![]() ![]() Gaines' guitar-picking and songwriting skills were a major revelation to the band, as demonstrated on his one studio album, 1977's Street Survivors. ( May 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This paragraph possibly contains original research. Ed King and Steve Gaines were both born on September 14, 1949. The first of three shows recorded for the album was Gaines' third gig with the band. They jammed with him informally a couple of times more, then invited him into the band just in time for the recording of Skynyrd's live album One More from the Road. ![]() Although the band couldn't hear Steve's playing onstage, soundman Kevin Elson was listening through headphones and told them that Steve was outstanding. Cassie recommended Steve, and after initial reluctance the band allowed him to join them onstage for a song during a show at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri on May 11, 1976, Jimmie Rodgers' "T-For Texas, (Blue Yodel #1)". The band had been seeking a replacement for Ed King, one of three lead guitarists in its lineup, since his departure in mid-1975. In December 1975, Steve's older sister, Cassie, became a member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's female backup singers, The Honkettes. Only 100 copies of each of the two CDs have been made. Steve has two other albums, which are known to be very rare CDs from Steve's widow Teresa: I Know a Little (a collection of live recordings with Crawdad as well as Manalive) and Okie Special (a collection of live recordings with Crawdad as well as Detroit). This album is listed as his only official solo album. In 1975, he recorded several songs with Crawdad at Capricorn studios in Macon, Georgia which were released by MCA in 1988 as One in the Sun (when Lynyrd Skynyrd band began touring). ![]() In the 1970s, Steve played with bands ILMO Smokehouse from Quincy, Illinois, Detroit with Rusty Day (an offshoot of The Detroit Wheels) and Crawdad (a band that Steve had started around 1974). His band, Manalive, recorded at the famous Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. After being driven home from the concert, he pestered his father to buy him his first guitar. When he was 15 years old, he saw the Beatles performing live in Kansas City. His older sister Cassie Gaines, a backup vocalist with the band, also died in the crash. He is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew. In honor of Skynyrd and its fallen members, watch this version of “Freebird” recorded just months before the end.Steven Earl Gaines (Septem– October 20, 1977) was an American musician. Let’s take a minute to remember those that didn’t make it on that tragic day back in 1977. However, the band would never be the same. Lyrnyrd Skynyrd has gone through various formations since then, and still tours regularly to this day. Taking over band leader Ronnie Van Zant’s role in the band would be, fittingly, his younger brother Johnny Van Zant. After a decade, they would reunite, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. Drummer Artimus Pyle, along with two crew members, were able to escape the wreckage and seek help from a local farmer and assist other the rest of the survivors.Īfter the accident, surviving members of the band Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle officially disbanded. Following a concert at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina, the band members boarded a chartered Convair CV-300 to head to a show down at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA the next night.ĭue to a faulty engine draining fuel at an excessive rate, the plane went down over the swamp while pilots attempted an emergency landing at local airport in Gillsburg, Mississippi. The group just had come off an epic summer tour, and had released Street Survivors a mere three days before the shocking accident. With hits such as “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Simple Man,” and “Free Bird,” which features one of the most memorable guitar solos ever, and is a tribute to fallen Allman Brothers Band founding member Duane Allman, Lynyrd Skynyrd was well on their way. The Jacksonville, FL-based band was well on their way into the legendary canon of the rock n’ roll halls, having cleaned up their act of boozing and fighting, at the behest of Van Zant, and turning into an absolute juggernaut of an act, both live and in the studio. One of the most tragic stories in rock history has got to be the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash that took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and both pilots of the plane, Walter McCreary and William Gray. ![]()
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