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__**Rock N Roll Project**__ ** Lynyrd Skynyrd **

__**About The Band:**__ Lynyrd Skynyrd is a Southern Rock band that started in 1964 in Jacksonville, Florida. All members were just teenagers in high school when the idea of a band came into play. **//Original//** lineup members were Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocals), Allen Collins (guitar), Gary Rossington (Guitar), Ed King (guitar), Lary Junstrom (bass), Billy Powell (keyboard), and Bob Burns (drums). Different names were used for the band such as //My Backyard//, //The Noble Five//, and //One Percent// up to '68 and then in '69 is when the name Lynyrd Skynyrd was set to stay. They got the name from a gym coach from their high school, "Robert E. Lee High School" who had got a few of the boys suspended for having long hair. The coach's name was Leonard Skinner. It was a mocking tribute but later after that they all became friends with the coach and even got him to introduce them at one of their shows at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum. They dropped out of high school to keep on with their passion of music. They had a space they always played and rehearsed in called the "Hell House" which was in Green Cove Springs, south of Jacksonville. It was called that because there was no AC or anything, it was super hot in there. They ended up being one of the top bands in Jacksonville and were a bar band playing their original songs by 1970 with no association of a record label. When discovered by Al Kooper at one of their small shows in Atlanta in '72 they were signed to Sounds of the South Label (MCA). As years went on Ed, Lary, and Bob were no longer a part of the band so in came in Steve Gaines ('76 -guitar), Leon Wilkeson ('72 -bass), and Artemis Pyle ('74 -drums). Their first album "Pronounced leh-nerd-skin-nerd" was produced in '73, the second album "Second Helping" in '74, third "Nuthin' Fancy" in '75, fourth "Gimme Back My Bullets" in '76. 1973 they opened for The Who's Quadrophenia Tour and that is when they were getting noticed and started a following with fans for themselves. 1976 and 1977 was when they played their most legendary shows in front of enormous crowds. October 1977, their fifth album titled, "Street Survivors" came out. Unfortunately three days after the release of the album, October 20th, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd was involved in a plane crash in the Mississippi swamp/woods. The plane had run out of fuel because of pilot error. It occurred in Gillsburg, Mississippi while on their way to a show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LSU). Ronnie Van Zant was killed instantly, hitting a tree. He had no marks or scratches on him. Steve and Cassie Gaines died in the crash as well. They were both brother and sister. Cassie was one of the backup singers for the band. The two pilots were killed and the bands road manager was, as well. Everybody else on the plane were severely injured but survived the crash. After this unfortunate event, the band was on hiatus for about 10 years. The band would never be the same without Ronnie. But there were some side projects with some of the surviving members. When they had the courage to rock and take the time away from grieving from the crash, the Rossington-Collins band had formed in 1979, Allen Collins Band in 1983, and the Rossington Band in 1988. Although remaining members of Lynyrd Skynyrd decided to reunite for a comeback tour for the fans in 1987 and decided to keep on going to now, the present. There have been original members who have died throughout the years so there have been different members in and out the band but they are still rockin' today. Original member, Gary Rossington is still here with us as a guitarist and they have Ronnie's younger brother, Johnny Van Zant as the lead singer (similar voices and style). Also, having a guitarist who was briefly a part of Skynyrd in the very early days, Rickey Medlocke.

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__**Lyrics & Video:**__ If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on now 'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, And this bird you can not change, oh, oh, oh, oh. And this bird you can not change. And this bird you can not change.

Lord knows I can't change. Bye, bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah, Though this feeling I can't change. But please don't take it so badly, 'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.

But if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, And this bird you'll never change, oh, oh, oh, oh. And this bird you cannot change. And this bird you cannot change. Lord knows, I can't change. Lord, help me, I can't change.

Lord, I can't change. Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah?

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