Source: www.avclub.com - Saturday, April 04, 2015
Robert Burns Jr., the original drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died. According to a report from Billboard , he was in a car driving through Georgia late at night on Friday when the vehicle went off the road and hit a tree. He was 64. Burns—along with Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, and Larry Junstrom—co-founded Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1964 (though the band went through a number of a different names before settling on a mocking tribute to a former gym teacher). Burns left the band in 1974 due to the pressures of touring, but he was around for its first two studio albums, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd) and Second Helping. That means, despite being with the band for only a short time, he had the honor of playing on some of its biggest hits, including “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Simple Man,” and, of course, “Free Bird.” Rossington ...
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Robert Burns Jr., the original drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died. According to a report from Billboard , he was in a car driving through Georgia late at night on Friday when the vehicle went off the road and hit a tree. He was 64. Burns—along with Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, and Larry Junstrom—co-founded Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1964 (though the band went through a number of a different names before settling on a mocking tribute to a former gym teacher). Burns left the band in 1974 due to the pressures of touring, but he was around for its first two studio albums, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-’nérd ‘Skin-’nérd) and Second Helping. That means, despite being with the band for only a short time, he had the honor of playing on some of its biggest hits, including “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Simple Man,” and, of course, “Free Bird.” Rossington ...from Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1bXj1xf
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