It's March Bandness and tonight we're pitting ZZ Top against Lynyrd Skynyrd.  One of these bands holds the record for the longest run with the same members.  Know who it is??

That would be ZZ Top members Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill. Together since 1970 they hold the record as the longest-running American rock band with no member changes.

Lynyrd Skynyrd in contrast had to change members over the years starting when they lost several members in a plane crash back in October 1977, Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines died in a plane crash in Mississippi. Gaines' sister, Cassie, who was a backup singer with the group, also died. Walter Wiley McCreary (pilot) William John Gray (co-pliot), Dean Kilpatrick (manager) were also killed in the accident.

 

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