Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Bob Burns's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts
The Compassionate Idealist
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Robert Lewis Burns Jr. (November 24, 1950 – April 3, 2015) was an American drummer who was in the original lineup of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The birth-card coordinate for November 24 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2006 Performers — inducted member of Lynyrd Skynyrd
The 9 of Hearts coordinate
Bob Burns's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Bob Burns. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.
Bob Burns in the public record
Burns was born in Gainesville, Florida, on November 24, 1950. He helped to form Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1964 with Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom and remained until 1974, although by some accounts he left the band for a while during the early 1970s. Burns played on the band's early recordings, but on the album Skynyrd's First and... Last, a collection of early demos made in Muscle Shoals, the drum parts of some songs recorded in 1971 were played by Rickey Medlocke. That album also contains songs recorded in 1972 which feature Burns on drums, suggesting that Burns left the band in 1971 and had returned by 1972. During a brief period in the early 1970s, Medlocke occasionally played alongside Burns on drums for live shows, a two-drummer lineup similar to the Allman Brothers Band and The Grateful Dead. In addition to Skynyrd's First and... Last, Burns played on the band's first two official albums: (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) and Second Helping.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bob Burns (drummer) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Bob Burns's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- J♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 2♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Skeptical Partner
- 8♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Emotional Powerhouse
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♥, 7♦, J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- After growing weary of touring Burns left Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1974.
- In 1996, after years of public disappearance, he participated in a performance to promote Freebird: The Movie.
- On March 13, 2006, he rejoined Lynyrd Skynyrd for one performance, playing alongside Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Ed King, Artimus Pyle and The Honkettes at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
- After that, he again disappeared from public attention, until his death.
Other inductees with this card
- Ben E. King — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
- Bootsy Collins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Clem Burke — 2006 Performers with Blondie
- Donald "Duck" Dunn — 1992 Performers with Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- John Phillips — 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas
- Maurice Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
- Rick Nielsen — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
- Robin Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
FAQ
- What is Bob Burns's birth card?
- The 9 of Hearts. November 24 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Bob Burns's dates come from?
- Birth date 1950-11-24 is the day-precision date on Bob Burns's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Bob Burns (drummer)) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3312145). Birth date 1950-11-24 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).