Paul Rodgers in Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gary Rossington mentioned on Private Sessions last weekend on A&E that Ronnie Van Zant was planning on stepping down as lead vocalist of Lynyrd Skynyrd due to nodes growing on his vocal chords and was going to manage the band. Paul Rodgers was the guy they wanted to replace him, but the plane crash made it all a moot point. Paul was also rumoured to be the vocalist in Rossington-Collins in the early '80s, but for whatever reason it never happened. Imagine if that scenario had worked out.

                                                                                                 Think Green,

                                                                                                 J Dawg

Geoff, we're not talkin' about Johnny Van Zant, but his brother Ronnie who died in the plane crash on Oct. 20, 1977. Johnny did have surgery in 2005 to remove a polyp from his vocal chord and Kid Rock filled in while he was rehabbing. There's been some scuttlebutt on the Skynyrd forum about Johnny stepping down to pursue his & brother Donnie's(of .38 Special) country project called Van Zant.

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                                                                                                J Dawg