Buzzy Meekins
Bass

Buzzy earned a place on this site in that he was the bass player "between Frank and Frank" who did a lot of the club gigs with the band, particularly during 1974   He is not on any of the Outlaws albums, but did a lot of the smoke filled room gigs and played bass on the bands demos--that in itself earns a place in Outlaws History.   Just prior to the band signing on to the LS, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels tour in 1974, Buzzy left the band and Frank O'Keefe rejoined.  Buzzy later wound up on the bad end of a worse deal when just three days after he'd made a deal to play with Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's plane crashed and the deal was over.

From a former classmate of Buzzy's at Plant High School in Tampa (Class of 1970) we learned that during his high school days, like several other members of the Outlaws, Buzz was suspended from school for long hair.  The result was a lawsuit by his parents and a dress code change by the Hillsborough County School board.

In 1979 Buzzy appeared on the Vassar Clements album "Live in Telluride". Meekins also played bass for the Danny Joe Brown Band, the Derek Trucks Band, the Blind Buzzard Band, and the Southern Rock Rebellion