Great. The interviewer is a beautiful girl.

Ronnie is responsible. He said to the others "get on the plane or you're fired". That's unconscionable.

@@garyginther6742 You need to watch the interview again. Gene Odom qualifies that issue quiet clearly.

@@marcusclements3370 I wasn't only going by what Gene Odom said. I was ALSO going by what others said who were there, like Jo Billingsley. And in essence, Gene did confirm what I'm asserting, albeit I'm paraphrasing. Ronnie DID put pressure to get on that obviously sick airplane on the others who didn't want to get on it. He might not have put a boot in their butt, but he did pressure them. It would've been EXTREMELY difficult for anybody to go against Ronny and not get on board. It's common knowledge you did NOT go against Ronny!

Okay, it seems everyone has watched the Street Survivors movie. I remember the night of October 20,1977 very well of course I wasn't a passenger in it. I just remember the guys who gave interviews after getting out of the hospital. They all seem to have different memories , I would listen to Gary Rossingtons account of it, Gene Odoms ,Artimus version hasn't changed since 1978, I think some of his is believable. Gary said in a 1978 interview that one of the engine's was leaking fuel , bc the pilot didn't realize it until the halfway point. They were trying to share fuel between the two engine's, at on point getting near to Baton Rouge when shifting fuel to the other engine a mistake was made which jettisoned the remainder of fuel out of the plane. This was what caused the crash , a mistake which could have happy to anyone. I know I have had car wrecks that were from me making mistakes. I don't think the pilots were incompetent at all , they were trying to get the fuel they had shared between the two engines, it was very difficult to do, after I've talked to a couple of experienced pilots about the manuever they were using. Artimus went for help with Billy Powell and I think on of the engineers, Arty and Billy were both injured, but we're trying to get help for their friends. Gene Odoms has I think the best memory of the crash. It's ashame all are dead now except for Gary, give him the respect he deserves as the true Street Survivor. I was going to go to buy tickets to the show the next day in Chattanooga TN. October 21,1977. When I got off from 2nd shift that night when I got into my car Free Bird was playing on the radio. After it ended the DJ gave the terrible news, Lynyrd Skynyrd's airplane had crashed. Our lives were changed forever. God Bless the men and women of Lynyrd Skynyrd , especially Mr Gary Rossingtons who is still playing the concerts. God Bless all of the fans who are still trying to find out how it happened. Good night all, Brother Gary.

Lol don't have clue do you 🤣

@@joshsmith4512 says the one four years late and just fell off the turnip truck. 😂

@@afaceinthecrowd1983 what the f*** are you talking about you obsessed with Donald Trump this isn't a political channel the f*** are you talking about man

@@afaceinthecrowd1983 bro what a fing BURN !! 🔥 😂 Haha 😆😂

@Anna admirer Forever you were in good company

Why is he misunderstood - He was a singer - a great songwriter He was the boss - He pressured everyone to get on the plane Period , end of story - The record company should have looked after their assets closer Hundreds of millions of dollars was lost -:Those people were fucking kids - I also don't believe there wasn't any drugs with them - Gene may not have had any but everyone else did -

@@davidrice3337 aren't you just a ray of sunshine

@@davidrice3337 - Yep.

@@davidrice3337 May have been drugs, when I met Ed he was clear drugs and Ronnie's bullying everyone is why he left. Ya there was drugs and Cassie didn't want to get on the plane, RVS was a big deal lol

It's hard to think it has been 43 year's since this, Ronnie and the boys gave everyone such great music, that's dating everybody!!!

Wow I remembered that I was so young I really thought I was older because of how I felt...Damn

What record straight? Artimus Pyle wrote the movie and was obviously also there. Different perspectives but how can you discredit one over another? You can't.

45 years ago today...

There's only one original member who is not dead and that's Gary. Rickey Medlocke was in the band before they made their first album but he was the drummer. The new Skynyrd that Gary tours with is a joke! Reminds me of a story an old historian told me - "I have an axe that belonged to Abraham Lincoln. It's had the handle replaced 3 times and the head replaced four times but it's Lincoln's original axe!" That's what the current version of "Lynyrd Skynyd" is. Pathetic.

@@mrsgstd :) well said

9 Skynyrd members have passed since Oct 20, 1977. (2) of them were not RVZ era members, although Ronnie loved Hughie as a friend and leader of the Outlaws.. Honkette's, band managers, pilots not members of LS.

❤💯

@@mrsgstd Very true; but, it is nice, that LS's music, lives on thru them, and has spanned, how many generations? Therefore, without the tribute band, others may not have ever cared to stop to learn about the original band, and all the great songs RVZ, and the boys wrote.

How far is the crash from the memorial? I’ve been to the memorial.

I also saw them in ‘77 I think it was April of ‘77 at the Oklahoma fairgrounds. A few months later we lost a part of us.

I was at that show in Hollywood at the sport hole 10-15-77. I was upfront standing in front of Steve Gaines. I agree they were at the top of their game it was a phenomenal show

Man you guys are lucky! I was 12 when the plane crashed! But was s Big Fan! I just got my street survivers album! And the ghe bad news.

I saw them 15 to 20 times once in a bar before they were famous.Saw them 6 times in one year. I went to lots of shows back then and everywhere I went they seem to be on the bill.

@@anthonyfoutch3152 That's great!

Or one who knows who LS is 🤔 She is horrible Shut up and let the man finish.....

@@Gunsandfun1961 but "in the movie... also, in the movie..." 🥱

She's just doing a job. Lay off.

The interviewer was surprised when he said it was smoking on the plane, she's too young to know this but they always smoke cigarettes on the plane all the time in the 1970s

@@chucky2569 Another thing that amuses me is the fact that she seems surprised that there were nude women around rock musicians back then.

And he was sober through all of it. He has no agenda - very credible person.

What you said is the truth and nothing but the truth love this man

I'm not sure about that just yet

If you're not sure then you should be. Gene was the right hand to Ronnie. Best friends that were more like brothers. Genes version has always been consistent. And the rest of the band and family of the band took artimus to court and we're gonna sue him over the movie. Gene has no agenda other than true love and comradery and never once have you heard anyone of the members or wives say Gene is wrong or speak a negative word about him.

Like I said before on here I love Gene Odom and he does speak the truth this story never changes he's a real honest man and I totally agree with you God bless mr. Odom you can tell he struggles with his physical problems

Same

Ronnie wasn't all that fond of Artemus and Gene knew that and Lacy didn't care for him either.

Same. Are the really bad stories about him true?

Pyle played himself up in movie as a bigger hero in South than Stonewall Jackson in 1862. Lol still laughing at Pyle after watching movie for free. B.S. PYLE should be on his us mail box at his home.

@@justnana13-klj40 Yes research him yourself. There shocking legal documents he try keep hidden but they public record to this day lifetime must be reg anywhere he go. Pleaded no contest in court.

Me and my husband are die hard fans to Holly from Minnesota where lynryd skynyrd was and still is very popular

I am sorry to say 😔 you are right we the people

@@shellyweiers121 Yankees are silly, bunch of Joe Biden loving gun banning clowns up in sota.....

Yessir.. she's hot. She's certainly of those dumb ones, however, sure...she's doable.

I was listening to 96 rock out of Atlanta Ga, I was 70 miles north doing my own thing at the time. This terrible news took all of the joy out of me for the next few days. I just couldn't believe it, not *Lynyrd Skynyrd* 😢

the way he remembers things. Most everyone's go foggy.

*No way my friend, no way* !

Spelling it right helps

Ya he seemed like the perfect catalyst needed to propel them to that next incredible level of pure beautiful rockn roll creativity, energy & wicked licks…

This is a psiop just like all other major events any and all famous entertainment people are gender swapped FTM and MTF you do not become famous in this world if you're not inverted gender swapped

With the exception of Billy Powell, no one else changed their story either. Gene's whole weird hang up with Artimus Pyle is very off putting. Other survivors have recounted Artimus actively preparing them for the crash. It's almost like Gene doesn't think anyone else is around to fact check him.

Poor Cassie Gains. She had bought a commercial ticket, but got in that plane anyway; but, when you think the pilots are risking their lives, too while saying, "Get on. It's fine." You get on.

Yeah, people underestimate that part. In fires in particular, you'll be in daily pain until death.

His name was Mark Howard, not Frank, correct?

@@rrrttt1112 yea...Frank Howard is a hall of fame baseball player.

I believe him more Ben the movie

Opps the movie

@Vic Marrotti of course I believe him

Every video or interview I've ever watched of Gene Odum he has never said anything different. Every time he tells the story it's always the same. Gene is a good and honest man.

@@josearriola3087 wait i thought he was in the hospital at the time of the crash

Gene Odom and Ronnie Van Zant were best friends from childhood and Gene Odom was brought on board to try to keep the band clean on that last tour. I would take Gene's word about the situation over anybody else's. There's also a very good interview with the sound man who was on the plane to and it really lays out what happened during the crash

I think he still is. Of course he loved Ronnie, and of course he would do anything for him but same with a room of 30 women. He was hired because he was reliable in a bar fight. That doesn't mean ya'll best friends. I go to the bar with very specific people for the sole purpose of fighting but would never invite those people to my house because they are not my "best" friends. It's became very obvious in another video where he takes interviewers to the grave sites and doesn't even know what a coil of guitar strings were. Anyone who was close to a guitar band like that would recognize guitar strings. He thought they were "bracelets in a plastic wrapper". He is just riding the legacy of that band. It's not like he's some fantastic kind of dude that's done for the world, he was hired to do a job because he's a scrapper. Plain and simple.

@@TempoDrift1480 You're an idiot. I've played guitar for 60 years and sometimes I see guitar strings in packs I can't be sure what's in them. How the hell do you know what he was hired for???????

@@stevemason5173 yep, that dude is FK'd. Riding the legacy :) He must mean the band touring around calling themselves Skynyrd lol.

@@TempoDrift1480 You go to bars specifically to get into fights? I think you've taken a few too many to the noggin Wizzle.

Soon all we will have are videos as guys like Gene are slowly fading.

Gene has never drank or done drugs. Buy him a Coke maybe.

@@marcclement7396 A coke or a nice glass of ice tea is fine by me.

We were given the gift of instinct for very good reason. Too bad too many ignore it bec our first instincts are quite often right on the mark.

Mississipi Kid is from their debut album.

It was tragic for me to learn, that Ronnie referred to himself, as the Mississippi Kid, not knowing why. Again, I respect Gene alot; but, wish he and Gary, and some of the other survivor's, would've been a part of this movie. Because they chose not to, we have one perspective of one man for this movie. Don't knock Artemis, please. But, an interesting thing, Gene said, was that the plane, sat running on the tarmac for 45 minutes, waiting for Artemis. Could've been a big reason, the plane ran out of gas. Not blaming, just saying.

@@lolitagrant6751 sounds about right! Artimus seems to act like he’s not about the money yet nobody that was affiliated with Skynyrd wanted anything to do with his project. I think that speaks to the authenticity of the movie!

Coming Home is a great song

Artimus no Artemis (it's a different story :D). But agree with the rest of your post. Keeping in my mind words of one history researcher: The worst source to restore any past event is to listen the memories of the participants - they are always distorted more than you can imagine...

Love your reply lovely Rita... I agree 100% the music is most important...keep on rockin sister

Really? I missed this part or haven't seen it yet, the part about RVZ thinking of firing Artemus. And, I've noticed, Artemus only has the highest praise for Ronnie. You're right about that. (Ya Got that right!) I know Gary and Artemus, had some kind of argument, and they got rid of Artemus; and in my opinion, that was a big mistake for LS Tribute band to make. The more original members you have, the more legit you become; but, Skynyrd was over when they lost RVZ. Side thought, I have heard, the plane sat on the tarmac running for 45 minutes waiting for Artemus, and this very well could've been way the plane ran out of gas.

Poor cats.

Darn right!!!

Yeah, his obvious enjoyment over the poor kittens being killed like that has put me off Gene Odem. And he's been making his living off of his friend's death for years now. I wonder what Ronnie would think of him now.

Gene said on the flight to Greenville the right engine had issues, blowing flame out the exhaust and running rough. When he approached the pilots the day of the final flight they were working that engine and said they were dealing with a magneto, but that carburetor needed work, and that the Transport company was sending a mechanic to Baton Rouge. Gene said he told them they had an extra day before they had to leave for Baton Rouge, so why not fix it there? They refused. From what I gathered it was a combination of an over rich running engine using too much fuel, inoperative gas guages and a failure to measure the fuel level before taking off.

Must've been a very long-assed ten minutes.

At first he says there were no drugs then he changed that statement along with saying Artimus went twice to the cockpit then he changed that too and says Artimus went only 1☝️ time to the cockpit. Then which one is it Gene? 😏

@@learntoswim9291 just watched this and it was Gene himself that went to the cockpit 3 times not Artemus

Jo Jo was having an affair with Allen Collins and he was married..RVZ fired her as she needed to get her shit together.

The main engines weren't running. It was the APU in the rear of the plane that ran out of fuel. It's been told that the planes fuel gauges were inoperative and the fuel levels were checked with a stick; no one recalled that having been done that day.

She’s gorgeous, and I love her accent!

WTH? The accent is horrific. Find something else to do. Did Gene have to drive all the way to b f Egypt for this?

@@stevelewis1982 Racist much?

Not liking an accent doesnt make one a racist.. Not sure where you got that idea..I hate new Jersey accents personally, does that make me racist against people from Jersey? Lol come on chief.

Also his reference about egypt is not racist as its a place not a person.