First reaction to LYNYRD SKYNYRD - "Free Bird" (Live Oakland Coliseum Stadium)
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2022
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Young lady. All of fans are in our 60s and 70s now. The 70s was the best rock and roll of all time. Much respect from a grand paw from Texas.
And from a Grammie from Canada. 🇨🇦
Brilliant all together.
I'm 66 years old I've seen them come and go. We had the best music groups to listen, to see in concerts in person and many were iconic bands. This is a whole another level. Sit back and buckle up and enjoy the ride 😀. Hold on tight. Get ready to me amazed. Rock on 😂
It makes me so happy to see another generation is listening to the brilliance of Ronnie van zant and the rest
Billy Powell on piano!! I was so fortunate to be on stage less than 5 feet from Billy the whole concert at Allentown, Pa. At the fairgrounds. 1998 when I was doing security with Marshall Tucker. Me and Billy were high fiving giving knuckles it was awesome!
Freebird is a Southern Rock anthem. One that stood the test of time! ❤👍👍
The reason they showed the crowd is because EVERYBODY in the 1970s knew exactly when this song was going to take off. It's the most famous guitar outro of all time.
In my opinion Lynyrd Skynyrd is the greatest rock band to ever exist
Welcome to Southern Rock's finest, LYNYRD SKYNYRD!
Artimus Pyle, the drummer kept the band's pace just like it was meant. He's one of the last survivor's and you just have to wonder what music that was never made when their plane went down. This video was made over 45 years ago. I was 18 years old and had just graduated HS and I'll soon be 64, just like all these girls rocking and now we need pain reliever to walk throughout the day.
No we ALL 66 year old don't need rain reliever to make it through the day.
Your Health is MIST IMPORTANT thing you have = physical and mental
@@Steve-gx9ot I'm in about as good as shape as anyone my age but I spent over 40 years powerlifting and my joints feel it. I still lift every other day and walk 2 miles in days between, but we are getting older and with-it, joint pain.
My favorite band in the world from Jacksonville Florida, my home state , God bless the Rebels that we are , they made the 1970's my teen years just fantastic
Skynyrd was my first concert. It was Foreigner, 38 Special, and Skynyrd for $7.50 in 1977. I was 15.
Oh wow ! I'm not even going to ask if you had a good time .
That's a great concert.
Your lucky getting to see Ronnie and Donnie share the stage
My first concert Pink Floyd 1977 World Series of Rock 16 yrs old $10.50! Can only go downhill from there!
lucky. (i'm jealous but not in a bad way lol)
As soon as I saw the thumbnail i thought " She is going to enjoy this "
I was at that concert on the green.....the crowd was insane and we didn't have fights, problems people were so friggin jazzed and dancing...Allot of Pot passing around but being on the green was the place to be!!
Free Bird is right up there with Stairway To Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Hotel California as iconic rock songs.
Iconic Americana
@@treebeard8475 Americana? Led Zep and Queen are Brits.
@@hiccup1dt102 I meant free bird but I love the British musical invasion as well 🤪 did you know the library of congress has Grateful Dead 5/8/77 Cornell tape on file? Now that’s Americana haha
@@treebeard8475 I'm from the Eugene area , People here are fanatical about the dead. Lived near Ken Kesey but never met the man. You would know his house by the magic bus sitting outside.
@@hiccup1dt102 that is very cool!! The bus just says “further” as it’s destination 😎
Do yourself a favor - consider it a belated birthday present - dive down the rabbit hole of Skynyrd ! Simple Man , Call me the Breeze , . too many to suggest .
Honestly there isn't a bad skynyrd song they are all great songs with powerful messages and alot of truths to them
On The Hunt. I Need You. Both very underrated
Tuesdays Gone...should be your next
Oh yes go down
Swamp music is the greatest southern rock song ever! IMO
"Jam packed" was the term you were searching for. 😊
I remember driving flat out at 145 mph in a BMW coupe to this , had it on loud , lovely lovely
Love 💕 Y O U R reactions. I'm 64. Old school. It's so adorably cute to watch youth explore the musical past. I wonder where You're from. Love the accent. The four 🎸 guitars, (base, rhythm, and two lead guitars).
I still remember when the news came down about the plane crash. Words can not describe. The radio DJ was unable to speak so he put on Freebird. The song took on a whole different meaning. Everyone cried that night.
Hey Verdy did you notice there are no cell phones in the audience. The concert took place in 1977 and the audience is old enough to be your grandpa or grandma. What a drag it is getting old. Great Reaction.
This petformance was their gift to mankind just before the plane crash
The piano player was a rodie who was to embarrassed to tell the group he played classical piano. But the guys went to lunch & he wrote the piano music for this song & they came back & heard him & went right into recording
Number 1 live performance of all time. No doubt about it. This will never be topped.
I absolutely loved hearing Verdy talk about how mellow it was and then "Oh! The tempo picked up a bit..." And all I can think is, "Girl, you'd best strap yourself in, now!" This was always a heck of lot of fun to play in Guitar Hero, as well.
Much more fun to get a smart ass in the audience who yells out, "FREE BIRD," only to bust out a version on guitar that puts tears in that same smart asses eyes.
I was thinking the exact same thing!. "Honey, we're just getting started! That was the introduction"!
@@alanmcclure9546 That "smart ass" is actually an indicator of just how powerful this song is. It is THE ROCK ANTHEM. And real evidence that The Lynyrd Skynyrd Band was one of the greatest bands to ever take the stage. And the only band to ever blow Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones off their own stage in their own country. There was not a single band that could match the pure power of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Band. And if Ronnie had known as much about aircraft as he knew about music, they'd have set sales records that would have beaten Elivis and The Beatles. Records that would have stood for a very long time.
Sitting here crying with joy this was the wheelhouse of my teenage years. And born and raised in Atlanta Ga. South will never be the same.
Your city had a good band back then. Atlanta Rythym Section! I am a Florida Lynyrd Skynyrd fan for life.
Their Beautiful Side,, Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Simple Man"...TRUST ME!!
This song is genius. When the music picked up it symbolizes the release of the bird. 🙂
Thanks to reacting for Lynyrd Skynyrd! You're anazing! 🙌
Lynard Skynyrd sweet home Alabama number 1 favorite song ever hand's down 👑.
Interesting video very cool 😎
If you liked this, then you absolutely must listen to the performance on harmonica - yes harmonica - by Will Wilde. It's stunning. You won't be disappointed.
I’ve seen many reactions to Free Bird and you noticed more than anyone! Great job!
When Skynyrd supported the Rolling Stones as a support act in England at the Knebworth concert they humiliated them in front of their 200,000 plus crowd..their FREEBIRD version is simply they greatest finale song in history... Simply Magnificent!
I was there also. 10cc were on the card. What a concert.
Mick warned them not to go on the tongue and Ronnie said screw you and they all went on the tongue except Leon he ran out of cord lol
@@sg-yq8pm fake news!
@@tommcmanamon8327 Fake news!
They did the same to The Who
The bird call sounds out of a guitar, was paying homage to Duane Allman, who was the person most responsible for slide guitar and died in '71.he not only mastered the slide, but he invented Southern Rock, which made these guys famous.
Nobody ever talks about how the live version of this may be the best false ending ever in rock. It just goes and goes and goes and then struts right off the stage. Incredible.
The 1977 equivalent of a mic drop lol
And the version from their live album One More From The Road is actually quite a bit better than this one. Also check out T for Texas live from Knebworth
When I was in my teens in the 70s, the first half of Free Bird became a common song played at funerals of our generation,for friends lives that ended to soon. A powerful expression that we still feel today.
Hell yes play this when I die 🤟or Warf rat by Grateful Dead haha either works
Listen to Four Walls Of Raiford
It’s in my will. And my kids said they could not think of playing anything else.
I was there with my girlfriend and the concert was fantastic. The Outlaws, followed by Santana, then Lynyrd Skynyrd, followed by Peter Frampton. I was a 26 year old fireman on a day off. A day never forgotten.
Only band I ever listen to that you can listen to every song on the album and not skip songs.
Them Southern boys could rock. They never wrote a bad song.
Nothing like live shows in the 70's! The bird is finally free in the end!
What a great time to be alive!
The reason the showed the Crowd was because they know what is coming .They are ready👏👏👏👏👏
Probably the best way to be introduced to this song for the first time!
Lynyrd Skynyrd (the original band) was from Jacksonville, Florida and played Southern rock, which had roots in country and bluegrass (they named themselves after Leonard Skinner, a high school teacher they all hated 😂)... They debuted in 1973 - their first albums was "Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd"... and worked the touring circuit to build a following and were known for their 3-guitar line-up of Allen Collins, Ed King and Gary Rossington... Ronnie Van Zant was the lead singer, Leon Wilkeson on bass, Billy Powell on piano, and Bob Burns on drums.
The band carried on releasing albums - 'Second helping' (1974)... "Nuthin' fancy' (1975)... "Gimme back my bullets" (1976)... Bob Burns was replaced by Artimus Pyle (drums), Ed King was replaced by Steve Gaines (guitar)... and Lynyrd Skynyrd finally struck platinum success in 1976 after releasing the live album 'One more for the road' that year. That is the band in this video clip. Gary Rossington played the slide guitar, while Allen Collins and Steve Gaines did the finale.
The band recorded their 5th album 'Street survivors' in 1977, but just before the release, Lynyrd Skynyrd were on tour flying in a rented airplane which crashed in Mississippi in October on 1977... Ronnie Van Zant (vocals), Steve Gaines (guitar) and Gaines' sister Cassie Gaines (backup singer) were killed in the crash. Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded as a result.
In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reformed w/ Ronnie's younger brother Johnny Van Zant taking over vocals... but the later albums were not as successful as the original band's records.
Most of the original band have passed away... Gary Rossington (guitar) is the only original member left. Former drummer Artimus Pyle is still alive... Allen Collins (guitar) was paralyzed in a car crash before he died in 1990... bassist Leon Wilkeson died in 2001... keyboardist Billy Powell died in 2009... former guitarist Ed King died in 2018... former drummer Bob Burns died in 2015.
How Rossington starts with the most exquisite slide guitar on the SG, then Collins and Gaines go absolutely ballistic...just fantastic. I believe it was 1977 and they were at the height of powers...I was 17, and a great time to be young!!
There is still hope for humanity. Some young people can still appreciate good old music.
45 years after the plane crash that killed so many of the band in their prime..... their music is an enduring legacy. These guys were the hardest working band in history.
One of the greatest rock and roll songs ever!!!
I’ve seen probably more than 50 reaction videos of Free Bird, and yours is my favorite. The way you said “God damn” a few times
was so appropriate and funny at the same time. I’m 66 now and I got to see Lynyrd Skynyrd twice, once in ‘74 and once in ‘76.
Some people say that the Knebworth version is better, but I’ll take this one every time.
I really wish that you could go back in a time
capsule and see this performed in person.
I’m subscribed to your channel and I look
forward to seeing more reactions from you.
All the best from Wilmington, DE 😊🎸
The Lynyrd Skynyrd band is the real deal when it comes to classic rock bands. Lots of bands can make music in a studio but to be able to put on a show the way that they did is what really defines a classic rock band and they could really perform. Thank you I love your reaction to this ☺️
First time I heard LS I was in Arkansas and have been hooked for life.
This is the signature song of Lynyrd Skynyrd. This tune was huge back in the day!!!! These boys from the south were LOUD and PROUD!!! Their music is really, really GOOD!!! Decide for yourself..... I can't change, lord knows I can't change!
The man singing lead is Ronnie Van Zant, he usually performed bare-footed. He said he wanted to feel the vib and the music. It was terrible when their airplane crashed. What a loss!!!!! Some of them lived thru the crash.
Near the end those dudes were so poor, they had to share the same cigarette. You know what they were doing, right?? Take care!
This was July of '77 their plane crashed in October,three and a half months later killing the lead singer, and one of the lead guitar players and one backup singer who was also the sister of the guitar player that was killed. I saw their last concert before the plane crash in Greenville SC. They left Greenville SC the next day on their way to Baton Rouge La. Is when the crash took place. Last month was the 45th anniversary of that day.
Free Bird was the quintessential southern song. It was and is, the anthem for the southern states.
Yes, 4 guitarists, including the bass, a keyboard player, drummer, and lead singer. Total of 7 people. I saw them in concert in 1975. Great show!
Hey, we can't forget the "Honkettes" who were their back-up singers. LOL
Good for you in realizing when Ronnie sang "I'm as free as a bird now." And then asked the question... How bout you all? Brought a massive cheer from the crowd! Ah.. back in the day when we loved and appreciated our FREEDOM!!
What a freakin' treat from Florida in the USA! 😳 I was 15 when this song/album came out!! 😁
Ronnie Van Zant - vocals and leader of the band; Allen Collins - guitar; Gary Rossington - guitar; Steve Gaines - guitar; Artimus Pyle - drums; Leon Wilkeson - bass; Billy Powell - piano; Thier last performance was South Carolina’s Greenville Memorial Auditorium on Oct. 19, 1977, Free Bird lasted for 20 mins The next day boarded their plane that was unsafe the Fuel gauge was broke. The only way to check the fuel was with a stick. The plane ran out of fuel the engines were burning to rich and wasting precious fuel. One engine shut down then the other did. The plane went down over pine trees killing the members of the band, Ronnie Van Zant lead singer, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, that day was the saddest day in Southern Rock. I was 20 when I heard about it on the radio. I cried like a baby.
Well kid, I was at this concert July 2, 1977. It was a fantastic "Day on the Green". You wouldn't believe the cost of the tickets to get in...
I was 15 in 77 and at Yokota AB Japan......to all my fellow rockers we’ve lost over the years ........we’ll all meet again soon. ✌️
Love your reaction! I saw them perform this at a music festival in Charlotte in 1974. We just felt the music back then. We didn't try to over think it and analyze it to death. Just enjoy! Oh btw, I've requested this be played at my funeral.
The song Free Bird was witten by Allen Collins and lead singer Ronnie Van Zant. It was inspired when Allen had a fight with hia GF Kathy. She asked him if he would remember her if she left.
I love how no one has a phone🙂 one of the best guitar riffs ever. I thought it was one guy. Good reaction
Saw this Tour. August 27th 1977 Anaheim Stadium California. 1 month and a half before the plane crash. Special day it was.
I was in my early teens and just learning to play when these boys were doing this live. This triple guitar attack blew us away in the early 70s. I have never seen a young lady such as yourself pick up so much of the detail in what they were doing. It's very heartwarming.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, the group, has a small piece of my soul, silently, gently, unknown, Insignificant, tied eternally together with all the similar kindred souls, many whose entire lives were torn apart after centuries of stability crashed overnight. 🤠 "Free Bird" is our Anthem, our Modern Day Battle Cry, the day their music Died also in an Aircraft crash, ripped the hearts out of those like myself, More than Music, it was also a Movement, Simple People with extraordinary skills. With them so went our major symbol (S), benefactors, and the whole reason (S) we had, in our minds, to try and be different.
You need to check out the Outlaws and their song Green Grass & High Tides If you like the guitars on this one. The Outlaws had ties to Skynyrd & were referred to as the Florida Guitar Army.
I Love Verdy's reactions ! She very sincere for the love and feelings she has for music.
Really fun when a person you like is about to listen to one of the all-time historic songs for the first time. Was pretty psyched to watch this! Some might say this is the "Stairway to Heaven" of Southern Rock. I wouldn't argue. The song takes off like a bird that's finally free, and we fly right along with it. Really tragic that only a couple of months later half of them would be killed. And never should've happened.
I can’t imagine being in that plane crash what a nightmare I wouldn’t wish on anyone
Taken from us to soon grow up listening to them. Their plane actually went down about 40 miles from my home town.I grew up 20 miles from McComb , Ms. in Tylertown I didn't know anything about it until I got to work in McComb the next morning. We were actually working a few miles from where the plane went down. I was looking for oil seismographing back then . We didn't get much work done that day.
I LOVE the crowd shots--jam packed. Long live the South.
I was fortunate to see the original Lynyrd Skynyrd and Journey on New Years Eve 1976 at the Oakland Arena (Indoor). Little did we know what would happen in the New Year
Lynyrd Skynyrd is one of the most popular bands from the seventies ! They have so many hits " Gimme Three Steps ", "Simple Man" "That Smell ' But my favorite is " The Balled Of Curtis Lowe " Thanks for checking them out =)
Ballad of Curtis Leow is one of the best songs in history.
L. S. Was the band of the 70s!! No one could touch them! Actually, the best band of all times, than and even now, no one can touch them. So called music now is nothing but studios BS.
Listen to Four Walls Of Raiford
Even their non-hits are great.
Gimme Three Steps is such a FUN song 🎵
That's how you do it that's called jamming good southern rock the solos kick ass and your cool love your passion too keep rocking
My old band used to play this one live.People go nuts!
3 guitarists. One bassist. Nice video. I’ll watch more.
The genius of this song is that it begins with the Lyrics "If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me" & ends with a guitar focus that makes certain that you will NEVER forget.
Best way to listen to Skynyrd is live.
Some of Skynyrds music ( The Original lineup) the deep cuts are the best. Every song came from something that actually happened to them mostly Ronnie Van Zandt.
Peter Frampton had to follow that! 😄
What a lineup that concert had...Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana and Outlaws.
This was one of the classic lineup's last performances. Only a few weeks after this concert, the band was in a horrific plane crash, and Ronnie Van Zant (lead singer), Steve Gaines (guitar), and Cassie Gaines (backing vocals) all died in it, along with two crew members, and everyone else was badly injured. They did restart the band about 10 years later with Ronnie's younger brother on lead vocals, but when you think about the talent lost in that crash...
Easily one of the saddest days in Rock history.
Actually this was July 2 in California, I got to see them on July 3rd in Tulsa at Willies 4th of July picnic. The plane crash was in October. And yes, another day the music died.
Not really the "classic" lineup. Bob Burns was their original drummer and Ed King was one of the original guitarists. Neither Gaines nor the drummer were a member of Skynard when they released this song. Just sayin'......
Hello from Sweet Home Alabama. Everybody loves Skynyrd!
Hey Verdy you should check out Texas Flood live at El Mocombo by Stevie Ray Vaughn
Yes Ronnie we still remember you...
The chirping from the guitar. You hear at the beginning is what the song is appointed to,, Dwayne Allman. Is the person who invented the bird chirp. Ronnie van Zant dedicated this song to the late,great Dwayne Allman.
that moment you finally realize that your parents and/or grandparents raised more hell, and rocked *_WAY_* harder than you ever have.
If you want to see more of the guitarists playing this, watch them live at Knebworth. Best performance ever.
In 1977 the seating capacity of the Oakland Coliseum was 55,000. How many people that were on the field is not known but, it could easily be half again as much. . . . .
This song is the very definition of an "anthem" song. There must be 50,000 people in that stadium, and every one of them is going nuts to this song. The energy it created in them is unfathomable. One of the biggest speeding tickets I ever got was caused, in no small part, to having this song blasting on my car stereo on a warm summer day. The longer it played, the faster I drove. 😄
So why i think the last year of Free Bird was the best shows was because Allen Collins, the all white guy with the yellow X shaped guitar, and Steve Gains, the white shirt black pants with the black guitar, are both playing the lead in the solo and are matching note for note with occasional offset fills in a dueling guitar way. Allen was part of the bands inception with three others in the mid-60s before becoming Skynyrd in 1971. Allen was one of the major writers in Free Bird released in 1974. Gains was hired as a roadie for the band when his sister became one of their backup singers in 1976 and was later that year asked to be a member of the band to replace their third guitarist who was one of the original members. He was already matching Collins note for note after a short amount of time and sadly only had a year on the stage before the plane crash.
I'm so glad I got to see them and it was stupendous. Shame on you people who think that the flag is racist do your homework.
I saw them at the Montreal Forum in 1973, they opened for The Who, CHUM FM in Toronto arranged bus packages, it was a great concert.
Yeah you would need to be The Who to follow a band like that.
I was on that bus myself. Had never heard of Lynyrd Skynyrd and didn't know what to expect but here we are fifty years later sharing our memories. You're right, it was a great concert. Greatest opening act ever.
LS are real Music at it`s best... i miss the spirit today but love to see younger people miss it too
These are people's cool grandmas, grandpas or aunts and uncles from the 70s. Yes, we knew how to rock and we all looked pretty dang good at it too.
I was 16 years old when this happened. These were the best times ever for me
Will ALWAYS be my favorite song!!!
they are at the height of their powers, here. just 3 short months away from the life ending plane crash tragedy that changed it all. peace and love, Verdy.
VERDY, realize this, a lot of those kids in that crowd are grandparents today.
I was in this biz, production coordination, back then and did many, many shows like this. They were like a mid size town, 50 to 75,000 people, or more, rockin' out at the same time, same place. We knew how to party. ;0)
I've covered this song - but there's no way anyone can ever do it the way that these guys do it. Classic! Also, check out the song "That Smell." Another great Lynyrd Skynyrd song.
Worthy of a VERDY “Woof!”. Fun to watch you respond to this classic performance.
This was a 3 "goddamn" reaction.
I've been Married to Patricia ANN 57 GLORIOUS YEARS AGO VALENTINE'S DAY 🙏 RESPECT TO YOU Love YOU'RE SHOW BLESS 💎🌹🍒🙏
Musically, Freebird is their greatest song. Lyrically, it’s Simple Man. I can only imagine how much bigger they would have been if not for the plane crash. I would like to think that the universe was saying we weren’t ready for a full onslaught of Lynyrd Skynyrd, but here’s a taste.
I can see Verdy being there at the concert with a guy on her shoulders enjoying herself