RIP BILLY POWELL

[lesterpaul]

Billy Powell, a keyboardist for the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at his northeast Florida home.

Orange Park Police Lt. Mark Cornett says 56-year-old keyboard player Billy Powell called 911 about 12:55 a.m. Wednesday saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m.

Cornett says no foul play is suspected and an autopsy will not be performed. He says Powell missed a Tuesday appointment with his doctor for a cardiac evaluation. A heart attack is suspected. Billy Powell was one of two surviving band members who were with the group before a 1977 plane crash that killed three of its members.

 

[Griz]

R.I.P. Billy.

 

[Elpelotero]

saw them live a year ago....great show! RIP

 

[lesterpaul]

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-01-29/story/death_raises_question_about_skynyrds_future

update on the controversial future of the band...there was a clause that said 2,3,4??? original members had to be in the band to carry on USING the name LS...only Rossington left(Artimus Pyle ,I think, is in jail for weeeeiiird ****..R Medlocke was there in the early days,along with another guy...)..damn, MAkes me feel old-
LIVE HARD AND FAST

 

[kiff]

Time marches on...

RIP Billy

 

[JOEY B.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbEpgtfVDk

Billy on piano, Roosevelt Cook on the organ. One of the forgotten great Skynyrd songs.


"It's a redneck thang, you wouldn't understand". :lol:

 

[lesterpaul]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbEpgtfVDk

Billy on piano, Roosevelt Cook on the organ. One of the forgotten great Skynyrd songs.


"It's a redneck thang, you wouldn't understand". :lol:

ahhhh....yessir..takes me back to going to the bootlegger down there off of 8th...what was his name?we all went...
that is one unique sothern rock song-LS was taking it somewhere for sure...smokin' stuff!!