I wanted them to come to the table and make a more broad spectrum of a movie. But they chose to stab me in the back repeatedly, and it really hurt my feelings. I love Gary Rossington, and at one point Judy and I were friends. I'd like to give all of them a piece of my mind for being so damn greedy. It may sound like I'm bitter I'm not bitter. So I'm very proud of everybody involved in this movie, especially the young actors and actresses that portrayed us on the screen. My band, APB, wrote what I think is a bona fide Southern rock hit for the movie – the title track, "Street Survivors." And we play Lynyrd Skynyrd music better than any band in the world. But I'm not about just money, I'm about the music, I'm about my children. So they're living the high life and they've stolen everything I've ever worked for. And all the money that they and their management company and their damn lawyers stick in their bank accounts? Well, that money was earned by me and the rest of the band, working hard. I asked them all to come to the table, but they chose to try to diminish my role in the band. When Ronnie was killed, Judy became an instant billionaire. Ronnie was going to divorce her, but the divorce papers never got served. She celebrated it, and she hit the lottery. She never mourned Ronnie Van Zant's death. I'm talking about $1,000-an-hour basically criminals that would sue their own mothers who were coming coming after me and Cleopatra films.Įnough credit cannot be given to Cleopatra, for hanging in there against Judy Van Zant and her ill-gotten millions that she uses to try to destroy everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd. We were sued by a bunch of blood-sucking weasel attorneys the entire time that we were trying to do the movie. I have the full gambit of emotions, everything: I'm happy, I'm sad, I'm relieved and I'm a little mad. I've seen the movie 11 times, and I cry every time. Because of today's technology and the CGI special effects, when we're coming into those trees and we're crashing, it looks and feels real. I feel that Lynyrd Skynyrd fans have been wanting to know what happened that fateful day and that night for a long time, and I felt like they deserved to get that story., even though it's tragic and even though it's intense. It's a movie about something that really happened, so it's not just some frivolous flick that we put together. We had a very small budget, and when I say small, I think it was about a million-and-a-half dollars to do a movie. So there's a lot of relief to have it finished, because it's been a hard-fought battle. So I had no idea what it would be to put a movie together. I'm a drummer in a rock band that runs bulldozers and flies airplanes. How do you feel now that Street Survivors is finally out?
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