I for one am glad you guys are looking into actual talent and discovering that Lynyrd Skynyrd and all Southern Rock evolved from the much appreciated Black mans blues whom were so much more than just Black. Talent.. it holds no barriers... Heritage NOT Hatred.
Ed was in a room playing the lick, and Ronnie opens the door and sings the first two lines to the song, closes the door, Ed's mind was blown, Ed never knew how a guy could do that.
Wife here..I actually feel like I was born hearing Lynard Skynard..My parents LOVED them..Of course, I do too..As I got older I really began to pay closer attention to the musical arrangements and they were truly Amazing..This is one of my favorites along with "Needle and Spoon" and "I need You"..Love Your reactions..
Al Kooper said they were the best arrangers and composers of any rock band he's worked with or heard. That layering and texturing of 3 guitars. He asked them where they had learned to develop counter-point so well for guitars and they said, "What's that?"
Saw them in concert at Legion Field in Birmingham in 1977 with the Outlaws and Edgar Winter. The police shut the power off in the middle of Free Bird and started a riot...what a time that was
My favorite parts of this song are the slide guitar by Gary Rossington. Often played with a Cordicin medicine bottle sliding over strings lifted above the guitar frets by a metal coat hanger stuffed underneath. Thanks for playing this song!
It's fascinating how this song sounds like a southern country boy offering some common sense take on guns, but it is completely opposite from our 21st century assumptions on what someone from his demographic would have to say about it. I'm guessing that back then, country folks thought of guns as primarily useful tools, which meant having a barrel long enough to hit something from a distance while hunting. Inaccurate, short-barrel handguns were probably seen as appealing to hot headed, urban city slickers.
I think that’s just down to how successful the NRA has been in the past 50 years ensuring the proliferation of handguns through every corner of the country. Guns were a tool back then, now they are a fetish.
I know a lot of "country folk" who have very level heads about guns. Rifles are useful for hunting, but you damn better take care of them, and take care that they're NEVER stored loaded and the ammo is hidden away so that small kids don't kill themselves if they find the rifles and start playing with them. And handguns, as Skynyrd says, are useless for anything other than killing another person, so seriously consider whether (1) you need to do that, and (2) you're willing to do that.
Yes for sure. The southern boys of Skynyrd fought with their fists.....and "come to a fix not afraid to fight". Now a days the gun industry is just pumping guns out in the name of fear just for money and not really for survival being the focus. I guess we've come full circle from the days of the wild wild West.
@@briantaulbee5744 Dude. I grew up in the country. We had loaded guns behind the door! True country people teach our kids how to shoot guns at an early age and most young kids wont touch a gun if you make them shoot it because of how loud they are.
"Like a black cat do"? Ha! For the last 48(ish) years I thought Ronnie was singing "like a black haired dude". lololol But its one of their best tracks, imo. I love it in the car chase scene of The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds. Burt was from Florida so maybe he was a fan of the band and wanted to include the song in his movie. But the song is about a real gun. Those Saturday Night Specials really were the gun of choice for crooks back in the 70's.
Know whats REALLY embarassing? For 40 years, till 10 years ago, I thought on Free Bird Ronnie sang " Wont you fly-y-y free bird." Finally saw some lyrics and its " fly high free bird." My favorite group, their most famous song...all those years I was missing that one VITAL word. So dont feel bad about your black cat.
Awesome. I've seen some great classic bands like The Allman Brothers, Alice Cooper, Tull, Johnny Winter, Hot Tuna, Grand funk Railroad and more, but never these guys or ZZ Top, sadly.
@@holly8064 , It was September 28th, 2012 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA. I figured it might be a once in a lifetime opportunity so I had to go. I had seen Lynyrd Skynyrd several times and ZZ Top 4 or 5 times but I had never seen them perform together until that night. It was AWESOME !
Holster part notwithstanding, you are correct- it was an inexpensive firearm, sold by various companies, and designed to give poor people access to guns for self defense. Typically cops would use name brand expensive revolvers, but of a similar design. The term was invented by northern antigun democrats in order to vilify and ban inexpensive guns used by poor people.
@@billdurfy2110 But our police would neeeeeeeeever do that! They're heroes! Back the blue! .....right? LMAO. (this is sarcasm for the stupid people among us)
Back when this song came out, we were not accustomed to hearing news every day about somebody getting shot the night before. Violence was just ramping up then, and the .38 caliber revolver was the weapon of choice for street thugs and the poorer strata of society because of its ready availability and relatively cheap price. Police nicknamed the .38 special the "Saturday Night Special" because so many of them were used on wild drinking Saturday nights to commit murders among people in what should have been minor disputes.
the .38 Special was also the most common handgun used by the police and the FBI at the time. My .38 snub nose Smith & Wesson is commonly known as the "Chiefs Special". The term "Saturday Night Special" came from the practice of pawning your gun on Monday and getting it back out on Saturday.
An excellent group of musicians. So many great songs from these guys. My favorite song from them is Call Me the Breeze. The original singer Ronnie Van Zant and 5 other members died in a plane crash in the 70's. Amazingly enough his brother sounds just like him and took over lead vocals after he died.
Song was inspired by a shooting at a card game. As another 'useless fact', a concert they played as a backup to Sabbath saw a Skynyrd member fire a blank from a handgun over the heads of a rowdy crowd.
What a great band. It's one of those bands that released several albums before the plane crash and then after that I don't really care about them but I honestly can't think of a song on any one of those albums that I used to play over and over in High School that I didn't like. Some are slower than others serious, some just very playful but man, just a great band.
We went this past weekend and toured the recording studio where they recorded a lot of their songs. Along with them other phenomenal artists recorded their too. Such as Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Cher, George Michael, Chris Stapleton. The list goes on and on. If those wall could talk. Great reaction guys. 🤟😎😎🤟🎶🎶
Another one of my top five Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, all of which are sung in the studio by the gentleman who died in a plane crash Ronnie Van Zant, which was October 20, 1977
Yet another great reaction! Most Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are from real experiences. You should check out “Give Me Three Steps”. Another true life experience for them.
Kim I absolutely love New 3 steps above the test results public reaction never been heard just by a couple people I'm mca consultant name Jonathan 🎫♾️ it could Getty images aways away on vacation 👍
Even in the ‘70’s, it was a bit courageous for these good ol’ southern boys to speak up against handguns. And as always, Skynyrd’s guitar arrangements were SO cool 😺🎸👍
Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. AC/DC continued and rose to even greater fame with their new frontman. Paul D'Anno was replaced by Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden continued and rose to even greater fame with their new frontman. Ronnie Van Zant died and that was it. The day the music died: October 20, 1977. There was no Lynyrd Skynyrd without him. "Saturday Night Special" was another great song from Ed King, who also brought us "Sweet Home Alabama". SNS was in the 1974 Burt Reynolds movie, "The Longest Yard" before its release on the album, "Nuthin' Fancy", in March of 1975. Lynyrd Skynyrd was a great band to listen to, but not a band you'd want to a member of, if your desire was to live a long life.
Yeah, I wouldn't call them overall "anti-gun". They do actually celebrate hunting and fishing in other songs. But yes, this song is explicitly against HAND guns, not generally used for hunting. Not sure if the slang has survived into modern times or if it is an outdated term, but "Saturday Night Special" was a term for a cheap handgun, liable to be purchased and used in sketchy circumstances. Time was, a Southern "good old boy" could actually write a song against handguns and not get called a "crazy liberal commie traitor", or worse... Those days are long gone, as far as I can tell.
I don't know what song you're listening to, but I'm listening to "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. You should listen to the last verse carefully. It's not really a question. It says "Handguns are made for killing, ain't no good for nothing else, and if you like to drink your whisky, you might even shoot yourself." It's against handguns.
Ronnie owned a gun when he wrote this. The line ant good for nothin but put a man 6 feet in a hole. Is because Saturday night specials are cheap black market guns with a short barrel so it has no accuracy past 5 ft. Making them good for nothing except killing a man feet away
***** Anyone reading this, watch the scene from the film The Longest Yard where Burt Reynolds evades the cops while this song is playing on the radio. It's properly badass!! I think it's on YT as "Burt drives his Citroën"
Hey y'all, I'm pretty sure most of the band grew up hunting and fishing....something most everyone did here in the South,especially guys! I think the emphasis was on handguns and how easy you could purchase one if you really wanted it.....ie., Saturday Night Special - .38 cal. Hardly anyone I grew up with and hunted with in the early '70's had a pistol...they just weren't a ''thing''. The times changed however with more crime and people feeling less safe especially away from home and they became popular real fast especially among women for protection! Great reaction!
There used to be a pistol called a Saturday Night Special. It think it was smaller than a normal handgun and could be easily hidden, but not like a derringer. That was back in the 1970's.
The reference is to a Saturday night special is a small cheap 22 that was easy to get and small enough where people would have them in their boot or pocket very easy to conceal
That's from the Nuthin' Fancy album. Their third studio album. Every song on it is great. But that's they same with all their music. My favorite from that is "Made in the Shade".
man Garys 59' is greazy.. I dig it.. Workin for MCA, I Need You, then the quintessential "Gimme Back My Bullets" "Swamp Music" "Things Goin On" "the Needle and the Spoon" "Whiskey Rock a Roller" "Searchin" songs like these for the ultimate Skynyrd experience.. be prepared to dance tho, your legs will just start doin it and you have no control over it.. make some room.. :-)
No such thing as a bad Lynyrd Skynyrd song anything they gots a damn good song it's all good coming home coming home oh wow that one there brother that's powerful powerful
This was the first song I ever heard in my life about the dark side of America's strange obsession with firearms... and, man, it's so much more relevant now than it was in the 1970's. Straight out of the headlines, as we bloody each other week after week. Worth thinking about. Thanks for the reaction!
Maybe someone on here can remember when they removed the part where the singer says that they won't let me when he wants to tell us what we could do with them. I think the line was I'd like to tell you what you do with it too they won't let me. I noticed they that was removed in the 90s when I hear it on the radio and it's even absent from this recording.
Lex, you are so pretty and I love seeing you react! I love Brads reaction too, but Lex is much more cute doing it 💓Love your videos, so keep them coming!
The .38 special was the 70's equivalent of today's AR15. And was the main reason for most of the handgun laws on the books today! The lyrics are self-explanatory.
They weren't completely anti-gun. They were anti handgun. Handguns were the leading cause of gun deaths back then and still are to this day. This song upset a lot of their fans. But they actually owned a rifle where they recorded at their studio space at their little swamp studio for protection from animals and robbers.
My Dad's music, lol. Skynard are decent storytellers when they want to be. Dead Can Dance always tells a story, Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove waits patiently for your attention.
My grandfather once showed me a Saturday night special that was blue and gold lol he had confiscated it after taking it from a guy , my grandfather was a dept sheriff from the county we both lived in so I always get reminded of that time when I hear this song lol
Lynyrd Skynyrd they got a song called the coming home coming home coming home yes it's by Lynyrd Skynyrd had to take you home it really will peace tranquility calmness brother
Look at it off of the greatest hits that features Jeff Carlisle the guitarist from 38 Special him and Ronnie Van Zant and that song's deep brother be careful now don't get sucked up be sure you
Been waiting for you both to review Saturday Night Special…very excited! 👍😎 The song is a message against cheap, easy to obtain guns that had no other purpose than killing someone. Ronnie Van Zant, who wrote the song was not anti-gun and was a hunter. In the first verse the “creeper” sneaks into someone’s house late at night and shoots him as he gets out of bed to defend himself.
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Bad ass tune by Lynyrd Skynyrd, one of my favorites!💣🔥🎸🥁
I love the guitar tone in this song.
I for one am glad you guys are looking into actual talent and discovering that Lynyrd Skynyrd and all Southern Rock evolved from the much appreciated Black mans blues whom were so much more than just Black.
Talent.. it holds no barriers... Heritage NOT Hatred.
The vocal quality that Brad is talking about towards the end is sincerity. That's why they feel gritty and smooth at the same time.
Check out “Needle and the spoon” or “On the hunt” by Lynyrd Skynyrd, old school Lynyrd Skynyrd! 💣🔥🎸🥁
Yes, and the cover of on the hunt by Corrosion of Conformity. And do them back to back.
Their "funnest" song is Working for MCA
True. Good ones! Maybe swamp music for a little happier vibes too
You two are are beautiful souls. Mind, heart, spirit. Peace, love and harmony to you both. You listen to music the same way I do...
Ronnie was the greatest storyteller for the common man there ever was, and hot damn the band always played it tasty!
Including Bob Seger.
Ed was in a room playing the lick, and Ronnie opens the door and sings the first two lines to the song, closes the door, Ed's mind was blown, Ed never knew how a guy could do that.
You can't go wrong with SKYNYRD
before SLAYYYER !! , there was FREEEEBIRD !!! ha ha ha Skynyrd rocks 🤘🏼
Sho got that right.
Precrash.
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That is common knowledge.
Wife here..I actually feel like I was born hearing Lynard Skynard..My parents LOVED them..Of course, I do too..As I got older I really began to pay closer attention to the musical arrangements and they were truly Amazing..This is one of my favorites along with "Needle and Spoon" and "I need You"..Love Your reactions..
Al Kooper said they were the best arrangers and composers of any rock band he's worked with or heard.
That layering and texturing of 3 guitars.
He asked them where they had learned to develop counter-point so well for guitars and they said, "What's that?"
Wife here...Thank you for that Awesome info!!.
Those are great songs too.
Absolutely a outstanding tune. I watched "If I leave here tomorrow" like 5 times. Rock on Brad & Lex
That documentary is so good.
Huh? I'm a bit confused....do u mean "Free Bird"? I sure hope so.....😂 then 😕 cuz that would be kinda sad
@@holly8064 it's on Netflix. It was released last year.
I'm sorry- I didn't know about it- I don't have Netflix. Thank you
@@holly8064 nothing to be sorry about. Enjoy your evening😀
Another great "story" song from Skynyrd! Right up there with Gimme Three Steps! Love how they can really paint a picture with their lyrics.
Saw them in concert at Legion Field in Birmingham in 1977 with the Outlaws and Edgar Winter. The police shut the power off in the middle of Free Bird and started a riot...what a time that was
Sounds like a great concert and memory, one of the first 45 records I bought as a kid was “Frankenstein “ and I moved on from The Partridge Family
Why did the police shut off the power? They sounded like such losers
Was there myself🎉
Truly a once in a lifetime band , the musical talent , lyrics with a message , performance , just nobody like Skynyrd .
They could do it all…You are ready for their rocking song” Working for MCA”…..This song was used in the movie “ The Longest Yard” with Burt Reynolds..
My favorite parts of this song are the slide guitar by Gary Rossington. Often played with a Cordicin medicine bottle sliding over strings lifted above the guitar frets by a metal coat hanger stuffed underneath. Thanks for playing this song!
"For twenty dollars you can you buy yourself one too, any 'ol pawn shop will do".
It's fascinating how this song sounds like a southern country boy offering some common sense take on guns, but it is completely opposite from our 21st century assumptions on what someone from his demographic would have to say about it. I'm guessing that back then, country folks thought of guns as primarily useful tools, which meant having a barrel long enough to hit something from a distance while hunting. Inaccurate, short-barrel handguns were probably seen as appealing to hot headed, urban city slickers.
I think that’s just down to how successful the NRA has been in the past 50 years ensuring the proliferation of handguns through every corner of the country. Guns were a tool back then, now they are a fetish.
Culture wars have made common sense uncommon..
I know a lot of "country folk" who have very level heads about guns. Rifles are useful for hunting, but you damn better take care of them, and take care that they're NEVER stored loaded and the ammo is hidden away so that small kids don't kill themselves if they find the rifles and start playing with them. And handguns, as Skynyrd says, are useless for anything other than killing another person, so seriously consider whether (1) you need to do that, and (2) you're willing to do that.
Yes for sure. The southern boys of Skynyrd fought with their fists.....and "come to a fix not afraid to fight". Now a days the gun industry is just pumping guns out in the name of fear just for money and not really for survival being the focus. I guess we've come full circle from the days of the wild wild West.
@@briantaulbee5744
Dude.
I grew up in the country. We had loaded guns behind the door!
True country people teach our kids how to shoot guns at an early age and most young kids wont touch a gun if you make them shoot it because of how loud they are.
I am black man always liked this because you could dance to it,I never get tired of hearing it ,the lyrics mean even more 45years later
Definitely Lynard Skynyrd is in the top 7 rock bands ever 👍❗
Now, do "Give Me Back My Bullets" from them. I believe you did "Give Me 3 Steps."
A lot of their songs came from their real lives. They led real lives.
This is like THE party song. Countless gallons of alcohol have been consumed to this. Also, one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
"Like a black cat do"? Ha! For the last 48(ish) years I thought Ronnie was singing "like a black haired dude". lololol But its one of their best tracks, imo. I love it in the car chase scene of The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds. Burt was from Florida so maybe he was a fan of the band and wanted to include the song in his movie. But the song is about a real gun. Those Saturday Night Specials really were the gun of choice for crooks back in the 70's.
Know whats REALLY embarassing? For 40 years, till 10 years ago, I thought on Free Bird Ronnie sang " Wont you fly-y-y free bird." Finally saw some lyrics and its " fly high free bird." My favorite group, their most famous song...all those years I was missing that one VITAL word. So dont feel bad about your black cat.
Longest Yard...Burt Reynolds...Car chasing scene!!!!
In the first shooting "the Creeper" is the husband coming home finding his wife and her lover (he of course shoots the lover).
I've seen then at least 10 times. By far my favorite southern rock band. I got to see them together with ZZ Top.
Awesome. I've seen some great classic bands like The Allman Brothers, Alice Cooper, Tull, Johnny Winter, Hot Tuna, Grand funk Railroad and more, but never these guys or ZZ Top, sadly.
U saw Skynyrd with ZZ Top??? Now I am SUPREMELY jealous. LOL
@@holly8064 , It was September 28th, 2012 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA. I figured it might be a once in a lifetime opportunity so I had to go. I had seen Lynyrd Skynyrd several times and ZZ Top 4 or 5 times but I had never seen them perform together until that night. It was AWESOME !
As a Skynyrd fan from their start, Saturday Night Special is my favorite Skynyrd song. Powerful, that smoldering guitar...!
A Saturday Night Special was a cheap Snub Nose Revolver. Used by criminals and cops, sometimes carried in a Ankle Holster.
Holster part notwithstanding, you are correct- it was an inexpensive firearm, sold by various companies, and designed to give poor people access to guns for self defense. Typically cops would use name brand expensive revolvers, but of a similar design.
The term was invented by northern antigun democrats in order to vilify and ban inexpensive guns used by poor people.
Used by police as an unregistered “throw down”. You shoot an unarmed person? No problem, he’s armed after the fact.
@@billdurfy2110 they still had serial numbers!! Just inexpensive revolvers
@@billdurfy2110 But our police would neeeeeeeeever do that! They're heroes! Back the blue! .....right?
LMAO. (this is sarcasm for the stupid people among us)
@@Followme556 Stupid games get you stupid prizes. Don't cry
That's some down and dirty southern rock and roll.
I can't imagine a more straight forward song message.
Back when this song came out, we were not accustomed to hearing news every day about somebody getting shot the night before. Violence was just ramping up then, and the .38 caliber revolver was the weapon of choice for street thugs and the poorer strata of society because of its ready availability and relatively cheap price. Police nicknamed the .38 special the "Saturday Night Special" because so many of them were used on wild drinking Saturday nights to commit murders among people in what should have been minor disputes.
the .38 Special was also the most common handgun used by the police and the FBI at the time. My .38 snub nose Smith & Wesson is commonly known as the "Chiefs Special". The term "Saturday Night Special" came from the practice of pawning your gun on Monday and getting it back out on Saturday.
And I always thought that Saturday Night Specials were the cheap 25 cal. and/or 32 cal. handguns.
@@Rosedach they can be
And you didn't know if they would blow up on you.."you might even shoot yourself too"
Sure. That's just the anti-gun lobby story. Now tell us about zip guns and knives.
An excellent group of musicians. So many great songs from these guys. My favorite song from them is Call Me the Breeze. The original singer Ronnie Van Zant and 5 other members died in a plane crash in the 70's. Amazingly enough his brother sounds just like him and took over lead vocals after he died.
2 other band members, Steve Gaines, his sister Cassie, who was a backup singer, their road manager, the pilot and Co pilot all died. 6 people in all.
My friends husband was on that plane and survived. He was their manager.
@@taradevine6026 WOW, hello Tara. I can't imagine being in something like that.
@@rubendelgado1865 Shes told me all kinds of stories about it. Such a horrible tragedy.
Song was inspired by a shooting at a card game. As another 'useless fact', a concert they played as a backup to Sabbath saw a Skynyrd member fire a blank from a handgun over the heads of a rowdy crowd.
I still love the way Lexi cuts her eyes at Brad when she hears a certain hook! ❤
What a great band. It's one of those bands that released several albums before the plane crash and then after that I don't really care about them but I honestly can't think of a song on any one of those albums that I used to play over and over in High School that I didn't like. Some are slower than others serious, some just very playful but man, just a great band.
We went this past weekend and toured the recording studio where they recorded a lot of their songs. Along with them other phenomenal artists recorded their too. Such as Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Cher, George Michael, Chris Stapleton. The list goes on and on. If those wall could talk. Great reaction guys. 🤟😎😎🤟🎶🎶
Right on...Right on...One of my favorite Skynyrd songs...
Gary holds that note forever. Live he walks up to the Amp and grabs a beer 🍺
I have the same smile on my face as lex every time I listen to this band
Another one of my top five Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, all of which are sung in the studio by the gentleman who died in a plane crash Ronnie Van Zant, which was October 20, 1977
Yet another great reaction! Most Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are from real experiences. You should check out “Give Me Three Steps”. Another true life experience for them.
Kim I absolutely love New 3 steps above the test results public reaction never been heard just by a couple people I'm mca consultant name Jonathan 🎫♾️ it could Getty images aways away on vacation 👍
As soon as those drums and guitar hit, everyone is hooked
I love this one, the song kicks ass
Gimme my Bullets is another favorite
Brad is very,very, smart and spot on of the meanings of lyrics to most of these songs.
Brutal song lyrics. I love it.
If you haven't already, I recommend "All I Can Do Is Write About". Another great reaction guys. ✌❤🇨🇦
Excellent choice, might I add "Was I Right or Wrong" and "Four Walls of Raiford"
@@leonardwashington6456 Four Walls of Raiford ftw
These guys were so great!! 🔥🤘🏻🎧
With all the debauchery surrounding the Mythos of this group their musicianship is often overlooked
Even in the ‘70’s, it was a bit courageous for these good ol’ southern boys to speak up against handguns. And as always, Skynyrd’s guitar arrangements were SO cool 😺🎸👍
Ohhhh it's the Saturday night special. For $20 you can buy yourself one toooooo
This song was in the beginning of the original movie The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds..
also the remake too
Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. AC/DC continued and rose to even greater fame with their new frontman.
Paul D'Anno was replaced by Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden continued and rose to even greater fame with their new frontman.
Ronnie Van Zant died and that was it. The day the music died: October 20, 1977. There was no Lynyrd Skynyrd without him.
"Saturday Night Special" was another great song from Ed King, who also brought us "Sweet Home Alabama". SNS was in the 1974 Burt Reynolds movie, "The Longest Yard" before its release on the album, "Nuthin' Fancy", in March of 1975. Lynyrd Skynyrd was a great band to listen to, but not a band you'd want to a member of, if your desire was to live a long life.
Gimme back my bullets might be a different theme of theirs. Really good song too
Good afternoon Bradand Lex this is a wonderful way to spend the afternoon
The first verse I believe, is about a man catching his cheating girl with another man. It's the other man that gets shot putting on his trousers.
Yeah, I wouldn't call them overall "anti-gun". They do actually celebrate hunting and fishing in other songs. But yes, this song is explicitly against HAND guns, not generally used for hunting. Not sure if the slang has survived into modern times or if it is an outdated term, but "Saturday Night Special" was a term for a cheap handgun, liable to be purchased and used in sketchy circumstances.
Time was, a Southern "good old boy" could actually write a song against handguns and not get called a "crazy liberal commie traitor", or worse... Those days are long gone, as far as I can tell.
At the time, perception was that handguns were basically for gangs... *ahem* excuse me.. minority run gangs in particular
It's not a anti handgun song
I don't know what song you're listening to, but I'm listening to "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. You should listen to the last verse carefully. It's not really a question. It says "Handguns are made for killing, ain't no good for nothing else, and if you like to drink your whisky, you might even shoot yourself."
It's against handguns.
Yes, definitely an anti-gun song. This song was in the movie The Longest Yard, both with Burt Reynolds and the remake with Adam Sandler.
Ronnie owned a gun when he wrote this. The line ant good for nothin but put a man 6 feet in a hole. Is because Saturday night specials are cheap black market guns with a short barrel so it has no accuracy past 5 ft. Making them good for nothing except killing a man feet away
Gimme back my bullets . Saturday night specials were cheap guns that were just as likely to blow up in your hand than kill someone else
***** Anyone reading this, watch the scene from the film The Longest Yard where Burt Reynolds evades the cops while this song is playing on the radio. It's properly badass!! I think it's on YT as "Burt drives his Citroën"
Hey y'all, I'm pretty sure most of the band grew up hunting and fishing....something most everyone did here in the South,especially guys! I think the emphasis was on handguns and how easy you could purchase one if you really wanted it.....ie., Saturday Night Special - .38 cal. Hardly anyone I grew up with and hunted with in the early '70's had a pistol...they just weren't a ''thing''. The times changed however with more crime and people feeling less safe especially away from home and they became popular real fast especially among women for protection! Great reaction!
The song was about a Saturday night special was cheap available pistols that were outlawed in the sixties.
Outlawed in Maryland not nation wide
And any pistol that could be hidden easily was a Saturday Night Special. They weren't anti gun,. They were anti dumb.
There used to be a pistol called a Saturday Night Special. It think it was smaller than a normal handgun and could be easily hidden, but not like a derringer. That was back in the 1970's.
Four walls of Raiford,Mississippi Kid,two old blues tunes.
hell house. Ronnie knew what he was about to sing. "play that again."
The gritty comes from the guitar 🎸 play. It’s raucous!
Saturday night special is a throw away, unregistered handgun.
The reference is to a Saturday night special is a small cheap 22 that was easy to get and small enough where people would have them in their boot or pocket very easy to conceal
That's from the Nuthin' Fancy album. Their third studio album. Every song on it is great. But that's they same with all their music. My favorite from that is "Made in the Shade".
man Garys 59' is greazy.. I dig it..
Workin for MCA, I Need You, then the quintessential "Gimme Back My Bullets" "Swamp Music" "Things Goin On" "the Needle and the Spoon" "Whiskey Rock a Roller" "Searchin" songs like these for the ultimate Skynyrd experience.. be prepared to dance tho, your legs will just start doin it and you have no control over it.. make some room.. :-)
1st on was murder. The creeper shot the man as he was putting on his trousers. This on is about pistols.
Just saw them in concert. Great band
No such thing as a bad Lynyrd Skynyrd song anything they gots a damn good song it's all good coming home coming home oh wow that one there brother that's powerful powerful
Tears 'n my eyes...a perfect song 🎵
Patiently waiting for Things goin on & Mississippi Kid #LynyrdSkynyrdLove♥️
Saturday Night Special was a cheap gun of small caliber (.22 .25 .30 .32) that was easy to conceal. Also know as an assassins weapon.
The first verse was murder too. The “creeper” killed the man as the man was putting on his pants.
Great Jacksonville Florida band! His brother’s band is 38 Special….name comes from the name of their HS coach Without the y’s lol
His name was Leonard Skinner.
This was the first song I ever heard in my life about the dark side of America's strange obsession with firearms... and, man, it's so much more relevant now than it was in the 1970's. Straight out of the headlines, as we bloody each other week after week. Worth thinking about. Thanks for the reaction!
Definitely one of my favorites from them,So Good 👍
Maybe someone on here can remember when they removed the part where the singer says that they won't let me when he wants to tell us what we could do with them. I think the line was I'd like to tell you what you do with it too they won't let me. I noticed they that was removed in the 90s when I hear it on the radio and it's even absent from this recording.
There is a version where Ronnie sings "for 20 dollars you can buy yourself one too, any ol pawnshop will do".
Skynard Never Had a bad song....Amazing GROUP Spittn and Playn Like their on FIRE🔥🔥🔥👍🎸💯🤘❤️😁
Lex, you are so pretty and I love seeing you react! I love Brads reaction too, but Lex is much more cute doing it 💓Love your videos, so keep them coming!
Every lynyrd skynyrd song has a great story
In the first scenario the robber murders the man in the home "as he's reaching for his trousers."
The .38 special was the 70's equivalent of today's AR15. And was the main reason for most of the handgun laws on the books today!
The lyrics are self-explanatory.
They weren't completely anti-gun. They were anti handgun. Handguns were the leading cause of gun deaths back then and still are to this day. This song upset a lot of their fans. But they actually owned a rifle where they recorded at their studio space at their little swamp studio for protection from animals and robbers.
This song is very relevant even today! This past Saturday in Norfolk, Va a man shot several people in a bar all because someone spilled his drink! : (
It's a song about the snub nose revolver they were called the Saturday night special in the day.
Here you go Rocken my afternoon , thanks 👍
You finally reviewed one that I can listen to. Congrats!
In concert this week , out here in central California.
You should try " Mr. Banker" or " I need you" by lynyrd skynyrd.
Great song!! Mr banker definitely
Gone too soon! Fantastic music will last. for generations.
My Dad's music, lol. Skynard are decent storytellers when they want to be. Dead Can Dance always tells a story, Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove waits patiently for your attention.
"Saturday Night Special" was slang back in the day for a 38 Special pistol...
Good reaction. Lol @ the thumbnail though saying "Might" instead of Night.
My grandfather once showed me a Saturday night special that was blue and gold lol he had confiscated it after taking it from a guy , my grandfather was a dept sheriff from the county we both lived in so I always get reminded of that time when I hear this song lol
Brad... Hold on to that girl..... she's a diamond
This song was specifically about the 38 Special, which was everywhere in the 70s and you could literally get one for $20
That’s about as tight as it gets.. A+++!..
Lynyrd Skynyrd they got a song called the coming home coming home coming home yes it's by Lynyrd Skynyrd had to take you home it really will peace tranquility calmness brother
Four was a Rayford brother that's another mother
Look at it off of the greatest hits that features Jeff Carlisle the guitarist from 38 Special him and Ronnie Van Zant and that song's deep brother be careful now don't get sucked up be sure you
The songs called the four walls Four Walls of ryford brother listen to the words the words
Been waiting for you both to review Saturday Night Special…very excited! 👍😎
The song is a message against cheap, easy to obtain guns that had no other purpose than killing someone. Ronnie Van Zant, who wrote the song was not anti-gun and was a hunter.
In the first verse the “creeper” sneaks into someone’s house late at night and shoots him as he gets out of bed to defend himself.
Anti cheap Saturday Night special guns not anti guns
@@markhopkins222 Thanks, and corrected.