They are the greatest band ever. I will always love their music and I will miss the brothers deeply. Such gentleman. I’ll be listening to them as long as I live!🥰🥰🥰🌹🙏🙏😭😭😭💋💋💋💃💃💃
My buddy has a story of getting stuck with his brother on railroad tracks and a van stopped just ahead -- a bunch of boys jumped out to push him and his brother off the tracks. Thanks fellas! My buddy says to his brother: "that was nice of those boys to help us, did you know them?" "Yep, and you have their records...! Huh? Those boys were the Marshall Tucker Band!" This all happened somewhere in the Carolinas in the early 70s -- MTB epitomize the term: Good Ol' Boys! R.I.P, Toy, Farewell and God Speed!
Great song by a great artist and a great group. Probably my favorite Caldwell/Marshall Tucker song ever and that’s saying a lot. Never heard anyone say or write a bad word about Mr. Toy J. Caldwell and that speaks volumes! RIP Toy!
Thank you so much for posting this recording..... We did this in late 1988 with Bertie Higgins and Canyon. This show was done the day after an unforgettable night with Lynyrd Skynyrd at Starwood Amphitheater for the last show of their first reunion after the plane crash when they would put the spotlight on Ronnie's mike stand and the audience would sing the song. It was very moving. Toy was an incredible musician and writer and this was possibly the most memorable night of my playing career...... I still have this on VHS and never got to digitize it. This is the first time I have seen it in over twenty years..... This also featured Tony 'Smoke' Heatherly on bass. Tony ended his playing career with The Marshall Tucker band. Thanks so much......
I'm sure Tony, that Momma Liz & Daddy Russell, was grinning from ear to ear with Pride with this performance. You sure was tickling them ivories. Hugs & Kisses
MTB is still one of my all time favorites and Toy Caldwell could play circles around some of the accepted greats, one of the best to ever pick up a guitar .
Got to work with Toy Caldwell on his song "Midnight Promise's." I was the best boy electric on the music video. Unfortunately, the music video for "Midnight Promise's" never came to fruition. Toy passed not long after the video was in the editing stages.
Toy came to muscle shoals Alabama in 77 and helped a young bocephus! When I met them at my dad's friends recording studio dad said boy if u only knew how big they will be!
Marshall Tucker, Toy, Tommy phew, the 1970's Southern Rockers were rockin!' I limoed for 38 Special in 1991- they all talked about some of those times!
I grew up in California (with California bands) in the 70’s and 80’s, but really appreciate old (and newer) Marshall Tucker Band music now. Saw Doug and the rest of the group at The Canyon Club in Agoura, CA, a few years ago and loved them so much, that I added every Southern Rock song I could find, to my Pandora playlist!
Yep. I grew up in Popular Springs, went to church their as well...makes me smile so big ....and this is just beautiful....he is the simple and beautiful and that is why we all love and miss this man . This is a angel in heaven today
Fantastic version.. only problem a song like this has is that there is so much going on, so many moving parts and players... the tv only gets 1/10th of it.
First and foremost, Toy was a nice man. His use of picking with his thump is second to none. All down strokes with speed and accuracy. He cut out way too early, but that's the way it is when one trips the light fandango.
Poor guy never really recovered from the loss of his brothers Tommy and Tim, both within a month of each other. It was literally the end of the Marshall Tucker Band...............and Toy's slow burn to oblivion. Toy was a fine man. What Doug Gray has done with the MTB name is nothing short of disgraceful.
A tragic end to a Band that was amazing in the mid 70's ...very short run, drugs did them in and after Tommy and Tim it was over and Toy was never the same...this lounge act thing was so far from the greatness witnessed in the mid 70's... sad
The bassist Tony Heatherly played in a band called The Variations back in the1970's. Their guitarist was Mickey Fowler. Miss these guys. Remember hearing them play many times. Sometimes Toy would come sit in on a set.
I was in the Toy Caldwell Band when we did this show, the band played the Ace of Clubs the night after. The club gig was a showcase for labels and management, we met Phil Walden. Only Tony was allowed to play with the house band, you had to be in the Union so me, Mark Burrell and Pic Pickens had to sit out.
Sounds like an over commercialized version, love the original but anytime I can get to see & hear Toy play - it's a gift. MTB was the bomb . Classic southern rock at its finest
seen him over eight or nine times. WOW is all I can say. What a shame he and brother are gone. Looking for new friends. you are the only person I have met. Hope we can be. Thanks man rock on
timothy loudrock55- I am a Metal music collector at heart...but I'm a Texas boy born and raised, so Southern Rock like MTB, Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Outlaws, Blackfoot, etc. are part of my collection, too. Toy & Tommy Caldwell and the MTB are always in constant play when I am in my 4x4 pickup truck. God bless Texas and all the Southern States and boys who fought those damn Yankees.
REALLY!! I never heard of Ralph until I got cable in late 70's early 80's in ny suburbs... and once nashville network aired i was astonished at how fukd up this ralph emery was so many nights and how many interviews he had no clue about. The Andy Griffith show reunion was a trainwreck.
@@bishlapHe could be a real asshole if he didn't like the performers... just ask Gram Parsons and The Byrds. Their song 'Drugstore Truck Driving Man' was about their negative experience being on his show.
@@bobbybobberson9349 I've read about it since someone mentioned it on here about -at least 5 years ago. Ralph, apparently, was a real shit kicker in his day... trucker cap and all.
Music is subjective. Someone loves a certain song, while another person dislikes that same song. No problem. We understand that. For me, this song (This Old Cowboy) that Toy wrote is awesome. It is special. He crafted this song so well. I find it hard to believe anyone would not like it, but of course some do. Also, the studio musicians here are the best of the best!
@@rockinredneck57 I would think Toy had heart problems. Another place I read he was really sick the last (at least 6 mnths). Nobody near him and sitting in a chair. But, they said he could still picl and sing. At least his talent never let him down. Still love Toy and Tommy, George.
I personally think his vocals on this live performance is better (a lot) than on the original 1973 album recording. Listened to them back to back numerous times & his voice is much better on this performance. I wish I could take this voice & put it over the original recording's band track.
Man "the mighty thumb" that was Toy Caldwell was a great guitar player fantastic musician and Vietnam War MARINE CORPS veteran. His brother Tommy played bass using his thumb like Toy. When MTB released their first album I became an instant Tucker fan. Toy left us way to early a few of the Tucker boys did.
