Leon Wilkeson's Birth Card: The 6 of Spades

In the record

Leon Russell Wilkeson (April 2, 1952 – July 27, 2001) was an American musician. The birth-card coordinate for April 2 is the 6 of Spades — 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 6 of Spades coordinate

Leon Wilkeson's birthday maps to the 6 of Spades (The Responsible Mind). 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 Leon Wilkeson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You use what you have already walked through without requiring anyone else to be in pain for it to count.

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Leon Wilkeson in the public record

He was the bassist of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 until his death in 2001. Born on April 2, 1952, in Newport, Rhode Island, but raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Wilkeson became a major Beatles fan just as he was becoming a teenager and began learning to play bass guitar in order to emulate his favorite Beatle, Paul McCartney. Wilkeson dropped out of his school band in order to focus on learning the bass at the age of 14 and shortly afterward was approached by a fellow student who told him that her brother was searching for a bassist for his band. Her brother turned out to be Ronnie Van Zant, and soon after, Wilkeson signed on with Van Zant's group, the Collegiates. However, due to plummeting school grades, Wilkeson had to drop out of the group. Soon Wilkeson found himself in another local group, the King James Version. He began to study the "lead bass style" of bassists such as Cream's Jack Bruce, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady, The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh and the Allman Brothers' Berry Oakley. By 1972, Wilkeson was becoming one of Jacksonville's top bassists.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Leon Wilkeson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 6♠, 2♠, 9♠, 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, Q♥, 10♣, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.

Also on the record

1. When Lynyrd Skynyrd's bassist Greg T.
2. Walker left the band, Wilkeson was brought in as his replacement.
3. For a short time, Wilkeson worked at a dairy plant, Farm Best Dairy in Jacksonville, during which on an interview he laughed that he "got paid every two weeks and got all the ice cream he could eat".
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd signed with Al Kooper's production company, Sounds of the South, a joint venture with MCA Records, in 1973.

Other inductees with this card

• Axl Rose — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
• Bob Marley — 1994 Performers
• Bobby Womack — 2009 Performers
• Chris Squire — 2017 Performers with Yes
• David Bowie — 1996 Performers
• David Robinson — 2018 Performers with The Cars
• Elvis Presley — 1986 Performers
• Jason Newsted — 2009 Performers with Metallica
• Marvin Gaye — 1987 Performers
• Robby Krieger — 1993 Performers with The Doors
• Terry Sylvester — 2010 Performers with The Hollies

FAQ

What is Leon Wilkeson's birth card?

The 6 of Spades. April 2 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 Leon Wilkeson's dates come from?

Birth date 1952-04-02 is the day-precision date on Leon Wilkeson'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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