Lynyrd Skynyrd ‘Street Survivors’ Movie Halted by Judge’s Ruling

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The stuff regarding Leslie West of Mountain auditioning for Skynyrd after Ed King left and not getting the job and then sending a letter to Skynyrd's management thanking them for not getting the job after the plain crash I read in a Classic Rock magazine interview about 5-6 years ago and it was possibly in the same interview that Leslie admitted that he use to like eating Krispy Crème doughnuts back in the 1970s where he would sometimes eat a dozen doughnuts at one go then lick the box clean!.
 

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The stuff regarding Leslie West of Mountain auditioning for Skynyrd after Ed King left and not getting the job and then sending a letter to Skynyrd's management thanking them for not getting the job after the plain crash I read in a Classic Rock magazine interview about 5-6 years ago and it was possibly in the same interview that Leslie admitted that he use to like eating Krispy Crème doughnuts back in the 1970s where he would sometimes eat a dozen doughnuts at one go then lick the box clean!.

I remember that interview and the band has also mentioned Leslie before. For the record, I was not saying any of the stories and rumours in this thread were untrue. I was just commenting in general about the band and trying to inspire people to read some of the books! :D
 

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I remember that interview and the band has also mentioned Leslie before. For the record, I was not saying any of the stories and rumours in this thread were untrue. I was just commenting in general about the band and trying to inspire people to read some of the books! :D

Yeah no problem SDM I didn't take it that way cos I know that rock dudes like yourself know your s**t about Lynyrd Skynyrd it was mainly for some dudes that wonder where the Leslie West thing came from?.
 

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There's a ton of Skynyrd stories and rumours going around. If you guys haven't already, I'd recommend checking out some of the Skynyrd biographies out there. I've read all of them and although, you can't always trust any biography 100%, they are well worth reading.

As for this movie being halted by a judge, I pretty much support that decision. I sure as hell would not trust a movie based on feedback from Artimus. Not saying I would trust one from Gary either. LOL. Besides, does the world need another movie about the crash? There's some great documentaries out there and several books (as mentioned above). Right now, what I hope for, is for Gary to write an autobiography, but again, he probably is not the most reliable source either. Everyone sees things their way and there's so much bad blood between Gary, Artimus and Ed King, I just can't see any of them being honest about each other.

Yeah it's amazing how different all the accounts are.
And have been right along.
Billy's story of the crash was immediately discounted saying that Casey Gains died in his arms.
And on and on. Now Gary is claiming that Artimus didn't go for help that he ran away because he was scared.
It's impossible to sort out anything with that band.
Oh well. Typical southern bad asses.
Put em all together and add some bourbon and stand back because all hell is gonna break loose.
But there will be some damn good music mixed in there someone.
God bless them all.
I love the guy who suggest that if he could have them over for a good old home town BBQ he could fix up all the feuding. Right on! Beers and BBQ can save the world.

 
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http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/51724875232/i-dont-even-expect-to-live-very-long-ronnie
But a drunk Van Zant was a world class asshole. Once he broke a few of Rossington’s fingers after a show in Hamburg, Germany in October 1975 for no particular reason (this was after he’d smashed a bottle over a roadie’s head no less): "He turned on Gary and said: 'You think you’re a guitar player? I’ll do it without you,’” tour manager Craig Reed recalled to Uhelszki years later. “Maybe he missed a lick,” he continued. “But it didn’t matter if he messed up or not. If Ronnie wanted to kick your ass he would. He was mean. He used to say to us, 'When I’ve been drinking I’m nobody’s friend.’” Alcohol was the constant, what had allowed Van Zant and the rest of the band to loosen up just right before taking the stage during those early days, and what ultimately gave Van Zant the illusion of control as his band began to slip away from him. He probably felt boned and betrayed by shady managers and bookers who scammed him out of his hard earned cash; by the pencil pushers and journalists who tried to tell him who he was; and certainly by Ed King, whose departure had rattled Skynyrd’s understanding of itself. The man was self-aware something awful — a characteristic that at once allowed him to become a stunningly relatable songwriter and storyteller, but one that by '76 had him speaking liberally, drunkenly about the impending end of Lynyrd Skynrd and his own life: “I don’t even expect to live very long,” he told Uhelszki, “because I’m living too fast.”

Ronnie seemed to relish the certainty that rock and roll would eventually kill him. For someone so hellbent on achieving that dream in the first place, it’d only be fitting to meet the same fate Robert Johnson agreed to the crossroads; for someone so hellbent on being the man of his father’s dreams, death at the hands of the thing he chose over finishing school would be the only suitable punishment. This is beyond stupid, beyond childish, beyond egomaniacal, especially considering all Van Zant had done to dig himself into the petulant, unsatisfied hole he found himself in by the mid-70s.

Perhaps behind all of it was a cripplingly pragmatic resignation to a rule that no great rock achievement goes unpunished — something he’d assured himself a decade before when he cut “Was I Right Or Wrong” at Muscle Shoals. As much as he was a kind, caring, generous, simple kind of man, he was a disgustingly wealthy drunk with a penchant for fighting at the drop of a hat. And maybe he’d convinced himself he had to be both, that reconciliation was impossible because this is what he’d signed up for. Rock and roll was never life or death for Van Zant, it had to be life until death.
 

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