Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant's Custom Beyerdamic Microphone

Ronnie Van Zant used this Microphone (Serial #18038) on Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974-1977 tours. He last sang through it at Lynyrd Skynyrd's final show in Greenville, SC, October 19th,1977. This was one night before the tragic plane crash.

The Microphone has a unique spacer that Craig Reed (Lynyrd Skynyrd's guitar tech) installed on the body of the microphone so Ronnie would have a mechanism to keep his hand off the metal grille of the mic as touching it was causing a feedback loop. This is not public knowledge. A letter from Craig describes why he set it up this way for Ronnie and that it is the only one of this type the Band used.

The microphone is housed in a custom-designed wood shadowbox case, and is superimposed over a color photographs of Ronnie Van Zant holding the microphone. Microphone is removeable from case. Case: 17 x 21 x 2 3/4" deep.

Provenance: Letter of Authenticy from Craig Reed, Lynyrd Skynyrd's guitar tech, who wrote: " My name is Craig Reed and I met Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1973 and started working with them in 1974. I also survived the plane crash on October 20, 1977. After the crash I did the Foreigner World Tour in 1978 and another world tour with Journey in 1979. I was the guitar tech for Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner and Journey. I then worked the Marshall Tucker Band and then Lynyrd Skynyrd until 2006."

Condition: More detailed condition reports and additional photographs are available by request. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in very fine condition. Please message us through the online bidding platform or email Guernsey's at auctions@guernseys.com to request a more thorough condition report.