Chords for Lynyrd Skynyrd-MTV Allen Collins

He was the fourth member of the 70s Southern Rock supergroup to pass away,
singer Ronnie Van [G] Zandt, guitarist Stephen [E] Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines
having been killed in a 1977 plane crash.
Collins had been paralyzed [C] in a car crash four years ago
and [Ab] although already personally devastated by [N] the death of his wife Kathy from pregnancy
complications in 1980, he had still turned up at gigs on the group's 1987 reunion tour,
[E] sitting by the side of the stage in his wheelchair and occasionally remarking,
I can't believe I'm not up there playing with them.
Right now here's a quick look back at Collins and the group of which he was such an integral [Bm] part.
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[N] Leonard Skinner isn't history yet according to drummer Artemis Pyle.
The band's new manager, San Francisco promoter Bill Graham, is now shopping around demos for
a new album which the group hopes to start recording in a few months.
And again if you'd
like to make a contribution to the Miami Project to cure paralysis, an organization that Alan
Collins wholeheartedly supported, you can do so by calling the