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    Personnel:
    Ronnie Van Zant - vocals
    Allen Collins - guitar
    Gary Rossington - guitar
    Steve Gaines - guitar
    Artimus Pyle - drums
    Leon Wilkeson - bass
    Billy Powell - piano
    Cassie Gaines - vocals
    Jo Billingsley - vocals
    Leslie Hawkins - vocals
    Summary:
    Just three and a half months before the fateful plane crash that killed Skynyrd members Steve Gaines, his sister, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (of the Honkettes), and lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zandt, Lynyrd Skynyrd played this 4th of July weekend program in Oakland.
    While this is only a partial recording of the show, two of the three songs are probably the ones you would skip to anyway: "Sweet Home Alabama" and the legendary closing track that has inspired legions of concert-going yokels to make millions of ironic requests over the years, "Free Bird." The first track is an excerpt of a standard Skynyrd live show cover, Jimmie Rodgers' "T for Texas" The guys take six minutes to stretch their legs on this version of "Sweet Home Alabama." The song had been released three years prior as a response song to the Neil Young numbers "Southern Man" and "Alabama," which were both critical of southern politics. Ironically, by some reports, Van Zant was wearing a Neil Young t-shirt at the time of this performance.
    The show is closed with "Free Bird," which by many fans' estimations is only rivaled by Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" as the most epic closing song in rock history. Allen Collins handles most of the five-minute solo, while Gary Rossington plays the "bird-chirp" guitar parts, which are not on the original recording, as well as the slide work on the opening riffs. Billy Powell also plays a masterful piano solo that is unique to the live show.
    While Lynyrd Skynyrd would release the multi-platinum Street Survivors in October of 1977, the band's structure would be fundamentally devastated by the crash of their private Convair 240 that took the lives of three members, as well as the pilots and assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and terribly injured every other member, except for Honkette, JoJo Billingsley, who was at home with her children and had reportedly begged the band to quit using the plane after dreaming of such a crash.
    From the ashes of this Skynyrd incarnation, Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, stepped in and made Lynyrd Skynyrd a popular band once more when they reformed in 1987. Lynyrd Skynyrd is planning to release an unearthed recording of pre-plane crash Skynyrd in 2009.
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  • @jbass69goat84
    @jbass69goat84 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This concert is a perfect glimpse of being a young person during the '70s. Would not trade it for any other era for five extra years of life. ❤

    • @codyhenrichs9699
      @codyhenrichs9699 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was at this Day on the Green July 1977....awesome

    • @jeffwarren4938
      @jeffwarren4938 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me either! Wonderful time to be a teenager, and high school!

  • @AudiophileTubes
    @AudiophileTubes ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That was the BEST ERA for rock music, hands down!

  • @ronnie3561
    @ronnie3561 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Guitarist Gary Rossington as the last one of the founding members passed away 7 weeks ago - so now they all rock on beyond the veil!

    • @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge
      @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Artimus Pyle is still alive, he is the drummer on this video, but not the original drummer.

    • @rickiovine2170
      @rickiovine2170 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Artimus Pyle is still alive, although he is not a founding member he is considered in the lineup when they became famous and at their best.

    • @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge
      @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@rickiovine2170 Pyle was there in the plane crash. If they want to tour at all, pretty much have to add him.

    • @tgish1
      @tgish1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🙏🙏

    • @natev1956
      @natev1956 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@bostonterrierplanet-bn1geyeah but give him a break he's the only guy is still be alive he should be in Lynyrd Skynyrd but they're now a cover band and they have been for a while unfortunately Judy controls everything

  • @chystubin07
    @chystubin07 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    When your watching that crowd your watching all your grandma's & grandpa's rock out! 🤩

    • @codyhenrichs9699
      @codyhenrichs9699 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was there that Day on the Green in July 1977

  • @willbrady4097
    @willbrady4097 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    guys this performance is still considered today among those in the business the greatest Rock performance today

    • @danceshadowmoon1
      @danceshadowmoon1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And I agree with that completely!

    • @myreviews8099
      @myreviews8099 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Best live that I have ever seen period.

  • @p.j.d.8199
    @p.j.d.8199 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Maybe it puts into perspective how much fun all of the granny's were when they were young😉

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love seeing the ladies in the crowd. Takes me back to when I was a pre/young teen in the 70s. These women were the older, unattainable, naturally beautiful women I dreamed of in my youth. Every time the camera pans the crowd, I fall in love a thousand times!

  • @rw0050
    @rw0050 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    *_" If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me " ?_*
    *Yes we have and always will. Fly High Free Birds ---------->*

  • @baronofgreymatter14
    @baronofgreymatter14 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Who plays concerts like this nowadays? NO ONE

  • @geneadams4171
    @geneadams4171 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I saw these guys way, way back in the magical time of the 70's---at least musically. The energy they brought to the stage was palpable. Ronnie Van Zant said in an interview that he liked to perform barefoot so he could feel the stage burning underneath him. One of the best live bands I've ever seen.

    • @johnshea9526
      @johnshea9526 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I also saw them in Tulsa Oklahoma at the Willie Nelson picnic in the 70s I was 15 at the time. 6 band's played that day.

    • @suzanneprock7286
      @suzanneprock7286 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Saw them in Indianapolis in the 70's, great concert.

    • @Mkproduction2
      @Mkproduction2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm 62 and grew up in North Charleston SC.
      I was in Spartanburg the night of their last concert.
      They had Jack Daniels bottles all over the stage and Ronnie was SO drunk, that he sang the same verse 3 TIMES from "Gimmie 3 Steps"
      6 years later I was at a party being held at a Funeral home in Charleston when I met their original drummer, Artemis Pyle..

  • @firedoc5
    @firedoc5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    This is the best performance of Freebird ever. Some will argue that the concert in Knebworth, England was better because they blew the Rolling Stones out of the water and threw them under the bus at the same time. This really shows off Billy Powell's classical piano training that is different from the original studio recordings when they used an electric organ. Also, the "3 Three Guitar Army" of Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, and Steve Gaines jamming and jiving like no one before or since along with Leon Wilkerson on bass. And you can't forget Artimus Pyle driving them drums into the ground.

    • @MBillCylle
      @MBillCylle ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Completely agree with you 100 percent!

    • @NadaEspamo
      @NadaEspamo ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The performance at Knebworth was much better. This is pretty flat in comparison. Better crowd here, but at Knebworth, the performance was far superior. I don't know why people like the Oakland show. Knebworth was better, hands down. To each his own, I guess.

    • @reedhryals7007
      @reedhryals7007 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It was super and I think better than this one. Plus they went on the tounge after being told not to was super.

    • @martinjackman2943
      @martinjackman2943 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was at the Knebworth 76 show .. It was awesome.. Partly due to a fantastic sunset just as Freebird' began .. they couldn't have timed it better!

    • @user-yh2vd7gt6t
      @user-yh2vd7gt6t ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Artimus was one of the best drummers ever

  • @johnnyhock
    @johnnyhock ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love that the crowd is 70% rock chicks & 30% guys.
    This was recorded 1973
    All those rock chicks are now old grannies in their 70’s & 80’s who’s grandchildren have no idea how wild their granny was back in the day 😂😂

  • @wen-nz3sk
    @wen-nz3sk ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How many gma/gpa's in that crowd living today?
    Damn we had great music!! ❤🔥

  • @davecole4845
    @davecole4845 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was there. It was Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton, Santana, and the Outlaws. Tickets were only 10 bucks. Great time to be alive.

  • @budcunningham6732
    @budcunningham6732 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That is how we did it in the 70s !!

  • @jimmymcintyre7944
    @jimmymcintyre7944 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    U never, NEVER interrupt a guitar solo
    NEVER.

    • @MikeLo83
      @MikeLo83 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then don't watch REACTION videos. Duhhhhhh😂

  • @stephaniethurmer5370
    @stephaniethurmer5370 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I saw this show live the fall before this concert . Someone I was dating got 2nd row center tickets. The Outlaws opened . Great concert. We grandmas and grandpas today

  • @randycomerford2038
    @randycomerford2038 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    This song has one of the most epic guitar solos of all time! Such a tragedy and waste of some incredible musicians...may they all R.I.P.

    • @Ian-cp3fj
      @Ian-cp3fj ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It wasn't a waste they gave us this,... much love and respect to you

  • @jeffe9083
    @jeffe9083 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Allen Collins was 17 years old when he wrote the guitar solo for this song. One of the most underrated lead guitarist of all time.

  • @freebirdtony
    @freebirdtony ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thanks for the reaction.
    Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lives On!
    Generation after generation.

  • @Thebestaustin-d8f
    @Thebestaustin-d8f ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To think that all of these people in the crowd who are still alive are now in their 60s and 70s! I bet they have great stories for the grandkids!

  • @OmegaS-117
    @OmegaS-117 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    1 of the greatest songs ever with a absolutely EPIC Solo

  • @oldrockr1557
    @oldrockr1557 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Billy Powell the piano player was actually a roadie for them untill one day during a break the band heard him playing piano and found out he was a classically trained pianist and asked him to join the band....And the rest they say is HISTORY!!!

  • @markavell7111
    @markavell7111 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Two people you saw in the clip was a proposal and a marriage!! They are still together did a documentary on this! 1977 I saw this tour in Denverl Long Live Rock and Roll.

  • @patrickkelly9721
    @patrickkelly9721 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thanks another Travis, I actually cried listening to it this time, lol.
    This concert in 1977 was the year I graduated graduated high school, an hour away from this venue.
    Knowing all of the original band members are now gone has me knowing that my time is drawing nearer.

    • @MikeCoggan
      @MikeCoggan ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I graduated 1977 also and grew up in the South Bay and actually attended this concert (Outlaws, Santana, LS and Peter Frampton). Sweet Home Alabama from this show is great too.

    • @floydlawson3765
      @floydlawson3765 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MikeCoggan I also graduated in 1977 from an East Bay high school. I was there also from a graduation present from my brother. I remember being burnt to a crisp. Frampton Comes Alive was really big at the time and that's why I wanted to go. I was more into my girlfriend at the time. This was one of the best Day On The Green shows ever. I do remember planting pot seeds somewhere around right field.

    • @lucasroth7922
      @lucasroth7922 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I did too, great year! 🔥🤘✌

  • @shelbys6572
    @shelbys6572 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you notice there were thousands of people with no room to move and everyone was safe and no one got moshed? That was the way we did it. Peace, love and rock and roll.

  • @johnwiesner6534
    @johnwiesner6534 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I saw them in Austin, TX in '76. The Outlaws fronted for them. Free Bird was finale, they brought out the Oulaws to jam the song with them. Absolutely magical. RIP to the band.

  • @brettbrinkman4387
    @brettbrinkman4387 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a time to be a long haired, bmx, mx, guitar playing kid. Dreams of rock and roll fame. Summertime, riding our bikes until curfew. Then, all night music listening. Midnight Special , Fridays, SNL when it was funny. Thank you God. Mom. Dad. Skynard, 🇺🇸!!!

  • @kdm71291
    @kdm71291 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It’s hard to see from this video, but Skynyrd hits you with a three guitar attack in this…plus that rambling bass…..the live version are absolutely epic!

  • @williammuntzer7374
    @williammuntzer7374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was fortunate enough to see Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium on June 12, 1977. There were 110,000 people in attendance. I was 16 and my girlfriend was 14. The day was as perfect as could be and she was beautiful. We were 30 feet from the stage. The lineup was J. Giles Band, Dicky Betts With Great Southern, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the headliner was Peter Frampton, who had the biggest album at the time (Frampton Comes Alive). I will never forget that day or that concert. Thanks for the memory.

  • @johngolden5257
    @johngolden5257 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This video always astounds me when I see a band so on top of the world and will be devastatingly changed in 3 and a half months by the crash.😢

  • @37plasticman
    @37plasticman ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There last album came out just days before the plane crash. The album cover showed the band surrounded by flames. after the crash the record company quickly pulled the album and changed the cover for all future copies.

  • @stephenhuber1219
    @stephenhuber1219 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The drummer Artimus Pyle is still kicking it with the Artimus Pyle Band.

  • @honeybadger713
    @honeybadger713 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    All of them people out in the audience are your grandparents and great grandparents and many who have passed on to the great beyond

  • @mlong1958
    @mlong1958 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Kids today learning how their grandparents rocked out. 😀Three guitars, a bass, a piano, and a madman drummer, all in perfect harmony. One point though. One does not simply pause the free bird instrumental.

  • @reedhryals7007
    @reedhryals7007 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Billy Powell the man playing the piano was a roadie for the band. No one new he could play . One day during a break in recording Billy was playing while the rest were outside. They walked in and was in shock

  • @carolpurcell4666
    @carolpurcell4666 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was at this concert . I was 20 years old. It was great!!

    • @codyhenrichs9699
      @codyhenrichs9699 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was there too A Day on the Green.

  • @janicez2630
    @janicez2630 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there...40 feet from the stage. Awesome show. I and so many others were crushed after the plane crash. Great musicians.

    • @codyhenrichs9699
      @codyhenrichs9699 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was at this Day on the Green too! Awesome

  • @suecook1326
    @suecook1326 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Peter Frampton followed Lynyrd Skynyrd and he was the heart throb at the time. My favorite live Free Bird performance was Knebworth in 1976 when Ronnie Van Zant ticked off Mick Jagger in a huge way and LS had the crowd in such a frenzy, the Stones refused to come out for hours until they settled down. The Stones were promoting a new album called Hot Licks which featured a tongue on the album cover. Mick had a catwalk built in the shape of a tongue and everybody was ordered to stay off it. Well, Ronnie had his guitar army take over that catwalk during the Free Bird guitar solo. It was GREAT!!! This performance featured the girls in the audience too much IMO but Knebworth focused on the members of the band. I can watch Allen Collins (Guitarist wearing white) play all day so that's why I prefer that performance! Love that you enjoy my favorite bands so much. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Jethro Tull are 2 of my faves. You need to discover Humble Pie and Steve Marriott yet tho!

  • @joejohnston3591
    @joejohnston3591 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ronnie could take a crowd in the palm of his hand, and gently set them down when he was through with them!

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ronnie was such a talented vocalist. He didn't sing the lyrics, he "DECLARED" them.

  • @jennhurl
    @jennhurl ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The piano player, Billy Powell, was a roadie for Lynard Skynard. In between sets, he sat down at the piano 🎹 and began playing. When the band heard him, they were blown away. They offered him a job for keyboard & piano - the rest is sweet history.

    • @mikewhitehurst8199
      @mikewhitehurst8199 ปีที่แล้ว

      Billy Powell was never a roadie or played guitar for Lynard Skynard.

    • @jennhurl
      @jennhurl ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Mike Whitehurst with respect to you, he absolutely was a roadie for LS & and a long-time friend of the bass player, Leon. I never said he played guitar - he played the keyboard and piano, as I did say above.
      I'm from & still live in the same part of Florida the boys are from. I'm not claiming to know everything about LS, but around here, we try to know a few things about them. 😉
      He was so talented RIP Billy 🙏🏻

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He never mentioned to them that he played. He didn't think they'd appreciate his classical training. But it really comes through here.

    • @emilymartinez6961
      @emilymartinez6961 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's the same story I've heard for all these years

    • @jbass69goat84
      @jbass69goat84 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @jenniferhurlburt7778 Yes ma'am, you are 100% correct. The really amazing part of the LS story is that Billy was the only band member that had taken proper music lessons. It is so great to see a much younger person (than me😉) give LS their due props. 🎸 🎹 🎙👌

  • @kenmcfann8128
    @kenmcfann8128 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was 23 and had just got out of the air force on October 20th and can still remember that night when the news of the plane crash happened, it was devastating.

  • @thancrow
    @thancrow ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I got to see them about a year before this concert. An amazing concert that I will always remember R.i.p. to the original members, You are missed, but your music lives on.

  • @robertpeacock4609
    @robertpeacock4609 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    the bass player is killin it

  • @kennethohnemus3192
    @kennethohnemus3192 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Truly a special group and a special performance. Have you ever heard of The Edgar Winter Group song called Frankenstein? There's a live performance that will blow your mind

  • @paulstewart6203
    @paulstewart6203 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Billy Powell said; "when the plane started to hit the tops of the trees everyone got silent and started praying", he thinks that is the reason so many survived the crash.

  • @sherilynkd
    @sherilynkd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got to dance to Sweet Home Alabama live in 1/76 when the band came into a bar I was at and got up and played using the house band’s equipment. The next time I saw them was the reunion tour around 1987.
    Artimus faired best, if you can call it that, from the plane crash. Allen’s story was one of continuing tragedy.

  • @wordword6039
    @wordword6039 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ON freebird the main lead was Allen Collins the player in white. He and Ronnie actually wrote the song when he was very young. Maybe the first song he wrote. Crazy...

  • @scottchapin2323
    @scottchapin2323 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Greg, couldn't have said it better. Skynyrd is the best American Rock Band

  • @davidsutherland667
    @davidsutherland667 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watch this is great. Watching Freebird at Knebworth is also great. Mick Jagger told them not to go on the younger part of the stage, well this is southern boys…..

  • @johnnykirby247
    @johnnykirby247 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am freaking 62 years old and I absolutely adore you guys and your interactions with each other and the music. I live with depression and you two make me feel good about myself! I love Wolf Hunterz and your music as well! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @daseguin
    @daseguin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the greatest live performance of all time.

  • @lilpoohbear653
    @lilpoohbear653 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this was my song when I was 17, 18 years old...and this song still has the same effect:))) CLASSIC

  • @srt8rocketship241
    @srt8rocketship241 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The world made a lot more sense back then. I know the audience felt as though. Great time.

  • @curtjohansen5742
    @curtjohansen5742 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That song makes the world a better place. Its got that majestic electric church sound at the beginning. Then that mournful wail of that guitar ,then that extremely moving piano solo, his strong every man's voice, which is obviously great and not every man can sing like that but he's got such a good strong man's voice. That ripping guitar solo that is sometimes a dual and triple guitar solo that never gets played out or seems indulgent. Such a classic.

  • @richardpierce7819
    @richardpierce7819 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    People dont know this but the opening lyrics of this song is actually a question that Allen Collins wife ask him one day. So iconic.Allen was one of the guitarist he's the one dressed in white.

  • @bella-xp7qd
    @bella-xp7qd ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gives me the creeps when Ronnie says If I leave here tomorrow and to know that in appropriate 2 months we would lose Ronnie, Steve (guitar player in red pants), Cassie (Steve's sister and backup singer), road manager and pilots in the plane crash. 20 members survived.. On the original there is no piano. Billy 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.. The ladies were there to see Peter Frampton.

  • @jennhurl
    @jennhurl ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Words of a song that 😢 make me take a big gulp after his death is Stevie Ray Vaughn singing "Life Without You" which he wrote for his friend Charley after his passing. A line from the song is engraved on his gravestone. It says:
    Thank you...
    For "all the love you passed our way"
    It gets me every time 😢

  • @navydad1475
    @navydad1475 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Allen Collins is guitar playing MKer. RIP!

  • @stephenhuber1219
    @stephenhuber1219 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Billy played on Kid Rocks hit All Summer Long

  • @jeffwarren4938
    @jeffwarren4938 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Music of my youth! Awesome...the ladies were WONDERFUL in the 70's!

  • @giodagrate5369
    @giodagrate5369 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great reaction 👍🏼 Now that’s what you call a great American rock band 🇺🇸

  • @glennplesnarski3730
    @glennplesnarski3730 ปีที่แล้ว

    No lights, No pyrotechnics & listen to that crowd. It was all just guitar driven excitement.

  • @user-vd2os2sf3e
    @user-vd2os2sf3e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite Hymne is: May I Write To You!❤

  • @raymondmanderville505
    @raymondmanderville505 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Those girls were at this rock festival to see Peter Frampton

  • @dianenewcomb4765
    @dianenewcomb4765 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I saw them live in 1974. It was my first concert and IT was AMAZING!!!!

  • @krystalaura5634
    @krystalaura5634 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saw Johnny today washing Ronnie and his dad's 55 chevy truck. He's so proud of that truck.
    As far as Leonard Skinner, he was always on their asses about their and school dress code. He's buried close to the Van Zants.

  • @reedhryals7007
    @reedhryals7007 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When they opened for the who in London I believe it was. The who had a stage sticking out like a tounge. The who told them they can do anything they want. But stay off the tounge well to tell some good ole boys from the South who love to fight. It was a dare all 3 guitars and the base went on the stage and blew everyone away

  • @rbodee
    @rbodee ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He told his family that he wouldn't make it to 30. Died 3 months before his 30th birthday.

  • @neillenet291
    @neillenet291 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Skynyrd was my first concert. 1976 at 15 years old. Capital Centre Landover, Maryland. They were PHENOMENAL LIVE!

  • @haagatha
    @haagatha ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ronnie, yes, we still remember you. I think Peter Frampton is the reason all the ladies were situated front and center and being up close during Lynyrd Skynyrd's performance was a bonus

  • @cindyp1033
    @cindyp1033 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should watch the documentary If I Leave Here Tomorrow. So proud of these guys from my hometown!❤❤

  • @robertrodgers1423
    @robertrodgers1423 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great reaction, watching this song played live is an entirely different experience than just listening. The two Arab guys on the front row at 16:00 are looking around like "what in the world", This concert is a time capsule that epitomizes the 70's era. Notice how skinny everyone is?

  • @rhendakiser4506
    @rhendakiser4506 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    PRICELESS! BEST TIMES EVER! ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER! THE 70'S WERE SSSOOOO AWESOME!!!!

  • @user-vo6if2nm3v
    @user-vo6if2nm3v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes we still remember you Ronnie ...

  • @paularietta6744
    @paularietta6744 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Loved your reaction to this. In all of the times that heard this song and watched this video over the years I had never thought of the lyrics in the context of their untimely loss. It gave a whole new meaning to the song. Hopefully they are all "freebirds" now. I will always listen to this differently in the future.

  • @Evelynne-zm9vg
    @Evelynne-zm9vg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Had the pleasure of seeing them an all day concert with several other bands in Michigan shortly before the crash. Miss them.

  • @laurasmith2522
    @laurasmith2522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Good old days when we could just go have fun !

  • @sherilynkd
    @sherilynkd ปีที่แล้ว

    Ronnie liked to have three lead guitarist.
    I couldn’t make it to their concert in 1/76.
    I was at a bar and they came in after the show. The band got up and played using the house band’s instruments. I danced to Sweet Home Alabama. So exciting
    I did see the tribute tour in the late 80’s.

  • @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge
    @bostonterrierplanet-bn1ge ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Their last album was called "Street Survivors" and on the original cover the band members were on fire. They recalled the cover.

  • @notmyrealname1730
    @notmyrealname1730 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This performance showed us why Ronnie is on of the greatest frontmen in rock history.
    When the guitars started their fantastic jam, Ronnie faded into the background and let them shine.
    Far too many who front bands are so narcissistic that they refuse to get out of the spotlight and interfere with the musicians.
    Not Ronnie. He did his job and let the rest do their job.

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But you'll notice all through the song and even during the "jam", he's giving the band subtle cues. Ronnie was a perfectionist. Every aspect of the band was under his control.

  • @JacoOnlyNeededFourStrings
    @JacoOnlyNeededFourStrings ปีที่แล้ว +2

    they had a lot of ladys there because peter frampton was the headliner

  • @richardpierce7819
    @richardpierce7819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was fortunate enough to see Gary and Allen play live with the Rossington Collins Band , and later saw Gary again with Lynyrd Skynyrd in Chicago. Never will forget how great they were. RIP guys.

  • @craigholt9571
    @craigholt9571 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was at the last concert in Greenville SC. and that was there last song. It still haunts me now. Great band from my hometown Jacksonville. Guitar Army

  • @chrispackard9282
    @chrispackard9282 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you & really loved seeing this through you both. I was 21 and at this concert and all I could add is you could feel all the tremendous amps and the the stage floor thunder and most of all the sound!

  • @Gromit801
    @Gromit801 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why the 70’s was the greatest decade in music.

  • @curtkramer5154
    @curtkramer5154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just goes to show that our parents and grandparents were so much cooler than we’ll ever be…

  • @rayvanhorn1534
    @rayvanhorn1534 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Epic! Didn’t know y’all hadn’t seen this…could you imagine being there!? One thing that bums me out, all the bands I grew up with…more & more are retiring, wish I could’ve seen these guys. (Wife & I are going to see Pat Benatar this summer though!😊). This song is just a masterpiece, heck all their music is great. There is nothing like Southern Rock.

  • @thedopemillerchannel2161
    @thedopemillerchannel2161 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was there. It was at an event called Day On The Green that included Peter Frampton, Santana and The Outlaws. Frampton was the headliner that day.

  • @janetstorm7881
    @janetstorm7881 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A little trivia, they weren't even the headliners, Peter Frampton who was already a mega star was, but Lynyrd Skynyrd blew away the show which also included Santana. This was one of the greatest era of rock music with Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Queen, Chicago, The Eagles, Steely Dan, Aerosmith , Heart, so many great bands, but after this performance Lynyrd Skynyrd was literally on a rocket ship to becoming the biggest band in the world. I was a freshman on college when this happened and it was just shocking. A few years earlier Pete Ham of Badfinger took his life and I was a track star and a couple years earlier my hero Steve Prefontaine died and as a youngster I just couldn't understand why young great people die. it just doesn't make any sense then or in my 60's now it still does not make sense! I just love watching this video and all those young girls who would have been my age back then. I wasn't there, I lived on the east coast but I would have loved to have heard them in person live! 🎶🎼❤ Oh yeah is people tell you the 70's was about disco, you have my permission to tell them to f*ck off 😎

  • @tomtortolani8082
    @tomtortolani8082 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great reaction. Skynyrd and Frampton put out the best live albums ever produced. Many of my high school friends made this show at the Oakland coliseum in its heyday.

  • @barbaradawdy6317
    @barbaradawdy6317 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The guy in the red pants and chin whiskers in Steve Gaines who died in the crash

  • @roy19491
    @roy19491 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    there is a 2 CD Skynyrd live album, "One More from the Road", recorded at the old Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, the show was fantastic.... the late 70's Southern Rock was so great; Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, the Allman's, Marshall Tucker Band, the Outlaws, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Pure Prairie League, Little Feat, the Georgia Satellites, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Kentucky Headhunters......Leon Wilkerson, the bassist here, was sadly overlooked as on of the top bass players ever....no pyro, no fireworks, no video screens, no dancers; just the band.....as far as this show, just think; the great majority of those great looking babes in the audience are now grandmothers

  • @STILL-KICKIN
    @STILL-KICKIN ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @14:47 bass player absolutely killin it!!!

  • @scottgorski7931
    @scottgorski7931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The guitar army, OWNED IT on this day. That guitar riff is still going on to this day in the here after.

  • @draculimpaler4507
    @draculimpaler4507 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was 12 at this time...all those young ladies in the crowd are around 70 now...scary how fast shit goes by enjoy every day...great react as always

  • @ACEDIAMOND666
    @ACEDIAMOND666 ปีที่แล้ว

    Saturday, July 2nd, 1977 is the exact date of this concert in Oakland, in Northern California.
    This is the day I was born in Southern California.
    Saturday, July 2nd, 1977, 7:03pm....I was born while this song was being performed and broadcast on both radio and television.

  • @btech09
    @btech09 ปีที่แล้ว

    You mentioned all of the guitars playing together. I love the clip where VanZant says, I'm gonna bring all my mules up here!

  • @Musicmanrobert
    @Musicmanrobert 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Free Bird to my opinion is the best Rock song at concerts I was 20 when I got the news of the plane crash. I cried like a baby.

  • @RyneMurray23
    @RyneMurray23 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Steve Gaines had just joined the band in 76 then they crashed in 1977. They would've been legendary had they not gone down in the plane😢

    • @roy19491
      @roy19491 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      they ARE legendary

  • @MikeCoggan
    @MikeCoggan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Realize that most of the people there are now grandparents....I was 17 and attended and am now 63.
    People who weren't around then don't realize how loud concerts were. Ears would be buzzing into the next day. I still go to concerts and I would estimate 1/3 to 1/2 louder back in the day.

    • @codyhenrichs9699
      @codyhenrichs9699 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was at this Day on the Green