Bob Burns died several years ago. Artimus Pyle, his replacement, is still alive.
Not only have they been a cover band for the last 25 years, they've been a bad cover band at that. I watched a live performance of theirs from a few years ago, and other than Rickey Medlocke, they were brutally bad. Really, really, really bad. Like the kind of band that gets a Tuesday 1pm time slot at the county fair bad.
I was at their last concert October 18, 1977 in Lakeland, Florida, heard the news of the plane crash on my to work the morning of the 20th. I still remember that concert vividly, it was an awesome show.
