Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official)
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Recorded Live: 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium - Oakland, CA
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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. - เพลง
44 years since these legends suffered that terrible fate, your legacy lives on today ronnie.
I never see 30
😥Can’t like this
@@andrewgallagher4586 Thank gosh for little brother Johnny stepping in for helping fill the void.
Gary, Johnny, and Ricky Medlocke have kept their fallen brothers legacy going.
The boys had the plane crash literally 3 1/2 months later. RIP Ronnie, Steve, Cassie. 🙏
Gary Rossington left us in 2023. He was the last of the originals. It's so sad that they're all gone now.
Artimus is still kickin'.
@@kawasakiwhiptwo5821 Artimus Pyle wasn't one the original members.
@@BloodTar I know,I'm just saying per this performance.
I was just thinking that too. Remembering the pianist becoming the spokesperson for the band after that awful tragic night.
Yes, it's sad. But their music lives on and they live on in our hearts.
Just think I am 71 30 years from now my grand kids will be watching this and loving the crap out of it.
Im 70 good times,damn.
R.I.P. Ronnie van Zant and all Lynyrd Skynyrd. Best all-time rock band ever. Respect.
🤘🤘
Queen is better.
RIP
❤️❤️🤘🤘
😊”
I love queen very much, but both are legends 🔥🔥🔥@@Very_Sleepy50
Southern Pride at its best. God Bless them. 😊
Agree 💪🏻
Agree!! Sad their dream ended so young!! Ronnie’s brother, Johnny, has done an excellent job carrying the group on.
Agree❤️🤘
Are you guys all from the South of America ?
@PreppyGurlOfficalYT GEAR I COME
What an era, no phones, just rock'n'roll
Never to happen again. It was the golden age of Rock music
What connection are you trying to make between phones and music?
@@soslothful Have you visited a concert recently? This crowd is clapping, singing and waving along with the music. You can see all of their faces, and their eyes are all focussen in the band and the stage. Those times are gone.
@@jessicanan The last concert I saw was Tull, perhaps 20 years ago. I notice coworkers and people out and about on their phones constantly. My phone never leaves my home. It has no apps or music, it just makes and received calls. Still, it would be excessive to be on one's phone would be a tad overdone.
@@soslothfulhe was referring to people taking pictures and recording videos with their phones while at concerts.
I’ll tell you, I’ve been deep into the Lynyrd Skynyrd rabbit hole lately and if there was ever a better live band than them, I’d sure like to see them. Which is not intended to take anything away from the quality of music they produced. These guys were both all-time great musicians AND performers.
Queen...not even close. Freddie on his own blows Lynyrd Skynyrd off the stage..as did Prince..wierd little guy but possibly the best performer i`ve ever seen.
@@berain-vo9ur that’s your opinion lol. This isn’t sports. Music has a way of pulling us altogether & good times not all this political bs. Queen imo is overrated. I don’t resonate with them as well as others. Freddy Mercury has a very talented voice but their music doesn’t really move the needle for me. Prince is an all time great musician but Skynyrd is more relatable for me & resonates from where I come from. But that’s the beauty of music. There’s something for everybody
Queen and ac dc imo
No flash or flare, or any other antics. Just a damn good band singing a damn good song. Love it!
Yes sir!!!! Southern rocking talent.
But if people would be high on acid, then it's kind of like those people would be wearing virtual reality glasses, they'd still be experiencing those special effects.😂
Amen
All that stuff is witchcraft, where they're trying to lull the audience into a certain brain wavelength, where they're more vulnerable to suggestion. It's generational work that they're doing, and "they" are not all human.
Here is baphomet Diana Ross, with its eyes going full black for six seconds at 3:06-3:12. It did this right on stage in front of a whole audience. Everyone's brains created the optical illusion that its eyes were just in shadow for that moment, but look at the shade of gray in its mouth while singing, the shadows in the deeper cavity of its mouth are gray, while its eyes, which are not cavities and which are supposed to have "whites" of the eye, are full black. It's because of grafeen ockside, the same material we see in the blak eyed hybrid babies of two v'axed parents. It's the hard truth, but it's true.
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Here its eyes go reptilian from 1:26-1:49. It also has the habit of bobbing its head for the camera so the viewer cannot pick up on its eyes, whereas every other singer will look straight into the camera without head bobbing when the camera is on them. But, its reptile eyes show in the segment I mentioned:
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Here is reptile Byrd with its eyes shapeshifting throughout the interview. Its eyes change shape, size, and tone:
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So, yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd's music is real, not like the hocus pocus garbage from these predatory, parasitic, and demonic entities which have infested this planet and lured so many people to ck'ill themselves and their own children and parents.
Things will get better though, much better. We are in End Times and these beasts are being purged, hence why the fake Biden, etc.
Flair -actually no flair is a negative,have to agree as this is just boring,nothing original at all.
70's rock at its best. The rawness and the unstaged quality of it. no backing dancers, no laser lights, just real talent.
Noone being offended at every single damn word in the song.
no auto-tune!
@@inactiveaccount6884 boomer alert.
@@john-kl3ux I'm a gen Z and I agree with him
just real talent - Then we get the Spice Girls.... What happened ?
50 years ago a rock anthem was written. Still one the best songs ever. RIP to Ronnie and all the free birds flying proud and free!
I respect talent. I respect heritage. I'm from up North and a black guy. I ain't from the South. But I enjoy this band!
Me too. Been loving them for years.
this concert brings tears to my eyes... what a great band and what a great time to be young and alive. Those were different days.
And unless you actually went to a concert that was the only way you'd ever see Lynyrd Skynyrd. I don't ever remember seeing them on television. It's truly wonderful to see Ronnie Van Zant up close, in color, alive and moving again.
The same will be said by today’s youth, 50 years from now as they look back on the Taylor Swift concert they enjoyed. It’s all in the circle of life.
It's 2023 still listening to lynyrd skynnrd people will still be listening for. Decades to come
Cause it’s endless music!
❤️❤️❤️❤️🤘🤘🤘🤘
so will i just amazing
2024 still listening. Greetings from Poland
I’m about to be 20 listening it will live forever
В 2024 пока да! In 2024, yes for now!
I'm an Asian who grew up in England and I have loved Skynyrd ever since I was a wee lad. That just tells you, music is stronger than any language barriers and borders.
Me too, except I'm Turkish, not Asian. Yes, music is stronger, it doesn't have our constraints.
Try asking a black guy in Alabama :D
Noice, noice, and noice!!!
@@shylinh5939 turks are asian lol
I am Indian and I concur
This is probably the best rehearsed band in Rock History. They developed and played these songs and guitar parts exactly the same way every time. Al Kooper immediately signed them to record and sell. On what was to be their last flight in the plane that they traveled, it crashed in the Mississippi swampland ending their dream. 6 lives were lost including 3 members of the band, the pilots, and their road manager. Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer, guitarist Steve Gains and back up singer Cassie Gains, Steve's sister were lost in the tragic crash. I heard the news very early in the morning while driving to Morgan City, Louisiana to work a 7 day hitch offshore for Shell Oil Company, rig 12.
Good insight and interesting memory.
TY for sharing.
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@@manuelmorales3846who cares?
Seems like we are kin...Bama gurl. Legends. They never die. Rebels we are.
Ufff hermano fuerte haber vivido ese acontecimiento yo soy de un poco más aca, no mucho pero esta canción me parte el corazón me recuerda a mi infancia, adolescencia y vida transcurrida que al final de nuestro ocaso todos queremos volver al comienzo en donde todo empezó ..! DIOS te Bendiga....
Back in the day when the Confederate flag on stage never offended anyone, everyone was out to have a good time listening to Lynard Skynard live. It would never be allowed these days, especially in Oakland, California or anywhere else in the United States.
Even the union wasn't offended by it back in the post war era it's only nowadays with the intently demographic changes and the radical liberal ideas made white people hate each other over nothing
Wave your flag
The girls singing "aaaaahhh, Alabama" melts my heart.
Cassie Gaines - looking fondly down at her brother.... what success!
@@annalyticYes... I'm sure she was proud of her brother and the only consolation is that they left together 😢❤
The " honkers" on background
Honkettes sorry
@@keepingitreal5533 😪😪
Anywhere in Alabama when those 3 cords are played the crowd goes nuts. 3 or 300,00 people doesn’t matter. Gotta love it. I love my home state Alabama!
Cathy Brown nee Brown.
@Ian Turner no. Stars Fell on Alabama is.
Best rock song of All Time! Stairway 2nd.
@@anthonymarshall9978 when you really live in Alabama it’s even better!
@Ian Turner no but should he
Ain't nobody like Lynyrd Skynyrd!! Rock on!!
My dad passed away yesterday and now I'm making a playlist with all the songs he loved and I remember him by. This is one of them. Thank you dad for showing me the greatest artists of all times. Loved, missed and never forgotten 🤘🔥❤👃
He might have liked the song they played at Ronnie Van Zant's funeral .
TH-cam : "ANOTHER PRETTY COUNTRY SONG " By David Allan Coe
❤
Carry me home to see my kin
So 😔 sorry
May this song rekindle fond memories. Best wishes
I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow.
BEST ROCK LYRIC.....EVER!
@JEK
YOU Said That RIGHT ‼️👍🏼❤️
You did notice Ronnie was wearing a NEIL YOUNG shirt.They were actually good friends
@@davidmoser3535
Wearing the shirt Could be Construed to be a TAUNT as Well ‼️😸 Now show me a picture of Neil wearing a RONNIE t-shirt ❗🤪
UM
I am from Russia and I love my country and am proud of it, I have traveled to more than 30 countries of the world and lived a decent time in many of them, but only Alabama Gulf Shores has become for me the second place on the planet where I would like to live. As a student, I participated twice in the Work and Travel program, and both times I lived in Gulf Shores Alabama. It was one of the coolest 14 months of my life and one of the unforgettable adventures. Kind and friendly people of this place, they became my friends, whom I will never forget and hope to see them again in this life. Americans, you really have a piece of heaven on earth, take care of it, and may the skies over Alabama always be the same clear and blue.
Ronnie, was bad Ass American poet , love you Mr Van Sant😜
I am from Alabama, and I love Gulf Shores also. I have always wanted to visit Russia.
Very cool message my friend. I would like to visit Alabama gulf shores now.
The Ron Paul Liberty Report.
@Brian M. Not so sure about that.
Greatest collection of talented guitarists ever in one band!
Lynyrd Skynyrd is finally back together again, playing "Sweet Home Alabama" for the Lord. RIP Gary Rossington
They are not in Heaven because they were racists
@@reginaldshambley9593 What a clown 🤡
Honestly, no one ever had a good time the way young people in the 70s did.
I think the zoomers are trying to 🤷🏻♂️
That one was definitely a good time. My first big concert.
Amen.
That's for sure 😂
AC/DC 'Thunderstruck' at the River Plate stadium
Good lord so much talent on that stage. Loved Cassie and Steve Gaines. RIP you two.
RIP now all Skynard originals are united and the dublicates will continue to perform for us AMEN
this is the AMERICA that we want
One of the great bands to come out of the South along with the Allmans and Marshall Tucker. This stuff never gets old.
Oh the Marshall Tucker Band!
The vetu bestail? Then janice
Blackberry Smoke
What about ZZ TOP?
The Charlie Daniels Band ( CDB )
"I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow....."
Nor does Spotify.
46 Years ago and still sounding phenomenal!
The sheer amount of absolute babes in the audience is incredible.
Old merika...it was real.
And those of them who are still here are old ladies now - no doubt thinking of that concert now and then.
You ain't lyin'
Steve Gaines was a monster guitar player. He is sorely missed.
Yes, and his sister too...sadly they died together
His solo was more funk infused and interesting than rock players of those days
@@akidk1499 I thought that too.
@@akidk1499 funk and blues influence when that southern rock twang in my opinion and adding to the original comment yes he was a monster player and his sister and seen in the video enjoying his playing along with the band it’s haunting to know just 3 months later we would never hear from him ronnie or her again it’s really just tragic may they rest in peace
Steve was an awesome guitarist. It must have been a nightmare to his family to loose his life and his sisters too in such a tragic and avoidable disaster. God bless them all and may they all find peace in heaven.
Rest In Peace Ronnie, you’ll always be a legend
if Ronnie was alive today he would probably be screaming and clawing at the coffin lid.
Band never sounded the same after Ronnie died, so glad to be able to watch these videos of the original Lynard Skynyrd Band because they sounded so much better back then!
Well no need to compare. At least they're living on and it's Ronnie's blood who fronts the band. Can't complain about that
The crowd is pink in color from sunburn. Love it!
now kids........this is how it used to be done.....i loved it
What a recording, awesome image and sound quality.
The Ron Paul Liberty Report.
Recorded on iPhone
Recorded in England I believe 🤣😂
Lool
My God how the years just pass us by, I almost forgot how Brilliant this band was, God Bless Lynyrd Skynyrd 🙏🏻 God love them. 🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
So true!
I saw Skynard at The Apollo, Glasgow. Scotland on the 13th of February 1976 ... the reason for the precision with the date is that it was my 18th birthday ... that was the best present I ever had ... I saw them again in Feb '77 tat the same venue then tragically they never returned.
I'm 75 years old and I love this stuff, it's just great. The hair, the clothes. Fantastic !!!
there is nothing better then youth
I'm 15 an I love it
Agreed, this IS MUSIC!!!
@@ayuwoki453 Nigga
@@ayuwoki453, dig up some ''Kentucky Headhunters''
"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd was/is/will be a Rock Anthem forever & ever...no more no less...
After my wife and me met and got married we lived in Florida, we were driving in the car and Sweet Home Alabama came on the radio and I turned up the volume, she said why did your turn it up so high, and I told her that is the only way to listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd, she agreed, I knew then I had the right woman in my life. NOTE: Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville Florida.
This group, their music is always on point and an important part of rock and roll history ❤❤
Great band that I will never forget! Just like the way Ronnie is himself: no jumping around, no fooling with the microphone or any other items, just plain good old singing!
And plenty of Attitude.!!
I bet your huge Mick Jagger Fan then
@@mjtch not really
@@sipkecuperus5372 figures 😂
And Neil Young T-shirt.
Steve Gaines would have become a legend had he lived...massive talent!
God picks the sweetest flowers.
With all due respect, he IS a Legend!
@@man.and.machines Excellent Point!
Remember when America was cool?
Sure do. What happened
love how steve and allen shared the solo, getting the combined sound from a gibson and a fender sounds amazing.
my 11 yr old granddaughter just discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd.. She loves them.. I love it! Rock will never die!
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
I'll bet she had a little help from grandpa!!
Que legal! Minha filha de 19 ano, é fã desta banda. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Has she learned to swig Jim Beam out of the bottle yet?
When my 11 yr old grandson was a baby this song would quiet him down no matter. He loves all of there songs now. I like to tell my son this one is his Nanny's child thru and thru. 💙
Hey Look Nobody is Holding a Cell Phone! And yet everyone is having a great time , they even found there way there and home without a Smart Phone.... LOL
Glenn, you're a man after my own heart!
@@jonathangriffin1120 Amen Jonathan. Thanks
Wish I could go back in time some days
Yeah!
Better times man.
A guy who would be dead in an aviation accident in a few months thanking a guy who would be dead in an aviation accident in a few years. Its hard to watch them given the future perspective.
Just got into the music of Lynyrd Skynrd (I am from England, love classic rock). Got their first 3 albums, and have to say, a bloody brilliant band. Love them.
Youre not offended by our flag? Good man.
We (well I do) think the same of a lot of British bands.. Beatles, ELO, the Animals, the Kinks, the Zombies, etc. : )
Back when southerners weren't ashamed to be southern, and the ----yankees weren't trying to make them ashamed.
Southerners are real
You damn right
Man.....some bands were lucky to have 1 great guitarist.....Lynyrd Skynyrd had 3... Allen Collins, Steve Gaines, and Gary Rossington....not to mention singer Ronnie Van Zant....keyboardist Billy Powell. ..bassist Leon Wilkeson... drummer Artemus Pyle....and The Honkettes...Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines, and JoJo Billingsley....One of the Greatest bands ever.
jim dartouzos Hello Jim. You said that Right.
What a lot of people never realize was that Leon played the bass like a lead guitarist. Sit back and listen to some of his bass playing. He was as talented on that thing as the guitar players were.
Yes brother...true music and harmony....long live Skyn
Don't forget Ed King who co-wrote the song and came up with the guitar hook intro.
@@christianmani1730 Yeah I was going to say what the hell? He left out Ed who was amazing, I can't believe people overlook him or how good he is.
Ronnie Vant Zant, such a badass. Love it!!!
I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?
@@derekkess5830 love all their songs but this video I just can't help coming back too🙂
@@natashawile895 Actually, I'm a huge music enthusiast. I discover new track everyday, but my favorite rarely change, what I love a certain music fo, is it's beat, sounding and nostalgic memories they reminds me of. Happy listening! 🎧 All of me by John Legend. Where are you from if you don't mind me asking? I'm from Apeldoorn, Netherlands
@@derekkess5830 Hello from denmark im 15 and love southern rock
Thank you Ronnie...
Massive respect to even anyone in the audience for this performance. The rest of us can only imagine...
Southern Rock never fails
They're from california.
Beyond Alpha
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DATS WASSIST!!!!!
@@YuhoKeebs They're from Jacksonville FL
@@YuhoKeebs Ed King was from California
@@YuhoKeebs No they aren't.
Barbers must have been starving back in the 70s.
They did when i walked past their shop.
LOL
Great comment, mate)
Lol, must have been as l never had mine cut until 1983 when l met my wife.
Damn bud i kept mine cut but i wasnt even alive back in the 1970s i wish i was but live on lynard live on and for the most part this is my favorite band of all time just wish they had more time to chill
The way Ronnie is looking at Steve and Allen with that huge Grin is Timeless !!! They will Forever be missed!! God Bless Skynyrd...Bo !! Lynyrd Skynyrd... Forever !!!!🙏👍🎸😎
Such a simpler time than the f’d up world we live in today……..☹
Yes indeed. Today's USA is not the country I was born and raised in and I really miss what are now "the old days."
@@peteshea8010ya, yall let it go to shit and now you’re kids are fucked
It will be cool to be a human again soonish, though. Already the National Guard is in the subways of NYC, which shows us that big, big things are underway.
So true we were so lucky to grow up in those days. America is no longer America
Thank God for footage like this.
The sound is awesome. it's mono but it's clear and mixed perfectly.
for how much longer
It doesn't look like this anymore. County Supervisors and the then owner of the Raiders ruined it. Instead of having bleacher seats with the scoreboard above it, and a clear view of the San Fran Bay they destroyed it by enclosing the whole thing.
@@TheReg54 I'm not sure, exactly, what you are asking.
I was there! 8 days before my 18th Birthday!! What a great concert (what I can remember) lol! And one of my all time favorite bands!!!
Was there too, so much energy at that time old timer!
And Oakland allowed a big Confederate Flag to be displayed? Were there 60000 arrests that day?
James Graybill can u shut up no one cares if you WHERE there u just trying to be especial fucking idiot
CHILING PENI BCUSE HUB JO Stfu u bitch
@@justsomeonewhocantsleep1151 WERE, not WHERE....and STFUPLZKTHX
RIP Gary ! 🙏.... One of the most legendary song of all time. Thank you to the band for your great 🎶 music and what you bring to music and us. Goodbye 🙏💐
Ronnie Van Zant is nothing less than a god in the south... and we are so proud of that fact. Skynyrd and RVZ forever
If I could back in time to witness just one concert, it would be this one.
Just this very minute i told my partner id give my left arm to see this line up , LYNYRD SKYNYRD, 1977....seen the band in 2015 in New Zealand...awesome...
I worked only one show with them in NASHVILLE, I worked for a company that did their bookings and advertising, As great as they were there was a dark cloud hanging over them and it finally caught up with them, and losing RVZ was the end of LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
@@whiskeyrun4996 white men haven't exactly been the flavour of the month, as they often ain't following the communist political correctness allowed only in the western capitalist countries, funny how that works
@ Edwin: agree!
Hard to disagree
Jokes aside, this is a really good song that bring families together.
Yes the comments have been extremely uniting and joyful haha
Mr Big Lew picks me up when i'm feelin' blue, how bout you...I know i sure need it in these times:)
METAL is better.
@@anthonypalermo8816 good for you :)
@@Lanko94 indeed!
Ruhe in Frieden, Gary Rossington, gestorben am 05.03.2023 im Alter von 71 Jahren als letztes Mitglied der Originalbesetzung von Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jetzt geht im Himmel endgültig die Post ab.
Roll over Paradise.
Gary Rossington R.I.P brother thanks lots 😎🇺🇸✌🏽
Man I wasn’t even a twinkle in my moms eye when they played this show, but she was only about 30 minutes away, probably enjoying her summer vacation. She was 12 when this concert happened. I can only imagine how amazing it was to be here, watching this performance. No Phones, nothing but good old rock and roll and people rocking out together. These must have been the days.
I remember those days - sooo wonderful. Those certainly WERE the days!
I was at this Day on the Green! Frampton Skynyrd Santana and Outlaws! Skynyrd stole the show!! Last Bay Area show before the plane crash!!💯🙏♥️💪😎
😪💔
Yes, about 3 months before their crash...I was 12, will never forget it
Your just AWESOME....
That must've been a hell of a concert!
I was looking for someone like you. Tell me, can it be that the girls were much more beautiful then than now?
2nd helping my sweet home Alabama 49 yrs passed bringing back to the era of 1974..
How beautiful a song is not Swallowed by time ...
Even Though I'm 64 Yrs Old Now.
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Lynard Skynard has and always will give me chills. Amazing artists and great entertainers. This song is one of the top in music history! Gone WAY too soon...
I'm 75 years old and I love this stuff, it's just great. The hair, the clothes. Fantastic !!!
listen up kids. This is what real music sounds like!!😃
Barbers must have been starving back in the 70s.
😆
I'm 68 and I'm right there with ya buddy❤ I don't care what people think , we are just awesome old hippies and very unique 🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤😂 LOVE IT!!
They were starving!
Here are the band members: Ronnie Van Zant, singer - 0:33, Leon Wilkeson, bass - 0:46, Artimus Pyle, drums - 1:30, Allen Collins, guitar - 1:35, then from left to right: Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines and JoJo Billingsley, backing singers (the Honkettes) - 1:48, Steve Gaines, guitar - 2:11, Gary Rossington, guitar - 2:27, and Billy Powell, piano - 4:09.
One more thing: notice how as he sings "Well, I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don't need him around anyhow," Ronnie Van Zant has on a Neil Young Tonight's the Night t-shirt - 1:12.
RiP, J' ville still loves you.
Ironic, he must've liked Neil Young's music.
@@kevinmalone3210 He loved neil young.Neil young also has a lynyrd skynyrd shirt on in his videos.Neil & ronnie were friends,the song was just a song.
@@toddsmotucha1285 thank you for that! Too many miss the real story/point✌️
@@kevinmalone3210 of course, Neil’s amazing 😎
Son eternos, viva el rock sureño y a mantener viva estas leyendas de la musica LYNYRD SKYNYRD, dentro de mis top 5 de musica de todos los tiempos estas FREE BIRD, pero Sweet Home Alabama fue la primera que conoci. Cuanto se extraña a Ronnie, Alen, Gary, Billie,Leon, Steve y Cassie.... abrazo a Artimus que aún esta con nosotros. Saludos desde Temuco, Chile.
saludos desde santiago, no creí que hubieran chilenos que les gustara esta banda.
We used to have a country. A proper country.
move to russia
@@davidmoser3535 lmfao you don’t like your countrymen being replaced? LEAVE 😂
Now it’s Illegals and Terrorist!!
Stupid Americans supporting the Democrats that protect and care for them over Americans.
@@davidmoser3535 No, evidently by your comment it is you that needs to move. The rest of us will love our country the United States of America
What a fuckin stupid comment
Thanks to Neil Young for bringing me here. I forget about cancel culture and feel 20 years younger!
Those whoo - whoo girls seemed quite unhappy huh ?
Whatever you wanna say, you can say, but these guys were highly skilled musicians.
I BET SO WHEN UR TRAINED
as a canadian, these guys were the absolute best!!!
yeah the small hats had to take these fellas out of the picture
I was there! 59 and still listening to SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Nice! 😎
This music and the film defined a large part of how it felt to be in America in the 70's for me. It was a way different place than it is today - I came her from England on a holiday in 77 (rare for Brits back then) and drove through the South with my dad. It blew me away - everyone I met, and I mean everyone, were interested in talking, telling stories, taking us out fishing, sightseeing - reliving what it meant to be American. People listened to real music ( like this) had real opinions and took time to know you because they were interested. It was before the "me" culture and obsession with the green took hold as the 80's hit us all. Someone posted a comment "it will never be like this again"...they are right, it's an era that's gone. I'm blessed in my life to have experienced it, felt it, and was able to spent a small part of my youth in the 70's and in the U.S.A. God bless this country and L.S for music that defined a different place, pace and time.
Well said!
Paul Street well that's cute and all but how old are you now? Probably in your 70s
As a rural Southerner born in 1943 I would like to thank you, man.
It wasn't as blissful as you remember it, and it isn't as bad as you believe it to be today.
You're always welcome to come back.
Ronnie Van Zant will live forever!!
Yes he will!!!! Lives gone too soon! Legendary rockstars!
as long as we keep playing this he will
I was sitting in a booth talking with a client today at Longhorn Steakhouse when a lady in the next booth cell phone ring tone Sweet Home Alabama came on, I yelled, TURN IT UP!! everyone started laughing.
I’m so glad they had the brain to record this concert.
;'( Im only 23 but hot damn do I love Skynyrd!! Wish the original members were still around. Absolutely beautiful music from awesome musicians!!
So sad most of them died in that plane crash. RIP
+TheBomb100 rip to and I love your profile pic
Ethan Moody Thanks bud.
+TheBomb100 welcome
I'm only 14 and I love em
Lord bring back sanity!
the guitar solos hit so hard. gary with his slide influence, gaines ripping the strat, and collins with his bending technique. all amazing. RIP to the greatest band of all time
Still thinking about you today in 2024 Ronnie Van Zant. Miss you dude.!!
Studio level --- While LIVE! Amazing musicianship!!
You are absolutely correct...x amazing musical talent....
And everyone on that stage is in their twenties!
Self made musicians/businessmen! (& women)... Impressive!
Damn good music! I was a teenager back then and it was music utopia! You had Skynard, Allman Brothers , Bowie, T-Rex, Alice Cooper, The Who, Stones, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Tull, Black Sabbath, Earth Wind and Fire, The Ohio Players, The iconic Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye just to name a few of the diverse music tastes. Plus the vulgar disco and top 40 pop crap we all probably were too embarrassed to admit we listened to now and then. No PC bullshit! You went to concerts and had a great time! I miss great music!
You're making me cry...♥
Amen
Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, The Eagles are the ones you meant.
@@wb6162 Oh yes! That's what I meant by music utopia. Too many to list! Add Iron Maiden as well. We had the best talented musicians no matter what taste in music you loved. Did I say Paul Rogers? Tina Turner? So many greats!
Patches 15 Damn, we also failed to mention Heart, Boston, Foreigner, The Cars and Tom friggin Petty!
I was 3 months old when this concert was performed. RIP to all those who lost their lives. 😢
This song is timeless. It will be played at the end of the world. It lives in the cosmic ether.
Agreed
When people could just have fun!
Right!!
I saw Skynrd barely 2 weeks before that awful plane crash back in 1977. For us Southern folk, they were the heart of the South.
Steve Hammond The group died that day...
I saw them in 1974 as the warm-up band for Black Sabbath at Madison Square Garden we told him to take their Confederate flag and their southern shit and shove it up their ass and we booed them off the stage by the end of the fourth song.
Fuck you Chas.
As Great as it gets. Many thanks to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
They really were amazing. Each one so tremendously talented and when they joined forces, you got masterpieces like this. Beautiful.
I'm 62 years old now. I remember getting their live double album, One More From the Road, for my 16th birthday in 1978. I ended up having to buy a second one because I wore the first one slap out.
I born at the north of Mexico 🇲🇽., and grow up listening this beautiful music, I am from Sonora border with Arizona “before Mexico 🇲🇽 “ but always listening this great music from USA 🇺🇸 country that I love so much, I remember listening hear it in the radio station from Arizona 👍👍👍👍 I am 32 and I love Mexico 🇲🇽 and USA 🇺🇸cowboys for ever 👋👋
I saw them in the summer of 1974 in Buffalo ..They ended with Free Bird which blew everyone away then came out for an encore of Sweet Home Alabama..
By looking at this video at year 2023, you can realize that too many things have gone really bad... to put it nicely
WOW ! That's crazy how good these guys are . This has always been my favorite band ever since I first heard them in the seventies.