Haha, doesn't surprise me. I don't like Gary very much either. He's the one with the least charisma of the whole Skynyrd-troup. One concert I had a huge banner (white sheet with a nice text on it) made for Hughie, showing it during a Skynyrd gig. Hughie seemed to be shy, sort of hiding behind Johnny. Then Ricky saw the banner and touched Hughie, while playing, with his elbow... winking my way with his head, like he was saying 'look over there!'... so Hughie looked and saw the banner and gave me a great smile . The rest of the show we constantly had eye contact, me, Ricky and Hughie... that was really great!
And Johnny does a great job as lead singer. I've also got the Van Zant album 'Brother to brother', by Johnny and Donnie Van Zant. Those Van Zant boys... can't help but like them