Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium Reaction
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No cell phones. Or bras. What a time to be alive!
@Turd Ferguson
😂😂😂
@@BritPopsReact If you don't know the reference, RUclips it. It's quite funny.
Sunscreen hadn't been invented yet either. You can tell by some of those girls!
It was wonderful!!
…nor too much makeup, very few tattoos, etc. You could see their natural youthful beauty. If being as old as I am allowed me to live in that time, seeing bands like this, it has been worth it.
The Holy Grail of Southern Rock. As a Florida girl next to Jacksonville I couldn't be more proud or love my boys more. One of the greatest guitar solos of all time. 👏👏👏
Jacksonville's finest
Yes ma’am
Saw them last week at the Amp in St. A!
Just a great American piece of music, we have so many talented musicians from all around our nation and it always makes me feel good to recognize just how awesome our music scene is/was. There’s insane talent of all creeds, colors and races here in the states. It’s a beautiful thing
The Alan Collins guitar solo is to die for.
Alan was so under-rated. He was a great guitar player, but had such a tragic life.
Best solo ever! ✌️
Please remember there is no pure solo in it
He wrote it
I graduated in 78. We had no idea how spoiled we were musically. We experienced the greatest rock as it was being created and so much diversity as well as talent.
Same here and in our central Illinois high school even though we had the British bands Nobody was bigger than Skynerd and Alice Cooper
1976 here. We did grow up listening to absolutely fantastic music.
Same, graduated in 82 and took all of this for granted.
77 Doraville Ga.
Born in 78 wish I could have experienced this live!
What rock n roll used to be like. Very few bands are still rocking like this today.
The 70s and really, the late 70s is when rock and roll reached its zenith.
This audience waited pretty patiently for the guitar solo. Everyone of them knew what was coming!
This was only 3 1/2 months before the plane crash.
They were still extremely successful, which is amazing in its own right.
His brother Donny VanZant was in the band 38 Special, they are also worth checking out.
One album wasn’t released until they died. Recorded at Muscle Shoals.
As a old Florida boy, I grew up with Lynyrd Skynyrd before they hit the big time. What a great time to be alive. Southern rock was at its peak. Sure miss that time of my life. A much simpler era that kids today will never experience.
Grew up in New Zealand with dad playing Skynyrd all the time, i was born in 2001 so never got to see the real band but the OG band is my fav band of all time. 👍
So proud you are listening to some of the greatest music in history!!! Those of us that grew up with this music in the 60s and 70s still listen to this today, I am 66 years old and still rock to it.
All time best guitar solos of all time . Number one no others comes close .
This is such a great song. Everyone in the crowd knows what is coming soon yet the slow beginning is so good that the people don't mind waiting for that banger ending.
Hmmm I'm the odd man out. I wait for Billy Powell's utter beautiful piano solo
Great southern rock band from the 60's-80's. It is very sad what happened to this band in losing so many members in a plane crash. My favorite songs are "Simple Man", "Free Bird" & "Sweet Home Alabama". They had lots of great songs such as "Call Me The Breeze", "I Know A Little", "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew", "What's Your Name", "That Smell", "Gimme Three Steps", "Tuesday's Gone" etc.
@Dagmar S
Cheers Dagmar thanks for the great information
I really liked every live version of Free Bird, but I also like "Give Me 3 Steps" and "Tuesday's Gone."
Lynyrd Skynyrd one of the greatest rock band ever! Great choice and reaction! You should react to one of their less known songs , my suggestion is "Cry For The Bad Man" live in Winterland, great lyrics! Ciao
This song is one of my favorite all time songs! It truly became an anthem, and after the plane crash, the words, "if I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me," became even more powerful. You are as free as a bird now -- RIP boys. ❤
I had tickets to see them in Florida on this tour. I had just bought the Street Survivers album, the one with the fire in the background... Then their plane crashed, the album cover was changed, and this song will remain my favorite song until I leave this earth. I'm 59 turning 60 this year (2024)... It's been my absolute pleasure sharing this gem with you guys tonight. I'm American, from Florida. 😊 Much Love! ❤
The sweet sweet sounds of the 3 Guitar Army
That’s Allen Collins on guitar. He is the one wearing white. Gary Rossington on slide and Steve Gaines on 3rd lead.
@Kevin Davis
Cheers for the info Kevin,
Leon Wilkeson on bass
The greatest break up song ever! He ends the relationship gently, then, as he leaves, it picks up the tempo. Once he's free of her, he SOARS AND SOARS, AND SOARS 🦅
I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1976 at the Houston Music Colliseum and it was absolutely phenomenal. Best concert I’ve ever been to and I saw a lot of concerts. I’m 67 years old and still listen to Freebird cranked up loud in the car. Freebird is part of the soundtrack of my life.
There's a video on RUclips of them performing this song at the 1976 Knebworth Festival. That one had a minor scandal. The stage included the Rolling Stones logo, a big jutting tongue, extending out from the stage. All the bands had been told not to walk out onto the tongue, because the Stones were headlining and only they could do it. I don't know if the Stones even knew about it, but the organizers were furious. Of course I don't remember it, but I was a big Lynyrd Skynyrd fan and do remember hearing about Ronnie causing some kind of trouble in England.
Ronnie was determined to blow any other band off the stage. You can see him moving the reluctant guys out on the tongue. Ronnie knew they were great and no one was going to tell him his band could not go out on that tongue.
Southerner here, would you expect anything different from a Southerner? 🤔We all have a bit of the REBEL running thru us. 😎 Rock On Ya’ll!!✌🏻
I was 24 when this came out, the greatest rock song of all time and no better guitar solo than Allen Collins in freebird ❤
The best part? Most of the beautiful women there are grandmas. And the music is timeless.
Ha ha. That was the year I graduated. I wasnt a pretty girl then, but do now have 14 grandkids. So yeah… we’re old now.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lives On!
One of the greatest bands of all time. No one has ever played like them, before or after. Ronnie VanZant was one of the greatest song writers of all time. Its impossible to tell how much great music we lost because of that plane crash. Not to mention those three guys could play the guitar like no bodies business.
It was such a great time to live through. So many great bands back then.
Me and about 60,000 other people there that day. The Day on the Green concerts were awesome.
The Knebworth festival concert in 1976 is a good one to watch. They opened for the Rolling Stones.
And completely blew away the crowd (and intimidated the Stones supposedly - Mick was supposed to have said "how the hell are we supposed to follow THAT?" They did it to The Who also in 1973 - The Who dropped them as their opening act halfway through their tour bc the crowds kept yelling for more Skynyrd. They were an incredibly talented band and monsters live.
The Stones had to play the longest set they had ever played to Try not to get blown off the stage
I was 17 when this live version was recorded. Back when you bought an album, played the crap out of it, learned the song by moving the needle back once you learned a line. The best of times!
Rip Steve, Cassie, Ronnie, and Dean. You will never be forgotten!
One of the greatest southern rock songs of all time. I love the reactions of those who've never heard this and have no idea. They start off thinking it's going to be just a slow ballad and then the doors are blown off with one of, if not the greatest guitar solos ever
Love this band…a great time 1977 summer going to be a senior in high school ❤️🤗 living in the south .
On Skynyrd's first live album, 1976's One More from the Road, Van Zant can be heard asking the crowd, "What song is it you wanna hear?" The calls for "Free Bird" led into a fourteen-and-a-half-minute rendition of the song. It has become something of a humorous tradition for audience members at concerts to shout "Free Bird!" as a request to hear the song, regardless of the performer or style of music.[9] For example, during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show, a shout-out for "Free Bird!" eventually resulted in a lyrically slurred, if short, rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama". In 2016, an attendee of a Bob Dylan concert in Berkeley, California, shouted for "Free Bird" to be played, and Dylan and his band unexpectedly obliged.[21]
Imagine a world where every band knew Free Bird and could play it on a moment’s notice.
I prefer their performance in knebworth UK
When I was growing up in the 70s, the joke at live concerts, no matter what the band, when they asked the audience to make requests, was to shout “Freebird!”
I was living in Oakland at the time, about 6 blocks or so from the Oakland Coliseum where this was held. This was what was called the ":Day on the Green Concert Series". Each week, on Saturdays and Sundays, Bill Graham would host/hold these mega concerts where 5-6 major bands would play from 10:00am to late in the day. It was awesome, but unfortunately, I attended the concert the following week, and will forever kick myself in the ass over it, because I was asked to go to this one and I decided against it. Anyway, the sad news is, as you already know, this was done in the 1st week in July (07-02-1977), but that fatal plane crash you were talking about that killed and maimed so many, took place that fall on October 20, 1977. So, this was probably the last great concert they did, or at least the last one that was filmed ... and I freaking missed it ... "I coulda been a contender".
@Steve Wilkins
Timing is everything, but at least you were closer than most of us.
You have a great day
@@BritPopsReact Yeah, but it would have been historic ... to me 😕, darn it. I really had nothing to complain about though ... hell, I lived in Oakland California, at a time BEFORE they screwed it up. I don't remember what I did instead, but I was really busy living the life back then, so I'm sure it was fun and exciting😉😊😁😎.
Thanx for the response though ... that was really cool 😎 to see.
Nobody had it as good as the Bay Area for concerts in the 70s-90s. Bill Graham took care of us.
@@Kire2112 Yeah he sure did 👍😊😁!!!
There are only 3 of the original members of Skynyrd who are still alive. Gary Rossington (playing the slide guitar in this video) plays with the current Skynyrd lineup (I, as a lifelong Skynyrd fan, consider them to be just a Skynyrd cover band), Artemis Pyle (drummer on this video) who plays in his band, The Artemis Pyle Band, and is currently recording an all star tribute album of Skynyrd songs with Sammy Hagar, Warren Haynes, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Dunn, Billy Ray Cyrus, and others, to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Skynyrd plane crash which happened 45 years ago this past October, and Leslie Hawkins, the only backup singer of The Honkettes, Skynyrd's female backup vocalists, that is still alive.
Gary and Artimus are the only pre-crash members still alive unless you're counting Ricky Medlocke who played with them as a drummer pre-fame and joined as a guitarist in the 90's.
Shit. That was a deep dive doob.
@@bloppysloppy2283 Leslie Hawkins was one of the 3 Honkettes. Cassie Gaines died in the plane crash, along with her brother Steve, Ronnie Van Zant, Dean Kilpatrick, and the 2 pilots, and Jo Jo Billingsley died back in 2010. Leslie, Cassie, and JoJo were all pre crash members of the band.
@@davemcbroom695 not really 😂 I was born and raised in Florida and have been a lifelong Skynyrd fan since I first heard the Pronounced album back in '73. 🤘✌️
@@doobiedave9686 I forgot about the backup singers.
It was hot AF AND LS wasn’t even the headliner, Peter Frampton was. Santana and The Outlaws also performed that day.
On October 20, 1977 the plane in which Lynyrd Skynyrd was flying in crashed. Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist and founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist and vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, Captain Walter McCreary and First Officer John Gray all died as a result of the crash, while twenty others survived. Lynyrd Skynyrd's performances abruptly ended until Van Zant's brother Johnny recreated the band ten years later.
So nice to read comments when people actually know what they're talking about. Appreciate you whoever you are . Skynyrd was and still is my favorite band ever .
@PgPgDn
Cheers and thanks for the great information.
Ricky Medlock nor Ed King were on the stage that day. Allen Collins, Steve Gaines, and Gary Rossignol were the guitar players with Leon Wilkeson on bass. Artimus Pyle on drums, Billy Powell on piano. Ronnie was the vocalist. Ronnie, Steve, and Cassie (Steve's sister and back up singer) were killed in the crash.
I like the observation ... "there's a lot of women there" 🤤👍🏽
Our beautiful sun kissed California Girls, I was at the show in Anaheim a few days earlier, so basically the same show
What a magical experience and sadly just 52 days before the plane crash that took the lives of 3 band members
Still an American band for the ages, great heartfelt, honest , straightforward Southern Fried Rock n Roll 👍🏽✌🏽
A few things... there were 3 guitars and a bass, The Chain came out after this song was recorded, and Ronnie VZ was the brain and soul of this band.
Haha! You guys are so reserved and so British!
That we are Gary
@@BritPopsReact Actually, I am Mrs. Gary, I just dont know how to change it. Gary was born in England, came here at age 9, but stayed British to the end.
My twin boys were born in Nov of that year! Now they’re the old farts, which makes me a dinosaur!
I’ve always loved this piece!
lynyrd skynyrd:
god: this is why i created humans!
The pianist Billy Powell had been the bands roadie and overheard the band trying to work out an intro to Free Bird. He told lrad singer Ronny Van Zant it needed a piano intro. Ronny asked if he knew anyone who played piano. With that Billy sat down and played the intro we hear in this version. Ronny said, well just great, now we have to find a new roadie. With that Billy Powell became the bands pianist.
Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie were both killed in the plane crash. Cassie was a back up singer in the band and had recommended to let Steve tryout for Skynyrd. Also, 2 years later their mother also named Cassie was killed in a car accident near the cemetery where Steve and Cassie are buried.
Freebird was like US history's most requested cover song from the fans at the dance halls ....to the point where it became one of the 1st memes you could sayFreebird was like US history's most requested covers song from the fans and the dance hall crowd... Near the end of the night it was the song to try to get lucky with some strange girl.... Requested to the point where it became one of the 1st memes, you could say
Southern Rock is a rabbit hole well worth going down. Allman Bros. Whipping Post
Just think .. they'll all be great grannies now .....Life is just not fair ..😊
Grew up in 70s listening to the music choices of my teenage siblings and we rocked out listening to the 8 track going back and forth to school. 70s was greatest decade for best music ever made!
That's Allen Collins on the explorer guitar,medlocke waa in Blackfoot,then in skynyrd later
Frampton was the headliner women came to see him got sold on Skynyrd!
I turned 15 the day Street Survivors came out. 3 days later, October 20, 1977, tragedy struck. I am glad that I was alive when the greatest music in history was brand new. Pay attention to the tall guy in white. That's the late great Allen Collins. This is HIS song. He asked a girlfriend one time "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?
Grand funk railroad. Inside looking out live. You wont be dissapointed 🤘❤️ i swear on a box of tea🤔
Every time me and my friends are at an encore at a concert we yell out Freebird. The Live Atlanta Georgia show had him ask the audience “what song do you want to hear?” Everyone yells FREEBIRD. This is thier Stairway!🎸😎
Guy's, all the girls were there because Peter Frampton was the headliner for the concert, not long after the album Frampton Comes Alive was released. For the second date of this line up on July 4th Skynyrd wasn't allowed to play Freebird because Frampton said he wouldn't perform if they did. The crowd was so drained after the July 2nd Skynyrd show that the Frampton performance was a let down and some people actually left before the end of Frampton's performance.
Ronnie VanZant was known for really promoting his band. In 1976 as an opening act for the Rolling Stones he had the guitar players move out on to the tongue section of the stage during the Freebird finally. That section of stage was suppose to be for Mick Jagger; ONLY! Ronnie knew it, but his motto was make the crowd remember you when they see the show.
This show does not have the passion of Knebworth because at this date ,July 2 1977 , they were bursting with the desire to unleash all the new hits from the LP Street Survivors. The only footage of that is 7/13/1977 at Asbury Pk. New Jersey .
i was there... it was a *VERY* good day....
they were the opening act for both of the Winter brothers' groups...end of day everybody was onstage jammin'
I would have loved to been there I'm so jelly
My favorite song of all time
Probably one of the best guitar solo breakdowns in history, outside of Pink Floyd's at Pulse during Comfortably Numb.
Hey this is a great song to listen to driving down the interstate. Crank it up and just soar. ❤😊
Southern Rock at its finest.
Allen Collins is the guitarist here playing the Explorer not Rickey Medlocke just saying
My parents had every classic rock record known to man! Everything from The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Steve Miller Band to Lynyrd Skynyrd which was played on a regular basis. Yes I love other genres. But nothing will ever compare to the iconic bands I grew up listening to.
I live 40 miles from the plane crash. Ran out of gas. RIP. Such talent!
There aren’t really any other influences because they were the influencers. I this is a quintessential American song.
Lynyrd Skynyrd had a rehearsal space in Florida called the cabin. No ac, no heat. Next to a river. They would work out the songs in this space so well they only needed one or two takes to record it in the studio.
There’s a story where the band had to go outside to the river to get Ronnie to record his vocals because he was out there fishing.
The cabin where they rehearsed was called Hell House. It was hot. The band members used to take turns spending the night there because their equipment would get ripped off. Ed King said that it was scary and miserable being alone there at night.
I consider myself blessed to have seen this band in April of 77. I was 16, LS was my favorite band at the time and it was my first rock concert. How terribly sad we all were that fall when the band met tragedy. I subbed, good reaction, looking forward to watching your work.
The plane crash did not kill most of the band. The lead singer, one of the guitar players and his sister who was a backup singer, an assistant manager, and the 2 pilots lost their lives. Miraculously about 20 people survived the crash. Sad day for for all!
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There is a third vanzant brother you might know his a the lead singer for 38 special
"It's loud". It's Rock & Roll buddy! 😁
3 guitars, a bass, piano, drums, and of course, Ronnie's voice.
Saw them live in 77. Full blown riot, 100 cops, Free Bird going, band undaunted, rocking like madmen.
The Majority of the gals were there to see Peter Frampton. Who was also at that venue that day.
Girls loved PF, I made sure to always have Frampton Comes Alive in my car on every date haha.
Is there anyone in 2022 who would want to see Frampton over Skynyrd?
@@BadgerBJJ I would, I like both but enjoy Frampton more.
@@1BobsYourUncle 🤣
Only one original member Gary Rossington is still alive and in Skynyrd.
Yea put that on sheet for us!
Allen Collins on the main solo, not Medlocke. Medlocke was with Blackfoot at this time, he took over the Collins parts years later.
If anything is the other way around, Fleetwood Mac sounds like them by the way there weren’t four guitars. Technically, there were three guitars and one bass guitar.
You should watch freebird in knebworth U.K, great story behind it after being snubbed by Mick jagger and told to stay tf off the stones tounge on stage .
The Rolling Stones passed out wondering how the heck this happened. A warm up act ? Naw, they were the act. Never to be replaced.
BP1 gets a pass here, because he is from the UK--and his age, too. But if you were from the US and did not know this song, I would ask you from what planet your recently arrived. The scene looks familiar--sun, young people, musicians who can play their instruments, vocals not autotuned, nor is singer dancing or surrounded by some effing dancers. Sheesh, we had it good then, Ja?
Check out Freebird at Knebworth when they walked on Rolling Stones stage.
Ronnie was not gonna let Mick tell him what to do. Celebrity Death Match: Stones vs. LS. We know who would have won that fight. 😂
Yep, we did like our guitar solos back then, and drums too. Peace from Ohio …
They did 3 nights in ATL in 1976. I was at all 3 shows at the iconic Fox Theatre. Those 3 shows ended up being thier live album One For The Road. Had to be thier best 3 shows I ever saw them do. They tore it up every night.
More like grandma and grandpa. I'm 62 now. I was 16 then. What a great time to be young and alive!
There is a reason still at most concerts in the south big or small somebody will yell FreeeeeeBird!!!!! 50 years later.
A lot of girls were there because we loved rock and the the incredible musicians who delivered it. They were the bad boys your mother warned you about and irresistible.
The audience knew what was coming!!! Just think, they are all grandparents now. They sure knew how to rock.
It was Awesome I was there.
Nice review. You should have let play to the end. Dudes are passin' a doob.
Good old boys from Florida
Medlocke is not in this performance. He came in much later in the tribute band after the plane crash that killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines (guitarist)and his sister Cassie Gaines (backing vocals).
Alan Collins scorching guitar solo rocks. Steve Gaines and Gary Rossington chimed in too
I was just looking but cannot find if you have reacted to the absolute GOAT of guitar soloists, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN Texas Flood at El Mocambo, It WILL BLOW YOUR MINDS!!!
@Jack Edwards
Hi Jack and thanks for the recommendation.
We do know of Stevie but we will be sure to put some on the channel and we have never really seen anything live from him.
Stay tuned and thanks for checking out the channel.
Cheers
The thing about Skynyrd is they had three great guitarists and used them all. Each got their chances to shine. Notice how Rossington is the focus for the beginning, but then he fades back to allow Collins and Gaines to have the spotlight for the second half. They do this on other songs as well, but with different order. And besides the guitars, they also give plenty of spotlight to the keyboards.
Ron's brother was the singer for 38 special
15:20 is how to guitar gods looks like, and the are majestic
3members of the band were killed in a plane he following September including the lead singer Ronnie Van zany, Steve Gaines in the white shirt his sister Cassie Gaines backup singer along with road manger and the pilots
All those pretty girls are now grandma's now 😮
Dang I was in high school at this point
We love you guys and your reactions.
@Arthur Jackson
Thanks Arthur, we appreciate it.
Check out same song at Knebworth in 76
(Stones top of the bill)
The plane crash was 10/20/77 I saw their last concert the night before the plane crash in Greenville SC on the 19th
No, Rickey medlocke was not in this concert the one dressed in white is Allen Collins