In the 70s--This Rock Group Could KICK ANY Band's A$$...ON or OFF Stage! | Professor of Rock

It was only a matter of time, but today’s featured band was going down in flames. One of their album covers even predicted it. And so did one of their songs… Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote That Smell in 1977… It was an eerily prophetic rocker that warned them there would be hell to pay. They posed on their album cover with flames around them! Honestly, no one worked harder than Ronnie Van Zant and the boys of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but the problem was no one partied harder either… and it was nearly to the point of self-destruction. Their trail of carnage included knock-down-drag-out brawls, punched-out teeth, furniture flying out of fifth-story windows, cutting and maiming their guitarist's hands the night before a big show, and one time when the lead singer tried to throw someone out of a plane… mid-flight. I mean come on… that’s pretty insane. Blacklisted from hotels and airlines alike, it all came to a tragic conclusion on October 20, 1977. After that day, this band would never be the same again. The story of two classic hits from their 70s classic album Street Survivors: What’s Your Name and That Smell….Brace yourself, this one’s as crazy as rock and roll gets… The story is coming up… NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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So, today, we’re bringing you a Lynyrd Skynyrd double-feature from their 1977 album, Street Survivors… which is an unintentionally tragic album, closing out the 70s iteration of this band. The two songs? What’s Your Name and That Smell. So back in 1976, Time Magazine ran an article about Lynyrd Skynyrd called “The Rotgut Life.” The title was taken from a quote from a frontman Ronnie Van Zant and fully encapsulated the alcohol-soaked, knock ‘em down, beat 'em up lifestyle Lynyrd Skynyrd lived day in and day out.

Said the article, “No American rock group works harder or equals the decibel level of Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band of seven Southerners who seldom see their homes outside Jacksonville.” Going into their fifth studio album Street Survivors, those seven Southerners included lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarists Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, and Steve Gaines, bassist Leon Wilson, drummer Artimus Pyle, and keyboardist Billy Powell. But even with some new faces at this point in the band’s career, they were no less rowdy. The truth is that while no other rockers worked harder than these guys, Lynyrd Skynyrd out-partied them all as well.

Skynyrd’s fiery temperament was no stage act. By 1976 the band had racked up more than a dozen arrests… on charges spanning from possession of illegal substances to assault. In 1975 alone, Ronnie Van Zant was arrested five times. That Time magazine piece I mentioned chronicled several of Skynyrd’s “less than legal” exploits… including one episode when the guys destroyed half the exercise machines at...