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OK, 1968. Big deal. Everyone was there, and they all loved each other. Bigly. 
Brilliant. Never heard of him before, but I love the bitterness. Thanks.Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑5 years ago
The very last of the '68ers. The final flower power peacefreak turned Steppenwolf. Didn't matter to him, not even through mental hospital, and his best (and post-admittance) album was quite aptly named The Sanity Stomp. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light". Understood, and acted upon. "In 1978, they opened up the gates, and said it was to late, to be a real mate.". It was. The grass didn't grow over the motorway, but the factories kept on roaring, and from the fumes and noise and insanity of modern-world machine barbarism rose what is known as Heavy Metal. Sheffield, London, Manchester, Birmingham. The dark Satanic mills of old. This is how '68 relates to '80. Coyne was the last link in that chain.
On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from L&J Company of Addison, Texas, ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi, near the end of its flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Lead vocalist/founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray all died as a result of the crash. Twenty others survived.
It was later discovered that the very same Convair CV-240 involved in the crash had earlier been inspected by members of Aerosmith's flight crew for possible use in 1977, but it was rejected because it was felt that neither the plane nor the crew were up to standards. Aerosmith's assistant chief of flight operations, Zunk Buker, told of observing pilots McCreary and Gray sharing a bottle of Jack Daniel's while he and his father inspected the plane.
