![]() ![]() 13, 1973 and featured the lengthy anthem “Free Bird,” which would become Skynyrd’s signature song. The band’s debut album, (Pronounced Len-‘nerd ‘Skin-‘nerd) was released on Aug. There were just a lot of things we stirred together.” “We loved all the British invasion stuff and, of course, the Allman Brothers and Stax and that stuff. “We were a little bit of everything, really,” Rossington said of the burgeoning band’s approach. Lee High School Skinner was particularly hard on boys who had long hair, which led Rossington to drop out of school.Īfter working the local and regional scene Skynyrd was discovered by Al Kooper, founder of Blood, Sweat & Tears, who signed the band to his Sounds of the South label. Skynyrd settled on its name around 1970, taking it from Leonard Skinner, the strict physical education teacher at Robert E. Signer Ronnie Van Zant, who played on a rival baseball team, jammed with the team after one of their games, playing the Rolling Stones’ “Time Is on My Side,” and the rest was history. Rossington was the last man standing in a band that formed during 1964 in Jacksonville, Fla., starting with bassist Larry Junstrom and drummer Bob Burns in a trio called Me, You, and Him. ![]() When you retire, what’s next? I like to fish, but how much of that can you do, right? So I want to keep doing what I do now.” So I think once you’ve got something going for yourself you should keep it up and keep your craft going. “I’m just an old guitar player, and we’ve spent our whole loves and the 10,000 hours of working to understand how to play and do it. ![]() “It’s just in my blood, y’know?,” he explained. Please keep Dale, Mary and Annie and the entire Rossington family in your prayers and respect the family’s privacy at this time.”ĭuring a 2016 interview with Billboard, promoting his Take It on Faith album with wife Dale Krantz-Rossington - who’s also a Skynyrd back-up singer - Rossington said that despite his health battles he’d made a decision to go on playing and die with his proverbial boots on. Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. In an official statement Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote that, “It is without deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington today. No cause of death was given, though the guitarist had been dealing with health issues over the past couple of decades and particularly since the mid-2010s, when heart ailments occasionally sidelined Rossington, and the band. Michael Rhodes, Esteemed Bassist and Nashville Session Musician, Dies at 69ĭavid Lindley, Multi-Talented Guitarist & Notable Session Musician, Dies at 78ĭemi Lovato Unleashes 'Scream VI' Cut 'Still Alive': Stream It Now Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Sunday (March 5), at the age of 71, nearly four months before the band was planning to set out on its next tour. ![]()
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