Note to Shelby Harwood: I hate to break it to ya, kid, but “Lynyrd Skynyrd” effectively died in a plane crash in 1977! No offense, but I suspect you hadn’t even arrived on the planet yet. I was a mere 16 when I saw them at the Long Beach Arena (in Long Beach, CA) earlier that year and I happened to have been walking down by the Deschutes river this evening. Unfortunately, I can assure you that the sounds coming out of the amphitheater tonight bore little resemblance to the group I heard back in the old days…

CE Atkinson

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That Wasn’t Skynyrd You Heard

by Intern, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 5, 2008

<h1>That Wasn’t Skynyrd You Heard</h1> <p class="byline">by Intern, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />August 5, 2008</p> <p>Note to Shelby Harwood: I hate to break it to ya, kid, but &quot;Lynyrd Skynyrd&quot; effectively died in a plane crash in 1977! No offense, but I suspect you hadn&#039;t even arrived on the planet yet. I was a mere 16 when I saw them at the Long Beach Arena (in Long Beach, CA) earlier that year and I happened to have been walking down by the Deschutes river this evening. Unfortunately, I can assure you that the sounds coming out of the amphitheater tonight bore little resemblance to the group I heard back in the old days...</p> <p><em><br /> CE Atkinson</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/that-wasnt-skynyrd-you-heard-2131571/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=13670&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/that-wasnt-skynyrd-you-heard-2131571/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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