Former Strawberry Alarm Clock member Ed King subbed for Wilkeson during the recording of Skynyrd’s debut, P ronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, but just as sessions wrapped up, Wilkeson began having second thoughts about leaving the group. Wilkeson returned to Jacksonville and his regular job stocking ice cream at Farmbest Dairy Products. However, this didn’t prove to be the case, as Wilkeson began to get cold feet just prior to sessions for their debut album, recorded in Atlanta. Skynyrd signed with Al Kooper’s production company, Sounds of the South, a joint venture with MCA Records, in 1973, an event that should have signaled smooth sailing for the group. Walker left the band, Leon Wilkeson was brought in as his replacement. He began to study the ‘lead bass style’ of such accomplished players as Cream’s Jack Bruce, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady, The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and the Allman Brothers’ Berry Oakley.īy the early ’70s, Leon had become one of Jacksonville’s top bassists, and when Lynyrd Skynyrd’s bassist Greg T.
Soon Wilkeson found himself in another local group, the King James Version. However, due to plummeting school grades, Wilkeson had to drop out of the group at the behest of his parents. Only wanting to play music, he dropped out of his school band at the age of 14 and, soon he was playing bass with Ronnie Van Zant’s local group, the Collegiates. was born on April 2nd 1952 in Newport, Rhode Island, but raised in Jacksonville, Florida.Īt about the age of 12, inspired by The Beatles, Leon began learning to play bass guitar copying his favorite member of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney. J– Leon Wilkeson (bass player for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death).
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