RIP Billy Powell.

Billy who you ask?

Billy Powell was the keyboardist for legendary Southern Rock band "Lynyrd Skynyrd."
As one of the surviving band members of the 1977 plane crash that killed Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines and assistant manager Dean Kilpatrick, Powell is probably best known for the opening chords on the Wurlitzer Electric Piano in the famed track "Free Bird" and for being the least known and probably least laid member of the band (too soon?)

He succumbed to an apparent heart attack yesterday in his Orange Park, Fla., home.

As he did with the death of Who bassist John Entwistle a few years ago, my older brother is probably partaking in a black out, coma inducing drunk in Powell's memory right about.......now.


It's 9:10 in the morning.