![]() Maybe I coulda made the difference in something, you know what I’m sayin’? But I guess it wasn’t meant to be, and this was meant to be. “Then all of a sudden everything happened the way it did, and I went through a period for a while of where I got to thinkin’, you know, maybe I should have been there. And Ronnie was like, ‘Hey, man, if you’re not doing anything, why don’t you come ride for a week or so?’ But I couldn’t do it because I had obligations with my own band, Blackfoot. ![]() “They were getting ready for it, and I took my dad, Shorty, over there, because Ronnie and I always used to hang out at my house and listen to my dad play the blues and stuff. “I got to see the guys at their studio right as they were leaving for the Street Survivors tour,” recalls Medlocke, calling from his home in Fort Myers, Florida. Vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash-along with backup vocalist Cassie Gaines and road manager Dean Kilpatrick-and most of the other band members suffered serious injuries.Īccording to Rickey Medlocke, who joined the current Skynyrd lineup on guitar last year, he came very close to being on that fateful plane himself. ![]() That’s when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s rented plane, short on fuel, crashed into a Mississippi swamp en route to a gig at Louisiana University. October 20, 1977, is a day branded by sadness for southern-rock fans. ![]()
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