Gimme Three Steps was my first Skynyrd reveal. It was all over. Simple Man was epic: they played at Pinocchio's in Savannah and followed a dance band. Everyone out on the floor, dance rock just finished blaring; they set up on the far end of the floor and went into Simple Man and the place went dead quiet in a heartbeat. Watching that is what sold Al Kooper on them. Two amazing things about them: (1) Ronnie just stood there and sang, and owned the stage and audience; (2) they were not a performance group they were a rehearsal band. Everything you here is practiced and practiced and practiced some more at Hell House, right down to all the guitar solos.
@@morganspector5161 What a great experience, Morgan. I'm from Atlanta, was on the scene here, worked venues from 688 to Six Flags, worked The Fox... never saw Skynyrd perform. Sad. Those opening riffs of Three Steps were one of the first legit cool things I learned to play. I really love this stuff.
I took me years to listen or go to a concert after the plane crash. I live on the Westside of Jacksonville Fl. When I finally went to a concert I cried the whole time. These guys aren't just rock stars, they're family. They are very down to earth and are not snobby or arrogant like so many are.
More Lynyrd Skynyrd please"I need you","things goin on","ballad of Curtis Loew","Mr banker","I know a little" so many great songs. RIP Ronnie, Steve, Cassie, Bob, Ed, Leon, Billy and Allen fly high freebirds 🙏☮️
Jamel, I watched a great documentary on them last year. Fun fact: Ronnie never wrote down the lyrics to his songs. He said “if it ain’t worth remembering it ain’t worth singin.” Wow!
Growing up in a small Southern town, we use to have "Field parties" or what we called "Barn Burners". It would include a Bon fire of course. Skynyrd was a staple at these parties along with the Allman Bros. Band, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker etc. I'm 51 now and when I hear these songs I'm flooded with memories of my teen and early twenties. And I so enjoy watching you experience the music of my generation for the 1st time.
61 here, in Kentucky. We called them field parties, but they were all the same. A bonfire, some beer, some weed, and a hundred barefoot girls dancing. Also usually 20+ acoustic guitars so after we partied we could sit around the fire and sing TOGETHER. Peace!
In the days after 9/11 (a Tuesday) rock stations in DC turned this song into a sort tribute/meditation on the events of that day. We were all hurting, bewildered. Power of music.
Lynryd Skynyrd headlined the very first concert I ever saw - Easter Sunday 1976 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio. I was 15. Skynryd's current drummer was two years behind me at my high school in Solon, Ohio. He's been their drummer for about the past 20 years.
On October 19, 1977 I was at what would prove to be the last concert with Ronnie, Steve and Cassie in the lineup. It was at South Carolina's Greenville Memorial Auditorium. This was not the first time I had seen them in the classic lineup and the news that came after the crash was devastating to me. So many of the great classic rockers gone to soon and they all felt like a personal loss. God bless you man for keeping the music alive.
Watching you listen to these songs I've heard a million times makes me hear them as if they're completely fresh. You bring all the emotion, texture, and beauty back to life. Also, you've introduced me to some new music that I love now too--Juan Gabriel; woo-wee! Thank you so much for putting it all out there like you do.
Jamal, I grew up listening to this music, I grew up 20 miles from Jacksonville, im 52, I love your reaction videos keep up the good work. I'm a big fan
I was fortunate enough to see them live several times before the crash, and when they played this song, I'd close my eyes and just listen. It was almost trance like. It was impossible not to feel that way, and plus, I was soooooooooo in love with Artie, his drumming was positively mesmerizing. Thank you for doing this one.
Karen Lovett I saw them live 3 times after the crash, not as lucky as you but it was amazing just the same. The last concert we saw I took my 2 young daughters and they loved it, they still have Skynyrd songs on their playlists so I guess I raised my kids right lol.
Before the crash was definitely better than after! Nobody could replace Ronnie, not even his brother. I saw them at least a dozen time before the crash and a few times after. No comparison! One of my favorites from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I also was fortunate enough to see them many times before the crash. Actually experienced them 8 times in 2 weeks in 1975 - a group of friends and I followed them throughout the New York area. MIss those days and the music
Billy Powell was my introduction to rock piano and I’ve never experienced any better. Guy was a master. Should have been my first rock concert but they were sold out by the time I woke up. ZZ Top ended up being my first, and 20 years later my sons first concert. Saw the tour right after the crash with Rosington-Collins band. I’ll never forget the vocal free Free Bird. The whole crowd was singing.
The cost of being on the road all the time and what it does to relationship's. It's not easy on anyone when you are constantly gone. Don't know if it was actually one of Ronnie's relationship's but what a great song. Every song ever done by Skynyrd is a masterpiece, all the musicians were top of the line.
Yes sir!! Turn it up 🎸🎤♥️🔥 🥰 My guys from Jacksonville FL ♥️♥️ This coming Tuesday 10/20 is 43 years since that terrible plane crash that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve & Cassie Gaines, Dean Kirkpatrick & the 2 pilots 💔💔 RIP my Frynds ♥️🎤🎸 FREEBIRD was written first in 1970, Tuesdays Gone in 1973 🔥
@@kurtsaxton9665 remember it like it was yesterday 😔😢 They are & always have been my favorite band since I first heard Simple Man on the radio in 1973. A close friend had an extra ticket to the Greenville SC show & asked if I would like to go!! Of course, are you kidding me?! I live in Asheville NC about an hour away but 2 days before the show I became terribly sick & ended up with strep throat. The day of the show I had a fever of 104 and couldn’t even get out of bed so I didn’t get to go 😞 The next morning I had my radio on & heard the news of the crash and was immediately devastated. I was 17 😢 “That has been my biggest regret that I never got to see them live 😪😪 Sorry for the long post 🎸🎤 Turn it up!!
@@vickieray have a similar story with Zeppelin, had tickets reserved and the day they set a show date John Bohnam passed my biggest concert regret. But I did see some good shows late 70s through the 80s.
@@kurtsaxton9665 same with me 🤘🏼 I have seen many great shows over the last 50 years. The last show I’ve been to was Bob Seger in Greenville SC about 3 years ago 🎸🎤🔥 He is still amazing!
@@vickieray I've seen him many times, never dissapoints right now I'm on a Tedeschi Trucks, Samantha Fish some of the Independent lable artists alot of Bluegrass and Blues.
The studio version we all know sounds better technically but, Ronnie puts a little extra stank on it live. The guitars are always on point, studio or stage and as always percussion and piano/keyboards are excellent. This holds true for every live version I’ve heard.
Al Kooper, who produced their first three albums said that they practiced so much and so intently that they played a song the exact same way time after time. As a producer, he said they were a producer's dream in that regard. Dealing with Ronnie tended to be a bit hazardous at times though.
If I'm not mistaken, at this particular concert (Winter land 1976) Skynyrd was down to just two guitarists. Ed King had already left the band, and they hadn't picked up Steve Gaines yet. So I think this performance on this song was lacking the depth that a 3rd guitar could provide.
Ronnie Van Zant (singer) -- He told several people on more than one occasion that he'd die before he hit the age of 30, and he'd go out "with his boots on" -- he died when he was 29, in a plane crash at the beginning of the Street Survivors tour, on October 20th, 1977. RIP
I went to Muscle Shoals a couple of years ago and saw the Actual piano that Billy Powell played the Freebird solo on. When Van Zant heard him he asked him to play in the band. I thought it was the piano used to record the song as well, but apparently I was mistaken. Still, they had lots of pictures of the band before they became famous, and of so many other fine groups as well.
“The lyrics are band frontman Ronnie Van Zant's realization that his normal life is finished forever with the band's new MCA/Sounds of the South record deal. "Tuesday," representing life as it was, is gone with the wind. “
Tuesday is not a girl, it's a metaphor for a day off each week the band used to enjoy before hitting the big time. Now a major act, there are no days off and they are always on the road. It's a lament for a simpler time.
"I Need You" "Call Me the Breeze" "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller" "Cry for the Bad Man" "What's Your Name" "I Know a Little" "You Got That Right" "I Never Dreamed"
I feel so blessed to have lived in the time of such great groups, just old enough to be able to see them in concert, my cousins and me, Pine Knob excellent.
Finally some love for Lynyrd Skynyrd, they're from my home town. Some underrated songs of there's "Saturday Night Special", "Don't Ask Me No Question's", "On the Hunt", and "Swamp Music." Thank you for showing them some love. They give Jacksonville a good name 💗.
Both *Free Bird* & *Tuesday's Gone* appeared on their "first released" album called *(Pronounced 'Leh-'nerd 'Skin-'nerd).* The song *Free Bird* and several other songs were re-recorded for this album. The band scrapped their *"original debut"* in which the band released after the plane crash as an posthumous compilation album in 1978 *Skynyrd's First and... Last.* In 1998, the band decided release that full *"original first"* album called *Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album.* *Tidbit:* Ex-guitarist & vocals, founding member of *Blackfoot (well known songs "Train, Train" & "Highway Song") Rickey Medlocke* was a member of this version of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Playing mandolin, drums & some lead vocals. Rickey left in 1972 to start Blackfoot. He rejoined Skynyrd in 1996.
I was born in 1956 in Tennessee. We would hear Lynyrd Skynyrd on the radio. Then 8 track players by 1973 and 1974. A concert if we were lucky. No other means to see the performances. Thank you Jamel! If you would have been raised in the South, the lyrics would mean so much more to you. Bless you!
The lead guitarist has his own style of slow hand lead. This song showcases that really well. If you notice , he and the other members put their souls into their music; which shows that their music can be considered as Soul, as well as Southern Rock. They had a style that was all their own, and it worked great for them. Jamel, I could see how you were getting into the music with your own soul, feeling it like they meant it to be felt. As for when this was done. it was on the same album as 'Free Bird', 'Simple Man', and several of their other best songs. That was their best album, hands down! That said, practically all of their music was great. Their best performances were onstage live!
Lynyrd Skynyrd was the quintessential Southern Rock Band, after I heard the first album I was hooked. In my opinion the greatest Band Ever. GOD BLESS LYNYRD SKYNYRD, gone too soon!
I was going through a tough time in the early 2000s and purchased a CD of their hits. Even though I had grown up hearing their music, that cd stayed on heavy rotation for a while.
This was from the Winterland concert in 1976 ....They did a great rendition of T for Texas at this show you should check out all 3 guitaists have solos in it.
Watching this today on the anniversary of that terrible night in Mississippi. We were such huge fans. When we heard the news we just played all their albums and sobbed. Greatest southern-rock band of all time.☮️💕🎶
Another great ‘train song’ ......City of New Orleans ‘ by Arlo Guthrie. He is the famous Woody Guthrie’s son. A classic late 60’s song by Arlo that captures the spirit of those times is Alice’s Restaurant .
Jamel, I just have to let you know how much I enjoy your videos. Your reaction videos are the only ones I listen to as far as reaction videos. There's just something about you that is calming. I suffer from anxiety/panic disorder and ptsd, this past week has been harrowing, even to the point of being physically ill. This video popped up on suggestions so I'm standing on my balcony watching the last of today's sunset and blasting you and Skynyrd. Thank you so much. ❤
Great song pre-movie, but check out the flick Dazed and Confused - all the music you are discovering and Matthew McConaughey! This song is one of many, I believe this is at the end.
Love that movie! And Soundtrack!! He’s reacted to at least 5 of my requests that are on that track! Lol this is one, Slow Ride By Foghat, Rick Derringer, Alice Cooper 🤔😂😎 Love it!!
My 5 year old grandson passed away on a Saturday and we laid him to rest on a Tuesday. A day that forever broke my heart. Tuesday Gone!!!!!!! I miss you Hunter
My favorite band...I was 16 when this was recorded. ✌ ...and check out "Brickhouse Road" by Johnny VanZant, (the current singer). It's a tribute to his brother Ronnie.
My first Skynyrd album was Gold N Platinum. Every song spoke to my soul and 30yrs later, it still does ML&R to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and to Mr. Ronnie VanZant may he RIP
I am an all-in Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, and I still remember the first time I ever heard Tuesday’s Gone. It grabbed me and I was hooked. Before that I’d only heard Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird, of course, and I went out and bought the album, and every subsequent one as well. When the plane crash happened, I cried because I felt and still feel such a kinship to them and their music. Ronnie Van Zant was LS and the band touring and using the name now pales in comparison. I’m not a young woman anymore but I have a Skynyrd poster on my bedroom wall and anyone who rides in my SRX with me knows they’re going to hear at least a few of their songs. React to T For Texas, the version after Steve Gaines joined them. It rocks the house, Jamel. 😎✌️
You filling your soul and spirit with so much new found goodness...your already kind perspective on life is gonna evolve so much further than you can imagine. And that's on the strength... Much love, peace and God bless, Gardena High '86 in the mix.
Billy powell switching from the white Grand piano,to the Hammond,B-3 organ,wow, Freebird was always the grand finally,but they'd make you wait for it every time. Ronnie liked to see the crowd get worked up, then come out and say: What song is it you want to here!, I heard it then.
Such a magnificent song. Yeah it's my favorite of theirs, and you got a live version to boot. My man! Thank you so much. Keep doing your thing Jemel. This has been a spectacular week for you from Dark Star to this. Keep safe, and keep on keeping on.
These guys named their group Lynyrd Skynyrd after a high chool teacher told em they would never amount to anything...lol..they just spelled his name different
Actually it was a gym teacher named Leonard Skinner and he was the long hair nazi and he tried to make Gary Rossington cut his hair and Gary just said screw it and quit school. There was a song called Camp Granada about a messed up summer camp with a messed up councilor named Leonard Skynynd and when they were looking for a new name for the band Bob Burns the drummer popped off with Lynyrd Skynyrd everybody laughed and Ronnie Van Zant said that's it and the rest is history 🎸🎸🎸
Thanks for doing this one. My favorite Skynyrd song. They were truly on the edge of greatness when the plane crashed. Looking back at their songs and musicianship, they are really one of the best American bands ever and they had a lot ahead of them.
This is what was happening in high school. All the guitar players learning those iconic riffs. After the Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd was the other pillar of southern rock. Ed King was a Great guitar player as was Steve Gaines . Ed was in the strawberry alarm clock back in the 60s. They left too soon, really growing into being great songwriters right before the crash.
@@BigPete44 I just looked at YT a few minutes ago and as soon as I saw it I was so excited for you!! And for all of us! Great pick once again my friend!!
My step-neice's 15 year old son committed suicide on a Tuesday. She literally had to be carried in for the funeral, with her feet dragging behind her, as she sobbed uncontrollably. It was the saddest moment I have ever witnessed, until they played Tuedays Gone at the funeral. Her pain was obvious from her wailing as the song played, "Tuesday's Gone...my baby's gone...with the wind". She had come down on him hard for misbehaving. She left the house for a short time and when she came home, couldn't find him. She went outside to look for him, and found him floating in the pond with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She blamed herself for his death, and was unconsolable. It's been almost 20 years. The pain and sadness are still reflected in her eyes.
This song always make me sad. It gives me goosebumps. They really nailed the feeling of love lost. I always loved this song. I love that you LOVE this ol' music. Keep it alive my friend.
Crazy how young they were when they died in the plane crash. They always looked older, to me. One guitarist who died hadn’t even been in the band all that long. So tragic.
The late, grreat Billy Powell was a master on the keyboards. He could play a beautiful solo like he did on ths song, but then absolutely jam like he did on "Call me the Breeze." Woefully underrated.
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If u seen the movie happy Gilmore movie this song is at the ending of it
Where can I get the “Just be a good human” t-shirt with the white font instead of the black?
please listen to dancing with the moonlit Knight from genesis
please listen to dancing with the moonlit Knight from genesis
"Tuesday's Gone" and "Free Bird" were from the same album, along with the great "Gimme Three Steps" and "Simple Man."
INSANE body of work.
Gimme Three Steps was my first Skynyrd reveal. It was all over. Simple Man was epic: they played at Pinocchio's in Savannah and followed a dance band. Everyone out on the floor, dance rock just finished blaring; they set up on the far end of the floor and went into Simple Man and the place went dead quiet in a heartbeat. Watching that is what sold Al Kooper on them. Two amazing things about them: (1) Ronnie just stood there and sang, and owned the stage and audience; (2) they were not a performance group they were a rehearsal band. Everything you here is practiced and practiced and practiced some more at Hell House, right down to all the guitar solos.
Has he done , Sweet Melissa by The Allman Brothers...great song aslo!!!
@@morganspector5161 What a great experience, Morgan. I'm from Atlanta, was on the scene here, worked venues from 688 to Six Flags, worked The Fox... never saw Skynyrd perform. Sad. Those opening riffs of Three Steps were one of the first legit cool things I learned to play. I really love this stuff.
The main reason their first album was so full of great music is because they couldn't get a record contract for years.
I took me years to listen or go to a concert after the plane crash. I live on the Westside of Jacksonville Fl. When I finally went to a concert I cried the whole time. These guys aren't just rock stars, they're family. They are very down to earth and are not snobby or arrogant like so many are.
The 1970s Lynyrd Skynyrd lineups are cemented in music history as the quintessential southern rock band, and they earned that title.
More Lynyrd Skynyrd please"I need you","things goin on","ballad of Curtis Loew","Mr banker","I know a little" so many great songs. RIP Ronnie, Steve, Cassie, Bob, Ed, Leon, Billy and Allen fly high freebirds 🙏☮️
Don’t know much about the band, but love The Ballad of Curtis Loew.😊
Love seeing Mr. Banker mentioned....one of my favorites.
@@loop2kil233 mine too ☮️
Please Ballad of Curtis Lowe!!
Definitely do ballad of curtis loew, gimme three steps, and that smell.
Jamel, I watched a great documentary on them last year. Fun fact: Ronnie never wrote down the lyrics to his songs. He said “if it ain’t worth remembering it ain’t worth singin.” Wow!
I’d forgotten about that documentary, but yes was a great one to watch
There a few of them. This band has such an amazing history ✌️🇺🇸💜🎶🤩
I remember that documentary. He did write his songs on paper so they could copyright them but he didn't write them lyrically.
The ballad of curtis Loew is a must listen!!
Yep
LOVE that song
Indeed!!!
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I named my daughter Tuesday after this song in 1989. God I’m old 😦
And a pretty cool mom to do that.
That is very cool of you to name your daughter after this song.
Don't feel bad, I named my son Reed after Lou Reed in 1987- we all get old eventually if we are lucky enough :)
@@vikingrock4662 I don’t feel bad at all. She loves her name and everybody always remembers her
I so understand, 1985 is when I fell in love with Skynyrd. Seems like forever ago, and yet still, there hasn't been a band that even comes close .
Growing up in a small Southern town, we use to have "Field parties" or what we called "Barn Burners". It would include a Bon fire of course. Skynyrd was a staple at these parties along with the Allman Bros. Band, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker etc. I'm 51 now and when I hear these songs I'm flooded with memories of my teen and early twenties. And I so enjoy watching you experience the music of my generation for the 1st time.
😊 Here in Ontario we call those parties 'Bush parties'
I hear ya, NC/VA border son here, 56 now
Same here in Indiana..good times. I miss those days. 😌
North of Houston in the mid to late 70’s we had pasture parties,had some outlaw country in mix as well.
61 here, in Kentucky. We called them field parties, but they were all the same. A bonfire, some beer, some weed, and a hundred barefoot girls dancing. Also usually 20+ acoustic guitars so after we partied we could sit around the fire and sing TOGETHER. Peace!
JAMAL PLAY BALLAD OF CURTIS LOWE, OR COMING HOME.
Someone should definitely do Ballad of Curtis Lowe
Ballad of Curtis Lowe for sure!
Curtis Lowe
I 5th Curtis Lowe
Curtis Loew
My father's second wife died on a Tuesday, this was her song. My dad died a few years later and we played Simple Man for him.
What awesome tribute songs. I'm sorry for your loss. My father just passed last month and Freebird was played at his memorial. Peace and love.
@@hellscornalien8286 I'm sorry for your loss as well. My father lived for music and watching Jamel react to these great songs really warms my heart.
Ya Simple Man hits deep ...
Just got goosebumps reading this. What a beautiful way of paying tribute
My deepest condolences for your loss. R.I.P to them both.
In the days after 9/11 (a Tuesday) rock stations in DC turned this song into a sort tribute/meditation on the events of that day. We were all hurting, bewildered. Power of music.
Yeah. This song always brings a tear to my eye and makes me think of loved ones lost to us over the years who have left this world behind
Lynryd Skynyrd headlined the very first concert I ever saw - Easter Sunday 1976 at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio. I was 15. Skynryd's current drummer was two years behind me at my high school in Solon, Ohio. He's been their drummer for about the past 20 years.
My all time favourite band. So many classics. Can't ever go wrong with Skynyrd
And they did it roughly 5 years. Epic talent.
SAME
On October 19, 1977 I was at what would prove to be the last concert with Ronnie, Steve and Cassie in the lineup. It was at South Carolina's Greenville Memorial Auditorium. This was not the first time I had seen them in the classic lineup and the news that came after the crash was devastating to me. So many of the great classic rockers gone to soon and they all felt like a personal loss. God bless you man for keeping the music alive.
Watching you listen to these songs I've heard a million times makes me hear them as if they're completely fresh. You bring all the emotion, texture, and beauty back to life. Also, you've introduced me to some new music that I love now too--Juan Gabriel; woo-wee! Thank you so much for putting it all out there like you do.
Yes same here!!
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Jamal, I grew up listening to this music, I grew up 20 miles from Jacksonville, im 52, I love your reaction videos keep up the good work. I'm a big fan
I was fortunate enough to see them live several times before the crash, and when they played this song, I'd close my eyes and just listen. It was almost trance like. It was impossible not to feel that way, and plus, I was soooooooooo in love with Artie, his drumming was positively mesmerizing. Thank you for doing this one.
Karen Lovett
I saw them live 3 times after the crash, not as lucky as you but it was amazing just the same. The last concert we saw I took my 2 young daughters and they loved it, they still have Skynyrd songs on their playlists so I guess I raised my kids right lol.
Before the crash was definitely better than after! Nobody could replace Ronnie, not even his brother. I saw them at least a dozen time before the crash and a few times after. No comparison! One of my favorites from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I also was fortunate enough to see them many times before the crash. Actually experienced them 8 times in 2 weeks in 1975 - a group of friends and I followed them throughout the New York area. MIss those days and the music
This song always makes me cry. I sang this as I drove away from TN when I moved away. So much heart in this song.
Billy Powell on piano. The Honky Tonk Mozart, y'all.
RIP 💐
Truth
Only classical train one in the bunch. And I sure do miss my friends
Billy Powell was my introduction to rock piano and I’ve never experienced any better. Guy was a master. Should have been my first rock concert but they were sold out by the time I woke up. ZZ Top ended up being my first, and 20 years later my sons first concert. Saw the tour right after the crash with Rosington-Collins band. I’ll never forget the vocal free Free Bird. The whole crowd was singing.
The cost of being on the road all the time and what it does to relationship's. It's not easy on anyone when you are constantly gone. Don't know if it was actually one of Ronnie's relationship's but what a great song. Every song ever done by Skynyrd is a masterpiece, all the musicians were top of the line.
Curtis Leow, Swamp Music, Working For MCA.
Billy Strings Dealing Despair
This song makes an appearance in the most poignant moment of the movie Dazed and Confused.
Yup and Happy Gilmore too
Yep. Party's over, y'all. Literally and figuratively.
When I listen to SKYNYRD, so do my neighbors! And their neighbors! 🇺🇸🎸🇺🇸👌🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸👊🇺🇸
Easy listening for the hard of hearing.
Keep it alive, son, keep it alive!
Mine too, and they like it👍✌❤
one of the coolest, smoothest, most memorable and endearing songs ever written.
Yes sir!! Turn it up 🎸🎤♥️🔥 🥰 My guys from Jacksonville FL ♥️♥️ This coming Tuesday 10/20 is 43 years since that terrible plane crash that took the lives of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve & Cassie Gaines, Dean Kirkpatrick & the 2 pilots 💔💔 RIP my Frynds ♥️🎤🎸 FREEBIRD was written first in 1970, Tuesdays Gone in 1973 🔥
My brother was a first responder to the plane crash that fatal day.
@@kurtsaxton9665 remember it like it was yesterday 😔😢 They are & always have been my favorite band since I first heard Simple Man on the radio in 1973. A close friend had an extra ticket to the Greenville SC show & asked if I would like to go!! Of course, are you kidding me?! I live in Asheville NC about an hour away but 2 days before the show I became terribly sick & ended up with strep throat. The day of the show I had a fever of 104 and couldn’t even get out of bed so I didn’t get to go 😞 The next morning I had my radio on & heard the news of the crash and was immediately devastated. I was 17 😢 “That has been my biggest regret that I never got to see them live 😪😪 Sorry for the long post 🎸🎤 Turn it up!!
@@vickieray have a similar story with Zeppelin, had tickets reserved and the day they set a show date John Bohnam passed my biggest concert regret. But I did see some good shows late 70s through the 80s.
@@kurtsaxton9665 same with me 🤘🏼 I have seen many great shows over the last 50 years. The last show I’ve been to was Bob Seger in Greenville SC about 3 years ago 🎸🎤🔥 He is still amazing!
@@vickieray I've seen him many times, never dissapoints right now I'm on a Tedeschi Trucks, Samantha Fish some of the Independent lable artists alot of Bluegrass and Blues.
The studio version we all know sounds better technically but, Ronnie puts a little extra stank on it live. The guitars are always on point, studio or stage and as always percussion and piano/keyboards are excellent. This holds true for every live version I’ve heard.
Al Kooper, who produced their first three albums said that they practiced so much and so intently that they played a song the exact same way time after time. As a producer, he said they were a producer's dream in that regard. Dealing with Ronnie tended to be a bit hazardous at times though.
If I'm not mistaken, at this particular concert (Winter land 1976) Skynyrd was down to just two guitarists.
Ed King had already left the band, and they hadn't picked up Steve Gaines yet. So I think this performance on this song was lacking the depth that a 3rd guitar could provide.
One of my favorites. I also like there songs Simple Man and That Smell ✌🎸
A true all American band,,I believe they were the best home made band in history of R&R.
@Bryan Robinson ?
Ronnie Van Zant (singer) -- He told several people on more than one occasion that he'd die before he hit the age of 30, and he'd go out "with his boots on" -- he died when he was 29, in a plane crash at the beginning of the Street Survivors tour, on October 20th, 1977. RIP
He died on my 18th birthday.
I had tickets for October 22 1977 at Roberts Stadium in Evansville Indiana
@@rmacbobco 😢
He was called home to sing to god
can you imagine being in the studio and hearing him sing this. it would have been a religeous experience.
The piano player was a roadie...he was tuning the piano one day playing that part. Soon after, he was in the band
Right story, wrong song. That was "Free Bird."
I went to Muscle Shoals a couple of years ago and saw the Actual piano that Billy Powell played the Freebird solo on. When Van Zant heard him he asked him to play in the band. I thought it was the piano used to record the song as well, but apparently I was mistaken. Still, they had lots of pictures of the band before they became famous, and of so many other fine groups as well.
who would have ever thought that they had a classically trained pianist as a roadie. Thank you Billy Powell...RIP. Your piano lives on
Billy Powell's mother was a Concert Pianist, and Billy was Classically trained.
@@patclark3024 Never been there but I did make it to Alabama once
“The lyrics are band frontman Ronnie Van Zant's realization that his normal life is finished forever with the band's new MCA/Sounds of the South record deal. "Tuesday," representing life as it was, is gone with the wind. “
Tuesday is not a girl, it's a metaphor for a day off each week the band used to enjoy before hitting the big time. Now a major act, there are no days off and they are always on the road. It's a lament for a simpler time.
She's gone...my baby's gone
My favorite song to ever be, thank you for sharing this with your audience.
One of the best songs of all time!
I always think of my late Dad whenever I hear this song because he died on Tuesday, R.I.P. Dad🙏
One of my favorite songs of all time. Thanks for reacting to this. You are the best!
This is GOLD. I dang near had a religious experience listening to it.
Metallica also does a cover for this song too need to hear that too
@@brandoblack7376 I'll check it out!
U SAID IT MAN!
Yes!!!! Always Skynyrd, favorite band of all time, all genre's of music. Yes.
"I Need You"
"Call Me the Breeze"
"Whiskey Rock-a-Roller"
"Cry for the Bad Man"
"What's Your Name"
"I Know a Little"
"You Got That Right"
"I Never Dreamed"
Call me the Breeze. My Anthem.
@@sharonsmith696 that piano solo
@@kingadalou just love it. I can be in a bad mood. Hear this and smile from ear to ear.
I feel so blessed to have lived in the time of such great groups, just old enough to be able to see them in concert, my cousins and me, Pine Knob excellent.
My second favorite song by Skynyrd The Ballad of Curtis Loew will always be my number 1
Finally some love for Lynyrd Skynyrd, they're from my home town. Some underrated songs of there's "Saturday Night Special", "Don't Ask Me No Question's", "On the Hunt", and "Swamp Music." Thank you for showing them some love. They give Jacksonville a good name 💗.
Ballad of Curtis Lowe, it's a slow tune but very meaningful.
only if its a studio version....I've never heard a good live version of this song by them either and I've been a fan of the band for 40 years now!
Here's a link to the studio version: ua-cam.com/video/GO7Vj3zHynE/v-deo.html
Both *Free Bird* & *Tuesday's Gone* appeared on their "first released" album called *(Pronounced 'Leh-'nerd 'Skin-'nerd).* The song *Free Bird* and several other songs were re-recorded for this album. The band scrapped their *"original debut"* in which the band released after the plane crash as an posthumous compilation album in 1978 *Skynyrd's First and... Last.* In 1998, the band decided release that full *"original first"* album called *Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album.*
*Tidbit:* Ex-guitarist & vocals, founding member of *Blackfoot (well known songs "Train, Train" & "Highway Song") Rickey Medlocke* was a member of this version of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Playing mandolin, drums & some lead vocals. Rickey left in 1972 to start Blackfoot. He rejoined Skynyrd in 1996.
Gary Rossington is a criminally underrated guitarist
..so was Allen Collins
Cream of the crop, both of 'em!
I was born in 1956 in Tennessee. We would hear Lynyrd Skynyrd on the radio. Then 8 track players by 1973 and 1974. A concert if we were lucky. No other means to see the performances. Thank you Jamel! If you would have been raised in the South, the lyrics would mean so much more to you. Bless you!
"I Need You," "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe," and "Cry for the Badman" are 3 of my faves by them and are most definitely worth checking out.
The lead guitarist has his own style of slow hand lead. This song showcases that really well. If you notice , he and the other members put their souls into their music; which shows that their music can be considered as Soul, as well as Southern Rock. They had a style that was all their own, and it worked great for them.
Jamel, I could see how you were getting into the music with your own soul, feeling it like they meant it to be felt.
As for when this was done. it was on the same album as 'Free Bird', 'Simple Man', and several of their other best songs. That was their best album, hands down! That said, practically all of their music was great. Their best performances were onstage live!
One of the best songs ever written... Probably my favorite Skynyrd song, not for sure though, so many greats!
Lynyrd Skynyrd was the quintessential Southern Rock Band, after I heard the first album I was hooked. In my opinion the greatest Band Ever. GOD BLESS LYNYRD SKYNYRD, gone too soon!
I was going through a tough time in the early 2000s and purchased a CD of their hits. Even though I had grown up hearing their music, that cd stayed on heavy rotation for a while.
music that feeds my soul... long live Lynyrd Skynyrd
You can’t go wrong with “I know a little bout a lot” and “ working for MCA” definitely the best southern rock band
The line is actually I know a little bout love and baby I can guess the rest and the title is just I Know A Little 😁
I always say I know a lot about a little and a little about a lot.
The song, "I Know a Little", is a very underrated Skynyrd diamond.
@@johnbolin3325 When you're right, you're right...lol. 👍
Im touched. Most heartfelt. True gem
This was from the Winterland concert in 1976 ....They did a great rendition of T for Texas at this show you should check out all 3 guitaists have solos in it.
Watching this today on the anniversary of that terrible night in Mississippi. We were such huge fans. When we heard the news we just played all their albums and sobbed. Greatest southern-rock band of all time.☮️💕🎶
Another great ‘train song’ ......City of New Orleans ‘ by Arlo Guthrie. He is the famous Woody Guthrie’s son.
A classic late 60’s song by Arlo that captures the spirit of those times is Alice’s Restaurant .
City of New Orleans is one of my all-time favorite songs.
Thank you so, so much. This band has fallen out of favor. I used to hear them regularly..and I miss them!!
I Need You is my favorite ballad of theirs. Very bluesy. They are my favorite band of all time. Love everything they did. Amazing band!
Dayum fine stuff! Jamel is hitting the good ones today! One of my favorites by Skynyrd and I LOVE Gary Rossington's guitar playing!!!
Never tire of listening to this group and seeing them is great.
This is my third favorite by Skynyrd. Simple man and The Ballad of Curtis Lowe are the first two, respectively. Ty!!!
Jamel, I just have to let you know how much I enjoy your videos. Your reaction videos are the only ones I listen to as far as reaction videos. There's just something about you that is calming. I suffer from anxiety/panic disorder and ptsd, this past week has been harrowing, even to the point of being physically ill. This video popped up on suggestions so I'm standing on my balcony watching the last of today's sunset and blasting you and Skynyrd. Thank you so much. ❤
Thanks for all you do! Here's a masterpiece: "A Song for You" - Leon Russell (Live, 1971)
He's already done it. Last week, I think.
Love 💜 this band & this song. History. 🎶
They take you to church and pull hard on the heart strings.
Great song pre-movie, but check out the flick Dazed and Confused - all the music you are discovering and Matthew McConaughey! This song is one of many, I believe this is at the end.
Definitely!
Love that movie! And Soundtrack!! He’s reacted to at least 5 of my requests that are on that track! Lol this is one, Slow Ride By Foghat, Rick Derringer, Alice Cooper 🤔😂😎 Love it!!
My 5 year old grandson passed away on a Saturday and we laid him to rest on a Tuesday. A day that forever broke my heart. Tuesday Gone!!!!!!! I miss you Hunter
My favorite band...I was 16 when this was recorded. ✌
...and check out
"Brickhouse Road"
by Johnny VanZant,
(the current singer).
It's a tribute to his
brother Ronnie.
Have you heard Ronnie's Song by Jimmie Van Zant? Another great tribute song. Reflections by Charlie Daniels has a verse about Ronnie as well
It's Brickyard Road.
@@choelwhite2965 oh damn......🚬
Amazing song. I had goosebumps. Amazing vocals, arrangement, executed to perfection... in my opinion
“All I Can Do Is Write About It” THE forgotten Skynyrd classic
I'LL NEVER FORGET
Yes it is
Love that song
My first Skynyrd album was Gold N Platinum. Every song spoke to my soul and 30yrs later, it still does ML&R to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and to Mr. Ronnie VanZant may he RIP
I am an all-in Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, and I still remember the first time I ever heard Tuesday’s Gone. It grabbed me and I was hooked. Before that I’d only heard Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird, of course, and I went out and bought the album, and every subsequent one as well. When the plane crash happened, I cried because I felt and still feel such a kinship to them and their music. Ronnie Van Zant was LS and the band touring and using the name now pales in comparison. I’m not a young woman anymore but I have a Skynyrd poster on my bedroom wall and anyone who rides in my SRX with me knows they’re going to hear at least a few of their songs. React to T For Texas, the version after Steve Gaines joined them. It rocks the house, Jamel. 😎✌️
T for Texas is awesome
Beautiful Song! I play it all the time! Skynyrd!!! This song live sounded Amazing!
Tuesday the girl is gone and Tuesday the day is gone. Nothing but left to face Wednesday..
Nailed it
And Pugsly!
WINTERLAND is where I saw my first concert in 1971. . . Tower Of Power.
Freebird!
Lynyrd Skynyrd, “I Ain’t The One”. It’s a must listen/reaction.
Favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song of all time! It’s soulful, deeply intimate, and masterfully executed in regards to the lyrics, vocals, and music.
Now this is one of the most memorable songs to me.
We need more Lynyrd Skynyrd .....speaks to my down home soul.
Curtis Loew by skynyrd. One of my favorites. You won't regret it.
Thank YOU!!! JJ, for helping to keep great music alive. Two way street, dig it my brother. Peace, love, happiness.... Music.
Tuesday's Gone and Simple Man are my too favorite Skynyrd ballads.
You filling your soul and spirit with so much new found goodness...your already kind perspective on life is gonna evolve so much further than you can imagine. And that's on the strength...
Much love, peace and God bless,
Gardena High '86 in the mix.
Billy powell switching from the white Grand piano,to the Hammond,B-3 organ,wow, Freebird was always the grand finally,but they'd make you wait for it every time. Ronnie liked to see the crowd get worked up, then come out and say: What song is it you want to here!, I heard it then.
Such a magnificent song. Yeah it's my favorite of theirs, and you got a live version to boot. My man!
Thank you so much.
Keep doing your thing Jemel. This has been a spectacular week for you from Dark Star to this. Keep safe, and keep on keeping on.
These guys named their group Lynyrd Skynyrd after a high chool teacher told em they would never amount to anything...lol..they just spelled his name different
I thought it was a janitor who didn't like their long hair
@@jglynnlc1 Nah...it was a teacher at Robert E. Lee H.S. in Jacksonville who gave them toms of shit and wanted them kicked out.
They actually interview Leonard Skinnard for the Skynyrd documentary. It is available on UA-cam, I wish I had the link.
Actually it was a gym teacher named Leonard Skinner and he was the long hair nazi and he tried to make Gary Rossington cut his hair and Gary just said screw it and quit school. There was a song called Camp Granada about a messed up summer camp with a messed up councilor named Leonard Skynynd and when they were looking for a new name for the band Bob Burns the drummer popped off with Lynyrd Skynyrd everybody laughed and Ronnie Van Zant said that's it and the rest is history 🎸🎸🎸
His name was Leonard Skinner
Thanks for doing this one. My favorite Skynyrd song. They were truly on the edge of greatness when the plane crashed. Looking back at their songs and musicianship, they are really one of the best American bands ever and they had a lot ahead of them.
Ronnie Van zant didn't wear shoes so he could feel the stage .. when he sang. 💛🎸🎸🎤🎤this Band is really cool 🔥🎼
This is what was happening in high school. All the guitar players learning those iconic riffs. After the Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd was the other pillar of southern rock. Ed King was a Great guitar player as was Steve Gaines . Ed was in the strawberry alarm clock back in the 60s. They left too soon, really growing into being great songwriters right before the crash.
Jamel!! Thanks my brother!! I appreciate it!! 🙌💯✊
Atlanta,Ga. In the house.😊🥰✌
Hey Carla! Awesome! Bronx, NY here! 😎❤️
Pete!! You did it again!! 🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏👏👏❤️
Kara Yes!! 🙌😂 Jamel is the man! I requested studio or this live version and left it up to him! Great song!
@@BigPete44 I just looked at YT a few minutes ago and as soon as I saw it I was so excited for you!! And for all of us! Great pick once again my friend!!
The Ballad of Curtis Lowe. That's your next Skynyrd jam. Trust me. Great story song, great vibe, you'll love it.
My step-neice's 15 year old son committed suicide on a Tuesday. She literally had to be carried in for the funeral, with her feet dragging behind her, as she sobbed uncontrollably. It was the saddest moment I have ever witnessed, until they played Tuedays Gone at the funeral. Her pain was obvious from her wailing as the song played, "Tuesday's Gone...my baby's gone...with the wind". She had come down on him hard for misbehaving. She left the house for a short time and when she came home, couldn't find him. She went outside to look for him, and found him floating in the pond with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She blamed herself for his death, and was unconsolable. It's been almost 20 years. The pain and sadness are still reflected in her eyes.
Your comment made me very emotional; my heart broke while reading it. I'm so sorry. Love to your family.
Truly one of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs. So glad you reacted finally!
this song always reminds me of the movie " dazed and confused "
Jamel thank you for keeping us sane through these tough times keep up the good work and keep the fabulous music coming. From all in the UK
Can’t go wrong with Skynyrd...just pick any of their songs.
The old Skynyrd, not the newer version.
Deep deep well, for sure. It's all good 😊 these guys were amazing!
THE SOUL in Skynnyrd is unmatched....
I always get sad seeing Ronnie, all the ones gone, but for some reason, ts always been especially hard for me to see Cassie, and not get all shaky...
Masterofsparks Hwy6 Same. When they showed Cassie singing I got really sad.
This song always make me sad. It gives me goosebumps. They really nailed the feeling of love lost. I always loved this song. I love that you LOVE this ol' music. Keep it alive my friend.
Check out the LS documentary “If I Leave Here Tomorrow”.
Is that the one where they actually interview Leonard Skinnard, their old teacher form HS? One documentary I saw years ago, had him in it.
Link please?
ua-cam.com/video/Loo320c79aI/v-deo.html
Crazy how young they were when they died in the plane crash. They always looked older, to me. One guitarist who died hadn’t even been in the band all that long. So tragic.
I just told him to also! 😊
The late, grreat Billy Powell was a master on the keyboards. He could play a beautiful solo like he did on ths song, but then absolutely jam like he did on "Call me the Breeze."
Woefully underrated.