B14 Syracuse Herald-Journal, Friday, September 4,1998 STATE FAIR What's Your Name? • No need to ask if you dig thehave worked through too much to ally be played. And play it Sky- big sound the let go. The details nyrd did, not wanting to let go of the old feeling. group helped to establish and After all, at the top of Lynyrd What: Lynyrd Skynyrd in Skynyrd's burgeoning popularity, concert. Kansas opens. Two decades away from the perpetuate. lead singer and co-founder Ronnie When: Thursday night. days of then: biggest hits, Kansas Van Zant; guitarist Steve Gaines; Where: The Grandstand. still approaches rock 'n'roll just Crowd: 10,182. ByMAKKBIALCZAK and his sister, backup singer Cas- as it did in those great times. Staff Writer sie Gaines, were killed along with Times of performances: Lynyrd Skynyrd simply will not several members of the band's Kansas, 55 minutes; Lynyrd The same recognizable voices Skynyrd, 95 minutes. let the Southern rock spirit perish. crew in a plane crash in 1977. — Steve Walsh, also the keyboard- ist, and Robbie Steinhardt. also 1 Ah it took Thursday night at the the violin player — screamed out Grandstand was one word from ell were hurt in the same accident. The mental anguish kept the band die and the Spoon," "I Know a their hits with fire and gusto. 's voice, one lick apart for a decade. But in 1987, Little," "," "Simple from 's lead guitar, Kansas was one of the best of RANDI ANGLIN/Staif photographer they took on Ronnie's younger Man," "," one thump of Leon Wilkeson's bass the epic rock movement, and the Lynyrd Skynyrd rocks at the Grandstand Thursday night. brother, Johnny, as lead singer, "They Call Me the Breeze" and i i'_ !.:.._ ,„ „«•„,. u;~ «_j London with me Lonuon Sympho- keyboards, and 10,182 fans were great was kept intact. bama" and "" brought grand — and, yes, a bit melodra- way? Tell me, what you gonna transported back to the mid-1970s, back old memories and made new matic — as ever. With songs such do?" ny Orchestra. It was recorded in Johnny still tips his cap to Ron- when the hard-playing, hard-work- ones. as "Hold On," "Play the Game We're listening to Kansas now, Abbey Road Studios, so they ap- nie at every concert. He wears his ing Southern style was king. Tonight," "Dust in the Wind" and Toto. propriately put their violin-and- image on the back of his T-shirt. "There are so many generations "Carry On, Wayward Son," the Kansas is not only back touring, guitar spin to the Beatles' "Eleanor And he sings his songs with love here," Van Zant noticed. "Hello, band had more than enough am- Lynyrd Skynyrd and power. but they just recorded a disc in Rigby." young ones. Hello, old ones. munition to get fans up and The crowd sang along, nearly Thank you all." screaming along. **** every one of iuciii siunJuig ior al- Over the years, people snouting They also threw in the dreamy most the whole show. out "Free Bird" has become a run- Daily State Fair attendance Of course, to the members of this "Miracle Side of Nowhere" for Record Year As the hits rolled on. fans ning joke at all sorts of rock shows. Day Attendance Last year Florida-based band, that big, rol- those who wanted to throw the 60,953 1993 danced and waved their arms. Thursday -63,226 46,775 licking, let's-have-a-party image has But at this Skynyrd show, no- thinking caps on. "Tell me, what's Friday * 80,434 75.034 75,034 1997 never gone away. The remaining "Saturday Night Special," body dared call for the classic until your point of view?" they sang. Saturday 83,197 64,466 90,277 1988 members of Lynyrd Skynyrd simply iWhat's Your Name?." "The Nee- thev knew it was time for it to re- "Tell me, what makes you that Sunday * 101 ,678 77,439 92,808 1987 Monday -77.474 71,275 71,275 1997 Tuesday 68,935 70.088 102,136 1972 Wednesday 49,209 47,185 112,706 1972 Thursday 60,569 59.792 76,781 1987 FRIDAY Friday — 83.336 87,883 1988 10am-8:30pm Saturday — 96,392 "120,516 1989 Sunday — 90,426 119.726 1985 SATURDAY Monday — 82,989 101,722 1966 10am-4pm Total to date 584,722 512,054 *a new record * 'all-time, one-day record for any fair day 0 SOURCE: New York State Fair DAY ebration

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