Only in our sweet memories of listening to their awesome music! Hopefully, the new band will honor their memory and carry the torch of their music forward for younger generations to enjoy and appreciate!😉👍✌️🕊🎸🇺🇸

@@toddmcintosh83 oh I have I’m 16 and can’t appreciate there music enough by far my favorite band.

Amen to that!

Susie Eatherly .... Amen

So right on!

Both Allen and Gary are underrated and them together was the Skynyrd sound

He was so intense...so emotive.

Allen was like a baby brother in the band.

Love him

As my friends held my legs I handed Allen a pint of Southern Comfort...still have my ticket to concert that never happened for a show in Detroit 4 days after the crash miss him every day 😢

I loved his choice of guitars also. From his firebird with the swapped-in p90 , his maple-necked '58 Strat, to his vibrato-equipped '58 Explorer.

@NE - Collins lived the highest highs & lowest lows any man can. What a trade off tho ... I speak for myself but trust MANY Skynyrd aficionados agree ... Allen Collins IS our favorite member of the band & our favorite guitarist ever. (I'm not saying the best ever (or even in LS) but our favorite. RIP AC.

really?

It’s true

very true.

Naw. Without Leonard Skinner there would not have been a Lynyrd Skynyrd. Or without Bob Burns since he suggested the name.

The band that would eventually become Lynyrd Skynyrd was started by two people and two people only. Gary Rossington and Allen Collins , when they were 13 or 14 years old.

Southern Man will survive

Amen!

So true.

He was amazing!

One of the best guitar player in the 70's and his music is still on top of the game these days..!

He was a very special guy with a lot of talent that the powers that be never gave a fair shake to.

Tales of Fame and Fate, depends on who you consider “the powers that be” are!😉✌️Heaven or Hell? All things work for good, for those who love the Lord!🙏✝️🕊

He indeed was. We all miss him and his talent.

AC wasn't even close to being the best, let's be real. But he was a great guitarist, there's no denying that.

Ben Schwartz best ever

Allen was at least half of the soul of the band. You can easily hear this in his solo album. Those songs have depth. The modern Skynyrd band never had depth. Almost all of their songs are garbage. The modern band may have written five songs that I can stomach if that many.

A lot of people have said that. Truly will be missed forever.

Your artist influence is a fine list of variety . Interesting you have such a unique group of guitarist crossing many styles . Cheers

Well said, tom. Rip allen and the rest of the deceased in the original band.

Amen brother!! Allen is the reason I started playing!!!

well, he wasnt around long enough for more people to know of him

@@johnnypearson1310 I have 10 guitars I gig with. Everyone says the Explorer like Allen's fits me the best. There is something about it that connects with me and the listeners. I have guitars 10 times more expensive. Yet this one will have to peeled from my cold dead hands.

Right on man!!! He’s the reason I started playing

He’s with his wife now in Heaven!😉🕊🕊

I was fortunate enough to see him play a few days before the crash, in Lakeland, Florida, and then several years later in Rossington Collins in Daytona. He was an awesome guitarist and showman! Great song writer/composer as well! Tragic life, and he is definitely missed in contemporary music! Nothing like his style today, and no one compares!

not

Went backstage and got to meet 'em on that tour........what a day! Prime time/ Don't misunderstand me..........killer tunes!

Back when they formed the band I listened at a party at my friends house and I said oh you got some Skynyrd playing , my friend said almost, it's the survivors of the band great music , and my friend never made it much further than a few years after that party , his wife left him and took his kid, it was more than he could bear, and he shot himself, such a loss he was a cool guy but alcohol got the best of him, and he was a veteran and mean I seen him in handcuffs kick a cop 6 times before that cop ever hit the ground, miss you David we had some great times together.

I love RCB's music as much as Skynyrd's. Wish they would have played it over the years. It is a part of who they are without Ronnie 💔.

I saw them in the 80s and onstage they were really good

He was indeed one of the greatest.

If you look at the credits for Skynrd songs, every one is Collins, VanZant. Steve Gaines wrote a couple and Ed King wrote Sweet Home

Truly a sad story. He was indeed one of the greatest.

I really do not know why he isn't. In my opinion he was one of the best of all times.

I was at the Knebworth Concert in ‘76 and was Awoken....

Thanks for listening

Amen to that!

So true.

Steve took Ed King's place when he left the band. They were born on the same day...hmmm. Who ever thought a guy from Glendale, Ca. would go on to write Sweet Home Alabama(California?)

@@BIG_JOHN_SFV Ed KIng's contribution to S.W.A. was adding to the Guitar parts, not necessarily writing the song in its entirety.

And Billy too.

Amen to that

Agreed. No one plays Freebird as well as Allen Collins. As already mention in this thread - for some inexplicable reason Allen is always missed off the greatest guitarists of all time and I don't understand why. The band was never the same or as good after the terrible plane crash.@@SunnyDaysooXxO

AGREED!!! He made Freebird sound what it is today!!! What a huge loss but a Great Talent that would of climbed to the top with his talent!!!

I hear that!

Knebworth , August 21st 1976, went down to see the Stones , all I could see was Lynyrd Skynyrd.... unbelievable performance, you can find a large part of their performance on KZfaq.( thank you, KZfaq ) Allan wearing his orange/red jeans ‘n Tshirt.... It was something I’ll never forget that performance of FreeBird will be playing for me, as I join the Band for a ReUnion.... Allen Collins World Great, Guitarist.... love you man.

Allen will always be in our hearts and memories.

@@omegamorgan Is that when Lynyrd Skynyrd was forbidden to go out and play on the tongue but they did it anyway?

G Roberts yes! But start with Ronnie Van Zant if you are beginning to research the band members, that will help you understand a lot more

I was waiting for Allen to levitate above the crowd during his free bird solo in knebwerth,to this day I still have not seen anything close to his performance during that song!

Nancy Pelosi will live forever.

Agreed! My brother Clay died at 27 the following year in October, in a plane crash! The two worst October’s of my life! 😔🕊

My thoughts exactly , well said sir !

agreed

Love to watch the offerings showing Allen & Steve playing (my favorite is concert @ Knebworth, 1976, with Allen in red) on Rollin Stones tongue. It’s my understanding that Stones had told LS band that NOONE was to go out on tongue during concert. That was reserved for the Stones. Of course, Ronnie made all guitars (some of electrical cords wouldn’t reach all way) come out on tongue. What a performance!!!! Amazing!!!! They usually always played wonderful, but this performance is especially moving!!!! (Knebworth, England, 1976)

@@frankiebutler2894 I agree this was the BEST FREEBIRD ever preformed!!!!!!!!!

Amen!

That Gibson Explorer ! .... YES .... Rip Allen Collins and FreeBird ....

Yes I agree. It was our first mix and just wish it could be fixed now but too late.

I agree kinda like fingernails on a blackboard ..RIP Allen..... way underated

Holy shit are you right! That was unwatchable for me. If I got the narrarator loud enough the music would bury him and shake my TV seakers.

It is way too loud. Ya'll could remix it, or rerecord it. Or whatever you call it. Right???

WAY down

GRD62 the original Ramones are all dead. Skynyrd still has Gary Rossington.

Everyone dies....

Oz Art , ..........eventually.😉

That's one hell of a band God has playing in heaven!

Exactly right!👍

Thanks.

Amen to that!

He was one of my all time favorites also. The world lost someone very special when he passed.

I agree, as a matter of fact, I will be doing one on Danny Joe Brown.

@@TalesofFameandFate I hope you make an effort to do better research on that one than what you did here.

Maybe we didn't think of because it was Skynard, and we knew they were the best.

Will NEVER be forgotten!

Yep, that's the story I always heard as well, the one you just noted.

😅👍 that's a good story.

they did...And Steve would know he hung with them too... it was a funny beginning but turned out like a brotherhood instead...Thanks for the reminder Steve, that was the way I heard it from Gary too... Learned that at the Jug when Ronnie pulled his pistol on me and Gary stepped up to Ronnie and said quit and put that away...that's where "Hey Mr. didn't mean to kiss her", came from... Yup Gary saved my buttons so I promised Ronnie I'd write him a song he couldn't refuse...and then we'd be friends...It was Sweet Home...And noEd King didn't originate it... but, he stole the part because he actually played it better than me at the time...And he had just got back from recording in Tennessee...which you probably already know...Just as well... being I was under a government contract at the time...No way I could have toured...but was offered three years later ...

Nope, that was the drummer that went up a tree.

it's a very common way to check fuel on planes, boats, farm tractors, etc. i use a stick to check fuel on my lawn equipment

david grier I shot the fuel gauge out the dash in my truck, now all I use is my trusty stick.

I've got a '65 Ford tractor, and I check the fuel every time I fire her up with a stick. I would trust that over an electronic fuel gauge any day of the week. The difference in color on a stick never lies. Ever.

Yes it is an accurate and Safe Way to determine an aircraft's fuel level, provided that one understands what the level on that stick actually means. However, the stick is a useless method for determining how much fuel is left while you are in the air flying on engines far past due for overhaul and running abnormally rich fuel mixtures, far richer than what would have been typically expected. Yeah , they can check the fuel on the ground with a stick and estimate how far it will take them in certain winds and at what altitude and all the other factors that would impact your final number. But that only works if you have accurate wind and weather information and know exactly how much fuel your engines are consuming under said conditions, or under any conditions for that matter. It doesn't tell you how much you have left or how fast you're consuming it once you're airborne! Which would have been useful to know the day they crashed, more than likely it could have been prevented. So I'm a little confused as to what point is being made here as it applies to this tragedy. Yeah you can get an accurate measure from the stick. So what? A non-functioning fuel gauge and engines consuming fuel at a rate far beyond normally expected operational efficiency means your stick measurement is useless. Engine is burning too much fuel to get you to where you need to go without stopping for more first but you don't know that until your engines quit and you can't get them to restart. I'm only a general aviation pilot myself but I fly a twin Cessna which requires fuel management skills while in the air and let me tell you, that measuring stick doesn't play into my fuel management when I'm in the air. I also have handful of friends who are ATP holders and fly either cargo or passengers for major carriers and not one of them relies on a fucking stick to monitor their fuel level. That is not routine for most flights, sounds silly even to say it. Maybe it's routine for Jimbo and Bob and their crop-dusting Fleet of two c150s that have had busted fuel gauges since the 1960s but it's not routine for most flights no matter how you choose to Define most flights.

Plain and simple... Bad judgement that caused a lot of intelligent people there life