SKYNYRD GETS INDUCTED...HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HELL YES........SKYNYRD MAKES IT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rock Hall of Fame Announces Inductees

NEW YORK Nov 28, 2005 — Black Sabbath, Miles Davis and the Sex Pistols are among five musical legends to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation will hold its induction ceremony March 13 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, the organization announced Monday.

Also to be inducted into the class of 2006: 1980s New Wave band Blondie and Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M records in 1962, will receive a lifetime achievement award in the non-performer category.

Inductees into the side-men category will be announced at a later date.

Musicians, industry professionals and journalists vote on the nominations. Artists are eligible to be inducted into the Rock Hall after at least 25 years have passed since their first record was released.

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can y'all gimme a " HELL YEAH!!"
This is AWESOME! i think us Skynyrd fans did our part by signin all them there petitions and makin ourselves heard....and FINALLY someone listened!!!!!

i got 4 words for the hall of fame people....

[glow=red,2,300]IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!![/glow]

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Everett on Skynyrd's route to Hall of Fame
By Tina Potterf

JOHN RUSSELL / AP

For Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, it finally has happened.

After more than 30 years in the music industry, the purveyors of a hospitable, country-fried style of rock will be among the music royalty inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year.

Lynyrd Skynyrd will join Blondie, the Sex Pistols, Miles Davis and Ozzy Osbourne-fronted Black Sabbath as inductees in March.

Being anointed by the Hall of Fame is bittersweet for Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant.

"My reaction was, 'Thank God,' " Van Zant said during a phone interview from his in-laws' home in Fort Worth, Texas. "My brother died in 1977, and I think it's about time the rock world gave Lynyrd Skynyrd its just dues."

Johnny Van Zant stepped into the role of front man after the death of his brother, Ronnie Van Zant, who was killed with guitarist Steve Gaines, backup singer Cassie Gaines and road manager Dean Kilpatrick when the band's private plane crashed Oct. 20, 1977, in Mississippi en route to a concert.

"For me personally, the achievement is for my brother," Van Zant continued. "It caps off what Ronnie did in his lifetime."

Rock concert

Lynyrd Skynyrd


The Southern band will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16 at the Everett Events Center.

Tickets: $28-$44; available at 866-332-8499, at www.everetteventscenter.com and in person at the events-center box office, 2000 Hewitt Ave.
The blue-collar, hard-playing Lynyrd Skynyrd will bring its roots rock to the Everett Events Center on Dec. 16. The concert will be a return visit for the band, which in 2004 was the first rock act to play the events center.

The Hall of Fame aside, Lynyrd Skynyrd will forever hold a place in rock music with such classics as "Gimme Three Steps," "Sweet Home Alabama," "What's yer Name?" and the anthem "Freebird."

Though the band has endured tragedy, perhaps its greatest triumph is its staying power. More than three decades after unleashing its meaty, down-home rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd still draws crowds in the often-fickle music industry.

The band, now featuring vocalist Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke, keyboardist Billy Powell, bass player Ean Evans and drummer Michael Cartellone, is proud of its Southern roots. "Sweet Home Alabama," off the band's sophomore release "Second Helping," was an answer to Neil Young's "Southern Man," an unflattering take on the South.

Van Zant considers Lynyrd Skynyrd a band of the people, a real "American rock band" that connects with fans because the musicians are regular folks doing what they love.

"A lot of bands take their fans for granted. But we are just like our fans," Van Zant said. "We take out the trash, mow the lawn. None of us are living in big mansions. With us, they see the real deal."

After performing "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Freebird" nite after nite, year after year — Lynyrd Skynyrd is a touring band for months at a time — it seems the group might be hard-pressed to keep the music fresh and the experience engaging for its audiences.

Not so, Van Zant said.

"The audience keeps the music fresh," he said. "We like the audience to be in it as much as we are. It's a type of therapy. We let them forget their troubles, and we forget ours."

So how does Van Zant think his brother would have reacted to the band finally getting the recognition of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

"If Ronnie was here," Van Zant said, "I think he'd go, 'Yeah, yeah, let's go fishing.' "