Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird LIVE is something else... (Reaction!) 

Even as a 78 year old man, when they go off half way through, I still have to restrain myself from putting the pedal to the metal when I’m driving. Our music back then was truly epic. Music today positively sucks.

I was a teenager in the 70s. Back then, it was all about accepting the cultures of others. I was into Motown, 70s "soft rock" and heavy rock and roll. My girlfriend was a disco queen. So, we played it all. The Confederate Battle Flag was just heritage, as much as Mount Rushmore, and the Star Spangled Banner. MLK was a hero for freedom! No one was demonized for who they were. We loved one another. If you didn't live then, you have no idea how effed up it is now. Love your neighbor. Enjoy their culture. Share yours. Don't let evil people divide us. Live to learn, and learn to love one another.

A real Piano, guitars, drums. No fake electronic crap, no artificial beat. Just Real music.

I think that I was blessed to have grown up at a time that we had LYNYRD SKYNYRD, The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, .38 Special and many other great southern rock bands. Greatest music to have had for the background of my teen years. Growing up in the south this music was like oxygen. It gave me life.

The best music The best clothes The coolest cars The best times

Love your reaction and how you openly express yourself, personally and philosophically.

I saw Skynyrd in 75' & 76', They would always leave the stage without playing Freebird. The crowd would go insane clapping, stopping & shouting "Freebird! Freebird!" until they came back a played a very long encore version! Ahhhh... a REAL "Rock-Anthem" and "Southern-Fried Rock" at it's finest! 😝

This was when music was REAL! Our generation had the best music ever. None of the autotune crap . I've never been able to sing a lick but would probably sound okay if I used autotune! With a few exceptions, I am not real fond of the music now. Thanks for the great reaction.

I like the 'natural look" of everyone. No blue hair or 20 layers of make-up on. You knew what you were getting.

There’s a reason they were guitar gods!

Ronnie was 29, Cassie Gaines 29 (backup singer and Steve's sister), Steve Gaines 28 (in red pants), road manager and 2 pilots died in the crash. 20 others survived but had serious injuries. Steve had a great singing voice too. Billy Powell was a roadie and when group took a break he sat down and started playing the song, Ronnie heard him and said from now on your in the band.

I enjoy watching people "discover" great music that us old fogies have been rockin' to for 45 to 50 years

I'm 72 and they still bring a tear to my eye with that f****** song ROCK AND ROLL 🤘 I went two of Lynyrd skynyrd's concerts one before the crash and one after. So sad after ,rock on brothers and sisters,🇺🇸

This IS the greatest guitar solo EVER! ALL 3 GUITARS ROCKING FOR A LOOOONG TIME!!!!

Been a Skynyrd fan for nearly 50 years. This song is truly a masterpiece!

Pure southern rock! And this has been played in so many movies. It’s about a man who can’t commit. He’s a ‘Freebird’ and can’t be chained. ♥️ The plane crashed about 40 miles from my home. There’s finally a monument there now, just out on this secluded farm sort of in the middle of nowhere. Fly high Ronnie, Cassie, Steve, and others. 💔🕊️

And not one cell phone!! Those were the best days to go to a concert, just everyone engaged and rocking out!!! ❤️

"Free Bird" is often described as the equivalent of pushing a grocery cart up a mountain, with your headphones on just chilling to the vibe.. Then hopping in it and riding down the other side😂😂

Free Bird is one of the best rock tunes ever written and performed from one of the best bands of all time. There is only one band member left with us, the drummer, Artimus Pyle. The rest have passed on-all of them way too soon. RIP to all of them.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was a total package of excellent performers. The great Allen Collins, who wrote the music to Freebird, knew how to create music, play music, and perform. He was an outstanding energy in the band. Fly high!

That was Gary Rossington, who is doing the bird chirp on his guitar. He passed away March 5, 2023 this year he was a last surviving member of the original Skynyrd band.

You aren't losing it, you hit the nail on the head. Music isn't what it use to be...I blame it on the industry and the record labels...don't get me started!

My generation...when music, musicians and talent were real. This has to be in the top three rock songs ever written...and never plays the same way twice.

As you can plainly see by the crowd reaction my generation absolutely loved this song.

No body, no body can beat the sound of Rossington/Collins/Gaines when they played. They transcended reality. Man! They were soooo Good!

In 1977 I was 32 years old and living on my sailboat. This was a great number and the crowds there today would be in their 60's to 90's. All those lovely ladies would be grandmas and great grandmas! I never get tired of listening to this and watch the younger generations discover "our" music. I'm now 78! Thanks Sebs!

Oakland Coliseum.. was so hot that day, so so worth it❤❤ didn't realize we were watching legends😢😢 Tuesday's gone with the wind ❤️

This isn't just the live version, the studio version has the same guitar solos. That's why the crowd was so pumped when it started, they knew it was coming.😊

You couldn't turn on a radio back then without hearing Skynyrd. And there was a lot of songs the radio stations had to choose from LOL. I graduated in '79 and Skynyrd was such a big part of our musical lives in the 70s.

Skynyrd was huge when I was in High School, and one of the pioneers of what was known as Southern Rock. When the plane crash happened it was a tragedy beyond words. I saw Charlie Daniel’s years later and he had a song that referenced ‘the free bird had fallen to the ground” that would make you cry.

If you've been around a while, you've heard the guy in the crowd yell out "Freebird!" between songs in a set. It's almost a tradition. RIP Free Birds.

When I was 16 yrs. old I was there at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta when they recorded their One More For The Road album. I still remember how great it was. Whenever they would play the song Freebird he would always say "play it pretty" for wherever they were at. That night I was lucky to hear him say "Play it pretty for Atlanta". I remember being at a friend's house a year later when we heard on the radio about their plane crash. We cried some tears that day. Thanks for the memories on this one.

Oh I've seen Lynyrd Skynyrd 5 times! Always a blast-took my son with me because I sang Simple Man to Jim all the time, we got right up front & center for that song singing our hearts out! Best time ever with my son @ 19 years old at the time.

There’s nothing like 3 guitarists coming to the front of the stage and shredding. I am glad I did get to witness this experience in person.

One of the big rock anthems of my youth! I was a high school senior in '77. I always felt this song embodied that age in life of wishing you could fully commit to serious adulthood and not wanting to disappoint the ones you love, but knowing you'd just be a caged bird. It's that moment when you realize you're free to fly as fast and far in any direction you want in life. Free Bird was exciting and unrestrained, which was inspiring to those of us who were young with a world of possibilities ahead.

Great reaction ! In that last pic you showed, the only one from the 70s classic lineup is Gary Rossington, the one who played slide. He was the last living founding member, and died several months back. Artimus Pyle, the drummer in this performance, is the last surviving member of the 70s classic lineup. This is the greatest live performance of all time.

One of My Favorites My brother put together a group of Friends in 79 who played this at the School Talent Show, and did an amazing show. They Won of course, but were worn-out from it. The Piano player was the Pastors daughter of the Church, and said she had never played a more difficult song in her life. Needless to say she wasn't able to play at church for awhile afterwards FLY HIGH 🕊 LYNYRD SKYNYRD

It’s epic to me….. as a Baptist boy…sheltered from the evils of rock and roll…at a conference track meet…………… one of the teams who had their base camp next to ours, had a big old speaker, and were playing this song right before our heat of the 4 x 4 hundred relay…………………………… imagine psyching yourself up for a 400 m leg of the 4 x 4 relay!!!!!!!!! on a cinder track, with your long spikes on, ripping up the cinders, and this song fresh in your mind…………… pure adrenaline😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

I was about to bust waiting for you to start this song I knew you'd love it!!

This video always makes me want to tell young people who say boomers are so old that these young people are boomers. We remember what it was like to be young. We may not have had the technology back then but we did have fun. We also know all of the bad choices and mistakes we made. We did have epic music and I'm happy people are taking time to hear some of the great songs.

We were all kids, including the band... and the music was So Good!!!

Lords of the "Southern Rock" bands ❤❤❤

Lynyrd Skynyrd is my favorite band ever. They made so much great music in such a short time. I don’t think I’ve heard an original Skynyrd song I didn’t like. You have an advantage by not knowing anything from them. I heard what was on the radio back then. I got older and started diving deeper. I still love it 30 years later.

I saw them in Washington DC in 1976. It was EPIC. The Song of my Youth! Free as a Bird. Driving to this song.. singing!!! ❤

I can say that I saw them play live! May 30, 1976 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. The bands were Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Nazareth, and Ted Nugent. Can you believe that the tickets were only $9.50...!!! Also, the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, that's where the band started.

Southern rock at its best! Them boys from Florida will live on forever in our hearts!

This is so EPIC and tragic at the same time. I miss you always, Ronnie. Billy Powell was so under rated at the piano. Day on the Green concerts were stellar.

I remember dancing to this when I used to go out to bars(68 yrs old now) very long song. It's real rock. Really enjoy ur reaction vids.

This is Kick Ass Southern Rock. God Bless Ronnie Van Zant and Band. Godspeed. ❤🎸 🎸

I've put this off, My Uncle/best friend/Brother/Mentor introduced me to Lynyrd Skynyrd. So much of an impact tha i havent listened in 3 yrs until tonight

And when someone bought a new vinyl we all gathered round and listened to the whole thing in one sitting, a concert at home. Love it !

I was at that concert and saw the band again last summer with my son in Illinois. In my opinion best rock song ever.

Ballad of Curtis Loew is my favorite Skynyrd song. Gimme Three Steps and Simple Man are my other two favorites. Of course Free Bird is iconic! RIP Gary Rossington! My good friend passed several years ago and this was played at her funeral. Still brings tears to my eyes.

That early slide guitar is incredible. You can HEAR the bird floating in circles on the air currents, swooping and diving, and then it builds into the most unreasonable solo of all time.

Thank God reaction videos are showing newer generations this wonderful music we grew up to! Maybe it'll start a fire under these kids to bring their talent to the for front. I know the talent is out there!

I live in Jacksonville Florida the hometown of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet & 38 Special. Lynyrd Skynyrd was the name of their high school PE Coach.

It’s ever crazier when you know that Allen Collins played all of the solo guitar work on the album version on this song. Gary Rossington played slide on the slower first half of the song, but all the fast tempo solos were done by Collins. Legend.

Only weeks before the show above, I saw them in Philly's JFK Stadium with 100k+ others. They were one of a handful of bands who played the show leading up to the headliner for that concert, Peter Frampton. And let me tell you, as a kid of 17 yeas old who though I loved music, wasn't exposed to a lot of 'Southern Rock'.... well, the show Skynyrd put on left a lasting impression on me and everyone else. I didn't know many of their songs or even much about them. Who they were or where they were from but knew a few of their songs played on the radio. But the craziness and energy you see in that video is exactly what it was like their entire set and most felt at the end of the day that the high point of the concert was in fact Skynyrd and not Frampton! As great as Frampton was, he just couldn't match the energy that Ronnie Van Zant and the band brought to the stage. That day and Lynyrd Skynyrd's performance in particular is a memory that has stuck with me to this day, now 46 years later and is as fresh as if it were yesterday. And to top is off, 6 years later I moved away and where do I end up but living in their hometown! RIP to Ronnie and the others and thank you for the memory of a lifetime!

They were one of the greatest bands of all time

I'm 62 and been with my husband since he was 16 and me 17. This was HIS song. For him it was about him being who he was and he WASN'T/COULDN'T change. You take him as he is which was a longhaired, young hippy who lived life on his terms. This song still gives me chills. We played their albums so much.

A great reaction to what is (in my opinion) THE greatest live performance ever! There is a reason that Skynyrd are considered Rock Gods. You have now caught a glimpse of why. A mere GLANCE! Hope everyone is having an amazing week & much love top all from here in the UK

Thank you so much for the reaction! Still listening to this song in Hamburg Germany in 2023🤘🏼!

This song hit way different after the plane crash. Listening to the lyrics, you couldn't help put ascribe a whole new meaning to them. For many years after the band re-formed, they wouldn't sing the lyrics but rather would have a stool mid-stage with a fedora on it, lit by a spotlight while the band played the instrumental. Lynyrd Skynyrd provided a big part of the soundtrack to my life as a teen in the 70's with Freebird, Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama, I Know A Little, Simple Man, They Call Me The Breeze, and so many others. Freebird also featured in the movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service."

Ronnie called his guitarists his mules and he liked to show,off their skills!

I love to watch someone see this for the first time. We had the best music.

This was July 4th, 1977, at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum. That was the summer after I graduated HS. Huge outdoor concerts were very popular. I remember seeing an all day concert outside of Columbus Ohio in June of 1979. It opened with Def Lepard in their early years, followed by Eddie Money, Cheap Trick, The Cars and wrapped up with Utopia. After the concert, it was dark and I just remember somebody set the ticket booth on fire. It was great being young!

Thank you for the great reaction. Another artist you might like is Stevie Ray Vaughan, he was a mad guitar player. Just about any song you could listen to of his is great. He could not read music and learned it from his brother. They called him a prodigy. He also died in a plane crash, actually a helicopter crash. Gone too soon.😢

Hi greetings from Ireland, it has been so heart warming to watch someone enjoy this great art piece (which I first heard as a teenager way back then), Hearing it way back then was a magical experience for me and amongst my first taste to rock music. I have since been a fan of Rock / Metal for many years Until my own venture into discovering Country music... This is what turned me into your channel... Great reaction .. Keep up the great work...

This concert at the Oakland (CA) Coliseum was part of one of many all day and sometimes two day concerts, called DAY ON THE GREEN. People would sit in the stadium seats but most were on the field on blankets and tents.

It's a great story how this song came into being. The young man in all white, Allen Collins is the youngest member of the band and joined as a teenager. He was very intimidated by th others and never put forth anything. Years into their time together he was heard playing this melody and the main riff one morning in their practice facility and Ronnie, the lead singer and band leader told him it was great. Ronnie would insist on adding the final 2.5 to 4 minutes of the song (it varied when played live) to give Allen a well deserved chance to shine on lead guitar as the song crashes to its culmination. It's a great song, but an even better origin story.

The thing that is making me feel bad is that the drummer who is still alive today, is literally underrated as always no one talks about him 🥲

The 70's was music fullfilled!!!

They don't make music like they used to with very few exceptions. We were blessed growing up in that era, we just didn't know how blessed until years later. When this song came out you couldn't see a band anywhere without someone yelling out "Freebird!"

Glad you watched it. I saw them last night in Mt Pleasant and they were amazing. My first time and I never saw them back in the 70s in concert. Wish I had. But last night it was a dream come true. They saluted our country, military, doctors, emts, firefighters, etc. You should read their history on them. Heartbreaking .

Here I go having to say it again. Every time I watch this video clip I find myself thinking, "Man! Look at all of those beautiful young grandmothers!"

I’ve watched around 30-40 reactions to this song and YOURS is the BEST. Great job 👏

Skynyrd is so iconic. You are in for a treat- the greatest guitar playing by a group. The solos are epic. I have always loved their sound, and the meaning in their songs. Everyone plays their Greatest Hits, and for good reason. The final album Last Rebel doesn't get much play, but it should. The song the album is named for is really good.

I saw them the year before the crash in Memphis. Kick ass concert. The day after, I was on my way to work driving down Martin Luther King Expressway, 8 track blasting free Bird in my new Chevelle. I noticed blue lights in my rear view. I pulled over. He said, "Do you know how fast you were going and how long I've been trying to get you to pull over. I had no clue. I've been following you 5 miles, and you're going 80. He said 20 miles over and I can arrest you. I started to cry I said please don't. I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd last night and I'm listening to Freebird. Still crying. He gave me an asschewing and said well I'm gonna give you a break this time. You slow you butt down. Omg. I could have been a jailbird, but thankfully, I was a freebird instead. ❤

Greatest live performance ever...the live performance on The Rolling Stones stage was great too

It makes me smile when I see someone hearing this for the first time. I'm 65 heard it many many times and i'm actually jealous of all these people hearing this music for the first time. (This music) as in all the great rock I grew up with.

I LOVE watching reactions to this song! Everyone talks about it being beautiful, and I'm thinking buckle up!

There is, nor will there ever be, anyone like these men. They're all back together jamming in heaven. There's a monument where the plane crash happen. The words to Freebird are there if you want to look it up. It's beautiful

I was fortunate enough to see them in concert. Freebird was amazing!

I'm so happy to have been a teen in the '70's. We had the greatest music and the greatest clothes. You have got to do Three Steps.

🎶This was the song playing at every party back in the day!

R.I.P. Gary "The Last Rebel" Rossington, playing the slide solos Wirh his passing, the band is back together. FLY HIGH, FREEBIRD!!!

my all time fav song, video, still gives me the chills, best song ever. saw them do this live.x

So glad you did this reaction video... Haven't I grew up in these times and it just puts a smile on my face seeing all the people and remembering what it was like!!! So glad people like you are appreciating it🎉

Great reaction as always and CONGRATULATIONS ON 100k SUBSCRIBERS !!!!! You deserve that and so much more, one of the most real and honest reactors there is . This Desert Shield/Desert Storm Veteran is proud to call you a fellow American too.

1977 Skynyrd live Oakland "Freebird" was the Greatest closing song live I have Ever Seen in my life - I have seen Hundreds of bands...... the best over many years ... this is the Greatest Ever to whoever recorded it ...... Thank you from the bottom of my heart ! Only 2 other performances that may compare, again in my humble opinion .... they were Led Zeplin, Stairway to Heaven and Meatloaf Paridise by the dashboard light and Bat out of Hell ..... Maybe Oueen in Live Aid But that is it

I grew up with Skynyrd. One of the best groups of musicians in Southern Rock. Godspeed Ronnie.

I saw these guys in 1979 and they were the best that I have ever seen. I have been to quite a few concerts in my lifetime and they put on the best performance out of any band that I have seen in concert

I was also at this concert, my first. It was awesome. The lineup was (in order of appearance): The Outlaws Santana Lynyrd Skynyrd Peter Frampton I don't really recall Frampton, but I definitely remember Skynyrd.

my favorite thing to watch people react to

There were 4 other acts at this show. Lynyrd Skynydr was 2nd. They played 11 other songs. This was the last one in their set.

...and THAT is why Freebird is such a rock anthem!

I love watching the reactions that young people have to my music!! I was 20 in 1977. When people use the term boomer in a pejorative manner, I just want to blast Allen Collins guitar solo right in their faces!!

Dude, you get it! That's the best part of this reaction video! Right from the start you pointed out everything awesome about this performance! And you are right, there was never anything like this period of time for music!

The greatest band EVER!!

Free Bird was my class song in 1979, oh yeah I still love it!!!