Larry Junstrom

He even sang vocals and played some acoustic guitar," and that they always considered me an original guy.

Uh, I have signed contracts, uh, under the heading of band members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it was Ronnie, Gary, Allen, Larry Junstrom, and myself.

So there's the way it went.

And, you know, I, of course, at the end of around '72, g- almost '73, I went back with and re, and re- you know, got Blackfoot back together again, and the rest is history.

"You know, I'm sorry, buddy." And so Ronnie said, "What's your name?" He said, "My name's Bob Burns." Ronnie said, "I'm sorry, man.

I'm sorry, Bob, you know." He said, "Bob Burns." He said, "Y- you play drums?" Bob says, "Yeah, right down the road at my house, me and Gary Rossington and Larry Junstrom, we w- we w- we play down in my garage." And, and so Ronnie said, "Well, I'm a, I'm a singer." And so Bob says, "Come down and s- see what we look like, you know." So Ronnie went down in there, you know, and so he liked what he saw, and he liked the music, and so Ronnie became the singer.

And a lot of that stuff that went on then, I wasn't privy to it because I wasn't that close to Gary Rossington.

So that's where it started at, in Bob's garage, and then Ronnie heard about Allen Collins, so he wanted to get Allen Collins in the band.

We'll be back in a little while to get his guitar and amplifier." So R- Aunt Ronnie went and talked to Allen, and said, "I just want you to be part of this new band we're putting together." And so Allen became the guitar player, you know.

Wow.

And Larry Junstrom was the bass player.

And so of course, Junstrom and Skynrd, uh, you don't tie those together.

Is that right?

Well, three of them were, uh, Ronnie Van Zant, uh, Larry Junstrom, and Bob Burns.

Uh, Junstrom was the original bass player, and Bob was a drummer, and then of course Ronnie was the head of the band.

I did...

The other two guys, Gary and Allen, didn't grow up in our area, no.

But, but those three did.

Um, Larry Junstrom played with them and didn't stay with them long.

He ended up playing drums for 38, or I'm sorry, bass for 38th Special for about 40 years-