My Dad was at this concert. He’s 66.. I wasn’t born until well into the 80s but one thing I’ll always carry with me is my Dads taste in music. Several Skynyrds songs never leave my playlist.
@@Scorpiobwmy dad was exactly the same. a lot of nostalgia in songs like this for me as i’m sure it’s the same for you. i was born in 2000 but my dad was born in ‘64. i’m so glad he showed me real music that was made from a deep place inside. stuff like this is very hard to find today, damn near impossible. same goes for concerts. the last great one in my opinion was woodstock ‘99.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Let's hope that's still the case in 3069 and beyond and even more importantly that this will be playing in some club up in Heaven in the afterlife, with Skynyrd as the headliners --- let's hope that great music isn't the only thing that lives forever!
My dad was at this show. I think about him in the crowd and look for him every time I watch this. I miss my dad. He’s up there with Ronnie Van Zant. Dang Ronnie was a special special person and a big loss. All the good rock songs remind me of so many memories. It will never be like that again, young and feeling so alive with the best music EVER!!!
RIP Gary Rossington. Haunting to know all the guys on the front of that stage, hair flowing in the wind, in their prime are now all freebirds. Thanks for all the great music.
@@strandalx what he’s saying is everyone at the front of the stage all 3 guitar players, the bass player, and singer are all gone now… not hard to understand if you take more than 3 seconds to read what he said. The only memeber still alive in this lineup is the drummer.
@@troylovette6911 yeah, that comment actually made me cry, and i don't cry. i saw this stadium show in 76 at RFK. was fucking spiritual. dreary day, they came out for an encore and the sky opened up and the sun shown threw was magical....spiritual...
Heard this song a million times, but something about this live version, seeing these guys perform it. All gone now. Just chills all over when they hit the chorus. Feels more human than anything else.
Freebird was first song I heard after my husband passed suddenly in 1975. He was 27. This song never fails to send me back to those emotional days. I'm 75 now and this song still tears me up in so many ways. Peace 🌞🙏🕊🕊🕊🇺🇸
1977, I’m 15 listening to these fellas from Jacksonville Fl. rocking hardcore. Now I’m 63 and playing this song more today than I did back then. Pretty girls, killer music, long hair, bell bottoms and fast cars. What a time to be alive. To everyone from that era I may not know ya but I’m glad you were there.
I'm finally getting to send a comment. 62 yes old . I've very eclectic taste in music, love all types ,styles ....but hands down this song is the top , it gets me every time I hear it I'm actually emotional while listening and typing this . All these years after the tragedy it just gets better , you don't just listen to it , you feel it inside you .
Not sure if thats true with forever, you know, we are right at the begin of going through an anti-Christian age and its unknown of what will remain after that. God bless
Yes it was!! I was there I was 16 in 1977 It was a Hot Day Tons of Ladies and everyone was having a good time !! I still have My Ticket Stub and I even got a Guitar Picks from Steve,Allan and GAry I still have them also ...
My husband just died of cancer. He was 63. I'm 52. He played this for me a month before he died. This is my first time listening to it since he passed. The words mean so much more now...
Similar here Sheena. Husband died July 2018. He was 59 I was 54. This was one of his favorites but I couldn't use it in his funeral because it was too long. I cry every time I play it.
Concerts like this is where the term "Rock Star" was born. No computer help, just talent and ability. Getting an entire stadium jumping up and down, clapping hands and singing. This was done pre computer and internet.
I graduated from high school in 1977. This song was the anthem of my generation. Yes I'm a boomer, and an old man now - but this one still gives me goosebumps - still gets me up, singing and playing the air guitar. Jesus this was such a great time.
I’ve watched this video many times. For some reason I got emotional this morning watching it. I miss these days. The world was so much simpler. Today’s world is full of so much hate. People pitted against one another. I wish we could go back. It just made me tear up thinking about it. You can literally feel the happiness in the crowd.
@@mtns340 Concerts are way to expensive these days. I’m just not going to pay $150 a person to watch a band from the nose bleed section. When I started going in the early 80s they were only $11-12 a person. Besides the old bands are just a shell of their former selves and there hasn’t been any “new” band worth listening to since the 90s. I was really into music and going to concerts back in the day. Literally hundreds of shows and I still have my concert Tshirts to show for it but at my age now , I’d rather be at home at 11:00 at night and not driving two hours to get home.
The audience is very one toned, I’m sure they were happy. Not sure about people of other colors. Life is never simple. It’s a concert for a few hours , then you go back to fighting over the credit card balance, in laws and whatever.there was and will never be a simpler time in history.
Yesterday I watched my Mom tell my Dad goodbye by for the last time. They loved music and going to concerts so I asked the medical staff if it was ok to turn on music. They approved so I started 70’s rock station on pandora. This was the first song to play and as soon my mom heard the song she looked up and said this was our song when we first started to date back in the 70’s. They removed life support at that time and my dad passed as the song ended. What a moment to experience. Freebird will be forever etched in my heart 🥺🤘🏽❤️
That is powerful Antonio, and although it took place during a very emotionally sad moment, that was beautiful. I've requested an informal laid-back gathering for my funeral, and with that request I have also asked for this live version of "Free Bird" to be played in closing. Btw, I'm also Antonio. Just know that your Father is in eternal peace with the love of our dear Lord. Many blessings to you, your Mother and the rest of your family.
I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I was there with my best bud Mark. Up near the fence. Almost didn't go because I was asked to work that Saturday. Called in sick and went anyway. A few month later the plane crashed. A couple of years later Mark was killed by a drunk driver. It is absolutely true when you get older your real regrets are for what you didn't do. SOOOO glad I blew off work to see this. So glad this is available. Can't watch without tearing up because it brings back so many great memories. Good times!!!
My mother's favorite song ❤️ she is a angel now we we love an miss you mom! 😘❤️😊😢 She died yesterday at 12:35 she was the greatest woman in my life ❤ October 11,2024 bless your soul mom😢❤
Sorry for your loss man, her memory will live on and this song will never be forgotten for many Lynyrd Skynyrd fans like us, including your mother as well, for she's free as a bird now 🥲💔🕊️
I love how this song does a slow burn for the first 6 minutes or so, slowly increasing in tempo until it hits a crescendo that just keeps going for another 5 minutes. Amazing. It's one of the best rock-n-roll songs ever recorded, and it's iconic for a good reason.
@@jeffk464I don't think the place matters much, but the setting. This genre of music is often listened to by those who have those flags, not surprising. Not all of course.
@My next shot won't miss What are you talking about? Neither Texas nor Tennessee (and I say this as a Tennesseean myself) really had a battle flag, or at least one that resembled the Confederate Jack. The Army of Tennessee, which was.. a Confederate army, used what we know as the Confederate battle flag, but this is mostly because a majority of the Confederate armies used the same flag, which was designed and used by the Confederates in 1861. It is literally the Confederate battle flag, no sugarcoating. It was designed first by William Porcher Miles, a Confederate politician, at the request of General Beauregard, to be used as the nationwide battle flag, "entirely different from any State or Federal flag". (verbatim) It wasn't used for a while on a Confederacy-wide level, but it was used as the battle flag by General Lee in the army of South Carolina until it was eventually accepted on the national level later in the Civil War, hence why the Army of Tennessee used it. I don't know where you got anything about a Texas battle flag because such a thing never existed. The closest thing would be the flags flown during the Texas Revolution but those are of course not even remotely close to the Confederate Jack, it's a solid 40 years or so before the Civil War even started. Apparently the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment used the Confederate Jack during the war (albeit on a white background, looks pretty nice aesthetically actually) but just like the Army of Tennessee, it did so because it was national standard. The flag isn't seen as a bad thing here because this is a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. Most attendees are probably southerners or people familiar with southern culture, who know that Confederate flags are a symbol of our heritage and culture more often than an actual endorsement of the Confederacy. It's quite strange now that I think about it because you don't exactly hang the flag of the Third Reich in Germany as a symbol of culture, but the south works in weird ways.
Thank you, Gary, for everything you brought to the unique and powerful sound of southern rock. May you rest in peace. Duane, Hughie, Billy, Allen, Steve have a place at the table set for you.
What an artist! I love hearing all of this. Rip Gary and thank you for the magic of your words. I'm a senior lady now and hearing his music takes me way back in time.
This was my dad's favorite band, and favorite song. Ever since I could remember, he wanted this to be played at his funeral. And I did. He passed on 11.10.2021. he is a free bird now. The lyrics feel like they were written for me and my dad. I love you, dad! Fly high
I have a list of songs my wife has been told to play at that time. I told her to get some big speakers, put one on each side of my head, crank it up and play them. If no part of me moves, then I'm gone. Freebird is at the top of the list.
The legends might all be gone. But just seeing how many people are still commenting and viewing Skynyrd, their spirit and their music will never die 🦅❤
Takes me back to the 70's and those huge outdoor parties all over the country. We didn't realize what a golden time we were living in. Thanks so much for the reminder. Few groups can approach the greatness of the original Skynyrd. They were awesome in performance and brought us right into the party with them. Where else could we ever find so many people just focused on enjoying the great time together.
Me too. In 1977, I was in my last year in the United States Marine Corps. The 70s were GREAT. I'd go back and stay, even repeat my 4 years in the United States Marine Corps. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
18 yrs old. What I wouldn’t give to be born back then. The future is so damn fucked and everything is in a decline, you guys at least got a taste of something good.
@@noahlinden9641 the 70s were a great time to be a teenager and young adult... I loved it, and I dated a lot of ladies, I mean a lot. I enjoyed my 4 years in the United States Marine Corps 1973 to 1977. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
I'm only 38 but my favorite album when I was around 10 was "Second Helping" my brother always played it when he'd take me snowboarding. I love snowboarding but listening to that album in his Dodge Conquest? (I might not remember the vehicle) with chains on while driving up 410 on our way to Crystal Mountain in Washington state will always be a cherished memory.
To me, this is the definitive "Freebird" video. These guys were giving it all they had! And they were all very talented musicians and entertainers. The southern rock anthem of the 70s!
with stevie on guitar - forgetr about it- ther whole sound is stringer, cleaner, stevie was a master- very very humble, reaspectful - but im telling you - ghe changes everything- witjh stevie - (and ronnie, of course) LS would have elevated to the stratosphere -
All these years later it still gets to me. I was 17 years old when that plane went down. We had just seen them a few months before on Columbus ga. It was the first concert I saw where no one sat down. I’m now soon to be 64 years old and it still breaks my heart. But many thanks to the people that have restored these precious films.
I was thirteen years old at Tate High School, and because of being a Florida band, everyone was grieving the deaths of the band members in the plane crash. Of course some more than others, and out of empathy with fellow students, it became much more collective grieving. It felt like gloom in the hallways between classes, especially in the newer parts of the school.
you were just a kid! i was playing this on a @stereo@ [remember stereo?] in a soulless town in the soulless heart of east london/thames estuary but we got stoned and this was our number one track.. followed by mountain jam or rattus norvegicus. i'm a bit olld for all those marathon hard rock sessions and my darling wife doesn't approve but i still like my music.
I'm 81. So fucking proud and happy that I was part of this generation. Soon I'll be a freebird. "Things just couldn't be the same and this FREEBIRD you'll never tame."
I hear you!! I'm 63 almost 64 and I love listening to this song over and over. I saw them in the late '80's in Indy. They were fabulous even though my BF got mad at me for taking a hit when the guy in front of me offered to share. 😂 This song is a national treasure. Way before everyone got PC about flags etc. They were amazing. Let Freedom ring!!! ❤️🇺🇸💙
You lived during all the great decades you fucking legend. I so wish I was in my 80s and soon to be off this fucking cesspool of a planet. No culture class talent arts love congregation nothing anymore. I'm jealous of your generation.
FUCKING CHRIST! @8:44 WHEN THE MAD HATTER ENTERS THE SHOT, HIS FUCKING HANDS ARE MOVING. ANYONE THAT PLAYS BASS OR EVEN GUITAR CAN TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF CRAMPING AND BLISTERING SOMETHING LIKE THAT WILL DO TO A MANS HAND. FUCK MAN, THIS GUYS HANDS MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS MUST BE LIKE LEATHER. JESUS CHRIST!! LEON WILKESON 🙏
@@Olikiscrazy Too bad about woke wanchors whinging! The atmosphere there was so GREAT, everyone was on a musical HIGH, nobody worried about a flag that represented their home turf!
@@Olikiscrazy Try using your brain. This was a fantastic concert, probably before your time when there were no woke wanchors to whinge about a flag, just enjoy a sunny day and no negative vibes!
Earlier this year, I was in a village in the middle of nowhere in Sweden and a musician outside a cafe was playing this song, that's how powerful it is.
@@nowitsabadtime American music has been playing overseas for a while, my dad's cousin had VHS footage and cassettes of American bands during communist Yugoslavia.
Crazy to think how these young artists would all go down together within a few months of this performance. It makes the song this perfect time capsule of a moment. Gives me chills. Love this song!
Worst part is the plane was a pile of junk,nobody wanted to get on that plane.Ronnie convinced them to,telling them they will get a new plane for the next trip,he told them,when your times up,your times up its fate.and it ended up crashing.such a shame,year I was born
The last original member Gary Rossington died this year. Everyone from this performance (Except drummer Artimus Pyle because he's still here today) is a free bird now.
@@IaintTheHerb "Thanks Boomers"??? WTF is that supposed to mean? If it wasnt for "boomers" as you so insultingly refer to us, that music would never have come to be. Getting damn sick and tired of being insulted for my generation! People try to put us down, just because we got around... Talkin about my generation.. Why don't you all just fade away... we stopped a war, what has your entitled sorry-ass generation done or likely to do? Not much it would seem.
Yes yes so true, Free Bird is soulfull yet so driven in youthfull splendor with symphomic rock Harmonies as this Majestic piece defies time Expresses love and creates inphinite Joy.
I'm from Georgia growing up in the South as A black man. This song and this group represents the South. I know my history. But it was still black and white people who built this country. May not agreed on a lot of things, but shit got done! Meanwhile, Lynard Skynard band was not politicians, they were a band that if you like "MUSIC," THEY PLAYED IT. THANK YOU SKYNARD BAND FOR ALL OF YOUR GOOD MUSIC. WHICH IS STILL IN MY SOUL!! SOUTHERN BORN AND SOUTHERN FED,I'LL BE SOUTHERN TIL IM DEAD!! A FAN!!! 👍✌️👊
I was born and raised and still live in Jacksonville Florida, hometown of Lynard Skynard and my uncles and my aunt went to Robert E Lee High-school with alot of the band and would go listen to them practicing every chance they got and were honestly messed up emotionally for along time after the plane crash and even though they are all gone their music is more popular than it ever has been and they will live on through old recordings and videos like this one for many more years to come, fly high free bird's .... your all deeply loved and missed, may you rock out in heaven
This was our sons favorite songs, we lost him to leukemia at age 22 - grateful for the time we had with him. We know he is in Heaven Flying like a Freebird! We Love this song, many memories...😢
I’m so sorry for your colossal loss, may you seek solace in Jesus or seek comfort and peace knowing you were blessed with your son… gone too soon, 22👣🙏❤️
When 7 top musicians stand on stage and understand each other blindly, a masterpiece like Freebird is created. I am now almost 72 years old and still love this song as much as I did in 1977 when I was 25. I am very grateful to the musicians for giving me so many wonderful hours with their music🎸🎸🎸🎸✌✌❤
So true. Certain bands do it beautifully. These guys are like the E Street band, all so talented individually, but together just off the charts as a group
My parents loved this song and they played a lot of classic rock on our radios, especially the car. We all loved this and even had it play at the end of my wedding. My parents introduced me to some great music (born in the 80s and raised in the 90s). My parents were teens when this was released. Still a favorite of my mom and I (my dad passed away in Nov. 2022). It hits hard, sometimes, this song. I did get to see them in concert somewhere between 10 and 12 years ago, outside, right after an evening thunderstorm. The wind was blowing during this song and there was lightning in the distance--the perfect combo. We had so much fun that evening.
the best part about this is that the only reason they flew that shitty traitor rag is to rope in their white trash fans they wouldn't have otherwise had.
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
I was 17 in 1977 and I have so many memories tied to this song. I was fortunate enough to see this band before their airplane crashed. I was 14. The only reason my parents let me go was because I was with a very nice boy, Rob Link, and his dad or step-dad drove us. I'll never forget the limousine with the band drove in front of us crossing a street, they had to stop at the light. I walked up, they rolled the window down and gave me their bottle of Mateus (wine, I think, I was too young to drink but kept that bottle). What a great memory. I love this song!
This is the first song I learned to play on guitar. I was 12 years old and I learned it by ear. It took me about 18 months. I found out years later that there was 3 guitar players lol! Anyway, I love these people and this entire band and this song is responsible for launching what turned into a 32 year songwriting and recording career. Unfortunately, people died young and it changes things but i am grateful to this band for the incredible music. Some of it is really difficult to play. These guys were all above and beyond top shelf talent and ability. When you play a bunch of a bands songs for over 3 decades you learn a lot about them and their music but what i really struggle with is the profound sadness I feel today. I really liked Gary and every one of them almost like family or something. I could not hold back the tears when I heard Gary passed away and I will never forget the music they wrote and shared with us. I never would have spent over 3 decades writing, recording and playing in a rock band had I not overheard the love in that Atlanta crowd when Ronnie asked that now iconic question: WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR? The rest is history for me as they say. I know we could all probably go on forever here so I will try not to. I feel such a closeness to this band that just grew over the decades and I am profoundly sad to hear that Gary Passed away. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the slide guitar in Freebird. Thank you for making your guitar chirp like a bird. And thank you for playing the songs correctly ALL the time. The talent, ability and professionalism Gary consistently brought to the table rivals anyone and I will never forget him ever. Rest in peace Gary, I wish I could have told you how much you mattered to me and countless others. Well done my good man, I am forever grateful!
So tragic and sad that just over three months later, the plane went down and ended Skynyd. Makes you wonder what else they would have given us. Truly a magical band that still sells their original albums. RIP to all founding members.
@@janetprice85 yeah Janet, I cried too. I worked at Mercedes Benz and I'd listen to the radios while working on them. At first it seemed surreal and when he started saying their names it hit me. I read stories about that plane and Aerosmith turned down flying in it , so it was a stupid decision to take the chance that forever changed a lot of peoples lives. One thing is I get to play their music on my guitar. Peace always.
They're still touring. The spirit of Skynard lives on in the current band. They're as tight as ever. They still live for all the right reasons. They're some of the realest people that exist on the earth.
Rest in Peace, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Larry Junstrom, Bob Burns, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Ed King, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines. Gone but not forgotten.
Yeah, but Ronnie, Van Zandt, Steve, Gaines and Cassie Gaines should have remembered the first three that died in the accident. They should always come first when mentioning what happened to the greatest southern rock band ever.
You can tell that on that stage, they knew they have cemented themselves into Rock History as an American cultural icon. A truly legendary performance.
@@armydlguy Oakland Coliseum. Day on the green. They held concerts every weekend during the summer. I saw the Stones and just about every major rock band during the 70’s. 3 bands performed every concert. Great times!
Lynyrd Skynyrd truly has one of the saddest stories in Rock history. This concert was held about 3 months before the plane crash (plane ran out of fuel and crash-landed in a forested area in Gillsburg) where two of the band members, Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist) and Steve Gaines (guitarist and backing vocalist ), were killed on impact alongside the pilot, co-pilot, Steve's older sister and the Assistant Road Manager. The rest of the band members suffered serious injuries but survived, The lead guitarist Allen Collins (who plays that incredibly legendary guitar solo on this track, accompanied by Gary Rossington playing the rhythm parts) survived the accident only to see his wife die, along with his unborn child, from complications in childbirth. A few years later he suffered a traffic accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend and left him paralysed, without the possibility of playing the guitar ever again on stage. He died in 1990, at the age of 37 from chronic pneumonia, a complication of the paralysis.
Getting old makes me sad at times. Especially watching videos like this. But being young and at the right place at the right time is priceless. All those young people (the ones that are still alive at least) are all old and grey now, but had the time of their lives that day. That part makes me happy.
You're absolutely right growing up at the right time in the right place it is absolutely priceless. We didn't realize how lucky we were at the time, growing up in that generation. Truly priceless, no other generation can or will ever be the same.
I'm right here with ya girl!! I'm 71 and STILL listen to this song all the time, especially while driving in the summer with windows down and FreeBird on blast. Lol, the looks I get seeing a granny rocking out to this iconic forever song.
I have a best friend who has a sister and brother in law living in New camera beach FL. 1970 these guys would play on Saturday nites on the beach!!!! Nobody knew who they were. And the he'll of it was..... It was all free. Just like all the drugs being handed around to the guy standing next to you.
I was at this show, to see the original people in the band was amazing, Allen Collins just blew it up, thanks guys , it was a day I will never forget
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I was there also with some pals of mine. Awesome weather, Rock and Roll all day long, along with the greatest Southern Rock Band ever. I remember they said soft drink containers only, so we filled a gallon jug with 1/2 Vodka and 1/2 Oj. Shedmen
Trips me out to think everyone at this concert are all senior Citizens now😮. I was born in '78 & this was a year before my birth. Pretty cool to think. Grandparents now listen to hard rock & some future grandparents will be listening to hardcore rap 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣
I did I feel so very lucky it was the most awesome thing that I will ever see I can't do any of the jumping anymore like I used to it that concert but I still sing along take care.
Yes of course I was just 11 years old at the time I went with my two older sisters but it's something I will always remember and they sounded so wonderful I do seriously wish you were there though
I'm officially 26 years old listening to this masterpiece. I'm convinced this is the last pedestal to music genius. Learning guitar to reach this eccentric and phenomenal solo. Rip to the men and women lost. Timeless band and wish them the best in the afterlife.
These guys are without a doubt some of the most talented and skilled professional musicians of the 70's they put all they had into their music and it showed. Just a fantastic band!
I missed this one and I'm still kicking myself for it but watching the video is like a high school reunion. Pleasant Hill High School class of '81 is WELL represented! So many faces in the crowd from my yearbook they're impossible to count. Wonder how many of my former classmates are still with us? To the ones we've lost, "fly on freebirds . . ." I will never forget the magical time and place I grew up in. Never to return but always remembered. Go Rams
I'm 65 years old and seeing this reminds me of when I was there when they came to our city! I was 17 and my friends and I were at the edge of the stage and the real thrill was, as they left the stage the 3 guitarists came over and shook our hands!!! I was hated by all my black friends because I was loving this white rock group, but I ignored them and so glad I didn't listen. Thank you so much for this beautiful, great memory!!!💯🎶🎵❤️❤️🐟
Love the music and ignore the hate. I'm 66 and wish I could have seen them live. And yes, THEY HAD 3 Guitarists that made their music f***ing crazy good!!!!
You sound just fine to me, I could understand you perfectly, love the music too. This was the year I graduated HS ‘77 in Oklahoma 🇺🇸. 🇯🇵Peace be with You🇯🇵 😉
Hey mate you don’t need to be proficient in any language to be absorbed by this music. It spoke of a time that was troubled by despite the troubles of the day there was some fantastic people and this group was a standout.
This song has never made me emotional. But after hearing of the passing of Gary, the last surviving original member of the band, I can’t help but get teary eyed. Fly high free bird. 🕊️
Simply the greatest live performance in rock history. Allen Collins is on the Mt. Rushmore of guitarists.And then you combine him with Rossington and Gaines, it’s just insane. Here we are nearly 50 years later, and it’s still one of the most electrifying things I’ve ever seen, and no doubt ever will see.
One of the three greatest live performances. Other two are AC/DC at River Plate doing Thunderstruck and the one watched by a billion people, the 21 minutes when Freddie and Queen ruled the planet at the AIDS concert in Wembley.
Wish I could've been alive to see them. I Thank God I was introduced to music like this but wow, I can only imagine how great it would have been if I was around to enjoy it when it was still fresh and these guys were young.
@99texasrattlesnake99 a few of them will always be young. Especially RVZ, what a frontman, singer and songwriter he was. Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines. Those 3 only had 3 1/2 months left. Now, all but the drummer is gone.
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's a great song. I saw them in concert. They are my favorite. I hope you will find this song comforting when listening to it and having great memories of your friend.
Even more amazing this took place in California and flying a flag that makes modern liberals cry foul about racism and supremacy. The 1970's were truly something, a totally different world and time.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth "liberals"... nothing liberal about those creeps(except the degree of stupidity and ignorance they regularly exhibit) lol leftist lunatics is more like it
the concert was in 1977, today it's 2023, so it's been 46 years, most people there were in their mid 20's so they are at least 65 years of age nowadays. Mind blowing.
I'm 71. Flew to Little Rock to start work with a new company the same weekend of their crash. I was nervous on that plane out of Memphis that weekend. What a band it was and the best live album of all time. Thanks guys peace to you the band is together again, play it pretty Gary
I noticed that, wish I could fucking hear him, I'm gonna have to play this on like a really good speaker one day, see if I can hear it because he was doing a lot more work than the guitarist for a little bit there
I met Leon many years ago at Jax Beach in Jacksonville flat. He was at a beach bar playing with a local band for fun and we had drinks together. He was the nicest guy and so down to earth. If you didn't know who he was you would never guess he was a member of one of the most famous rock bands in history. What a fantastic guy!!!!
@@danecummins2092totally agreed. My dad used to run with the drummer from Molly Hatchet, and he met a few of these guys as well. We actually live down the street from RVZ’s widow, and his daughter, and my brother is friends with RVZ’s granddaughter. They truly were/are Jacksonville’s pride and joy.
Part of the reason why the solo kills is because the drummer and the bassist are driving it along underneath. They are laying down this amazing foundation for the guitarists to build on. Absolute magicians and artists.
Remember what you've seen here and keep the memories alive. Your generation can create new music and pass this along. Introduce others to the music from this era. 👍👊🤘 You have excellent taste!
This is the best version of this song I have ever heard. To say it's "inspired" doesn't begin to describe it. The video is stunning; the band is on fire, feeding off the energy of the crowd. All I want is a blu-ray of the the whole show.
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I'm 95 years old and about to fly free. I Remember this like it was yesterday. Thank you for the memories.
God bless!
god bless america! 😁
You’re not 95
Be happy you heard it brother
We'll all meet in that journey soon enough. God speed to you and I'll see you there tomorrow.
I was at that concert in '77. Now I'm 67 and it seems like yesterday. Thanks for the memories and fly high Free Birds.
My Dad was at this concert. He’s 66.. I wasn’t born until well into the 80s but one thing I’ll always carry with me is my Dads taste in music. Several Skynyrds songs never leave my playlist.
Me to
You were actually there?cool i bet it was amazing 🎸
@@Scorpiobwmy dad was exactly the same. a lot of nostalgia in songs like this for me as i’m sure it’s the same for you. i was born in 2000 but my dad was born in ‘64. i’m so glad he showed me real music that was made from a deep place inside. stuff like this is very hard to find today, damn near impossible. same goes for concerts. the last great one in my opinion was woodstock ‘99.
@@Scorpiobwthat’s right
Almost half a century later and this still jams. Great music never dies
Great music is timeless. In 2069 people will still be jamming to this.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja Let's hope that's still the case in 3069 and beyond and even more importantly that this will be playing in some club up in Heaven in the afterlife, with Skynyrd as the headliners --- let's hope that great music isn't the only thing that lives forever!
I would say it’s the greatest guitar solo of all time.
Yes some are technically better. But this just hits all the right spots
It really never does, all good music must go on because it moves you
southern rock ll never die !!!
My dad was at this show. I think about him in the crowd and look for him every time I watch this. I miss my dad. He’s up there with Ronnie Van Zant. Dang Ronnie was a special special person and a big loss. All the good rock songs remind me of so many memories. It will never be like that again, young and feeling so alive with the best music EVER!!!
RIP Gary Rossington. Haunting to know all the guys on the front of that stage, hair flowing in the wind, in their prime are now all freebirds. Thanks for all the great music.
That's not how he died... it was a heartattack
@@strandalx what he’s saying is everyone at the front of the stage all 3 guitar players, the bass player, and singer are all gone now… not hard to understand if you take more than 3 seconds to read what he said. The only memeber still alive in this lineup is the drummer.
@@troylovette6911 yeah, that comment actually made me cry, and i don't cry. i saw this stadium show in 76 at RFK. was fucking spiritual. dreary day, they came out for an encore and the sky opened up and the sun shown threw was magical....spiritual...
RIP indeed. The Free Bird flies on in Rock and Roll heaven.
@@troylovette6911 Artemus Pyle
This footage is an historical treasure for the ages
Concerts today are nothing like this.
Amazing is quite the understatement @@stevenday9687
@@stevenday9687 Imagine seeing attractive young women in the front row. Nah, that's crazy.
@@SanchoPanza-m8m what’s crazy about that?
@@SanchoPanza-m8m Go to a Sleep Token show and you'll see em
Heard this song a million times, but something about this live version, seeing these guys perform it. All gone now. Just chills all over when they hit the chorus. Feels more human than anything else.
Freebird was first song I heard after my husband passed suddenly in 1975. He was 27. This song never fails to send me back to those emotional days.
I'm 75 now and this song still tears me up in so many ways. Peace 🌞🙏🕊🕊🕊🇺🇸
@@KateBates22zabuCarry On, Sister! 😊😊😊
yep, I'm back again just to keep watching this version!
Brother I hope I make that long. 😮
I come back over and over. It sounds silly but I feel real joy and love and being in touch with mankind. It is a treasure.
1977, I’m 15 listening to these fellas from Jacksonville Fl. rocking hardcore. Now I’m 63 and playing this song more today than I did back then. Pretty girls, killer music, long hair, bell bottoms and fast cars. What a time to be alive. To everyone from that era I may not know ya but I’m glad you were there.
You’re right man
I'm 63 now myself and I never get tired of Freebird. The ultimate anthem of Southern rock & roll. Glad I was alive then!
I'm finally getting to send a comment. 62 yes old . I've very eclectic taste in music, love all types ,styles ....but hands down this song is the top , it gets me every time I hear it I'm actually emotional while listening and typing this . All these years after the tragedy it just gets better , you don't just listen to it , you feel it inside you .
Thanks sweetie that is awesome and you also carol g 💓 11:24 11:25
Killer weed
Every original member of this band has passed away. However, their music, and this performance, will live forever.
I believe Artimus Pyle is still with us.
They lived in a greater time
Artimus isn’t an original member. Bob Burns is the original drummer.
Not sure if thats true with forever, you know, we are right at the begin of going through an anti-Christian age and its unknown of what will remain after that. God bless
@@MenachemRosiOh hell please stop, religion has nothing to do with this whatsoever. It's about the music and nothing else.
It seems so hard to believe that a world like this could even exist. What an amazing time in history.
Yes it was!! I was there I was 16 in 1977 It was a Hot Day Tons of Ladies and everyone was having a good time !! I still have My Ticket Stub and I even got a Guitar Picks from Steve,Allan and GAry I still have them also ...
I was there." Day on the Green"
I love this video. Y’all are lucky to have been there
Before Drumpf or after?
We have lost so much since then.
I'm 82 yrs young and still love this guy singing , long live southern rock . A fan from Queensland Australia
Me too//Texas
Indeed mate!
I’m 24 from Queensland, FNQ! Rock on brother, this music will live forever, fuck the BS they play now! Long love rock n roll ❤
Sadly, RUclips will probably take it down since there's a Confederate flag in it
@@daniel1212ification im in SE qld and have the same taste in music as you man!
I am 60 years old and can say for certainty I have lived thru the greatest era of music.
I agree.
Yes you have 👌
Right there with ya buddy ✌️
In my humble opinion, one of the best rock songs ever made. The message, the guitar solo, the voices, the lyrics...
freeeeeeee birb
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟AGREED
yes
45 Years ago today 10/20/1977 RIP
I agree
I was there!! 20 years old, 67 and still listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd
how wild was it?!?!
Be happy you grew up when you did.
Must have been The most awesome experience ever
God DAMN THEY THREW DOWN BABY. DAMNNNNNN❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Complete insanity 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
My husband just died of cancer. He was 63. I'm 52. He played this for me a month before he died. This is my first time listening to it since he passed. The words mean so much more now...
God bless you .... sorry for your loss Sheena
🙏🙏🙏
Oh Sheena.. I am very sorry.. Hoping this song gives you comfort in your loss.
Similar here Sheena. Husband died July 2018. He was 59 I was 54. This was one of his favorites but I couldn't use it in his funeral because it was too long. I cry every time I play it.
We hear you, little sister.🕊
Concerts like this is where the term "Rock Star" was born. No computer help, just talent and ability. Getting an entire stadium jumping up and down, clapping hands and singing. This was done pre computer and internet.
I graduated from high school in 1977. This song was the anthem of my generation. Yes I'm a boomer, and an old man now - but this one still gives me goosebumps - still gets me up, singing and playing the air guitar. Jesus this was such a great time.
I was 12.
I truely am sick and tired of the 2020's.
I miss the 70's and the 90's
People today have crap music, have no clue how awesome true freedom is. This is but one of the great things about the 70’s, great music!
I’m a teenager right now but I love this song so much and I do the air drums to it
I don’t think a lot of people in my school like this music but I think it rocks
This is not a song but an a call to freedom. Freedom lives forever. You gotta live before you die.
RUclips is so wrong for cutting this song in half for a commercial. They don’t realize what a masterpiece this song is!
Two words: Ad Blocker
For YT alone it is heavenly to not have ads.
Premium you cheap skate
I also wish whoever filmed it kept his camera on the band and not the audience.
@@JustLiveLifeHappy I agree. 11.99 a month is nothing, makes life a lot better.
Ad Blocker, haven't seen an ad in years.
I’ve watched this video many times. For some reason I got emotional this morning watching it. I miss these days. The world was so much simpler. Today’s world is full of so much hate. People pitted against one another. I wish we could go back. It just made me tear up thinking about it. You can literally feel the happiness in the crowd.
70's was a great era for sure.
It was the best time for me. I miss those days too
@@mtns340 Concerts are way to expensive these days. I’m just not going to pay $150 a person to watch a band from the nose bleed section. When I started going in the early 80s they were only $11-12 a person. Besides the old bands are just a shell of their former selves and there hasn’t been any “new” band worth listening to since the 90s. I was really into music and going to concerts back in the day. Literally hundreds of shows and I still have my concert Tshirts to show for it but at my age now , I’d rather be at home at 11:00 at night and not driving two hours to get home.
Look at crowd. Multiculturalism has destroyed the west
The audience is very one toned, I’m sure they were happy. Not sure about people of other colors. Life is never simple. It’s a concert for a few hours , then you go back to fighting over the credit card balance, in laws and whatever.there was and will never be a simpler time in history.
This has to be one of the greatest solos to one of the greatest songs of the one the greatest bands of all of the greatest times! 🤘🏽 🎸
Ronnie Van Zant was absolutely amazing for this song. I am still devastated by the plane crash.
We all are..
its still never really set in.....what a loss!!!.... RIP... all of them
RIP
yeah to bad the lead guitarist got into drugs too
Yesterday I watched my Mom tell my Dad goodbye by for the last time. They loved music and going to concerts so I asked the medical staff if it was ok to turn on music. They approved so I started 70’s rock station on pandora. This was the first song to play and as soon my mom heard the song she looked up and said this was our song when we first started to date back in the 70’s. They removed life support at that time and my dad passed as the song ended. What a moment to experience. Freebird will be forever etched in my heart 🥺🤘🏽❤️
Bro reading your comment gave me goosebumps. So sad but what a legendary way to go out! 😭❤️🤟
That is powerful Antonio, and although it took place during a very emotionally sad moment, that was beautiful.
I've requested an informal laid-back gathering for my funeral, and with that request I have also asked for this live version of "Free Bird" to be played in closing. Btw, I'm also Antonio. Just know that your Father is in eternal peace with the love of our dear Lord. Many blessings to you, your Mother and the rest of your family.
Free bird.
Peace be with you and your mom
I’m sorry for your loss, your dad sounds great
I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I was there with my best bud Mark. Up near the fence. Almost didn't go because I was asked to work that Saturday. Called in sick and went anyway. A few month later the plane crashed. A couple of years later Mark was killed by a drunk driver. It is absolutely true when you get older your real regrets are for what you didn't do. SOOOO glad I blew off work to see this. So glad this is available. Can't watch without tearing up because it brings back so many great memories. Good times!!!
Iucky, lucky you.!!!
RIP Mark.
This song reminds me of my daddy, he was a Vietnam Vet and listened to this music all the time. I am 52 and still listen to it!!!
❤🙏🇺🇸
@@AlyRaeKY🇻🇳
My mother's favorite song ❤️ she is a angel now we we love an miss you mom! 😘❤️😊😢 She died yesterday at 12:35 she was the greatest woman in my life ❤ October 11,2024 bless your soul mom😢❤
Amen!
Sorry for your loss man, her memory will live on and this song will never be forgotten for many Lynyrd Skynyrd fans like us, including your mother as well, for she's free as a bird now 🥲💔🕊️
@lincoln6899🙏🐦🐦🐦🙏🕊🕊🕊🙏 Sending You Good Energy...
Big Prayers For ♥You and Your🤍 Family!!! Tc
Hope you doing okay man.
I love how this song does a slow burn for the first 6 minutes or so, slowly increasing in tempo until it hits a crescendo that just keeps going for another 5 minutes. Amazing. It's one of the best rock-n-roll songs ever recorded, and it's iconic for a good reason.
There will never be another band like them😢
Confederate flags in Oakland, interesting choice.
@@jeffk464I don't think the place matters much, but the setting. This genre of music is often listened to by those who have those flags, not surprising. Not all of course.
@MyNextShotWontMiss Right, because the true Confederate flag is a white flag, lol.
@My next shot won't miss What are you talking about? Neither Texas nor Tennessee (and I say this as a Tennesseean myself) really had a battle flag, or at least one that resembled the Confederate Jack. The Army of Tennessee, which was.. a Confederate army, used what we know as the Confederate battle flag, but this is mostly because a majority of the Confederate armies used the same flag, which was designed and used by the Confederates in 1861. It is literally the Confederate battle flag, no sugarcoating. It was designed first by William Porcher Miles, a Confederate politician, at the request of General Beauregard, to be used as the nationwide battle flag, "entirely different from any State or Federal flag". (verbatim)
It wasn't used for a while on a Confederacy-wide level, but it was used as the battle flag by General Lee in the army of South Carolina until it was eventually accepted on the national level later in the Civil War, hence why the Army of Tennessee used it. I don't know where you got anything about a Texas battle flag because such a thing never existed. The closest thing would be the flags flown during the Texas Revolution but those are of course not even remotely close to the Confederate Jack, it's a solid 40 years or so before the Civil War even started. Apparently the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment used the Confederate Jack during the war (albeit on a white background, looks pretty nice aesthetically actually) but just like the Army of Tennessee, it did so because it was national standard.
The flag isn't seen as a bad thing here because this is a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. Most attendees are probably southerners or people familiar with southern culture, who know that Confederate flags are a symbol of our heritage and culture more often than an actual endorsement of the Confederacy. It's quite strange now that I think about it because you don't exactly hang the flag of the Third Reich in Germany as a symbol of culture, but the south works in weird ways.
Rest easy Gary! Thank you for all the awesome music you gave us.
Thank you, Gary, for everything you brought to the unique and powerful sound of southern rock. May you rest in peace. Duane, Hughie, Billy, Allen, Steve have a place at the table set for you.
What an artist! I love hearing all of this. Rip Gary and thank you for the magic of your words. I'm a senior lady now and hearing his music takes me way back in time.
It's all about Gary now huh... Do you people not remember any other other members
@@kingxiii4680 nope
@@peterwalsh3409and Ronnie van Zant, Ed King
This was my dad's favorite band, and favorite song. Ever since I could remember, he wanted this to be played at his funeral. And I did. He passed on 11.10.2021. he is a free bird now. The lyrics feel like they were written for me and my dad. I love you, dad! Fly high
Meu desejo em meu funeral tocarem essa música. Mas acho difícil pois a quem pedi voou antes de mim. Vooe tranquilo meu filho João Victor
My Daughters have been instructed to play this when I am on the way down to the crem.
F
I have a list of songs my wife has been told to play at that time. I told her to get some big speakers, put one on each side of my head, crank it up and play them. If no part of me moves, then I'm gone. Freebird is at the top of the list.
Rest in piece. Amen.
The legends might all be gone. But just seeing how many people are still commenting and viewing Skynyrd, their spirit and their music will never die 🦅❤
This song really hits hard today. The entire band flying high through heaven. God bless and thank you for the music
The cycle isn't complete yet. Artimus Pyle (the drummer featured here) is still with us.
Takes me back to the 70's and those huge outdoor parties all over the country. We didn't realize what a golden time we were living in. Thanks so much for the reminder. Few groups can approach the greatness of the original Skynyrd. They were awesome in performance and brought us right into the party with them. Where else could we ever find so many people just focused on enjoying the great time together.
I love that we didn't know what a golden time we were living in.....that statement is gold.
everything was free....now young people have to pay to get in an outdoor party. or there are too many noise complaints ,
@@levi_shutup5060 no...its called money hungry
I graduated from HS in 1977. This video takes me right back, feeling the intensity, the love of the music. I'm so lucky to have lived it.
Me too. In 1977, I was in my last year in the United States Marine Corps. The 70s were GREAT. I'd go back and stay, even repeat my 4 years in the United States Marine Corps. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
You lucky fucker😂
18 yrs old. What I wouldn’t give to be born back then. The future is so damn fucked and everything is in a decline, you guys at least got a taste of something good.
@@noahlinden9641 the 70s were a great time to be a teenager and young adult... I loved it, and I dated a lot of ladies, I mean a lot. I enjoyed my 4 years in the United States Marine Corps 1973 to 1977. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant.
I'm only 38 but my favorite album when I was around 10 was "Second Helping" my brother always played it when he'd take me snowboarding. I love snowboarding but listening to that album in his Dodge Conquest? (I might not remember the vehicle) with chains on while driving up 410 on our way to Crystal Mountain in Washington state will always be a cherished memory.
Was there in 77 now 61 and great music never dies rock on....forever a rock n roller!Andrea from Modesto Ca.
To me, this is the definitive "Freebird" video. These guys were giving it all they had! And they were all very talented musicians and entertainers. The southern rock anthem of the 70s!
with stevie on guitar - forgetr about it- ther whole sound is stringer, cleaner, stevie was a master- very very humble, reaspectful - but im telling you - ghe changes everything- witjh stevie - (and ronnie, of course) LS would have elevated to the stratosphere -
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All these years later it still gets to me. I was 17 years old when that plane went down. We had just seen them a few months before on Columbus ga. It was the first concert I saw where no one sat down. I’m now soon to be 64 years old and it still breaks my heart. But many thanks to the people that have restored these precious films.
Same here Just great memories Still listening like i'm seventeen absolutely absolutely beautiful
I was thirteen years old at Tate High School, and because of being a Florida band, everyone was grieving the deaths of the band members in the plane crash. Of course some more than others, and out of empathy with fellow students, it became much more collective grieving. It felt like gloom in the hallways between classes, especially in the newer parts of the school.
you were just a kid! i was playing this on a @stereo@ [remember stereo?] in a soulless town in the soulless heart of east london/thames estuary but we got stoned and this was our number one track.. followed by mountain jam or rattus norvegicus. i'm a bit olld for all those marathon hard rock sessions and my darling wife doesn't approve but i still like my music.
Me too, same age and the news was horribly sad 😞. Never saw them in concert, but wish I had!
I'm 81. So fucking proud and happy that I was part of this generation. Soon I'll be a freebird. "Things just couldn't be the same and this FREEBIRD you'll never tame."
I hear you!! I'm 63 almost 64 and I love listening to this song over and over. I saw them in the late '80's in Indy. They were fabulous even though my BF got mad at me for taking a hit when the guy in front of me offered to share. 😂 This song is a national treasure. Way before everyone got PC about flags etc. They were amazing. Let Freedom ring!!!
❤️🇺🇸💙
Wish I was born in this era I’m only 35 but grew up listening to their music and similar genres.
Stop lying bro
You lived during all the great decades you fucking legend. I so wish I was in my 80s and soon to be off this fucking cesspool of a planet.
No culture class talent arts love congregation nothing anymore.
I'm jealous of your generation.
FUCKING CHRIST! @8:44 WHEN THE MAD HATTER ENTERS THE SHOT, HIS FUCKING HANDS ARE MOVING. ANYONE THAT PLAYS BASS OR EVEN GUITAR CAN TELL YOU THE AMOUNT OF CRAMPING AND BLISTERING SOMETHING LIKE THAT WILL DO TO A MANS HAND.
FUCK MAN, THIS GUYS HANDS MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS MUST BE LIKE LEATHER. JESUS CHRIST!! LEON WILKESON 🙏
This video should be archived on how a gig and a performance should be.
No phones. No videos. No nonsense.
Just quality music.
Probably the greatest live music video ever taken. Whenever I feel shitty I watch this, the positive energy is overwhelming
Too bad about the Confederate loser flag. IDK why they insist on that crap. Great guitar solo though.
@@Olikiscrazy Too bad about woke wanchors whinging!
The atmosphere there was so GREAT, everyone was on a musical HIGH, nobody worried about a flag that represented their home turf!
❤
@@Olikiscrazy Try using your brain. This was a fantastic concert, probably before your time when there were no woke wanchors to whinge about a flag, just enjoy a sunny day and no negative vibes!
Enter Sandman In Moscow might have it beat.
This performance never fails to give me chills
ME ALSO
DID GET TO SEE THEM IN 76. I'M BLESSEF
My brother big connection saw them àt jones beach please be see my brother in Tennessee
This song, this live concert, still gives me chills…. It’s just legendary, and so were they.
Same here
America was so much better back then
Arguably the best guitar solo ever, playing on for all eternity, what a magnificent wall of sound they created.
where was guitar #3, should have been Steve Gaines in 77, no?
Sadly, the cameraman was too thirsty, he showed the girls instead of Allen Collins nailing the solo
This was the best solo of all time.
Love his jumping up and down at the end, such enthusiasm and energy!
Without a doubt 👍
I would say that this is my all time favourite song this band rocks now and forever and always RIP lads you won’t b forgotten
Earlier this year, I was in a village in the middle of nowhere in Sweden and a musician outside a cafe was playing this song, that's how powerful it is.
Awesome
Powerful yesss
Very cool indeed
Wow, that's impressive. I'm always amazed when I find American music being played overseas. So neat
@@nowitsabadtime American music has been playing overseas for a while, my dad's cousin had VHS footage and cassettes of American bands during communist Yugoslavia.
Crazy to think how these young artists would all go down together within a few months of this performance. It makes the song this perfect time capsule of a moment. Gives me chills. Love this song!
Worst part is the plane was a pile of junk,nobody wanted to get on that plane.Ronnie convinced them to,telling them they will get a new plane for the next trip,he told them,when your times up,your times up its fate.and it ended up crashing.such a shame,year I was born
Mac oh Ron he
Your as free as a bird now Gary! Go fly high and play that slide with your brothers and sisters who went before. RIP and thanks for the memories!
Such poise through the entire thing from the band. It's their way of saying: we provide the gas, you be the ignition.
2023 and still gives goosebumps. What a moment this was, hot sun, California girls and one of the most kickass bands ever.
I get misty eyed looking at America that no longer exists in so many ways. Thanks, boomers.
@@IaintTheHerb I miss that America too, 64 and maybe more for me.
The last original member Gary Rossington died this year. Everyone from this performance (Except drummer Artimus Pyle because he's still here today) is a free bird now.
What a moment indeed. Wish I was there. Salute to you, kind stranger.
@@IaintTheHerb "Thanks Boomers"??? WTF is that supposed to mean? If it wasnt for "boomers" as you so insultingly refer to us, that music would never have come to be. Getting damn sick and tired of being insulted for my generation! People try to put us down, just because we got around... Talkin about my generation.. Why don't you all just fade away... we stopped a war, what has your entitled sorry-ass generation done or likely to do? Not much it would seem.
I still say this is the ultimate southern rock song. Starts off as a soulful ballad, then shifts into a hard-driving rock anthem.
Yes yes so true, Free Bird is soulfull yet so driven in youthfull splendor with symphomic rock Harmonies as this Majestic piece defies time Expresses love and creates inphinite Joy.
I'm from Georgia growing up in the South as A black man. This song and this group represents the South. I know my history. But it was still black and white people who built this country. May not agreed on a lot of things, but shit got done! Meanwhile, Lynard Skynard band was not politicians, they were a band that if you like "MUSIC," THEY PLAYED IT. THANK YOU SKYNARD BAND FOR ALL OF YOUR GOOD MUSIC. WHICH IS STILL IN MY SOUL!! SOUTHERN BORN AND SOUTHERN FED,I'LL BE SOUTHERN TIL IM DEAD!! A FAN!!!
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meh, florida georgia line is better
These 11 minutes right there are the peak of our human civilization.
@@Lilsushi352 🤣🤣🤣🤣good one
We played this at my husband's funeral and now he is as free as a bird.
Long live freebird🕊️🕊️🕊️
Classy. God's Love.
I hope the mourners appreciated such a magnificent tune. A fine send off for your husband.
thank you for sharing that little piece of your humanity with us.
So sorry for your loss
Sorry 4yr loss...i lost my brother 5May2022...2years older then me😥😥like yr hubby 4eva loved...always thought of. R.I.PARADISE.
I was born and raised and still live in Jacksonville Florida, hometown of Lynard Skynard and my uncles and my aunt went to Robert E Lee High-school with alot of the band and would go listen to them practicing every chance they got and were honestly messed up emotionally for along time after the plane crash and even though they are all gone their music is more popular than it ever has been and they will live on through old recordings and videos like this one for many more years to come, fly high free bird's .... your all deeply loved and missed, may you rock out in heaven
This was our sons favorite songs, we lost him to leukemia at age 22 - grateful for the time we had with him. We know he is in Heaven Flying like a Freebird! We Love this song, many memories...😢
So sorry for your loss
Heartbreaking. May the music always lift you up.
I’m so sorry for your colossal loss, may you seek solace in Jesus or seek comfort and peace knowing you were blessed with your son… gone too soon, 22👣🙏❤️
I’m so sorry 😢
Heart goes out to you 💔
The human race will never be this cool again for all of eternity. Nothing could even come close to this.
You must not know about heaven? It will be way cooler!🎉
YES
Ya be young again no more pain dance in the warm rain god bless you all❤ papa c
wish i could be in that time
Music could do it but so much hidden Evil; some right in our faces
I was at this concert, with 50,000 of my best friends! I'm 65 now. Great memories...
Wow,I would have been 17 then…I only wish!!!
I'm 65 and I was right there ! What an awesome show
I'll be 63 in a few weeks. Woulda just turned 16 here. The absolute best time of our lives had just dawned. Need kleenex... 😢
I was right up in the front turn the 65 Monday summer 77 was the best summer of them all
And 45,000 cases of sunburn!
so glad I grew up in those days, we were proud of Lynyrd Skynyrd for representing the South.
Saw them several times in the 70's. No stage antics just pure talent! 62 and still feels like I am there.
That’s badass, def wish I could of got to experience this life. Born to late
Im 62 and saw them many times also.. was at this show in Oakland
@@ridgehouse7373 go to a tame impala concert if you can.
Soooo lucky
@ Claire and Kenny- you two got me by one year, and seeing them live was something I never recovered from. And hope I never do!
When 7 top musicians stand on stage and understand each other blindly, a masterpiece like Freebird is created. I am now almost 72 years old and still love this song as much as I did in 1977 when I was 25. I am very grateful to the musicians for giving me so many wonderful hours with their music🎸🎸🎸🎸✌✌❤
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So true. Certain bands do it beautifully. These guys are like the E Street band, all so talented individually, but together just off the charts as a group
My parents loved this song and they played a lot of classic rock on our radios, especially the car. We all loved this and even had it play at the end of my wedding. My parents introduced me to some great music (born in the 80s and raised in the 90s). My parents were teens when this was released. Still a favorite of my mom and I (my dad passed away in Nov. 2022). It hits hard, sometimes, this song. I did get to see them in concert somewhere between 10 and 12 years ago, outside, right after an evening thunderstorm. The wind was blowing during this song and there was lightning in the distance--the perfect combo. We had so much fun that evening.
38 here this year wish I was born in the 70s this is real music.🎉
Southern rock and country music from the 70s is just timeless and will forever live on. Some on the best live music ever made.
You are so fuckin right !
You damn fucking right bout that
Allman Brothers
So true!!! Nothing since has come close.
the best part about this is that the only reason they flew that shitty traitor rag is to rope in their white trash fans they wouldn't have otherwise had.
Legends! Allen Collins Jr. was my favorite guitarist, his solos really sang! Man he had some dark shadows falling him for sure.
dear youtube, A commercial in the middle of a song is pretty much a guarantee that I will never buy that product
I just got a walkers one
Amen. It is sacrilegious. 😢
Especially in the middle of Freebird!!
I just had this exact thought and then looked down and happened to notice this comment. Solidarityyyy
A massive middle finger, to any advertising and promotion during this most quintessential extraction of all things beautiful and nice
You can see and feel their passion for what they do ., they loved the crowd and the crowd loved them back ! Best live performance ever!
Simple music can make you sing, a simple hug can make you feel, better, simple things can make you happy, I hope my simple hello will put a smile on your face..
I was 17 in 1977 and I have so many memories tied to this song. I was fortunate enough to see this band before their airplane crashed. I was 14. The only reason my parents let me go was because I was with a very nice boy, Rob Link, and his dad or step-dad drove us. I'll never forget the limousine with the band drove in front of us crossing a street, they had to stop at the light. I walked up, they rolled the window down and gave me their bottle of Mateus (wine, I think, I was too young to drink but kept that bottle). What a great memory.
I love this song!
I love this song so entertaining and emotional sweet memories back in the 70s. How are you Victoria ?
a wonderful memory, but very painful, I want to live that day🥲🥲🥲
Mateus wine. We all have fond memories of that bottle.
This is the first song I learned to play on guitar. I was 12 years old and I learned it by ear. It took me about 18 months. I found out years later that there was 3 guitar players lol! Anyway, I love these people and this entire band and this song is responsible for launching what turned into a 32 year songwriting and recording career. Unfortunately, people died young and it changes things but i am grateful to this band for the incredible music. Some of it is really difficult to play. These guys were all above and beyond top shelf talent and ability. When you play a bunch of a bands songs for over 3 decades you learn a lot about them and their music but what i really struggle with is the profound sadness I feel today. I really liked Gary and every one of them almost like family or something. I could not hold back the tears when I heard Gary passed away and I will never forget the music they wrote and shared with us. I never would have spent over 3 decades writing, recording and playing in a rock band had I not overheard the love in that Atlanta crowd when Ronnie asked that now iconic question: WHAT SONG IS IT YOU WANNA HEAR? The rest is history for me as they say. I know we could all probably go on forever here so I will try not to. I feel such a closeness to this band that just grew over the decades and I am profoundly sad to hear that Gary Passed away. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the slide guitar in Freebird. Thank you for making your guitar chirp like a bird. And thank you for playing the songs correctly ALL the time. The talent, ability and professionalism Gary consistently brought to the table rivals anyone and I will never forget him ever. Rest in peace Gary, I wish I could have told you how much you mattered to me and countless others. Well done my good man, I am forever grateful!
I was 17 as well, Victoria. High school class of ‘78. It was a great time to be that age. God Bless.
This is the music I grew up listening to. Golden years, ever so grateful.
47 years ago. All those kids are us now in our 70’s. Soar high and go well
Don't forget to get the🌹 kids who served their country faithfully in a war of our generation 🇺🇸
I was two years old when this concert happened as I write this with my Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt on! Lol. Love this music!
🐦 🤠☮️💜💓.
@@traviscruise I was 16 when this concert happened. My friend's brother was there. I still love it.
@@SoFloCo-ne4rk Right on! 16 would have been an epic age to be there!✌️
So tragic and sad that just over three months later, the plane went down and ended Skynyd. Makes you wonder what else they would have given us. Truly a magical band that still sells their original albums. RIP to all founding members.
I remember that. Our local Channel 4 reporter went out to the crash site and cried as he reported it. They were local boys.
@@janetprice85 yeah Janet, I cried too. I worked at Mercedes Benz and I'd listen to the radios while working on them. At first it seemed surreal and when he started saying their names it hit me. I read stories about that plane and Aerosmith turned down flying in it , so it was a stupid decision to take the chance that forever changed a lot of peoples lives. One thing is I get to play their music on my guitar. Peace always.
They're still touring. The spirit of Skynard lives on in the current band. They're as tight as ever. They still live for all the right reasons. They're some of the realest people that exist on the earth.
There's a documentary with 3 of the remaining band members. It's awesome, it's hysterical, it's emotional. Find it!
Probably a psyop death fakers turn into other people the people on the stage are gender inverted
Rest in Peace, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Larry Junstrom, Bob Burns, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Ed King, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines. Gone but not forgotten.
Hard to believe they're all gone😢😢😢
Excellent song
Yeah, but Ronnie, Van Zandt, Steve, Gaines and Cassie Gaines should have remembered the first three that died in the accident. They should always come first when mentioning what happened to the greatest southern rock band ever.
They will never be forgotten and that comes from someone who was at this show in Oakland, California and I’m from the Bay Area town called gilroy.
I remember the show in Philly @ JFK stadium, now gone
One of the greatest bands to ever do it. One of the best solos of all time
You can tell that on that stage, they knew they have cemented themselves into Rock History as an American cultural icon. A truly legendary performance.
How much passion put into a performance. They are all performing together in the skies now. Legends never die.
Legendary
Still get goosebumps. Oh to be 15 yrs old again. Watching the audience was just as fun to watch
Yep heaven has a hell of a band up there, with all the brilliant musicians we have lost! Great memories! ❤
I was at this concert. I was 18 at the time. This song was sang perfectly
Where was it?
@@armydlguy Oakland Coliseum. Day on the green. They held concerts every weekend during the summer. I saw the Stones and just about every major rock band during the 70’s. 3 bands performed every concert. Great times!
@@denisemartinez8010 Must be nice. I’m in my twenties wishing I was alive for this. You had the best generation of music.
@@Insuranceman99 We certainly did.
Lucky lady!
I can't stop replaying this over and over .....A shame we can't go back in time, the country was so united back then....
Imagine a band displaying a huge Dixie battle flag in Oakland today. The entire city would be on fire.
We're still a sleeping giant
Actually it wasn't. No New Englander ever dared visit the south in the 1970s. . .
@realtorcarlyoptionone6474 NO the USA is now comatose, a once great nation now verging on 3rd world
@@DaciaProjecthaha
Lynyrd Skynyrd truly has one of the saddest stories in Rock history. This concert was held about 3 months before the plane crash (plane ran out of fuel and crash-landed in a forested area in Gillsburg) where two of the band members, Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist) and Steve Gaines (guitarist and backing vocalist ), were killed on impact alongside the pilot, co-pilot, Steve's older sister and the Assistant Road Manager. The rest of the band members suffered serious injuries but survived, The lead guitarist Allen Collins (who plays that incredibly legendary guitar solo on this track, accompanied by Gary Rossington playing the rhythm parts) survived the accident only to see his wife die, along with his unborn child, from complications in childbirth. A few years later he suffered a traffic accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend and left him paralysed, without the possibility of playing the guitar ever again on stage. He died in 1990, at the age of 37 from chronic pneumonia, a complication of the paralysis.
that's really sad
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
That is so horribly sad, RIP to all of them & God bless!
8 meses antes
Thanks for sharing your knowledge about this tragedy. I knew it had happened but just didn’t know the details
This has got to be one of the greatest moments in rock and roll history.
Agreed
One of the best rock songs ever .. wish I had been at the concert that day listening to it .. a magical experience for those who were there
And one of the best guitar solos of all time
Agreed. I’ve watched this so many times.
All these years later and this song still gives me goosebumps....
Not a phone in sight. Had to be the best feeling that everybody was living in the moment.
Getting old makes me sad at times. Especially watching videos like this. But being young and at the right place at the right time is priceless. All those young people (the ones that are still alive at least) are all old and grey now, but had the time of their lives that day. That part makes me happy.
Amen Brother.
You're absolutely right growing up at the right time in the right place it is absolutely priceless. We didn't realize how lucky we were at the time, growing up in that generation. Truly priceless, no other generation can or will ever be the same.
CHARLES GETTING OLDS A GIFT,..
I was there! Now I'm 66 years young
@@alankronisch2522 l am old like the moon this magnificent
45 years later and still a classic who else is listening to this in 2022 they don't make groups like this anymore
I Jam with Skynyrd EVERY single day; Drives my woman nuts!!!
I'm right here with ya girl!! I'm 71 and STILL listen to this song all the time, especially while driving in the summer with windows down and FreeBird on blast. Lol, the looks I get seeing a granny rocking out to this iconic forever song.
I am. They were probably one of the top five live bands of all time.
Everybody. Literally every god damn person is listening to this in 2022. It’s not that special
@@thegingershow9676 You don't know much about music. I feel sorry for you.
RIP Gary. One of the iconic guitar riffs. Everyone knows it when they hear it. Be free!
🕊
Gary was the one who did that?
I have a best friend who has a sister and brother in law living in New camera beach FL. 1970 these guys would play on Saturday nites on the beach!!!! Nobody knew who they were. And the he'll of it was..... It was all free. Just like all the drugs being handed around to the guy standing next to you.
@@enayy619 No. It was Allen Collins.
That was Allen Collins on that lead riff jam.
I was at this show, to see the original people in the band was amazing, Allen Collins just blew it up, thanks guys , it was a day I will never forget
I was there also with some pals of mine. Awesome weather, Rock and Roll all day long, along with the greatest Southern Rock Band ever. I remember they said soft drink containers only, so we filled a gallon jug with 1/2 Vodka and 1/2 Oj. Shedmen
This is one of the greatest songs ever created. Just beautiful.
it is about a man who is too immature to be a husband or father
@@1Daveable still an excellently put together song
Trips me out to think everyone at this concert are all senior Citizens now😮. I was born in '78 & this was a year before my birth. Pretty cool to think. Grandparents now listen to hard rock & some future grandparents will be listening to hardcore rap 😜🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@1Daveable not everyone is meant to be a father. But ofc its a dick move to fly away when the child is already there lol.
on the 7th day Gd created lynyrd skynyrd then he rested and went on to make Gibsonguitars & peavey amps along with marshall &fender
Today, the people in the crowd had no idea what they were seeing. This song lives forever
What?
Very nice thing to say and so very true!
I think they did
@@maryfarrell9231 yeah the song had been out for a while at this point
They knew, you don't see something like that without knowing
Im 21 years old and I swear I would kill to be at this show, to witness the greatest guitar solo ever. Absolutely 💯
I wish you could have been there too!
@@jenniferlenz578 did you actually get to witness this masterpiece? If so I'm very jealous 😆
I did I feel so very lucky it was the most awesome thing that I will ever see I can't do any of the jumping anymore like I used to it that concert but I still sing along take care.
@@jenniferlenz578OMG yes instantly jealous, please no disrespect but if I could please ask how old you were at the time? Just curious
Yes of course I was just 11 years old at the time I went with my two older sisters but it's something I will always remember and they sounded so wonderful I do seriously wish you were there though
I'm officially 26 years old listening to this masterpiece. I'm convinced this is the last pedestal to music genius. Learning guitar to reach this eccentric and phenomenal solo. Rip to the men and women lost. Timeless band and wish them the best in the afterlife.
I never appreciated this song when I was younger. Now, I can see just how magnificent it is it is musically.
It’s probably the best song of all time
Oh I always loved it andd hated that the radio never wanted to play it.
90s🙄
Best song while driving cross country
It was so overplayed on the local rock stations growing up it was like a joke. But now appreciating what they did.... Wow
Thanks so much for your comment I really appreciate it. How are you ?
amazing performance, the fact that they have 3 guitarists playing together and it doesn’t sound like a ball of hot garbage is a feat all by itself
called practice lol
@@menotyoumenotyou930 that but also letting everyone to do their parts and let the song breathe
@@pale_saint true, still can be said come back to practice. The hours they spent on these songs is insane
These guys are without a doubt some of the most talented and skilled professional musicians of the 70's they put all they had into their music and it showed. Just a fantastic band!
@@phillipstephens1175 It’s love, we’ve lost the love of things. Hopefully we find it as a society again. Love what you do.
This is the top five best live performances of any band of all time. RIP
agreed
Agreed
Them and the Allman Brothers Fillmore East
I missed this one and I'm still kicking myself for it but watching the video is like a high school reunion. Pleasant Hill High School class of '81 is WELL represented! So many faces in the crowd from my yearbook they're impossible to count. Wonder how many of my former classmates are still with us? To the ones we've lost, "fly on freebirds . . ." I will never forget the magical time and place I grew up in. Never to return but always remembered. Go Rams
I'm 65 years old and seeing this reminds me of when I was there when they came to our city! I was 17 and my friends and I were at the edge of the stage and the real thrill was, as they left the stage the 3 guitarists came over and shook our hands!!! I was hated by all my black friends because I was loving this white rock group, but I ignored them and so glad I didn't listen. Thank you so much for this beautiful, great memory!!!💯🎶🎵❤️❤️🐟
Love the music and ignore the hate. I'm 66 and wish I could have seen them live. And yes, THEY HAD 3 Guitarists that made their music f***ing crazy good!!!!
Music is an international language that doe snot see race, or anything like that. Just feelings on the inside.
That is a cool memory!
Good move.
@@maxspeed57 it was a great memory and the only thing that flag meant was the flag of The South! I'll always cherish shaking their hands 🇺🇸🥰🐟
I am a Japanese high school student and I am listening now from Japan. It was very impressive and influenced my music life. Sorry for my bad English.
You sound just fine to me, I could understand you perfectly, love the music too. This was the year I graduated HS ‘77 in Oklahoma 🇺🇸.
🇯🇵Peace be with You🇯🇵 😉
Hey mate you don’t need to be proficient in any language to be absorbed by this music. It spoke of a time that was troubled by despite the troubles of the day there was some fantastic people and this group was a standout.
Your English is perfect. I was 16 in 1977 and love rock music. Peace to you and Japan from the UK.
Cancel the call. Old Crow wishes fervently.
You speak better English than I does!
This song has never made me emotional. But after hearing of the passing of Gary, the last surviving original member of the band, I can’t help but get teary eyed. Fly high free bird. 🕊️
I get emotional every time I hear it.
Reading this as a tear rolled down my cheek
Me too :(
They'll kick ass. Forever. 🙏 🕊🕊🕊🕊
Definitely Hitting a little different today.
Not a single cell phone in anyones hands. Everyone just living in the moment. I wish i could expirience a time like that.
Simply the greatest live performance in rock history. Allen Collins is on the Mt. Rushmore of guitarists.And then you combine him with Rossington and Gaines, it’s just insane. Here we are nearly 50 years later, and it’s still one of the most electrifying things I’ve ever seen, and no doubt ever will see.
Hahaha. Southern rock is boring country
respect is always nice...@@ciararespect4296
Simply incredible!
knebworth 76 is better.cameramen focas more on the band aswell,
One of the three greatest live performances. Other two are AC/DC at River Plate doing Thunderstruck and the one watched by a billion people, the 21 minutes when Freddie and Queen ruled the planet at the AIDS concert in Wembley.
this concert brings tears to my eyes... what a great band and what a great time to be young and alive. Those were different days.
Amazing era of music!
Wish I could've been alive to see them. I Thank God I was introduced to music like this but wow, I can only imagine how great it would have been if I was around to enjoy it when it was still fresh and these guys were young.
@99texasrattlesnake99 a few of them will always be young. Especially RVZ, what a frontman, singer and songwriter he was. Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines. Those 3 only had 3 1/2 months left. Now, all but the drummer is gone.
BIC Lighters in the Air . No Cell Phones .
But we still are. Regardless
I just lost a friend of mine and this was his favorite song and it’s great to know i can listen to this in his remembrance
Sorry for your loss, RIP to your friend. Hopefully when you listen to it, it puts a smile on your face thinking of them
He had a knack for good music, that's for sure.
Prayers 🙏
I'm sorry to hear that my friend 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's a great song. I saw them in concert. They are my favorite. I hope you will find this song comforting when listening to it and having great memories of your friend.
The piano parts are some of the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard.
One of the most kick ass guitar solos, and songs, of all time
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Amen to that
No one on earth could top Skynnord,
On the hunt is even better, or Saturday night special
@@jefferywilson1840 you got that shit right. Skynyrd was the best group of southern rock
This solo, in front of that audience,
to me pretty much encapsulates what was awesome about the 70's.
I agree, the music and the clothes of the girls beings me right back to that time
Even more amazing this took place in California and flying a flag that makes modern liberals cry foul about racism and supremacy. The 1970's were truly something, a totally different world and time.
Watching in 2022 and it still doesn't get any better than that .. 🎸🎶🎹
@@mr.sinjin-smyth "liberals"... nothing liberal about those creeps(except the degree of stupidity and ignorance they regularly exhibit) lol leftist lunatics is more like it
You’re damn right ......👍
the concert was in 1977, today it's 2023, so it's been 46 years, most people there were in their mid 20's so they are at least 65 years of age nowadays. Mind blowing.
Indeed. Time flies!
I'm 71. Flew to Little Rock to start work with a new company the same weekend of their crash. I was nervous on that plane out of Memphis that weekend. What a band it was and the best live album of all time. Thanks guys peace to you the band is together again, play it pretty Gary
I was 23 in 77, now 67. I saw them at Alpine Valley Wi, in the early 80's. They were great!
I was 5 in '77! So That makes Gary only 25 at this time. What a talent !!
Yes I was one of those 19 year old kids at that concert.. still have my ticket stub in 2023 at the ripe age of 65 years old .
Absolutely unreal performance ❤ Godbless, taken to soon!
Anyone else get chills when the audience erupted when the guitar solo started?
Alberta Proud, Yes I do still Everytime.
Yup the whole Song
We sure need a summer concert like this. All the beautiful young people.
Yes!
Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!! I could remember listening to this on my way home from work on the 2nd shift and everything was better!
Does anyone ever talk about how hard the bassist goes during the guitar solo? It's unbelievable.
insanity
I noticed that, wish I could fucking hear him, I'm gonna have to play this on like a really good speaker one day, see if I can hear it because he was doing a lot more work than the guitarist for a little bit there
I met Leon many years ago at Jax Beach in Jacksonville flat. He was at a beach bar playing with a local band for fun and we had drinks together. He was the nicest guy and so down to earth. If you didn't know who he was you would never guess he was a member of one of the most famous rock bands in history. What a fantastic guy!!!!
@@danecummins2092totally agreed. My dad used to run with the drummer from Molly Hatchet, and he met a few of these guys as well. We actually live down the street from RVZ’s widow, and his daughter, and my brother is friends with RVZ’s granddaughter. They truly were/are Jacksonville’s pride and joy.
Part of the reason why the solo kills is because the drummer and the bassist are driving it along underneath. They are laying down this amazing foundation for the guitarists to build on. Absolute magicians and artists.
Man, my grandparents were so lucky to live through such a great era in Music history.
Remember what you've seen here and keep the memories alive. Your generation can create new music and pass this along. Introduce others to the music from this era. 👍👊🤘 You have excellent taste!
I'm 56 I only wish I could have been 18 in 1968 instead I was born😢
& STILL💥
It was fabulous!!!
Saw them in Buffalo a few weeks before this.
This is the best version of this song I have ever heard. To say it's "inspired" doesn't begin to describe it. The video is stunning; the band is on fire, feeding off the energy of the crowd. All I want is a blu-ray of the the whole show.