Schnauzerstudios » lynyrd skynyrd http://www.schnauzerstudios.com Home of the Schnauzer Radio Orchestra Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 r.i.p. Billy Powell http://www.schnauzerstudios.com/2009/03/17/rip-billy-powell/ http://www.schnauzerstudios.com/2009/03/17/rip-billy-powell/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:23:34 +0000 Schnauzer http://www.schnauzerstudios.com/?p=1021 Last month Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell passed away at age 56 due to -supposedly- a hart attack.

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On stage mr.Powell played on a white grand piano AND a white Hammond B3 organ. The two instruments would stand on a motorized round turning plateau, so whatever instrument he was playing, the plateau would turn him facing the audience. For that single reason alone he was my hero.

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