Lynyrd Skynyrd members share late guitarist Gary Rossington's wish for the band

Before he died, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and founding member Gary Rossington told fellow band members Johnny Van Zant and Rickey Medlocke that he wanted the band to continue after he was gone.

"He knew his health was getting bad and he had told me, he said… ‘I've spent my life carrying on this legacy, and after I'm gone I don't want to see this band go away,'" Van Zant told Fox News Digital. 

He continued, "So we brought in Damon Johnson to play guitar and Gary kind of mentored him...