Billy Powell of Skynyrd passed away

[Diamondjimi]

Fuck! THis totally sucks.

Billy was crucial to that band. A brilliant keyboard/piano player. A huge loss...

R.I.P.

[Diamondjimi]

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[Diamondjimi]

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[FORD]

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[FORD]

I hate these fucking dumbasses who rip videos with shitty shareware programs and leave some asshat watermark in the middle of everything..... but sadly, it's the only REAL Skynyrd performance of this song I can find, and I ain't posting the halfass Little Brother Tribute Band crap......

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[Matt White]

RIP BILLY

that SKYNYRD band in the sky keeps getting better & better.......

[cadaverdog]

I don't get the hostility towards the band considering the surviving
members and the estates of the deceased all agreed it was cool.

I saw them live and no one there seemed to think they were listening
to some rip - off band.

The song Red White and Blue to me stands up with any of their
early stuff.

[78/84 guy]

I don't see the problem myself. Smokestack Lightning, The Last Rebel, Workin', Voodoo Lake, Bring It On, Pure & Simple, R.W.Blue & Preacher Man are all great new Skynyrd tunes. If you don't know them and love the original band these are all good tunes !!

[Terry]

Rossington will keep touring under the name Lynyrd Skynyrd as long as there is a nickel to be made.

Gave 'em a pass in 1987 with the Tribute Tour because, hey, who could say it wasn't fair enough the surviving members would want to reform, do a tour and go out on a positive note? There were enough Skynyrd members at that point (King, Pyle, Rossington, Powell and Leon) who had played with the band before the plane crash that it wasn't a total travesty. Plus, it was billed as a one-off tour at the time.

After the revenues from the tour were realized, well, it became a permanent thing. Slowly but surely, said 1987 legit members died off or quit...by the time it got down to Rossington and Powell, well, it pretty much was picking at a carcass at that point for me. I never bought into the business that because Johnny was Ronnie's brother and Medlocke played drums with the band for a New York minute in the early 1970s that it was legitimate for the band to keep calling itself Skynyrd.

Hey, if others wanna go see the "lynyrd Skynyrd" band featuring Gary Rossington, whatever. Have a good show.

[Douglas T.]

RIP BP!!!!
I once slid a half full bottle of Jack Daniels across the stage floor bumping it into Billy's foot! he was about three feet away! he looks over angry at first then saw what it was and smiled and scooped it up!

I wish we could of seen more of the Rossington-Collins Band!
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It took balls for Jonny to get up there and cover for his brother! Would have like to have heard more of his solo work too! Which took second to fronting Skynyrd! I was probably at this show! Disclaimer: No Billy in a few of these videos! Forgive me BP!
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Johnny's new stuff with his brother Donnie is some good stuff if you can tolerate the country feel!

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[Douglas T.]

Considering he survived the plane crash his luck wasnt too bad....

Do ya know who was supposed to be on the plane with them but refused to fly in a plane with a faulty dash board?

[Douglas T.]

Here ya go:

http://community.lynyrdskynyrd.com/_Billy-Powell-Piano-Solo-LIVE/audio/172747/30191.html

[Terry]

It's hard to be too critical of them for continuing on with the name, because they went through some shit...far more serious shit than most bands (makes the Van Halen "saga" look like the schoolyard bullshit it really is)...

...Skynyrd for me, or at least the best Skynyrd had to offer, went down on that plane 30 + years ago.

[Douglas T.]

...Skynyrd for me, or at least the best Skynyrd had to offer, went down on that plane 30 + years ago.

It'd be a whole differant world today had that plane had a bit more gas in the tank!

[Terry]

It'd be a whole differant world today had that plane had a bit more gas in the tank!

Band was getting better with each release, and this is a band that was hot out of the box with their first album. Street Survivors was brilliant...fucking shame...seriously.