Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd's last surviving original member, dead at 71
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🗓️ 7 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | to this car with the way. 11 53. It's Kendall and Casey on 93 WIBC. So guitarist Gary |
| 0:11.3 | Rossington, who was the last surviving founding member of Leonard Skinnerd, has passed away. |
| 0:17.5 | The band made the announcement on their Facebook page. He was 71. They said it was with our |
| 0:22.2 | deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise that we have lost our brother, friend, |
| 0:27.7 | family member, songwriter and guitarist Gary Rossington today. Okay. So two things. One, when |
| 0:32.7 | you, when you factor in the amount of hits they had, you know my theory, if you can have three hits |
| 0:38.3 | or more, you are a really big deal, three mega hits. Yeah. And they had two of the biggest rock |
| 0:45.2 | songs of all time in free bird and sweet home Alabama. I think you've strongly got to consider the |
| 0:51.7 | original incarnation of Leonard Skinnerd on for the Mount Rushmore greatest bands of all time. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. Now here's the other thing. We come back to the highly fraudulent discussion that we've had. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah. This guy was the last living member. They've been touring for how long as Leonard Skinnerd |
| 1:09.0 | every summer. Yeah. How can it be the band if there's only one original guy left? And now there's no |
| 1:13.4 | original guys left. And they're going to still be out there as Leonard Skinnerd. Yeah, they are. |
| 1:16.6 | They're still touring. I'm sure they're going to be somewhere in Indy or close by this summer. That is |
| 1:21.4 | not Leonard Skinnerd. No, it's not not anymore. I mean, when they hit Gary Rossington still playing |
| 1:26.2 | with them, you could say, okay, well, it's a guitar Southern rock band. It is guitar driven music. |
| 1:32.4 | It's a guy from Leonard Skinnerd. No, that's a guy from Leonard Skinnerd was on the stage. |
| 1:36.4 | That dude was in Leonard Skinnerd. Leonard Skinnerd went away when the when the older when the |
| 1:41.0 | band's aunt brother died in the plane crash. Yeah. In 1977 in Mississippi. The guy who writes and |
| 1:46.0 | sings the songs is the band. If he's not in the band, that's not the band anymore. And they've |
| 1:50.2 | been milking this for like 45 years now. Yeah. I'm not buying a Casey. Okay, RIP Gary. Thank you, |
| 1:58.8 | Rob. Thank you, Kevin. Good job today. And thank you for listening. And we're going to count on |
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