Ok,bro ! How about giving Artimus Pyle his "Just Due"! The man deserves it and plays the drums like 1977 and keeps the beat ! Give the man Respect for services in band and USMC ! WTF! Gary would be smiling down on you guys to let Sgt Pyle play with band again!
It’s time to put LS to rest folks. The band I saw in ‘77 is long gone……RIP. The temporarily formed group, Tribute is now long gone. Johnny stepped in, Ricky stepped in later, all with legitimate connections but they are not LS. No recognition any longer, please stop and let them all rest. With respect.
Tommy is a liar. He saved no one but himself that night. He was about to be replaced by Steve Gaines's brother. He won't show the bullet wound from the farmer because it doesn't exist. The farmer said he fired a round in the air. Tommy wasn't there when the farmer fired his gun. He was crying like a little baby at the crash site. If you want the truth about LS ask Gene Odom. His story has never changed for almost 50 years. Tommy is a fake marine and a punk.
Play drums and saw Artimus…….awesome drummer. Personal issues with ex keep him from participating in LS. Otherwise I stick to my opinion and love of LS.😎
I was planning to see them in 1977. I bought the album with the tour schedule inside and the flames on the outside. The band was over in 1977 and continuing without even rossington is a joke.
If they want to be authentic, they should include some of the Blackfoot classics in the set. At least with that, they have an original member of Blackfoot.
Ronnie always wanted the music to live on, who better than his little brother to step up to the plate & take that roll . Gary as well said he wanted the music to live on multiple times for him and his bandmates who made it. Rickey drummed and did some vocals with the original members in 71-72 before leaving because he wanted to play guitar again. That NYE Nashville event Ronnie’s spirit was definitely on that stage 100% if you believe in the supernatural. One of the better Free Bird performances I’ve seen in years. I know Ronnie is definitely smiling from above at his brother and Rickey keeping the music alive.
Keep goin guys. I myself was against the idea of Skynyrd and Pantera touring anymore but Im not in those bands. If they worked all these years for us to enjoy their music, KEEP GOIN! God bless💯
It really sucks that a few Rip on Johnny. He's Ronnie's "little" brother. Are any of you ? He's a strong singer with the family vocal cords. ARE ANY OF YOU ? Yes, it is a tribute now. But GARY recruited Rickey, their friend. If they had retired the band after a year in 88, or 98, Skynyrd would be forgotten by now. This is what we get, or Justin Bieber & Taylor Swift. Is that what you prefer ? The current group keeps the music alive, the FANS love it, to see them & the songs played live, and may you forget, the touring and album sales benefit the originals Children & Grandchildren. Would you take that away from the original members & their legacy ? Damon Johnson was hand picked. Gary approved. I would like to shake his hand and thank him as well as the others for keeping the music alive when I go next year at White River in WA, if I have the chance. Id like to see Artimus play with them, even if for just a few dates. Odem has been milking his connection to LS for 40 plus years. Is he family? Inner Circle ? Any legitimate connection or right to speak now ? Johnny, Rickey, AND Artimus are deeply respectful, as are the others, of Ronnie & all the originals. If you dont like the current lineup. Dont go, and STFU. The trash talkers are just Debbie Downers, have No Say, and DON'T MATTER. Long Lyve Lynyrd 🎶 Skynyrd !!!!!
Sorry to hear some take the opinions as an indictment. Obviously also didn’t read the rules of writing. Love all the musicians, they are truly talented, they are just NOT LS in any way, shape, or form now. Not sorry, that’s my, and apparently a lot of others opinion. Saw them as the original group, missed the Tribute. The Rule of 3 and Blood Oath were broken, as documented in court by a man who survived the crash. We hope you enjoy their show, but no mistake, it’s not LS. I’m sure the children have reaped enough $$$$$$ by now but who am I to say. How’s about some of that $$$ to the remaining crash survivors? The music lives on forever, enjoy your concert in WA - livit 🤝.
@@MP-ju4ol If you don't like the band anymore why are you spending any of your time on this posting? If all you want to do is make negative comments just find something you like and watch that instead. You're just being disrespectful to all of us LS fans and ruining the enjoyment of the moment. Rude.
Whats that got to do with them being a tribute band?Cause basically that is what they were.I didn't hear anyone knocking Johnny or the others.They are talented,that still doesn't change the fact they were a tribute band.
@@MP-ju4ol It comes down to this. The current line-up, and fans of both the MUSIC and some connection. As in a couple of the players played with Gary, Billy, and even the Mad Hatter ... RIP. Rickey was part of the band & on early recordings & Pronounced so performed with everyone including Ronnie, save the drummers. Johnny learned the ropes from his big brother. Many bands especially older ones rotate players. Are the Stones & the Who really the Stones & the who with 2 people ? Was Steve Gaines not "Lynyrd Skynyrd" because of his short tenure before the crash ? He was embraced by the band, cited by Gary & Allen & Ronnie for relighting the fire, & he was integral to OMFTR & absolutely to Street Survivors. But I did write "They're a Tribute now" One with DNA, but a Tribute. When I go, I'll be going to see these guys and Johnny Honor a legendary "Band, of brothers". Everybody has opinions. I just say long live the music for one last Ryde. Fans clamor for nostalgia, real music, and a kick ass live performance no lip Syncing. I don't have a dog in the fight. I just love the music & deep cuts, played right. I'd pay to see Artimus's APB also. It's not LS, but he has some very talented respectful musicians in his band. One day soon, it'll all be over, and we'll be stuck with Taylor Swift & "Bad Bunny" ✌️ Bro
If you can ever find Gary's radio interview. His story about how the band started. It's hilarious 😅 On how afraid Allen was of Ronnie's neighborhood reputation. 💪🏻 A Classic Florida Story from the 60's, Listen & Enjoy
Why shame on them. People want to hear someone playing the stuff live. You can't bring back the original crew, and if you like live music they are the best to be playing it.
@@Azznbadwhat ever happened to the court order that Judy Van Zant filed that did that there has to be THREE original members in the band in order to tour?
@@charliec5653Who knows? What difference does it make? It's nobody's business but theirs anyway! As long as people still want to see them live why the hell should they stop giving the fans what they want? As long as the band wants to continue playing their music and the fans continue to go to their concerts what doggone difference does it make to you and your life?
@@peterbilt-bo1vy Settle down, numb nuts. I only brought it up for the sake of discussion. Obviously, they're still touring, which is a good thing. I'm not criticizing them, or anything like that. It makes no difference to me either way.
They never enforced it because it was unenforceable and quite frankly all the touring they've done has likely be quite profitable for everyone involved. Their estates continue to collect royalties for the music they wrote and recorded. Things change given enough time. She quit the Ronnie Van Zandt memorial or what ever it was a few years ago, because you can only continue to mourn and be consumed with it for so long. I thought trying to restrict the living members from continuing to make a living wasn't a great 9dea anyway. People want to hear the music and as long as its done reasonably well there is a market.@@charliec5653
@@charliec5653 Close, but not completely accurate. There was a full album’s worth of material produced on Skynyrd at Quinvy Recording Studio in Sheffield, AL by David Johnson (including the raw, original version of Free Bird). There was a 2nd full album’s worth of songs produced by Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound. Both of these “albums” predated the 1st Al Kooper produced “Pronounced” on MCA, and were released after the plane crash. Ricky was around the Shoals during those early days working on Blackfoot music, and sat in for Bob Burns on drums for a few Skynyrd cuts, but was not an official “member” of the band until years later. I engineered at both Quinvy and MSS, and worked with David and Jimmy Johnson. Lots of untold stories around those early days with LS… some best left that way! 😂
First let me say I’am a huge lynyrd skynyrd fan ,but I feel there justifying (carrying on the music) sounds good,but come on,we all know if the money wasn’t there,lynyrd skynyrd would be no more,
And what's wrong with that? People work at jobs every day that they wouldn't work at if it wasn't for the money. And what about all the Skynyrd fans who really want to go to their concerts? Why would you want to take away something that other people get so much enjoyment and happiness from? Maybe someday the fans will be no more and the band will have to retire. Until that day comes, stop watching posts about LS and and spend your time and energy on something you like. Leave the rest of us alone so we don't have to put up with all you judgemental whiners. Let people be happy and stop running down something they love! Start a whiner's club and leave the Lynyrd Skynyrd fans to their happiness.
There ain't no dollars unless someone wants to hear it. I've always wondered what's wrong with bands doing like an orchestra does and just replace members for decades and more. If there is a demand someone will fill that demand.
They need to stop. I saw them in 1995...4 original members, great show. Now...unless you count Medlocke, there are ZERO original members. It is time to stop. They don't even sound that good anymore.
@@warriors4christ984 WHO CARES if they are his wishes? That doesn't mean fans OWE HIM going to the shows!! If some fans want to go, that's great. That's up to them. BUT...I've spoken to enough fans now who think Lynyrd Skynyrd continuing without ANY members who were present on the original five albums is a f*&king joke!! (NO ORIGINAL MEMBERS!!!🤣)
@@eaaivazianSo all the people who don't want to go hear them anymore should not go anymore and all the people who still want to go to their concerts should continue to do so. The band is made up of professional musicians who make their living by playing music and as long as people enjoy hearing them play they have every right to keep playing. Stop being a judgemental jerk. None of your business anyway.
The least talented Van Zant brother has had the longest career. The guy who was absent from the band for about 25 years, comes back as and "original" member. Yes, he was an original member for a short time, as was Larry Junstrom of 38 Special. And Randall Hall played with these guys too. I don't remember him heralded as an original member. Maybe Randall was just an hired guitar for gigs. Another guy from Blackfoot also played in this band. Anyway, Johnny is the perfect man to ride on the fame of Rossington, Collins, Ronnie VZ, and all the other dead players. I can't stand this guy for the most part. He doesn't deserve this fanfare. What sort of person admires a pretender, a man who is a poor song writer on his best day?
Hey Johnny: As Barack Obama said to some Americans "You didn't build that." Sure, Obama is a loser. But some people do live off of organizations, businesses, ideas, "brands" that they had nothing to do with creating. Fortunately for Johnny, he hasn't had to live off only the ideas he has brought to Lynyrd Skynyrd. What were those great ideas you had Johnny? You can have that one disc of so called "greatest hits" of the modern band. You couldn't have sold that crap if people didn't already love RVZ, Allen C, Gary R, Ed King, Steve Gaines and the Honkettes. Rickey Medlocke actually has a whole lot more claim to this brand. At least Rickey worked with Ronnie Van Zant. Johnny never worked with Ronnie, or Steve Gaines or Allen Collins --when he wasn't in a wheel chair. Anyway, Johnny, I really can't stand you for the most part, but thanks for the Reunion Tour and up to about 1992. And no, the 1991 album and The Last Rebel didn't prove much. If anything, it proved how little you had to offer. You did better work with the original Johnny Van Zant Band. And by better, I mean that was YOUR product with those guys.
I think Johnny has done a decent job fronting this lynyrd skynyrd tribute band as it should be called for about 30+ it's kept skynyrds music alive bringing in younger audiences going to their shows of course it ain't lynyrd synyrd with Ronnie Allen ed or Gary but time has to move on
@@donjohn2695 I agree. Thanks to Johnny we got a really good Tribute Tour and album. We got the Cabin Fever reunion tour video. We got the album Legend before or around the time of the tour. Because the band continued we got the Complete Muscle Shoals album from 1971. We also got those awesome Quinvy and Shade Tree songs on Collectybles and other material from Live at the Fox. We also got the Memphis, TN 1973 show on Collectybles with the only know version of Woman of Mine. We also got Free Bird the Movie. Now we have Knebworth 76 in a restored format, the entire show and I guess we have that audio too. We got an official release of Skynyrd in Hamburg, Germany from 1974. Johnny, Gary, Ed, Leon, Artimus, Randall Hall, Billy Powell, they helped keep the music alive, and Johnny has said, "Keep it alive forever people." But Johnny can thank Ronnie and Donnie for him having a career. If Johnny had only Donnie as a reference, he might not have gotten signed as an artist. He had a good voice back then though, but it was the Allman Brothers Band's success, and Live at the Filmore East that led to a buzz to sign other Southern musicians. But Skynyrd records without Ronnie are really pretty bad. I have no idea what Skynyrd did over the years. I own the 91 record. I like about two songs on it. The Last Rebel, I've never even tried to listen to it. None of the JVZ albums made it to any sort of radio play, but RADIO died along the way, so there is that.
I think Johnny is not talented enough to be in Skynyrd but he deserves credit for stepping in to keep things going for awhile....the surviving members I'm sure needed the $$$$. The last playing member is gone and its time to retire the band....it just doesn't make sense to call yourselves Lynyrd Skynyrd anymore....because you are not. It'll be the same when Don Henley is gone....the Eagles will be no more.
What damn difference does it make? Go watch something else and stop whining about what's going on with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Start a club for people who agree with you and you can all exchange your negative comments with each other.
For crying out loud why can't you and others like you leave them to their own lives and leave the fans alone. Musicians love to play music and their fans evidently still love going to their concerts. What's it to you? I doubt anyone is telling you how to live your life so stop telling other people how to live their lives! This band rightfully is Lynyrd Skynyrd and has been for many years so just go mind your own business and let them take care of their own business!! I wish Ronnie could jack your jaw for having such a hateful attitude towards the band!! All you judgemental whiners suck!!
Talk what you know, because you know anything about it I assure you. Are you related to either of them? Because I am & it's certainly not Gene Odom I'm related to.
IF IT IS A BIG FAMILY THEN WHY DIDN'T LS LET ED KING COME BACK AFTER HIS HEART ATTACH ??? YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A COVER BAND NOW. YOU DO NOT SOUND LIKE LYNYRD SYNYRD ANY MORE !!!!! AND WHAT ABOUT Artimus Pyle.... DID YOU FORGET HIM TOO !!!! AND LIZARD MAN WHO PLAYED WITH WHITE SNAKE ... YOU ARE ALL SHOW NOTHING MORE. !!!
