They always played this song live. It was one of there biggest hits. Every bar band played it. My band played it!! Guaranteed to fill the dance floor!!!
One of the greatest band ever assembled, no weak points and Billy Powell was the most potent secret weapon! The icing on the cake! His piano playing elevated an already deadly ensemble into the stratosphere and that’s no hype job!
@@alansmith7626 for sure brother, I was fortunate enough to see them 4 times over the years. Once with ZZ Top, once with The Allman Bros, once with Paul Rodger’s and the reunion show. I never got to see the fully intact original band but 5/7 and 4/7 of the lineup was still pretty damn good!! Billy Powell was beyond amazing and Ricky Medlocke and Ed King did a pretty damn good job of playing Allen Collins’ parts note for note! Also played with pretty good feel considering who they had to try and duplicate!
@@donnadubyak6504 Ed left in 75 , so for about a year it was Rossington and Collin’s on guitar. then just a few short weeks before they recorded the 1976 live double album One More From the Road they added Steve Gaines. Either way Donna you saw one hell of a show I’m sure!!! You’re very lucky. Each time I saw Skynyrd minus RVZ and Allen Collins, I wondered to myself how great they were and how much greater it would have been to see the full lineup intact. I almost didn’t go to the reunion show the late 80s because of Ronnie and Steve being gone and Allen Paralyzed. In spite of missing such phenomenal band members they were still remarkably great! I could only imagine how good it was when you saw them!! The great old days!!!
The story goes that Ronnie, (Van Zant lead singer), had the boys rehearse every chord, note and solo so that when they got into the studio, the tune was ready. Very little deviation supposedly. Love you guys.
Yeah plus they're one of the very very few bands that played their songs almost note for note live, as they were on an album. Ronnie said thats what the fans wanted, he was right. So I guess when they DID improvise in Live shows, it was on cover songs that they hadn't recorded, like T For Texas, or Crossroads.
@@loudnproudford yeah thats why I said ALMOST note for note. Especially longer songs like Free Bird I assume they just needed a little flexibility, but in most cases they stayed pretty true to the studio versions. I know Skynyrd had one rule: no music goes on the album that you can't re-create on the stage. Pretty much the exact opposite of what modern bands do. Which is why there will never be another Skynyrd.
How can it be 51 years since the release this amazing debut album?! I was 14 when it came out and LS has been a part of my life like no other band ever since.
Saw them on July 4, 1976. The lineup for the concert was The Outlaws, Blue Oyster Cult. Lynyrd Skynyrd, then ZZ Top. Poor ZZ, nobody follows Skynyrd. The rest of the country was just finding out what we in the South already knew when the plane crash occured. These boys were GOOD.
They were/are really appreciated over here in the UK.....................imagine if they highlighted at Glastonbury!! Lol Saw them around 76 and again in 2003 when only Gary and Billy were left from the original band- but they still blew the floor as Hughie Thomasson and Ricky Medlocke duetted so well.
The old saying, "Write what you know" applies. Real place. Real event. Just happened that Ronnie was a songwriter. "That Smell" is another example. Gary's wreck produced a song. And so it went. Until October 19, 1977.
"And you can hear me screaming a mile away as I was headed out towards the door." 😅🤣😂😆😁😜🤪 It's even better if you pay close attention to the lyrics. Many people miss out on that.
Thats so funny...for DECADES I'd always wondered what that line meant. Never figured it out till a few years ago when someone mentioned it, just like right here, on a reaction video. Anything for a good story, even admitting you peed yourself. Though I'm pretty sure Ronnie made that part up...
FUN FACT… Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for the Stones in the mid 70’s. They were so great that they are basically considered the only opening act in rock history to make it hard for the Stones to follow
I was just like alot of people that just knew about Sweet Home Alabama. I found myself listening to Free Bird so I told myself I was gonna listen to their catalogue and came away thinking this is one of the top rock bands ever.
There actually was a place called The Jug, and this is probably a true story. Skynyrd was one of the best live bands I've ever heard (New Year's Day 1975) in Macon. If you haven't already reacted to it, "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is a banger... also based on a true story. Love you guys! Keep up the good work.
I think MOST of it happened to Ronnie, he might've taken a little poetic license here or there. I read once though that he said he was running so fast, if the guy DID shoot him he'd only be able to hit him in the ass or the elbows, cause he wasn't stopping for nuthin'!
I’ve always thought of Skynyrd as “gritty”! That’s the word for me. Even ballads, like Curtis Loew, have a little edge to them. That original lineup had grit!
Worthy of note, bassist Leon Wilkerson was absent during the recording of this song (long story) so newly acquired guitar player Eddie King wrote and played the bass parts.
@@johndrx165 But Ed admitted he sucked on bass compared to Leon. Ronnie said so too. Which tells you how good Leon was because Ed did NOT suck. Leon was in a class of his own. Also FYI- know how Leon holds the bass differently in later years, almost like an upright bass? That's cause the plane crash screwed him up so bad he couldnt hold a bass "normally" anymore. Had to find a new position/technique he could physically manage. Damn. Never be another group like them...
Wife here. Love Skynyrd you guys will enjoy most of there material . Ronnie’s vocals and just good songs . May I suggest one not a banger but a mellow one but it’s a great one too. I never Dreamed.
There was a bar in Hazard, Ky. called The Hillbilly Palace, could still be there but i moved away about 20 years ago and haven’t been back. Old alcohol, live bands, southern women. When the band played this, nobody was in a seat and everyone was on the dance floor! Pretty much the same when any Skynyrd song played. All was welcomed from young to old, no trouble to be had and always a great, great place to go and let loose!
Great reaction Skynyrd is one of the 🐐. They are tremendous musicians. Bob Burn on the kit and Ed King filling in for Leon. Just great musicians and chemistry. Skynyrd is my top 10 all time greats. On the Hunt and Gimme back my bullets are bangers too. Keep up the great work La/Che
There was a great documentary on them on netflix....they practiced for weeks in an old shack before they did their recording sessions. They had everything locked down before walking into the studio.
True, they called it 'hell house' because it had no air conditioning during the sweltering hot Florida summers. Also, the stories that came out of those rehearsals are gold.
The imagery and the story this song tells, along with the visual I always have of who I would assume is Ronnie screaming while running out the back door hoping he doesn’t catch a bullet in the back always makes me chuckle in fear myself. One of many great songs by an immortal, kick ass band.
Big grin on my face after watching it. It's funny though, because this is one of their most famous songs. And what's cool is it's partly based on an experience that Ronnie had at some point.
Great live band--really brought the energy! Saw them twice in the same year, 1976. First time was them opening for the Doobie Brothers. What an eye opener, they blew the Doobies off the stage with a way too short set. Second time, they were the headline act and were fantastic.
Back in the days of terrestrial radio, you’d often come across a song you never heard before and it would blow your mind in real time.. This was it for the 10 year old me- lost my kind to this tune.. so deceptively good ..(listen to that bass line )..they got so good and precise from hours upon hours of practice in the “hell house” - basically a shack:rehearsal place in the swamps of Jacksonville
It's always a hoot n a half for a Southern raised White Boy ( currently living in the Bay Area) watching you two Sac Boys watching and kicking it with Skynrd 😂...keep it up bros, your killing these reactions \m/
This was my Dad's favorite track from them. I noticed that my dad seemed to like the faster more upbeat Skynyrd/southern rock songs.. Like this, and "What's Your Name" from Skynyrd. And when he mentioned that he really liked "Drinking My Baby Goodbye" by Charlie Daniels, it clicked in my head. Because that Charlie Daniels song has a similar upbeat southern rock vibe that the previously mentioned Skynyrd songs have.
I'd swear you guys have a hat and a shirt for every single sports team on this plant. The thing I love about this song is the lyrics are perfect storytelling. Even just outside of musicality you could teach a course of good storytelling just with the lyrics.
Y'all tripping. This is a great song that tells a great story. One of my favorites and it was a huge hit. I was lucky enough to see the original band with Ronnie Van Zant in concert 2x.
I saw Skynyrd a month before the crash. Big show called the Superbowl of Rock. Lineup was .38 Special, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ted Nugent. It didn't suck at all. I remember I also found a fat oz of dank at the show. Ahh, good times
Memories of being in Fl in my teen and 20 s during all the southern rock and all the great concerts I saw florida was a hot bed for music in my era the 70s and 80s
The music is always so excellent, but your so right his voice is unbelievable!!! The clarity and tone of his voice makes it so much better! The song I hoped you heard the lyrics. He was dancing with another man's girl and the boyfriend showed up with a gun and was asking for a 3 step head start to get the hell out of there! It's serious shit, but they play it like just a regular night out!!! Lol!!!
Love this song! I remember having my young daughter listen to the words saying "can you picture it?" LOL. Excellent description of a bad situation. Rock on🤘🏼
Absolutely, this is the Skynyrd fellas just having FUN! ...Interesting thing about this (their debut) album (overall-NOT just this song [but, of course: THIS song, TOO!]): They are KNOWN for their 3-guitar attack. Something that almost NOBODY but them could, EVER, do CORRECTLY. [Molly Hatchet: the Band Ronnie Van Zant had selected as "the inheritors of the Skynyrd mantle," effectively (and never got to Produce, because if his death in the plane crash! 😭😭😡); Leatherwolf (on the meta;l side of things, later on); The second Fleetwood Mac line-ups, with: Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer, The Doobie Brothers (after they added Skunk Baxter when he left Steely Dan ...and, even with John McFee, later (after he had to fill-in for Tom Johnston, after he became ill.)) ...numerous people might, likely, quote others, but: while I am NOT suggesting taht ;any other band with 3 guitarists sucked"-NOT by a LONG-shot! No!-but: they didn't do it as effectively or invaluably as Skynyrd did it. ...and that is the entire point!!] SO; while Skynyrd is known for their "3-guitar assault"/"front four," on THIS album, their 3rd guitarist (just recent having left The Strawberry Alarm Clock to join Lynyrd Skynyrd, no less!) had to fill-in on BASS, because: the new bass player's arm was broken! Larry Junstrom (Skynyrd's initial bassist) had left the band (he would, later, show-up, in Ronnie's younger brother: Donnie's band: .38 Special!) and while Leon Wilkeson had become the new bassist, he had had an accident before the band's studio dates and was unable to play! So: Ed King, in fact, filled-in for him! [Maybe THAT's the reason he, later, attempted (purportedly 🙄🤷) to STAB Wilkeson to death on the tour bus, during the 1987 "Tribute" tour! 🤷🤷😝😛 🤦🤦🤷] This is, also, why, in many people's minds, the LIVE version of "Free Bird" (or, alternately: "Freebird") is considered "the pinnacle recording: because on the debut album, it is Allen Collins and Gary Rossington "battling" while on One More From The Road, they have all three players (Collins, Rossington and King) duelling, live! It is a barn-burner (as you know!)!!!!.
I think you would appreciate the Rossington/Collins band which featured 3rd guitarist and sometime lead vocalist: Barry Lee Harwood [a GREAT player !!🔥🔥🔥] and Derek Hess on drums; as well as Rossington's future wife: Dale Krantz on lead vocals. [Krantz, Hess and Harwood were the only non-former-Skynyrd members in the line-up (essentially: "replacing" Ronnie Van Zant [Krantz and Harwood, both], Artimus Pyle [Hess] and Ed King [Harwood, again])]. Rossington/Collins Band's "go-to," "ripper" hits would be: "Don't Misunderstand Me" [with Krantz and Harwood trading vocal lines!!] and "Prime Time" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 [but there's plenty of other good stuff in those coffers!]
I think you would appreciate the Rossington/Collins band which featured 3rd guitarist and sometime lead vocalist: Barry Lee Harwood [a GREAT player !!🔥🔥🔥] and Derek Hess on drums; as well as Rossington's future wife: Dale Krantz on lead vocals. [Krantz, Hess and Harwood were the only non-former-Skynyrd members in the line-up (essentially: "replacing" Ronnie Van Zant [Krantz and Harwood, both], Artimus Pyle [Hess] and Ed King [Harwood, again])]. Rossington/Collins Band's "go-to," "ripper" hits would be: "Don't Misunderstand Me" [with Krantz and Harwood trading vocal lines!!] and "Prime Time" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 [but there's plenty of other good stuff in those coffers!]
Lynrd Skynyrd... Used 2 drummers and 3 guitar players(2 lead). All of the band members went to school together in Jacksonville, Florida. The name Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired by the band’s gym teacher Leonard Skinner. He had demanded that they get their hair cut before coming back to school. Skinner was the reason why they never went back to school and formed a band instead.
Al Kooper produced Skynyrd's first 3 albums and has said that Ronnie drove them so hard in practice that they basically reproduced everything note for note on command, whether in the studio or on stage. Or rehearsing at the shack. He said they were a producer's dream because they rehearsed so incessantly.
I was there too! My first concert, 15 years old. Went to literally hundreds of Cap Centre concerts, sometimes down in the crowd, most of the time in a Sky Suite where we'd call ahead of time & order cases of beer, which would be waiting for us on ice in a big dented Coleman cooler wrapped in chains & secured w/ a padlock. They didnt serve alcohol @ concerts back then but in the suite we always ordered extra, then took the elevator downstairs, met friends who werent in the suite for that show, & handed out beers. Couldn't let our buddies go thirsty! As long as one person was 18 to order the beer, we were set. God those were the days!
@@neillenet291 yeah had a lot of memories there. Our sky suite's private bathroom saw a lot of action too- sex, sex, and enough coke to pay off 4 years of our kids' college tuitio if we'd been smart enough to stick to beer & weed. Oh well that was the 70s but I do remember well the day they dynamited the place to the ground. Lots of memories live on even tho Cap Centre bit the dust...
True Story.....I saw the original band several times live back in the day. I was in Greenville SC visiting my grandparents and they were playing. I thought about going, went back and forth but decided since I'd just been to see them the week before in my city, I decided against it. Thought I'd just wait until they come back...Their plane crashed after leaving Greenville. The WORSE decision. It was their last concert w/Original members 🙁
Based on an actual incident. Ronnie Van Sant, Gary Rossington and Alan Collins were at a bar called The Jug. Well the song explains it. Wrote the song in the car in 15 minutes
Rumor is that Ronnie never wrote down his lyrics and he always came up with them off the top of his head during studio recordings. He supposedly said why do I need to write down lyrics I have to remember later when we perform them anyways.
Please check out Things Going On by Skynyrd, Billy Powell slams on the piano in this song. They are so versatile and so talented, all such wonderful musicians. Love your reactions!! (59 yo from the east coast ✌️) cheers!!
Ah yes, memories of High School. Skipping class, in my buddies car, (he had a car, I had weed and gas money).
Omg….. I had those same memories !!! 🤣😂🤣 good times man 🎸❤️🔥
Nothing to brag about😂
@@flyingburritobro68 nerd
And the ones w/the cars (me included) thought we had the better end of the deal.... "free" trips to Marin & Santa Cruz w/unlimited buzz.
😂
Memories indeed... so much FUN!! 😁😉 Great music & dancing... muscle cars... drive-in movies... weed 😝 Yep Fun Fun Fun❣️
In high in the 70's, my bell bottoms were so wide they covered my shoes completely. LOL
And they had to drag the floor enough that they were ratty on the bottom... even with the Buffalo platform sandals!
@@SAM-dg3vd Exactly! Covered the shoes, dragged on the floor, got ratty on the bottom. De rigueur for the time.
They always played this song live. It was one of there biggest hits. Every bar band played it. My band played it!! Guaranteed to fill the dance floor!!!
Love this one
Yes Sir, you took my comments. If a D J, was boring the crowd, this song would change that in 3 beats.
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
You got that right, pun intended!
This is a TRUE story! It took place at The Jug, a now defunct bar here on Jacksonville’s westside. The building is still there, though.
The bar was called The Still in 79 when I was there. It's now a strip club called Leonard Skinner's.
@@thomasburch-fx7fc Named after the gym coach at the high school they attended (Raines?) any way that is why the album is called PRONOUNCED.
One of the greatest band ever assembled, no weak points and Billy Powell was the most potent secret weapon! The icing on the cake! His piano playing elevated an already deadly ensemble into the stratosphere and that’s no hype job!
and to think he was a roadie! Ya never know...
@@alansmith7626 for sure brother, I was fortunate enough to see them 4 times over the years. Once with ZZ Top, once with The Allman Bros, once with Paul Rodger’s and the reunion show. I never got to see the fully intact original band but 5/7 and 4/7 of the lineup was still pretty damn good!! Billy Powell was beyond amazing and Ricky Medlocke and Ed King did a pretty damn good job of playing Allen Collins’ parts note for note! Also played with pretty good feel considering who they had to try and duplicate!
I saw Skynyrd twice in 76. Think once was Ed and once with Steve.
@@donnadubyak6504 Ed left in 75 , so for about a year it was Rossington and Collin’s on guitar. then just a few short weeks before they recorded the 1976 live double album One More From the Road they added Steve Gaines. Either way Donna you saw one hell of a show I’m sure!!! You’re very lucky. Each time I saw Skynyrd minus RVZ and Allen Collins, I wondered to myself how great they were and how much greater it would have been to see the full lineup intact. I almost didn’t go to the reunion show the late 80s because of Ronnie and Steve being gone and Allen Paralyzed. In spite of missing such phenomenal band members they were still remarkably great! I could only imagine how good it was when you saw them!! The great old days!!!
If I could play piano like anybody, it would be him. I love his choices.
The story goes that Ronnie, (Van Zant lead singer), had the boys rehearse every chord, note and solo so that when they got into the studio, the tune was ready. Very little deviation supposedly.
Love you guys.
Yeah plus they're one of the very very few bands that played their songs almost note for note live, as they were on an album. Ronnie said thats what the fans wanted, he was right. So I guess when they DID improvise in Live shows, it was on cover songs that they hadn't recorded, like T For Texas, or Crossroads.
@@andychisarick6879Precisely.
@@andychisarick6879they added a little more guitar on the live versions of this song and some piano on freebird
@@loudnproudford yeah thats why I said ALMOST note for note. Especially longer songs like Free Bird I assume they just needed a little flexibility, but in most cases they stayed pretty true to the studio versions. I know Skynyrd had one rule: no music goes on the
album that you can't re-create on the stage. Pretty much the exact opposite of what modern bands do. Which is why there will never be another Skynyrd.
How can it be 51 years since the release this amazing debut album?!
I was 14 when it came out and LS has been a part of my life like no other band ever since.
What about Tucker and the CDB.
It’s the best Rock debut ever, in my opinion. Every song on it is awesome.
This really happened to Ronnie and he wrote it on the way home 😂🎉 and yes he had a sense of humor
Saw them on July 4, 1976. The lineup for the concert was The Outlaws, Blue Oyster Cult. Lynyrd Skynyrd, then ZZ Top. Poor ZZ, nobody follows Skynyrd. The rest of the country was just finding out what we in the South already knew when the plane crash occured. These boys were GOOD.
They were/are really appreciated over here in the UK.....................imagine if they highlighted at Glastonbury!! Lol
Saw them around 76 and again in 2003 when only Gary and Billy were left from the original band- but they still blew the floor as Hughie Thomasson and Ricky Medlocke duetted so well.
The Knebworth show I hear was fantastic. @@ndav5677
Damn 😂😂😂!!! What a line up ❤!!!
A true account, Ronnie came up with the lyrics on the drive home that night.
The old saying, "Write what you know" applies. Real place. Real event. Just happened that Ronnie was a songwriter. "That Smell" is another example. Gary's wreck produced a song. And so it went. Until October 19, 1977.
Bwahaha... Love LS! One of the funniest songs i heard in my youth. Still gets me ☘️🇺🇲
"And you can hear me screaming a mile away
as I was headed out towards the door."
😅🤣😂😆😁😜🤪
It's even better if you pay close attention to the lyrics.
Many people miss out on that.
And reactors always miss 'and water fell on the floor.' He was so scared he peed his pants. LOL
@@324cmac Huh...I never thought of it that way.
I always thought it was sweat.
Either way it's funny af.
I always crack up at the line, “I said, excuse me’l 😂😂😂
Thats so funny...for DECADES I'd always wondered what that line meant. Never figured it out till a few years ago when someone mentioned it, just like right here, on a reaction video. Anything for a good story, even admitting you peed yourself. Though I'm pretty sure Ronnie made that part up...
FUN FACT…
Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for the Stones in the mid 70’s.
They were so great that they are basically considered the only opening act in rock history to make it hard for the Stones to follow
Knebworth
AC/DC also
Three Steps wasn't an encore at live shows, but a crowd favorite TOWARDS the end, just before Sweet Home Alabama & Free Bird
Such a great and funny song too!
So many people miss out on the humor.
Same with many of the 10cc songs.
Funny af
I was just like alot of people that just knew about Sweet Home Alabama. I found myself listening to Free Bird so I told myself I was gonna listen to their catalogue and came away thinking this is one of the top rock bands ever.
"They're good!" Very well said my friend!
This isn’t my fav Skynyrd song but when it started in the clubs we ALL hit the dance floor! 🤣
There actually was a place called The Jug, and this is probably a true story. Skynyrd was one of the best live bands I've ever heard (New Year's Day 1975) in Macon. If you haven't already reacted to it, "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is a banger... also based on a true story. Love you guys! Keep up the good work.
So glad you finally got to this. It's a funny story and it really happened to Ronnie.
I think MOST of it happened to Ronnie, he might've taken a little poetic license here or there. I read once though that he said he was running so fast, if the guy DID shoot him he'd only be able to hit him in the ass or the elbows, cause he wasn't stopping for nuthin'!
I’ve always thought of Skynyrd as “gritty”! That’s the word for me. Even ballads, like Curtis Loew, have a little edge to them. That original lineup had grit!
Ronnie was gritty. That's the difference between him and Johnny.
Worthy of note, bassist Leon Wilkerson was absent during the recording of this song (long story) so newly acquired guitar player Eddie King wrote and played the bass parts.
Ed King was killer on the bass! I think he did a couple of their classics. Maybe Simple Man? Killer.
Ed King's bass on studio version of "Free Bird" is incredible... yet Ronnie called him a terrible bass player.
@@johndrx165 But Ed admitted he sucked on bass compared to Leon. Ronnie said so too. Which tells you how good Leon was because Ed did NOT suck. Leon was in a class of his own. Also FYI- know how Leon holds the bass differently in later years, almost like an upright bass? That's cause the plane crash screwed him up so bad he couldnt hold a bass "normally" anymore. Had to find a new position/technique he could physically manage. Damn. Never be another group like them...
Do you know if Ed played in 77 Oakland coliseum show?
@@kathybwellpretty sure Ed was gone by then, Steve Gaines took over.
"Workin' for MCA" is another great one!
Wife here. Love Skynyrd you guys will enjoy most of there material . Ronnie’s vocals and just good songs . May I suggest one not a banger but a mellow one but it’s a great one too. I never Dreamed.
It's the storytelling for me. I can close my eyes and picture it all.
"I said...excuuuse me."
My favorite line is: "Wait a minute mister, I didn't even kiss her."
There was a bar in Hazard, Ky. called The Hillbilly Palace, could still be there but i moved away about 20 years ago and haven’t been back. Old alcohol, live bands, southern women. When the band played this, nobody was in a seat and everyone was on the dance floor! Pretty much the same when any Skynyrd song played. All was welcomed from young to old, no trouble to be had and always a great, great place to go and let loose!
Any Skynyrd song could be our Florida State anthem! Lol
I've been listening to Skynyrd for 45 years.. This was the first Skynyrd song I ever heard..
You guys have the best reaction channel on TH-cam. Great diversity in music and great respect for all kinds of music. ✌🏻
Great reaction Skynyrd is one of the 🐐. They are tremendous musicians. Bob Burn on the kit and Ed King filling in for Leon. Just great musicians and chemistry. Skynyrd is my top 10 all time greats. On the Hunt and Gimme back my bullets are bangers too. Keep up the great work La/Che
“Precise yet rough” 😂😂
Great reaction!
There was a great documentary on them on netflix....they practiced for weeks in an old shack before they did their recording sessions. They had everything locked down before walking into the studio.
True, they called it 'hell house' because it had no air conditioning during the sweltering hot Florida summers. Also, the stories that came out of those rehearsals are gold.
The documentary is called If I Leave Here Tomorrow. I've watched it several times.
The imagery and the story this song tells, along with the visual I always have of who I would assume is Ronnie screaming while running out the back door hoping he doesn’t catch a bullet in the back always makes me chuckle in fear myself. One of many great songs by an immortal, kick ass band.
Big grin on my face after watching it. It's funny though, because this is one of their most famous songs. And what's cool is it's partly based on an experience that Ronnie had at some point.
The Perfect Band, imo. They could do it all. They would thrive in any era. God Bless Lynyrd Skynyrd
Great live band--really brought the energy! Saw them twice in the same year, 1976. First time was them opening for the Doobie Brothers. What an eye opener, they blew the Doobies off the stage with a way too short set. Second time, they were the headline act and were fantastic.
They are good at everything they do- so true!
This is my favorite song from them and one I like to do as a Karaoke jam
Legendary album, their best.
This one got played a lot on the radio. My favorite was and always has been The Ballad of Curtis Low.
This was just a regular Saturday night in the Honkey Tonks then. Saw them in mid-70s. They put on a heck of a show.
Back in the days of terrestrial radio, you’d often come across a song you never heard before and it would blow your mind in real time.. This was it for the 10 year old me- lost my kind to this tune.. so deceptively good ..(listen to that bass line )..they got so good and precise from hours upon hours of practice in the “hell house” - basically a shack:rehearsal place in the swamps of Jacksonville
Dig deep into there playlist and listen to wino. Excellent work!!!! Ahead of their time.
It's always a hoot n a half for a Southern raised White Boy ( currently living in the Bay Area) watching you two Sac Boys watching and kicking it with Skynrd 😂...keep it up bros, your killing these reactions \m/
This was my Dad's favorite track from them.
I noticed that my dad seemed to like the faster more upbeat Skynyrd/southern rock songs.. Like this, and "What's Your Name" from Skynyrd. And when he mentioned that he really liked "Drinking My Baby Goodbye" by Charlie Daniels, it clicked in my head. Because that Charlie Daniels song has a similar upbeat southern rock vibe that the previously mentioned Skynyrd songs have.
I'd swear you guys have a hat and a shirt for every single sports team on this plant. The thing I love about this song is the lyrics are perfect storytelling. Even just outside of musicality you could teach a course of good storytelling just with the lyrics.
Y'all tripping. This is a great song that tells a great story. One of my favorites and it was a huge hit. I was lucky enough to see the original band with Ronnie Van Zant in concert 2x.
Damn you guys are Rockin' today! You getting addicted to rock n roll, or what! Keep up the good work, man
You can’t deny those guitars and of course Ronnie’s vocals love this song great story.Thank you.
God Bless America and men like you!
Pure rock and roll. Any song, on any of their first five albums is great. Just one big long ass greatest hits record IMO 😆
I saw Skynyrd a month before the crash. Big show called the Superbowl of Rock. Lineup was .38 Special, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ted Nugent. It didn't suck at all.
I remember I also found a fat oz of dank at the show. Ahh, good times
They kept it simple. That's why they were so great
One of the most fun songs ever…don’t know if you guys even chuckled at the story…still waiting for Dialogue Pt1&2 from Chicago
BEST AMERICAN BAND EVER
Memories of being in Fl in my teen and 20 s during all the southern rock and all the great concerts I saw florida was a hot bed for music in my era the 70s and 80s
The music is always so excellent, but your so right his voice is unbelievable!!! The clarity and tone of his voice makes it so much better! The song I hoped you heard the lyrics. He was dancing with another man's girl and the boyfriend showed up with a gun and was asking for a 3 step head start to get the hell out of there! It's serious shit, but they play it like just a regular night out!!! Lol!!!
"They're good"😊😊😊
That's just having. Fun with a little comedy somg😊
THINGS GOIN' ON, MISSISSIPI KID.
Love this song! I remember having my young daughter listen to the words saying "can you picture it?" LOL. Excellent description of a bad situation. Rock on🤘🏼
The lyrics are hilarious.
Absolutely, this is the Skynyrd fellas just having FUN!
...Interesting thing about this (their debut) album (overall-NOT just this song [but, of course: THIS song, TOO!]):
They are KNOWN for their 3-guitar attack. Something that almost NOBODY but them could, EVER, do CORRECTLY. [Molly Hatchet: the Band Ronnie Van Zant had selected as "the inheritors of the Skynyrd mantle," effectively (and never got to Produce, because if his death in the plane crash! 😭😭😡); Leatherwolf (on the meta;l side of things, later on); The second Fleetwood Mac line-ups, with: Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer, The Doobie Brothers (after they added Skunk Baxter when he left Steely Dan ...and, even with John McFee, later (after he had to fill-in for Tom Johnston, after he became ill.)) ...numerous people might, likely, quote others, but: while I am NOT suggesting taht ;any other band with 3 guitarists sucked"-NOT by a LONG-shot! No!-but: they didn't do it as effectively or invaluably as Skynyrd did it. ...and that is the entire point!!]
SO; while Skynyrd is known for their "3-guitar assault"/"front four," on THIS album, their 3rd guitarist (just recent having left The Strawberry Alarm Clock to join Lynyrd Skynyrd, no less!) had to fill-in on BASS, because: the new bass player's arm was broken!
Larry Junstrom (Skynyrd's initial bassist) had left the band (he would, later, show-up, in Ronnie's younger brother: Donnie's band: .38 Special!) and while Leon Wilkeson had become the new bassist, he had had an accident before the band's studio dates and was unable to play! So: Ed King, in fact, filled-in for him!
[Maybe THAT's the reason he, later, attempted (purportedly 🙄🤷) to STAB Wilkeson to death on the tour bus, during the 1987 "Tribute" tour! 🤷🤷😝😛 🤦🤦🤷]
This is, also, why, in many people's minds, the LIVE version of "Free Bird" (or, alternately: "Freebird") is considered "the pinnacle recording: because on the debut album, it is Allen Collins and Gary Rossington "battling" while on One More From The Road, they have all three players (Collins, Rossington and King) duelling, live! It is a barn-burner (as you know!)!!!!.
I think you would appreciate the Rossington/Collins band
which featured 3rd guitarist and sometime lead vocalist:
Barry Lee Harwood [a GREAT player !!🔥🔥🔥]
and Derek Hess on drums;
as well as Rossington's future wife: Dale Krantz on lead vocals.
[Krantz, Hess and Harwood were the only non-former-Skynyrd members in the line-up (essentially: "replacing" Ronnie Van Zant [Krantz and Harwood, both], Artimus Pyle [Hess] and Ed King [Harwood, again])].
Rossington/Collins Band's "go-to," "ripper" hits would be:
"Don't Misunderstand Me" [with Krantz and Harwood trading vocal lines!!]
and
"Prime Time"
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
[but there's plenty of other good stuff in those coffers!]
Live version of this song is classic!
Saw them in concert.Month later they were gone.A sad day for music.
Woohoo! True story 😂. Can’t wait 😜
I think you would appreciate the Rossington/Collins band
which featured 3rd guitarist and sometime lead vocalist:
Barry Lee Harwood [a GREAT player !!🔥🔥🔥]
and Derek Hess on drums;
as well as Rossington's future wife: Dale Krantz on lead vocals.
[Krantz, Hess and Harwood were the only non-former-Skynyrd members in the line-up (essentially: "replacing" Ronnie Van Zant [Krantz and Harwood, both], Artimus Pyle [Hess] and Ed King [Harwood, again])].
Rossington/Collins Band's "go-to," "ripper" hits would be:
"Don't Misunderstand Me" [with Krantz and Harwood trading vocal lines!!]
and
"Prime Time"
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
[but there's plenty of other good stuff in those coffers!]
Lynrd Skynyrd...
Used 2 drummers and 3 guitar players(2 lead).
All of the band members went to school together in Jacksonville, Florida.
The name Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired by the band’s gym teacher Leonard Skinner. He had demanded that they get their hair cut before coming back to school. Skinner was the reason why they never went back to school and formed a band instead.
I love your reactions and your love for Skynyrd!! This is such a great song.
This is my favorite song by them
So glad to see you guys are back to the Skynyrd boys!! Would love to see you guys do some from their first live album. You guys are the best!
Al Kooper produced Skynyrd's first 3 albums and has said that Ronnie drove them so hard in practice that they basically reproduced everything note for note on command, whether in the studio or on stage. Or rehearsing at the shack. He said they were a producer's dream because they rehearsed so incessantly.
Al Kooper was terrified of Ronnie. Ronnie was Jekyll and Hyde.
First concert I ever attended. 1976 at The Capital Centre Landover Maryland. Such a phenomenal band.
I was there too! My first concert, 15 years old. Went to literally hundreds of Cap Centre concerts, sometimes down in the crowd, most of the time in a Sky Suite where we'd call ahead of time & order cases of beer, which would be waiting for us on ice in a big dented Coleman
cooler wrapped in chains & secured w/ a padlock. They didnt serve alcohol @ concerts back then but in the suite we always ordered extra, then took the elevator downstairs, met friends who werent in the suite for that show, & handed out beers. Couldn't let our buddies go thirsty! As long as one person was 18 to order the beer, we were set. God those were the days!
@andychisarick6879 Yeah, I saw just about everybody at the capital centre. I hate that they tore it down.
@@neillenet291 yeah had a lot of memories there. Our sky suite's private bathroom saw a lot of action too- sex, sex, and enough coke to pay off 4 years of our kids' college tuitio if we'd been smart enough to stick to beer & weed. Oh well that was the 70s but I do remember well the day they dynamited the place to the ground. Lots of memories live on even tho Cap Centre bit the dust...
This really happened to one of the guys in the group.
Ronnie. His wife’s name is Linda Lou.
Alright! Been waiting for y’all to get to this one, my favorite Skynyrd song!
Classic SKYNYRD !!!!!
True Story.....I saw the original band several times live back in the day. I was in Greenville SC visiting my grandparents and they were playing. I thought about going, went back and forth but decided since I'd just been to see them the week before in my city, I decided against it. Thought I'd just wait until they come back...Their plane crashed after leaving Greenville. The WORSE decision. It was their last concert w/Original members 🙁
"That Smell" is another favorite.
"Mr Saturday Night Special"
Actually, those are two tracks of theirs which I never could stand.
La and Che reacted to both of these.
Based on an actual incident. Ronnie Van Sant, Gary Rossington and Alan Collins were at a bar called The Jug. Well the song explains it. Wrote the song in the car in 15 minutes
73 DEBUT ALBUM ( PRONOUNCED ) LA & CHE 😊AMAZINGGGG 50 YEARS LATER FOR SURE!💯
Maybe the most powerful debut album ever. Not a weak track on it.
The slick coy roughness is the southern rock charm
Man i thought you guys did this already! Hellbyea this a hot steppin beat feet out the door jam!!!! Must be played loud as possible!
Rumor is that Ronnie never wrote down his lyrics and he always came up with them off the top of his head during studio recordings. He supposedly said why do I need to write down lyrics I have to remember later when we perform them anyways.
They were just some good ppl
Who love to play music
Love y’all lol , it’s hard to explain why they’re so good but man they are 😂
You need to do the documentary on your movie channel about their producer Tom Dowd. He did everybody! Literally
This was a huge radio hit❤
Thanks for the Lynyrd Skynyrd reviews. Please do You Got That Right off of their Street Survivors album next time. Thanks again.
I think they still need to check out You Got That Right, with Ronnie and Steve sharing vocals.
FUN!, ..... it's simply a fun song.... jus like you said knee slappin!
I love this song-I never really liked the band but love this song
Love this song, Mississippi Kid is amazing to me as well)
I still love them after all these years! So glad y’all are liking it 😊BTW, y’all hit The Ballad of Curtis Lowe please.
That's a great song! I believe it's about Ronnie's favorite blues singer, Son House.
Omg this was one of my favourite songs. This was popular
Please check out Things Going On by Skynyrd, Billy Powell slams on the piano in this song. They are so versatile and so talented, all such wonderful musicians. Love your reactions!! (59 yo from the east coast ✌️) cheers!!
This song is a funny story. I love the lyrics.
On The Hunt - Winterland 1975
ensemble is the word you are looking for.
Excellent reaction, fellas 👏 🎉❤😊