FIRST TIME HEARING The Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man REACTION
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- FIRST TIME HEARING The Allman Brothers Ramblin' Man REACTION
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Rest in peace to Dickey Betts who passed away today..He wrote and sang this song..
This song is a classic to the nth degree. I'm originally from Bangladesh but this song made such an impression on me when I heard it as an 8 year old who just came to the USA back in '73. It goes to your core...to me, it's an oddly uplifting and yet nostalgic melancholy song at the same time
God love you Dickey, a song that he was trying to get off to Johnny Cash to sing. The rest of the band persuaded him to record the track himself. RIP my friend.
@@mushfiqurrahman5470 I don't think any native-born American could have said it any better brother. What music goes to the SOUL simply is that great. Doesn't matter what race or country you are from. May the Good Lord Bless you brother
Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd died today. He was 71. He survived the 1977 plane crash but broke both legs, both arms, both ankles, and his pelvis. RIP brother 😢🙏....thanks for the music you left us.💯❤️
oh no....didn't hear this yet. Sad. Skynyrd was so good back in the day. Who knows where they would have ended up if it wasn't for the plane crash. I was lucky to see them in Oakland in "77. Such great musicians. Saw them again as Rossington Colins Band after the crash...but it just was never the same. RIP
😥 had not heard. . . RIP GARY.
Nooo! So sad!
loved to hear him play seen him in consert every time they played in nashville .
@@janicez2630 How fortunate for you to be able to say, “I was there” whenever anyone mentions that incredible concert!
Chicago 1973. I’m 17 years old, and I see The Moody Blues on Tuesday Oct. 30, Frank Zappa on Wednesday, Halloween, and The Allman Brothers Band on Thursday, Nov. 1. After hundreds of concerts, I still consider that Allman Brothers show my all-time favorite.
Remember when we could actually afford concerts. I graduated high-school in 74, I could pay for a great concert with my babysitting money.
R. E. S. P. E. C. T.
Wow Michael,
How awesome/ great memories.👍👍👍
I'm so jealous 😫 I could spit!!!
May 30 1969, I was 21 and saw the Allman Brothers at the Boston Tea Party 6 months before the release of their debut album. They were the opening act for the Velvet Underground and just blew everyone away.
August 17, 1971 The last time I saw them play with Duane Allman at the Boston Common. He had his fatal motorcycle accident 2 1/2 months later.
In my 75 years I've seen a lot of great bands, but in my opinion none played tighter than the Allman Brothers.
This type of music is gone and probably never coming back. This is pure, raw talent. I don’t know how this has been replaced by the generic, cookie cutter garbage out today. These guys were artists.
Gone from clear channel yes but not from my playlist
Dickie Betts could pick
Try searching for it. Marcus King is damn good
Great comment.
you every listen to Marcus King the Tedeschi Trucks Band, there are a lot of good bands like this today.
Dickey Betts wrote, sang and played lead guitar 🎸 on this song. Sadly Duane Allman had already left this world way too soon. Blue Sky is an incredible song that ya gotta hear soon ✌️
Yes definitely Blue Sky also Melissa and One Way Out!
I agree about Blue Sky as well. Can you explain why they have not reacted to THE OUTLAWS yet? Seems like an obvious omission.
Absolutely, Blue Sky must reviewed by this duo. I love me some Allmans!
They did it!
@@inkoinfinity2 Thanks, I missed it. Still no OUTLAWS. Very strange they have not reacted yet. I am wondering now if they are intentionally avoiding THE OUTLAWS. For some reason. At this point, I think it would be anti-climatic. Also, I am starting to get old.
This is the magic of music when it is pure. It takes you somewhere, it introduces you to someone, and it jams.
When I hear this song, all I can think of is me as a 6 yr old driving with my dad singing this. Miss him terribly. Thx for this.
This was one of their early hits. They were huge back in the day. It's easy to get hooked on the Allman Brothers. Blues + Country + Rock + a little gospel = Southern Rock. Do "Whipping Post" and "Midnight Rider"
Two great and, in my opinion, underrated guitarists in the Allman Bros - Dwayne Allman and Dickey Betts. Those guys could make those strings zing! Cheers....
Duane Allman had died before this song was recorded so it was Dickie Betts and Les Dudek, another great Southern Rock guitarslinger, who traded licks on "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica".
@@coinneachmaclellan3121 yeah, RIP Duane. Just wanted him remembered for what he was - a great guitarist. Cheers....
anybody who underrates Duane and Dickey is a moron, deserving open contempt. Any guitarist or anybody who knows music know or rock history knows how good Duane was on slide and how good Dickey's playing is.
What about Hughie Thomasson and Billy Jones of THE OUTLAWS?
Duane was not underrated...my goodness, he's been considered near the top for 50 years...and he's been gone that long. Dickey appears in the top 100, though maybe not as high as I think he should be.
"They're always havin' a good time down on the Bayou, oh Lord, them Delta women think the world of me"...I've always LOVED that line!! And just like the Grateful Dead, 2 drummers didn't hurt!
Ditto man, what great lyrics
It was great to be young following these guys as a teen, with all their positive vibes and high energy ! This song was on “Brothers and Sisters” album which decently followed up the more epic “Eat A Peach”. Saw them in 72’& 74’ and was so impressed !
I sang this as a duet years ago with a little cover band here in Texas. It was funny EVERYONE knew this song! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤘🏻✌🏻
I had the pleasure of the seeing the Brothers a half dozen times or so, back in the late 70s and 80s and they never failed to absolutely kick ass for a solid 3 hours. Every song turned into extended jam sessions that went on for 10 or 20 minutes of just pure incredible music. The entire crowd just getting high, dancing and vibing with the music. It was a great time to be young.
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Melissa" and "Jessica"!!! "Jessica" is an instrumental!
Yes, yes, yes. Just came here to say the same thing.
And In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed...
Jessica please. Such a great song.
I love “Jessica”, but I once jokingly referred to it as the “go-to song for on-hold music”. 🤪
I love Jessica, best instrumental ever
Most talented band ever,,,,just the guitarists alone over the years....Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Warren Haynes, Jack Pearson, Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks.....amazing.
Dickey Betts. What a musician and songwriter. Wow him Duane & Gregg were so so good.
Before the interstates, Hwy 41 was the N-S route through Georgia. It remains a major route through the state for those of us who don't enjoy droning on for hours at 75 with no interesting places. Sometimes the less traveled route is the best. Ramblin' Man had a great introduction to life.
Warren Haynes, the guitarist is my second cousin, he also co wrote "Two of a Kind Working on a Full House" with Garth Brooks. He has his own band Gov't Mule.
Word has it that Warren’s a great guy, according to a buddy of mine who travelled with the band in 91’ as a photographer. He said W and his wife were the only nice/approachable people, compared to the older members strutting around with their giant egos.
Oh honey, those of us who grew up in the 1960's/1970's/ on into the 1980's - we definitely were lucky in the way of music on the radio!! I can't tell you how many road trips I've been on down to Galveston and wherever else in Texas or over the New Orleans, with the windows down, wind blowing in my hair, and MUSIC LIKE THIS BLASTING FULL VOLUME!! It was SUCH A GOOD PERIOD OF TIME FOR MUSIC!! Wish I would have straight up RECORDED the dang radio! But just took it for granted!!
They were very much a jam band. My stepdad used to go see them play a lot in the early 70's. They were his favorite. I discovered them as a kid because of him. So many great songs.
What makes the Allman Brothers special is their musicianship. You don't do a lot of instrumentals, but it is on full display with "Jessica."
Thanks for this song. I saw The Allman Brothers in 1975 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena just after Cher and Gregg Allman were married. It was an incredible show. I was near the stage up a bit higher and was able to see Cher drunk as hell dancing all night long as the band played. Such wonderful memories of one of the greatest all time bands. Southern Rock at its best
Today I made a comment about going to one of their concerts and being terribly disappointed. It was at the Oakland Coliseum. It seemed to that the whole group was drunk r high on something. My wife and I left early grossed out by the concert and the state of the people around us.
Interesting how people go to the same place at the same time and come away with a completely different perspective.
@@bryanwhitton1784 LOL how old were you when you saw them in Oakland? What year was it? 1975 like the show I went to? Not everyone there was high and out of their mind. Most people smoked a little pot and had a bit of booze and were feeling high but not to where to were out of it. More like very mellow. The 70s were a very mellow decade. Most of us were in our teens or late teens or early 20s up til early 30s. That was the age group and we all partied all the time for concerts and fun stuff we did back then. It was innocent and so fun. Now this world is much different with shit out there like fentanyl.
@@Fritzw75 I was 21 and my wife was 20. We were on the first or second section of the grandstands on the right side of the stage. Are they called grandstands in an indoor arena? Not too far away from the stage. We had seen other groups there at about the same time. As I recall Elton John was one of them. We enjoyed good live performances and as we had never been to an Allman Brothers concert and everyone said they were great we had high expectations for the show. But by the time a short break was given we talked about it and got up to leave. At the time we were both disappointed. But I have been to many concerts where the show wasn't what I cared for. That doesn't mean they weren't good for others. The folks around us seemed to be having a good time. ;-)
As so many have commented, "Jessica" is the Allman to listen to. The ULTIMATE Road Trip song.
We had to wait years for these songs...yall are fortunate to have it all and so fast.
My parents played this, and a few other tapes, all the way from Indiana to California in 1981. I was sitting in the backseat.. of a '74 Impala.. being 6yrs old 😎👍
This song and The Marshall Tucker Band’s Heard It In A Love Song were my driving songs when I was a teenager. You should react to the second one soon.
Can’t be wrong.
One of the greatest live bands in the history of music.
You should really check out "All My Friends". It was a concert held a few years back celebrating Gregg Allman. There was a lot of guests appearances (Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, Eric Church, just to name a few) who helped sing the songs with the Allman brothers band.
One of the greatest sounding live performances you're ever going to hear.
Oh, how the music of the 50s, 60s, 70s, & 80s just gave us great vibes! How many Friday & Saturday nights i remember cruisin' the Strip & the radio station just knew what to play; be it Boston, ELO, Journey, BOC, Rush, Van Halen, Scorpions,.38 Special, Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Kansas, Heart...or the Allman Brothers...man, what great memories. Seeing y'all get the music is so very cool...I enjoy cruisin with you!
Being from Georgia, I've always loved this song. Highway 41 goes right through the town I live in!
Fun fact. I live on hwy 41 in Ga. It used to be the main road north to south before I-75 was completed between Cartersville and Marietta.
The Allman Brothers were formed in Jacksonville Florida just like Lynryd Skynyrd. Then they became based out of Macon Georgia. Duane and Greg were born in Nashville. The other members came mostly from other southern states.. They are a mix of southern rock, country , blues, jazz ,and jam band music. The slide guitar is very prominent in their music and they had two drummers.
Skynyrd were from Gainesville.
You guys were trying to describe them at the beginning of the video but simply put... They are the ultimate jam band.
Great song. Midnight Rider, and Whipping Post should be given a listen to also. Us old people were lucky to be growing up back in the 60s. Because we had such good music back then. And most of us grew up listening to music from big band, country, jazz, soul, blues, rock, and heavy metal. I'm happy to see that you too are growing in your music journey.
One of the most recognizable intros, and now you’ll recognize it too.
When driving on Highway 41 I can't help myself from having this stuck in my head. Dicky Betts who wrote, played guitar, and sang this song is a legend himself among not just southern rockers but has influenced so many others of all genres. The Allman Brothers had a friendly rivalry with Lynyrd Skynyrd as to which was the greatest southern rock band. I've always contended that it depends on the song, but I do lean more towards Skynyrd. Gary Rossington the last original band member of Skynyrd passed away yesterday. Godspeed, Prince Charming.
The brilliance of Dickey Betts' guitar playing is on full display here. Having been one of the original founding members of the band and taking over sole "lead guitar" duties after Duane Allman's death, he redefined the traditional rhythm & lead guitar roles and had them playing harmonies side-by-side instead of different supporting roles. His melodious form of playing is never more evident than on the track "Blue Sky" off their "Eat A Peach" album. He was (I think) twice ranked among Rolling Stone's "Top 100" guitarists. His solo on "Blue Sky" is consistently ranked among the top guitar solos of All Time. Great group and a great, rare, coming together of talents. They were the originators of "Southern Rock".😉 Peace & Love.🕊❤
I knew Greg Allman. Lived in the same small town I grew up in. He would ride around this motorcycle with a giant American flag tied to the back. Really sweet guy. Loved talking about his garden with me whenever I would see him at the gas station. Always had a big smile.
We were so lucky to have been alive in the 60's and 70's.
In high school, we would sing this loud and proud going over the Golden Gate Bridge. This brings me such happy memories, thank you!!
I think that having two drummers was key to the Allman Brothers sound. It gave their music a forward momentum that for other bands had.
They were a blues based band from Jacksonville, Florida. Same as Skynyrd, .38 Special, Tom Petty, Don Felder of the Eagles, and many more. There must be something in that water.
Just want to let you know you guys both bob your heads together at the same time and you can tell that you truly love each other It's awesome
.I traveled and lived all across this country in the 70s and the music that accompanied me was incredible. A lucky bloke I was.
I grew up near Highway 41 (in Indiana) and traveled up and down it many times. Before the interstate system, Highway 41 was a major highway between Miami, FL and the Michigan Upper Peninsula (including going completely through Georgia).
I would like to see you guys do some Canned Heat, I would say they might be one the most underrated bands from back then. Though they have a couple really huge hits that most people know, like (edit) not Dust in the Wind,, but if you listen to some of their blues stuff, my god they are fun.
Rollin' And Tumblin'
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:11
Bullfrog Blues
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
2:20
Evil Is Going On
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
2:24
Catfish Blues
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
6:48
Dust My Broom
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:18
Help Me
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:12
Big Road Blues
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:15
The Story Of My Life
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:43
The Road Song
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:16
Rich Woman
Canned Heat
Canned Heat
3:04
On The Road Again
Canned Heat
Boogie With Canned Heat
4:56
World In A Jug
Canned Heat
Boogie With Canned Heat
3:25
Turpentine Moan
Canned Heat
Boogie With Canned Heat
2:55
Fried Hockey Boogie
Canned Heat
Boogie With Canned Heat
11:08
Pony Blues
Canned Heat
Living The Blues
3:47
My Mistake
Canned Heat
Living The Blues
3:21
Goin' Up The Country
Canned Heat
Living The Blues
2:49
Sugar Bee
Canned Heat
Future Blues (Expanded Edition)
2:39
Let's Work Together
Canned Heat
Future Blues (Expanded Edition)
2:50
Rockin' With The King (feat. Little Richard)
Canned Heat
Historical Figures And Ancient Heads
3:17
I Don't Care What You Tell Me
Canned Heat
Historical Figures And Ancient Heads
3:57
Bagful of Boogie
Canned Heat
One More River To Cross (US Internet Release)
3:35
You Am What You Am
Canned Heat
One More River To Cross (US Internet Release)
4:32
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Canned Heat
One More River To Cross (US Internet Release)
They reacted to Goin' up the Country about six months to a year ago.
@@pewpewpewAK47 I meant more. They also did Bull Frog Blues
I'd really like for them to react to " Fried Hockey Boogie." Jay would really like the bass solo.
Dust in the Wind was by Kansas
I was 11 when this song came out. We had a brand-new school bus that year with a radio...fancy. Our driver played the local rock station. I remember being on the bus when this song came on and that line about being born in the back seat of the bus. I looked back at that back seat in wide eye shock and couldn't imagine! lol. I think about that every time I hear this song. I absolutely love this band. "At Fillmore East" is one of the best live albums of all time. I think you'd like their songs Jessica, One Way Out, and Ain't Wasting Time No More.
This was the first single recorded without Duane Allman. He was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971. Dickey Betts really stepped up in the creative area, after losing Duane.
I was a teenager when this song came out! Always loved this and several other songs by them.
Forgot to mention, Duane Allman was provided slide guitar on the Derek and the Dominoes album and it was beautiful
You really need to check out the Muscle Shoals documentary! For real! It will show you some mind blowing music and bands!
Indeed. I also recommend “The Wrecking Crew” documentary. Good stuff.
Brothers and Sisters...2023 marks the 50th Anniversary. The Road Indeed Goes on Forever.
I used to Jam with Strey Straton one of the keyboard players. That was cool, and a nice dude!!
Great travelling music - as is their JESSICA (one of the best pair of freeway truckin' tunes around). This is called Southern Rock.
Written and song by Dicky Betts, guitar player, also wrote and sang Blue Sky.
Another great band from my home town of Jacksonville! Love you guys😍
You are from Florida and you failed to request they react to the OUTLAWS. Shame on you.
I was 15 when this came out. This and Melissa are my favorite Allman Brothers songs.
I remember sitting in the high school cafeteria in '74, and this tune was playing.
I was rolling down Hwy 41 today! I think of this song every time I'm on that road❤️❤️
I was at a biker gathering in Georgia before Daytona Bike week where I saw the Allman Bros perform. That's how old I am.
The Allman Brothers are great. Always puts me in a good mood!
Unique fact Cher was married to Greg Allman years after her and Sonny divorced. Greg and Cher had a son named Elijah Blu Allman and Elijah was in the video you did of Cher singing “If I could turn back time” he’s the kid playing guitar on stage. Talented guitar player and singer just like his parents.
Toby Keith
"I'll never smoke weed with Willie again". (Video)
With Willie Nelson playing along
I love this song- I think it's the #1 that gets stuck in my head
Don’t miss Blue Sky! I listened to this song over and over and over in 8th grade.❤️
Another fantastic song written by Dickie Betts and featuring his fantastic guitar work. This was a couple of years after Duane's death so Dickie tooth over the main body of guitar work and co-leadership of the Allman Brothers. Betts laid down the main guitar work then came back and overdubbed the slide guitar parts. Hw wrote the song about friends of his in bands that toured Florida back in the day and drew inspiration from a Hank Williams tune of the same name.
Another song that reminds me of being a kid in the 70's traveling in the bed of bed of my uncle's pickup with my cousins out to the California desert to go camping.
The heart that went into southern rock there's nothing like it
I live up in Chicagoland and most of my family lives down in Florida. So whenever we head down there to visit the first song I always play on my phone is the Allman Bros. song Southbound.
I grew up to my dad playing Eat a Peach album every weekend! Such great memories when I hear these dudes jam!😎
I don't have to imagine what it would be like to be young and to here this when it came out .. I remember it very well
Young in the fall in New England on a bright clear day, outside at the Lenox Music Inn, balloons everywhere and Dicky Betts walks out with his guitar and starts pretending to shoot them making the guitar sound like a machine gun, lol, yes I was there!
The first time I saw them was in the early 90s when Dickey Betts was still in the band and they played this! It was phenomenal!!!! ✌️♥️ Always!
Always The Allman Brothers! I could listen to them all day
Another "playlist classic" from the seventies!!! Another band from that era you should check out is THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND. A popular southern rock/country band like the Allman Brothers and even has Lynyrd Skynyrd vibes.!!!! give a listen to "Searching for a Rainbow", "Fire on the Mountain'', or "Can't You See" for starters...
Dicky Betts crushed this song. Yea I was young and free when this came out. Remember driving “Up North” Wisconsin to party at Lake Pokegama ( Native American ) . Saw them live more than once. Milwaukee Summerfest ( worlds largest Music Festival ) was an Epic performance and you could just walk up get a front row 30 minutes prior. These guys were phenomenal Country Rock with a lot of blues in their blood.
This is possibly the greatest driving / road trip song of the '70s. Put this one on the car stereo and try not to race down the interstate, 'cuz troopers are on the lookout. "Yep, this is car 17, we caught another one speeding down the road listening to that Ramblin' Man song."
It was used in the film "Exorcist" as the back ground music in the "bar scene."
One of their best song's...and you don't hear this kinda music anymore
Love it! This one showing up on the jukebox always meant a sing-a-long….loud 🤣
In the 80's Greg was stopped for DUI, speeding, no license twice in Marion Co., Fla. He asked the court if he could play a concert or do a show to reduce some charges I guess. He got a big no back. Rats I would have liked a concert. For a sweet voice "The Commitments - Dark End of the Street" one of my favorite soul voices.
They are a result of when and where they came from and they're own talent.
Cruising music...wind in your hair and sunshine in your face.
One of my first country rock loves. Great memories from listening to a great song.
The Allman Bros. was the first popular Southern Rock, they led the way for Marshall Tucker Band, Skynrd, all of 'em!
Dickey Betts was the other guitarist in the Allman Brothers and carried the band after the untimely death of Duane Allman. Dickey Betts is one of the greatest guitarists. This song gives you a good taste of his talent. Even more is a song off the same album, Jessica. Nothing but music, including great guitar on that one.
'Melissa' ....classic from them as well!
Oh and "Eat A Peach" is a fantastic album too!!! Yessss your thinking what we all thought then too!!😉😍
Hey, Fam.! One important thing to, sort-of, "cement in your understanding" is that:
Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band
are, effectively, "the 2 cornerstones"...2, major, pillars, of what came to be known as:
"Southern Rock."
Skynyrd is, definitely, recognized to be more "leaning in" the "hard rocking" & amped-up heavy blues vibe.
...while, in many ways, The Allmans are recognized & understood to lean a mite more in a "jazz"-influenced direction.
[They, really, became a cornerstone for what came-to-be-called "jam bands" were built out of (although the primary progenitor, -and greatest influence- there, is (and always will be): The Grateful Dead.).]
Both bands (as area major portion of the Southern Rock legends, for some reason!🤷) were born in: Jacksonville, Florida!
[-although most fans associate The Allmans with Georgia (as that is where they moved, and made their home).
...but they were, also, founded in Jacksonville; alongside Skynyrd.]
--This is something-of a unique song for The Allmans, as: it is, without question or argument: more Country music-influenced than, nearly, anything they released (certainly, as SINGLES! -which THIS WAS one of!)!
It is ALSO one of the few songs NOT sung by Gregg Allman.
the lead vocalist, here is, the GREAT, Dickey Betts [guitarist].
This is, also, something of a "tragedy laden" song
(NOT in its CONTENT -or sound- of course! No! ...but in respect to the history of the band and what had, just, hit the band, over the past few years! -- It, really, is something of a miracle that they survived, as a band, AT ALL!).
By the time that this song was released, both Duane Allman and Berry Oakley [R.I.P. 😭😭😭😢😢😭😭😭] were dead.
-they died within a year of one another (almost to the DAY!) and each died at a location that was, some, 🤷🤷10-15 miles from where the otehr had/would perish! 😵💫😵🤯🤯
Insane!-
Duane was gone over a year by the time this song was recorded.
...and, as I recall: this was the LAST thing that bassist, Berry Oakely recorded with the Allman Brothers Band (although it was released months later and he was gone by the time it was released and charted. 😭😭).
-So, as mentioned, already: the lead vocal on this is Dickey Betts.
The song, itself, was written (somewhat) "in tribute" (to some degree) to, the legendary: Hank Williams, who had a song of his own, with the same title ["Ramblin' Man"] and that is where the title came from.
The country-influence is, also, palpable on the song.
...but there is some, deeply bluesy, slide and other guitar jamming, there, at the tail!🤘🤘
Do you have a song that defines you? "Ramblin' Man" is my theme song. I was an Army brat who followed in his dad's footsteps. I was born in West Germany. I went to sixteen schools growing -up. I've lived in 11 States and have moved a total of 38 times in my 54-years. Every time I moved this song was number-one on my playlist.
For some strange reason "Ramblin' Man", and "Jessica" always make my speedometer jump to 80+ miles an hour automatically!
Saw Dickey at a bar in a hotel I was staying at before a Chicago/Abros concert in Md in the mid 80’s … he was drinkin a glass of whiskey… introduced myself to say hello and he invited me to have a drink with him… then he left for the show
Nicest down to earth humble person I ever met
RIP Dickey
He just puts all his family's business out there 😅 love how happy y'all look listening to this
This was me on the bedroom floor playing this 45 nonstop.
1974, Senior in High School, waiting for Psychology class to start, radio playing Ramblin Man, everyone playing air guitar to Dickey Betts. Great memories
One of my all time favorite songs!!!
Amen I agree with you saw them live five times. All of them original band
And that, everybody is how babies are made. 😂 🔥🤘🏼❤️
So cool to see a new generation get it
THIS WAS THEIR HUGE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS FOR A SONG IN THE 70'S YOU GUYS! 😊
Probably my favorite song of theirs,,,💥💥💥👍😎