"We always said we had a lot of balls back then, or gumption, whatever you call it, for playing a song that long," the musician said in an interview with Guitar World. Their debut album, titled Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, included the nine-minute epic Free Bird - which featured Rossington's distinctive slide guitar work. The band's rebellious blues-rock earned them a fearsome live reputation in America's southern states. They settled on the name Lynyrd Skynyrd - a dig at their high school gym teacher, who was notorious for punishing students with long hair. They added singer Ronnie Van Zant, who played on a rival baseball team, later that summer, after a game turned into a jam session. Rossington was born in 1951 in Florida, founding the first iteration of Lynyrd Skynyrd - called Me, You, and Him - in 1964 with drummer Bob Burns and bassist Larry Junstrom. Lynyrd Skynyrd in the studio recording their first album
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