The only interview of Bob Burns on youtube and he talks about Leon and Ed King

[Fruitloop186]

Just learned of the passing of Bob Burn's wife Marsha on Dec 27th 2011

Condolences to the family

[TonyBeazley]

@Fruitloop186 Yeah I heard also a little bit later... man I had just talked to her a week before on facebook... she was a good woman. RIP Marsha....

[guitarcrazy1834]

Im watching all of the old lynynrd skynyrd interveiws i can find because well i want to feel as if i actually knew them and imagine if they were still here today alive and kicking but ronnie knew his fate he was a smart man from a young age he would say i aint gona live to see 30. he was 29 when he passed, and if someone could give me a good answer for how he knew that it would make my life. If they were still alive the world would be a better place. Lynyrd skynyrd a name everyone should know l

[amnartthaiboy]

I know Bob and he is the nicest guy in the world.I have video of him over at my house playing drums with me in 1996...

[skynyrdman1977]

i know this is where the true lynyrd skynyrd fans are when one comment is almost a whole paragraph..

[flooringalabama]

Ed King a musical Genious, up with mozart, you said it bob. Say he was being over

zealous by a little cut it in half say, for argument sake, that makes Ed better

than 80% of the all the bands out there.. DID you realize that?, Ronnie knew he would put Skynyard in a commercially acceptable format

that we all enjoy today, RONNIES gift besides writing, Selecting the right person for the job, listen to the overdubs on Coming Home. that album, It may well be the

best rock recording ever made, fact

[thatisMRS2u]

And thank you Tony for all the great interviews. I am a Skynyrd addict to say the least. They have been a huge part of my life for years. When I first heard Freebird, I knew this was my band. They have never written one bad song. And I know them all ; ) songs that is. I cant wait for your project to be done. Dowd' interview will be kick azz I'm sure.

[thatisMRS2u]

Huge thumbs up to you rotagen...Pronounced was the best album ever made IMHO!

In fact, the first album I ever own'd. I love Bobby.Thank You Bob for doing the interview. I just wish it was a longer interview with him.

[troyonll]

we would love to be able to interview Bob! Check out our interview with Lee Wileson! Leon's son! Very interesting stories of life on the road! More to come!

[Roc20084u]

Bob im from cartersville too!!!! the Russell and troy show from Perry Ga

[hopethisisthelast]

I met someone claiming to be Bobby in Maryland several years ago. The guy was a bit ..."off" ...but he definitely knew a lot about the band and did in fact look like an older version of the man you see on the album covers. He said he left the band because he went to Nam actually, whether he did or was covering up for the whole "crazy" thing, I'll never know. One thing I'm pretty sure of though...he stole my "smoke" out of my car. I like to think that is WAS him and hope he is doing well now.

[TonyBeazley]

@hopethisisthelast must have been that imposter they finally caught....had bushy hair more than Bobs...and a real big mustache.....Bob wouldn't still your smokes....he's one of the nicest guys you will ever meet in your life...

[mcgaheefamily]

Imet bob burns when he lived at doral aptson austel rd.1981 or 1982. he drove an old chevy .a friend asked if i would like to meet the original drummer for skynyrd.I said sure. we went to his apt. and sure enough he had a gold record on his wall.skynyrd had given bob nothing.. Ibought a skynyrd book and they finaly gave him 9oooo0 so iguess he doesnot live in apt anymore.

[monkey6949]

@mcgaheefamily I to meet bob at doral apts your right he had old chevy very skinny wife a child and the gold records on the wall but after talking with bob i found out why he left l/s and your right they give him nothing

[allbroskj]

edyrd1952, I remember you, aka Judo Joe. we had a fist fight behind Venetia School when we were at Lakeshore circa 1966. I permanently lost partial vision in one eye. I remember how badly you beat up Barnett. I remember Ruddy Whaley, Chason, Ferrara, etc. Remember Geoff Spencer? You weren't very likable then, guess I wasn't either. Keith on Capri Rd.

[TonyBeazley]

@allbroskj damn ,sounds like more than just a rumble in those days.....

[flooringalabama]

@allbroskj Keith you got it right. Judo joe

[mebloke69]

thanks for the great good job TB !

[skinengine]

Nice post! I had the pleasure of meeting Bob's dad. He lived in a little cabin south of Zebulon, GA. I roofed the cabin, quite a few years back!

[rotagen5]

I gotta say it, Bob's drumming is a huge part of why Skynyrd made it. Just listen to the funkiness on those early albums...totally unique, totally catchy., syncopated... Great stuff.

[Pureupbilloreilly]

i no man bassist and drumers are so underrated main reason i play bass RIP leon

[rvz77]

leon's the man

[TonyBeazley]

You got that right! Even Ed King said Leons the best!!!

[wammzy]

hey tony iheard bob had some personal problems when he left the band like with the movie exoricist got to him. have u heard that

[TonyBeazley]

not until I put this video up he never told me that as I can remember.....

[duanekuiper]

holy crap! thanks Tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TonyBeazley]

I plan to add more videos soon.....

[Immiddim]

By all means Tony!

Thanks for your latest responce acknowledging Mr. King's "key" contributions that were initially made to towards LSB's initial success... keep em' coming.

[Immiddim]

Ed King was like the "backbone" and foundation to Ronnie's band. Great bass player also. Just found out that Tony Beazley plays bass (also). I play the drums on a "fundamental level" and grew up listening to what I consider one of the greatest rock acts of all time... that of course being the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band pre Oct 20, 1977. Thanks Tony for all your input into the history of this great group of individuals. Very interesting/entertaining/infor­mative etc.

[TonyBeazley]

Thanks Vic! Yep if Ed had not been in the band with his brilliant guitar work and sound then I probably never would have noticed the band like I did. I did like Skynyrd before I knew who Ed King was but later found out that most of my fav tunes from them had Ed playing guitar on those tracks. Now That Smell and One More Time are exceptions....yes I do like the demo raw versions also before Ed....but the "flavor" that Ed added is just beyond what any other guitar player could ever do.

[TonyBeazley]

Ed's a very good bass player but have yet to see him live -thumping away on it... I have a special bass guitar that I have autographs from only people who knew Ronnie....If I could just get to Rickey, Gary and Ed.....I didn't think about this until years later half way through our documentary..but I have all engineers managers some bandmates who have autographed it...I need Leslie to sign it ....its just hard to carry a bass around everywhere for people to sign....

[Skynyrdbrothersband]

Bob is as nice a fellow as you could meet.

If he says it its the truth too.

[SteveGaines]

Bob Burns had a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN on the torture tour...Saw the EXCORIST and thought this cat was the devil and threw it out the window over in England I believe..

[chrism01us]

I believe that Burns left the band before the torture tour, though--it was Ed that left the band during the torture tour.

[drumwraith]

Man...it's good to hear from Bob. We used to swap jam on each other's kits at Dotties on Memorial Dr. back in the 90's. What a crazy little place that was. He's a good straight-forward guy and I miss those days. I always loved his playing on the old Skynyrd albums too.....Artimus was great but before that....Bob helped give them that unusual dry-space sound that made them famous.

[kneadsu]

Bob is absolutely right...Ed wrote Incense and Peppermints when he was 15 years old and with The Strawberry Alarm Clock...is an extremely FUNNY guy and soooooo talented!

[roysteinar]

What was Bob Burns ilness?

[TonyBeazley]

If I can remember what he said it was just bi-polar stuff....

[TheNiceMeanMan]

Just bi-polar stuff...??? Next to schizophrenia, what else is there on this earth to be afraid of?

[flooringalabama]

@roysteinar He saw the Exorsit, it opened a part of his brain that was dormant, along

with drugs they were all taking, Bob was a dear friend of Ronnies more like Brothers

actually, it killed Ronnie to fire bob or part ways he never got over it, party inspired "am i loosing"

and firing of allen walden the manager, killed him also, but not as much as bob,

saved bobs life possibly though, maybe he would not have it made the plane

crash, what was a group that big doing in that POS corvair anyway?

[eddc1971]

Thank you Bob, I have read all the books, And I have all the Skynyrd Music ever recorded on CD and Dvd (i HOPE) !! would love to hear more from you!! The Biggest Lynyrd Skynyrd fan In Oregon!

[she78523]

Hi cousin Bob. Miss you and love hearing your stories. Would love for you to come to North Carolina and stay with your cousins from Jax and visit and tell us some stories first hand. Enjoyed having your Mom and sisters visit with me last fall. Love you bunches. Cousin Sherry Burns Wilson

[PooPoo2U]

we miss you leon. i even named my favorite 73 jazz bass in your honor, and when i play it i never fail to put on my favorite hat and sunglasses

[wjburns111]

miss you Bob, Tell em like it was

cousin Jim

[Skynyrdbrothersband]

Bob always told me that the days the band was "The One Percent" were the happiest days of his life.Hours and hours of stories from that period.He told me that after they got big it sorta went downhill for him.

Bob Burns without ANY DOUBT is one of the NICEST Famous human beings to ever breathe air.

[TonyBeazley]

I AGREE!!!!

[PlayFreebirdNow]

What did Bob mean by his 'illnesses'?

Oh, and great interview, 5 stars.

[TonyBeazley]

Bob is bi-polar,that's what he told me, but the stress of the tour really kicked his butt and thats why he had to leave and go to the hospital....

Bob aint no different than anybody else really , after spending a few days with him you understand how he thinks..he is like Einstein ..and he gets really deep and thats why they say he's crazy but if you think about what he said for a day or two then you start to go .....wow that dudes got a brain better than mine..lol ..there you have it.

[PlayFreebirdNow]

Thanks for explaining it all to me. I never knew he went to the hospital after the tour. Poor guy. He seemed real nice. I'd love to meet him.

[brando2013]

I read somewhere that Bob watched the Excorist and starting freakin out on the road. They said he threw a black cat through a window. I don't know if that's true or not. I think Bob Burns was an important element to the early Skynyrd sound.

[freefallin1970]

the cat belonged to the owner of some hotel and Bob some how got mad at ronnie and threw it out the 4th story of the hotel soon after that they gave bob a plane ticket home and got mad at the road manager the chase him with hatchet

[Billykid514]

I like Bob's drumming over Artimus

[bodkin1]

seconded

[edyrd1952]

allen collins tagged me edyrd in case you think im too assuming...peace....remember chad and ruddy whaley, rusty chason,pam nielson,susan mcquillan,edie roundtree,ricky cook...and on and on....jacksonville people were number one...mark sanchez,, dale crisp.. i did about 28 years in masonry mostly a few years merchant marine and thankfully i won every foot race with the law...peace

[edyrd1952]

good to here bob, havent heard his voice since lakeshore. and christy. Allen was one of the nicest people I ever met. AS well as most everybody at Lakeshore and Lee High . Remember Good Shepard, and Val's pool hall .. Ed Harkins...Peace

[rjcinsav]

man i enjoyed this. it has always been a mystery to me about where is bob and what he has been doin. i never hear anybody mention anything about him. does anybody know more about him. just a conerned skynrd fan!!

[connieruff]

Bob can be seen in and around Bartow County GA

[connieruff]

you can see him driving around in his big yellow dodge hemi truck in Bartow County, GA

still looks the same

[TonyBeazley]

What happened to his RV?

[roysteinar]

Happy birthday Leon Wilkeson!

[mengele88]

happy birthday Leon!

[bcampbelltsc]

Tony, Do you know if Am I loosin written about Bob

[TonyBeazley]

thats pretty much what I was told....

[FloraBama]

I also heard Ed King himself say that!

[bluestreetcar]

5 STARS all day long!!!

I've heard nothing but good about Leon.

God Bless Bob.

[zisoul]

It would ve'been great if BOB BURNS played on

the TRIBUTE TOUR'87-'88.He only showed up when

FREEBIRD Movie came out and the R&RHOF Show.

He,KING,PYLE and CUSTER should still be with

LYNYRD SKYNYRD.

[bluestreetcar]

Nice clip, thank you.

[m1biscuit]

ya GOTTA love Bob Burns !!!!!

[TonyBeazley]

yeah I think we all do !!!!!

[roysteinar]

thanks for this ;)

[uhclemm]

GREA T vidoe Tony ! !

STILL waitin' on more Tom Dowd !

Kenny C