Everyone who was anyone had the "Strikes" album when it came out in 1979, along with the 1979 "Flirtin with Disaster" Molly Hatchet release!! Some great times, right on the dawn of the magical 1980's!!!
BlackFoot Ricky Medlocke and Band sounds really really great!!!!- 03/21/2024/Richard Bishop Spartanburg South Carolina!!!!!-zyxwvutponmlkjihgfedcy a...srq.
Agreed. It was BS they didn't allow him to be inducted along with Lynyrd Skynyrd, he was their first drummer & in the band , helped write songs with Ronnie, & sang lead on some songs, etc. 😒
Then you should check out Greg T Walker's band "Two Wolf". They absolutely smoke on the old Blackfoot tunes, including 'Diary Of A Workingman'. It's a shame Ricky won't reunite with the remaining three members of the original Blackfoot.....
Have no idea as to where this tune originated but, my now deceased dad use to play it on his harmonica way back in the 1960's when I was a kid. The first time I heard Blackfoot play this tune, I about fell over!!!!! remember daddy singing train... train... and then rolling in on his harmonica. Way cool tune!
I played in a band called Boulder, which warmed up Blackfoot in Prestonburg KY. around 78. We got through our set, and then they played for about 10 minutes and the power went off. Our extension cords were burning the wooden stage floor. Evacuation ensued. Our singer found $40 in a wallet that had been left behind. He's the only one who got paid
I remember on any given night seeing Ricky with Blackfoot, Pat Travers, Molly Hatchet, members of The Outlaws, 38 Special or Rosington Collins’s playing or just hanging around Fern Park Station. What a great time to be a kid with a fake ID. I believe all those guys knew I was only 15 and let me hang out anyway but they also looked out for me. I’m so grateful to all of those guys.
This is great! Even thought he played all those years in Skynyrd, I was hoping he would come out with a band and do his Blackfoot material. Saw them in 1979 and 1980 in Iowa. BLACKFOOT was One of best live bands ever in the day! What an inspiration, 74 and still ROCKIN!!!
I saw Blackfoot 1979 in a little bar called Signorelli’s (known as Slicks) in Saint Martinville, Louisiana. No stage. My buddy and I walked right up to about 2 feet in front of the microphone and watch Ricky Medlocke play and sing at floor level lol Never forget it. 😎
I've seen Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet so many times. First time must have been around 79 or 80 and the last time I got to see them was in 2008 at the Hot Springs Motorcycle Rally. I remember seeing them in North Carolina in 83 when I was stationed at Ft Bragg. I've seen them more but those are the ones I remember.
@@moparmarkstpac well hell ... I worked with most of them back then. Riggs did part of the sound track for the movie "Heavy Metal". Bradley Station moved to Cumberland Ave across from "Pickle U University" bar. Another big bar was "Uncle Sam's" out on the turnpike. Lawd if we could go back ...
I met Ricky back in 2001 at a Lynyrd Skynyrd backstage meet and greet. He sat down and ate dinner with us, he was so nice. What a great guy. Ricky, Hughie and Gary Rossington signed my Fender Strat. It was one of the greatest moments in my life. Thank You God!!
Man, are you referring to Hughie Thomasson? If you are, (he passed in 2007, I think) then two of the three signers are deceased. If I were you, I'd put that Stratocaster behind bulletproof glass in a display case!
Great band. Back in the day I remember when the radio in my 67 GTO convertible was the best part of the car. You could turn on the radio to any rock station, and you didn’t have to keep searching every song pretty much was great.. This song was one of the ones, you would crank up the radio for. The only problem was, it made me want to drive faster.
Yeah, I had all those Lynyrd Skynyrd gold platinum, Molly Hatchet for disaster, my brothers, the outlaws green grass and high Times. I graduated high school in 1981 so all this shit was new to me. It was just coming on. I became in 1978 still today every album they ever did, including the Christmas album, Santa is going to get some loving, have seen many times of concert Ricky Medlock is awesome. Maybe I’ll see you again when they come to Mansfield I think it’s July 2 if I remember correctly but it is this summer I’m 61 so I tend to forget, I just don’t pay attention, one of the other go, let’s go Skynyrd nation
Cool! Yes, they mentioned that, but we were at another show across town, so we missed it. When Rickey is between Skynyrd shows he does that. They become the Rickey Medlocke Band. He'll be back! 😉
An absolute feet that at age 74 Rick is able to do what he does consider he only has one lung and has dealt with Covid I think a couple of times. This man is a national treasure and must be protected. What a talent.
I was fortunate to be able to meet them many times as a child due to a neighbor being related to one of the members. We played with their extra band equipment pretending to be them ourselves as we sang their songs, met them as they passed through Jax, sometimes they had their bad ass boat parked at the dock off the Ortega/McGirts River, we could sing all of their songs….. shocked they were not as big as other bands in north Florida as 38 special or Lynard skynard. One bad arse southern rock band 🤘🏼
Hi Ricky yur as wonderful of an entertainer as we’re,thirty yrs ago! Soo happy yur on that great,train, train again! Luv ya! Yur friend Mark in Daytona,,sure miss you around here?
What an unsung hero of rock. Original drummer of skynyrd ,leader of Blackfoot and returns as long term guitarist for skynyrd. Can’t take my eyes off him when he’s onstage
He wasn't the original drummer for Skynyrd that would be Bob Burns Rickey filled in for a short time, when Bob came back they played with 2 drummers for an even shorter time, there are pictures of the band with Bob and Rickey in them like on Skynyrds First and Last but Bob was the original, him and Gary were playing together before they met Ronnie
One night I pulled up next to some young kids at stop light. They were blaring Rap music. I started this song from the beginning, they were yelling Hee Haw or some crap like that, then they got punched in the face when Blackfoot started jamming. I laughed as the light turned green and I drove away.
I Loved the song since I first heard it when it came out on L. P. I was at my friend's house in the Alabama, swamps in New York and yes, we have swamps. And we have country.
Still remember seeing Blackfoot at the original Compton Terrace in Phx in '81. Had some band none of us had heard of opening for them, "Def Leopard". Blackfoot rocked, the other, not so much.. Love seeing so many comments here, shows how much these bands mean to their fans!
I'll never forget hearing this the first time on house intercom radio throughout the house it was cool and amazing who are these guys ? I thought, and it was 1980 ?
Great seeing Rickey playing Blackfoot songs again
Everyone who was anyone had the "Strikes" album when it came out in 1979, along with the 1979 "Flirtin with Disaster" Molly Hatchet release!! Some great times, right on the dawn of the magical 1980's!!!
Blackfoot? He'll yes. Molly Hatchet? He'll no, they were what started southern music on the road to cliche'd mediocrity.
Agree 💯
I bought "Strikes" when it first came out. Played the hell out of that album. Loved every song on it. Still have a CD copy of it.
BlackFoot Ricky Medlocke and Band sounds really really great!!!!- 03/21/2024/Richard Bishop Spartanburg South Carolina!!!!!-zyxwvutponmlkjihgfedcy a...srq.
ZYXVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFECBA.
BLACKFOOT Belongs in The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed. It was BS they didn't allow him to be inducted along with Lynyrd Skynyrd, he was their first drummer & in the band , helped write songs with Ronnie, & sang lead on some songs, etc. 😒
O come on!
100%
Along another 25-30 great band that have overlooked for rappers, pop, and country artists!
They're in mine!! That's enough!!
GREAT TO SEE RICKY WITH HIS OWN BAND AGAIN. BLACKFOOT WAS AWESOME
Ricky Medlocke and Shorty Medlocke (RIP) are national treasures.
What!! Ricky Medlocke passed?
@@bluwngNo, that was a little misleading. The Trip was meant for shorty only.
Ricky is alive and well.
I was like WHAAAT ?... I never heard of the man passing . Thanks for the word . :)@@DBMorris
still think it is so awesome that he had granddaddy play the harmonica
@@bluwngRicky is on tour with Lynard Skynard right now.
It's such a joy to see and listen to these old Blackfoot songs.
I saw Blackfoot when they opened for foreigner on the double vision tour ✌️
Then you should check out Greg T Walker's band "Two Wolf". They absolutely smoke on the old Blackfoot tunes, including 'Diary Of A Workingman'. It's a shame Ricky won't reunite with the remaining three members of the original Blackfoot.....
Kinda like they du there on thing through the years....
One of my all-time FAVORITES!!! Sing it RICKY!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH budddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
Have no idea as to where this tune originated but, my now deceased dad use to play it on his harmonica way back in the 1960's when I was a kid. The first time I heard Blackfoot play this tune, I about fell over!!!!! remember daddy singing train... train... and then rolling in on his harmonica. Way cool tune!
@@jimmyjimbo61 That's Rickey's grandfather Shorty Medlocke.
Look at Ricky Medlocke aging like a fine wine.
The Crypt Keeper
Some people never, ever lose "it". Ricky is one of these people
love this song ricky is a awesome singer and one badd ass guitar player
I played in a band called Boulder, which warmed up Blackfoot in Prestonburg KY. around 78. We got through our set, and then they played for about 10 minutes and the power went off. Our extension cords were burning the wooden stage floor. Evacuation ensued. Our singer found $40 in a wallet that had been left behind. He's the only one who got paid
AWSOME STORY, living the LIFE!!!!!!
I remember on any given night seeing Ricky with Blackfoot, Pat Travers, Molly Hatchet, members of The Outlaws, 38 Special or Rosington Collins’s playing or just hanging around Fern Park Station. What a great time to be a kid with a fake ID. I believe all those guys knew I was only 15 and let me hang out anyway but they also looked out for me. I’m so grateful to all of those guys.
This is great! Even thought he played all those years in Skynyrd, I was hoping he would come out with a band and do his Blackfoot material. Saw them in 1979 and 1980 in Iowa. BLACKFOOT was One of best live bands ever in the day! What an inspiration, 74 and still ROCKIN!!!
Cant give up
I used to listen to Shorty Medlock at the Garden City community Center back in the 50s and 60s. ROCK ON!
One of the great rock songs ever! What a kicking song!
The first sign of a great band is when they absolutely lock in with the drummer at the beginning of a song.
Great to see Ricky perform this song. True grit. Saw Blackfoot in 1982. What a great band. I mean they were on fire back then.
Ted nugent,krokus,blackfoot,1981 tour
Oh Yeah !! Rock on Rickey!! Just good stuff!!
Still Kicking Ass... LOVE IT
Bought this Blackfoot album when it first came out and played the crap out of it. This song is one of my favorites.
I saw Blackfoot 1979 in a little bar called Signorelli’s (known as Slicks) in Saint Martinville, Louisiana.
No stage. My buddy and I walked right up to about 2 feet in front of the microphone and watch Ricky Medlocke play and sing at floor level lol
Never forget it. 😎
Oh yeah back in the 70s at a bowling alley in Jersey. Great times, great band. Keep rocking.
I've seen Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet so many times. First time must have been around 79 or 80 and the last time I got to see them was in 2008 at the Hot Springs Motorcycle Rally. I remember seeing them in North Carolina in 83 when I was stationed at Ft Bragg. I've seen them more but those are the ones I remember.
Love Ricky playing a Les Paul with P-90s FREAKING AWESOME… BAD TO THE BONE
I saw Blackfoot and the Outlaws in concert in Knoxville Tn. 1979 Shorty came out and played the harmonica for train train what a great show.
Man, quite a double bill!
Do you remember "Bradley's Station" ?
How about local bands of the times ?
Frendz
Kidz
Riggs
Medusa
@@weytogoman nope, didn't know any of those bands back then.
@@moparmarkstpac well hell ...
I worked with most of them back then.
Riggs did part of the sound track for the movie "Heavy Metal".
Bradley Station moved to Cumberland Ave across from "Pickle U University" bar.
Another big bar was "Uncle Sam's" out on the turnpike.
Lawd if we could go back ...
@@weytogoman I remember Uncle Sam's, but I was a freshman in high school back then and my bar days were a couple years out.
I met Ricky back in 2001 at a Lynyrd Skynyrd backstage meet and greet. He sat down and ate dinner with us, he was so nice. What a great guy. Ricky, Hughie and Gary Rossington signed my Fender Strat. It was one of the greatest moments in my life. Thank You God!!
How cool!
Yup they're just down to earth Southern boys!!
Rickey Medlocke, the Maestro!
Man, are you referring to Hughie Thomasson? If you are, (he passed in 2007, I think) then two of the three signers are deceased. If I were you, I'd put that Stratocaster behind bulletproof glass in a display case!
Shorty is loving it
GO Rickey, Never Stop.....
I loved this tune as a young rocker, and hearing it today, it still sounds great. I sometimes play this riff when I'm messing around on my guitar.
Love Ricky’s smile it’s awesome
I saw Blackfoot and Marshall Tucker in 1976 in Peoria IL at Bradley University. One of my top 5 concerts of 86 total concerts.
Ricky's kids were born out of Medlocke.
This recording sounds really great for being such a loud tune. You can hear everyone clearly in the mix. Must be an amazing soundman
Thank you, & thanks for listening! He is very good, & very experienced. I was surprised because it was loud (as Rickey likes it)
This is great..I seen Blackfoot back in 1978 id have to look at my old scrapbook to see who they opened for but man did they rock…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Saw BLACKFOOT at Red Rocks(can’t remember the year), but it was when they first broke out! They ROCKED!! 🤘🏼
Awesome Playing Ricky
💯💯💯🎸🎸🎸
I just wish I was Ricky Medlocke - what an absolute Southern Rock legend.
Love that smile….
Sing it !!!! Damn. Brings back memories
Train Train is one of the best rock anthems ever created....
Great band. Back in the day I remember when the radio in my 67 GTO convertible was the best part of the car. You could turn on the radio to any rock station, and you didn’t have to keep searching every song pretty much was great.. This song was one of the ones, you would crank up the radio for. The only problem was, it made me want to drive faster.
Love that song. Rickey is the best.
Got to meet Rickey in Memphis some years ago. One of the nicest people on the planet. Wish him nothing but the best.
He really is! Thanks for listening!!
Saw them open for UFO in like 79 great show !! Bought this album when it was released !!
I got to meet Ricky and the Blackfoot band on West End Ave. at a record store promoting their Marauder album back in 81'. Man, those were the days!
Wow, how cool!
Yeah, I had all those Lynyrd Skynyrd gold platinum, Molly Hatchet for disaster, my brothers, the outlaws green grass and high Times. I graduated high school in 1981 so all this shit was new to me. It was just coming on. I became in 1978 still today every album they ever did, including the Christmas album, Santa is going to get some loving, have seen many times of concert Ricky Medlock is awesome. Maybe I’ll see you again when they come to Mansfield I think it’s July 2 if I remember correctly but it is this summer I’m 61 so I tend to forget, I just don’t pay attention, one of the other go, let’s go Skynyrd nation
He playing with band Them Pesky Kids from Minnesota. I saw Ricky and that band last night. Great show !
Cool! Yes, they mentioned that, but we were at another show across town, so we missed it. When Rickey is between Skynyrd shows he does that. They become the Rickey Medlocke Band. He'll be back! 😉
An absolute feet that at age 74 Rick is able to do what he does consider he only has one lung and has dealt with Covid I think a couple of times. This man is a national treasure and must be protected. What a talent.
Don’t call him a national treasure cause American blacks will spray paint and vandalize him.
I was fortunate to be able to meet them many times as a child due to a neighbor being related to one of the members. We played with their extra band equipment pretending to be them ourselves as we sang their songs, met them as they passed through Jax, sometimes they had their bad ass boat parked at the dock off the Ortega/McGirts River, we could sing all of their songs….. shocked they were not as big as other bands in north Florida as 38 special or Lynard skynard. One bad arse southern rock band 🤘🏼
Wow, how cool!
So missing Jackson “Thunderfoot” Spires, my dear friend
One of my favorite Blackfoot songs wish I could say I enjoyed it!
Blackfoot rocks a person soul 👍
Remember Blackfoot supporting Scorpions Vic Hall Hanley 1980 ...Awesome! 😀
Hi Ricky yur as wonderful of an entertainer as we’re,thirty yrs ago! Soo happy yur on that great,train, train again! Luv ya! Yur friend Mark in Daytona,,sure miss you around here?
I saw Blackfoot in the mid 80's in Jacksonville Fla. Grandad played the harmonica intro. Cool.
I would love to see them!! They are my ultimate high school band! Still listen!
I have quite a few more videos of them on this channel too! 😉
@@BandGalaxy I'll check them out and subsy!
What an unsung hero of rock. Original drummer of skynyrd ,leader of Blackfoot and returns as long term guitarist for skynyrd. Can’t take my eyes off him when he’s onstage
He wasn't the original drummer for Skynyrd that would be Bob Burns Rickey filled in for a short time, when Bob came back they played with 2 drummers for an even shorter time, there are pictures of the band with Bob and Rickey in them like on Skynyrds First and Last but Bob was the original, him and Gary were playing together before they met Ronnie
One night I pulled up next to some young kids at stop light. They were blaring Rap music. I started this song from the beginning, they were yelling Hee Haw or some crap like that, then they got punched in the face when Blackfoot started jamming. I laughed as the light turned green and I drove away.
Ricky is one of the greatest Rockers God ever created can't wait to see him with Skynyrd in Tallahassee real soon.
Seen AC/DC & Blackfoot in Ft.Wayne,Ind. What a freaking buzz! front and center,,hash&sinse doobies!! 😎
They belong in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame I love these guys
Maybe that insane harmonica was piped in, but Ricky and the band are still kickin' it . :)
I Loved the song since I first heard it when it came out on L. P. I was at my friend's house in the Alabama, swamps in New York and yes, we have swamps. And we have country.
Rickey is my favorite picker ever. Guitar god.
I agree Blackfoot definitely deserves the hall of fame!!
...get this version on stereo and CRANK IT!!!!
Brilliant, wish to see Ricky come to Wales Cardiff 🏴
Still remember seeing Blackfoot at the original Compton Terrace in Phx in '81. Had some band none of us had heard of opening for them, "Def Leopard". Blackfoot rocked, the other, not so much.. Love seeing so many comments here, shows how much these bands mean to their fans!
Saw them with Molly Hatchet and April Wine in a medium sized venue in ‘79(?). Fawesome show
They sound amazing I loved jani lane n warrant doing it too Rip Jani
I'll never forget hearing this the first time on house intercom radio throughout the house it was cool and amazing who are these guys ? I thought, and it was 1980 ?
One of Rickey's old friend's band Them Pesky Kids. I have videos of them on this channel.
One of the best guitarist
Great video! Very cool! LOVE IT! FUN TO WATCH!
Wants to make a 75 year old retired plumber jumble them pipes !!! Brings back good memories !!! Great band !! Never left my song book !!!
they need to be in the rock and roll hall of fame long overdue
I saw Blackfoot back up Ted Nugent at the Chicago Amphitheater. Back when Rock was Rock.
Highway Song is another good one
It's on here too! Unfortunately I missed the second part that really kicks ass 😒
Our band used to play both around the suburban Chicago bar. They were always the songs that sold the most beer !
Wow!!..saw Black Foot Ft Worth convention ctr years ago in 80’s
Ricky belongs in the hall of fame twice!! Blackfoot .. skynard..
That is so Awesome Golden
Rickey your are a true southern icon. Look at that hair man it has changed colors,but your talent never will. KIPP, COLA,.SC.since 1977 friends
Shouldv'e been in the Rock N Roll hall of fame a long time ago...! I grew up playing their music.
LOVE IT! Always loved BLACKFOOT \m/
Shorty Medlocke was his grandfather and you can hear that ❤
KEEP ON ROCKIN RICK. 🎸🎸🎸👍🇬🇧
Rickey please bring this band to Utah!
Best vocals by far off the fucking chain 😂rest in peace Scott
American treasure !
First band I worked with, in Vegas no less. 😊
What are the best of the best let's rock and roll
This is cool Blackfoot with Ricky
Love this.
Bought an old Blackfoot vinyl record years ago! Cool Tunes 👍🍺
merci pour la video vive le rock
You're welcome! There's more on this channel. Thank you for listening!
❤❤❤ THIS IS KENNETH DUANE HOLLEY. I LOVE YOU RICK MEDLOCKE . MIY NATIVE AMERICAN BROTHER IN CHRIST 💜💜💜
a quand un concert en france? nous sommes nombreux a vous adorer , de nombreuses villes seraient ravies de vous acceuillir !
I've got the Black Foot album with the cobra on the front. Love Ricky there and especially with Skynyrd. ❤
Strikes!!! Amazing album!! ❤️
I saw Shorty Medlock do the harmonica intor to this song at the Fox in Atlanta, Marauder tour.
My fav album was Tomcattin'
Love that band!