LS was playing at Oak Mountain In Pelham Alabama with Paul Rodgers.....it was about 95 degrees....the band was jamming , practicing early around one or two in the afternoon.....my crew and I were setting up our food stands and were done when we decided to walk down to the front row to watch LS practice and check the sounds.....they saw us and invited up onto the stage, we met everyone and were allowed to sing along....they even did some Beatle songs .....great experience with the best of the best......to this day I wish we had a camera.....
Just when I start thinking it sucks to get old (which it does) I think of how lucky I was to have been born in 1960 and actually been a teenager when this music first came out. It was definitely a “Goldilocks” time to have grown up in.
You are so right. I was born in 59 and it was a great time to grow up. The music, the things you could do don't exist today. I only got to see them once about 6 weeks before the crash... they totally rocked! Ronnie was in charge for sure. Of I don't get my daily dose of Skynyrd, it's been a bad day. RIP to the best band in the land.
I'm 60 years old fighting stage 4 kidney cancer for 3 years man when I get the Blues I roll me up a big fat bong and I watch Ronnie... and he sings my Blues Away course I get good medicine to that God put here not right now I Had the Blues all day but now I'm about to cry Lynyrd Skynyrd just does something to me tears of joy one day I'll make this man after I meet Jesus
First question, are you still with us? I'm sure hoping. I'm on the other side of throat cancer, I hope anyway. I do the exact same thing, my music is my medicine and thank God we grew in the middle of the best music in history. Let us know Brother if your still on this side... ✊
Can’t listen to this or any other Skynrd song without moving and tapping my feet. Man do I miss this music today. Thank God for you tube to remind us of how great we had it in the 60’s and 70’s
We don't realize how great it was until it is gone. The great music of the late sixties and 70's really brought people together. Then, came the '80's and all that love hit the dance floor. Afterwards, it all died. The love and music died in the '90s, to be replaced with violent music. We never realize what we had until it's gone.
A few things stood out to me, no one is fat and there are no cell phones!! Just good old Southern Rock with zero BS!! So glad I was a teenager in the 70's!! Man did we have fun back then!!
You have no idea how jealous I am that you were old enough to see these bands from back then. I was just a tad too young to see them, but was jumping around to their music on the radio and belting out the lyrics all the same, lol.
And man did you escape the hell of these worthless times, im 28 now so at least i managed to grow up to some extent without social media being what it is today, you were so lucky live in a time when everyone wasnt fat stupid and angry over nothing
@JGBugs . . . lol, I love your comment about "all the 40 and 50 year old kids that still love their music". .... You got that right !! ... 52 year old kid here .... still enjoying that awesome sound !! Best wishes always !!
My Dad use to play Skynyrd's Gold & Platinum tape (that he recorded from an LP) on our bi-monthly 1.5 hour weekend trip to visit with him (folks were getting divorced)... seems like this and other great music he played for us (brother and I) helped keep our minds of the not-so-good events of daily life. This music puts a smile on my face and a few tears in my eyes. No matter how shitty your life gets, you can always turn to music, either listening or playing to help you keep rollin along. :``)
Rock-n-roll music is my drug of choice and these guys strike the central nervous system like no other...everytime. Lifelong resident of Jacksonville Florida 60 years and running. Thankyou Ronnie Van Zant.
Watching Skynyrd kind of brings a sadness, especially classic live Skynyrd after what happened to them. But, it's clear their legacy is well deserved. Great music, great band, great friends.
I saw them in KC on this tour with 100,000 of my closest friends. I cherish the memory. The videos bring me right back to that day. There was so much talent on the stage the crowd was electric and it built until the finale with Free Bird! RiP all thanks for the memory.
Tightest and best badass band their ever was, best damn songs and would kick any other bands ass live when they hit the stage... Skynyrd lives forever!!
@@soundshaper well I love the Allman's to but for sheer kick ass guitar and vocals and Artimus pounding the skins they were a notch above the Allman Bros
@@bill2527 Skynyrd was the south's answer to the Rolling Stones, and live they were better than the Stones (except maybe 1971 Stones live were pretty kick ass).
I saw an interview with JVZ, Gary Rossington. Johnny talked about how Ronnie and the others lost in the crash never got to know how popular Freebird became and some others. Johnny has always said to fill Ronnies shoes was not possible. I feel that most Lynyrd Skynrd fans feel that Johnny and all the other members that continued on have done a great job. We have to realize these guys are pretty damn old, voices change as well as other things. They have entertained us for many years and I am grateful for that!
Yes I know when Johnny took over when they regrouped I was not impressed at all. No one can replace Ronnie but as I heard Johnny say that he is not stepping on his brothers feet but caring on his music I started gained respect for Johnny. He did an awesome job but Ronnie's voice is irreplaceable.
As Johnny got older he did a fantastic job And all the musicians they've had since they regrouped in 87 were phenomenal, Randall Hall and Ed King with Gary Rossington that was a pretty special line up there,Hughie Thomasson JR, Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington was pretty damn awesome too
I found Lynyrd Skynyrd as a teenager growing up in Germany. Only a handful of guys at my high school were into this band, and I was hooked before I had finished listening to the first song (I think it was Sweet Home Alabama) on a long train ride back from a school ski trip. This music literally changed my life, first helping me get over what I perceived as a very monotonous and boring life in Germany, where everyone else was listening to Abba and the Bay City Rollers (OMG), and ultimately making me immigrate to California in my twenties. With music like that, I thought, America must be one hell of a country. And I was mostly right :-)
One of the best and live maybe the best. I mean the band before the plane crash. This concert in Knebworth 1976 was far out the best. They blew away the Stones.
Lynyrd Skynrd, what can you say. The first seven albums with the great Ronnie Van Zant is the most underrated music in rock history. I really love this song and also Searching.
Lynyrd Skynyrd this is such a great Southern rock and roll band i saw them in 1975 at Bill Graham's Winterland in San Francisco there will only be one like them!!
@@philliplynn3938 great song please check out Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd Innyrds : Their Greatest Hits and Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) album review on my channel
@@twelvepolesdaroot7453 great song please check out Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd Innyrds : Their Greatest Hits and Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) album review on my channel
This must have been absolutely incredible to hear live . So much more advanced than anything . 3 guitars all playing different nitches together and harmonizing , also vocal harmonies . Infucking sane . This is one of their best songs . Ed King made this one very intricate .
I was 21 back in 1976,and saw Them 3 or 4 times at Winterland & The Cow Palace in SF,and a few times in Oakland at the Colosseum and the Arena.Unless you were alive ,you wouldn't remember how bad things kinda sucked in this country...Lots of "malaise"..When Carter was President,there was the "misery index",measuring how awful people felt.But,The Music back then was good,and women had real,natural bodies.Nothing fake about them.Love the backup singers.
Live forever lived there in early 2000 for 12 years spent alot of time at jackonville beach and free bird cafe till ronnies wife closed it god bless them all rip to them all
@saintearth C'mon man... stop being the bad guy in this story. I'm a black guy and really like Skynrd and the Allman Bros. The music never lies. I thought that Skynrd were racist, so never got into them, but that's not the truth. They were just proud of their southern heritage, which is cool with me. Ain't nothing wrong being proud of where you came from. Music transcends race and boundries and that's the greatest thing. It doesn't hurt the they rock!
Very well said and most importantly, you understand things, its plain an simple to me, it defines the ones who fought and died, for believing they actually even had a choice on taxes! Even to this day most Yankees want to go south just to see if they can fuck it all up like the shit there running from up there?? Wtf??
Ronnie got better and better as the years went by. He gained more control and a better feel for his voice. If you listen to early early Skynyrd like "Michelle" in 70' you can really see how far it came. Ashamed they went so soon. They could've done anything they wanted musically
Van Zant had charisma out the ass. Just a super cool dude.. Today's so called "entertainers" could learn a lot just by watching these old clips of him.
