Lynyrd Skynyrd Shows Canceled After Health Emergency
Lynyrd Skynyrd has had a tough couple of days.
Frontman Johnny Van Zant left the highway to be together with his ailing youngest daughter, resulting in the cancellation of a string of exhibits. Then Van Zant’s bus driver ended up within the intensive care unit after getting right into a scooter accident whereas on the way in which to purchase a get-well card.
“A couple of days ago, [his daughter] Taylor started having numbing feelings on her right side,” Van Zant says in a brand new social media video. “She went to the emergency room. They did a CAT scan and they found – the only way to say it, is a mass on her brain. Some of it was bleeding, and that was causing the numbing part.”
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They’ve dominated out most cancers, Van Zant added, however his daughter stays below the care of a neurology group. In the meantime, Lynyrd Skynyrd scrubbed a live performance on Tuesday in Anchorage, Alaska, earlier than asserting one other 4 cancellations on Wednesday: Tonight in West Valley, Utah; Friday in Loveland, Colorado; Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Sunday in Albuquerque.
Now Brad Gibson, Van Zant’s bus driver, has “wrecked the scooter and hit his head. He’s in the ICU,” Van Zant confirms. “I want to get Brad back on his feet, along with Taylor – so if you guys could say a prayer. … He’s been an awesome driver for us. Good guy, and a really freak accident.”
Johnny took over for Ronnie Van Zant in 1987, roughly a decade after his older sibling was killed in a horrific airplane crash that almost ended Lynyrd Skynyrd. He lately paired with one other brother, .38 Special’s Donnie Van Zant, to supply a Christian rock album titled Always Look Up.
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