The west Jacksonville area was called Shantytown when the Van Zant brothers were growing up in the house.
The west Jacksonville area was called Shantytown when the Van Zant brothers were growing up in the house, the Florida Times-Union reported.This Flashy Bel Air Mansion That Was Listed at $87.8 Million Flopped at Auction — and Now the Seller Is Furious
Ronnie Van Zant formed Lynyrd Skynyrd with friends from the neighborhood in the 1960s, and the group became Southern Rock superstars in the 1970s before he and several others were killed in a 1977 plane crash. His brother Donnie Van Zant was a founder of .38 Special, another 70s rock band. Hearing problems forced him to retire in 2013, but the band still tours.
He remains in northeast Florida, along with brother Johnny Van Zant, who has been Lynyrd Skynyrd's frontman since 1987. “That house was our life, that neighborhood was our neighborhood,” Johnny Van Zant told newspaper in 2018. “We all learned how to play drums in that house, we all learned how to swing on the swing-set out there — that’s where we learned to sing. We didn’t have 700 channels like today. We didn’t have nothing but four channels. We weren’t super rich.”
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