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Bob Burns

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Birth Date:
24.11.1950
Death date:
03.04.2015
Person's maiden name:
Robert Louis Burns
Extra names:
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Roberts Bērnss
Categories:
Drummer, Rock musician, Victim of Catastrophe
Nationality:
 american
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Robert Louis "BobBurns (November 24, 1950 - April 4, 2015) was an American drummer who was in the original line-up of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Burns helped to form the band in 1964 with Gary Rossington and Larry Junstrom and remained until 1974, although by some accounts he left the band for a while during the early 1970s. Burns plays on the band's earliest demos, recorded in 1970, but on the album Skynyrd's First and... Last, a collection of early demos, the drum parts of the songs recorded in 1971 are played by Rickey Medlocke. That album also contains songs recorded in 1972 which feature Burns on drums, suggesting that Burns may have left the band in 1971 and had returned by 1972. During a brief period in the early 1970s, Rickey Medlocke occasionally played alongside Burn on drums for live shows, a two-drummer line-up similar to The Allman Brothers Band.

In addition to Skynyrd's First And... Last, Burns also played on the band's first two official albums: (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) and Second Helping. Burns left in 1974 due to being overwhelmed by life on the road, and was replaced by Artimus Pyle. In 1996, he participated in a performance to promote Freebird: The Movie. On March 13, 2006, he rejoined Lynyrd Skynyrd for one performance as he played alongside Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Ed King, Artimus Pyle and theHonkettes at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Burns died in a car crash in Georgia on April 4, 2015.

Source: wikipedia.org

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