Gone With The Wind: the rise & fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd

[67blackcherry]

Excellent documentary...two thumbs way up.
Steve Gaines - one live album, one studio album, such a damn shame he died.

My apologies if there's already been a thread about this show.

 

[Bluesful]

I didn't know it existed, I'll have to pick it up.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[67blackcherry]

I had no clue Al Kooper produced the first two albums and didn't realize just how brief was Steve Gaines time with the band.

 

[Bluesful]

didn't realize just how brief was Steve Gaines time with the band.

Yep. A brilliant picker. Such a loss.

 

[Marc Roy]

Yep. A brilliant picker. Such a loss.

Yep. I don't think he ever played a wrong note.

 

[vanderkalin]

Try and find his solo live rendition of I Know A Little with him singing. It's a rough recording, but my god almighty was he good.

 

[Bluesful]

Try and find his solo live rendition of I Know A Little with him singing. It's a rough recording, but my god almighty was he good.

I never knew that existed. Just found it and had a listen. Really cool stuff. Here it is.

 

[Holliman]

Steve had great vocals too.

 

[67blackcherry]

His loss rivals Randy Rhoades; way too soon and not enough material saw the light of day.

 

[fierce_carrot]

His loss rivals Randy Rhoades; way too soon and not enough material saw the light of day.

As a huge fan of souther rock, I will agree with that 100%

RVZ was preparing to work with Merele Haggard before the crash and he was enamored with The Outlaws, especiall Huey Thomasson's playing.

Enter Steve Gaines..

 

[Paleolith54]

Excellent documentary...two thumbs way up.
Steve Gaines - one live album, one studio album, such a damn shame he died.

My apologies if there's already been a thread about this show.

Where is/was it? DVD, Netflix, TV? Thanks!

 

[BigSB]

The man could play his arse off and his singing is on par with a Tab Benoit or Lee Roy Parnell. A giant talent. I'm almost glad he didn't have to live through what the industry in the '80s would have tried to do to him.

 

[epo]

Where is/was it? DVD, Netflix, TV? Thanks!

Amazon Prime at least, maybe elsewhere as well

 

[soulohio]

After auditioning such luminaries as Leslie West and Muscle Shoals session whiz Wayne Perkins, the band finally settled on Steve Gaines, the unknown guitarist brother of one of Skynyrd’s backup girls. “I expect we’ll all be in Steve’s shadow one day,” Van Zant boasts. “This kid is a writing and playing fool. Just wait and see. He’s already scared everybody else into playing their best in years.”

http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/lynyrd-sknyrd-l-a-times/

 

[soulohio]

i think the most incredible story about the plane crash
artemis pyle surviving the crash
running 5K to a farmers house for help
and when the farmer saw a bloody 6+ foot Pyle
he shot him
and Pyle survived that as well

 

[vanderkalin]

The man could play his arse off and his singing is on par with a Tab Benoit or Lee Roy Parnell. A giant talent. I'm almost glad he didn't have to live through what the industry in the '80s would have tried to do to him.

I don't know man. The 80's gave us Stevie Ray, as well as the rise of acdc and Van Halen. And the Gergia Satellites, who were kick ass if you can get around Keep Your Hands To Yourself. I think he would have been ok.

 

[67blackcherry]

Where is/was it? DVD, Netflix, TV? Thanks!

I caught it on HD Net on DirecTV and only by chance; thankfully I was channel surfing.

I've got the Best Of cd but now knowing how much Steve Gaines contributed makes me want to pick up Street Survivors and the live album.

 

[67blackcherry]

The worse part for me?
Skynyrd played Las Vegas just after my 14th birthday, summer '77, but for whatever reason my buddy (whose aunt worked the box office of the Aladdin Theatre and always hooked us up with excellent seats) and I didn't go; a few weeks later the plane crash happened.

 

[saneff]

I don't see it on Amazon Prime. Where is it?

 

[RGB]

It's there, but it shows up as unavailable all of a sudden.