Lynyrd Skynyrd "Street Survivors" Original 1977 with flames MCA RECORDS VG+
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Lynyrd skynyrd vinyl record, MCA 3029 Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. All my listening are from my original music collection of many years. TracklistHide Credits A1 What's Your Name 3:30 A2 That Smell 5:47 A3 One More TimeProducer – Jimmy Johnson (4), Tim Smith (2) 5:03 A4 I Know A Little 3:26 B1 You Got That Right 3:44 B2 I Never Dreamed 5:21 B3 Honky Tonk Night Time ManWritten-By – M. Haggard* 3:59 B4 Ain't No Good Life 4:36
On the turntable: The Plane Crash.
In the ancient days of 1977, long before the 24-hour news cycle, cellular telephones and the internet, people received tragic news in dribs and drabs. The story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd airplane crash first appeared as a twenty second mention on the CBS Evening News nearly a full day after it had occurred. “An airplane crash in Mississippi has taken the lives of members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd,” Walter Cronkite announced. What members?! Which members?! All members?! What about the survivors? Are there survivors?!
It would take almost two weeks for the fans of the band to get official word about the deaths of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, along with road manager Dean Kilpatrick and the two pilots of the aircraft. That was reported in the next issue of Rolling Stone, during the first week of November. The crash happened on the night of October 20th.
Everything about it was slow. The plane did not fall quickly, like a rock, but instead, being a smaller craft, drifted into the swamp at a tortuous pace. It took rescuers six hours to reach the crash site. Months passed before anyone involved spoke directly to the press. And, it took nearly a year and thousands of protest letters from Skynyrd fans before MCA Records changed the original “Street Survivors” cover artwork, featuring Steve Gaines and Ronnie Van Zant engulfed in flames to the black background cover you see on the right.
It was, in fact, decades before some members of the band told their recollections of the crash, most famously Gary Rossington’s chillingly calm explanation of it in the documentary “If I Leave Here Tomorrow.” The specter of the accident, obviously, hung over the remaining works of all of their lives, and obviously tainted the incredible music they created on this record.
It’s an album that shows great promise and hope for a band in the throes of transition, a promise and hope that would never, unfortunately, be realized.
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