The Toxic Twins certainly have 9 lives.
Aerosmith's Joe Perry is convinced that his higher power was behind the band's decision not to rent the plane that killed members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
In his book Rocks: My Life In & Out Of Aerosmith, Perry recalled how his band decided not to rent the aircraft a week before the Skynyrd crash.
"It was a terrible tragedy and we just considered ourselves very incredibly lucky. People were flying on all of these different planes in it was common to be on a plane that Fleetwood Mac had been on the week before."
"We've always felt there was somebody watching over us, and this was another example of that. People were put in our lives that helped bail us out for one reason or another. Fortunately we has someone looking at the plane that we would be taking and he put his foot down."
According to The Autobiography Of Aerosmith, one of the band's assistants refused to allow the band to use the plane after he did a check on the aircraft. Zunk Buker explained to the band that he witnessed the pilots of the plane passing a bottle of Jack Daniels back and forth while he was doing the inspection.
A week later, three of the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members lost their lives when the plane crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi.
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