420
- I figured you'd have some
moonshine laying around, Coop.
1050
00:50:04,504 --> 00:50:06,587
What is that,
1051
00:50:06,711 --> 00:50:09,253
some of no--northeast Georgia
mountain water, is all that is.
1052
00:50:11,670 --> 00:50:14,462
- I've listened to Skynyrd
ever since
1053
00:50:14,545 --> 00:50:17,045
they actually started,
pretty much.
1054
00:50:17,128 --> 00:50:20,295
- This is where I really got
broke in on Skynyrd, I'd say.
1055
00:50:20,379 --> 00:50:22,337
He had a old tape
that he used to put in there.
1056
00:50:22,420 --> 00:50:24,545
- An old cassette tape
was one.
1057
00:50:24,629 --> 00:50:27,420
- And it stayed on,
I mean, nonstop.
1058
00:50:27,504 --> 00:50:28,961
- I gave that--that cassette
to Brantley.
1059
00:50:29,045 --> 00:50:30,753
I said, "Here, you need
to learn these songs,"
1060
00:50:30,836 --> 00:50:32,753
and it wasn't two days
he was back over here.
1061
00:50:32,836 --> 00:50:34,795
He had, like, two
or three of them nailed.
1062
00:50:34,878 --> 00:50:36,545
Like, "Damn, I hear ya,
brother."
1063
00:50:36,629 --> 00:50:38,295
- I have a line in one
of my songs that says,
1064
00:50:38,379 --> 00:50:39,420
"There's always some drunk guy
in the back
1065
00:50:39,504 --> 00:50:41,379
screaming out 'Free Bird!'"
1066
00:50:41,462 --> 00:50:43,337
Every show you play, somebody
wants you to play "Free Bird,"
1067
00:50:43,420 --> 00:50:47,170
but I always felt like that was
a song you ought not touch.
1068
00:50:47,253 --> 00:50:49,212
- Yeah.
- You know, I fell in love
1069
00:50:49,295 --> 00:50:51,295
with guitars,
with big sound,
1070
00:50:51,379 --> 00:50:53,087
and you know what the songs
were about, you know?
1071
00:50:53,170 --> 00:50:55,670
It's about the South.
I could relate to it.
1072
00:50:59,545 --> 00:51:01,253
Me and all my friends.
1073
00:51:01,337 --> 00:51:03,212
You know, that was our music.
1074
00:51:03,295 --> 00:51:05,087
It puts you out here, you know?
- Yeah, kind of like
1075
00:51:05,170 --> 00:51:06,170
a hometown band to us.
- Yeah.
1076
00:51:06,253 --> 00:51:07,670
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
1077
00:51:07,753 --> 00:51:08,878
- Georgia peach.
- I think it's good.
1078
00:51:08,961 --> 00:51:11,462
- I did.
1079
00:51:11,545 --> 00:51:13,420
- Welcome to drink.
1080
00:51:13,504 --> 00:51:15,003
- All right.
1081
00:51:15,087 --> 00:51:17,795
- Put the camera down!
1082
00:51:17,878 --> 00:51:19,045
He said, "Fuck it."
1083
00:51:19,128 --> 00:51:22,087
- One, two, one, two, three.
1084
00:51:22,170 --> 00:51:24,587
- "Saturday Night Special"
is a song that deals
1085
00:51:24,670 --> 00:51:28,504
with a very real and dangerous
subject in today's America.
1086
00:51:28,587 --> 00:51:31,836
Our interview of Lynyrd
Skynyrd focuses on this now.
1087
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,337
- ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1088
00:51:34,420 --> 00:51:36,836
- "Saturday Night Special,"
we'd just known some friends
1089
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,212
that a friend shot
another fiend
1090
00:51:39,295 --> 00:51:41,003
'cause they were
drunk playing poker.
1091
00:51:41,087 --> 00:51:44,836
- ♪ Handguns are made
for killing ♪
1092
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,087
♪ They ain't no good
for nothing else ♪
1093
00:51:47,170 --> 00:51:52,629
♪ So why don't we don't
we dump them, people ♪
1094
00:51:52,711 --> 00:51:56,545
♪ To the bottom of a sea ♪
1095
00:51:56,629 --> 00:52:00,711
♪ Before some old fools
come around here ♪
1096
00:52:00,795 --> 00:52:03,670
♪ Want to shoot either
you or me? ♪
1097
00:52:07,253 --> 00:52:08,379
Really.
1098
00:52:11,170 --> 00:52:14,295
- I have a old gun,
a 1874 Springfield,
1099
00:52:14,379 --> 00:52:16,878
but it's old flintlock gun.
It hangs over the fireplace.
1100
00:52:16,961 --> 00:52:18,795
- Oh.
- I've been shot myself,
1101
00:52:18,878 --> 00:52:21,170
and I don't want
to get into that,
1102
00:52:21,253 --> 00:52:23,379
but that happens,
you know, every day.
1103
00:52:23,462 --> 00:52:26,587
I mean, if you watch, where I
come from, the 6:00 news
1104
00:52:26,670 --> 00:52:28,753
every night,
just look at homicides
1105
00:52:28,836 --> 00:52:30,836
every night because of that.
1106
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,462
I don't--I really
don't like them.
1107
00:52:32,545 --> 00:52:39,545
♪ ♪
1108
00:52:39,629 --> 00:52:41,545
- I love people.
I love talking to all people.
1109
00:52:41,629 --> 00:52:43,420
I love black people.
1110
00:52:43,504 --> 00:52:46,836
I love Chinese people,
Japanese people, German people.
1111
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,462
I love gay people.
Do I live in fear?
1112
00:52:49,545 --> 00:52:51,920
No. Do I have a gun?
1113
00:52:52,003 --> 00:52:53,420
There's not a gun
in this house.
1114
00:52:53,504 --> 00:52:56,836
I hate guns.
I'm trained marine.
1115
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,170
You know,
they call us trained killers.
1116
00:52:59,253 --> 00:53:02,253
I've never had to kill
anybody. I never want to.
1117
00:53:02,337 --> 00:53:03,670
I am a left-wing
liberal hippie.
1118
00:53:03,753 --> 00:53:06,212
I always will be.
1119
00:53:06,295 --> 00:53:10,420
I love this picture of Ronnie.
He's got his Shoco shirt on,
1120
00:53:10,504 --> 00:53:13,212
and there he is kind of
looking down from heaven,
1121
00:53:13,295 --> 00:53:16,545
saying,
"Keep it real, Artimus,"
1122
00:53:16,629 --> 00:53:20,753
and--and just this little space
here is,
1123
00:53:20,836 --> 00:53:23,545
if nothing else, it's real.
1124
00:53:23,629 --> 00:53:27,087
I was living in Spartanburg,
South Carolina.
1125
00:53:27,170 --> 00:53:29,087
We called it Sparkle City,
1126
00:53:29,170 --> 00:53:32,753
and Bob was having
some medical problems.
1127
00:53:32,836 --> 00:53:35,045
So Ronnie calls me up,
and he goes,
1128
00:53:35,128 --> 00:53:36,795
"I just want to know
if you can play.
1129
00:53:36,878 --> 00:53:38,795
Everybody says you can."
1130
00:53:38,878 --> 00:53:40,629
- Artimus was badass.
1131
00:53:40,711 --> 00:53:43,087
He was a tough ex-marine,
you know?
1132
00:53:43,170 --> 00:53:45,504
He was the only one that
could actually throw Ronnie
1133
00:53:45,587 --> 00:53:47,128
around a little bit,
1134
00:53:47,212 --> 00:53:49,087
but he was different
than us too.
1135
00:53:49,170 --> 00:53:52,212
He was from the Carolinas.
He was a vegetarian.
1136
00:53:52,295 --> 00:53:54,420
That was way different than us.
1137
00:53:54,504 --> 00:53:58,420
We were barbecue boys,
you know? He liked vegetables.
1138
00:53:58,504 --> 00:54:01,170
- What I do for Lynyrd Skynyrd
is purely physical,
1139
00:54:01,253 --> 00:54:05,420
so having my health
is very important.
1140
00:54:05,504 --> 00:54:07,253
Usually on the road
I live on yogurt and nuts,
1141
00:54:07,337 --> 00:54:08,920
and the people that come up
to me
1142
00:54:09,003 --> 00:54:11,295
and say, "How do you do it?"
1143
00:54:11,379 --> 00:54:13,253
It's just something
that I do every day,
1144
00:54:13,337 --> 00:54:15,545
and if you do something
every day,
1145
00:54:15,629 --> 00:54:17,878
you're bound to get good at it.
1146
00:54:17,961 --> 00:54:19,795
- Artimus could play
on the stuff he wrote
1147
00:54:19,878 --> 00:54:21,504
with the band very well.
It's one of those things,
1148
00:54:21,587 --> 00:54:24,253
but he had trouble
picking up Bob's feel,
1149
00:54:24,337 --> 00:54:26,670
so that's when you had
to go to Europe,
1150
00:54:26,753 --> 00:54:29,212
and we had to take Bob
to Europe,
1151
00:54:29,295 --> 00:54:30,961
and things didn't go well.
1152
00:54:31,045 --> 00:54:32,795
- Every damn country
we went to,
1153
00:54:32,878 --> 00:54:35,629
about the size of Georgia.
Nobody spoke English.
1154
00:54:35,711 --> 00:54:37,087
I was in France,
ordered a ham sandwich.
1155
00:54:37,170 --> 00:54:39,003
They brought me
back a Marlboros.
1156
00:54:39,087 --> 00:54:41,920
- Bob had a nervous breakdown
about two weeks into the tour.
1157
00:54:42,003 --> 00:54:45,337
- And we were at a hotel, he
went nuts, so they all said,
1158
00:54:45,420 --> 00:54:46,836
"Hey, go in there
and talk to Bob."
1159
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:48,711
They were scared to go in.
1160
00:54:48,795 --> 00:54:52,337
Even Ronnie was, you know,
behind the curtain going,
1161
00:54:52,420 --> 00:54:54,003
"You go in there,"
and I went in.
1162
00:54:54,087 --> 00:54:55,878
He had--all the stuff
was rearranged
1163
00:54:55,961 --> 00:54:58,003
and changed and weird,
1164
00:54:58,087 --> 00:55:00,462
and he was talking
in this weird voice.
1165
00:55:00,545 --> 00:55:05,128
- He was really kind of going
through a devil possession
1166
00:55:05,212 --> 00:55:07,711
type trip, and it was not fun.
1167
00:55:07,795 --> 00:55:10,504
- I don't remember ever being
fired from Lynyrd Skynyrd,
1168
00:55:10,587 --> 00:55:12,711
and I never quit.
1169
00:55:12,795 --> 00:55:16,170
I just got taken over
with some illnesses that I had.
1170
00:55:16,253 --> 00:55:18,920
They just kind of
broke reality for me,
1171
00:55:19,003 --> 00:55:21,337
but, you know, when I think
of Lynyrd Skynyrd,
1172
00:55:21,420 --> 00:55:24,462
I just think about
some outrageously fun times,
1173
00:55:24,545 --> 00:55:25,462
you know?
1174
00:55:25,545 --> 00:55:32,587
♪ ♪
1175
00:55:33,253 --> 00:55:35,337
- by 1975 the world
1176
00:55:35,420 --> 00:55:38,087
was paying lots of attention
to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1177
00:55:38,170 --> 00:55:40,295
Their powerful
three-guitar attack,
1178
00:55:40,379 --> 00:55:43,295
Ronnie Van Zant's
blatantly honest lyrics,
1179
00:55:43,379 --> 00:55:47,753
and the band's reputation for
increasingly nasty behavior
1180
00:55:47,836 --> 00:55:49,711
had endeared them to millions.
1181
00:55:49,795 --> 00:55:53,587
♪ ♪
1182
00:55:53,670 --> 00:55:57,545
- When I came to town
to record the third album,
1183
00:55:57,629 --> 00:55:59,253
they weren't ready at all.
1184
00:55:59,337 --> 00:56:01,711
- We only had a few songs
written,
1185
00:56:01,795 --> 00:56:04,212
and then some of them we had
to write right in the studio.
1186
00:56:04,295 --> 00:56:06,670
We'd wake up and go,
"What are we gonna do?
1187
00:56:06,753 --> 00:56:09,711
Somebody come up with an idea,
and we'll work on it."
1188
00:56:09,795 --> 00:56:14,253
- ♪ I dropped off a boxcar
down around Tennessee ♪
1189
00:56:14,337 --> 00:56:16,253
♪ ♪
1190
00:56:16,337 --> 00:56:19,504
- There was girls
and just problems
1191
00:56:19,587 --> 00:56:22,670
coming around,
and my teeth were all hurting,
1192
00:56:22,753 --> 00:56:26,253
and I had four wisdom teeth
taken out.
1193
00:56:26,337 --> 00:56:29,003
There's a lot about that
record I don't even remember
1194
00:56:29,087 --> 00:56:33,545
'cause of the pain pills
and the drinking we did.
1195
00:56:33,629 --> 00:56:35,420
- They didn't all know
the songs,
1196
00:56:35,504 --> 00:56:37,670
so I was very upset.
1197
00:56:37,753 --> 00:56:42,128
The key ingredient was missing
from that album,
1198
00:56:42,212 --> 00:56:46,212
which was the rehearsing
at the swamp.
1199
00:56:46,295 --> 00:56:48,212
We had to do
a rush job on that.
1200
00:56:48,295 --> 00:56:50,170
- Why couldn't you buy them
more time?
1201
00:56:50,253 --> 00:56:51,753
- Because there was none.
1202
00:56:51,836 --> 00:56:53,504
They were going back
on the road again.
1203
00:56:55,003 --> 00:57:02,128
♪ ♪
1204
00:57:08,878 --> 00:57:11,003
- ♪ I'm headed down
a highway ♪
1205
00:57:11,087 --> 00:57:15,753
♪ Got my suitcase by my side ♪
1206
00:57:15,836 --> 00:57:18,836
♪ A blue sky's
hanging over my head ♪
1207
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:23,337
♪ I got 500 miles to ride ♪
1208
00:57:23,420 --> 00:57:26,337
♪ I'm going down to Memphis
town ♪
1209
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:30,128
♪ To play a late-night show ♪
1210
00:57:30,212 --> 00:57:32,753
♪ I hope the people
are ready there ♪
1211
00:57:32,836 --> 00:57:37,836
♪ 'Cause the boys
are all ready to go ♪
1212
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,587
♪ Well, I'm a whiskey
rock-a-roller ♪
1213
00:57:41,670 --> 00:57:44,045
♪ That's what I am ♪
1214
00:57:44,128 --> 00:57:47,920
♪ Women, whiskey and miles
of traveling ♪
1215
00:57:48,003 --> 00:57:50,504
♪ Is all I understand ♪
1216
00:57:53,504 --> 00:57:56,462
- All you did was rehearse,
write new stuff,
1217
00:57:56,545 --> 00:57:59,253
and then go tour.
We were always working,
1218
00:57:59,337 --> 00:58:01,836
but that's all we knew
and wanted.
1219
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,961
We finally made it,
and people were coming,
1220
00:58:04,045 --> 00:58:05,379
so we wanted to play.
1221
00:58:05,462 --> 00:58:08,462
We just never quit.
It was torture.
1222
00:58:09,629 --> 00:58:12,045
- You've just completed
a European tour.
1223
00:58:12,128 --> 00:58:15,795
You're about to set out again
to conquer the United States,
1224
00:58:15,878 --> 00:58:17,295
and you're really
a touring band.
1225
00:58:17,379 --> 00:58:19,337
Does it get to you
after a while?
1226
00:58:19,420 --> 00:58:22,253
- We get a lot of publicity
about busting up a place
1227
00:58:22,337 --> 00:58:23,795
and being really mean
or something like that,
1228
00:58:23,878 --> 00:58:26,629
but you just get really tired.
1229
00:58:26,711 --> 00:58:30,253
You're about to just flip out
and go over the deep end
1230
00:58:30,337 --> 00:58:32,711
and just say,
"To hell with it. I quit."
1231
00:58:32,795 --> 00:58:34,878
Well, instead of doing that,
we just liable to knock
1232
00:58:34,961 --> 00:58:36,420
a hole in the wall
or anything--any way
1233
00:58:36,504 --> 00:58:39,920
to let--to let energy off,
you know?
1234
00:58:40,003 --> 00:58:41,504
It's also a tax write-off.
1235
00:58:43,462 --> 00:58:46,795
- Nobody, no band or no human
thing lived on this earth
1236
00:58:46,878 --> 00:58:48,629
partied like Lynyrd Skynyrd
partied, okay?
1237
00:58:48,711 --> 00:58:50,504
Nobody did.
1238
00:58:50,587 --> 00:58:53,253
- Let's just admit it.
I mean, it was the '70s,
1239
00:58:53,337 --> 00:58:58,836
and there was lots of cocaine,
pills, alcohol.
1240
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,587
Promoters would always
backstage provide
1241
00:59:01,670 --> 00:59:06,961
cases of scotch and whiskey
and beer and cartons
1242
00:59:07,045 --> 00:59:10,920
of Winstons and Marlboros and,
you know, a big food spread.
1243
00:59:11,003 --> 00:59:15,003
But my boys, I think they felt
they were supposed to smoke
1244
00:59:15,087 --> 00:59:18,795
every cigarette and drink
everything provided and eat
1245
00:59:18,878 --> 00:59:20,711
what they wanted and throw
the rest against the wall.
1246
00:59:20,795 --> 00:59:23,920
- ♪ Women, whiskey
and miles of traveling ♪
1247
00:59:24,003 --> 00:59:25,920
♪ Is all I understand ♪
1248
00:59:26,003 --> 00:59:27,128
Whoo!
1249
00:59:30,670 --> 00:59:32,711
- That was our
road manager's duty,
1250
00:59:32,795 --> 00:59:36,420
to carry a briefcase
with probably $250,000 cash
1251
00:59:36,504 --> 00:59:38,587
to buy the band members
out of jail,
1252
00:59:38,670 --> 00:59:42,212
to pay off really mad
hotel owners
1253
00:59:42,295 --> 00:59:44,587
that were upset
over destruction.
1254
00:59:44,670 --> 00:59:46,337
- But the road with Skynyrd
was always
1255
00:59:46,420 --> 00:59:49,462
just a absolute clusterfuck.
1256
00:59:49,545 --> 00:59:52,045
- Billy and Leon used
to put cigarette butts
1257
00:59:52,128 --> 00:59:53,587
into each other's hair and--
1258
00:59:53,670 --> 00:59:55,337
- Billy had very curly hair,
1259
00:59:55,420 --> 00:59:57,753
and Leon would call it
his briar patch,
1260
00:59:57,836 --> 01:00:00,711
so Leon would take these
huge drags off a cigarette
1261
01:00:00,795 --> 01:00:03,545
and then waft it into
Billy's briar patch,
1262
01:00:03,629 --> 01:00:05,711
so it looked like
Billy's head was on fire.
1263
01:00:05,795 --> 01:00:08,462
- They'd put lipstick on each
other while they were asleep,
1264
01:00:08,545 --> 01:00:10,961
and if you do that
on a commercial flight,
1265
01:00:11,045 --> 01:00:12,753
they wouldn't like that.
1266
01:00:12,836 --> 01:00:15,795
- In Europe you leave
your shoes in the hallway.
1267
01:00:15,878 --> 01:00:19,337
Leon thought that it would be
a really good idea
1268
01:00:19,420 --> 01:00:23,629
to take a number two
in some guy's shoes
1269
01:00:23,711 --> 01:00:25,670
that were outside of his door.
1270
01:00:25,753 --> 01:00:27,587
I don't even know want to know
how he did it.
1271
01:00:27,670 --> 01:00:31,212
Anyway, this man starts
to slip on his shoes.
1272
01:00:31,295 --> 01:00:33,504
He's goose-stepping up
and down the doggone hallway
1273
01:00:33,587 --> 01:00:35,170
screaming
at the top of his lungs,
1274
01:00:35,253 --> 01:00:36,795
and now, of course,
everybody in the hallway
1275
01:00:36,878 --> 01:00:38,836
is looking out their doors,
1276
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,545
and so it's not obvious
to this man
1277
01:00:41,629 --> 01:00:45,753
which long-haired
hippie nutcase did it.
1278
01:00:45,836 --> 01:00:48,128
Of course, later, you know,
Leon,
1279
01:00:48,212 --> 01:00:50,753
"Heh-heh-heh. I did it."
1280
01:00:50,836 --> 01:00:52,836
- I think the whole
demolishing of the hotel room
1281
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,711
is so childish.
1282
01:00:54,795 --> 01:00:56,379
If life was bad enough
on the road where you
1283
01:00:56,462 --> 01:00:57,920
couldn't get any sleep,
at least like to have
1284
01:00:58,003 --> 01:00:59,504
a nice bed to sleep in
once in a while.
1285
01:00:59,587 --> 01:01:01,961
♪ ♪
1286
01:01:02,045 --> 01:01:04,295
- Ed King has a total
different mindset
1287
01:01:04,379 --> 01:01:07,795
than Southern country dropouts
1288
01:01:07,878 --> 01:01:11,836
who weren't very literate,
and he was college educated.
1289
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:16,504
He didn't really fit in
as your brother on the road.
1290
01:01:16,587 --> 01:01:21,253
He would stop and buy $100
worth of Slim Jims,
1291
01:01:21,337 --> 01:01:24,920
you know, and have them
in his briefcase,
1292
01:01:25,003 --> 01:01:28,003
and then you're driving
for an hour or two and hungry,
1293
01:01:28,087 --> 01:01:29,420
so he'd sell them to us,
1294
01:01:29,504 --> 01:01:32,253
but he'd double
or triple the price.
1295
01:01:32,337 --> 01:01:36,920
"I'll give you this Slim Jim
for $1.50 instead of 25¢."
1296
01:01:37,003 --> 01:01:40,170
You know? A lot of times
he was stingy with his drugs.
1297
01:01:40,253 --> 01:01:42,212
- We were in New York City,
1298
01:01:42,295 --> 01:01:44,545
and I was doing LSD.
1299
01:01:44,629 --> 01:01:46,629
I was tripping.
1300
01:01:46,711 --> 01:01:48,420
I didn't trip a lot,
but every once in a while
1301
01:01:48,504 --> 01:01:50,920
I'd get my hands
on some windowpane,
1302
01:01:51,003 --> 01:01:54,379
some owsleys, you know,
lysergic diethylamide,
1303
01:01:54,462 --> 01:01:58,045
and we were having
a photo session.
1304
01:01:58,128 --> 01:02:01,295
This monkey roller-skates
in across the dance floor.
1305
01:02:01,379 --> 01:02:03,504
He jumps up on the table.
1306
01:02:03,587 --> 01:02:06,920
Allen hands the monkey
the bottle of Jack Daniels,
1307
01:02:07,003 --> 01:02:10,878
and the monkey just turns it up
and starts drinking,
1308
01:02:10,961 --> 01:02:14,295
and Allen's looking at me
with this big smile like,
1309
01:02:14,379 --> 01:02:16,420
you know, and I'm going,
1310
01:02:16,504 --> 01:02:19,462
"There's a monkey
drinking jack Daniels
1311
01:02:19,545 --> 01:02:21,878
"that just roller-skated
into the room.
1312
01:02:21,961 --> 01:02:23,629
Okay, okay, I'm good."
1313
01:02:26,629 --> 01:02:29,587
- There was one place
in Waterbury, Connecticut,
1314
01:02:29,670 --> 01:02:32,128
I'll never forget it,
and we had our first bus.
1315
01:02:32,212 --> 01:02:33,587
Somebody had
left the brake off,
1316
01:02:33,670 --> 01:02:35,795
and the bus had careened
through the parking lot,
1317
01:02:35,878 --> 01:02:38,128
over a sports car,
through the gas station,
1318
01:02:38,212 --> 01:02:40,379
and lodged into the bank,
1319
01:02:40,462 --> 01:02:41,920
and I thought
that was hilarious,
1320
01:02:42,003 --> 01:02:44,337
and that was,
I'm sure, on purpose.
1321
01:02:44,420 --> 01:02:46,045
Okay, so I'm a hypocrite.
1322
01:02:46,128 --> 01:02:48,087
So I thought some of
the destruction was funny.
1323
01:02:54,212 --> 01:02:55,545
- We went to England.
1324
01:02:55,629 --> 01:02:56,753
They acted like
we were the Beatles...
1325
01:02:56,836 --> 01:02:58,087
- Thank you!
1326
01:02:58,170 --> 01:02:59,295
- And we couldn't believe it.
1327
01:02:59,379 --> 01:03:00,878
We were looking at each other
1328
01:03:00,961 --> 01:03:02,795
like,
"God, can you believe this?"
1329
01:03:02,878 --> 01:03:04,920
They'd never heard
of a Southern music
1330
01:03:05,003 --> 01:03:06,878
or Southern bands.
1331
01:03:06,961 --> 01:03:09,420
Over there, anybody
from America's a Yankee.
1332
01:03:09,504 --> 01:03:11,587
They call you Yankees,
1333
01:03:11,670 --> 01:03:13,795
but we said, "No,
we're from Southern America."
1334
01:03:13,878 --> 01:03:15,170
"Yeah, you're a Yankee."
1335
01:03:15,253 --> 01:03:17,170
We didn't like it
1336
01:03:17,253 --> 01:03:20,379
'cause it was like California
was a different scene,
1337
01:03:20,462 --> 01:03:23,753
and New York was a different
scene, and the South,
1338
01:03:23,836 --> 01:03:26,504
and that's where
the flag came from.
1339
01:03:26,587 --> 01:03:28,920
- ♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
1340
01:03:29,003 --> 01:03:31,253
- It was a gimmick for us
at first, you know?
1341
01:03:31,337 --> 01:03:34,212
A Southern band, and MCA made
that a gimmick, a hype thing,
1342
01:03:34,295 --> 01:03:37,920
and then Southern band,
you know, and hard rock
1343
01:03:38,003 --> 01:03:41,711
and rebels and drunken
fighters and all this stuff,
1344
01:03:41,795 --> 01:03:43,753
and then they put out
that publicity and hype.
1345
01:03:43,836 --> 01:03:45,545
That's what it is,
nothing but hype.
1346
01:03:45,629 --> 01:03:47,128
- Yes, it was
the record company
1347
01:03:47,212 --> 01:03:49,128
pushing a Southern band.
1348
01:03:49,212 --> 01:03:51,504
No, it didn't bother me to
play in front of a rebel flag
1349
01:03:51,587 --> 01:03:53,836
because I know how I feel.
1350
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,670
I didn't think about it
that deeply then.
1351
01:03:56,753 --> 01:03:58,420
I have since,
and look what they've done.
1352
01:03:58,504 --> 01:04:00,836
They've taken the flag
down on a lot of things
1353
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,295
because it does
represent hatred.
1354
01:04:03,379 --> 01:04:06,753
- It's like the flag
got kidnapped by the KKK.
1355
01:04:06,836 --> 01:04:10,087
They carried it,
and all these evil people
1356
01:04:10,170 --> 01:04:13,003
use the Confederate flag
as a hate thing.
1357
01:04:13,087 --> 01:04:16,128
It's them against
the world kind of.
1358
01:04:16,212 --> 01:04:20,629
We never, ever one time meant
the Confederate flag
1359
01:04:20,711 --> 01:04:22,836
to offend anyone,
1360
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,379
but I know it's naive
to say that, too,
1361
01:04:25,462 --> 01:04:27,795
'cause it does hurt people,
1362
01:04:27,878 --> 01:04:30,711
and it does remind them
of the war and slavery
1363
01:04:30,795 --> 01:04:32,420
and all that,
1364
01:04:32,504 --> 01:04:34,420
but we weren't into it
for that.
1365
01:04:34,504 --> 01:04:37,003
We were just showing where
we were from, Southern music.
1366
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:46,878
♪ ♪
1367
01:04:58,379 --> 01:05:03,836
- ♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
1368
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:09,045
♪ Where the skies
are so blue ♪
1369
01:05:09,128 --> 01:05:13,795
♪ Sweet home Alabama ♪
1370
01:05:13,878 --> 01:05:16,504
♪ Lord,
I'm coming home to you ♪
1371
01:05:16,587 --> 01:05:22,003
♪ ♪
1372
01:05:22,087 --> 01:05:24,337
- The Southern culture,
it means community.
1373
01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:27,587
Yeah, it means unity,
but it's also ever-growing,
1374
01:05:27,670 --> 01:05:29,128
and it's always changing.
1375
01:05:29,212 --> 01:05:34,087
♪ ♪
1376
01:05:34,170 --> 01:05:37,295
- Cheers, Ronnie, cheers.
1377
01:05:37,379 --> 01:05:38,711
- Well, good evening,
everybody.
1378
01:05:38,795 --> 01:05:40,753
I'm Jim Ladden.
Tonight "Interview"
1379
01:05:40,836 --> 01:05:42,795
goes to Dixie for
a shot of that good ol' boy
1380
01:05:42,878 --> 01:05:44,670
brand of rock and roll,
1381
01:05:44,753 --> 01:05:46,753
so I hope you're in the mood
to get drunk,
1382
01:05:46,836 --> 01:05:49,670
get loud, get dirty,
and get into Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1383
01:05:54,795 --> 01:05:56,670
Everybody thinks we're a bunch
of
1384
01:06:02,003 --> 01:06:05,128
- Ronnie was short in stature,
1385
01:06:05,212 --> 01:06:07,003
and you would think
he'd wear stacked heels
1386
01:06:07,087 --> 01:06:10,587
or cowboy boots on stage,
but he wore nothing.
1387
01:06:10,670 --> 01:06:12,795
He was barefoot.
I loved the fact
1388
01:06:12,878 --> 01:06:15,295
that he doesn't
hoochie-coo around on stage.
1389
01:06:15,379 --> 01:06:19,420
He stood there and held
that mike and planted himself
1390
01:06:19,504 --> 01:06:21,170
out on the front
of that stage.
1391
01:06:21,253 --> 01:06:22,462
What you saw was what you got.
1392
01:06:22,545 --> 01:06:24,504
You know? Here I am.
1393
01:06:24,587 --> 01:06:26,462
- People always ask me what
was Ronnie really like,
1394
01:06:26,545 --> 01:06:28,420
and I always tell them,
1395
01:06:28,504 --> 01:06:30,379
"Just go listen to any six
songs he ever wrote.
1396
01:06:30,462 --> 01:06:33,295
And that'll tell you.
Doesn't matter which six."
1397
01:06:36,379 --> 01:06:42,836
♪ ♪
1398
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,795
- ♪ 11 times
I've been busted ♪
1399
01:06:45,878 --> 01:06:48,253
♪ 11 times
I've been to jail ♪
1400
01:06:48,337 --> 01:06:50,711
♪ Some of the times
I been there ♪
1401
01:06:50,795 --> 01:06:52,711
♪ Nobody could go my bail ♪
1402
01:06:52,795 --> 01:06:56,003
♪ Well, it seems to me, lord ♪
1403
01:06:56,087 --> 01:07:00,753
♪ That this old boy
just don't fit ♪
1404
01:07:00,836 --> 01:07:03,462
♪ Well, I can jump in
a rosebush ♪
1405
01:07:03,545 --> 01:07:06,961
♪ And come out
smelling like sh-- ♪
1406
01:07:07,045 --> 01:07:11,212
- When he would get a certain
level of drunk, he'd get mean.
1407
01:07:11,295 --> 01:07:13,337
It was like a Jekyll and Hyde.
1408
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:17,003
He was a badass, and he would
attack you with all he had
1409
01:07:17,087 --> 01:07:19,587
and try to hurt you
if he could.
1410
01:07:19,670 --> 01:07:21,629
I'd see him do interviews
1411
01:07:21,711 --> 01:07:23,836
where he'd start out
real nice,
1412
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:25,961
but we'd be drinking,
1413
01:07:26,045 --> 01:07:28,379
and by the end of the
interview he'd slam and go,
1414
01:07:28,462 --> 01:07:30,587
"Let me ask you a question.
1415
01:07:30,670 --> 01:07:32,961
How the fuck you think you're
gonna get out that door?"
1416
01:07:36,295 --> 01:07:38,629
- ♪ Double trouble ♪
1417
01:07:38,711 --> 01:07:41,961
♪ That's what my friends
all call me ♪
1418
01:07:42,045 --> 01:07:45,587
- ♪ Double trouble,
double trouble ♪
1419
01:07:45,670 --> 01:07:48,961
- ♪ I said
double trouble ♪
1420
01:07:49,045 --> 01:07:51,379
♪ T-R-O-U-B-L-E ♪
1421
01:07:51,462 --> 01:07:54,878
- ♪ Double trouble ♪
1422
01:07:54,961 --> 01:07:56,379
- Wow!
1423
01:07:56,462 --> 01:07:58,045
- Ronnie's hands were not big,
1424
01:07:58,128 --> 01:08:00,253
but when they made a fist,
1425
01:08:00,337 --> 01:08:03,212
it was, like, a big fist,
and it was flat.
1426
01:08:03,295 --> 01:08:04,961
He hit me a lot of times,
Ronnie.
1427
01:08:05,045 --> 01:08:07,504
We would fight.
He was terrible.
1428
01:08:07,587 --> 01:08:10,587
We were in Hamburg, Germany.
He got real drunk on schnapps.
1429
01:08:10,670 --> 01:08:12,462
We'd never heard of schnapps.
1430
01:08:12,545 --> 01:08:14,878
Ronnie got in
one of his bad moods
1431
01:08:14,961 --> 01:08:17,212
and hit one guy in the head
with a bottle.
1432
01:08:17,295 --> 01:08:19,961
Of course, it broke.
Then he came over to me,
1433
01:08:20,045 --> 01:08:21,670
and he took that bottle,
and he went,
1434
01:08:21,753 --> 01:08:23,711
"You're never gonna
play guitar again,"
1435
01:08:23,795 --> 01:08:25,629
and he cut my hands here
and there,
1436
01:08:25,711 --> 01:08:28,670
so the next day we played,
1437
01:08:28,753 --> 01:08:31,504
and I had these Band-Aids
all on my hands,
1438
01:08:31,587 --> 01:08:34,462
and they would bleed,
and the headline said,
1439
01:08:34,545 --> 01:08:36,295
"Bloodbath in Hamburg."
1440
01:08:36,379 --> 01:08:38,295
- Ronnie throws me up
against the wall,
1441
01:08:38,379 --> 01:08:41,212
gets the lamp from the corner
table and breaks it,
1442
01:08:41,295 --> 01:08:43,087
and holds it up against
my throat with all this
1443
01:08:43,170 --> 01:08:45,253
jagged glass coming out.
After he's done with me,
1444
01:08:45,337 --> 01:08:47,420
he picked Allen up by the hair
and threw him across the room.
1445
01:08:47,504 --> 01:08:50,753
When Ronnie was drunk,
he was a strong one, man.
1446
01:08:50,836 --> 01:08:54,170
- ♪ T-R-O-U-B-L-E ♪
1447
01:08:54,253 --> 01:08:56,795
♪ ♪
1448
01:08:56,878 --> 01:08:58,587
- I'm the hippie from
Southern California, man.
1449
01:08:58,670 --> 01:09:03,504
I'm--you know, I'm not
digging the violence part.
1450
01:09:03,587 --> 01:09:05,753
There was one night
in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1451
01:09:05,836 --> 01:09:08,170
Ronnie was thrown in jail
along with my guitar roadie,
1452
01:09:08,253 --> 01:09:10,420
changed my strings.
1453
01:09:10,504 --> 01:09:12,253
I don't know what they did
to these cops,
1454
01:09:12,337 --> 01:09:13,629
but the cops
threw them in jail.
1455
01:09:13,711 --> 01:09:15,836
Anyway, my roadie and Ronnie
1456
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:17,128
didn't arrive
to the Pittsburgh show
1457
01:09:17,212 --> 01:09:18,795
until, like, ten minutes
before we went on.
1458
01:09:18,878 --> 01:09:21,337
I had to play on old strings.
1459
01:09:21,420 --> 01:09:23,045
That night I broke two strings
during "Free Bird,"
1460
01:09:23,128 --> 01:09:26,961
which I never do,
and after the show Ronnie
1461
01:09:27,045 --> 01:09:29,545
was just on my ass
all the way, you know?
1462
01:09:29,629 --> 01:09:31,670
"You don't amount to a pimple
on Allen's ass."
1463
01:09:31,753 --> 01:09:34,337
Well, I said,
"You might be right there."
1464
01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:37,878
He was just riding me,
and I just said to myself--
1465
01:09:37,961 --> 01:09:39,462
like,
a light went off in my head,
1466
01:09:39,545 --> 01:09:42,045
and I said, "That's it,"
you know?
1467
01:09:42,128 --> 01:09:43,753
So I went back to my room
that night,
1468
01:09:43,836 --> 01:09:45,504
and I packed up all my stuff,
1469
01:09:45,587 --> 01:09:48,504
and I left,
1470
01:09:48,587 --> 01:09:50,711
and I didn't look back.
1471
01:09:50,795 --> 01:09:53,212
- We were right in the middle
of a tour,
1472
01:09:53,295 --> 01:09:56,170
and all of a sudden we woke
up, and he was gone,
1473
01:09:56,253 --> 01:09:58,545
and we had to play that night,
1474
01:09:58,629 --> 01:10:00,504
so me and Allen
had to get together
1475
01:10:00,587 --> 01:10:04,295
and work out his parts
and who started what,
1476
01:10:04,379 --> 01:10:07,670
and we were pretty mad.
All of a sudden he walks out,
1477
01:10:07,753 --> 01:10:08,878
"Fuck you. I'm just leaving."
1478
01:10:08,961 --> 01:10:11,920
We'd been up in the circuit
1479
01:10:12,003 --> 01:10:15,379
playing with all the big boys
for a year or two.
1480
01:10:15,462 --> 01:10:18,003
It's hard to get to the top,
but it's harder to stay.
1481
01:10:18,087 --> 01:10:23,420
- ♪ Life is so strange when
it's changing, yes, indeed ♪
1482
01:10:23,504 --> 01:10:25,295
♪ Well, I've seen the hard
times ♪
1483
01:10:25,379 --> 01:10:28,087
♪ And the pressure's
been on me ♪
1484
01:10:28,170 --> 01:10:33,961
♪ But I keep on working like
a working man do ♪
1485
01:10:34,045 --> 01:10:36,878
♪ And I've got my act
together ♪
1486
01:10:36,961 --> 01:10:38,629
♪ Gonna walk all over you ♪
1487
01:10:38,711 --> 01:10:42,253
♪ Gimme back,
gimme back my bullets ♪
1488
01:10:42,337 --> 01:10:45,711
♪ ♪
1489
01:10:45,795 --> 01:10:49,961
- That's Lynyrd Skynyrd from
their cuckoo current album,
1490
01:10:50,045 --> 01:10:53,504
and all the giggling
is Gary and Ronnie,
1491
01:10:53,587 --> 01:10:56,379
and they've just grown
in popularity.
1492
01:10:56,462 --> 01:10:58,170
Do you still live
in the South now?
1493
01:10:58,253 --> 01:10:59,878
- Yes, yes, we do.
- And your lifestyle's
1494
01:10:59,961 --> 01:11:01,836
the same?
Nothing's changed?
1495
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:03,295
- Well, our houses are
a little bit better.
1496
01:11:03,379 --> 01:11:05,504
- Yes.
1497
01:11:05,587 --> 01:11:07,878
- We got a better boat,
fishing boat. That's about it.
1498
01:11:07,961 --> 01:11:11,545
- The lure of the big city
doesn't turn you on?
1499
01:11:11,629 --> 01:11:13,170
- We're just country boys.
1500
01:11:14,670 --> 01:11:18,670
♪ ♪
1501
01:11:18,753 --> 01:11:20,670
- Never forget the first time
I met Ronnie Van Zant.
1502
01:11:20,753 --> 01:11:23,961
He had his feet propped up
on the table.
1503
01:11:24,045 --> 01:11:24,795
Yeah, I walked through
the door, and he said,
1504
01:11:24,878 --> 01:11:26,878
"She'll do just fine."
1505
01:11:26,961 --> 01:11:29,253
He hired me on the spot.
I never had to sing for him.
1506
01:11:29,337 --> 01:11:31,212
He treated us like gold.
He really did.
1507
01:11:31,295 --> 01:11:34,878
He was awesome.
He was such a gentleman.
1508
01:11:34,961 --> 01:11:37,379
- Ronnie wanted
background vocalists.
1509
01:11:37,462 --> 01:11:40,087
To have girls on stage
was kind of cool, you know?
1510
01:11:40,170 --> 01:11:42,462
There wasn't too many bands
that had that yet.
1511
01:11:42,545 --> 01:11:45,629
♪ ♪
1512
01:11:45,711 --> 01:11:47,836
- Ronnie, he called us
Honkettes,
1513
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,670
'cause he'd always call me
Honky for some reason.
1514
01:11:49,753 --> 01:11:51,836
I never understood that.
1515
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,670
- JoJo was the whiskey voice,
you know,
1516
01:11:54,753 --> 01:11:56,878
"Hey, baby," you know?
1517
01:11:56,961 --> 01:11:59,920
Leslie Hawkins
was Ronnie's songbird.
1518
01:12:00,003 --> 01:12:01,878
He had his soprano
with Leslie,
1519
01:12:01,961 --> 01:12:06,003
and Cassie, she had that
Broadway voice.
1520
01:12:06,087 --> 01:12:07,878
She looked like
a German milkmaid,
1521
01:12:07,961 --> 01:12:09,795
the way she did her hair.
1522
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:15,836
- Cassie Gaines was real
spiritual and cosmic
1523
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:20,212
and listening to new Zen music
and far-out stuff.
1524
01:12:20,295 --> 01:12:22,920
- We get to our hotel,
and, you know,
1525
01:12:23,003 --> 01:12:24,295
we'd always go down
to Cassie's
1526
01:12:24,379 --> 01:12:26,295
and smoke a big, fat doobie.
1527
01:12:26,379 --> 01:12:29,253
With a few scarves
and maybe a shawl,
1528
01:12:29,337 --> 01:12:31,379
she'd make the room
into her own, you know?
1529
01:12:31,462 --> 01:12:34,170
It was like being home.
1530
01:12:34,253 --> 01:12:37,711
- Cassie was involved
in I-Ching and meditation
1531
01:12:37,795 --> 01:12:39,170
and things like that,
and see, I'd never seen
1532
01:12:39,253 --> 01:12:41,128
anything like that
before in my life,
1533
01:12:41,212 --> 01:12:43,379
and over here I'd be grabbing
the Gideon bible,
1534
01:12:43,462 --> 01:12:45,337
you know, shooting shotgun
prayers up there,
1535
01:12:45,420 --> 01:12:47,878
you know,
hoping something would stick.
1536
01:12:47,961 --> 01:12:49,337
- Cass and I were close.
1537
01:12:49,420 --> 01:12:51,629
Jo was a little younger,
1538
01:12:51,711 --> 01:12:54,253
you know, a little wilder
than Cass and I were.
1539
01:12:54,337 --> 01:12:59,462
Jo had a hard time, I think,
dealing with the fame.
1540
01:12:59,545 --> 01:13:01,295
Actually, toward the end
Jo got
1541
01:13:01,379 --> 01:13:03,836
a little too far out of hand
1542
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:08,420
and left the band in August
before the crash,
1543
01:13:08,504 --> 01:13:10,337
which was lucky for her,
you know?
1544
01:13:10,420 --> 01:13:12,212
I mean, it was great
to be in the band,
1545
01:13:12,295 --> 01:13:14,379
but, you know,
if you had a crystal ball,
1546
01:13:14,462 --> 01:13:16,170
you'd be happy
that it happened.
1547
01:13:18,961 --> 01:13:21,128
♪ ♪
1548
01:13:21,212 --> 01:13:22,961
- Me and Allen,
for a year or two
1549
01:13:23,045 --> 01:13:26,212
we would just play alone
with no third guitar.
1550
01:13:26,295 --> 01:13:29,087
Cassie kept talking about
her little brother.
1551
01:13:29,170 --> 01:13:30,795
"Oh, he's a great
guitar player,"
1552
01:13:30,878 --> 01:13:32,920
but everybody used to tell us,
"Oh, man,
1553
01:13:33,003 --> 01:13:35,711
you should hear this guy," or,
"My cousin, you'd love him.
1554
01:13:35,795 --> 01:13:37,711
He's great,"
and we'd go, "Yeah, yeah."
1555
01:13:37,795 --> 01:13:41,170
♪ ♪
1556
01:13:41,253 --> 01:13:43,170
So finally we were
playing in a town
1557
01:13:43,253 --> 01:13:45,961
where he had a band
called Crawdaddy,
1558
01:13:46,045 --> 01:13:48,170
so he came to
our show that night,
1559
01:13:48,253 --> 01:13:52,045
and he brought his guitar
'cause he was going to a gig.
1560
01:13:52,128 --> 01:13:54,545
We said, "Why don't you come
play on 'Mr. Breeze' with us?"
1561
01:13:54,629 --> 01:13:56,045
- ♪ Change in the weather ♪
1562
01:13:56,128 --> 01:13:58,253
- And he was great.
1563
01:13:58,337 --> 01:14:00,003
He played the shit out of it.
1564
01:14:02,878 --> 01:14:05,379
- He was so tremendous that
I just told Ronnie and Gary
1565
01:14:05,462 --> 01:14:08,878
that night, you know,
"Hey, he's the one."
1566
01:14:08,961 --> 01:14:12,045
Steve Gaines
was gonna fit back there.
1567
01:14:12,128 --> 01:14:14,836
- The first week or two,
all's we'd do all day
1568
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:16,420
and night was show him stuff,
1569
01:14:16,504 --> 01:14:18,545
and we worked him
into all the songs
1570
01:14:18,629 --> 01:14:22,045
so he could go play the live
album in a couple weeks.
1571
01:14:22,128 --> 01:14:28,587
- Live from the Fox Theater,
Lynyrd Skynyrd!
1572
01:14:28,670 --> 01:14:30,629
- Uhh, let me tell you
about this gentleman
1573
01:14:30,711 --> 01:14:32,379
that's playing with us
tonight.
1574
01:14:32,462 --> 01:14:33,878
It's a new member
of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1575
01:14:33,961 --> 01:14:35,795
His name's Steve Gaines
over here,
1576
01:14:35,878 --> 01:14:37,420
and he's from Oklahoma,
and he's a Okie.
1577
01:14:37,504 --> 01:14:39,379
Watch out.
I'm gonna sic a Okie on you.
1578
01:14:40,420 --> 01:14:43,128
♪ ♪
1579
01:14:43,212 --> 01:14:44,961
Well, this might
sound egotistical,
1580
01:14:45,045 --> 01:14:47,087
but I think right now
1581
01:14:47,170 --> 01:14:49,504
I have a guitar player
with me named Steve Gaines.
1582
01:14:49,587 --> 01:14:51,795
- This man.
- Who is probably
1583
01:14:51,878 --> 01:14:54,504
the most underestimated
guitar player
1584
01:14:54,587 --> 01:14:58,003
on the south side
of the Mason-Dixon line.
1585
01:14:58,087 --> 01:15:00,212
- Steve had all these songs
that he'd already written
1586
01:15:00,295 --> 01:15:01,795
and he brought in,
1587
01:15:01,878 --> 01:15:03,587
and then we would
Skynyrd-ize it
1588
01:15:03,670 --> 01:15:06,670
and make
one of his songs ours.
1589
01:15:06,753 --> 01:15:08,711
Me and Allen weren't offering
1590
01:15:08,795 --> 01:15:10,920
probably as much as
we could have at the time.
1591
01:15:11,003 --> 01:15:15,253
We were so burnt,
we kind of got uninspired.
1592
01:15:15,337 --> 01:15:18,003
We knew something was missing,
and Steve was it.
1593
01:15:18,087 --> 01:15:19,711
It was like he found us,
1594
01:15:19,795 --> 01:15:21,878
brought a spark back
to everything.
1595
01:15:21,961 --> 01:15:24,045
He made us get serious again,
1596
01:15:24,128 --> 01:15:27,337
and we would rehearse more
and work up guitar parts more.
1597
01:15:27,420 --> 01:15:31,170
- Steve could grow excellent,
like, tomatoes.
1598
01:15:31,253 --> 01:15:33,128
I wouldn't call him
a farm boy,
1599
01:15:33,212 --> 01:15:35,836
but he could grow some bud.
1600
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:39,504
- When I get on the stage
and a Skynyrd crowd are there,
1601
01:15:39,587 --> 01:15:41,670
it just means everything
to me.
1602
01:15:41,753 --> 01:15:43,836
It's all I've wanted
to do up till now.
1603
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:45,253
Now I'm trying to figure out
1604
01:15:45,337 --> 01:15:47,003
what I can do from here,
you know?
1605
01:15:50,337 --> 01:15:51,587
- Well, we were doing great
in Europe.
1606
01:15:51,670 --> 01:15:54,253
Skynyrd was as big there
as America,
1607
01:15:54,337 --> 01:15:55,920
but we couldn't believe
1608
01:15:56,003 --> 01:15:58,003
we were gonna open for
the Stones.
1609
01:15:58,087 --> 01:15:59,920
Nothing could be bigger.
1610
01:16:00,003 --> 01:16:01,753
- It was the biggest show
we ever did, you know?
1611
01:16:01,836 --> 01:16:03,420
Just people everywhere.
1612
01:16:03,504 --> 01:16:05,545
- And we were way early
to make sure
1613
01:16:05,629 --> 01:16:07,878
you could get to the stage
through all the people,
1614
01:16:07,961 --> 01:16:10,170
so we started drinking
a little,
1615
01:16:10,253 --> 01:16:13,670
and Cassie had a little pot,
I think, but we looked up,
1616
01:16:13,753 --> 01:16:16,504
and walking through the door
is Jack Nicholson.
1617
01:16:16,587 --> 01:16:18,711
"I smell something in here.
Can"
1618
01:16:18,795 --> 01:16:22,128
So it got crazy, and we were
getting feisty and drunk,
1619
01:16:22,212 --> 01:16:25,545
and we went out
and had a great set.
1620
01:16:25,629 --> 01:16:27,836
I don't know, when you're
young and adrenaline hits you,
1621
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:29,670
you kind of shake off stuff.
1622
01:16:32,003 --> 01:16:33,711
♪ ♪
1623
01:16:37,253 --> 01:16:39,003
We started "Free Bird,"
1624
01:16:39,087 --> 01:16:41,379
and the whole crowd
was really rocking.
1625
01:16:41,462 --> 01:16:42,629
You could see
they were all into it.
1626
01:16:42,711 --> 01:16:46,170
♪ ♪
1627
01:16:46,253 --> 01:16:48,878
When we started the end,
Ronnie directed Allen
1628
01:16:48,961 --> 01:16:52,295
to go out front,
and Allen was kind of hesitant
1629
01:16:52,379 --> 01:16:55,670
'cause there was a rule
not to go out on the tongue
1630
01:16:55,753 --> 01:16:57,504
'cause the tongue was
the Stones--you know,
1631
01:16:57,587 --> 01:16:59,961
that was gonna be
their whole look,
1632
01:17:00,045 --> 01:17:01,587
so Ronnie walked us all
the way down
1633
01:17:01,670 --> 01:17:04,961
just to defy that order.
1634
01:17:05,045 --> 01:17:08,420
Allen went out all the way
till his cord stopped,
1635
01:17:08,504 --> 01:17:13,003
and Leon, he went till his
cord jerked him back around,
1636
01:17:13,087 --> 01:17:15,003
and Mick Jagger was mad.
1637
01:17:15,087 --> 01:17:19,045
It took their breath away
to see how well we went over
1638
01:17:19,128 --> 01:17:21,836
and how we broke
their only rule,
1639
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:23,545
don't go out on the tongue.
1640
01:17:26,670 --> 01:17:29,504
♪ ♪
1641
01:17:29,587 --> 01:17:31,629
- I tell you what,
it's a dream.
1642
01:17:31,711 --> 01:17:33,795
Everybody's still
living the dream.
1643
01:17:33,878 --> 01:17:36,212
It's still amazing to see
how the people out there
1644
01:17:36,295 --> 01:17:37,462
just go crazy, you know?
1645
01:17:44,711 --> 01:17:46,545
♪ ♪
1646
01:17:46,629 --> 01:17:48,587
- Nine years of hard work,
1647
01:17:48,670 --> 01:17:51,003
rehearsing, recording,
touring.
1648
01:17:51,087 --> 01:17:53,670
That's what it took
to become Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1649
01:17:53,753 --> 01:17:56,629
Now their finest achievement,
"Street Survivors."
1650
01:17:56,711 --> 01:18:00,045
- ♪ What's your name,
little girl ♪
1651
01:18:00,128 --> 01:18:02,253
♪ What's your name? ♪
1652
01:18:02,337 --> 01:18:04,420
♪ Oh ♪
1653
01:18:04,504 --> 01:18:06,504
- This is, like,
the sixth album.
1654
01:18:06,587 --> 01:18:09,170
I don't know what the "Rolling
Stone" will say about it.
1655
01:18:09,253 --> 01:18:11,170
I don't know what "Creem"
will say about it.
1656
01:18:11,253 --> 01:18:14,045
I know for a fact it's the
best album we've ever done.
1657
01:18:14,128 --> 01:18:16,504
I'll slap leather with anyone.
1658
01:18:16,587 --> 01:18:18,504
- Where do you see Lynyrd
Skynyrd going from here?
1659
01:18:18,587 --> 01:18:19,670
- Well, we'll go to hell if
we don't change our ways.
1660
01:18:23,420 --> 01:18:26,711
♪ ♪
1661
01:18:26,795 --> 01:18:28,587
- There was a saying back
in the day,
1662
01:18:28,670 --> 01:18:30,836
"There's the smell
of death around him."
1663
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,420
It was like a smell around
whatever was gonna die.
1664
01:18:33,504 --> 01:18:36,545
♪ ♪
1665
01:18:36,670 --> 01:18:40,753
- ♪ Whiskey bottles
and brand-new cars ♪
1666
01:18:40,836 --> 01:18:44,504
♪ Oak tree,
you're in my way ♪
1667
01:18:44,587 --> 01:18:48,670
♪ There's too much coke
and too much smoke ♪
1668
01:18:48,753 --> 01:18:52,878
♪ Look what's going on
inside you ♪
1669
01:18:52,961 --> 01:18:56,045
♪ Ooh, that smell ♪
1670
01:18:56,128 --> 01:18:58,961
♪ Can't you smell
that smell? ♪
1671
01:19:01,003 --> 01:19:04,337
- I'm just going to a club
somewhere with a girl.
1672
01:19:04,420 --> 01:19:06,087
I think her name was Sandy.
1673
01:19:06,170 --> 01:19:08,212
I think we ate a Quaalude
or something,
1674
01:19:08,295 --> 01:19:11,711
so I was out of it,
and we were going back home,
1675
01:19:11,795 --> 01:19:16,087
and I kind of sped around
a curve and lost control
1676
01:19:16,170 --> 01:19:17,337
and hit a oak tree.
1677
01:19:17,420 --> 01:19:20,170
I busted all my teeth out.
1678
01:19:20,253 --> 01:19:23,504
I just came up with those
lyrics about me stupid,
1679
01:19:23,587 --> 01:19:24,753
drunk, and crazy.
1680
01:19:24,836 --> 01:19:26,504
I made a bad mistake,
1681
01:19:26,587 --> 01:19:28,504
but we got
a good song out of it.
1682
01:19:28,587 --> 01:19:32,170
- ♪ Now, they call you
Prince Charming ♪
1683
01:19:32,253 --> 01:19:36,545
♪ Can't speak a word
when you're full of 'Ludes ♪
1684
01:19:36,629 --> 01:19:40,337
♪ Say, you'll be all right
come tomorrow ♪
1685
01:19:40,420 --> 01:19:43,670
♪ But tomorrow might
not be here for you ♪
1686
01:19:46,087 --> 01:19:47,795
- ♪ Yeah, you ♪
1687
01:19:47,878 --> 01:19:49,504
- Everybody was trying
to clean up
1688
01:19:49,587 --> 01:19:51,420
their act some, you know?
It just got too wild,
1689
01:19:51,504 --> 01:19:53,003
and Ronnie had decided
he was gonna clean up his act
1690
01:19:53,087 --> 01:19:56,295
because he and Judy
had just had Melody,
1691
01:19:56,379 --> 01:19:59,670
and, you know, he realized
that he wasn't gonna live long
1692
01:19:59,753 --> 01:20:01,170
if they didn't
straighten it out.
1693
01:20:01,253 --> 01:20:02,504
♪ ♪
1694
01:20:02,587 --> 01:20:04,128
- ♪ Seems so long ♪
1695
01:20:04,212 --> 01:20:06,128
♪ I been out on my own ♪
1696
01:20:06,212 --> 01:20:09,836
- ♪ Travel light ♪
and I'm always alone ♪
1697
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:14,253
♪ Guess I was born
with a traveling bone ♪
1698
01:20:16,087 --> 01:20:19,920
♪ When my time's up,
I'll hold my own ♪
1699
01:20:20,003 --> 01:20:22,504
♪ You won't find me
in a old folks home ♪
1700
01:20:22,587 --> 01:20:24,379
♪ You got that right ♪
1701
01:20:26,295 --> 01:20:28,545
- After all those years,
12 years Gary and I
1702
01:20:28,629 --> 01:20:30,587
and Allen have been together,
1703
01:20:30,670 --> 01:20:32,878
it finally paid off in just
1704
01:20:32,961 --> 01:20:34,629
something that
you believed in,
1705
01:20:34,711 --> 01:20:36,170
that you could do it,
you know?
1706
01:20:36,253 --> 01:20:38,337
That fact that we proved it,
you know,
1707
01:20:38,420 --> 01:20:40,961
that really makes me happy,
and you know, just everything
1708
01:20:41,045 --> 01:20:43,045
seems to be going
pretty good for me right now.
1709
01:20:43,128 --> 01:20:45,337
I'm probably happier
than I ever have been before.
1710
01:20:45,420 --> 01:20:47,003
I mean, it could end tomorrow,
you know?
1711
01:20:47,087 --> 01:20:48,836
I mean, Lynyrd Skynyrd
could be gone tomorrow.
1712
01:20:51,462 --> 01:20:52,961
- The one thing that I want
1713
01:20:53,045 --> 01:20:54,753
the world to know about
my band
1714
01:20:54,836 --> 01:20:59,420
is how bravely my band
met their death.
1715
01:20:59,504 --> 01:21:02,170
We spiraled in
from 9,000 feet.
1716
01:21:02,253 --> 01:21:05,878
Everyone knew
it was gonna end badly.
1717
01:21:05,961 --> 01:21:08,878
There was no panic, no chaos.
1718
01:21:08,961 --> 01:21:13,795
Everybody was in prayer,
in deep thought,
1719
01:21:13,878 --> 01:21:17,920
and I admired that about them,
1720
01:21:18,003 --> 01:21:22,670
that they met their death
that way, and they did.
1721
01:21:32,961 --> 01:21:36,504
- Things were going wrong
with the plane a little bit,
1722
01:21:36,587 --> 01:21:38,836
nothing serious
but enough to notice
1723
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,295
it wasn't flying
top
1724
01:21:43,545 --> 01:21:45,587
We were about
to get maintenance on it
1725
01:21:45,670 --> 01:21:47,295
and put it in the shop
1726
01:21:47,379 --> 01:21:49,379
because a engine
was sputtering.
1727
01:21:49,462 --> 01:21:51,670
It needed a tune-up, I guess.
1728
01:21:51,753 --> 01:21:54,504
I wasn't really worried
about it myself,
1729
01:21:54,587 --> 01:21:56,670
but I'll only speak for me.
1730
01:21:56,753 --> 01:21:59,504
I know before we took off
and stuff,
1731
01:21:59,587 --> 01:22:01,795
some of the girls and Allen
1732
01:22:01,878 --> 01:22:04,711
and some of the guys
didn't want to fly,
1733
01:22:04,795 --> 01:22:06,961
and Ronnie was the one
who said,
1734
01:22:07,045 --> 01:22:08,629
"When it's our time to go,
1735
01:22:08,711 --> 01:22:10,670
you can kiss my ass good-bye,"
you know?
1736
01:22:10,753 --> 01:22:13,045
But he didn't know,
and he said,
1737
01:22:13,128 --> 01:22:16,670
"We got a plane here
to take us to our hotel
1738
01:22:16,753 --> 01:22:18,711
"and to do a show tonight.
1739
01:22:18,795 --> 01:22:21,545
Get on, or get
your own way there."
1740
01:22:21,629 --> 01:22:24,337
I was with Ronnie saying,
"Let's just do it,
1741
01:22:24,420 --> 01:22:26,420
get it fixed tomorrow,"
1742
01:22:26,504 --> 01:22:27,670
but it never happened.
1743
01:22:35,711 --> 01:22:38,045
Everybody was playing poker.
1744
01:22:38,128 --> 01:22:40,629
I remember Ronnie did have
a little hangover,
1745
01:22:40,711 --> 01:22:43,379
so he just threw a pillow down
and was laying on the floor,
1746
01:22:43,462 --> 01:22:45,836
and all of a sudden you could
really feel
1747
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:48,545
a little sputtering
and spitting.
1748
01:22:48,629 --> 01:22:52,337
- I was in the cockpit
in the navigator jump seat
1749
01:22:52,420 --> 01:22:54,337
in between the pilot
and the copilot.
1750
01:22:54,420 --> 01:22:56,836
I looked at Walter McCreary,
and I said,
1751
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,003
"We can fly
on one engine, right?"
1752
01:22:59,087 --> 01:23:01,878
He looked at me with fear
in his eyes, and I saw it.
1753
01:23:01,961 --> 01:23:03,878
His eyes were bugging out.
1754
01:23:03,961 --> 01:23:04,836
He said, "Artimus, you better
go back
1755
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,170
and strap yourself in."
1756
01:23:07,253 --> 01:23:09,795
- The pilot sent the copilot
back to say,
1757
01:23:09,878 --> 01:23:11,545
"Hey, we're gonna make
a landing
1758
01:23:11,629 --> 01:23:13,711
"and try to see
what's happening here,
1759
01:23:13,795 --> 01:23:15,253
"so it might be a little
rough,
1760
01:23:15,337 --> 01:23:18,711
so put your heads
between your legs,"
1761
01:23:18,795 --> 01:23:22,795
like back in the Cold War
when the schools said,
1762
01:23:22,878 --> 01:23:25,170
"There's a nuclear bomb coming.
Just get under your desk.
1763
01:23:25,253 --> 01:23:27,504
You'll be fine."
1764
01:23:27,587 --> 01:23:29,045
- Ronnie walked to the rear
of the plane,
1765
01:23:29,128 --> 01:23:31,295
and I thought to myself,
"Good idea,"
1766
01:23:31,379 --> 01:23:35,170
and then he came up the aisle
and stopped right by me.
1767
01:23:35,253 --> 01:23:39,003
We shook
the old hippie handshake.
1768
01:23:39,087 --> 01:23:40,961
He smiled,
and then Ronnie walked back
1769
01:23:41,045 --> 01:23:42,961
to the front of the plane.
1770
01:23:43,045 --> 01:23:45,629
I'll never forget the smile
that he gave me,
1771
01:23:45,711 --> 01:23:49,420
that beautiful
Ronnie Van Zant smile.
1772
01:23:49,504 --> 01:23:52,420
- We started hitting
the treetops real--
1773
01:23:52,504 --> 01:23:56,087
you could hear them,
and it got louder and louder
1774
01:23:56,170 --> 01:23:57,711
and--
1775
01:23:57,795 --> 01:24:01,753
until it just got
so overwhelming, loud,
1776
01:24:01,836 --> 01:24:06,545
and bumping that that's when I,
I guess, got knocked out.
1777
01:24:06,629 --> 01:24:08,753
- It felt like a thousand
baseball bats
1778
01:24:08,836 --> 01:24:10,961
being beaten on the fuselage.
1779
01:24:11,045 --> 01:24:13,545
So the plane started
coming apart,
1780
01:24:13,629 --> 01:24:14,587
and I'm looking
out the window.
1781
01:24:14,670 --> 01:24:15,961
The left wing comes off.
1782
01:24:17,587 --> 01:24:19,212
- I woke up on the ground.
1783
01:24:19,295 --> 01:24:21,670
I thought a plane door
was on me
1784
01:24:21,753 --> 01:24:24,253
'cause I couldn't move
and get up.
1785
01:24:24,337 --> 01:24:29,045
In reality, I was so broken,
all my bones and legs
1786
01:24:29,128 --> 01:24:33,128
and everything,
I just couldn't get up.
1787
01:24:33,212 --> 01:24:34,795
And I said,
"Dean, get this door off me.
1788
01:24:34,878 --> 01:24:36,670
Dean, come here,"
1789
01:24:36,753 --> 01:24:38,961
and I swear to God, to me,
1790
01:24:39,045 --> 01:24:42,003
he came over
and pushed the door off me.
1791
01:24:42,087 --> 01:24:45,045
Later on, one of the doctors
said that he couldn't have
1792
01:24:45,128 --> 01:24:48,212
done that,
the way they brought him in.
1793
01:24:48,295 --> 01:24:50,003
He was too far gone, you know?
1794
01:24:50,087 --> 01:24:53,045
But I saw him do it.
1795
01:24:53,128 --> 01:24:55,420
- My friends were bleeding
to death.
1796
01:24:55,504 --> 01:24:57,587
I knew that the only thing
that was gonna help my friends
1797
01:24:57,670 --> 01:24:59,504
was to get to a farmhouse
1798
01:24:59,587 --> 01:25:02,212
and bring help back
to that crash site,
1799
01:25:02,295 --> 01:25:06,545
but we stopped so fast,
my boots had come off,
1800
01:25:06,629 --> 01:25:09,462
and I couldn't bend over
because of my chest injuries,
1801
01:25:09,545 --> 01:25:12,670
so I'm walking through
the briars and the brambles,
1802
01:25:12,753 --> 01:25:14,836
and it was getting
darker and darker.
1803
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,629
- I remember waking up to the
helicopters that were hovering,
1804
01:25:18,711 --> 01:25:21,961
you know, and they were shining
lights down into the swamp.
1805
01:25:22,045 --> 01:25:24,462
It was like Vietnam
in my head.
1806
01:25:24,545 --> 01:25:27,045
I only seen it on TV,
1807
01:25:27,128 --> 01:25:29,545
but the helicopters
and your buddies screaming
1808
01:25:29,629 --> 01:25:33,337
and yelling in pain
and dying around you.
1809
01:25:33,420 --> 01:25:34,961
- Last night in woods
near McComb, Mississippi,
1810
01:25:35,045 --> 01:25:37,504
a chartered
airplane crashed,
1811
01:25:37,587 --> 01:25:40,504
and with it went the rising
hopes of a popular rock band,
1812
01:25:40,587 --> 01:25:41,920
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1813
01:25:42,003 --> 01:25:44,253
Survivors said the plane
was so rundown,
1814
01:25:44,337 --> 01:25:47,545
they'd been considering
not flying in it again.
1815
01:25:47,629 --> 01:25:51,462
- The next thing I remember
was waking up in the hospital,
1816
01:25:51,545 --> 01:25:55,212
and both arms were broken
and both legs,
1817
01:25:55,295 --> 01:25:58,753
and this leg got cut off except
for a little bit of skin,
1818
01:25:58,836 --> 01:26:02,753
and they put it back on,
and I had some ribs broken,
1819
01:26:02,836 --> 01:26:05,545
my pelvic
and all--everything, man.
1820
01:26:05,629 --> 01:26:08,045
- The band was traveling from
a concert in South Carolina
1821
01:26:08,128 --> 01:26:09,961
to another one
in Louisiana,
1822
01:26:10,045 --> 01:26:13,295
part of a four-month tour
that just started.
1823
01:26:13,379 --> 01:26:16,337
As victims and survivors
were brought to hospitals,
1824
01:26:16,420 --> 01:26:18,087
no one could say for sure
1825
01:26:18,170 --> 01:26:20,920
how many people
were aboard the plane,
1826
01:26:21,003 --> 01:26:24,045
but by dawn six passengers
were known dead.
1827
01:26:24,128 --> 01:26:25,670
20 others,
many of them technicians
1828
01:26:25,753 --> 01:26:27,295
and friend of the band,
1829
01:26:27,379 --> 01:26:29,920
were listed as injured,
many critically.
1830
01:26:30,003 --> 01:26:32,045
- It was--had to be
the next day
1831
01:26:32,128 --> 01:26:36,836
'cause my mother had
gotten there, and I asked her,
1832
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,379
"Did anyone die?"
and she wouldn't tell me
1833
01:26:39,462 --> 01:26:43,753
for--it seemed to me
for a long time.
1834
01:26:43,836 --> 01:26:46,212
I said, "Please tell me,"
1835
01:26:46,295 --> 01:26:49,587
and she started right off
with Ronnie,
1836
01:26:49,670 --> 01:26:52,128
and that really freaked me out
'cause he was the tough guy.
1837
01:26:52,212 --> 01:26:55,253
I thought if he died,
everybody else did.
1838
01:26:55,337 --> 01:26:56,878
- Those dead
are Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer
1839
01:26:56,961 --> 01:26:58,795
Ronnie Van Zant,
1840
01:26:58,878 --> 01:27:00,379
guitarist Steve Gaines,
1841
01:27:00,462 --> 01:27:02,128
and his sister Cassie,
a backup vocalist,
1842
01:27:02,212 --> 01:27:05,045
assistant road manager
Dean Kilpatrick,
1843
01:27:05,128 --> 01:27:06,795
the plane's pilot
Walter McCreary,
1844
01:27:06,878 --> 01:27:09,253
and copilot William Gray.
1845
01:27:09,337 --> 01:27:12,170
- There was two benches
in the front of the plane.
1846
01:27:12,253 --> 01:27:15,753
Ronnie was here,
and I was between him and Dean,
1847
01:27:15,836 --> 01:27:17,920
and Allen was right across
1848
01:27:18,003 --> 01:27:20,253
on that little bench
in front of me,
1849
01:27:20,337 --> 01:27:23,087
and he was between
Cassie and Steve,
1850
01:27:23,170 --> 01:27:26,504
so all those people died,
and Allen and me didn't,
1851
01:27:26,587 --> 01:27:28,545
and after it
we freaked out a bit.
1852
01:27:28,629 --> 01:27:30,629
Why did we live
and didn't die?
1853
01:27:33,003 --> 01:27:36,836
- ♪ Just the other day ♪
1854
01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:40,128
♪ I heard my friend say ♪
1855
01:27:40,212 --> 01:27:44,003
♪ Life was oh so bad ♪
1856
01:27:44,087 --> 01:27:47,961
♪ And love was all they had ♪
1857
01:27:48,045 --> 01:27:51,587
♪ You know, all day long ♪
1858
01:27:51,670 --> 01:27:55,462
♪ I sing sad songs ♪
1859
01:27:55,545 --> 01:27:58,711
♪ Got the blues feel ♪
1860
01:27:58,795 --> 01:28:01,878
♪ Things no doctor can heal ♪
1861
01:28:01,961 --> 01:28:05,711
♪ You know, that's okay ♪
1862
01:28:05,795 --> 01:28:09,795
♪ I'll never change my ways ♪
1863
01:28:09,878 --> 01:28:13,212
♪ And maybe I am wrong ♪
1864
01:28:13,295 --> 01:28:16,212
♪ But I'll soon be gone ♪
1865
01:28:16,295 --> 01:28:18,629
- Guitarist Gary Rossington
is in stable condition
1866
01:28:18,711 --> 01:28:20,753
after surgery this morning
at Baptist Hospital.
1867
01:28:20,836 --> 01:28:24,379
Pianist Billy Powell is in
stable condition at Baptist.
1868
01:28:24,462 --> 01:28:26,504
Guitarist Allen Collins
is undergoing surgery
1869
01:28:26,587 --> 01:28:28,504
at the University
Medical Center now.
1870
01:28:28,587 --> 01:28:31,128
Bass player Leon Wilkeson
is in critical condition
1871
01:28:31,212 --> 01:28:33,462
in Southwest Medical Center
in McComb,
1872
01:28:33,545 --> 01:28:35,420
and drummer Artimus Pyle
1873
01:28:35,504 --> 01:28:38,087
is in good condition
at a hospital in Magnolia.
1874
01:28:38,170 --> 01:28:40,003
This is Randy Bell,
ZZQ News.
1875
01:28:40,087 --> 01:28:42,504
- A lot of flowers came in,
1876
01:28:42,587 --> 01:28:45,045
and they set them
all around the room.
1877
01:28:45,128 --> 01:28:48,629
For days I remember
the faces of Ronnie
1878
01:28:48,711 --> 01:28:50,420
and everybody who died.
1879
01:28:52,128 --> 01:28:56,836
I could see their faces
like a shadow in those plants.
1880
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:58,587
I could look up at them.
1881
01:28:58,670 --> 01:29:01,753
I even said, "Don't you
see them up there, mama?
1882
01:29:01,836 --> 01:29:05,087
Don't--"
and it was just me, I guess.
1883
01:29:06,504 --> 01:29:09,337
I think they were
there helping, you know,
1884
01:29:09,420 --> 01:29:11,212
in those flowers
for about a week.
1885
01:29:11,295 --> 01:29:13,087
Then they went away.
The spirits went away.
1886
01:29:23,128 --> 01:29:24,379
- Mama was the first one
buried here,
1887
01:29:24,462 --> 01:29:26,379
and then whenever they tried
to break
1888
01:29:26,462 --> 01:29:28,170
into Ronnie's grave
and Steve, moved out--
1889
01:29:28,253 --> 01:29:29,878
- Just all out of here.
- We brought him out here.
1890
01:29:29,961 --> 01:29:31,920
This is where Daddy
wanted him at in the beginning.
1891
01:29:32,003 --> 01:29:34,253
- Yeah, I know.
I must be over here.
1892
01:29:34,337 --> 01:29:36,128
You're gonna be right there.
1893
01:29:36,212 --> 01:29:38,003
- I'll be spitting
range from you.
1894
01:29:40,629 --> 01:29:43,961
- My wife and I just bought
that right over there.
1895
01:29:44,045 --> 01:29:45,920
- It's all marked out too.
- Yeah, I know.
1896
01:29:46,003 --> 01:29:47,836
- It's all marked out.
Let's walk over there,
1897
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:50,128
or do you want--
- I don't really want to.
1898
01:29:50,212 --> 01:29:54,253
I don't want to yet.
1899
01:29:54,337 --> 01:29:57,087
Too sacred ground.
1900
01:29:57,170 --> 01:29:59,128
- Hey, look, there's money
on it,
1901
01:29:59,212 --> 01:30:01,003
on top of his tombstone there.
1902
01:30:01,087 --> 01:30:03,003
You know, people put things
out here.
1903
01:30:03,087 --> 01:30:04,545
- They come and have a drink,
1904
01:30:04,629 --> 01:30:06,420
a lot of beer cans and
.
1905
01:30:06,504 --> 01:30:08,087
- Yeah.
- It's an honor, really.
1906
01:30:08,170 --> 01:30:10,295
- Yeah, it is. It is.
They loved the music, and,
1907
01:30:10,379 --> 01:30:12,295
"Hey, I'm gonna have a beer,
what the hell?"
1908
01:30:12,379 --> 01:30:13,711
I'm sure Ronnie don't mind.
1909
01:30:13,795 --> 01:30:15,420
- No.
- You know, he don't mind.
1910
01:30:15,504 --> 01:30:17,587
You go,
"Why did it have to happen?"
1911
01:30:17,670 --> 01:30:20,920
But I always say I kept a lot
of questions I have to ask,
1912
01:30:21,003 --> 01:30:22,836
you know, when I go on.
1913
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:26,420
When I go on, so I hope
I can get some answers.
1914
01:30:26,504 --> 01:30:28,629
- I think if we're
gonna get them, that's when.
1915
01:30:28,711 --> 01:30:29,920
- Yeah, exactly.
1916
01:30:34,170 --> 01:30:41,253
♪ ♪
1917
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:52,212
- ♪ If I leave here tomorrow ♪
1918
01:30:56,295 --> 01:31:00,587
♪ Would you still
remember me ♪
1919
01:31:00,670 --> 01:31:04,629
♪ ♪
1920
01:31:04,711 --> 01:31:10,128
♪ For I must be
traveling on now ♪
1921
01:31:10,212 --> 01:31:13,545
♪ ♪
1922
01:31:13,629 --> 01:31:17,629
♪ 'Cause there's too many
places I've got to see ♪
1923
01:31:17,711 --> 01:31:22,587
♪ ♪
1924
01:31:22,670 --> 01:31:27,753
♪ And if I stayed here
with you, girl ♪
1925
01:31:30,878 --> 01:31:35,087
♪ Well, things
just couldn't be the same ♪
1926
01:31:35,170 --> 01:31:40,212
♪ ♪
1927
01:31:40,295 --> 01:31:45,337
♪ 'Cause I'm as free
as a bird now ♪
1928
01:31:45,420 --> 01:31:48,670
♪ I swear I am♪
1929
01:31:48,753 --> 01:31:54,337
♪ And the bird
you'll never change ♪
1930
01:31:54,420 --> 01:31:58,128
♪ Oh ♪
1931
01:31:58,212 --> 01:32:02,087
♪ The bird you cannot change ♪
1932
01:32:02,170 --> 01:32:05,504
- In '87
we did a tribute tour,
1933
01:32:05,587 --> 01:32:07,670
and then after that tour
everybody,
1934
01:32:07,753 --> 01:32:11,170
they wanted us
to come to their town too,
1935
01:32:11,253 --> 01:32:13,545
and so we said,
"Yeah, let's do it again,"
1936
01:32:13,629 --> 01:32:17,462
and we kept catching on,
and we kept touring.
1937
01:32:17,545 --> 01:32:19,711
Being in a band,
that's all we know.
1938
01:32:19,795 --> 01:32:23,253
I can't do anything
but play guitar and fish,
1939
01:32:23,337 --> 01:32:25,711
and I couldn't
do anything else.
1940
01:32:25,795 --> 01:32:29,795
Now we got Ricky Medlocke
playing his guitar.
1941
01:32:29,878 --> 01:32:32,420
Johnny didn't think he could
fill his brother's shoes.
1942
01:32:32,504 --> 01:32:34,462
Of course,
Ronnie never wore shoes.
1943
01:32:34,545 --> 01:32:35,878
You ain't got to
fill his shoes.
1944
01:32:35,961 --> 01:32:37,920
You're not gonna.
1945
01:32:38,003 --> 01:32:40,379
I used to say he was spanked
by the same daddy
1946
01:32:40,462 --> 01:32:42,462
and ate the same food
just like Ronnie.
1947
01:32:44,795 --> 01:32:46,462
It's 30 years later,
1948
01:32:46,545 --> 01:32:48,878
and it's still going,
and people come,
1949
01:32:48,961 --> 01:32:50,836
and the younger
generation learns.
1950
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:52,545
It's not about us.
1951
01:32:52,629 --> 01:32:55,128
It's about the feelings
of that music
1952
01:32:55,212 --> 01:32:57,337
and the stories they tell.
1953
01:32:57,420 --> 01:32:59,961
That's what I feel
I'm here to do now,
1954
01:33:00,045 --> 01:33:03,878
is speak for the band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
1955
01:33:03,961 --> 01:33:07,587
from the beginning
till the very end, you know?
1956
01:33:07,670 --> 01:33:10,295
It's the music that lives on.
1957
01:33:10,379 --> 01:33:16,753
- ♪ Lord help me,
I can't change ♪
1958
01:33:16,836 --> 01:33:18,587
♪ ♪
1959
01:33:18,670 --> 01:33:23,087
♪ No, I can't change ♪
1960
01:33:23,170 --> 01:33:26,295
♪ Won't you fly, fly ♪
1961
01:33:26,379 --> 01:33:28,629
♪ A free bird ♪
1962
01:33:28,711 --> 01:33:29,920
♪ Yeah ♪
1963
01:33:32,795 --> 01:33:39,878
♪ ♪
1964
01:34:07,878 --> 01:34:14,379
♪ ♪
1965
01:34:32,420 --> 01:34:39,587
♪ ♪
1966
01:35:15,295 --> 01:35:22,462
♪ ♪
1967
01:35:31,295 --> 01:35:38,462
♪ ♪
1968
01:35:48,795 --> 01:35:55,545
♪ ♪
1969
01:36:04,003 --> 01:36:11,087
♪ ♪
1970
01:36:47,045 --> 01:36:48,961
- One of the great ones,
Lynyrd Skynyrd.
1971
01:36:49,045 --> 01:36:49,961
Let's hear it for them.
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