*Having been a roadie for Lynyrd Skynyrd and having been to this crash site, Id like to say you did a great job on this presentation, on this holy ground!*
@Scotty Mack Sorry Scotty, I was in Jacksonville only two times, once to pickup Odom (Ronnies Buddy date unknown) and once in the late 1980s.... Was never in the bars there, was always working.
I remember arriving at school and hearing everybody talking about the crash. Skynyrd were pretty big amongst our student body and they were missed dearly. Nice job on this one guys. It still brings a tear to my eyes all of these years later.
same here. my sophomore year of high school. guys in my class were literally in tears about it. I am sad to say that I had no idea who Lynyrd Skynyrd was at the time. I eventually caught up. I grew up in South, MS but on the coast.
A couple of years ago my son sent me Simple Man via text to listen to."Mom, everytime I hear this song it reminds me of you." It meant alot to me as my adult son is a man of few words. My daughter's husband's father passed at a young age. His favorite song was Free Bird. Thanks Adam.
I was little girl but remember being at the grocery store with my mom that day and the teenager who took our grocery bags out to our car for my mom looked as if he had been crying. My mom asked him if he was ok and he told her about the plane crash and he had just been to their concert. They were his favorite band. So sad! Amy ~Greenville, SC
great video,Woo. I still have my ticket for the Skynyrd concert that was to be held at Madison Square Garden NYC on November 10th. '77. I have it framed and hanging on my living room wall...it is one of my most cherished possessions.
I remember about a month after the plane crash, a friend and I were shopping in the record department of Sears. I found a "Street Survivors" album with the original artwork (with flames around the band members). I was like "damn, I have to buy that". It's still in my album collection.
I didn't know that they built a memorial for them . That's nice . Gone too soon , but never forgotten . Sorry you guys got caught up in the rain . Thank you both for taking us along and sharing this video .
Deb from Idaho~~~~~What a wonderful tribute this town has given to one of the best bands that there ever was. RIP Ronnie and your fellow band entourage. FREE BIRD!!!!!
I just visited this site February 15, 2020. I was headed down to Baton Rouge to see Blackberry Smoke in concert. This memorial of Lynyrd Skynyrd is beyond beautiful and it was even more special when I visited that day because the owner of the land that donated this site and another gentleman whom both were at the crash that night was there telling everyone their story of that fateful night. ❤️
Adam, I like the way you allowed the rain and the silence to commemorate their memory, instead of background music. Nicely done. Rest peacefully, all of you.
That’s my granddads old gas station. My grandmother lives a few miles down the road and the family has the gas station sign. My dad has a ton of family still in the town and a lot of them were the first ones to make it to the crash site. (It’s also pronounced Gillsburg like Vince Gill).
A very respectful vlog to a great classic rock band. The nature sounds of wind & rain drops during the closing shots made for a somber, moving experience.
When I was nineteen years old I was able to see Lynyrd Skynyrd during their "Gimme Back My Bullets" tour. This was in January of 1976, Corpus Christi TX, with the Outlaws as the opening act. I still have the concert flyer that I picked up at a Head Shop and it is framed, hanging up. That concert is in the Top 5 of the many that I have been to.Ed King had left the band and it was the "Two Guitar Attack " of Collins and Rossington. I still remember Ronnie Van Zany commenting that the stage was hot that night and that it was burning his bare feet. Man! When they closed with FREEBIRD the place came apart! Hearing FREEBIRD and GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES at the same show was something that you never forget if you loved Hard Rock Southern Rock and Metal, the way I did then AND STILL DO! i'm 62 now, got diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure a month ago and they tore down the Coliseum several years ago, but I still fly my FREAK FLAG and I have my own little memorial to Skynrd which are three bricks held together by mortar that came from the Coliseum where I got to see the GREATEST SOUTHERN BAND', THE BAND THAT STARTED IT ALL, LYNRYD SKYNYRD! STARS AND BARS FOREVER!!!🎸🎶🔊🤣🤘😝✊
Collins and Rossington are good, but Steve Gaines was the master picker and player. Not only that, his voice was right up there with just about anyone in the rock scene at that time. He was super gifted, and fit in with Ronnie really well!
What a beautiful memorial. I didn’t realize it even existed until seeing this.Thank you for making this video. Like many people of my generation, many of those songs were the soundtrack to our youth. Street Survivors is such a great album because the band was growing and getting better as each year passed. I was just listening to this album the other day and I often wonder what they would have been able to produce after this. The bands entire works are classic and would still be historic if they were still alive. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ronnie’s brother Johnny and Gary Rossington and all the players for keeping the band going for all these years.
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Tuesday's gone with the wind. Life can change suddenly & we can never go back and undo the past. Thanks Adam for doing this, you always have such great vids.
Great homage to the band & what happened back in October of 1977. I remember just sitting in shock when the word came out. I was able to setup Lynyrd Skynyrd's stage in Dover for Big Barrel Festival. Still have photos of the equipment. Never felt prouder than I did that day. Everybody was busy doing the last minute change over from Firefly. They had a great set & we got them loaded out real quickly and shook all their hands as they left. Gary was glad we knocked it out and allowed them time to get rest before they left. Thank you for sharing this video. I've heard alot about the memorial but yet to see it even in pictures. 👊👍🤘.
Enjoyed the video. We were able to visit the site a while back with permission to recover artifacts related to the crash. The owners of the actual crash site are very protective of it and we were asked to keep watch for anyone trespassing. Currently we were also contact by band family members about some of those items being in an upcoming Skynyrd museum or other similar type of location. We displayed the relics free to the public for the first time last month in SC at a relic show.
The plane that crashed was an old converted Convair. It was owned by an airline, then Jerry Lee Lewis bought it and converted it to an Entertainers Aircraft. Basically, the plane was "worn out" from years of use, when Jerry Lee Lewis sold it to an aircraft leasing company in Dallas, Texas. This Aircraft had a lot of problems in it's last years. Notice there is no mention of the two pilots that died. It was their bad judgement to keep flying that piece of crap without proper maintenance that was a major determining factor in the crash and lost lives. Thanks for another great tribute video Adam. Excellent viewing.
The actual airframe was in fine shape, but the engines, more than likely were nearing overhaul. The problem was a bad mag, which controls the ignition timing. Thus, the engine runs really rough, and consumes fuel at twice the rate as compared to a properly timed engine. They had a bad case of "get there itis", (very common saying in aviation circles) which is the cause of many aircraft crashes. Pilots push on instead of landing, thinking just a little bit more and we'll be there. It has costed thousands their lives!
first of all you were not there - you have no idea what the pilots were thinking - I know this - they didn't want to die either - No one gives them any credit for the 20 people who lived - No good comes from being critical of those who can't defend themselves
@@davidrice3337 You need to go to the UA-cam Channel "True Backstage and Road Stories". This is Mark Howards You Tube Channel. He was on that Aircraft. He was lucky enough to have survived the crash. He was Lynyrd Skynyrds Lighting Technition. He will tell you in detail about that flight and exactly what happened. This man has been a Lighting Technition for the biggest Touring Rock and Country Music Acts for decades. A true legend.
Great job guys!! An excellent vid paying tribute to the best Southern Rock Band to ever hit the stage. I loved LS and especially Ronnie. I bought Street Survivors on the day it was released. Saw em in concert in February of 77, and said goodbye in October of same year. Fly High Gang. You’re All Free Birds Now.. Much Love from NC.
Went to Allen Collins's home and met his mom. I sold her a cell phone many years ago. Didn't even realise who she was until I started noticing the gold records on the wall of her living room.
I brought french doors to Leon Wilkinsons house years ago in Ponte vedra ..he had a house in sawgrass....records all over the place ..fucking awesome memory
Very nice memorial they have there. On a side note I don't know if everyone else commenting knows that some time before Lynyrd Skynyrd decided to use this plane there was another band that at some point had considered using it and ultimately decided not to. That band was Aerosmith. It is somewhat fitting that you are doing this video on a cloudy, rainy day.
Interesting. I do believe this was also the last time they were going to use this plane as it had too many issues in the months leading up to this. They were going to buy a new plane.
Beautifully done! Thanks for doing this video! And that memorial site is gorgeous! This has brought back a lot of memories. Again, thank you! God bless! 💞💞
I was almost 7 years old when this happened. Not until I was an adult did I start loving this band and buying all their albums. I love every song they sing with the exception of maybe one. They'll always be my favorite rock band. Such a tragedy and loss. But thank goodness we will always have their music. I love the concert here on UA-cam that was recorded at Knebworth fair. It used to be the full concert video but now it's blocked. You can still watch it in parts. That was the best concert video of them imo. Smh
I was a tiny baby when the Lynyrd Skynyrd crash happened. My parents particularly my mom were fans of theirs and would have their records blasting all of the time. I can only imagine how big of a band they would be today if the crash had not happened.
I was living in McComb, MS when the plane crashed. They flew fairly low over McComb on their way to Baton Rouge that night. A friend was playing football that night and said the plane flew low over the football field.
5Rounds Rapid ... yes they did, but that was after they flew past the city and airport which is located just south of McComb in Fernwood, MS. The rumor that was passed around at the time was they passed on landing at the airport the first flyby because they were worried about crowds arriving. But, I think that was just a rumor..... who knows.
My Grandparents lived in Gillsburg, MS and I lived in Magnolia, MS. I remember as a child hearing about the crash but didn't come to know who it was until I got older.
If I recall, the weather that day in October 1977 was much like it was here; cold, wet and dreary. I'd just stumbled into my 1st period classroom at Biloxi High, a junior. We'd heard the news with shocked disbelief, not yet knowing the crash occurred in MS, only 150 miles away. For some reason, it made the tragedy even harder to bear. For those who paid for and built the memorial, many thanks. It's beautiful. And also, thanks guys for putting this video together.
I had the pleasure of being at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert back in the 70s. I'm glad I got to see and experience the show. I wasn't disappointed. Thanks for taking us to this memorial site. Its beautifully done!
Beautiful memorial for a band the world loved so much. I am happy to have grown up listening to them and recall the tragic day when we got the news. Thank you for showing this and it was befitting the sky was crying at this sad place.
I have one of the original copies of "Street Survivors", which were recalled shortly after the crash. That cover had a picture of the band and flames engulfing the buildings all around them. Quite a tragic foreshadowing of their untimely demise.
I had that original pressing with the flames engulfing them. They had a trade back you could do with the black background. It was out of respect for the dead members so I went ahead and traded my copy. I kinda wished I didn't but it's cool. My other plays the same and the original cover makes me sad anyways.
A couple of weeks or months before the Skynyrd crash, the guys in Aerosmith rejected that very same plane - they didn’t trust the pilots (who died in the crash).
Wow I can't believe we've lost Elvis in August and Lynyrd Skynyrd 2 months later 77 was a rough year for rock and roll thanks to both of you awesome video God bless you both
Thanks for posting this video, it still breaks my heart to this day and makes my eyes sweat over this tragedy as a fan since 74 when I first heard them, God bless them all and may they R I P
This is crazy! I was just watching stuff about this last month. Skynyrd has been following me around since! Awesome video! RIP to all members that have passed on.
Thanks for posting. Had them in my cab when they were in Waterbury, Connecticut around 1976 to play the Palace Theater. Took them to a local rock bar to hang out. What a thrill for the crowd in there that night! Nice memory. So sad when I heard the plane went down.
I saw them at soldiers field almost 3 months before the crash The best concert I’ve ever been to!!! Will never forgot that show Rest In Peace brothers Freebird still fly’s on😢😢😭😭
JustAintThatWay I was at the same place but about 10 rows up from the main field!😁😁😁that’s where the water jugs started to get thrown 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Awsome show!!
Adam....thanks so much for this video, they were my fav. Band back then! Always wanted to go to Gillberg, Ms to see this Memorial! Now, I’m disabled & can’t . Thanks!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I was overseas in the Air Force and had bought their latest album with the infamous cover showing the band on fire before it was pulled. I don't know how rare it is but I'll never sell it.
Mike Mc Miss the ole 16oz. Returnable bottles back in the 70s here in Kentucky.. I buy the Mexican cokes in glass bottles put peanuts in . Young kids ask me where you get them kinda cokes. They think it’s something new !! I tell them old school -
Wow the rain sets the ambiance for this vlog. What a tragedy. My mom watched with me and told me the day this happened her and a lot of her friends left work to smoke a joint for those lost in the crash. Free Bird is my most favorite song by them. Great great song
A solemn reminder that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow or the next day.. So live your life like it's your final day/moment.. Because you can never tell when the reaper will come for you..
This is the kind of vlogs I like not going to theme parks, Adam and Cody were not even alive when Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed. Thanks for letting us see things that we would never see.
One of my first jobs I ever had was working a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert selling live cuts of their music on CDs when EMI music had the rights to it. The band which opened before them was Allman Bros who are really awesome in their own right. Anyway, even from where I was stationed away from the pavillion, their music sounded as good live as it did over the radio.
Thank you two Gentlemen for your great effort bringing too us the memorial shown here.I'm 79yrs and i watch the video of free bird at the Oakland Colosseum at least twice a year.⌚ran⌛for these folks way too soon.🗽🗽🗽
Lynyrd Skynyrd.. Great Drinking Music !! I'm really glad that someone created these very nice memorials. I went there a long time ago, while in the area, but everything was off limits and gated up. R.I.P Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Rick Mark The monument was. There had been an unofficial one there for decades. The State of Mississippi finally got the funding together and made it permanent.
Great video. Showing (or just mentioning) the last prices on those gas pumps would've added historical ambiance. As for the ending, my l;ate grandfather once said, "That which is unsaid often speaks the loudest."
Beautiful memorial for the band members who perished that fateful day. Sad day. One of my favorite song of theirs is Sweet Home Alabama. Thank you for doing this. CO-D being a real trooper. Stay safe on the road.
Skynyrd was supposed to play in Evansville , Indiana a few days later on Saturday , my buddy still has his tickets . They were $ 4.50 in advance , $ 5.50 day of show . R.I.P. all .
www.angelfire.com/tn/LSkynyrd1/LStour.html Interestingly Skynyrd were to have played Winterland three days before Sex Pistols performed their final show there
You guys did a great job with this one. The respect you had for the site was obvious. I was a senior in high school Oct. ‘77, and a big fan. I have rolled past Gillsburg on I-55 many times over the years, but never thought about trying to reach the site, usually because I was on business travel. Would sure like to someday.
Thanks Adam. They did a nice job on the memorial. I was in my early 20's then, like about everyone my age was really into Skynyrd and was crushed to hear the news. I especially liked Steve Gaines guitar playing, although he wasn't with them long before the crash he was amazing, great style, clean, flawless live. They toured relentlessly in those days so I saw them after every album release/tour. I have a lot of favorite Skynyrd tunes, actually, I can't think of a pre-crash Skynyrd song I don't like.
Based on the Pepsi machine at the gas station selling at 45 cents, I’d say the gas station closed around 1980-1983. I can recall canned soda prices in vending machines going up to 50 cents around 1984.
There was a team of metal detectors who searched the actual site of the plane crash, that you covered in this video, in October of last year. They were able to find pieces of the aircraft in their search. Here is their video........ ua-cam.com/video/r1hlCkoSr4E/v-deo.html Your silence over the last few minutes of this video was a very somber touch. A very nice tribute to an incredible band. Great video Adam and Co-D!!!
@@Dboi9341 No real surprise there considering I made that post more than a year ago. I cannot control what someone else posts or deletes from their channel.
Thank you so much for this video. I grew up a Skynyrd fan thanks to my dad. From an early age, I remember him telling me and my sister is that Lynyrd Skynyrd is the greatest band ever to live, die and rise again. And that is the truth! Skynyrd is in my blood and in my heart and I am so thankful you have done this video as I will probably not be able to get my dad there to see it in person. Thank you!!!! My favorite Skynyrd songs are Call Me the Breeze, I Never Dreamed, and The Ballad if Curtis Loew.
gotta chunk of that plane on my fireplace mantle, was fortunate enough to be taken to the site back in '96. What was amazing was that the 5-6 places I kicked earth around, BAM, some metal pieces would be exposed. Started to wonder if they just covered the plane over with dirt there was so much debris hidden. So I still got a little shrine on my mantle dedicated to those unfortunate 6 who didn't walk away from that devastating tragedy. At the time of the crash, I was in 9th grade in a very Southern High school where Skynyrd was god & gospel! How does a plane run out of fuel?? always thought that was a major checklist on any flight plan.
@@kraigmize1610, It didn't run out of fuel. The co-pilot made a human error when he flipped the fuel transfer switch, but instead, he hit the fuel dump switch. That's why there was minimal fire at the crash site. Aerosmith chartered the same plane but refused to fly in it. I think it was Allen Collins and some of the other members didn't want to board the plane. Ronnie talked them into getting on the plane. The rest is history.
@@KevinSago-rs1ys According to the NTSB's report the fuel was never emptied. So, what probably happened is that because of the faulty fuel gauge they didn't fill it up with enough fuel, so they ran out and crashed.
Great vlog Adam and cody you know when you can have a laugh and you know when not to say alot at all thak you for doing this with the respect it deserves
Speechless. Very, very well done. You know... The Good,... they do die young! Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us, great job in your presentation, very moving. R. I. P. L. S.
I love that Adam thinks Simple Man is one of the best rock songs ever too! It's always been one of my favorites and I feel like it's underrated when talking about Skynyrd's music.
I’ve been so sick the last few days and binge watching your videos. You have a very good and soothing delivery and go to very interesting places. Thank you for helping me keep my mind off how bad I feel Adam & Cody
Adam has been in this area many times, and has great videos on it. I know, since I grew up there! Natchez, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans aren’t far away. There is a lot to see if you like American history and culture.
@Joey B, as far as I'm concerned everyone is free to have his own opinion. But as Frank Zappa once said "A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it ain't open".
*Having been a roadie for Lynyrd Skynyrd and having been to this crash site, Id like to say you did a great job on this presentation, on this holy ground!*
@Scotty Mack Sorry Scotty, I was in Jacksonville only two times, once to pickup Odom (Ronnies Buddy date unknown) and once in the late 1980s.... Was never in the bars there, was always working.
Id love to hear about you and some of your stories.Thats the bits of history that always seem to be missing and ties all the big stories together.
Mr. Roach what happened to your bold writing? I cannot read this tiny nonsense
Wow
I knew their light guy Scott Parsons. He died. He was a muse for Smell that Smell
Lying ass
I remember arriving at school and hearing everybody talking about the crash. Skynyrd were pretty big amongst our student body and they were missed dearly. Nice job on this one guys. It still brings a tear to my eyes all of these years later.
same here. my sophomore year of high school. guys in my class were literally in tears about it. I am sad to say that I had no idea who Lynyrd Skynyrd was at the time. I eventually caught up. I grew up in South, MS but on the coast.
Me to it was a sad day
Us too. Was in 10 the grade.
A couple of years ago my son sent me Simple Man via text to listen to."Mom, everytime I hear this song it reminds me of you." It meant alot to me as my adult son is a man of few words. My daughter's husband's father passed at a young age. His favorite song was Free Bird. Thanks Adam.
Thanks Adam and Cody , i'm 65 years old and have wanted to visit the site for a long time, now i will go..... beautiful memorial..
Well done. The rain just adds to the tragedy and finality of what happened that evening.
Especially Delta rain. Always slow and steady
I was little girl but remember being at the grocery store with my mom that day and the teenager who took our grocery bags out to our car for my mom looked as if he had been crying. My mom asked him if he was ok and he told her about the plane crash and he had just been to their concert. They were his favorite band. So sad! Amy ~Greenville, SC
great video,Woo. I still have my ticket for the Skynyrd concert that was to be held at Madison Square Garden NYC on November 10th. '77. I have it framed and hanging on my living room wall...it is one of my most cherished possessions.
@butch...if ur telling the truth how much did u pay for it?
I still went to MSG...Ted Nugent was on the bill as well...
I remember about a month after the plane crash, a friend and I were shopping in the record department of Sears. I found a "Street Survivors" album with the original artwork (with flames around the band members). I was like "damn, I have to buy that". It's still in my album collection.
It's worth a little money too.
With the Neil Young Shirt.. (tonight's the night)..
That is a real coup finding that!
That is a very nice memorial they have made. I didn't expect to see it there, very respectful. Thanks for sharing!
Correct, well designed.
I didn't know that they built a memorial for them . That's nice . Gone too soon , but never forgotten . Sorry you guys got caught up in the rain . Thank you both for taking us along and sharing this video .
Deb from Idaho~~~~~What a wonderful tribute this town has given to one of the best bands that there ever was. RIP Ronnie and your fellow band entourage. FREE BIRD!!!!!
That is a nice looking memorial to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
I just visited this site February 15, 2020. I was headed down to Baton Rouge to see Blackberry Smoke in concert. This memorial of Lynyrd Skynyrd is beyond beautiful and it was even more special when I visited that day because the owner of the land that donated this site and another gentleman whom both were at the crash that night was there telling everyone their story of that fateful night. ❤️
Adam, I like the way you allowed the rain and the silence to commemorate their memory, instead of background music. Nicely done. Rest peacefully, all of you.
I agree
That’s my granddads old gas station. My grandmother lives a few miles down the road and the family has the gas station sign. My dad has a ton of family still in the town and a lot of them were the first ones to make it to the crash site. (It’s also pronounced Gillsburg like Vince Gill).
Best comment here. Im coming out June 6th to the site for a memorial concert. You should be there. Love Gillsburg and its people. Good folk. ❤
I live in pike county like right i mean eighth next to it I was there when Judy van zant spoke
wow so sad
My camp is 3 miles from there
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A very respectful vlog to a great classic rock band. The nature sounds of wind & rain drops during the closing shots made for a somber, moving experience.
When I was nineteen years old I was able to see Lynyrd Skynyrd during their "Gimme Back My Bullets" tour. This was in January of 1976, Corpus Christi TX, with the Outlaws as the opening act. I still have the concert flyer that I picked up at a Head Shop and it is framed, hanging up. That concert is in the Top 5 of the many that I have been to.Ed King had left the band and it was the "Two Guitar Attack " of Collins and Rossington. I still remember Ronnie Van Zany commenting that the stage was hot that night and that it was burning his bare feet. Man! When they closed with FREEBIRD the place came apart! Hearing FREEBIRD and GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES at the same show was something that you never forget if you loved Hard Rock Southern Rock and Metal, the way I did then AND STILL DO! i'm 62 now, got diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure a month ago and they tore down the Coliseum several years ago, but I still fly my FREAK FLAG and I have my own little memorial to Skynrd which are three bricks held together by mortar that came from the Coliseum where I got to see the GREATEST SOUTHERN BAND', THE BAND THAT STARTED IT ALL, LYNRYD SKYNYRD! STARS AND BARS FOREVER!!!🎸🎶🔊🤣🤘😝✊
Ain't that the truth brother 👍
Hell yeah brother!
Collins and Rossington are good, but Steve Gaines was the master picker and player. Not only that, his voice was right up there with just about anyone in the rock scene at that time. He was super gifted, and fit in with Ronnie really well!
My neighbors stepdad was in the outlaws band. Bryan tells me stories about it all the time. Few years back I worked on the outlaws bus.
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What a beautiful memorial. I didn’t realize it even existed until seeing this.Thank you for making this video. Like many people of my generation, many of those songs were the soundtrack to our youth. Street Survivors is such a great album because the band was growing and getting better as each year passed. I was just listening to this album the other day and I often wonder what they would have been able to produce after this. The bands entire works are classic and would still be historic if they were still alive. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ronnie’s brother Johnny and Gary Rossington and all the players for keeping the band going for all these years.
I want to congratulate you, on over 440K. I've been around for a long time. I always give a thumbs up 👍, but no need to comment much.
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Mr. Hahn. Age 98
your 98 years old??
Tuesday's gone with the wind. Life can change suddenly & we can never go back and undo the past. Thanks Adam for doing this, you always have such great vids.
Tuesday's gone💔
Tuesday's gone my favorite too
But..anything from skynyrd is great
Somehow the weather seems fitting for a visit to such a site. Rest in peace.
Great homage to the band & what happened back in October of 1977. I remember just sitting in shock when the word came out. I was able to setup Lynyrd Skynyrd's stage in Dover for Big Barrel Festival. Still have photos of the equipment. Never felt prouder than I did that day. Everybody was busy doing the last minute change over from Firefly. They had a great set & we got them loaded out real quickly and shook all their hands as they left. Gary was glad we knocked it out and allowed them time to get rest before they left. Thank you for sharing this video. I've heard alot about the memorial but yet to see it even in pictures. 👊👍🤘.
Enjoyed the video. We were able to visit the site a while back with permission to recover artifacts related to the crash. The owners of the actual crash site are very protective of it and we were asked to keep watch for anyone trespassing. Currently we were also contact by band family members about some of those items being in an upcoming Skynyrd museum or other similar type of location. We displayed the relics free to the public for the first time last month in SC at a relic show.
I have a few including a beer can from the plane and a piece with a serial number. Ive been to the site a few times.
The plane that crashed was an old converted Convair. It was owned by an airline, then Jerry Lee Lewis bought it and converted it to an Entertainers Aircraft. Basically, the plane was "worn out" from years of use, when Jerry Lee Lewis sold it to an aircraft leasing company in Dallas, Texas. This Aircraft had a lot of problems in it's last years. Notice there is no mention of the two pilots that died. It was their bad judgement to keep flying that piece of crap without proper maintenance that was a major determining factor in the crash and lost lives. Thanks for another great tribute video Adam. Excellent viewing.
The actual airframe was in fine shape, but the engines, more than likely were nearing overhaul. The problem was a bad mag, which controls the ignition timing. Thus, the engine runs really rough, and consumes fuel at twice the rate as compared to a properly timed engine. They had a bad case of "get there itis", (very common saying in aviation circles) which is the cause of many aircraft crashes.
Pilots push on instead of landing, thinking just a little bit more and we'll be there. It has costed thousands their lives!
first of all you were not there - you have no idea what the pilots were thinking - I know this - they didn't want to die either -
No one gives them any credit for the 20 people who lived -
No good comes from being critical of those who can't defend themselves
@@davidrice3337 You need to go to the UA-cam Channel "True Backstage and Road Stories". This is Mark Howards You Tube Channel. He was on that Aircraft. He was lucky enough to have survived the crash. He was Lynyrd Skynyrds Lighting Technition. He will tell you in detail about that flight and exactly what happened. This man has been a Lighting Technition for the biggest Touring Rock and Country Music Acts for decades. A true legend.
Great job guys!! An excellent vid paying tribute to the best Southern Rock Band to ever hit the stage. I loved LS and especially Ronnie. I bought Street Survivors on the day it was released. Saw em in concert in February of 77, and said goodbye in October of same year. Fly High Gang. You’re All Free Birds Now.. Much Love from NC.
Went to Allen Collins's home and met his mom. I sold her a cell phone many years ago. Didn't even realise who she was until I started noticing the gold records on the wall of her living room.
I was in Darryl Strawberry’s mom’s house once. No gold records, but lots of baseball memorabilia!
I brought french doors to Leon Wilkinsons house years ago in Ponte vedra ..he had a house in sawgrass....records all over the place ..fucking awesome memory
@Colcannon 😂😂
@Colcannon LOL!!!
@Colcannon OJ said he would like that glove back, something about sentimental value.
First time I have ever seen the memorial very nice. Thank you both.
Thank you from a Jacksonville FL native, the home of Lynyrd Skynyrd. 🕊
Some of those band members were in the hospital where I was being born in McComb on the 22nd of that October.
Love the sound of the rain on your umbrella
Oh thank you two for going and filming this there. This means allot to us fans.
Very nice memorial they have there. On a side note I don't know if everyone else commenting knows that some time before Lynyrd Skynyrd decided to use this plane there was another band that at some point had considered using it and ultimately decided not to. That band was Aerosmith. It is somewhat fitting that you are doing this video on a cloudy, rainy day.
Dang, imagine if. Maybe it would of been different since it wasn't a malfunction but just run out of gas.. idk
Interesting. I do believe this was also the last time they were going to use this plane as it had too many issues in the months leading up to this. They were going to buy a new plane.
Robert Johnson That's right. It was in bad shape before, that's why Aerosmith passed on it.
Robert Johnson It was burning more fuel than they thought. They would have been in Baton Rouge in 15 more minutes. 🙁
@@DonQuixote1889 I think they had to dump fuel when an engine caught on fire.
Something about the sound of the rain against that umbrella that’ll just put you to sleep
Indeed!
I love the soothing sound of the rain. Makes me feel secure!.
Surprisingly that`s the first time I`ve ever seen this on the internet.
Prbly because it was just put up in 2019.
Beautifully done! Thanks for doing this video! And that memorial site is gorgeous! This has brought back a lot of memories. Again, thank you! God bless! 💞💞
I was almost 7 years old when this happened. Not until I was an adult did I start loving this band and buying all their albums. I love every song they sing with the exception of maybe one. They'll always be my favorite rock band. Such a tragedy and loss. But thank goodness we will always have their music. I love the concert here on UA-cam that was recorded at Knebworth fair. It used to be the full concert video but now it's blocked. You can still watch it in parts. That was the best concert video of them imo. Smh
i take that back. i guess that is the same video i've been watching. I just didn't know it was in knebworth
I was a tiny baby when the Lynyrd Skynyrd crash happened. My parents particularly my mom were fans of theirs and would have their records blasting all of the time. I can only imagine how big of a band they would be today if the crash had not happened.
Which song didn’t you like?
@@Carol-D.1324 i know! I wondered the same thing-- ALL their songs are great!!
I was in High school at the time. Living in the Deep South, this band is the Best band ever.
Best Southern Rock band for sure. 👍
I was living in McComb, MS when the plane crashed. They flew fairly low over McComb on their way to Baton Rouge that night. A friend was playing football that night and said the plane flew low over the football field.
They tried to land at McComb Airport, but never made it.
5Rounds Rapid ... yes they did, but that was after they flew past the city and airport which is located just south of McComb in Fernwood, MS. The rumor that was passed around at the time was they passed on landing at the airport the first flyby because they were worried about crowds arriving. But, I think that was just a rumor..... who knows.
Jamey Davis Yeah, they went over McComb first, then turned around near the state line.
Have family who live in Mount Olive. My cousin called me in Oxford, MS late in the night to tell me about the crash. She knew I was a big fan.
My Grandparents lived in Gillsburg, MS and I lived in Magnolia, MS. I remember as a child hearing about the crash but didn't come to know who it was until I got older.
If I recall, the weather that day in October 1977 was much like it was here; cold, wet and dreary. I'd just stumbled into my 1st period classroom at Biloxi High, a junior. We'd heard the news with shocked disbelief, not yet knowing the crash occurred in MS, only 150 miles away. For some reason, it made the tragedy even harder to bear.
For those who paid for and built the memorial, many thanks. It's beautiful.
And also, thanks guys for putting this video together.
I had the pleasure of being at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert back in the 70s. I'm glad I got to see and experience the show. I wasn't disappointed. Thanks for taking us to this memorial site. Its beautifully done!
Beautiful memorial for a band the world loved so much. I am happy to have grown up listening to them and recall the tragic day when we got the news. Thank you for showing this and it was befitting the sky was crying at this sad place.
I have one of the original copies of "Street Survivors", which were recalled shortly after the crash. That cover had a picture of the band and flames engulfing the buildings all around them. Quite a tragic foreshadowing of their untimely demise.
That’s a rare piece. The record label changed the background to black soon after.
They reissued the album you can buy them online now... Even at Target online...
I have both versions of Street Survivors on Vinyl.
An actual 1977 first pressing, and the altered 1978 reissue with the different album cover.
My husband had it too kind of freaky they died that way
I had that original pressing with the flames engulfing them. They had a trade back you could do with the black background. It was out of respect for the dead members so I went ahead and traded my copy. I kinda wished I didn't but it's cool. My other plays the same and the original cover makes me sad anyways.
Thanks for your time in locating this and sharing it with the world.
A couple of weeks or months before the Skynyrd crash, the guys in Aerosmith rejected that very same plane - they didn’t trust the pilots (who died in the crash).
Brad , Wow,That is freaky!.
You can read about it in aerosmiths bio book that Steven Tyler wrote several years ago
That's good! They could have ended up like Lynyrd Skynyrd did in the plane crash!
they didn't like the plane either
The plane doesnt even look up to par.....
Wow I can't believe we've lost Elvis in August and Lynyrd Skynyrd 2 months later 77 was a rough year for rock and roll thanks to both of you awesome video God bless you both
Thanks for posting this video, it still breaks my heart to this day and makes my eyes sweat over this tragedy as a fan since 74 when I first heard them, God bless them all and may they R I P
This is crazy! I was just watching stuff about this last month. Skynyrd has been following me around since! Awesome video! RIP to all members that have passed on.
I remember that tragic event, how sad. One of my favorite bands from the 70s. Glad you guys could stop there and pay your respects
Thanks for posting. Had them in my cab when they were in Waterbury, Connecticut around 1976 to play the Palace Theater. Took them to a local rock bar to hang out. What a thrill for the crowd in there that night! Nice memory. So sad when I heard the plane went down.
All 10 of them in a cab? Lol
This was awesome. They were the soundtrack to my high school years. Rest in peace. You're still missed.
Thank you for coming back with class and respect. Missed you.
I saw them at soldiers field almost 3 months before the crash The best concert I’ve ever been to!!! Will never forgot that show Rest In Peace brothers Freebird still fly’s on😢😢😭😭
JustAintThatWay I was at the same place but about 10 rows up from the main field!😁😁😁that’s where the water jugs started to get thrown 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Awsome show!!
Thanks for taking us there Adam.It’s a beautiful memorial to a great rock band.I still love their music.Long live Free Bird!❤️♥️💖
The memorial to the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members is just about perfect. I had forgotten how young they all were......
You two need some rain gear! Don't get sick... Thanks for showing us this beautiful memorial. It is a true Monument to what was lost in Southern Rock.
I remember that Sad day like it was yesterday.They will always be my favorite band.!
Adam....thanks so much for this video, they were my fav. Band back then! Always wanted to go to Gillberg, Ms to see this Memorial! Now, I’m disabled & can’t . Thanks!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
That was a very somber and fitting tribute, Adam. The weather even added to the solemnity. EXCELLENT, guys. 💔
Absolutely loved today's vlog! I'm a huge fan of Skynyrd
I was overseas in the Air Force and had bought their latest album with the infamous cover showing the band on fire before it was pulled. I don't know how rare it is but I'll never sell it.
I love all their songs and they were and still is my favorite band! They forever will be!
I spent a Many day in that gas station / town eating peanuts out of a drink bottle....
Mike Mc Miss the ole 16oz. Returnable bottles back in the 70s here in Kentucky.. I buy the Mexican cokes in glass bottles put peanuts in . Young kids ask me where you get them kinda cokes. They think it’s something new !! I tell them old school -
McDaniel is that you? Lol
Putting Spanish peanuts in a bottle of Dr. Pepper and watching TV in our Army 396th Station Hospital day room. One of our favorite snacks back in 1958
Wow the rain sets the ambiance for this vlog. What a tragedy. My mom watched with me and told me the day this happened her and a lot of her friends left work to smoke a joint for those lost in the crash. Free Bird is my most favorite song by them. Great great song
A solemn reminder that no one is guaranteed a tomorrow or the next day.. So live your life like it's your final day/moment..
Because you can never tell when the reaper will come for you..
Well said. My younger brother, 48 years old, had a massive stroke 2 days ago. He is clinging to life as I type this.
@@shadowwolf7622 🙏
@@shadowwolf7622 Hang in there....Hats off to you
Well said and so very true.
@@shadowwolf7622 Praying for you and your brother.
This is the kind of vlogs I like not going to theme parks, Adam and Cody were not even alive when Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed. Thanks for letting us see things that we would never see.
One of my first jobs I ever had was working a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert selling live cuts of their music on CDs when EMI music had the rights to it. The band which opened before them was Allman Bros who are really awesome in their own right. Anyway, even from where I was stationed away from the pavillion, their music sounded as good live as it did over the radio.
Glad for the Memorial recognizing one of the greats of Southern Rock and Roll! Thanks for taking the time to share this Adam (&Co-D)👌✌👍
Sweet Home Alabama is my ringtone on my phone....has been for many years. Will never change it. Love that song.
I absolutely love the quiet, rainy, contemplative atmosphere in this one
Thank you two Gentlemen for your great effort bringing too us the memorial shown here.I'm 79yrs and i watch the video of free bird at the Oakland Colosseum at least twice a year.⌚ran⌛for these folks way too soon.🗽🗽🗽
Lynyrd Skynyrd.. Great Drinking Music !! I'm really glad that someone created these very nice memorials. I went there a long time ago, while in the area, but everything was off limits and gated up. R.I.P Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Never knew this existed, so cool, but so sad. Simple Man & Gimme three steps are my favorites. Thanks for this tour.
It was just built in the last couple of months.
Simple Man and Free Bird
@@zero1fifty8 yeah freebird!
@@5roundsrapid263 What was?
Rick Mark The monument was. There had been an unofficial one there for decades. The State of Mississippi finally got the funding together and made it permanent.
Great video. Showing (or just mentioning) the last prices on those gas pumps would've added historical ambiance. As for the ending, my l;ate grandfather once said, "That which is unsaid often speaks the loudest."
Beautiful memorial for the band members who perished that fateful day. Sad day. One of my favorite song of theirs is Sweet Home Alabama. Thank you for doing this. CO-D being a real trooper. Stay safe on the road.
Now Adam... You know that this is going to be one of your biggest videos ever.... but I forgot... you already knew this.... Great job guys.
Skynyrd was supposed to play in Evansville , Indiana a few days later on Saturday , my buddy still has his tickets . They were $ 4.50 in advance , $ 5.50 day of show . R.I.P. all .
www.angelfire.com/tn/LSkynyrd1/LStour.html
Interestingly Skynyrd were to have played Winterland three days before Sex Pistols performed their final show there
My favorite songs are: Simple Man, Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama
Wow deep cuts... No cry for the bad man or anything from last album with Steve Gaines?
Tuesdays gone free bird sweet home alabama and other ones
Give me back my bullets
I can put on skynard and listen to pretty much any of their songs over and over. That is a rare thing.
Curtis Loew is in my opinion their best song
Wow, that is one of the nicest memorials I've ever seen.
You guys did a great job with this one. The respect you had for the site was obvious. I was a senior in high school Oct. ‘77, and a big fan. I have rolled past Gillsburg on I-55 many times over the years, but never thought about trying to reach the site, usually because I was on business travel. Would sure like to someday.
Thanks Adam. They did a nice job on the memorial. I was in my early 20's then, like about everyone my age was really into Skynyrd and was crushed to hear the news. I especially liked Steve Gaines guitar playing, although he wasn't with them long before the crash he was amazing, great style, clean, flawless live. They toured relentlessly in those days so I saw them after every album release/tour. I have a lot of favorite Skynyrd tunes, actually, I can't think of a pre-crash Skynyrd song I don't like.
Based on the Pepsi machine at the gas station selling at 45 cents, I’d say the gas station closed around 1980-1983. I can recall canned soda prices in vending machines going up to 50 cents around 1984.
The sound of the rain and hearing Simple man in my head gave me chills... Thank u ATW
The most beautiful way to pay tribute to a great band, May their Music Live on, gentlemen thank you for posting this video
The Ballard of Curtis Lowe is my favorite song ever
same here
Simple Man is my favorite Skynyrd song.
"I never dreamed"
Thank you very much Adam, as a big Lynyrd Skynyrd fan. Very respectful. You're a gentleman, and your videos are a joy. Best wishes!
There was a team of metal detectors who searched the actual site of the plane crash, that you covered in this video, in October of last year. They were able to find pieces of the aircraft in their search. Here is their video........ ua-cam.com/video/r1hlCkoSr4E/v-deo.html
Your silence over the last few minutes of this video was a very somber touch. A very nice tribute to an incredible band. Great video Adam and Co-D!!!
Well that video ain’t available to watch anymore
@@Dboi9341 No real surprise there considering I made that post more than a year ago. I cannot control what someone else posts or deletes from their channel.
Simple man , I agree. Also Tuesday's gone a very much under rated song.
My friend sold the studio a few years back that they recorded Street Survivors at. It was 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama.
Which was called Muscle Shoals..... there was lots of great music done in that studio. .
I think Street Survivors was recorded in L.A. at the Record Plant.
Street survivors was recorded in Miami. Criteria studios.
I still listen to them. Simple man is my favorite also. Thanks for showing this. Be safe.
Coming home....I wanna come home it's been so long since I've been away. 😢
I played guitar in a Southern rock band called South Bound Express back in the late 80s. That was one my favorite songs to do live.
Awesome choice
Coming home and I never dreamed
Thank you so much for this video. I grew up a Skynyrd fan thanks to my dad. From an early age, I remember him telling me and my sister is that Lynyrd Skynyrd is the greatest band ever to live, die and rise again. And that is the truth! Skynyrd is in my blood and in my heart and I am so thankful you have done this video as I will probably not be able to get my dad there to see it in person. Thank you!!!! My favorite Skynyrd songs are Call Me the Breeze, I Never Dreamed, and The Ballad if Curtis Loew.
gotta chunk of that plane on my fireplace mantle, was fortunate enough to be taken to the site back in '96. What was amazing was that the 5-6 places I kicked earth around, BAM, some metal pieces would be exposed. Started to wonder if they just covered the plane over with dirt there was so much debris hidden.
So I still got a little shrine on my mantle dedicated to those unfortunate 6 who didn't walk away from that devastating tragedy. At the time of the crash, I was in 9th grade in a very Southern High school where Skynyrd was god & gospel! How does a plane run out of fuel?? always thought that was a major checklist on any flight plan.
Fone Zombie
That’s would nice to have man..👍🏼
I heard that the fuel gauge was faulty and the pilot miscalculated how much he had all ready used previously that day before the crash happened.RIP!
@@kraigmize1610, It didn't run out of fuel. The co-pilot made a human error when he flipped the fuel transfer switch, but instead, he hit the fuel dump switch. That's why there was minimal fire at the crash site. Aerosmith chartered the same plane but refused to fly in it. I think it was Allen Collins and some of the other members didn't want to board the plane. Ronnie talked them into getting on the plane. The rest is history.
@@KevinSago-rs1ys According to the NTSB's report the fuel was never emptied. So, what probably happened is that because of the faulty fuel gauge they didn't fill it up with enough fuel, so they ran out and crashed.
Fone Zombie what do you mean God and gospel?
Will always miss them and will never forget them ,
Great vlog Adam and cody you know when you can have a laugh and you know when not to say alot at all thak you for doing this with the respect it deserves
Speechless. Very, very well done.
You know... The Good,... they do die young!
Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us, great job in your presentation, very moving.
R. I. P. L. S.
Skynard transcends time and generations. Take a bow until the end of time, brothers.
I love that Adam thinks Simple Man is one of the best rock songs ever too! It's always been one of my favorites and I feel like it's underrated when talking about Skynyrd's music.
“If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? ‘Cause I’m free as a bird, and this bird you cannot change.”
I’ve been so sick the last few days and binge watching your videos. You have a very good and soothing delivery and go to very interesting places. Thank you for helping me keep my mind off how bad I feel Adam & Cody
"Swamp Music" seems to fit the weather. I think this spot will be added to our next road trip through the States.
Adam has been in this area many times, and has great videos on it. I know, since I grew up there! Natchez, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans aren’t far away. There is a lot to see if you like American history and culture.
@Joey B, as far as I'm concerned everyone is free to have his own opinion. But as Frank Zappa once said "A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it ain't open".
@Joey B This sounds like YOUR opinion ;-) On the many holidays I enjoyed in your beautiful country I didn't speak many people that had these ideas.
Joey B Frank had a great quote: “Communism never works, because people like to own stuff”.
@@5roundsrapid263 shame that communism is in our country now
With the rain falling when you guys are not speaking, it sounds like a record player without voice playing. Love this video. Thanks.💝💝💝