Except for me, my mom and dad were 30 and 23 so it was _their_ generation here. Not them personally, they were in New York with a couple of kids at the time, except I think they would have gone to a concert like this at the time. (My dad listened to pre-disco Bee Gee's, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix (in addition to... for some reason, songs like "Funky Town") and my mom's taste in music to this very day ranges, yes, _from_ the New Christy Minstrels but all the way to Metallica.) _My_ grandparents were into 40's songs up to doo wop. ... Actually that's pretty cool in its own way too.
Hi coming from England I was in my Teens and definitely head banging to this when it picked up I am now retired and still listening to ROCK Music👍👍👍All the best from Nottinghamshire UK
Funny how time slips away - Willie Nelson I was at this concert, called Day On The Green, in Oakland. So many great concerts. Frampton was the headliner, probably a contractual thing because most folks were there to see LS.
I can just imagine Bisscute transported back in time and being one of the girls in the audience, wearing a halter top or bikini top, and jumping up and down wildly.
I was born in 1959 and my mom took me to this concert for my 18th birthday. Bill Graham would promote these concerts called Day on the Green, meaning spend the day listen to music on the baseball outfield grass. I still live in Oakland, the concert was played at the stadium the Oakland A's and Oakland Raiders shared in 1977, the Oakland / Alameda County Coliseum. Those concerts aren't held anymore, I believe the last concert was in 1992. Lynyrd Skynyrd was only one band that played on July 2, 1977, I also got to see Peter Frampton, Santana and The Outlaws for $9. The 1960's & 1970's was an awesome time in the San Francisco Bay Area. My my took me to Civil Rights protests and women's equality speech's and these experience's molded me into who I am today, love you Mom ❤.
I was at that concert. Yes there were other bands but I don't recall who. This was called Bill Graham's Days On The Green. They played Saturday & Sunday. I was there with a beautiful blonde on shoulders, wherever she may be, God bless you Diana Hancock 😀
Today is actually the anniversary of this concert. July 2nd 1977. I was there up in the nose bleed section just a couple of weeks after graduating from high school! Good times and great memories!
There's a legendary Canadian band named 'Sloane'. The name came from a teacher, she had a heavy french accent. Some of the band members were in a High School class together with some other friends. The teacher kept referring to one of the friends as "Slow one", but with her accent it sounded like 'Sloane'. The band got his permission to use the name as long as his picture was the album cover, done.
Although this is the story that has taken on it's own life, sorry to say - it's not true. There was a novelty song years ago called "A Letter From Camp" by Alan Sherman. One of the verses was "I went hiking with Joe Spivey, He developed poison ivy, You remember Leonard Skinner, He got Ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner". This was the Leonard Skinner they were referring to because whenever anybody answered the phone with "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" (instead of just "Hello"), the answer was always "Leonard Skinner". It had been a running joke with the band. It was only a wild coincidence that their high school teacher was also named Leonard Skinner. They used the teacher's name and the hair cut story after they got famous because it sounded much cooler.
@@MikeBUSA Leonard Skinner indeed was the gym teacher at their high school. His life is well-documented. Bob Burns took “delight” in the gym teacher’s name. After he heard the same name in “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”, he suggested it as the band name. That’s Bob Burns’s story.
You can never go wrong with some live Skinnerd free bird is the most requested song of theirs for almost every occasion from weddings to funerals, party's,and you have got to hear sweet home Alabama . That smell,Curtis Lowe, just to name a few.❤❤❤❤ Awesome miss Biss and can I get a BISS NATION!!!!😊😂
This was July 1977. The lyrics here are even more prophetic when you know that in about three months the plane crash occurred that killed Ronnie Van Zant (the lead singer), Steve Gaines (guitar player with the beard) and Cassie Gaines, his sister, and severly injured everyone else in the band. Not sure if there's a decent live video of them after this until October. "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"
I've always said that if you want to HEAR Freebird, listen to the studio version. It is the cleanest. But if you want to actually EXPERIENCE Freebird, you watch this live performance. The passion & soul they put into this performance is truly mind-blowing. One of the absolute greats! You also have to give Simple Man & Tuesday's Gone a listen to as well. And of course, Sweet Home Alabama. Anyway, great reaction! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Saw Skynyrd several times including this tour at Tampa Stadium. I had recently turned 20. They were one of several great southern rock bands from the great state of Florida.
I never pass a new reaction up of Lynyrd Skynyrd and mainly because they're my all time favorite band and they'll always be my favorite band . They'll never be another band with that much talent in it ! Absolutely one of the greatest that's ever been .
Bisccute, I laughed out loud when you said, "Oh, my mother was only 2 years old then". I was 24 years old then and if you look at the faces out in the crowd and then understand that these young people are now grand parents or maybe great grand parent and many have passed on you can more easily put a time perspective on this concert. I'm from the sourthern United States, Georgia, actually and I have always loved Southern Rock and "Freebird" is sort of an anthem of that time. Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie and a few more bands provided the sounds that would come to be known as Southern Rock. I'm 70 years olf and still listen to it. Thank you young lady for helping some of us remember a time when we were young!!!
It was called A Day On The Green. Lynyrd Skynyrd was the 2nd to last performance. Peter Frampton finished the show. You can see Sweet Home Alabama live from this same concert. It's incredible. Thanks For The Skynyrd Reaction. Glad you liked it.
I know Peter Frampton is a legend and was probably in his prime at the time of this concert, but I can't help but feel bad for any band that had to follow this performance.
This song was played at my father's funeral because it was his favorite song. Gives me mixed emotions of happiness and grief every time I hear this song, but it reminds me of my dad and that happiness overwhelms the sorrow.
Saw them January 5th 1977 in Honolulu. Got out of the Army that April. Free Bird was the last song. Lighters were lit everywhere. Was bragging about all the great bands I saw in Hawaii. Was shocked when in October we lost Ronnie Van Zant along with Steve and Cassie Gaines. So glad I saw them live. Also glad he had brothers who sound a lot like him. His voice and style live on through them. Love your reaction to our big ole parties back then. Makes me realize how lucky I was.
Great southern rock band from the 60's-80's. It is very sad what happened to this band in losing so many members in a plane crash in 1977. My favorite songs are "Simple Man", "Free Bird" & "Sweet Home Alabama". They had lots of great songs such as "Call Me The Breeze", "Tuesday's Gone", "That Smell", "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew", "What's Your Name", "Saturday Night Special", "Gimme Three Steps" etc.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was great with storytelling with their songs, like Gimmee Three Steps, Saturday Night Special, Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man and Call Me The Breeze.
I had the good opportunity to see Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert 2 times, 1976/1977. They were a great band. They could be hot or not so hot. I saw them in downtown Detroit on a hot night. A year later a few of them were deceased. Tragic, Embrace every day. They were Southern Fried Rock and Roll. An American Legend.
I was at this concert. It was EPIC! Oakland Coliseum. Over 75,000 in attendance that day. Great band. That night we went and partied on the beach near Capitola
Was it the '77 tour? I saw them August '77 in Poughkeepsie, NY. We got pulled over in the Volkswagen thing convertible on the way to the concert with the top down all drinking bottles of beer 😂
I was there too. It was 77. Got to be up front. The run from the back to the front was torture after partying in the parking lot all night. But worth it. I spent a lot of weekends in Capitola in the 90's. Margaritaville and the Fog Bank were my 2 favorite hang outs.
The first time i heard Lynyrd Skynyrd live was 15 years old, packed shoulder to shoulder with 17,000 other fans…. Almost 50 years later, that rendition of Freebird is the best concert moment I’ve experienced.
That guitar solo was a pure expression of rock music. Just a giant middle finger to radio stations who want all songs to be short so they can air more ads, and getting all everybody excited.
Very easily, the greatest rock-n-roll band to ever take the stage! Grew up listening to their music, saw them in concert, and loved them always! Hell, I've had 2 dogs named Skynyrd! Awesome!
I love me that southern rock. Oh Lord, please let me wake up tomorrow and it will be those awesome early 70's again. When the girls were so beautiful and the music was the best. Thank you for reacting to this awesome band and song.
Lynyrd Skynryd was part of the southern rock genre back then. Along with The Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet, Black Oak Arkansas, The Marshall Tucker Band and a few others that have slipped my mind at the moment. Fifty years is a long time.
You totally get it Bisscute. We were so lucky to live through those times but most of us didn't realize it until we got older. We knew we had great music, of course, but we didn't think it would go away. ☺✌❤, PJ
Most times the crowd is just that, a large crowd. Here so many up close and personal faces. Love it. Imagine Grandma telling you she was at the show and then showing you herself up front with that big smile and bandana on her head. 😊
I've seen this before and my first comment was "I've NEVER seen this many girls at a hard rock show!" Not even for Guns & Roses. And they weren't just there with their boyfriends. They were really into the music.
@@hoosiermaker2358 I know it was a festival and that totally makes sense, but all these girls were rocking out and singing along so even if they arrived for Frampton, they were definitely into LS also...or at least into "Freebird."
Three guitars, one bass, one piano, and a madman drummer, all working in perfect harmony. This version is a lot shorter than normal, probably because of time constraints for A Day On The Green. One of the best bands ever. RIP to all those who died in the plane crash, and since. The name is pronounced Leonard Skinard. I think it was a play on the name of one of their high school teachers but don't remember exactly.
This song is famous, practically like "Stairway to Heaven" or "Layla" is famous. You could see the crowd reacting in anticipation, knowing the song and the instrumental part. I think that particular concert had Lynyrd Skynrd, Peter Frampton, and Santana. It was part of a regular concert series that went on for years, with a lot of big performers, like Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Joe Walsh, Marvin Gaye, Boz Scaggs, Smokey Robinson, the Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, ELO, etc. Probably no sunscreen back then, BTW.
@@dougtittl78418 But tanning lotions didn't have significant UV protection until the something like the mid-80s. I can't seem to find the specific SPF of old Coppertone products, but a similar product of the era had a SPF of 2.
yup. this year's top 400 for the 4th of july, on classic vinyl on sirius radio, the top 5 were 'baba oreilley', 'freebird', bohemian rhapsody', 'hotel california', and 'stairway to heaven'. i was on a boat off the west coast of vancouver island, salmon fishing, for 4 days, rocking out, trolling on the ocean, listening to the top 400 countdown. it was cool of them to run it through first, for july 1st, canada day, then start it over again, to count it down for the 4th of july.
Lynn-erd Skin-erd . The flag behind them was the Confederate battle flag that was used around this time to represent rebellion against authority and southern pride.
Great reaction to what to many was the anthem of a generation. Been enjoying seeing this make the rounds with you tube reactors but tonight was the first time I recognized the coliseum and realized I was at that concert-Now old enough to say those were the days❤
Linnerd skinnerd this how you pronounce it. Free bird the most requested song and guitar solo ever made. Miss Biss I thought your first reaction was amazing as usual.and all of Biss nation says Merry Christmas and happy New Year.❤❤🌞😁
Hear me out... Everyone that loves these songs grew up hearing them on the radio, and some of us watched the videos on MTV when it was still Music Television. It wasn't live versions that we heard. Studio tracks are what got us hooked. If you really want to discover it like 99% of us did, start there.
I saw Skynyrd in late July 1977 in Tulsa, Oklahoma about 2 months before the plane crash. Saw some great bands through the years, but "Freebird" live with the original band is about as good as it gets.
Well, the emotions are definitely touched in this gentlest of break-up songs ... gentle until the singer (the bird) realizes he's on his own again and TAKES OFF; HE'S FREE TO GO TO ALL THOSE PLACES HE'S GOT TO SEE! All those hippie gals 'n' guys in the audience are now grandmas and grand dads! Often difficult to fathom, to accept, the passage of time.
The sad thing was in about 3 months after this concert was the plane crash. I graduated from High School in 1977. The day if the crash was a very bad day for everyone.
it killed Steve Gains (lead guitarist), Kassy Gains (his sister and Honkette backup singer), Dean Kilpatrick (Band manager), Ronnie Van Zant (lead Vocalist) and the 2 piolets, It was going to be the last flight of this plane but it crashed before it could be retired. Charlie Daniles was good friends with the band and had been told they all had died. He later performed with them at their comeback concerts in the 80s
Hey Biss this song is freaking awesome guitar solo on speakers 😅& amps is like an out of body experience 😮 it's amazing.speaking of fillers did you know that Angus & bon scot, Angus would get on bons shoulders and Angus had a backpack on it would really smoke it was fantastic.amazing 1st reaction 👍👌 great job.Hey from all of Biss Nation!!!
I have a couple of friends that live in Romania, good people, this is the beauty of the internet. We stay in touch and introduce each other to our culture. Being American and Southern by the grace of God, a saying down south, I am super glad you enjoyed this video. It is unfortunate what happened to them that year, but the music lives on. And that is the most important thing.
110 days after this, "Day On The Green" stadium performance, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, along with a pilot, co-pilot and crew member, died when a chartered plane the band were traveling in, crashed hitting trees on impact in Mississippi, USA. Several other band members were seriously unjured with one being declared dead 3 times before being recuscitated successfully. The band had released their 5th studio album just three days before the crash. Singer Ronnie Van Zant who had been with the band since its beginning 13 years earlier, was only 29 years old. Tragic.
My aunt wrote Ronnie's mom after the crash to express her sympathy. She wrote back to show her gratitude. She still has them and I read them when I was 8 years old for the first time. I will always feel this song differently than most songs.
I’m 70 . they are well remembered. I love this. The kids seem to be having the time of their lives….brings back it to me.They don’t get their due. But in my estimation Top 10 ever.
I vividly remember being in the back seat of my Mom's car on the way to school (I was 10) that morning and hearing about the crash on the radio. RIP RVZ. Y'all left us with the greatest song in Rock history.
Was picking up a friend from school with money in my pocket to go buy tickets. While waiting for her they played 6 songs in a row. I was getting stoked until they came on after the last song and made the announcement.
I am 67 so I was 20 when this was performed Southern Rock was just hitting its peak and these guys were Kings. Now the best part this summer My son and 5-year-old grandson go to Tee Ball games twice week my grandson loves headbanger rock so I played this for him and he loved it. Great music has no age. It lets me connect with him even more.
My dear Bisscute. I was born in the 1960s, so I was around to see these legendary giant bands around when I was young and into my teens. Lynyrd Skynyrd was another superstar band of what was known as "Southern Rock." Times were a whole lot different then. It wasn't just the monster bands of music around then, but the people were different then as well. Look into the audience at the ladies: no horrible tattoos, horrible piercings, no phones, and there were no mental illness issues about genders then either. In general, people were more peaceful, much better looking, and more confident about themselves without the need for aggression. Keep looking, learning, and appreciating those bands and times because it's a wasteland out here today. Thank goodness we have the past to fall back on.
It's very easy to be confident if you're at the peak of the bell curve where a lot of other people are. I suspect part of the reason you don't see the types of people you describe as mentally ill (not the modern medical consensus, as far as I'm aware) in the audience is because they would risk life and limb if they were to show up.
Many a chic in that place. All of them loving on their guys. Wish I could have been there, but I was just a kid.. Big shoutout to everyone from this old, longhaired hippy dude in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Keep-a-Rockin. Peace and love y'all.
They all came from th same High School in Florida, the gym - physical education - teacher was named Leonard Skinner...no surprise the boys didn't get along with him lol and the name is a mangled spelling in 'honor' of him, and I guess they way they would pronounce his name
I was at that concert when I was a teenager. Oakland Coliseum day on the Green. Lynyrd Skynyrd was not the headliner. That went to Peter Frampton. Check that out you won't be disappointed
My oldest brother and sister both went to school (Forest High School, Jacksonville, FL) with Ronnie. Ronnie's father was our newspaper delivery man. Ronnie lived about four houses up the street from us. I was six years old and had no clue how "famous" they were. To me, they were just friends of my family. They played at my oldest sister's prom - admission was 50 cents! It was a very sad day for everyone when that plane went down.
My opinion, no other guitar solo compares to this one. What an amazing song by an iconic band! If u haven't seen the movie Kingsmen The Secret Service I recommend watching it for your other channel. It includes this song and its epic. Awesome reaction Biss!! ❤🔥🤘
5:20 No phones because they were not invented at that time. We had push button phones with a wire connected to the wall. 🙃 I was 16 back then. What a time we had!
Lynyrd Skynyrd has a very pretty song called "Tuesday's Gone." When I was young, it would be the last song played at a party or a bar. It was a signal to everyone that the night was coming to an end.
Thank you for watching the video, It means a lot to me . I will leave this pinned message here to REMIND everyone that i do not have TELEGRAM and there is no GIVEAWAY. Those you see are bot scams . Keep yourself safe and know that I would not ask for your info. ❤ ❤
*Artimus Pyle ( Drummer ) never gets the credit he deserves in this video. He has to keep the beat and tempo for three guitars to bounce off of plus keep them all together.. He is brilliant in being able to do it especially on a Live Stage.*
Nice video. These guys were really big back when I was in high school. I enjoyed your perspective. The band was involved in a bad plane crash. You should read up on that . Take care and have a great week.
Allen Collins. One of the most iconic guitar solos of all time, and one of the most tragic figures in rock history. Also 8:08 I hope the girl in the yellow tank top went on to live a full and fun life and has grandchildren that she can show this video to.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was my favorite band growing up and I never got to see them with Ronnie and Steve G but did go see them in Birningham Al in 1980 as the Rossington Collins Band and the last song they played was Freebird. No vocalist, just played it with a spotlight on Ronnie's black cowboy hat hanging on the mike stand center stage. My friend Tojo and I ran over to the Hyatt House hotel across the street from the concert venue after the show and I actually met Allen Collins and Leon Wilkeson as they got off the tour bus and headed into the hotel. Allen was swigging a bottle of Jack Daniels like it was a Cocacola...Great memory
Hello Bisscute, this group, and this particular song is one of the greatest of all times! This concert was part on the “Day on the Green Music festival” on July 2, 1977. There were 70,000, yes, 70,000 people at the music festival. This song was the very last song they played at Greenville, South Carolina (USA) on October 19, 1977. I saw the perform the night before on October 18, 1977 in Lakeland, Florida (near Walt Disney World). Imagine those people in Greenville, South Carolina and how the felt after learning the bands plane had crashed the very next night. So….”If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?” Yes, almost 47 years later, we STILL remember them! You did an excellent job on your video! I loved watching your reactions and emotions to this song! I will NEVER forget the music and crowd reaction at the concert I attended two day before the crash. Thank you for helping keep their music ALIVE! Phonically, their name is pronounced “Linerd Skinerd”. Love what you are doing!!
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To everybody reading these comments - THIS is why your grandparents were cooler than you will ever be!
yup. They dismissively do the "ok boomer" stuff which makes them look even dumber than they already are. The joke is on them, and we all know it.
Except for me, my mom and dad were 30 and 23 so it was _their_ generation here. Not them personally, they were in New York with a couple of kids at the time, except I think they would have gone to a concert like this at the time. (My dad listened to pre-disco Bee Gee's, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix (in addition to... for some reason, songs like "Funky Town") and my mom's taste in music to this very day ranges, yes, _from_ the New Christy Minstrels but all the way to Metallica.) _My_ grandparents were into 40's songs up to doo wop. ... Actually that's pretty cool in its own way too.
@thomasluttkus9956 you're just not cool
yep, we are cool
When I think about the state of the world and our country, it's because of your grandparents. We did get fooled again
The crowd was waiting for the tempo change because they knew it was coming. Welcome to 1970's Southern Rock....
Hi coming from England
I was in my Teens and definitely head banging to this when it picked up
I am now retired and still listening to ROCK Music👍👍👍All the best from Nottinghamshire UK
Funny how time slips away - Willie Nelson
I was at this concert, called Day On The Green, in Oakland. So many great concerts. Frampton was the headliner, probably a contractual thing because most folks were there to see LS.
@danmellis398, was there as well!!
@@steverobey711Norfolk resident here.This will be played at my funeral.
I can just imagine Bisscute transported back in time and being one of the girls in the audience, wearing a halter top or bikini top, and jumping up and down wildly.
I was born in 1959 and my mom took me to this concert for my 18th birthday. Bill Graham would promote these concerts called Day on the Green, meaning spend the day listen to music on the baseball outfield grass. I still live in Oakland, the concert was played at the stadium the Oakland A's and Oakland Raiders shared in 1977, the Oakland / Alameda County Coliseum. Those concerts aren't held anymore, I believe the last concert was in 1992. Lynyrd Skynyrd was only one band that played on July 2, 1977, I also got to see Peter Frampton, Santana and The Outlaws for $9. The 1960's & 1970's was an awesome time in the San Francisco Bay Area. My my took me to Civil Rights protests and women's equality speech's and these experience's molded me into who I am today, love you Mom ❤.
I was at that concert. Yes there were other bands but I don't recall who. This was called Bill Graham's Days On The Green. They played Saturday & Sunday. I was there with a beautiful blonde on shoulders, wherever she may be, God bless you Diana Hancock 😀
Tomorrow came and they left us. Yes, we still remember all of you.
No cell phones, 70's rocked , great review thx :)
Quite simply, one of the greatest songs ever written for electric guitar.
Brings back too many memories and tears. RIP all band members who died tragically and those members who have died since. They are all FREE BIRDS now.
AMAN,❤❤❤❤ brother
Today is actually the anniversary of this concert. July 2nd 1977. I was there up in the nose bleed section just a couple of weeks after graduating from high school! Good times and great memories!
Best song ever
I like Simple Man better but that's because in Memphis, TN Freebird was on the radio 3 times a day for 20+ years.
Watching this gives me goosebumps. A simpler, friendlier time. We were so innocent.
Imagine your granddad & grandmom at the concert.
"Woodstock".😊😊😊
Their first album is actually called "(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)". It's a play on their high school gym teacher's name, Leonard Skinner.
There's a legendary Canadian band named 'Sloane'. The name came from a teacher, she had a heavy french accent. Some of the band members were in a High School class together with some other friends. The teacher kept referring to one of the friends as "Slow one", but with her accent it sounded like 'Sloane'. The band got his permission to use the name as long as his picture was the album cover, done.
Although this is the story that has taken on it's own life, sorry to say - it's not true. There was a novelty song years ago called "A Letter From Camp" by Alan Sherman. One of the verses was "I went hiking with Joe Spivey, He developed poison ivy, You remember Leonard Skinner, He got Ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner". This was the Leonard Skinner they were referring to because whenever anybody answered the phone with "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" (instead of just "Hello"), the answer was always "Leonard Skinner". It had been a running joke with the band. It was only a wild coincidence that their high school teacher was also named Leonard Skinner. They used the teacher's name and the hair cut story after they got famous because it sounded much cooler.
Haha If she would have done one second of research, she'd have seen this haha
@@MikeBUSA Leonard Skinner indeed was the gym teacher at their high school. His life is well-documented. Bob Burns took “delight” in the gym teacher’s name. After he heard the same name in “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”, he suggested it as the band name. That’s Bob Burns’s story.
@@MikeBUSAI don't know I'd tend to believe their story from their own mouths from the Lynard Skynard documentary than your story.
You can never go wrong with some live Skinnerd free bird is the most requested song of theirs for almost every occasion from weddings to funerals, party's,and you have got to hear sweet home Alabama . That smell,Curtis Lowe, just to name a few.❤❤❤❤ Awesome miss Biss and can I get a BISS NATION!!!!😊😂
This was July 1977. The lyrics here are even more prophetic when you know that in about three months the plane crash occurred that killed Ronnie Van Zant (the lead singer), Steve Gaines (guitar player with the beard) and Cassie Gaines, his sister, and severly injured everyone else in the band. Not sure if there's a decent live video of them after this until October.
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"
If I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me? - Yes we would even now
Seen this tour in Chicago,it was like Oakland.
Makes me cry every time I see it.
So sad, I didnt know the details of it until your comment. Man o man. I only came into this world one month after that.
The fact that Ronnie Van Zant told his father he would never reach 30 makes it even more tragic.
I've always said that if you want to HEAR Freebird, listen to the studio version. It is the cleanest. But if you want to actually EXPERIENCE Freebird, you watch this live performance. The passion & soul they put into this performance is truly mind-blowing. One of the absolute greats! You also have to give Simple Man & Tuesday's Gone a listen to as well. And of course, Sweet Home Alabama. Anyway, great reaction! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Can't forget Curtis Lowe
And of course the ballot of Curtis lowe is another good song and so is give me three steps and also give me back my bullets.
Yes Curtis Lowe is great story 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
The studio version is very clean; this one is just nasty!
And bad ass!!!!
Saw Skynyrd several times including this tour at Tampa Stadium. I had recently turned 20. They were one of several great southern rock bands from the great state of Florida.
I was 24 in 1977. What a great year to be alive. I've seen LS 4 times live in my lifetime.
I never pass a new reaction up of Lynyrd Skynyrd and mainly because they're my all time favorite band and they'll always be my favorite band . They'll never be another band with that much talent in it ! Absolutely one of the greatest that's ever been .
Bisccute, I laughed out loud when you said, "Oh, my mother was only 2 years old then". I was 24 years old then and if you look at the faces out in the crowd and then understand that these young people are now grand parents or maybe great grand parent and many have passed on you can more easily put a time perspective on this concert. I'm from the sourthern United States, Georgia, actually and I have always loved Southern Rock and "Freebird" is sort of an anthem of that time. Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie and a few more bands provided the sounds that would come to be known as Southern Rock. I'm 70 years olf and still listen to it. Thank you young lady for helping some of us remember a time when we were young!!!
It was called A Day On The Green. Lynyrd Skynyrd was the 2nd to last performance. Peter Frampton finished the show.
You can see Sweet Home Alabama live from this same concert. It's incredible.
Thanks For The Skynyrd Reaction. Glad you liked it.
I know Peter Frampton is a legend and was probably in his prime at the time of this concert, but I can't help but feel bad for any band that had to follow this performance.
I was there. Loved those concerts
@@protonneutron9046 So was I. Went to Skyline High in Oakland in the 70s. Went to about 80% of the "Day on the Greens". All awesome....
Yeah, we left early on Frampton... Had to drive back to Monterey and after the Outlaws, Santana and Skynyrd.... Tough show to headline.
@@dennisdacosta2942 facts
This song was played at my father's funeral because it was his favorite song. Gives me mixed emotions of happiness and grief every time I hear this song, but it reminds me of my dad and that happiness overwhelms the sorrow.
Saw them January 5th 1977 in Honolulu. Got out of the Army that April. Free Bird was the last song. Lighters were lit everywhere. Was bragging about all the great bands I saw in Hawaii. Was shocked when in October we lost Ronnie Van Zant along with Steve and Cassie Gaines. So glad I saw them live. Also glad he had brothers who sound a lot like him. His voice and style live on through them.
Love your reaction to our big ole parties back then. Makes me realize how lucky I was.
Great southern rock band from the 60's-80's. It is very sad what happened to this band in losing so many members in a plane crash in 1977. My favorite songs are "Simple Man", "Free Bird" & "Sweet Home Alabama". They had lots of great songs such as "Call Me The Breeze", "Tuesday's Gone", "That Smell", "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew", "What's Your Name", "Saturday Night Special", "Gimme Three Steps" etc.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd was great with storytelling with their songs, like Gimmee Three Steps, Saturday Night Special, Tuesday's Gone, Simple Man and Call Me The Breeze.
I think Tuesday’s Gone is underrated as a classic rock song. So great. Loved it since Happy Gilmore.
Curtis Lowe is a great story too.
Call me the Breeze was JJ Cale song, not Skynrds. They covered it.
Not a bra was worn that day.😂 gotta love the 70’s
Simple man is so intense in meanings to me, makes me cry each time i listen to it.
My "first time reaction" to this was about 50 yrs ago :) But it still gets me every time. Thank you
I had the good opportunity to see Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert 2 times, 1976/1977. They were a great band. They could be hot or not so hot. I saw them in downtown Detroit on a hot night. A year later a few of them were deceased. Tragic, Embrace every day. They were Southern Fried Rock and Roll. An American Legend.
I was at this concert. It was EPIC! Oakland Coliseum. Over 75,000 in attendance that day. Great band. That night we went and partied on the beach near Capitola
Was it the '77 tour? I saw them August '77 in Poughkeepsie, NY. We got pulled over in the Volkswagen thing convertible on the way to the concert with the top down all drinking bottles of beer 😂
@@beverlymcgrath8441 It was the year Star Wars came out I think. (1977) I vaguely remember seeing Star Wars that same week.
I was there too. It was 77. Got to be up front. The run from the back to the front was torture after partying in the parking lot all night. But worth it. I spent a lot of weekends in Capitola in the 90's. Margaritaville and the Fog Bank were my 2 favorite hang outs.
@@speedmaverick Cool, haven't been to Magaritaville for years. Good times indeed.
this is 1 of the best live performances ever by a band,excellent choice😁😁😁
The first time i heard Lynyrd Skynyrd live was 15 years old, packed shoulder to shoulder with 17,000 other fans…. Almost 50 years later, that rendition of Freebird is the best concert moment I’ve experienced.
That guitar solo was a pure expression of rock music. Just a giant middle finger to radio stations who want all songs to be short so they can air more ads, and getting all everybody excited.
Very easily, the greatest rock-n-roll band to ever take the stage! Grew up listening to their music, saw them in concert, and loved them always! Hell, I've had 2 dogs named Skynyrd! Awesome!
Amazing
Gotta love the old school can of budweiser on the piano😂.....awesome band and an awesome song
I was 25 in 77. I was there and was part of this crowd. I miss those days!!!
Must have been a great time
I was there too!
I love me that southern rock. Oh Lord, please let me wake up tomorrow and it will be those awesome early 70's again. When the girls were so beautiful and the music was the best. Thank you for reacting to this awesome band and song.
Lynyrd Skynryd was part of the southern rock genre back then. Along with The Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet, Black Oak Arkansas, The Marshall Tucker Band and a few others that have slipped my mind at the moment.
Fifty years is a long time.
Wow, Black Oak Arkansas is a name I haven't heard in many years.
Tom Petty!
38 Special before they sold out
The Outlaws
CCR
@@SlayerO013 CCR wasn't considered southern rock.
Never ever ever ever will this be bettered,all these years later and years to come, truly epic.
You totally get it Bisscute. We were so lucky to live through those times but most of us didn't realize it until we got older. We knew we had great music, of course, but we didn't think it would go away. ☺✌❤, PJ
The concert was 47 years ago. A golden age.
This is a glimpse into the happiness of the late 1970s. I believe this was in Oakland, California. I was just a kid then, but I remember the feeling.
It was pure fun freedom then. Best time to grow up! So carefree!
It wasn’t too late in the ‘70s considering the plane crash was in October of ‘77.
Thank you for this reaction, Bisscute- you rock! I saw them Oct 13, 1977 at Georgia Southern College- one week before their plane crashed.
Crazy to think that most of those beautiful young women are grandmothers, and even great grandmothers now 🤯
And that most of their first children were conceived later this night.
Most times the crowd is just that, a large crowd. Here so many up close and personal faces. Love it. Imagine Grandma telling you she was at the show and then showing you herself up front with that big smile and bandana on her head. 😊
I had this exact same thought!
I would still bang them.
Not a bra in the place.
I've seen this before and my first comment was "I've NEVER seen this many girls at a hard rock show!" Not even for Guns & Roses. And they weren't just there with their boyfriends. They were really into the music.
Pretty sure all, the girls up front were there to see Peter Frampton, that day.
@@hoosiermaker2358 I know it was a festival and that totally makes sense, but all these girls were rocking out and singing along so even if they arrived for Frampton, they were definitely into LS also...or at least into "Freebird."
They authored many great songs, and, in my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful, called ‘Simple Man’. Still getting me 50 years later.
Three guitars, one bass, one piano, and a madman drummer, all working in perfect harmony. This version is a lot shorter than normal, probably because of time constraints for A Day On The Green. One of the best bands ever. RIP to all those who died in the plane crash, and since. The name is pronounced Leonard Skinard. I think it was a play on the name of one of their high school teachers but don't remember exactly.
Yes it was a play on their gym teacher Leonard Skinner who would constantly try to give them detention due to their long hair
High school jym teacher did not like their long hair. Later became friends with band. Even on stage sometimes
His name, Leonard Skinner.😊
This song is famous, practically like "Stairway to Heaven" or "Layla" is famous. You could see the crowd reacting in anticipation, knowing the song and the instrumental part. I think that particular concert had Lynyrd Skynrd, Peter Frampton, and Santana. It was part of a regular concert series that went on for years, with a lot of big performers, like Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Joe Walsh, Marvin Gaye, Boz Scaggs, Smokey Robinson, the Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, ELO, etc. Probably no sunscreen back then, BTW.
Back then we just used Baby Oil, maybe with a little iodine mixed in!!!!!!!!
coppertone has been around since the 1940s, on the bottle an aboriginal chief, "don't be a paleface"
@@dougtittl78418 But tanning lotions didn't have significant UV protection until the something like the mid-80s. I can't seem to find the specific SPF of old Coppertone products, but a similar product of the era had a SPF of 2.
yup. this year's top 400 for the 4th of july, on classic vinyl on sirius radio, the top 5 were 'baba oreilley', 'freebird', bohemian rhapsody', 'hotel california', and 'stairway to heaven'.
i was on a boat off the west coast of vancouver island, salmon fishing, for 4 days, rocking out, trolling on the ocean, listening to the top 400 countdown. it was cool of them to run it through first, for july 1st, canada day, then start it over again, to count it down for the 4th of july.
Lynn-erd Skin-erd . The flag behind them was the Confederate battle flag that was used around this time to represent rebellion against authority and southern pride.
Still does and always will.
100% southern.
Bless your heart
Герои минувших дней. Слава им ! Они собирали стадионы ! Ведущая умница ! Всё по делу сказала, молодец ! ❤
Great reaction to what to many was the anthem of a generation. Been enjoying seeing this make the rounds with you tube reactors but tonight was the first time I recognized the coliseum and realized I was at that concert-Now old enough to say those were the days❤
RIP 🙏 RONNIE! STEVE! AND CASSIE! They all died in a plane crash!😢 Also Ed! Garry! Allen! Billy! RIP 🙏 TO THEM ALL! 😢
Linnerd skinnerd this how you pronounce it. Free bird the most requested song and guitar solo ever made. Miss Biss I thought your first reaction was amazing as usual.and all of Biss nation says Merry Christmas and happy New Year.❤❤🌞😁
Hear me out... Everyone that loves these songs grew up hearing them on the radio, and some of us watched the videos on MTV when it was still Music Television. It wasn't live versions that we heard. Studio tracks are what got us hooked. If you really want to discover it like 99% of us did, start there.
6:28. Notice the wind is directly in their face! All the smoke and pheromones coming of that crowd!🌺🌸
Legend has it the lead break is still going to this day. Hehe
The reason the crowd picked up was they knew what was coming.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was among the best of the best, always on the radio in every city. The crowd knew this song by heart.
The energy in this song is absolutely electrifying!
My favotite song !
I saw Skynyrd in late July 1977 in Tulsa, Oklahoma about 2 months before the plane crash. Saw some great bands through the years, but "Freebird" live with the original band is about as good as it gets.
Well, the emotions are definitely touched in this gentlest of break-up songs ... gentle until the singer (the bird) realizes he's on his own again and TAKES OFF; HE'S FREE TO GO TO ALL THOSE PLACES HE'S GOT TO SEE! All those hippie gals 'n' guys in the audience are now grandmas and grand dads! Often difficult to fathom, to accept, the passage of time.
The sad thing was in about 3 months after this concert was the plane crash. I graduated from High School in 1977. The day if the crash was a very bad day for everyone.
it killed Steve Gains (lead guitarist), Kassy Gains (his sister and Honkette backup singer), Dean Kilpatrick (Band manager), Ronnie Van Zant (lead Vocalist) and the 2 piolets, It was going to be the last flight of this plane but it crashed before it could be retired. Charlie Daniles was good friends with the band and had been told they all had died. He later performed with them at their comeback concerts in the 80s
Hey Biss this song is freaking awesome guitar solo on speakers 😅& amps is like an out of body experience 😮 it's amazing.speaking of fillers did you know that Angus & bon scot, Angus would get on bons shoulders and Angus had a backpack on it would really smoke it was fantastic.amazing 1st reaction 👍👌 great job.Hey from all of Biss Nation!!!
I have a couple of friends that live in Romania, good people, this is the beauty of the internet. We stay in touch and introduce each other to our culture. Being American and Southern by the grace of God, a saying down south, I am super glad you enjoyed this video. It is unfortunate what happened to them that year, but the music lives on. And that is the most important thing.
110 days after this, "Day On The Green" stadium performance, lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, along with a pilot, co-pilot and crew member, died when a chartered plane the band were traveling in, crashed hitting trees on impact in Mississippi, USA.
Several other band members were seriously unjured with one being declared dead 3 times before being recuscitated successfully. The band had released their 5th studio album just three days before the crash. Singer Ronnie Van Zant who had been with the band since its beginning 13 years earlier, was only 29 years old. Tragic.
I was at this Day on the Green and several other Day on the Green concerts that summer
My aunt wrote Ronnie's mom after the crash to express her sympathy. She wrote back to show her gratitude. She still has them and I read them when I was 8 years old for the first time. I will always feel this song differently than most songs.
I’m 70 . they are
well remembered. I love this. The kids seem to be having the time of their lives….brings back it to me.They don’t get their due. But in my estimation Top 10 ever.
I vividly remember being in the back seat of my Mom's car on the way to school (I was 10) that morning and hearing about the crash on the radio. RIP RVZ. Y'all left us with the greatest song in Rock history.
Was picking up a friend from school with money in my pocket to go buy tickets. While waiting for her they played 6 songs in a row. I was getting stoked until they came on after the last song and made the announcement.
Was a very sad day for sure
I am 67 so I was 20 when this was performed Southern Rock was just hitting its peak and these guys were Kings. Now the best part this summer My son and 5-year-old grandson go to Tee Ball games twice week my grandson loves headbanger rock so I played this for him and he loved it. Great music has no age. It lets me connect with him even more.
I was there! Thank you for your reaction. It brought tears to my eyes.
I was there at this Day on the Green and several others that summer.
It is amazing someone so young gets it... Good on you!!!😉
They have a boatload of really good music. Saw them in april 77 when I was 16.
And there is a 3 Guitar Army...Southern Rocks Finest
One of the greatest songs and bands of all time!!!!! 😁 I am old, saw them at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. They were making the live album.
My dear Bisscute. I was born in the 1960s, so I was around to see these legendary giant bands around when I was young and into my teens. Lynyrd Skynyrd was another superstar band of what was known as "Southern Rock." Times were a whole lot different then. It wasn't just the monster bands of music around then, but the people were different then as well. Look into the audience at the ladies: no horrible tattoos, horrible piercings, no phones, and there were no mental illness issues about genders then either. In general, people were more peaceful, much better looking, and more confident about themselves without the need for aggression. Keep looking, learning, and appreciating those bands and times because it's a wasteland out here today. Thank goodness we have the past to fall back on.
Yeah but think of the sunburn
As far as I am concerned, the 70's were a care free time.
It's very easy to be confident if you're at the peak of the bell curve where a lot of other people are. I suspect part of the reason you don't see the types of people you describe as mentally ill (not the modern medical consensus, as far as I'm aware) in the audience is because they would risk life and limb if they were to show up.
You're either incredibly dumb and/or ignorant. I think you have a mental illness in fact.
Spoken by someone who wasn't a part of that time..
Probably the best band in Southern Rock. To see them with the original members was a memorable experience
your comment can be shortened to "The best band".
BUT I FEEL PRIVILEGED TO HAVE BEEN ALIVE THEN AND BOY DID WE HAVE FUN!!!
I love how *Biascute* see's the beauty and a good time. She didn't get into her "chair dancing" but she was jamming a long...
Many a chic in that place. All of them loving on their guys. Wish I could have been there, but I was just a kid.. Big shoutout to everyone from this old, longhaired hippy dude in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Keep-a-Rockin. Peace and love y'all.
They all came from th same High School in Florida, the gym - physical education - teacher was named Leonard Skinner...no surprise the boys didn't get along with him lol and the name is a mangled spelling in 'honor' of him, and I guess they way they would pronounce his name
I was at that concert when I was a teenager. Oakland Coliseum day on the Green. Lynyrd Skynyrd was not the headliner. That went to Peter Frampton. Check that out you won't be disappointed
I was there that day and several other Day on the Green concerts that summer.
One of the most American concert moments in history.
Bands that played at the “Day on the Green” festival included Peter Frampton, The Outlaws, Santana, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My oldest brother and sister both went to school (Forest High School, Jacksonville, FL) with Ronnie. Ronnie's father was our newspaper delivery man. Ronnie lived about four houses up the street from us. I was six years old and had no clue how "famous" they were. To me, they were just friends of my family. They played at my oldest sister's prom - admission was 50 cents! It was a very sad day for everyone when that plane went down.
One of the best live performances in Southern Rock history !!!!!!!
My opinion, no other guitar solo compares to this one. What an amazing song by an iconic band! If u haven't seen the movie Kingsmen The Secret Service I recommend watching it for your other channel. It includes this song and its epic. Awesome reaction Biss!! ❤🔥🤘
Solo from Comfortably Numb would like a word. 🙂
I think Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck have a few contenders.
Eddie Van Halen "Eruption " is the best.
@@julietvelarde3816 that one is awesome I’ll give u that
5:20 No phones because they were not invented at that time. We had push button phones with a wire connected to the wall. 🙃 I was 16 back then. What a time we had!
One of the greatest bands to ever exist
Lynyrd Skynyrd has a very pretty song called "Tuesday's Gone." When I was young, it would be the last song played at a party or a bar. It was a signal to everyone that the night was coming to an end.
I miss concerts from back in the day!!
Thank you for watching the video, It means a lot to me .
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Iconic song played by a legendary band. Saw them at Knebworth in 1976 supporting the Rolling Stones and 10cc. They were brilliant.
I grew up during this era and got to see so many good performances like this!
There was a lot of fantastic concerts back in them days and this band was one of the best
Hi cutie from Sheffield Yorkshire i was 13 at the time what a tind to b ALIVE ❤❤
This one means so much to me. Reminds me of my mom I lost at 8.. everyone deserves to be a freebird
Lovely sentiments,my friend.
*Artimus Pyle ( Drummer ) never gets the credit he deserves in this video. He has to keep the beat and tempo for three guitars to bounce off of plus keep them all together.. He is brilliant in being able to do it especially on a Live Stage.*
I had tears waiting for the tempo change. Great!!!❤️🦋
Yes kids those are your grandparents and they were once fire just like you think you are right now.😆
Best version of the band with Steve Gaines. This band is legendary. Top Musicians. Leon Wilkeson is a killer bass player !!
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Nice video. These guys were really big back when I was in high school. I enjoyed your perspective. The band was involved in a bad plane crash. You should read up on that . Take care and have a great week.
Allen Collins. One of the most iconic guitar solos of all time, and one of the most tragic figures in rock history. Also 8:08 I hope the girl in the yellow tank top went on to live a full and fun life and has grandchildren that she can show this video to.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was my favorite band growing up and I never got to see them with Ronnie and Steve G but did go see them in Birningham Al in 1980 as the Rossington Collins Band and the last song they played was Freebird. No vocalist, just played it with a spotlight on Ronnie's black cowboy hat hanging on the mike stand center stage. My friend Tojo and I ran over to the Hyatt House hotel across the street from the concert venue after the show and I actually met Allen Collins and Leon Wilkeson as they got off the tour bus and headed into the hotel. Allen was swigging a bottle of Jack Daniels like it was a Cocacola...Great memory
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Hello Bisscute, this group, and this particular song is one of the greatest of all times! This concert was part on the “Day on the Green Music festival” on July 2, 1977. There were 70,000, yes, 70,000 people at the music festival. This song was the very last song they played at Greenville, South Carolina (USA) on October 19, 1977. I saw the perform the night before on October 18, 1977 in Lakeland, Florida (near Walt Disney World). Imagine those people in Greenville, South Carolina and how the felt after learning the bands plane had crashed the very next night. So….”If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?” Yes, almost 47 years later, we STILL remember them! You did an excellent job on your video! I loved watching your reactions and emotions to this song! I will NEVER forget the music and crowd reaction at the concert I attended two day before the crash. Thank you for helping keep their music ALIVE! Phonically, their name is pronounced “Linerd Skinerd”. Love what you are doing!!