Billy Powell Skynyrd ketboardist dead

a gifted musician

sad to hear this

 

Everyone thinks they were this raging ultraconservative, racist, Deep South redneck ensemble. Meanwhile, they're singing songs like "Things Goin' On" with lines like "Have you ever been down to the ghetto? Have you ever heard that cold wind blow?" and "Curtis Lowe."

It's a shame that people can't get past their southern stigmas to give the genre a chance. These guys were hard-working virtuosos. It kills me - absolutely kills me - that a buffoon like Jim Morrison graces the walls of every college dorm room in America while all kids know about Skynyrd is "Free Bird!!"

 

No.

 

I've spent a lifetime underappreciating Wet Willie.

 

Yes.

 

Billy Powell is all over One More From The Road, one of the great live albums ever made.

 

Not only survived, but, bloody and banged up, got up in front of the media the next day to talk about it. Amazing courage.

 

Great album eerie cover given the circumstances

 

Powell at far right.

 

If only they had moved away from the plane instead of posing for the picture

 

They actually Photoshopped the flames out of the original cover because of the crash, and it was released with the band standing in front of a plain black background. I don't think the flames saw the light of day for another couple of decades or so, when the album was reissued.

 

I don't think photoshop was even invented when that was done. I have both versions In my "album" collection