This video was originally released on The Marshall Tucker Band DVD "Live From The Garden State 1981". This concert was filmed on August 4, 1981 at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ. www.ramblinrecords.com www.marshalltucker.com
You got it--I'm originally from NJ. Can't recall exactly when I started listening to these guys, Allman Bros, Molly Hatchet, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Probably at home in NJ of all places (WCBS-FM out of NYC), and then buying records for my 1st STEREO in Germany. But then 2 assignments @ Charleston AFB, S,C. and Keesler AFB, (Biloxi, MS) really woke me up to Southern Rock. I was blessed to see/hear them in concert in SC (forget where) long ago in 77 or 78. Remembering the show is a lost cause. Might still have the shirt, PTL!
I feel so privileged to have grown up in the 1960s and 70s when we had more hair than good sense. Did your high school have a smoking area like mine did, where teenagers could grab a cigarette between classes? Good heavens!
Same here. Graduated '76...what a crazy time it was to be alive...... As someone famous once said ....... " we are the rock n roll generation, and we are not going down lightly "......lol
I was in high school in the’70’s we had a smoking lounge outside… I would roll up pot in the papers that looked like a cigarette with a filter, and smoke pot, just a quick puff and on my way back to class. I was such a rebel. 😜
Seen this band back in 75 . In those days I was into southern rock CDB,Pure Prairie League, MTB, Outlaws, 38 Special, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Lynard Skinard,ABB, that was some awesome times. 65 now and still rocking it in 2024. Hell yeah!!!
Me too,saw them blow the roof off The Lauderhill Fl.Sunrise Music Theatre in 78',University of Toledo in 79' Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston Mi 3 times.Toy was an ungodly talent.
My daddy was a singer and guitar player in bands my entire childhood. MT band was one of his faves. I grew up listening to these songs ... I lost my daddy in June, cancer took him within a month of diagnosis. Listening to this song has me in tears... Rip daddy, I miss you so very much!!!
I Hunted the bottoms of West Tennessee with my father in the 80s. More than once early in September while in the woods searching for a place to put a deer stand we ran into patches of weed. Dad always went high alert when this happened. This song always reminds me of that part of my youth.
What a great song. Holds strong after all these years. Thanks for all the people who have fought and died for our country. I’m listening to this song sitting in my truck thanks for that freedom.
I've been listening to Marshall Tucker band since I was in the womb and still listing through all my 38 years so far . My generation definitely doesn't know how to make good music like this !
Totally agree with the last comment. Tucker, Skynyrd, Zeppelin, Rush, The Commodores, Kool and the Gang. Music from the '70's is just the best in our lifetime. As soon as I saw that MTV shirt Doug G. was wearing, I knew this was a show after Tommy's passing. Long live Toy, Tommy and Timmy Caldwell!
Now it's rappers, that couldn't make it, and people from Australia, singing teeny bopper music, good God, where has country music gone, I'll never lose sight😡
Toy was a self taught steel guitar player. He taught himself pretty damn good. By the same token, Jerry Eubanks taught himself flute in just a few hours as a matter of necessity. These guys MADE music. Southern Rock is THE best genre of music EVER.
Song always makes me “feel” as if I’m riding my favorite horse on a trail in the Rocky Mountains, I think it’s because of the “loping along” rhythm section. So relaxing…😘
Fun Fact:Toy Caldwell had purchased his steel guitar the day before Fire on the Mountain was recorded. He did not know how to play one but figured that standard guitar riffs would suffice & played the song as released. He did not know that the instrument was not tuned & was still able to make a great song.
44 years ago today, the heart and soul of the Marshall Tucker band died with the passing of Tommy Caldwell, the band's original bassist. The band was never quite the same after his passing IMHO. This recording is post Tommy with Franklin Wilkie on bass.
@@fmagalhaes1521 it's still open an going strong. I haven't been sice I was 10 or 12 yrs old . I'm 44 now . I live up by chase high school right across the state line . Now that you mention it , I think I'll go thus weekend. Thanks for the idea . I hope you make it back there someday soon yourself
Im 66 and I have seen MTB from early on until the last time I saw them in 99 at Clear Lake Cal. with Charley Daniels and Molly Hatchet and the band was just a shell of is original self. I remember being heartbroke.
First Album I listened to was Marshall Tucker-1975-First concert as well-I can still see Toy sitting there playing that still guitar more than 45 years later.
It was in 1977, I bought a vinyl album called South’s greatest hits in India without knowing anything about Southern Rock of US. I was exposed to Rock music even in India at that time and knew bands like CSNY, JETHROTULL, STONES, LZ, BEATLES and even country stars like EAGLES, John Denver, Kenny Rogers etc but never heard groups like ABB, Lynyrd Skynyrd, PPL, MTB, Outlaws , Wet Wille , ARS etc. The South’s Greatest hits album had many of these bands and opened a new musical window for me . These bands had soul, blues, rock and country genres wrapped up seamlessly. Guitars could be heavy, bluesy or twangy. In addition m Piano ,Harmonica ,banjo, fiddle and even flute were used frequently and percussion was propulsive. The vocals could be sad, bluesy, joyous and sometimes loud . The first time experience of listening to Midnight Rider, Jessica, Can’t you see, Sweet Home Alabama, Fire on the mountain, There goes another love song , Annie etc was mesmerising My musical adventures continued with Alt Country / Americana bands like Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt, Jayhawks , Whiskey town . But since last 10 yrs or so there has been nothing much or interesting to look forward to in Rock music as a whole with some exceptions like Greta Van Fleet, The White Stripes and some neo psych rock bands like BJM, Black Angels which are rather obscure but easy to find on You Tube or streaming services .
Being a northeast Georgia boy, I grew up listening to them, and always loved them because I felt like they were the kind of people that I had always known
No but you have to remember one thing Mikey MTV just launched three days prior to this concert in New Jersey Everybody and I mean at the time everybody was tuning into music television
I saw them with ABB, Elvin Bishop, and Wet Willie at one of the Champagne Jams. I remember hearing on the radio that Tommy had been killed and that was one of only two times I have cried over a musical act. The first time I cried was a couple years before. I'll let yall figure that one out.
One of the greatest bands ever, saw them many times throughout the 70s and 80s , had the honor of meeting George and Doug , nicest guys ever , RIP Tommy, Toy and George , ride in peace my friends
I find it ironic that two bands that play the flute: Marshall Tucker Band, and Jethro Tull, but neither band ever had a member named Marshall Tucker or Jethro Tull, SEMPER Fi Toy, my fellow USMC Devil Dog, we all miss you, and your brothers
