Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps (Live At Knebworth '76) 

Hello Andrew how are you doing today

Bruh, it wasn’t bad luck, they and the pilots were drunk/hooking up wit groupies and went into a storm. Those dudes were simply to wild for this concrete jungle.

@@pooboi8600 In his 2003 book Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock, Gene Odom, a bodyguard for Van Zant[19] who was on board the plane and survived the crash, reports that co-pilot Gray had been observed using cocaine the previous evening and was potentially impaired;[20] however, toxicology reports from both pilots' autopsies found no traces of alcohol or other drugs.[1] "Crew inattention to fuel supply" was ultimately determined to be responsible for the crash.

@@pooboi8600 they didn’t fly into a storm , their plane ran out of gas , pilots had no drugs or alcohol in their system per toxicology reports…pilots error and negligence was the cause of the crash …do some research

@Jay Landau Well it was an end to Lynyrd Skynyrd sadly.

AGREED BROTHER

I'll be a fan till the day I die

You got that right

@@skynyrdnation3902 me too

The 60's, 70's, some of the 80's and a portion of the 90's contain the formula to ear happiness

The most important band in history. Yeah 3:35

Yes, accessible.

so short together as a great band

Amen brother

I agree. Such a tragedy they lost their lives.

Me too! Rock On 👍🏻‼️

Till I die

I am, since 1977, and still going strong today!!!!

I’m super cool then 😎

Damn straight! 😎

Sir, you are absolutely correct. 😊

You got that right!

and barefooted. Ronnie never wore shoes when performing. He said he liked the heat on his feet from the stage.

Definitely. Dude just had this cool vibe about him like he just didn't give a fuck and he just wanted to perform his music.

I was surprised when I read that Ronnie Van Zant wrote most of they're songs. A genius

Yes, it's true but Ronnie was also scrutinizing every bandmates performance in every possible way and detail. if they failed in the slightest...that bandmate would get an earful from Ronnie after the show...FO SHOW! Ronnie was a perfectionist and even insisted they bow to the audience at the end of their performance. The politeness and extreme respect to the audience was not only a very old school homage but also a tribute to their parents' Southern upbringing. There was no just walking off the stage with a little wave at the end of the show...No Suh! They understood exactly what their fame brought to their lives and didn't take their fans or audience members for granted. Another reason, of many, to just love this band from my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.

@@maryreilly5092 cool to know!

@@maryreilly5092 love the backstory! I was in college when that sad news came a year later of their plane crash.

@@maryreilly5092 Ronnie’s little brother Johnny is also like that to with the current incarnation of Skynard. Johnny has done well filling in.

Great

Right. And they didn't have all the effects back then. What they actually played was what you actually heard. You had to possess talent. And the lyrics were just real-life experiences they had. They were just so far ahead of the times with their sound.

@@toddbeck7352 Forsure, they sound amazing live, definitely indicative of true talent

Yes!!!

But 7 forgot the pot ,blow,and lsd ,,thus laid back and great entertainment

Love this because they tell a good little story and kick ass with the music.

❤

Damn right! And the absolute shit show that they became. Nothing but a tribute band... It took 12 musicians, not counting the "Honkettes" to recreate what the original band did.

THEY DID PRETTY DAM GOOD AS REPLACING ORIGINAL LEONARD!

Thier live performances were spot on with the recorded sessions, they difently were one of the best Rock groups to ever take a stage!

Best Southern Band ever.

Don't forget Leon Wilkeson on Bass ❗👍🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I never knew what caused the crash until now. What a crying shame.

​@@Eltalstro Please see my comment above.

@trock6577 Don't forget the guys that were maintaining and leasing the aircraft ‼️😡

Yoyo you know me from scotland 😉

NEVER AGAIN !!

They do make em it just don’t sell like it used too 😂

Your absolutely right Mr. Charles!

Hello Charles how are you doing today

It sure was lol

The freebird at this concert...omg..legends

@FREE BIRD I think you mean mick Jagger and keith Richards

@FREE BIRD that's funny lol

@FREE BIRD RONNIE LIKED HIS JUNK TOO

You can see and feel how much he loves playing.

You got that right on

That's most definitely 💯 truth of the matter! 👏

Agree 100%. Basically all I listen to now in 2023. Glad I grew up in the '60s and '70s.

As much as I agree that the 70's were one of the best decades for rock music I have to say the 60's are equally important and amazing. Remember, LYNYRD SKYNYRD started in 1964. Different name but same musicians. They were already Skynyrd in their hearts and souls. Same talent, same awesome music. The 60's were the bands that essentially created the bands of the 70's. LONG LIVE LYNYRD SKYNYRD!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Amen to that …

Right on there brother they are a machine and they know it

Yes I am also I introduced them to my kids and now my 3 Granddaughters jam to them! 😎 By the way they are my Homeboys. May they R.I.P.

Your grandkids are blessed to have you in their lives. Live long, friend.

THANK YOU!! Feel sorry for kids today they are clueless.

They were good, although I saw them live with Ed King, and I'd argue that was the best era. But Gaines is damn good too, and did add a different shade to the band.

America 2 England 0, The panic must have been overwhelming, The Monkeys, Peater Paul and Merry??? LOL, the stones got their nuts handed to them. It only made them stronger.

They dared to walk on “The Tongue.”

@@furbabydaddy5604 Stones will be corporate till they are dead, . Skinner struts their stuff cause they have earned all the glory. Still do for me.

@@frankchristensen6434 sure. Me too. I meant that they had the balls to walk on the “Tongue”.

@@furbabydaddy5604 Down home rock'n roll vs. those Brits that probably have probably never been told no. thenk's for the reply

Hello Paul how are you doing today

@WALK IN MY SHADOW that’s great hope all is well with you

@WALK IN MY SHADOW where are you from

Got that right

RIP legends

Couldn't have said it any better 😜

No you don’t son but it was one hell of a ride.

Watch filthy franks video talking about how goofy you sound

Best years. Best music .

There was some fake rubbish back then, also.

They sold out whenever they played the UK and when they first toured supporting Golden Earring they got a headline show at London's Rainbow Theatre because they blew them off the stage and people were walking out after Skynyrd finished their set so maybe it was just you...

Hello dean how are you doing today

Dude, they sold out even in Japan, still in the 70s with Ronnie!

I was a bit too young then lol...Fully appreciated now though.

Don't kid yourself there were a lot who did. I had seen them on OGWT the previous year, and they were the main attraction here as far as I was concerned, not 10CC or the Stones, although I'm glad to have seen them.

Hello Doug how are you doing today

HELL YEAH ! HELLISH GOOD TAST MAN!!!!😎😎😎😎

I'm 15 year old peace and love ✌😄

That’s awesome i grew up listing and do to this day I’m 58 .their is nothing like original skyryrd. They blew stones off the stage in Europe

GREATEST AMERICAN BAND EVER 💜

I’m 17 and have been lucky enough to see them twice but I’m sadly not old enough to have see Ronnie

I got 2 say man, my dad was actually moonshiner and u r right, back then.

lol not wearin a dress lol

@@snake88ification Maybe it’s because men acted like men back then.

Facts!!!

Because that stupid shit wasn’t pushed by the government back then and people weren’t brainwashed

poor Allen. he got a shitty deal all around. lost his wife then his legs. died at 37.

My guitar god

That the one and only Eric Clapton gave him... what I would do to get my hands on one

Actually, records were lost of how many were made but Gibson figures it was close to 50 not 19

Rick Neilson of Cheap Trick has 2 of them

That guitar was worth more on that stage than any amount of money. 1976 was a priceless time that money can’t buy.

Where is this guitar now?

Me too

God bless 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This Kids is Southern Rock at its FINEST

@@markoliver6117 9

How come most Skinnard fans can't wait to die and go party with the band in heaven. Sick-o's!!!

Hello frank how are you doing today

Me too; when I need a laugh!!!!!!!!

Have you tried google search or face book to find them?

I'm sure Skynyrd had an awesome set but it's pretty damn hard to blow the Stones away. I mean they are, after all, The Rolling fucking Stones.

No mate they blew them away

Lynyrd was a much better band than Rolling Stones

I think they blew away the WHO & manager

@D Lay You might *prefer* Skynyrd to the Stones, but your comment is ridiculous. One promotional slogan called LS “The Rolling Stones of the South”.

Him and steve gaines were two of my inspirations

He's so good!

Billy was my piano inspiration skynyrd is awesome

@@WhiteWeather_ my uncle gary ross not by blood but by the reason that him and my dad were in a band and i grew up around him, his wife tina used to babysit billys kids. Billy would go on tour he would give her a bunch of credit cards and basically just said have fun make sure the kids are safe. He also gave gary his blessing as he said and i quote "gary is the most naturally talented piano player i have ever seen in my life.

@@gwillypdawg that is an awesome story man! I wish I were alive back then 😂 I'm only 15 and still keeping the skynyrd dream alive with the piano!

Agree. BEST time for music & youth!!!!

Pepem

Remember when you could see The Rolling Stones for $7.50?

@@ashleyrigatoni702 Although I can recall most all the live shows the braincells that are left have difficulty with the finer details such as ticket prices. That era was the best ever for music. Damn we were lucky 🦆 ducks

When men were men and bands were bands not all this rainbow fucking shit what a load of bollocks

Watching them 35 yrs on ,and still going 😊😊 ,bless

The way it ought to be.

Great story

Right on girl.

That's BEAUTIFUL! My uncle got me listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd when I was little.... Best memories ever!

@@tabathabrabham6384 When we were kids and told our friends where we would go if we had time machines.....I bet none of us said "I'd go back and hang out with my uncle".

He is absolutely wasted whaling on that poor guitar.

Right. He wasn't really appreciated til years later when there was actually something to compare him to. He's probably in the top 5 of all time. If not , then he's the best. In my opinion

There was no "shredding" in the 70s. I am so grateful for that.

Agree!

@@wheatonna Me too!

@@edwhite7475 Oh shame on me, typo.

Now the lead singer is Johnny Van Zant Ronnie’s little brother. And Ricky Medlocke who was in the band 1971-72 replaced Allen when he rejoined in 1996.

@@edwhite7475 Steve’s legacy is alive in Corinna Gaines Biemiller.

@@edwhite7475 Ricky Medlocke is very much today’s Allen. Plays the same guitars as him too and was in the original band as a studio drummer.

@@edwhite7475 Very true but Medlocke actually wrote many hits with Blackfoot including Highway Song, and Train Train. Medlocke knew Allen and was close to him.

I have a question if your that old how did you spell Lynyrd wrong

@@yerav4241 Didn't have my glasses on. Deal with it, I'm 54.

Me!

Who's asking stupid questions in 2024?🙄

🤪 Will be watching in 2034- I will be 74 year's old - still be here ❇️ Smokin 🤪❇️

​@@BartmanBrooklynAmen to that! I am soooo sick of seeing that same "who's here in 2024" on pretty much every SINGLE video I watch!

Stop that "who's here" bs!

Posting 1-14-22. Actually it was 44 years last October 20. Before you know it, the half-century mark of their deaths will be here.

Sad day indeed.I always felt so bad for their families and especially Steve and Cassie parents losing 2 children at once.So so sad.

Yep. That's it my man. The last of the first has past. Full stop.

Well MadBassit oh excuse me The I absolutely agree this girl is crying right now

Great song! ❤

In my humble opinion Gary was the heart and soul of the band. Just like the album title he was Nuthin' Fancy to watch on stage - he just played. But boy, howdy, did he play! As they say he was as smooooooth as buttermilk! Rest well gentlemen, you'll never be forgotten.

I cried like a baby

They are still number one

I am SO very glad I got to see them in concertI👍❤️

after 1977 there is no real Lynyrd Skynyrd

A BAND Powerful enough to turn Goat Piss into Gasoline. IMO. 😁✌️

A band with 3 lead guitar players that could take a lead at any time. They are Bad Ass !

He also wrote this song.

Actually, when you think about it, every single musician was fantastic! Leon Wilkeson is one of my favorite Bass players of all time. Billy Powell is arguably the best piano player in Rock. Artimus is a kick ass drummer! Every single musician on that stage is top notch!

@@BST-lm4po absolutely! The backstory is also pretty amazing with the core group of guys from the same Jacksonville high school and Billy Powell was a roadie! Amazing what brilliant musicians these guys were. It was like Ronnie said, they were truly street survivors

@@BST-lm4po and the girls......!

so does this 78 yr old woman!

Just another day at the office for Skynyrd. They were always ready when the lights came on. Go watch the 10cc and Stones footage from this day. Skynyrd seriously makes both of them look like absolute amateurs.

When you have talent, you don't need auto tune.

In my opinion the best duo in Skynyrd and the true sound of Skynyrd respect to Gary. But musically it was Ronnie and Allen’s . Not only Allen solos but he is rhythm playing and writing song structures

It was cool as hell him stomping his foot to the beat. But I don't think he was the one who played the opening riff that was Gary Rossington. Then Allen Collins and then Steve Gaines but it should've been Ed King if he would've had quit before they did this show. Then just one short year later the plane crash happened which ended it all. What ashame.

@@darellgullion4888 wrong. It’s Allen on the opening riff.

That cowbell is sick too. Has a modern sound to it like you could almost hear it as an opening for a punk show. Really love this intro

@@darellgullion4888 No sorry brother but I'm the biggest Lynyrd Skynyrd fan of all time. I know pretty much everything about them from head to toe. I know for sure that it's Allen playing the opening riff and he actually wrote that guitar riff too. No hate just wanted to correct you 🤘

​@@darellgullion4888Allen Collins opening riff. You can see him briefly just as Ronnie points to Gary to come in with his sick fat tone for the lead. Allen gets lots of rightful love but Gary was every bit as good and probably technically better with a "wider" range of abilities (slide, dobro, etc). His tone is the backbone of the LS sound.

I just watched it it was really good

Awesome news 👏 🙌 😀

When I heard they only had one rule, Don’t walk on the tongue and of course RVZ didn’t follow rules very well. I loved it.

It was killer!! The roller skating monkey was hilarious 😂

Hey from scotland, what is doc called? I can't find it

Hell yeah Johnny boy loves Skynyrd...

Haha

Evelyn Racine It was so cool in 70s Buffalo, NY had 10 years of concerts 4 every summer at Bills Stadium. Rolling Stones liked us played here 6 times. Zeppelin 2 times, Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Journey, Reo Speedwagon, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Allman Brothers, Greatfull Dead, The Who. Some Trend started most bands opened saying ( HELLO BUFFALO ). Buffalo people like there Music almost every concert sold out. Some concerts got out of hand because of very little Security. Buffalo is not a Popular City, mostly because of all the snow we get, not kidding almost every winter Lake Erie dumps 10-12 feet. Also are Bars are open till 4am, lots of people blame that on Buffalo has a big IRISH Population. ALWAYS WHITE CHRISTMAS IN BUFFALO. Forgot Buffalo has a name ( SNOW CAPITAL OF USA )

@Evelyn Racine the 70's were the f-ing BEST for concerts, and any live performances!!! We were incredibly fortunate to have experienced that. @jim ogrady, I'm originally from Rochester. 😉 ❤ 🎸 🤘 🎶

@@jimogrady1131 mtp nyo

I was one of those teens, too in the 70's. Every penny of my little fast food job went to seeing live shows!

I'm 64 and I loved skynyrd ... Free bird!!

Ronnie always stood back and barefooted and never had ta say a word

@@charleswilder682 He most likely said it all in rehearsals.

I was amazed when I learned just how hard & strict they always worked in rehearsals all the time. It showed. I was blessed to hear them live. They will always be one of my favorite bands.

Ya, I heard Artimus Pyle say that Ronnie wanted him to play the original drummer Bob Burns parts exactly like they were recorded in the studio, and Artimus said that he found that a little challenging! He said that he was used to just playing what came natural to him,.. and to try to duplicate another drummer's pattern took some effort.

Second only to the ABB 😉

Hello Walter how are you doing today

Me

Fuck the Stones

Still listening 2024

Me as I was thinking of when I went watching them in the midd 70s in Manchester a very long time ago but the memories are still there ❤❤🎸

Yes

There was a live version of this from Atlanta in 1976, and after he said "Excuuuse me!" it sounded like he said "I ain't gonna fight him over his cunt." Sorry if my language offended, but it sounded for all the world to me like that's what he said. BTW, I'm 58 myself, and'll never get tired of hearing them perform this song, I don't care where or when!

@@TheBrooklynbodine , Thats our RVZ !

@@TheBrooklynbodine If you listen closely, he says it here too!

@@BST-lm4po Yes, he does. BTW, tomorrow (1-15-22) would've been his 74th birthday. Had he lived, how much does anybody wanna bet he'd still be performing it, assuming he was physically able.

@Kelly Wilson I also love RVZ's whistle and his growling, teeth baring, approval while watching Collins, Rossington, and Gaines nail it!

And yet there are current tour dates listed at the top. Who's touring as Lynyrd Skynyrd? I know why, but it's pathetic.

If you don't like give me 3 steps thwn you're not a fan.

and then ronnie will ask him for 3 steps

God bless you beautiful

me too.

Too right - we do this song in my covers band with two guitars and no keys so the bassline is even more important. I was actually at this concert at the tender age of 16 (I lived walking distance from Knebworth) and I can still remember the buzz Skynard created - completely stole the show.

@@TheStratpicker The great thing about that show was, all the bands were told beforehand they were not allowed to use that runway ramp. It was for The Rolling Stones ONLY. HAHA...well guess who used it anyway? 😆😂

Leon Wilkeson was a huge part of the Skynyrd sound! He had that funky, boggy, swampy sounding Bass! ....One of the best all-time!

RIP 🙏🙏🙏

Allen Collins :-)