![]() Every one of them could have lived a longer life had we gotten proper therapy. It eventually killed a lot of my friends, Leon, Billy, Allen. There was always somebody there to provide. And it wasn’t weed, but the heavy stuff - cocaine, distilled alcohol, that kind of thing. Our counseling was the local bar and some moron drug dealer. Today, if there’s a plane crash, immediately there’s grief counseling. Teresa Gaines losing Steve - they were so in love. There was plenty of money, and everybody was feeling real sorry for themselves, some people rightly so. We were all drowning in a sea of drugs and alcohol. ![]() None of us had grief counseling, therapy or anything like that. Three members of the popular rock musical group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and his sister, vocalist Cassie Gaines, died in the crash of a chartered plane. I would drink a bunch of alcohol - I’m not a good drinker, I’m a cheap date - with the wrong people. Go to the hospital, you’re severely injured.”Ĭlash: I’m sure you’ve experienced some sort of survivor’s guilt? Finally someone said, “Artimus, we know where your friends are. Then I saw like, 200 people headed into the woods with lights, jaws of life and medical bags. I said if you throw a baseball from home plate to centerfield, you’ll start seeing wreckage. The current lineup is currently on its Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. I said, “No, no, I’ve got to show you where the crash is.” One cop said to leave me alone, that I had been in the crash. Throughout the years, various lineups have kept Lynyrd Skynyrd alive despite the Southern rock bands 1977 tragedy. ![]() Two cops tried to wrestle me into their car, like they were going to take me into custody or something. Johnny put me in his car seat on the passenger’s side, and said, “You point, and I’ll drive.” We went out of the driveway, through a ditch, up a bank and into the field via a fence, across from where I had just walked. The locals thought we were a train wreck, it had made so much noise.
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