Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official)
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
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
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I'm 95 years old and about to fly free. I Remember this like it was yesterday. Thank you for the memories.
God bless!
god bless america! 😁
You’re not 95
Be happy you heard it brother
We'll all meet in that journey soon enough. God speed to you and I'll see you there tomorrow.
RIP Gary Rossington. Haunting to know all the guys on the front of that stage, hair flowing in the wind, in their prime are now all freebirds. Thanks for all the great music.
That's not how he died... it was a heartattack
@@strandalx what he’s saying is everyone at the front of the stage all 3 guitar players, the bass player, and singer are all gone now… not hard to understand if you take more than 3 seconds to read what he said. The only memeber still alive in this lineup is the drummer.
@@troylovette6911 yeah, that comment actually made me cry, and i don't cry. i saw this stadium show in 76 at RFK. was fucking spiritual. dreary day, they came out for an encore and the sky opened up and the sun shown threw was magical....spiritual...
RIP indeed. The Free Bird flies on in Rock and Roll heaven.
@@troylovette6911 Artemus Pyle
This footage is an historical treasure for the ages
Concerts today are nothing like this.
Amazing is quite the understatement @@stevenday9687
@@stevenday9687 Imagine seeing attractive young women in the front row. Nah, that's crazy.
@@user-ym4xy6us5e what’s crazy about that?
@@user-ym4xy6us5e Go to a Sleep Token show and you'll see em
I was there!! 20 years old, 67 and still listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd
how wild was it?!?!
Be happy you grew up when you did.
I was at that concert in '77. Now I'm 67 and it seems like yesterday. Thanks for the memories and fly high Free Birds.
My Dad was at this concert. He’s 66.. I wasn’t born until well into the 80s but one thing I’ll always carry with me is my Dads taste in music. Several Skynyrds songs never leave my playlist.
Me to
You were actually there?cool i bet it was amazing 🎸
@@Scorpiobwmy dad was exactly the same. a lot of nostalgia in songs like this for me as i’m sure it’s the same for you. i was born in 2000 but my dad was born in ‘64. i’m so glad he showed me real music that was made from a deep place inside. stuff like this is very hard to find today, damn near impossible. same goes for concerts. the last great one in my opinion was woodstock ‘99.
@@Scorpiobwthat’s right
I can't believe how hot everyone's grandmas are
Same they are beautiful
The whole world was a beautiful place in the 70s.
Take the like, and then leave.
It was before processed junk food. Everyone was skinny.
Yes, it looks awfully hot, doesn't it?
A lot of you are alive today because of that concert that night. Don’t forget that.
🤭
A lot of babies were aborted after this concert, too. Don't forget that.
@@searching4adventure85really!!
@@searching4adventure85explain to your grandmother tit$ie baby!!
@@searching4adventure85no they weren’t. Get real
I'm 65 years old and seeing this reminds me of when I was there when they came to our city! I was 17 and my friends and I were at the edge of the stage and the real thrill was, as they left the stage the 3 guitarists came over and shook our hands!!! I was hated by all my black friends because I was loving this white rock group, but I ignored them and so glad I didn't listen. Thank you so much for this beautiful, great memory!!!💯🎶🎵❤️❤️🐟
Love the music and ignore the hate. I'm 66 and wish I could have seen them live. And yes, THEY HAD 3 Guitarists that made their music f***ing crazy good!!!!
Music is an international language that doe snot see race, or anything like that. Just feelings on the inside.
That is a cool memory!
Every original member of this band has passed away. However, their music, and this performance, will live forever.
I believe Artimus Pyle is still with us.
They lived in a greater time
Artimus isn’t an original member. Bob Burns is the original drummer.
Not sure if thats true with forever, you know, we are right at the begin of going through an anti-Christian age and its unknown of what will remain after that. God bless
@@MenachemRosiOh hell please stop, religion has nothing to do with this whatsoever. It's about the music and nothing else.
TH-cam is so wrong for cutting this song in half for a commercial. They don’t realize what a masterpiece this song is!
Two words: Ad Blocker
For YT alone it is heavenly to not have ads.
Premium you cheap skate
I also wish whoever filmed it kept his camera on the band and not the audience.
@@paLm22 I agree. 11.99 a month is nothing, makes life a lot better.
Ad Blocker, haven't seen an ad in years.
All bands make music. Some bands make history
You saying…🔥
@@manigholami3649real
I am a Japanese high school student and I am listening now from Japan. It was very impressive and influenced my music life. Sorry for my bad English.
You sound just fine to me, I could understand you perfectly, love the music too. This was the year I graduated HS ‘77 in Oklahoma 🇺🇸.
🇯🇵Peace be with You🇯🇵 😉
Hey mate you don’t need to be proficient in any language to be absorbed by this music. It spoke of a time that was troubled by despite the troubles of the day there was some fantastic people and this group was a standout.
Your English is perfect. I was 16 in 1977 and love rock music. Peace to you and Japan from the UK.
Cancel the call. Old Crow wishes fervently.
You speak better English than I does!
The human race will never be this cool again for all of eternity. Nothing could even come close to this.
You must not know about heaven? It will be way cooler!🎉
YES
Ya be young again no more pain dance in the warm rain god bless you all❤ papa c
wish i could be in that time
Music could do it but so much hidden Evil; some right in our faces
Yesterday I watched my Mom tell my Dad goodbye by for the last time. They loved music and going to concerts so I asked the medical staff if it was ok to turn on music. They approved so I started 70’s rock station on pandora. This was the first song to play and as soon my mom heard the song she looked up and said this was our song when we first started to date back in the 70’s. They removed life support at that time and my dad passed as the song ended. What a moment to experience. Freebird will be forever etched in my heart 🥺🤘🏽❤️
Bro reading your comment gave me goosebumps. So sad but what a legendary way to go out! 😭❤️🤟
That is powerful Antonio, and although it took place during a very emotionally sad moment, that was beautiful.
I've requested an informal laid-back gathering for my funeral, and with that request I have also asked for this live version of "Free Bird" to be played in closing. Btw, I'm also Antonio. Just know that your Father is in eternal peace with the love of our dear Lord. Many blessings to you, your Mother and the rest of your family.
Free bird.
Peace be with you and your mom
I’m sorry for your loss, your dad sounds great
I paused the video to look at a group of beautiful young women. They would have been my same age at this show. I think of how each of the turned out and how their lives went. The older I get the more nostalgic I get listening to these great old songs. I was in tears watching and listening to this video thinking back to those days and the summer times that were beyond belief and how I thought they would last forever. I miss being young. I wouldn’t want to be young with todays trash music. We had it great. The best music in history.
absolutley true !
same here...
'with today's trash music,' (ps there's way more music today, just like this - you gotta search for it, it wont find you)
I wonder how many old, out of touch losers were saying this to the concert goers in the video? Lots 😂
Same thing happens today.
In the future, young people today will be saying what you did 😂
@Ryan-vg4wn "old out of touch losers" So ungracious.
@@FMP-ze6rm why does this person deserve my grace
Ronnie Van Zant was absolutely amazing for this song. I am still devastated by the plane crash.
We all are..
its still never really set in.....what a loss!!!.... RIP... all of them
RIP
yeah to bad the lead guitarist got into drugs too
It seems so hard to believe that a world like this could even exist. What an amazing time in history.
Yes it was!! I was there I was 16 in 1977 It was a Hot Day Tons of Ladies and everyone was having a good time !! I still have My Ticket Stub and I even got a Guitar Picks from Steve,Allan and GAry I still have them also ...
I was there." Day on the Green"
I love this video. Y’all are lucky to have been there
Before Drumpf or after?
We have lost so much since then.
That moment, when you realize your grandparents were cooler than you will ever be. 😂❤❤❤
Yeah!
Exactly 💯 and I am .Rock on dude's ✌
Die original Bandmitglieder sind alle Free Birds. RIP
Thanks 👍
The moment you realize the world we now live in is terribly f*cked
72 here; these were the days my friends. This song is simply a poetic jewel among all of our old songs from the late 60s through the 70s. This is when talent included haunting melodies, remarkable lyrics played with unmatched instrumental and vocal talent. Nothing compares to all the bands back in these days.
100 % correct!!!!!!!
I'm 81.
Just watched it again!
DAMN!
SUCH AN INCREDIBLE TIME!❤❤❤
Fly FREE!💥
You guys were the last cool generation.
@@walkthelonesomeroad1792
It was good.
God may bless you
No 81 year old uses TH-cam. Stop lying, my god you need likes that bad?
@@Scratchingforcash
🤣😅🤪
Kid, I've been online since BEFORE there was an Internet.
1981.
BYE! 🙄
I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I was there with my best bud Mark. Up near the fence. Almost didn't go because I was asked to work that Saturday. Called in sick and went anyway. A few month later the plane crashed. A couple of years later Mark was killed by a drunk driver. It is absolutely true when you get older your real regrets are for what you didn't do. SOOOO glad I blew off work to see this. So glad this is available. Can't watch without tearing up because it brings back so many great memories. Good times!!!
Iucky, lucky you.!!!
RIP Mark.
This song reminds me of my daddy, he was a Vietnam Vet and listened to this music all the time. I am 52 and still listen to it!!!
❤🙏🇺🇸
@@AlyRaeKY🇻🇳
Rest in Peace, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Larry Junstrom, Bob Burns, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Ed King, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines. Gone but not forgotten.
Hard to believe they're all gone😢😢😢
Excellent song
Yeah, but Ronnie, Van Zandt, Steve, Gaines and Cassie Gaines should have remembered the first three that died in the accident. They should always come first when mentioning what happened to the greatest southern rock band ever.
They will never be forgotten and that comes from someone who was at this show in Oakland, California and I’m from the Bay Area town called gilroy.
I remember the show in Philly @ JFK stadium, now gone
The 70's was a magical time.....life was alot simpler.....god bless
And thank god it was - simpler...
We’ll never have the privilege to get music like this again. Everyone just having a great time- the way America used to be
Amen
So glad I grew up when I did, I was a Teenager in the 70s turned 16 Bicentennial Yr.. Great Music! Great People, Great time! Great Parties!!
We can have the privilege to hear music like this again and have that feeling of togetherness if we all stopped hating and started loving. Rock on and spread the love.
now we have pride month
So tragic and sad that just over three months later, the plane went down and ended Skynyd. Makes you wonder what else they would have given us. Truly a magical band that still sells their original albums. RIP to all founding members.
I remember that. Our local Channel 4 reporter went out to the crash site and cried as he reported it. They were local boys.
@@janetprice85 yeah Janet, I cried too. I worked at Mercedes Benz and I'd listen to the radios while working on them. At first it seemed surreal and when he started saying their names it hit me. I read stories about that plane and Aerosmith turned down flying in it , so it was a stupid decision to take the chance that forever changed a lot of peoples lives. One thing is I get to play their music on my guitar. Peace always.
They're still touring. The spirit of Skynard lives on in the current band. They're as tight as ever. They still live for all the right reasons. They're some of the realest people that exist on the earth.
There's a documentary with 3 of the remaining band members. It's awesome, it's hysterical, it's emotional. Find it!
Probably a psyop death fakers turn into other people the people on the stage are gender inverted
My husband just died of cancer. He was 63. I'm 52. He played this for me a month before he died. This is my first time listening to it since he passed. The words mean so much more now...
God bless you .... sorry for your loss Sheena
🙏🙏🙏
Oh Sheena.. I am very sorry.. Hoping this song gives you comfort in your loss.
Similar here Sheena. Husband died July 2018. He was 59 I was 54. This was one of his favorites but I couldn't use it in his funeral because it was too long. I cry every time I play it.
We hear you, little sister.🕊
How fucking epic did it have to be in the crowd for that solo live? Goosebumps
Crazy to think that those 70's honeys in the audience are now grandmothers and great grandmothers now. I was 10 year old in August of 1977 myself and I sure do miss that era. Less complicated in many ways....just more laid back man. I may have been a kid but I remember very well what that era was like.
My thoughts exactly.
era of non pride shiit
Hard to believe that Elvis and the heart and soul of LS died in 1977, only a few months apart. Explains why my mom was crying all the time back then.
We played this at my husband's funeral and now he is as free as a bird.
Long live freebird🕊️🕊️🕊️
Classy. God's Love.
I hope the mourners appreciated such a magnificent tune. A fine send off for your husband.
thank you for sharing that little piece of your humanity with us.
So sorry for your loss
Sorry 4yr loss...i lost my brother 5May2022...2years older then me😥😥like yr hubby 4eva loved...always thought of. R.I.PARADISE.
I still say this is the ultimate southern rock song. Starts off as a soulful ballad, then shifts into a hard-driving rock anthem.
Yes yes so true, Free Bird is soulfull yet so driven in youthfull splendor with symphomic rock Harmonies as this Majestic piece defies time Expresses love and creates inphinite Joy.
I'm from Georgia growing up in the South as A black man. This song and this group represents the South. I know my history. But it was still black and white people who built this country. May not agreed on a lot of things, but shit got done! Meanwhile, Lynard Skynard band was not politicians, they were a band that if you like "MUSIC," THEY PLAYED IT. THANK YOU SKYNARD BAND FOR ALL OF YOUR GOOD MUSIC. WHICH IS STILL IN MY SOUL!! SOUTHERN BORN AND SOUTHERN FED,I'LL BE SOUTHERN TIL IM DEAD!! A FAN!!!
👍✌️👊
meh, florida georgia line is better
These 11 minutes right there are the peak of our human civilization.
@@Lilsushi352 🤣🤣🤣🤣good one
Despite all of our division, anger, and problems in our country.... let us all agree upon the guitar solo of FREEBIRD ...God bless America
Just 3 months before their plane went down. Wow!
Still So Very Sad!
R I P To All Of Them!😢
In my humble opinion, one of the best rock songs ever made. The message, the guitar solo, the voices, the lyrics...
freeeeeeee birb
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟AGREED
yes
45 Years ago today 10/20/1977 RIP
I agree
45 years later and still a classic who else is listening to this in 2022 they don't make groups like this anymore
I Jam with Skynyrd EVERY single day; Drives my woman nuts!!!
I'm right here with ya girl!! I'm 71 and STILL listen to this song all the time, especially while driving in the summer with windows down and FreeBird on blast. Lol, the looks I get seeing a granny rocking out to this iconic forever song.
I am. They were probably one of the top five live bands of all time.
Everybody. Literally every god damn person is listening to this in 2022. It’s not that special
@@thegingershow9676 You don't know much about music. I feel sorry for you.
I’m 57 and glad I been listening to this era music my
Whole life , it will never be beaten ❤️👌🏻
Crazy how you can almost feel the wind in the music.
This was my dad's favorite band, and favorite song. Ever since I could remember, he wanted this to be played at his funeral. And I did. He passed on 11.10.2021. he is a free bird now. The lyrics feel like they were written for me and my dad. I love you, dad! Fly high
Meu desejo em meu funeral tocarem essa música. Mas acho difícil pois a quem pedi voou antes de mim. Vooe tranquilo meu filho João Victor
My Daughters have been instructed to play this when I am on the way down to the crem.
F
I have a list of songs my wife has been told to play at that time. I told her to get some big speakers, put one on each side of my head, crank it up and play them. If no part of me moves, then I'm gone. Freebird is at the top of the list.
Rest in piece. Amen.
They're all as free as a bird now... RIP Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fly high Gary (Edit: yes I know Artimus Pyle is still with us, but as for Original Skynyrd they've left us)
Isn't one of the Van Zant brothers still alive?
@@BoogerMcNuggets He wasn't an original member.
I strongly, agree. Fly free without the weight, whatever it may have been!! I love ❤️ and miss you Momma!! Regina Isabella!! We all love you and miss you ❤️ so much our queen 👸!!!
@@spookedhorse oh yes he was he was the last original member.
@@jenniferdow5733 j
I lived on the hill from the stadium & could hear the music! ❤ To all the Free birds 🕊 fly free! We are a stronge generation,
stay cool.
Almost 50 years later and the music doesn’t get better! Thank you for the memories!
Today, the people in the crowd had no idea what they were seeing. This song lives forever
What?
Very nice thing to say and so very true!
I think they did
@@maryfarrell9231 yeah the song had been out for a while at this point
They knew, you don't see something like that without knowing
One of the greatest peaks in the history of music.
One of the GOAT live performances ever.
You are entirely correct there sir
One of the most kick ass guitar solos, and songs, of all time
7:00
Amen to that
No one on earth could top Skynnord,
On the hunt is even better, or Saturday night special
@@jefferywilson1840 you got that shit right. Skynyrd was the best group of southern rock
I'm 81. So fucking proud and happy that I was part of this generation. Soon I'll be a freebird. "Things just couldn't be the same and this FREEBIRD you'll never tame."
I hear you!! I'm 63 almost 64 and I love listening to this song over and over. I saw them in the late '80's in Indy. They were fabulous even though my BF got mad at me for taking a hit when the guy in front of me offered to share. 😂 This song is a national treasure. Way before everyone got PC about flags etc. They were amazing. Let Freedom ring!!!
❤️🇺🇸💙
Wish I was born in this era I’m only 35 but grew up listening to their music and similar genres.
Stop lying bro
You lived during all the great decades you fucking legend. I so wish I was in my 80s and soon to be off this fucking cesspool of a planet.
No culture class talent arts love congregation nothing anymore.
I'm jealous of your generation.
FUCKING CHRIST! @8:44 WHEN THE MAD HATTER ENTERS THE SHOT, HIS FUCKING HANDS ARE MOVING. ANYONE THAT PLAYS BASS OR EVEN GUITAR CAN TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF CRAMPING AND BLISTERING SOMETHING LIKE THAT WILL DO TO A MANS HAND.
FUCK MAN, THIS GUYS HANDS MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS MUST BE LIKE LEATHER. JESUS CHRIST!! LEON WILKESON 🙏
This is to be in the top ten songs of all time,A master piece 🙌
If I had to choose only one musical performance to listen to for the rest of my life I do believe this would be it.
When I came back from Nam I was a mess.. a few years later listening to this band helped with my recovery . It just took my spirit away from the nightmares. God bless them.
Thank you for your service and more importantly you sir are a hero
Welcome Home!✌️♥️
Thank you for your service.
Welcome home sir and thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Almost half a century later and this still jams. Great music never dies
Great music is timeless. In 2069 people will still be jamming to this.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Let's hope that's still the case in 3069 and beyond and even more importantly that this will be playing in some club up in Heaven in the afterlife, with Skynyrd as the headliners --- let's hope that great music isn't the only thing that lives forever!
I would say it’s the greatest guitar solo of all time.
Yes some are technically better. But this just hits all the right spots
It really never does, all good music must go on because it moves you
southern rock ll never die !!!
This was our sons favorite songs, we lost him to leukemia at age 22 - grateful for the time we had with him. We know he is in Heaven Flying like a Freebird! We Love this song, many memories...😢
So sorry for your loss
Heartbreaking. May the music always lift you up.
I’m so sorry for your colossal loss, may you seek solace in Jesus or seek comfort and peace knowing you were blessed with your son… gone too soon, 22👣🙏❤️
I’m so sorry 😢
Heart goes out to you 💔
A quote that I saw on another video applies here. “It is worth it to be old now to have been young then”.
Oh I LOVE this! I wanna go back to this time in my life so bad. Even though I'm old, I'm happy to be old knowing that I was able to live in this time period.
Let’s be honest young people right now will be saying the same thing in a few decades. People forget the bad things from the past and remember the good thing
So true all the great memories. Beatles on Ed Sullivan, who remembers????????????????
I get very emotional thinking back on the million things that have passed by, never to return. I'm 63 as well and I can completely understand how my parents clung on to the music of their time. Yes, the 70s were such a time of optimism where everything seemed possible. I left home at 17 and traveled the country completely free and have been ever since. Poor, but free. This song is my anthem.
I agree, we have our memories and songs!
As a 231year old man. God bless you all ant thx for all the memories.
I was at this concert, first one at age 16. They were amazing, steam rolling through all their great hits. Still one of the best concerts I've ever attended.
2023 and still gives goosebumps. What a moment this was, hot sun, California girls and one of the most kickass bands ever.
I get misty eyed looking at America that no longer exists in so many ways. Thanks, boomers.
@@IaintTheHerb I miss that America too, 64 and maybe more for me.
The last original member Gary Rossington died this year. Everyone from this performance (Except drummer Artimus Pyle because he's still here today) is a free bird now.
What a moment indeed. Wish I was there. Salute to you, kind stranger.
@@IaintTheHerb "Thanks Boomers"??? WTF is that supposed to mean? If it wasnt for "boomers" as you so insultingly refer to us, that music would never have come to be. Getting damn sick and tired of being insulted for my generation! People try to put us down, just because we got around... Talkin about my generation.. Why don't you all just fade away... we stopped a war, what has your entitled sorry-ass generation done or likely to do? Not much it would seem.
I graduated from high school in 1977. This song was the anthem of my generation. Yes I'm a boomer, and an old man now - but this one still gives me goosebumps - still gets me up, singing and playing the air guitar. Jesus this was such a great time.
I was 12.
I truely am sick and tired of the 2020's.
I miss the 70's and the 90's
People today have crap music, have no clue how awesome true freedom is. This is but one of the great things about the 70’s, great music!
I’m a teenager right now but I love this song so much and I do the air drums to it
I don’t think a lot of people in my school like this music but I think it rocks
This is not a song but an a call to freedom. Freedom lives forever. You gotta live before you die.
I was 19 in 1995 and part of a rag tag rock band whose members were all about ten years older than me. The bois used to break into Freebird all the time out of nowhere and the lead singer would screech _"Play some Freebird, Skynyrd!!!"_ into the mic like a banshee, and I never really understood it but I always went along with it, and eff me, I always played my part on the keys, as it isn't a terribly complicated tune. I'm glad that, years later, I am able to see and experience the original that was always being referenced by the bois. So THIS is what we were always up to!
This is the song that reminds me of my dad. He wasn’t in my life much but I will always love him for being him.
I love how this song does a slow burn for the first 6 minutes or so, slowly increasing in tempo until it hits a crescendo that just keeps going for another 5 minutes. Amazing. It's one of the best rock-n-roll songs ever recorded, and it's iconic for a good reason.
There will never be another band like them😢
Confederate flags in Oakland, interesting choice.
@@jeffk464 The Tennessee Battle Flag (not Confederate Flag) was not seen as a bad thing then, and that's because it never was until propaganda started about it in the 1990s. It was a battle flag, just like Texas' but I guarantee you no one here knows what Texas' Battle Flag looks like.
@@jeffk464I don't think the place matters much, but the setting. This genre of music is often listened to by those who have those flags, not surprising. Not all of course.
@@MyNextShotWontMiss Right, because the true Confederate flag is a white flag, lol.
Earlier this year, I was in a village in the middle of nowhere in Sweden and a musician outside a cafe was playing this song, that's how powerful it is.
Awesome
Powerful yesss
Very cool indeed
Wow, that's impressive. I'm always amazed when I find American music being played overseas. So neat
@@nowitsabadtime American music has been playing overseas for a while, my dad's cousin had VHS footage and cassettes of American bands during communist Yugoslavia.
Mind blowing, like a different planet when you look at the crowd . America we need you. ❤ 🇬🇧
What do you mean? All the white faces? 😠
The way America used to be.. getting together and having a great time
@@cle9454 Having a great time for sure, but most definitely a subset of the population - monoculture.
@@capybara8868is that a problem for you?
@@D13Nword I prefer diversity.😘
I’ve watched this video many times. For some reason I got emotional this morning watching it. I miss these days. The world was so much simpler. Today’s world is full of so much hate. People pitted against one another. I wish we could go back. It just made me tear up thinking about it. You can literally feel the happiness in the crowd.
70's was a great era for sure.
It was the best time for me. I miss those days too
@@mtns340 Concerts are way to expensive these days. I’m just not going to pay $150 a person to watch a band from the nose bleed section. When I started going in the early 80s they were only $11-12 a person. Besides the old bands are just a shell of their former selves and there hasn’t been any “new” band worth listening to since the 90s. I was really into music and going to concerts back in the day. Literally hundreds of shows and I still have my concert Tshirts to show for it but at my age now , I’d rather be at home at 11:00 at night and not driving two hours to get home.
Look at crowd. Multiculturalism has destroyed the west
The audience is very one toned, I’m sure they were happy. Not sure about people of other colors. Life is never simple. It’s a concert for a few hours , then you go back to fighting over the credit card balance, in laws and whatever.there was and will never be a simpler time in history.
Arguably the best guitar solo ever, playing on for all eternity, what a magnificent wall of sound they created.
where was guitar #3, should have been Steve Gaines in 77, no?
Sadly, the cameraman was too thirsty, he showed the girls instead of Allen Collins nailing the solo
This was the best solo of all time.
Love his jumping up and down at the end, such enthusiasm and energy!
Without a doubt 👍
I was first introduced to Skynyrd by my grandpa at a very young age. I saw you guys in Charleston last month. My grandpa passed away 5 years ago and I really wished he could've been there with me. I also had an uncle who passed away and you were his favorite band, probably my grandpa's favorite band too. I LOVE YOU GUYS MAN!!
I'm 68 and I still enjoy listening to Skynyrd
the concert was in 1977, today it's 2023, so it's been 46 years, most people there were in their mid 20's so they are at least 65 years of age nowadays. Mind blowing.
Indeed. Time flies!
I'm 71. Flew to Little Rock to start work with a new company the same weekend of their crash. I was nervous on that plane out of Memphis that weekend. What a band it was and the best live album of all time. Thanks guys peace to you the band is together again, play it pretty Gary
I was 23 in 77, now 67. I saw them at Alpine Valley Wi, in the early 80's. They were great!
I was 5 in '77! So That makes Gary only 25 at this time. What a talent !!
Yes I was one of those 19 year old kids at that concert.. still have my ticket stub in 2023 at the ripe age of 65 years old .
I was at this concert. I was 18 at the time. This song was sang perfectly
Where was it?
@@armydlguy Oakland Coliseum. Day on the green. They held concerts every weekend during the summer. I saw the Stones and just about every major rock band during the 70’s. 3 bands performed every concert. Great times!
@@denisemartinez8010 Must be nice. I’m in my twenties wishing I was alive for this. You had the best generation of music.
@@Insuranceman99 We certainly did.
Lucky lady!
Thank You for this AWESOME memory.👍 6-2024 Best band ever. I miss them All.🙏
Bloody hell. The best. The best. The best..what a bloody preference. The best 👌
I was at this concert, with 50,000 of my best friends! I'm 65 now. Great memories...
Wow,I would have been 17 then…I only wish!!!
I'm 65 and I was right there ! What an awesome show
I'll be 63 in a few weeks. Woulda just turned 16 here. The absolute best time of our lives had just dawned. Need kleenex... 😢
I was right up in the front turn the 65 Monday summer 77 was the best summer of them all
amazing performance, the fact that they have 3 guitarists playing together and it doesn’t sound like a ball of hot garbage is a feat all by itself
called practice lol
@@menotyoumenotyou930 that but also letting everyone to do their parts and let the song breathe
@@pale_saint true, still can be said come back to practice. The hours they spent on these songs is insane
These guys are without a doubt some of the most talented and skilled professional musicians of the 70's they put all they had into their music and it showed. Just a fantastic band!
@@phillipstephens1175 It’s love, we’ve lost the love of things. Hopefully we find it as a society again. Love what you do.
Freebird,will go down in history as a timeless and classic masterpiece and an amazing work of art 🎉🎉. This song really really changed how we seen Southern rock. They were the original Southern rock band. Your music 🎶 🎵 will certainly never ever be forgotten ❤️ ♥️ 💖 💕
I truly envy every single last one of you who was there to witness this epic performance.
It still embraces me every time I hear this live performance and watching the crowd in the absolute moment of what they are seeing and hearing is truly a spectacle to behold.
Without doubt my favourite live performance of all time ❤
I was there that day!!
Lucky you, Gerri! WOW!
i got lucky allman brothers played at a local bar
Very cool Gerri! :D
how.young.were.you.then?
You're a blessing man.
Does anyone ever talk about how hard the bassist goes during the guitar solo? It's unbelievable.
insanity
I noticed that, wish I could fucking hear him, I'm gonna have to play this on like a really good speaker one day, see if I can hear it because he was doing a lot more work than the guitarist for a little bit there
I met Leon many years ago at Jax Beach in Jacksonville flat. He was at a beach bar playing with a local band for fun and we had drinks together. He was the nicest guy and so down to earth. If you didn't know who he was you would never guess he was a member of one of the most famous rock bands in history. What a fantastic guy!!!!
@@danecummins2092totally agreed. My dad used to run with the drummer from Molly Hatchet, and he met a few of these guys as well. We actually live down the street from RVZ’s widow, and his daughter, and my brother is friends with RVZ’s granddaughter. They truly were/are Jacksonville’s pride and joy.
Part of the reason why the solo kills is because the drummer and the bassist are driving it along underneath. They are laying down this amazing foundation for the guitarists to build on. Absolute magicians and artists.
Greatest rock song ever written. Every time I hear, it transports me back in time. I literally just got the chills during the guitar solo.
Had just graduated hs, off to college…then my life changed forever after my mom’s cancer diagnosis.
RIP Gary. One of the iconic guitar riffs. Everyone knows it when they hear it. Be free!
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Gary was the one who did that?
I have a best friend who has a sister and brother in law living in New camera beach FL. 1970 these guys would play on Saturday nites on the beach!!!! Nobody knew who they were. And the he'll of it was..... It was all free. Just like all the drugs being handed around to the guy standing next to you.
@@enayy619 No. It was Allen Collins.
That was Allen Collins on that lead riff jam.
Heard this song a million times, but something about this live version, seeing these guys perform it. All gone now. Just chills all over when they hit the chorus. Feels more human than anything else.
Freebird was first song I heard after my husband passed suddenly in 1975. He was 27. This song never fails to send me back to those emotional days.
I'm 75 now and this song still tears me up in so many ways. Peace 🌞🙏🕊🕊🕊🇺🇸
@@KateBates22zabuCarry On, Sister! 😊😊😊
yep, I'm back again just to keep watching this version!
Brother I hope I make that long. 😮
I come back over and over. It sounds silly but I feel real joy and love and being in touch with mankind. It is a treasure.
So beautiful 🤩
Watching this tonight is my gift to myself
Mine too ...And what a gift , spoilt myself
I was 17 in 1977 and I have so many memories tied to this song. I was fortunate enough to see this band before their airplane crashed. I was 14. The only reason my parents let me go was because I was with a very nice boy, Rob Link, and his dad or step-dad drove us. I'll never forget the limousine with the band drove in front of us crossing a street, they had to stop at the light. I walked up, they rolled the window down and gave me their bottle of Mateus (wine, I think, I was too young to drink but kept that bottle). What a great memory.
I love this song!
I love this song so entertaining and emotional sweet memories back in the 70s. How are you Victoria ?
a wonderful memory, but very painful, I want to live that day🥲🥲🥲
Mateus wine. We all have fond memories of that bottle.
This is the first song I learned to play on guitar. I was 12 years old and I learned it by ear. It took me about 18 months. I found out years later that there was 3 guitar players lol! Anyway, I love these people and this entire band and this song is responsible for launching what turned into a 32 year songwriting and recording career. Unfortunately, people died young and it changes things but i am grateful to this band for the incredible music. Some of it is really difficult to play. These guys were all above and beyond top shelf talent and ability. When you play a bunch of a bands songs for over 3 decades you learn a lot about them and their music but what i really struggle with is the profound sadness I feel today. I really liked Gary and every one of them almost like family or something. I could not hold back the tears when I heard Gary passed away and I will never forget the music they wrote and shared with us. I never would have spent over 3 decades writing, recording and playing in a rock band had I not overheard the love in that Atlanta crowd when Ronnie asked that now iconic question: WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR? The rest is history for me as they say. I know we could all probably go on forever here so I will try not to. I feel such a closeness to this band that just grew over the decades and I am profoundly sad to hear that Gary Passed away. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the slide guitar in Freebird. Thank you for making your guitar chirp like a bird. And thank you for playing the songs correctly ALL the time. The talent, ability and professionalism Gary consistently brought to the table rivals anyone and I will never forget him ever. Rest in peace Gary, I wish I could have told you how much you mattered to me and countless others. Well done my good man, I am forever grateful!
I was 17 as well, Victoria. High school class of ‘78. It was a great time to be that age. God Bless.
This has got to be one of the greatest moments in rock and roll history.
Agreed
One of the best rock songs ever .. wish I had been at the concert that day listening to it .. a magical experience for those who were there
And one of the best guitar solos of all time
Agreed. I’ve watched this so many times.
I.. I was born too late. What a place to have been.
just awsome i could watch this a 1000 times and it would still get me . this performance will live forever !!!!!!!!!!!
Rest easy Gary! Thank you for all the awesome music you gave us.
Thank you, Gary, for everything you brought to the unique and powerful sound of southern rock. May you rest in peace. Duane, Hughie, Billy, Allen, Steve have a place at the table set for you.
What an artist! I love hearing all of this. Rip Gary and thank you for the magic of your words. I'm a senior lady now and hearing his music takes me way back in time.
It's all about Gary now huh... Do you people not remember any other other members
@@kingxiii4680 nope
@@peterwalsh3409and Ronnie van Zant, Ed King
Lynyrd Skynyrd truly has one of the saddest stories in Rock history. This concert was held about 3 months before the plane crash (plane ran out of fuel and crash-landed in a forested area in Gillsburg) where two of the band members, Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist) and Steve Gaines (guitarist and backing vocalist ), were killed on impact alongside the pilot, co-pilot, Steve's older sister and the Assistant Road Manager. The rest of the band members suffered serious injuries but survived, The lead guitarist Allen Collins (who plays that incredibly legendary guitar solo on this track, accompanied by Gary Rossington playing the rhythm parts) survived the accident only to see his wife die, along with his unborn child, from complications in childbirth. A few years later he suffered a traffic accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend and left him paralysed, without the possibility of playing the guitar ever again on stage. He died in 1990, at the age of 37 from chronic pneumonia, a complication of the paralysis.
that's really sad
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That is so horribly sad, RIP to all of them & God bless!
8 meses antes
Thanks for sharing your knowledge about this tragedy. I knew it had happened but just didn’t know the details
how the hell can this be even better live when it was already perfect
After my nephew left us, I sat down and played this for him.
The plane crash was 46 years ago today-October 20, 1977. Time flies by. Thank you for Freebird.
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I respect the puns.
Man my grandpa met Ronnie backstage when he was 32. Gosh he has such memories
Their music lives on forever baby!
I can't believe it was 3 months after this concert.
Southern rock and country music from the 70s is just timeless and will forever live on. Some on the best live music ever made.
You are so fuckin right !
You damn fucking right bout that
Allman Brothers
So true!!! Nothing since has come close.
the best part about this is that the only reason they flew that shitty traitor rag is to rope in their white trash fans they wouldn't have otherwise had.
NEVER gets old totally timeless fooking awesome ❤✌️✌️✌️👌👌👌👌🤩🤩🤩🤩🤡🤡✌️🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🖤🤟😂😂🖤😜🤘🤘😜🤟😂😂🏴❤️❤️🇬🇧❤️❤️
What a beautiful and dynamic song that will forever keep its place in my already old heart, continues to rock in heaven now🎸🎸🎸🎸🎹🎤🎶🎵🎼🥁more pictures 😍
All these years later it still gets to me. I was 17 years old when that plane went down. We had just seen them a few months before on Columbus ga. It was the first concert I saw where no one sat down. I’m now soon to be 64 years old and it still breaks my heart. But many thanks to the people that have restored these precious films.
Same here Just great memories Still listening like i'm seventeen absolutely absolutely beautiful
I was thirteen years old at Tate High School, and because of being a Florida band, everyone was grieving the deaths of the band members in the plane crash. Of course some more than others, and out of empathy with fellow students, it became much more collective grieving. It felt like gloom in the hallways between classes, especially in the newer parts of the school.
you were just a kid! i was playing this on a @stereo@ [remember stereo?] in a soulless town in the soulless heart of east london/thames estuary but we got stoned and this was our number one track.. followed by mountain jam or rattus norvegicus. i'm a bit olld for all those marathon hard rock sessions and my darling wife doesn't approve but i still like my music.
Me too, same age and the news was horribly sad 😞. Never saw them in concert, but wish I had!
Your as free as a bird now Gary! Go fly high and play that slide with your brothers and sisters who went before. RIP and thanks for the memories!
Ronnie van Zant Lynyrd skynyrd Top shelf Legendary.
Love this song and all there songs. For ever in my heart. I'm 69 and of all the bands miss the Van Brothers. 😢
From down under in New Zealand.
I'm 82 yrs young and still love this guy singing , long live southern rock . A fan from Queensland Australia
Me too//Texas
Indeed mate!
I’m 24 from Queensland, FNQ! Rock on brother, this music will live forever, fuck the BS they play now! Long love rock n roll ❤
Sadly, TH-cam will probably take it down since there's a Confederate flag in it
@@daniel1212ification im in SE qld and have the same taste in music as you man!
To me, this is the definitive "Freebird" video. These guys were giving it all they had! And they were all very talented musicians and entertainers. The southern rock anthem of the 70s!
with stevie on guitar - forgetr about it- ther whole sound is stringer, cleaner, stevie was a master- very very humble, reaspectful - but im telling you - ghe changes everything- witjh stevie - (and ronnie, of course) LS would have elevated to the stratosphere -
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That is just one of many hits folks🕯️🔥🕯️🔥🕯️🔥
Here I am, sitting in my truck before work. 5:45 a.m. 3-27-'22. I've heard this song a million times. Watching this video from 7-2-'77. Once again, just as everytime before, I crank my stereo, head bouncing, foot stomping the floorboard. Ill be 53 years old in 3 days. I pray the Good Lord allows me to live another 30 years, so I can relive one of the greatest moments in the history of Rock and Roll, performed by one of the greatest bands in the history of Rock and Roll. Long live Lynyrd Skynyrd!
Right on
Wow..way back..music
Happy birthday! Keep rock and rolling my friend you'll have another 30 plus years! 🥳🎈🧁🎸🎸❤️☮️
Happy birthday my friend
Absolutely.