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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Busted Teeth, Saturday Night Specials, and the Smell of Death
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s lead singer, Ronnie Van Zant, was a violent bully from the mean streets of Jacksonville, Florida. He tried to maim one of his guitar player’s hands with a broken bottle. He knocked out his piano player’s teeth not once…but twice. He held a gun to his drummer’s head during rehearsal. And when his bandmates followed suit with their own debauched antics, Ronnie turned their drug-and-alcohol flirtations with death into hit songs. Lynyrd Skynyrd even wrote their own eulogy.
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Released:
Mar 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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