“These guys created so much great music that people still love today,” Rossington noted. Rossington said that despite the healthy issues, he was motivated to continue in order to pay tribute to his fallen bandmates - including longtime bassist Leon Wilkeson and keyboardist Billy Powell. Rossington - who is part of a guitarist core that included Collins (who passed away during 1977), Ed King (who died in 2018), Hughie Thomasson (who died in 2007), Rickey Medlocke and others - was the only Skynyrd member to appear on all of its albums. Skynyrd, meanwhile reformed in 1987, ostensibly to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the plane crash the band has continued ever since, recording nine more studio albums and going through a number of number of lineup changes. “We were a brotherhood, and when you lose your brothers you can’t just go on.” He and guitarist Allen Collins formed the Rossington Collins Band, which lasted nearly four years and two albums before breaking up in 1982. “We couldn’t imagine going on after something like that,” he said. Rossington and other suffered severe injuries and put the group on hold immediately after. to Baton Rouge, La., crashed near Gillsburg, Miss., killing three band members (Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his older sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick and both pilots. 20, 1977, when a Convair CV-240 carrying the band from Greenville, S.C.
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