Sir, thank you so much for these posts! I love watching you and listening to your voice tell these stories.❤⚘❤ Get a tape recorder and just talk! Then you can have someone write the book! God knows I will buy it! PLEASE, PLEASE write a book about EVERYTHING you can remember or want to share. You won't even have to pick up a pen you can just talk into a tape recorder.🙏🙏🙏
Hey Steve - This is the first video I've checked out by you, but I just wanna say I really appreciate all these details and anecdotes that you provide. I'll check out (& subscribe) more of your videos ...... I'm from near Jax - Jekyll Island, and I'm a bit younger (mid 40's) , but I have a detailed memory of the 70's , as a kid - it was a time like no other I've seen since (80's were great too!) ..... of course, being older now, much more of it makes a bit more sense . You should consider writing a book, if you haven't already ! God Bless!
I’m building a guitar from wood from the Hell House original Dock, and foundation from Hell House, and incorporating metal from the plane. Once it’s complete we will loan it out to touring musicians so those timber’s will continue to sing and vibrate. LLLS. Long Live Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Hey Steve did you know Mike Owings, he did a stint with Hatchet back around 2000. He was performing in the Baton Rouge area (stage name R.L. Spence) in his band called Dog Butt Brown, and the drummer in our band (Dem Dawgz) was also performing with him. Mike was a great guitar player, he'd come and sit in with us when he didn't have a gig, because he like all the southern rock we were playing. We were already doing 7 or so Skynyrd tunes, but when he showed, he could play and sing anything in their catalog. He told us he knew all the guys from Skynyrd, 38 Special, Hatchet. He got the gig with Hatch when he went to a Hatch show, I believe it was was at the Cajan Dome, in Lafayette Louisiana, when he showed up to watch the show and got backstage. Apparently Hatchet was wanting to replace one of their guitarist at the time, and asked him if he could be in Biloxi Mississippi and ready to play there next show. Here are a few clips of him. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KpIQoObOFBQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mv7xhrPSMWQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X2rslOoTnQU.html Other videos of Mike preforming can be seen on this page ru-vid.comvideos Anyway, he told us he knew all the players from the bands out of Jacksonville, thought you may have known him? Thanks for the history......
I have been told that before. I can still remember the outfits that Skynyrd and The Allmans wore back then in detail. A couple of old friends and I still talk about this music explosion like it was yesterday. We never get tired of it and all of the little details about it. It keeps us going. We are a bunch of old men now.
I kinda have the same memory. Its a blessing and a curse. I remember details of the past and my friends say they dont remember last week.Harder to forgive when things seem like yesterday. The only people i look at as old, are bitter mean folks.Your not old at all man!. Thanks again for the stories Steve. Peace brother.
Hellcrasher Porter I have the same blessing/curse. It can be tough because I feel like I remember details of things I shouldn't. I'm 46, so I'm not old, but getting there. But what you said in your comment is very well said.
the girl came from Ocala,and her name was Sue.she wasn't married,and the guy involved in the shooting was her brother. I think their last name was weakly they ran a hay field business in the little town Anthony FL,on the north side of Marion County FL,their neighbors were KC,and the Sunshine Band,and he lives in the same house Wright to this day. I remember the story well my sister was a dancer in Jacksonville right around the corner at the time,and she hung out with the band as it happens her name is you as well,and she knows you and your half-brother.I think he's your half brother. her last name is Tucker,but she used the last name Gray.
@ Steve I live in Jax and this is the story I've alwys heard. Not the Little Brown Jug as has also been claimed. My friend Cathy and her husband bought it and renamed it the Pastime, right behind Pic and Save on Lennox and Verna.
No it was the little brown jug hence "I was cuttin a rug down at a place called the jug" I know the guy who was REALLY there beside Ronnie his name is Jim and he lives on the westside idk who TF this guy is but he's lying I promise you that
Man I enjoy your story telling. I Would drive over in a heartbeat if you ever have a meet and greet or what ever... this damn covid has all the gig workers here on the gulf shut down.. Thanks for sharing and God bless my brother
I'm not questioning you but I've heard Judy Van Zant tell this story with a cutaway scene showing the front of the bar named the little brown jug & it was supposedly outside Atlanta GA.. I know Jacksonville is where the band is from so it kind of struck me a little odd that she stated this happened near Atlanta..
Sounded like those crows were not happy to have you there. I had an older brother that saw Skynyrd at Finochio's in Underground Atlanta. He ended up at Atlanta PD because he was witness to a stabbing at that show.
@ Thomas Yes there is a bar/liquor store called The Little Brown Jug, can't remember what st it's on, somewhere in Riverside. It is often said to be the inspiration for Gimme Me Three Steps, although both Allen and Gary said it happened at West's Tavern, just like Steve says here. Thanks Steve
Previous videos I watched you said you knew Ronnie 7 years and in yet another video you said in 1970 at pop festival you hadn’t yet met Ronnie while discussing skynard with jimi and Greg. How then were you around Ronnie in 1967? Caught in your own lie!
Bobby Lowery awww man give the cat a break. He survived the 60-70s running around with the likes of skynyrd. He earned the right to be a little absent minded between sentences eh?
