Billy Powell of Skynyrd passed away

[Rikk]

Good post there Rikk.

How ya been?

Doin' great, bro. Teaching...loving work. Living with the GF. Been busy as shit.

Good to see ya!

[Rikk]

Hiring Steve Gaines was the best decision the band ever made. (Or maybe hiring Cassie Gaines was, because they never would have heard of Steve without her)

He brought a lot to the band, and he and Ronnie would have no doubt written some great tunes together, had they not taken that final flight.

When I hear STREET SURVIVORS, as brilliant as it is, I hear it as the "warm-up" for the greatness they were about to achieve...even though they were already great. They would have been unbeatable. Their '78 album would probably have been their best ever.

[FORD]

You Got That Right has to be one of the coolest Skynyrd tune's of all time. Love the way they trade off vocal's & the break in the middle of the song is killer !!

Yet eerily propehtic with the lyric.... "You won't find me in an old folks home".

Ronnie had made his own predictions about dying before he was 30 and "dying with his boots on". Sadly, he managed to do both.

Funny thing about self-fulfilling prophecies....or actually not so funny.

[78/84 guy]

All the truly great one's seem to leave us a little to early. Would have love to have seen him.

[cadaverdog]

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?

No idea.
Uhless you're refering to the story that Aerosmith was going to
buy the plane first but their pilot refused to fly it because he
thought it was unsafe.
I heard they fired him for that even though he was supposedly
working for free.
They should have kissed his ass.