JOE PERRY Discusses AEROSMITH's Near-Flight On LYNYRD SKYNYRD's Crashed Convair Plane - "To Be That Close To It... It Was Really A Blow, Up And Down The Line"
January 13, 2015, 9 years ago
Speaking with CraveOnline.ca about his book Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith, guitarist Joe Perry discusses the Convair plane that crashed with Lynyrd Skynyrd on board and how the band were supposed to have flown on that same plane the week prior.
"It was a terrible tragedy, and we just considered ourselves incredibly lucky", says Perry. "People were flying on all these different planes, and it was very common to be on a plane Fleetwood Mac had been on the week before. We’ve always felt there was somebody watching over us, and this was another example of that. People were put in our lives that helped bail us out for one reason or another. Fortunately we had someone looking at the plane that we would be taking, and put his foot down. To be that close to it… it was really a blow, up and down the line. From knowing those guys, to the loss of music and beyond."
Read the complete interview at CraveOnline.ca.
