"The Outlaws down in Tampa town it's a mighty fine place to be. They got green grass and they got high tides and it sure looks good to me." Molly Hatchet
Quite simply the greatest Southern rock band ever. Hughie and his band belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is what rock guitar is all about. Just listen to the licks....listen to the drive, the emotion, the power and the soul. This is what rock was meant to be.
3061535 Yes! And look at some of the nominees these past few years! Really? And to think Hughie didn't even make Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time list. Sad! RIP Flame, Billy and Frank, you are missed! 😢
I remember being a young stud runnin' round Tampa Bay back in the late 70s loud and proud to be from the home of the Florida Guitar Army..... over 40 years later and nothing has changed!
As a man born in Florida in 1960 I can’t watch this without getting teary eyed. When I was an impressionable young teen was when all this greatness was first coming out. Now to see it some 40 sum odd years later still sounding so timeless, it’s pretty intense…
My first introduction to them was on the Bring Em Back Alive album. It changed my guitar playing big time! Billy Jones was melodic lead player beast. Huey Thomasson was an immortal performer.
I remember as a kid growing up in Tampa there was this band always practicing on Juneau St I always wondered if it was the early Outlaws urban legend says yes
hi was he really? thats soo awesome.. hughie was a phenom guitarist/singer/songwriter and Im sure a great person to know. i met him once got on the tour bus after a show at the House of blues.. :)
Alexandria you might be interested in hearing my friend Ronnie Pauls from NY State and the band R.A.D.A.R. cover Hughie's work on Green Grass & High Tides. find him on Facebook! You won't be disappointed.
We are so blessed to have this whole generation of guitarist n musicians..trucks..allmans...hanes..hughi T..vanzants..susan tedeschi..ect ect...wow they hit the the notes n bend em n hold em..so magnificently it gives me goose bumps...love it...god bless them all
I lived in Tampa in the mid 70's. The Outlaws were still just a local band, playing at local bar on the outskirts of town named The Depot. They played there a lot. There was another place that you could walk to from the Depot called the Performing Arts Center (aka PAC Club) and they had another band playing on the same night as the Outlaws were . One night I was walkin back and forth thorughout the night to see both bands. The other band was from Jacksonville and they were called "Mudcrutch" - later to be renamed; Tom Petty and the Torpedo's. Huey married a friend of mine from high school - but it didn't last.
The Outlaws were the openers at my first show. My mother took me to see them with ELO at Mershon Auditorium at the Ohio State University in, I believe 1977 or 78. I would have been about 7 years old. My mother passed suddenly on February 17th of this year. She nurtured my love of music from my youth onward. All four of us children continued to see shows, of all genres, with her right up until her death. RIP my rock and roll Mama!
Man! these songs shaped my life since high school, The Outlaws, Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers, Blackfoot, The Marshall Tucker Band, they added spice and flavors to my life.
Amen. The man who is THE reason I picked up a guitar. Got to see him one time and hang for a few....great guy. Never got the credit he deserved....sad that the BEST southern rock band isn't in the hall..
I saw the Outlaws at the old Cape Cod Coliseum in Yarmouth, Ma back in 1978, it was incredible. Hughie had great vocals. He played for Skynard as well. Long live 70's Southern Rock. Now it's called today's Country Music. The Outlaws, Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker would all be huge Country Bands now.
Hughie is awesome. I started listening to the Outlaws in 1975. They where my favorite band in high school in the late 70's. They sound great right here.
Huey died a few months after this. I was so bummed. I got to meet him after a show in 1993 at in front of a crowd of about 30 people. He signed our hats and gave us a tour of his bus. I wasn’t prepared for a hero of mine to be so down to earth. I didn’t even care about the other band members, to me Huey WAS the band.
Keep in mind that Mr. Monte Yoho IS the original drummer! Hughie, as much as I love him, is NOT an original Outlaws member!! Keep that in mind. RIP Hughie.
@@bigdee8189 Wrong. Hughie formed the band in 1967. Monte joined the band 2 years later in 1969. Hughie was the original Outlaw, and the only band member to play every gig and album from band formation until his death in 2007.
Two definitive Outlaws songs, back when I was listening to them, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker and Lynard Skynard every other song. When I wasn't listening to the Allman Brothers.
+david grier man yall are so lucky..i never got the opportunity to meet my cousin..grew up very poor here in AR..we're very proud of him and yeah why isnt he in the hall of fame yet..another note to self..gotta lose the sicilian name i wound up with thanks to TX vital statistics ..
I agree!! It's a shame that Hughie passed back in 2009!! He was one of the nicest guys I ever met!! Henry Paul was with him as were a few originals!! I fed them all filet mignon after the show! They were all so nice!! GOD BLESS you Hughie and R.I.P.
Hughie had played not too much before this was filmed at a show I was doing at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg, Fl. to do a charity show for someone very special dying from cancer. It was an event that I know has never been forgotten to the entire jam-packed venue. And Hughie was at his best. There are very few people in this world with the compassion that Hughie showed, and he honored us all as The Outlaws honored The Outlaws! I will leave it at that. But I'm glad this film is here as it's the least that can be done to honor such a great man as Hughie !
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70's...my kids were born in late 80's early 90's. Saw the OUTLAWS many times back in the day. The best concert of my life was taking my kids to enjoy Hughie and the boys at the House of Blues in Orlando, May 14, 2005. His family and granddaughter was there too. It was a night I will never forget. RIP bro!
The Last time i talked with Hughie was in 2004 at the Reno Hilton,backstage, he was in Skynyrd then.I told him that I really miss the Outlaws, he said he wanted to get back and do that again. He was so nice and Gracious.I bought a 30th anniversary Epiphone Skynyrd Les Paul that night. Skynyrd band signed it backstage, Hughie signed it Friday the 13th, as It was that day.When they came onstage I kept looking at Hughie and yelling his name at him, I was in the first row, Me and him kept looking at each other during the show,and I kept yelling his name,I Know I PISSED OFF some of the Skynyrd Band.Oh well, RIP Hughie my friend. You Will Never Be Forgotten. I Miss You, Gary
Hughie T. sure could still play guitar in this last year of his life. What a gift it is to be able to see Hughie playing right until the end just as well as he played when he was a much younger man. This 2007 show is very impressive. Hughie looked so happy. And I barely know anything about The Outlaws but I am appreciating their contributions to southern rock and roll, or however one would describe the Outlaws.
Great stuff. Even in this much later incarnation, the Outlaws always sounded much better in small venues like this. They used to play free street dances in front of the student union all the time when I was at University of South Florida in the mid 70s and the first time I saw them I was just blow away. Never seen a guitar player as good as Hughie, and even here, a few months before his death, he still sounded great.
It was sometime in the late 70's i was 13 or 14 hanging out at a ball field. When an older kid said to me, hey kid hand me that spray paint can and hold this ladder steady.......When he was done it read "The Outlaws" The rest is history!
I never had the pleasure to meet Hughie and Billy. The early Outlaws music spoke to my heart as a Georgia boy. I hope God will one day give me a chance to thank them for the gift they’ve been giving me for the past 44 yrs. Miss them bad. Just can’t imagine Billy being so distraught that he would take his life. God bless them both. The REAL Outlaws!
I kept looking at Hughie and yelling his name as Skynyrd played, I think I PISSED OFF SOME OF THE SKYNYRD BOYS, OH WELL, IT had to be done. RIP Hughie my friend you will never be forgotten, Thank You for your Music, THERE IS ONE HELL OF A PARTY GOIN ON IN ROCK AND ROLL HEAVIN..............
*********** 1:46 ********* Look at the emotion in Hughie's eyes. He is really feeling the lyrics and the song. I never gave The Outlaws the time of day until the last couple of weeks. I didn't know really who Hughie was, Billy Paul or any of the guys in that band. I see now at the age of 55 that I neglected one of the best Southern Rock bands ever. These guys were so talented on guitar and much more than some of my heroes in bands like Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and others. Skynyrd had the SONGS thanks to Ronnie Van Zant. The Outlaws had the BALLS of great guitarists. The Outlaws probably just needed to be SEEN to know just how TALENTED they really were. The guitarists in The Outlaws simply played much better than many other Southern Rock Guitarists. I can only acknowledge this later in my life at 55. Looks and that cool factor don't always mean a guy was a great guitarist. Sometimes a great guitarist doesn't have good hair, good looks, or he might not be a good lead singer. This only means that a music fan needs to keep an open mind and heart to appreciate the great musicians, singers, songwriters, and bands that gave us so much great music.l
These are the type of musicians that don't really care if they are playing a stadium fo ten thousand people or a little bar for 30. They are still going to give it they're all because that's just the way they are, totally groovin on the power of their own music.
Back in 78 I was in High School and loved this band. I had an OUTLAWS t-shirt that I wore into dust. Drove halfway across the country on two cassette tapes. The last time I saw the band, Huey was taking hits of oxygen in between songs. I think they played with Foghat at a bar in the lot. It was awesome. I didn't hear about his passing until a couple years after. Man, my heart sank.
I had no idea Huey had passed away. I hate to see that. I seen you all when I was only maybe 7 or 8, at a Dance Hall Bar in Pulaski, Va. called, The Ponderosa. It was and still is an old barn with the dance hall upstairs, but now it's a shooting range because of da** people not wanting beer and good times around any more. I would go with my mom to see you every time you played. I play this song on my drum set. LOVE IT. You all impacted on my life with all your songs. Thank you for the memories.
They were so great and the finally with all of them at front stage with a guitar was unreplaceable the ultimate when they did ghost rider was my deceased sisters favorite god bless her soul
Without question.....one of the most AWESOME videos of a performance of the 'Reformed Outlaws / H. T.' that exists. Greatest drumming duo ever......period. The legendary Outlaws died, though, at the untimely passing from this earth of Hughie E. Thomasson in 2007. Never, ever will this band achieve similiar achievement without him!
I've seen them five times in concert in the 70's and 80's. At the Southern Rock Jam in Philly in 1981 as soon as they said the lyrics "Ghost Riders in the sky: the sky opened up with a rain storm then when the song was over the rain stopped. What a show!!!
Boys came from Louisiana . Arkansas and Mississippi. Found thier way to Memphis and Rock N Roll was started. In the 60's into 70's it moved to the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida. Now? Its gone!!!! I have no real complaint. We made our mark on the world and what a fine signature we left. Oh how I love the SOUTH and our wys are absolutely seen here. Thanks for uploading this great live video!!
This Hughie is a shadow of his former self. That's only a slight because he was so extraordinarily talented in his prime. I can't think of the Outlaws without Hughie and Billy center stage.
Saw them in Champaign IL in a small club, mid-'80s. Their PA kept blowing power because stupid venues are not set up for good bands these days ( DJ's rule..PUKE!)Anyway, they did half their set acoustic. The did Green Grass and High Tides acoustic! I would not have thought it possible, but seeing was believing. I was blown away. RIP, Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones, Frank O'Keefe. The original Outlaws KICKED BUTT. So did later incarnations, but as always the first was the best. The great die young.
right on! Hughie enjoyed ALL stages of his career, some more than others...What he ALWAYS enjoyed and never took for granted was US, his loyal devoted fans...i think he always felt he was "just" (LOL) a player and WE were the show...so sad he is gone!
Saw Outlaws in Rochester NY at the International JazzFest, and they sounded fantastic, I am so grateful after so much loss to hear them live. I was blown away. Long live and power to you .......*whistles*!!!!
I was backstage in 1981 at the Round-up in Philly with 38 Special and I took some great photos of the OUTLAWS.Years later,apprx. 2005,Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing at Fox news in New York, where I work.I told Hughey I had a picture of the OUTLAWS from 1981.He gave me his card and I mailed him a copy.I never heard from him, but Im sure he looked at the picture and laughed.Great musician and a great man.R.I.P.
Saw them in 1975 at Pontiac Silverdome opening up followed by Ted Nugent, Foghat, then Aerosmith headlining. Always wish I saw them when Hughie was still alive. This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. Billy Jones was one of my favorites in the day but Chris Anderson is a great player in his own right. I remember seeing him when he was a kid with Dru Lumbar and Grinderswitch. The good old days ...
saw these guys at the centry theate,buffalo ny 1979,still gives me chills to hear green grass and high tides.would love to see these guys again.when are they in canada again
this band brings back so many memories from a whole life time ago....good to go back!!! rock on hughie ....entertaining the folks in heaven....no doubt!!
RIP Huey.....You made the Outlaws Great....Mr. Chris Hicks southside of Dooly Co south of Unadilla Angel City we Respect ya'll and the music you made and make famous.....DBD
So great to see Huey and Chris playing together. If only it could have lasted longer.
One of the greatest guitarist ever ! The Outlaws never got the due credit they so deserved .
"The Outlaws down in Tampa town it's a mighty fine place to be. They got green grass and they got high tides and it sure looks good to me." Molly Hatchet
Quite simply the greatest Southern rock band ever. Hughie and his band belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is what rock guitar is all about. Just listen to the licks....listen to the drive, the emotion, the power and the soul. This is what rock was meant to be.
couldn't say it better!
Hometown friends!
3061535 Yes! And look at some of the nominees these past few years! Really? And to think Hughie didn't even make Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time list. Sad!
RIP Flame, Billy and Frank, you are missed! 😢
I agree... their guitars sound the way an electric guitar is suppose to sound.. rip hughie, man u were way under appreciated
makoshark628 both guitars have amazing tone and the difference between sound and playing are perfect together...chills from tone..
This is what makes Southern Rock the best. Guitars, keyboards and drums. No electronic phony baloney. Pure music..
AMEN👍❤🤠
A whole melting pot of musical styles including: rock, country, jazz, and gospel.
There goes another love song…Woot Woot
Billy Jones' solo-nailed exactly.☺
Still listening in 2024.
I remember being a young stud runnin' round Tampa Bay back in the late 70s loud and proud to be from the home of the Florida Guitar Army..... over 40 years later and nothing has changed!
I feel sorry for the 48 people that thumb down this song....no taste in music.
As a man born in Florida in 1960 I can’t watch this without getting teary eyed. When I was an impressionable young teen was when all this greatness was first coming out. Now to see it some 40 sum odd years later still sounding so timeless, it’s pretty intense…
I still listen to the Outlaws almost everyday....live album and course studio GGHT
You I love
My first introduction to them was on the Bring Em Back Alive album. It changed my guitar playing big time! Billy Jones was melodic lead player beast. Huey Thomasson was an immortal performer.
Me too 1960 grew up on all whats called classic rock now. Man kids now missing out.
I remember as a kid growing up in Tampa there was this band always practicing on Juneau St I always wondered if it was the early Outlaws urban legend says yes
God blessed us with Hughie, Billy, Monty and a band from Tampa called the “Outlaws”! Thank you Lord!
Amazing Guitarist
Hugh Edward Thomasson, Jr. R.I.P. 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
thats my cousin omg miss him so much :'( in memory of Hughie
hi was he really? thats soo awesome.. hughie was a phenom guitarist/singer/songwriter and Im sure a great person to know. i met him once got on the tour bus after a show at the House of blues.. :)
alexandria morgan He was a great man.
Alexandria you might be interested in hearing my friend Ronnie Pauls from NY State and the band R.A.D.A.R. cover Hughie's work on Green Grass & High Tides. find him on Facebook! You won't be disappointed.
alexandria morgan i miss him too my heart gos out to ya☺
I used to know a couple of his cousins in Roanoke VA.
We are so blessed to have this whole generation of guitarist n musicians..trucks..allmans...hanes..hughi T..vanzants..susan tedeschi..ect ect...wow they hit the the notes n bend em n hold em..so magnificently it gives me goose bumps...love it...god bless them all
R.I.P Hughie Thomasson God Blessed us all to hear your wonderful music and you will be deeply missed.
I lived in Tampa in the mid 70's. The Outlaws were still just a local band, playing at local bar on the outskirts of town named The Depot. They played there a lot. There was another place that you could walk to from the Depot called the Performing Arts Center (aka PAC Club) and they had another band playing on the same night as the Outlaws were . One night I was walkin back and forth thorughout the night to see both bands. The other band was from Jacksonville and they were called "Mudcrutch" - later to be renamed; Tom Petty and the Torpedo's. Huey married a friend of mine from high school - but it didn't last.
The Outlaws were the openers at my first show. My mother took me to see them with ELO at Mershon Auditorium at the Ohio State University in, I believe 1977 or 78. I would have been about 7 years old. My mother passed suddenly on February 17th of this year. She nurtured my love of music from my youth onward. All four of us children continued to see shows, of all genres, with her right up until her death. RIP my rock and roll Mama!
Drum Monster I’m so sorry for your loss
She had great taste! God bless her.
Man! these songs shaped my life since high school, The Outlaws, Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers, Blackfoot, The Marshall Tucker Band, they added spice and flavors to my life.
And 38 Special and ZZ Top
The 70s were the best sucks now
Aden, you my friend are a Southern Rock connoisseur 👍
And the boys from Doraville.
@@EssentialXL. Yes sir ! Atlanta Rhythm Section
Chris Anderson stills rocks.
Hughie was so great, been 8 years, still can't accept he's gone.
Great thanks
Amen. The man who is THE reason I picked up a guitar. Got to see him one time and hang for a few....great guy. Never got the credit he deserved....sad that the BEST southern rock band isn't in the hall..
Saw them in 2008 couple months before he died
Still can't believe it
Saw them about 10 times in the 70's. They were as good as Skynyrd in my opinion.
People it doesn't get any better than this ! The one and only Guitar Army !
I saw the Outlaws at the old Cape Cod Coliseum in Yarmouth, Ma back in 1978, it was incredible. Hughie had great vocals. He played for Skynard as well. Long live 70's Southern Rock. Now it's called today's Country Music. The Outlaws, Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker would all be huge Country Bands now.
Fender & Les Paul combo never sounded so good, a couple of really great pickers bring it all to life.
I agree with you in every way only that there ain't a les paul on stage. He plays a PRS.
@@lakedaimoninc.3320 Is lacking because of it !
30-40 years on, still brings a tear to my eye!
Texas mexicanos love the Outlaws and Southern Rock
Hughie is awesome. I started listening to the Outlaws in 1975. They where my favorite band in high school in the late 70's. They sound great right here.
Hughie died. 1975 was great. Remember it well
Saw em in 75 at a small college in jersey outstanding
Huey died a few months after this. I was so bummed. I got to meet him after a show in 1993 at in front of a crowd of about 30 people. He signed our hats and gave us a tour of his bus. I wasn’t prepared for a hero of mine to be so down to earth. I didn’t even care about the other band members, to me Huey WAS the band.
Keep in mind that Mr. Monte Yoho IS the original drummer! Hughie, as much as I love him, is NOT an original Outlaws member!! Keep that in mind. RIP Hughie.
@@bigdee8189 Wrong. Hughie formed the band in 1967. Monte joined the band 2 years later in 1969. Hughie was the original Outlaw, and the only band member to play every gig and album from band formation until his death in 2007.
Always loved the Outlaws. 🎸 The Guitar Army.
RIP Huey, it is just not the same without you man. I hope you Billy and Frank are all jamming together in that big gig in the sky!
Love and miss them...those times
yep I might be old ,But I got to see all the kool bands
Hey, Old is just fine. We lived in the greatest time in music and if lucky, we went to the concerts. Take care
Two definitive Outlaws songs, back when I was listening to them, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker and Lynard Skynard every other song.
When I wasn't listening to the Allman Brothers.
Don’t forget Charlie Daniels Band
2 great albums , Night Rider and Fire on the Mountains
The Allman brothers are burried in my birthtown and I am ok with that
The Outlaws and Lynyrd
Skynyrd, two of the best jammin bands ever! Long live Southern Rock!
The Deacon.
Blackfoot?
These guys were great. I saw them several times.
Greatest ever ....green grass and high tides forever Hughie!!!!
I'm a newcomer to this band but I like what I hear!
Hughie deserves to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. Was a real nice guy, too. Spent a few hours with him the Outlaws waaaaay back in the early 80's.
+david grier me too
+david grier man yall are so lucky..i never got the opportunity to meet my cousin..grew up very poor here in AR..we're very proud of him and yeah why isnt he in the hall of fame yet..another note to self..gotta lose the sicilian name i wound up with thanks to TX vital statistics ..
At least you are related. To me he was a friend of a friend's (Freddie Salem) band member.
+david grier Is this the same guy who had long blonde hair and a headband??
Yup.
RIP HUGHIE Truly the master of the telecaster!!!!
... but mostly played a Strat, as he does here. But usually with a maple fingerboard.
Two great songs by a fantastic band!
Beautiful ...miss Billies Leads... Outlaws Forever! RIP HT & BJ
I agree!! It's a shame that Hughie passed back in 2009!! He was one of the nicest guys I
ever met!! Henry Paul was with him as were a few originals!! I fed them all filet mignon after the show! They
were all so nice!! GOD
BLESS you Hughie and
R.I.P.
He passed in Sept. 9 2007, one month after this show was recorded..RIP Hughie, best southern picker ever!
Hughie had played not too much before this was filmed at a show I was doing at the State Theatre in St. Petersburg, Fl. to do a charity show for someone very special dying from cancer. It was an event that I know has never been forgotten to the entire jam-packed venue. And Hughie was at his best. There are very few people in this world with the compassion that Hughie showed, and he honored us all as The Outlaws honored The Outlaws! I will leave it at that. But I'm glad this film is here as it's the least that can be done to honor such a great man as Hughie !
I Love You Hughie! I am playing 'South Carolina' right now with my Strat in Honor of you, and Billy!
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70's...my kids were born in late 80's early 90's. Saw the OUTLAWS many times back in the day. The best concert of my life was taking my kids to enjoy Hughie and the boys at the House of Blues in Orlando, May 14, 2005. His family and granddaughter was there too. It was a night I will never forget. RIP bro!
The Last time i talked with Hughie was in 2004 at the Reno Hilton,backstage, he was in Skynyrd then.I told him that I really miss the Outlaws, he said he wanted to get back and do that again. He was so nice and Gracious.I bought a 30th anniversary Epiphone Skynyrd Les Paul that night. Skynyrd band signed it backstage, Hughie signed it Friday the 13th, as It was that day.When they came onstage I kept looking at Hughie and yelling his name at him, I was in the first row, Me and him kept looking at each other during the show,and I kept yelling his name,I Know I PISSED OFF some of the Skynyrd Band.Oh well, RIP Hughie my friend. You Will Never Be Forgotten. I Miss You, Gary
Hughie T. sure could still play guitar in this last year of his life. What a gift it is to be able to see Hughie playing right until the end just as well as he played when he was a much younger man. This 2007 show is very impressive. Hughie looked so happy. And I barely know anything about The Outlaws but I am appreciating their contributions to southern rock and roll, or however one would describe the Outlaws.
Great stuff. Even in this much later incarnation, the Outlaws always sounded much better in small venues like this. They used to play free street dances in front of the student union all the time when I was at University of South Florida in the mid 70s and the first time I saw them I was just blow away. Never seen a guitar player as good as Hughie, and even here, a few months before his death, he still sounded great.
It was sometime in the late 70's i was 13 or 14 hanging out at a ball field. When an older kid said to me, hey kid hand me that spray paint can and hold this ladder steady.......When he was done it read "The Outlaws" The rest is history!
YES YES and YES. shit for "rock and roll" nowadays. SOUTHERN FRIED. These guys, Skynyrd, 38 special, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker.... etc.
Hurry Sundown gives me chills
Bobby Dudley I just heard that song today 💜I love it!!!
Man HT had a great voice. What a band!
I never had the pleasure to meet Hughie and Billy. The early Outlaws music spoke to my heart as a Georgia boy. I hope God will one day give me a chance to thank them for the gift they’ve been giving me for the past 44 yrs. Miss them bad. Just can’t imagine Billy being so distraught that he would take his life. God bless them both. The REAL Outlaws!
My favorite Band of all time, used to listen to them constantly in the 70's and 80's as a young man.
true southern rock...luv itttt.
yea me too what happened somewhere lost the good music
Hughie was so great! He was The Outlaws
I kept looking at Hughie and yelling his name as Skynyrd played, I think I PISSED OFF SOME OF THE SKYNYRD BOYS, OH WELL, IT had to be done. RIP Hughie my friend you will never be forgotten, Thank You for your Music, THERE IS ONE HELL OF A PARTY GOIN ON IN ROCK AND ROLL HEAVIN..............
*********** 1:46 ********* Look at the emotion in Hughie's eyes. He is really feeling the lyrics and the song. I never gave The Outlaws the time of day until the last couple of weeks. I didn't know really who Hughie was, Billy Paul or any of the guys in that band. I see now at the age of 55 that I neglected one of the best Southern Rock bands ever. These guys were so talented on guitar and much more than some of my heroes in bands like Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and others. Skynyrd had the SONGS thanks to Ronnie Van Zant. The Outlaws had the BALLS of great guitarists. The Outlaws probably just needed to be SEEN to know just how TALENTED they really were. The guitarists in The Outlaws simply played much better than many other Southern Rock Guitarists. I can only acknowledge this later in my life at 55. Looks and that cool factor don't always mean a guy was a great guitarist. Sometimes a great guitarist doesn't have good hair, good looks, or he might not be a good lead singer. This only means that a music fan needs to keep an open mind and heart to appreciate the great musicians, singers, songwriters, and bands that gave us so much great music.l
These are the type of musicians that don't really care if they are playing a stadium fo ten thousand people or a little bar for 30. They are still going to give it they're all because that's just the way they are, totally groovin on the power of their own music.
I truly love this Southern rock band! R.I.P. Hughie! Thanks for the memories cause you rocked them all!
Back in 78 I was in High School and loved this band. I had an OUTLAWS t-shirt that I wore into dust. Drove halfway across the country on two cassette tapes. The last time I saw the band, Huey was taking hits of oxygen in between songs. I think they played with Foghat at a bar in the lot. It was awesome. I didn't hear about his passing until a couple years after. Man, my heart sank.
Saw them when they opened for Bad Company, what a show!!!!
I had no idea Huey had passed away. I hate to see that. I seen you all when I was only maybe 7 or 8, at a Dance Hall Bar in Pulaski, Va. called, The Ponderosa. It was and still is an old barn with the dance hall upstairs, but now it's a shooting range because of da** people not wanting beer and good times around any more. I would go with my mom to see you every time you played. I play this song on my drum set. LOVE IT. You all impacted on my life with all your songs. Thank you for the memories.
They were so great and the finally with all of them at front stage with a guitar was unreplaceable the ultimate when they did ghost rider was my deceased sisters favorite god bless her soul
Without question.....one of the most AWESOME videos of a performance of the 'Reformed Outlaws / H. T.' that exists. Greatest drumming duo ever......period. The legendary Outlaws died, though, at the untimely passing from this earth of Hughie E. Thomasson in 2007. Never, ever will this band achieve similiar achievement without him!
Those were the good ol days Tampa Fl
I've seen them five times in concert in the 70's and 80's. At the Southern Rock Jam in Philly in 1981 as soon as they said the lyrics "Ghost Riders in the sky: the sky opened up with a rain storm then when the song was over the rain stopped. What a show!!!
Nothing like Hughie and these boys..NOTHING!!!
Boys came from Louisiana . Arkansas and Mississippi. Found thier way to Memphis and Rock N Roll was started. In the 60's into 70's it moved to the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida. Now? Its gone!!!! I have no real complaint. We made our mark on the world and what a fine signature we left. Oh how I love the SOUTH and our wys are absolutely seen here. Thanks for uploading this great live video!!
This was awesome, and Hughey passed a little over 1 month after this performance. May he rest in peace....
This Hughie is a shadow of his former self. That's only a slight because he was so extraordinarily talented in his prime. I can't think of the Outlaws without Hughie and Billy center stage.
Saw them in Champaign IL in a small club, mid-'80s. Their PA kept blowing power because stupid venues are not set up for good bands these days ( DJ's rule..PUKE!)Anyway, they did half their set acoustic. The did Green Grass and High Tides acoustic! I would not have thought it possible, but seeing was believing. I was blown away. RIP, Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones, Frank O'Keefe. The original Outlaws KICKED BUTT. So did later incarnations, but as always the first was the best.
The great die young.
Oh, so very, very nice. Excellent. Richard
right on! Hughie enjoyed ALL stages of his career, some more than others...What he ALWAYS enjoyed and never took for granted was US, his loyal devoted fans...i think he always felt he was "just" (LOL) a player and WE were the show...so sad he is gone!
damn i just never get tired of listen to that band...been listening to them most my life too..
Saw Outlaws in Rochester NY at the International JazzFest, and they sounded fantastic, I am so grateful after so much loss to hear them live. I was blown away. Long live and power to you .......*whistles*!!!!
I was backstage in 1981 at the Round-up in Philly with 38 Special and I took some great photos of the OUTLAWS.Years later,apprx. 2005,Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing at Fox news in New York, where I work.I told Hughey I had a picture of the OUTLAWS from 1981.He gave me his card and I mailed him a copy.I never heard from him, but Im sure he looked at the picture and laughed.Great musician and a great man.R.I.P.
But thank you guys so much for keeping the spirit of the Outlaws going.
Bring it back alive is one of the greatest albums of all time!
Stick Around For Rock & Roll
Saw outlaws ,met them in fla.&Asheville,forreal rockers
Saw them at Kent State 40 years ago-never forget the two drummers! They were great!!
RIP Hughie. You were awesome.
Saw them in 1975 at Pontiac Silverdome opening up followed by Ted Nugent, Foghat, then Aerosmith headlining. Always wish I saw them when Hughie was still alive. This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Hughie could play he was very good and sang good the man had a toch about him GODBLESS ALL THANK YOU
Nice video, thanks for sharing. Billy Jones was one of my favorites in the day but Chris Anderson is a great player in his own right. I remember seeing him when he was a kid with Dru Lumbar and Grinderswitch. The good old days ...
saw these guys at the centry theate,buffalo ny 1979,still gives me chills to hear green grass and high tides.would love to see these guys again.when are they in canada again
brad michaud i would too. too bad hughie thomasson passed away a month after this took place.
this band brings back so many memories from a whole life time ago....good to go back!!! rock on hughie ....entertaining the folks in heaven....no doubt!!
This here is real, timeless rock and roll. Awesome performance, love the double drums!
RIP Huey.....You made the Outlaws Great....Mr. Chris Hicks southside of Dooly Co south of Unadilla Angel City we Respect ya'll and the music you made and make famous.....DBD
Saw the Outlaws live in the early 80's. Billy was a guitar machine.
Miss you, Hughie.
Thank you very much. I love the outlaws. Knew them very well.
I lived close to TAMPA in the 60's. Saw The Outlaws, Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers numerous times. Southern Rock was BORN with these guys.
Hughie is pure class - sorely missed...
Awesome band and song. Live music is the test of talent and they hit it.
Absolutely amazing
saw them at pine crest a couple of times the best party of the summer hands down PEACE
Great songs and a great band.
These guys were incredible.
What a great band! Indianapolis Indiana reporting!