Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Three Steps Pt 2 Story Behind the Song

Part 2 tells what the gunman in Jacksonville, FL, the home of Southern Rock, did to Ronnie Van Zant on the night that Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant wrote Gimme Three Steps.

[@suziewong2181]

I really appreciate you taking your time to tell these wonderful stories!
Get a tape recorder and talk just like this and have someone else write the book!🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so very much!
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Thank you, thank you!
Please, please write a book
I DON'T KNOW HOW I HAVE NOT SEEN YOUR CHANNEL SOONER!!!

[@Dagger_323]

Great story Steve, and great video like always! Lookin' forward to part 3!

[@freebirdtippins2854]

Thank you so much for this site Steve Vest... I love your page here..

[@stevevestsswampchat8248]

Thank you Cathy, what a nice compliment!

[@freebirdtippins2854]

+Steve Vest's Swamp Chat You're most welcome, such a delight to hear the history of our Jax. boy's... looking forward to what's next.... Don't know if you're a Dad but Happy Father's Day if so...☺

[@JannaBrewer]

Thanks, as usual, Steve!! Awesome!❤️

[@TWayneD1020]

Thank you Steve !!!

[@BobMinelli]

Thanks brother, for all of it!

[@kropkamark]

real COOL story Steve........

[@bullfrogstupiddoor1147]

I love this guy, he tells the best story's, just the way he talks

[@HerrFrankenstein]

Great story... much appreciated...

[@chickasawstarrmountain9747]

God bless you man

[@grifce]

I was 16 yr old playing country in the West tavern. That would be about 1978.

[@ericcrawford3453]

Cooooll!! Wild man. 🤟⚡

[@londonhawg1954]

Ya have to have a buzz to be able to listen to this dude ! lol

[@LDousay]

Sir, you might want to edit the part where the shooter referred to Ronnie as having hair colored yellow. Ronnie told me when he was 13 or 14 that he used those words to describe his own color of hair.
Ronnie often and accurately used poetic license in his poetry. That was an example of poetic skill

[@amoruzz]

I never understood men like the man with the pistol.
If a woman wants to stray?
Not a damn thing in the world worth a hoot that you can do better, than let to her go. "Double Trouble"

[@brianrinehart1216]

Oh shit don't tell me gene n Ronnie went back after this fellow!that's a bad crew to f with

[@ronnie5129]

STEVE, A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME THAT LINDA WAS HIS SISTER, HER NAME WAS LINDA CHATHEM, I MAY HAVE MISS SPELLED HER LAST NAME, DO YOU KNOW IF THIS IS A TRUE STORY, COUSIN FIGEL

[@stevevestsswampchat8248]

They got the Lou part from Allen's grandmother. The woman's name that he danced with was Linda. I was standing there and heard her introduce her name as Linda. He had never met her before.

[@ronnie5129]

STEVE MY FRIEND THAT TOLD ME THIS GREW UP IN JAX, HE SAID HIS SISTER LINDA CAME HOME ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM WHAT HAPPENED, DID THAT THING ACTUALLY HAPPEN AT THE LITTLE BROWN JUG BAR? COUSIN FIGEL

[@JMXification]

+Steve Vest's Swamp Chat, was it the front or back door?

[@michaelcraig9449]

So the West Tavern is still there, under a different name? Do they have any photos, plaques or any memoribillia, etc, about the song and incident? That would be cool. I got to go to Jacksonville sometime, and see some of this stuff..surprised the gal needed a fake tan, in Florida?? I am surprised all the guys in the band were not as real tan, being they grew up in a Florida beach town..hot and sunny year round, right?

[@donrutter6550]

When you are inside practicing riffs all day you don't see much sun.

[@bdogjr7779]

Hey Michael : Jax is huge in square mileage. From the westside to the beach is 30 miles thru town. Back in the 70s we had Toll bridges to go thru to cross the St Johns river so the commute could take more than an hour depending on traffic. I lived in Jax off & on since I was 3 years old & never saw Jax beach till I got a motorcycle & a driving permit at the age of 15.

[@TheFruitloop186]

@ BDOG
Thank God for the Dames Point bridge.

[@greenmanalishi6963]

Why do 3 separate parts and not just 1 longer video?

[@stevensimmons8240]

Wow incredible story.