Lynyrd Skynyrd Struggled to Perform ‘Free Bird’ on Comeback Tour
Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and guitarist Garry Rossington admitted the struggle behind performing “Free Bird.” The Tribute road trip happened in 1987, 10 years after Ronnie Van Zant passed away in a plane crash. “I didn’t want to do that tour at all,” Van Zant told Classic Rock in a new interview. “We had fans out there who would go, ‘Well, this ain’t the real Skynyrd.’ And I didn’t want […]