Leon Wilkeson

Leon Wilkeson

Nacimiento : 1952-04-02, Newport, Rhode Island

Muerte : 2001-07-21

Historia

Born on April 2, 1952 in Newport, Rhode Island but raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Wilkeson became a major Beatles fan just as he was becoming a teenager and began learning to play bass guitar in order to emulate his favorite member of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney. Wilkeson dropped out of his school band in order to focus on learning the bass at the age of 14 and, shortly afterwards, was approached by a fellow student, who told him that her brother was searching for a bassist for his band. Her brother turned out to be Ronnie Van Zant, and soon after, Wilkeson signed on with Van Zant's local group, the Collegiates. However, due to plummeting school grades, Wilkeson had to drop out of the group at the behest of his parents. Soon Wilkeson found himself in another local group, the King James Version. He began to study the 'lead bass style' of such accomplished players as Cream's Jack Bruce, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady, The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh, and the Allman Brothers'Berry Oakley. By the early '70s, Wilkeson was becoming one of Jacksonville's top bassists. When Lynyrd Skynyrd's bassist Larry Junstrom moved to Miami, Wilkeson was brought in as his replacement.  Was the bassist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001.

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Leon Wilkeson

Películas

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live at Knebworth '76
Self
Featuring the legendary line-up, this set was part of a daylong festival which also boasted headliners The Rolling Stones. This footage, originally only available via the 1996 film Freebird: The Movie, was intercut with interviews and other performance footage. Now, Live At Knebworth '76 presents the pure concert experience in its entirety, delivering the show as it happened that day.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lyve from Steel Town
Bass
Concierto grabado en el Anfiteatro Star Lake en Burgettstown, Pensilvania (fuera de Pittsburgh), el 15 de julio de 1997. Disco en vivo de la formación 'posterior al accidente aéreo' de la banda. Incluye las canciones: Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird, Saturday Night Special, I Know a Little, Gimme Three Steps, What's Your Name, Travelin' Man, Bernice, On the Hunt, You Got That Right, Voodoo Lake, That Smell, Bring it On, Simple Man, We Ain't Much Different
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live at Rockpalast
Himself
A concert shot for the Rockpalast show on the Loreley Festival on June 23, 1996. As a special treat for the fans, the bonus material include three of the band's most famous songs performed by the original line-up at the Hamburg Musikhalle in 1974.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird... The Movie
Himself
See classic live performances, interviews and vintage footage of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Tribute Tour
Bass
The Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour was a tour that was undertaken to pay tribute to the original band members who died in a plane crash in 1977. The tour began in the fall of 1987, in honor of the 10-year anniversary of the plane crash. A number of surviving members reunited for the tour. Original members Gary Rossington, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson were joined by Ed King (original member who had left the band in 1975), Artimus Pyle (drummer at the time of the plane crash), Randall Hall and Johnny Van Zant.
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Old Grey Whistle Test
Himself
Bob Harris presents a 1975 concert by the Southern rockers, recorded in Shepherd's Bush, London. Songs featured include Sweet Home Alabama, Every Mother's Son, Double Trouble, I Ain't the One, Call Me the Breeze, Same Old Blues and Freebird.