Popular country music group Red Clay Strays had a plane ride to remember over the weekend, and the group shared video from inside the bumpy landing to prove it.
And, well … a couple of things were going on there.
For starters, as the plane started bumping and bouncing about, bassist Andrew Bishop fired up Lynyrd Skynyrd to ride it out. That band, of course, lost three members including frontman Ronnie Van Zant in a 1977 plane crash.
“If it’s gonna go down, it’s gonna go down to Lynyrd Skynyrd,” Bishop said on the video. “I think I wanna go back to commercial flights.”
The video showed off that the group was on a fairly small private plane, and not everyone was handling things as well as Bishop. The group members were obviously frightened, and Brandon Coleman threw up.
“Hold it together boys,” one of them said. “Hold it together boys.”
When they had finally managed to land, Bishop asked the pilots, “So it doesn’t get much worse than that?”
“No, it doesn’t get much worse,” one of the pilots answered. “I mean, you die. That’s about as bad as it gets right there.”
The band then added an explainer in the caption.
“Apparently we hit an over 40 degree bank while trying to land in Salt Lake,” it read. “Naturally as we thought the plane was going down, (Bishop) thought it was a good time to play some Skynyrd. Seriously though, thankful to our pilots for their quick thinking and coolness under pressure. Y’all rock!”
Several musicians hit the replies on the video to give their thoughts.
“Nope,” Billy Strings wrote. “(Expletive) that all the way. God I hate flying. I have reoccurring nightmares about plane crashes all the time. (Expletive) drives me nuts. I’m typing this on my way to the airport coming home from Dublin. (Expletive) me.”
“’If we’re gonna go down we’re gonna go down to Skynyrd’ is iconic,” Dexter and the Moonrocks wrote.
“Laughing out loud, been there,” Brandi Carlisle wrote.
“Wow!” Lukas Nelson added.
The band did share a clip on the ground, and it sounded like they were going to head off and do a little well-earned drinking.
