Sometimes Artimus Pyle wonders, "What would Ronnie Van Zant think about cellphones? Or computers?" After telling me this over the phone, Pyle chuckles. There's a hint of blue in there. Still, it's clear the classic-era Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer's laughter is mostly from...

The Rescue Attempt That Had Heros And Looters Alike Johnny Mote and his ragtag team were first on the crash site. Mote recalls the first thing he saw was a bloody hand sticking out from the wreckage. He could hear the people moaning, pleading for help. The whole scene...

October 20th, 1977. That is a day that Artimus Pyle will never forget.  "Everything was great, we were on top of the world," Pyle, the drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the time, said.  Lynyrd Skynyrd had just released their album "Street Survivors"...

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Films, the upstart pic division of Cleopatra Records, has set a movie on seminal Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The film will be powered by the recollections of the band’s drummer, Artimus Pyle, who survived the 1977 plane crash that killed...

Thousands of people will visit the Tomb of King David and the Mount Zion neighborhood of Jerusalem for the Jewish festival of Shavuot, starting this Tuesday afternoon. A tidbit of local lore that many visitors may not know is that Artimus Pyle, drummer of the...

On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-300 carrying the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a heavily-wooded swamp just outside Gillsburg, Mississippi. The band was on tour, making their way from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, when the aircraft ran out of fuel...

Artimus Pyle has recently released a solo album called Artimus Venomous, the first in what he promises to be a series that will include such titles as Artimus Harmonious and Artimus Dubious. The new album features self-written songs sung by Pyle. According to the...

Artimus Pyle, the former drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd, stopped by the Stern Show on Monday to discuss his time with the legendary Southern Rock band as well as his current group, the Artimus Pyle Band. The musician famously survived the 1977 plane crash that killed...

He was the second drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd but most fans know him as THE drummer for the South’s most popular band. Artimus Pyle played on the band’s best-loved albums, including the legendary One More from The Road which included the classic rock radio staple,...