Sometimes, the sound of impending doom is quiet. And sometimes it is loud. Less often, it is both. That’s how Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle recalls what he and 25 other band members, crew, associates, and pilots heard inside of their Convair CV-240 plane over...
Adam and Artimus Pyle chat one-on-one in the second half of today’s podcast. Adam begins by congratulating Artimus on his film, ‘Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash.’ The guys talk about the difficulty of getting a movie made, some of...
Long considered the “wild man” of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Artimus Pyle’s powerful and distinctive double bass drumming helped define the legendary Skynyrd sound. Artimus got his first real break at the Charlie Daniels band’s Volunteer Jam. His first...
On Oct. 20, 1977, three days after releasing their album Street Survivors, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, and boarded a Convair CV-240 airplane to take them to Baton Rouge, where they were to perform at...
his week, the film Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, was released digitally, and on DVD and Bluray. The film has a stormy legal history, but director and writer Jared Cohn was at the center of defending the...
It may be a blessing of sorts for anyone interested in checking out “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” that its VOD release is coming in the middle of a pandemic, when not very many people are rushing to get back on planes...
