Van Zant is big, bearish and affable, good with kids and quick with a laugh. They seem like nice guys to hang around with. RELATED: Blackfoot's Tim Rossi talks about Lynyrd Skynyrd's farewell tour, modernizing classic Southern rock and moreĢ. I've never been so happy - I drove in my driveway and all I had was a branch laying in the yard." It was scary for a while, because I was seeing all the stuff in my house just go away. Where I was at, I would have had six to eight feet of water in my house. "It beat us up good," Medlocke said, "but at least we were on the left hand side of the storm instead of the right. That did mean that he was right in the crosshairs of Hurricane Irma, like everyone else in Fort Myers. Me and the snow don't get along that great.' And I decided to move back to Florida."
But then all of a sudden, in '91, I said, 'You know what, I've had enough of living in cold weather.
"I didn't have Florida for quite a while in my life," Medlocke said. While guitarist Gary Rossington, the band's sole remaining original member, now lives north of Atlanta, singer Johnny Van Zant still lives in Jacksonville, while guitarist Rickey Medlocke lives near Fort Myers. They're spread all over, but still consider Florida home. And so I thought I'd share some outtakes here.īefore they play Tampa on Saturday ( click here for all the details on the show), here are eight more things I learned by hanging out with Lynyrd Skynyrd.ġ. Bear in mind, hanging out in hotels and backstage with Lynyrd Skynyrd is a lot different today than it was in the '70s, a wild and woolly experience from which then- Rolling Stone reporter Cameron Crowe pulled while writing his screenplay for Almost Famous.īut even so, I got way more detail than I could possibly fit into a single story.
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