The last active original member of the classic Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd was recovering Saturday night after recently undergoing an emergency heart procedure, according to the band.

Lead singer Johnny Van Zant told fans at a recent concert in Minnesota that Rossington had been sidelined because he had to "have an emergency stent put in his heart," the website Ultimate Classic Rock reported.

The band has brought in Alabama-based guitarist Damon Johnson to fill in while Rossington continues his recovery, AL.com reported. .

In October 1977, a plane crash in Mississippi killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and siblings Steve and Cassie Gaines, a guitarist and background singer, respectively.

After a hiatus following the plane crash, the band re-emerged as the Rossington Collins Band in the early 1980s, with Rossington’s wife, Dale Krantz Rossington, as its lead singer.

Members of the most recent lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Johnny Van Zant (front, second from left) and guitarist Gary Rossington (center).

Over the years since the crash, band members including Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Ed King and Bob Burns have died from various causes.