Rock and Roll Hall of Famer (indicted on March 13, 2006), Thomas Delmer “Artimus” Pyle is an American musician who replaced Bob Burns, LYNYRD SKYNYRD’s original drummer due to his recurring battle with mental illness. Artimus played...
Find the entire Off The Road series at hawaiipublicradio.org/offtheroad. Today, HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence welcomes one of only two band survivors still alive from the historic 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: Rock and Roll Hall...
In Episode #473 of the Iron City Rocks Podcast, the crew are joined by Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee and former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer, Artimus Pyle. “Artimus Pyle shared his store of the tragic 1977 plane crash that killed six passengers including...
In 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd was on top of the world. The band just released their fifth record, Street Survivors, when the unthinkable happened. The plane crashed killed six and injured 20. Of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members that were on that flight, only 2 are still...
Exactly 44 years ago on Oct. 20, 1977, a plane crash killed members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Now, one of the band’s Hall of Fame drummers, Artimus Pyle, describes surviving that crash in the film “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane...
For Artimus Pyle, former drummer for the legendary Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, music has no age limit. “I’m 72 and playing drums like I’m 30 and loving it more than I ever have. We’re playing great songs that everyone loves so much,” Pyle said during a...
