Feathers have been ruffled in the Lynyrd Skynyrd camp as the band has filed a lawsuit against its former drummer.
The suit against Artimus Pyle, filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, is aimed at stopping production on the film, Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, which killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and others. The band claims Pyle violated a 1988 consent order governing the use of its name and that the movie "may contain a potentially inaccurate or skewed portrayal of Lynyrd Skynyrd's story as filtered solely through the eyes of Pyle masquerading as the 'True Story' of a defining moment in the band's history."
A trial is scheduled to start on July 11th.