Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- If Gary didn't break his finger on April 9th 1976, Steve would not be on the Live Album, OMFTR!!!
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Live recording at the Fox in Atlanta, was originally meant to be in May, but Gary broke his ring finger and recording was delayed!
Steve Gaines joined the band in June!
With the Fox dates originally scheduled for May, 1976,
The day before Skynyrd's April 10, 1976, show at New York's Beacon Theatre, guitarist Gary Rossington broke the ring finger on his left hand when he slammed a door on it, forcing the band to postpone the live album until July to allow him time to fully recover.
This chance accident led the band to extend their current tour an extra month, which included a date in Kansas on May 11th 1976.
Cassie Gaines, one of Skynyrd's recently added back-up singers, had been telling the band for months about her kid brother back in Oklahoma who played guitar.
When the band passed through nearby Kansas City, Cassie convinced him to drive to Kansas City from his small farm just outside West Seneca, Oklahoma. Cassie arranged for him to jam with the group on their guitar rave-up version of Jimmy Rodgers' "T For Texas." Steve Gaines' impromptu performance ended their search for a third guitarist.
Steve was asked to join them on June 5th in Myrtle Beach.
Steven Earl Gaines (September 14, 1949 - October 20, 1977)
Asked to reflect on his success the day Street Survivors was released, Steve commented, "This is like a start of what I want to do. This is the beginning. I hope that I can be good enough to keep on going... This is all I ever dreamed about, you know? just doing this."
Ronnie had already said of the band’s newest recruit:
“I expect we’ll all be in Steve’s shadow one day. This kid is a writing and playing fool. He’s already scared everybody [in the band] into playing their best in years.” - Ronnie Van Zant.
"When i get on the Stage and uh and Skynyrd's Crowd's are there just means everything to me, its all i wanted to do up to now, now trying to figure out what i can do for them you know!" - Steve Gaines.
"So he came to our show that night, and he brought his guitar cause he was going to a gig.
We said why don't you come play on Mr.Breeze with us.... and he was Great, he played the Shit out of it !" -Gary Rossington.
"Steve could grow uh..excellent tomatoes. I wouldn't call him a Farm boy , but he could grow some Bud!"- Artimus Pyle.
"He had all these songs he had already written, he brought in, and then we would Skynyryse it, and make one of his songs ours!"
"Steve was it! and brought a spark back to everything!"- Gary Rossington.
Steve's guitar-picking and songwriting skills were a major revelation to the band, as demonstrated on his one studio album, 1977's Street Survivors. Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the vocal and instrumental skill of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day".
Steve's contributions included his co-lead vocal with Ronnie on the co-written "You Got That Right" and the rousing guitar boogie "I Know a Little" which he had written before he joined Skynyrd.
So confident was Skynyrd's leader of Steve's abilities that the album (and some concerts) featured Steve delivering his self-penned bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - one of the few songs in the Skynyrd catalog to feature a lead vocalist other than Ronnie Van Zant.
Live Album was recorded in July on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 1976.
They played the Knebworth Festival in England, (Knebworth Fair) on August 21st, 1976, they opened for The Rolling Stones, in front of 250,000 people.
A World Tour including Japan in January/February 1977.
With Steve Gaines installed as their secret weapon, In April 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd began working on what would become - though no one knew it then, of course - their last album, Street Survivors.
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My heart goes out to his parents to lose two children who were so incredible and from what I’ve read very kind
And then 1 or 2 years later their mom died in a car crash near the graveyard where Steve and Cassie are buried
yep, shyt hurts
Most definitely
Really awful! It broke my heart, and I didn't even know them.
I'm so glad we got at least one live album and one studio album with Steve. One of the biggest what-ifs in southern rock.
#truth
Saying with a big lump in my throat,...DITTO.
Right there with Duane ands SRV….what if.
What you mean "what if's". He would have been one of the best guitar players ever. And one member commented SRV, thats even crazier, he is considered today one of the best guitar players ever :D
@moreblack
So perfectly said. Steve had so much more to do. He would have been a huge rockstar and loved by many in my humble opinion. 🌟 ✨ 🌟
Not just a great guitar player, but a great singer and songwriter as well. He was a triple threat.
He was really cool looking too.
I love the way Ronnie would just watch in Awe when Gary ,Allen , & especially Steve when they would rip a solo .When they teamed up he looked like his head was going to explode. He was definitely humbled by great guitarists.
Joey, my fellow shark fan! I love Skynyrd too. Plane went down the fall after I graduated high school. Had a big crush on Ronnie back then.
Steve Gaines was going to make Skynyrd a better band. They would’ve been something great into the 80s.
amen to that!
They were headed for the stratosphere no doubt about it
He gave that band a needed shot of stage presence. God bless Ronny but his signature move during a solo was to stand in a five foot circle and nod his head. This was the beginning of the era of over the top shows. Kiss and Bowie saw it coming and ran with it.
No friend. He made them a better band from the second he joined to the end. He's part of their story and an important part of their history. He was an amazing player. God rest his and Cassie's souls. Kind Regards.
Just imagine the hits we'd have
Steve Gains is one of the most incredible guitar players I've ever heard. He deserves way more credit for being one of rocks top guitarist of all time. He oozed talent. And Ronnie saw that.
He wasn't in the limelight long enough. Only with Skynyrd 16 months. Longer and he would have had that recognition.
Some things just can't ever be reconciled.
Skynyrd with the three guitars is the best rock n roll I've heard in my life.
Steve Gaines is the best thing to happen to Skynyrd So much talent. The world lost something very special after that plane crash.
My mother and father and many of my family members and loved ones knew them. Mom has a necklace Cassie made her in high school still and has Steve and Cassies memorial from their funeral, and so so awesome old pictures and albums of Crawdad it's amazing. He is one of my favs and not just because we were from same town. Mudville, OK
Gary called him a “Quadruple Threat”. He could write, he could compose, he could sing, and, man, he could play.
From what I've learned over the years he was also a good human being. That counts a lot to me.
"Write" and "Compose" is the same thing.
@@DonaldMerrit write lyrics, compose music.
Threat to whom? Tragedy means we never saw how it would play out but by 77 Allen had been moved behind Gary and Steve had front mike in Allen's place and Ronnie was describing Steve as 'the greatest guitarist south of the Mason Dixon Line ....so better than Gary and Allen. I love the band with Steve in it and saw them twice in that line up...but I do wonder how it might have gone. But even so it would have been so much better that what did happen 😢
@@adriansims2531 "threat" in this context just means "talent".... not physical/musical threat for crissakes. The reality is Steve was capable of playing anything any of the LS guitarists could play...but that didn't work the other way around....none of those guys could've played Steve's solos on songs like Honky Tonk Night Time Man, etc....they weren't hybrid pickers like Gaines. I knew Ed King and worked with him in my studio in Nashville and he always said Steve's parts were a real bear to play.....it's the level of technique that's the issue....not just the notes.
One of the greatest "what ifs" in rock history.
The more years pass, the more I'm convinced SG's death was a tremendous loss.
damn right!
There was a doubt?!
He would have been a superstar. He was by far the most talented guitarist to come out of the southern rock genre with the possible exception of Duanne Allman. We'll never know sadly.
I realized it as soon as I heard Street survivors. About a week after it happened.
Some people joke but being dead at 27 and the potential he had, he would be up there with SRV and Jimi, he just had IT, he had that inner Rhythm science cant explain yet......
I can still remember it like it was yesterday heading over to my best friends house in anticipation of the tickets for the Lynyrd Skynyrd show for new haven coliseum Connecticut . When I got to his house I walked in and he is sitting at the dinner table with a blank look I said well tickets he says man didn't get them I'm like "what" so we go out for a walk light up a joint about 15 mins he starts cracking up and hands me the tickets 6th row center floor seats we start dancin around going crazy I yell out yeahhhh then the next night hanging out with his brother Jammin a little on our guitars the sad news comes over the radio about the plane crash on wplr 99.1 fm man I could not believe what I was hearing . Imagine what Lynyrd Skynyrd would have been had that crash never happened especially with Steve Gaines joining the band it just sucks that happened . I still have that full ticket too.
the crash could have been avoided, running out of fuel unreal
Not a good memory but a powerful one. I've had a couple of those...that ticket if in good condition should be safed for your grandkids college fund
Steve Gaines had he lived would have become one of become one of the greatest singer/songwriter/Guitarists
He was a full step above the other two, IMO
@@minnesotajack1 Maybe a half step above Ed King. Ed was phenomenal.
@@wagliz163
Yeah…I’ll give you that… half a step for King
Steve Gaines Allen Collins Gary Rossington Legendary Guitarists 🤟🎸
Happy Birthday Steve! 9/14/1949 RIP. One great guitarist.
And happy birthday Ed King 9 14 1949 RIP. One great guitarist
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Everyone wanted to be cool for Steve.
You ever been around someone who's energy is just so nice that you can't be negative. Steve Gaines
I love Steve. So much talent and gone way to soon. I sure wish he could’ve been with us longer. Such a sweet soul and beautiful human. He sure will be remembered always. He was really something. I still get tears in my eyes about Steve. So sad. I love 💗 listening to Steve helping Ronnie sing you got that right, Steve was awesome in every way, a great singer/songwriter/guitarist. We lost a gem for sure in Steve , they were all gems 💎 🙏🕊🙏🕊🙏
And I miss and love them so much. I think about Steve and Cassie’s parents quite a bit. Can’t imagine losing both my kids at an early age like that .
Had to be just horrific for them.🦋💗🌹🕊🌸🌈💎💐🙏💕😢
Miami, OK born and bread here my parents graduated 1970
Such a talent, such a loss. Oh goodness, what could have been. R.I.P. Steve Gaines. R.I.P. Skynyrd
Steve was a fantastic guitarist!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎
Such a tragic loss… I still remember the first time I heard him on Street Survivors- he instantly became my favorite guitarist in the band. Plus, his singing and songwriting was fantastic as well!
Stevie Gaines was one of the greatest guitarist ever in my opinion. And Thank you for this upload .
He was unreal. The only bigger question mark on what we missed out on was Randy Rhoades or possibly Stevie Ray.
Poor Randy Rhodes got drawn into Ozzie’s Bubblegum Teeny Bopper RugRat music after he left the Great band of Black Sabbath. Blizzard of oz Bark at the moon garbage. Randy would have been better off elsewhere after Quiet Riot.
Steve always had a half to full smile. ❤
~..~ Hughie Thomasson of The Outlaws once said: Out Of All Us Southern Pickers .. Stevie Gaines Was The Best 🎸🕊
One of the best guitar players of all time!! Thank you Steve for the great music you made during your short time on this earth. God bless you and your sister Cassie.
Bad Ass, He was Awesome !!! 😢 He was a great music gen. ❤
SG was a phenomenom.This three guitars,G,A & S,attack themes of Lynyrd Skynyrd must to be awesome.Hyper amazing.
Stevie was an amazing guitar player! Wish I could have seen him live. Play that thing for all those epic players in heaven brother. 🤘🙏
I’m glad I got to see him play with the band.. smokin!
it is evident, in the few photos and footage of Steve that he was a great person,.....and one heck of a player, singer,.songwriter. he Left us great material.
They have a good large handful of songs I dig but FUCK me it pains me to think of how much more I would’ve liked them with Steve Gaines being in the band for a longer time. Such a tragic story. He was a beast of a player
Can't even begin to imagine what would have been next had the crash never happened. I am sure it would have been even better then street survivors.
Steve was exceptionally talented. The music lives on.
It’s such a shame we were robbed of these two (Steve and Cassie) talents and what their contributions to the band could have been. Sad, very sad indeed.
Love that dude. Reminds me of my bro Taylor. Cheers...
Skynyrd plane went down on my 10 th birthday I’ll never forget it.First time hearing the news and free bird.Got my first sun bust harmony for Christmas
Steve was Phenomenal, and brought a fresh angle to an already Great, now Legendary group of lightning in a bottle players. Every single one. And he was infectious and energized the band again with his presence, finding his niche. God what a shame a bad decision about a POS plane cost the music world and everyone in and connected to the band & their families. Tragic loss of Steve & Cassie, him just coming into the spotlight & so young, so much left to share. We just saw the tip of the iceberg. Street Survivors is a killer album right up there with Back in Black and a small list of others. Now Artimus is the last man standing. Rest in Peace, Lynyrd Skynyrd 🕊️. Fly High Free Birds 🦅
God bless all of the guitarists Rossington, Collins, King, Gaines. They all brought different unique styles of playing to the band. I have to say my personal favorite was Gary Rossington and Ed King. Hey they were all great !!!
Rossington and King were more melodic. They were my favorites too, but Gaines was next level.
Skynerize IT! Love That!!
I was at that show in KC May of 76. Outlaws opened for them..
The Outlaws opened for them all 3 nights at the Fox when Skynyrd recorded their live album. July 1976. Awesome 3 nights.
Steve Gaines was a badass
IS
I heard that Ronnie Van Zant said
" One day we will all stand in his shadow"
Steve was the man, RIP brother, you ended up makin it after all.
The minute I discovered Street Survivors and Steve Gaines, I knew he brought something special to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ed King was brilliant and a key to their early success, but Steve was poised to bring them to new heights. I pray and ask the spirit of Steve, Ed, Allen, Gary, and Ronnie to inspire me, inform my playing, and carry on through me as much as I can allow.
Theres no reason fir these young folks to die in that plane crash.
Childhood memories....omg❤
Steve Gaines joining Lynyrd Skynyrd was the
icing on the cake. He was a excellent singer and his fretboard skills on his guitar were amazong. It's so sad the both he and his sister tragically died that day their plane went down in the swamps.
All 3 guitar 🎸 players made this band really rock. It truly is a loss to this music industry!
I have a sighned album by all of you guys
Incredible
He was that spark to put the fire back in Skynyrd.I think street survivors was there best album.Many great albums including Muscle shoals stuff.Would love to have seen what the future would have brought,but happy to get what we got.
“One More From The Road” is one rockin live album start to finish. I recommend the “deluxe” edition as it includes a couple Skynyrd songs not on the original album. In my teens and early twenties I wore this album out! Everyone loves it.
I was there all 3 nights. The Outlaws opened for them all 3 nights. The Fox was wild. Best 3 shows I ever saw them do. Tickets were $7.50. Still have the 3 stubs and the original live double album.
@@billwalker7556Wow. I didn’t know the Outlaws opened that show. I loved that band and I’m glad I got to see them play live back in late 70s.
@@TheYamahog12 yes they played about an hour took a short break and did Green Grass and High tides for about 20 minutes encore.
I saw the Outlaws play at a small venue a few months before Hughie Thomasson died. Obviously not the original guys but Hughie was the best. After the show he was getting pics taken with fans. He seemed like such a good guy.
I did see them play when they were at their peak, too.
steve and ronnie were great together the way they bounce off of each other on you got that right is awesome he was a triple threat it’s so sad what happened
That song is my favorite, Steve and Ronnie were amazing together
sho got that right...RIP all...SG made LS better...not that they weren't already great...
so glad that my Dad and Mama passed on good Music to us kid's and we grew up in the 70's and 80's and 90's...and appreciate all styles of great Music...
Too there was no mention of Tom Dowd. If anyone appreciates the live recording quality of “One More From The Road”, they can thank Tom Dowd for his engineering skills. It truly is a great live recording. The bass and drums sound so tight and full. Dowd was a master of recording live. It was his trademark.
Great, great memories! ❤
Every year Crawdaddy does a revival, and they get this guy named Seth Freeman who plays with Tiny universe. Got a check him out.
If Steve Gaines would have lived he would not be with Lynyrd Skynyrd he probably would have his own band Ronnie Van Zant once said he'd be a shadow in our eyes
He did have a solo album that by the way wasn't released until 1988..Yeah i'm sure he would've had more had he lived as he would be the one member to have a really good solo career on the side.
What a loss....
Really was 😢
I can't help but wonder if Steve had survived the crashed would he have became the lead singer when they reunited. I think yes
Steve Gaines, literally, was the final piece of the puzzle that completed the lineup of Lynyrd Skynyrd and their quintessential style and sound. Ronnie Van Zant said, "In ten years, we'll all be standing in his shadow." Why? Because Steve Gaines was what the industry called "A Triple Threat". He was a great guitarist, he was a great songwriter, and he was a great singer, in my opinion, better than Ronnie Van Zant, and Ronnie knew it. But Steve Gaines was very humble. He wasn't out to "take over" the band. He was there to contribute to making the band - the whole band - as good as it could be. The entire lineup loved Steve Gaines and they were all very happy he joined. They all knew they had found the right man for the job. He completed the band.
Doubtful he would have stayed long. He was just too good, and that's not taking away from the other guys, but Steve didn't sweat it out at Hell House for 7 years with them. It would've been easy to go out on his own after another album or two.
TO WHOM EVER, THANKS FOR THIS UPLOAD, I GET A LUMP IN MY THROAT, EVEN MORE NOW THEN WHEN THAT TOTALLY AWFUL ACCIDENT, STEVEN AND CASSIE GONE JUST LIKE THAT... AND OF COURSE THE OTHERS, AND I SAY OTHERS WITH THE SAME RESPECT AS STEVE AND CASSIE.... WE LOST A LOT OF WHAT IF MUSICIAN'S OVER THE YRS. ALL THE WAY UP TO STEVIE RAY, B4 STEVIE WE LOST JIMI, JIMMY, JANIS, BRIAN ETC. I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO PUT LAST NAMES, IF ANYONE DOESN'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE JUST BY FIRST NAMES,THEN I DON'T THINK THEY ARE REALLY IN TOUCH... AND LET'S NOT FORGET DUANE AND BERRY, LAMAR..... I ALSO DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE CALLED SOUTHERN ROCK. IT IS SIMPLY ROCK, THE SOUTH IS WHERE ROCK 'N' ROLL WAS INVENTED. SO WHY DO WE USE SOUTHERN IN THE FRONT OF ROCK......I CAN SIMPLY GO ON AND ON...... THANKS FOR READING WHAT I HAVE TO SAY....
Playing his famous 1958 Gibson Explorer.
I have no doubt had Steve lived, he would have left the band in a year or so to do his own thing. He was that much better than the others. Maybe if they would have treated Ed King better he may have never left.
Agree. Back then I wondered what would happen to Skynyrd when Steve left. As great as the other guys were, Steve would have left a hole that couldn't be filled.
yes Gary ( I would know that voice anywhere ) You were missing one Ed King.
The t for Texas solo is unequaled
❤❤❤ Steve Love ❤❤❤
So good, and gone far too soon! 😢
Artimus!
We would have taken LS a whole new level, a level never seen before
Oh man what could have been...
Steve was the missing ingredient they needed - chicken pickin’ and lightning fast. They were about to 🚀
I still have my vinyl version of the "Street Survivors" album which I bought in 1977. It is a copy of the original one with the fire blaze cover which I believe was changed by the record company following the plane crash.
it has been rereleased many many times with the flame cover, Actually it is the black cover album without the flames that is rare
rock on
❤️
Together with with Ed King... 2 great talents
10-20-1977 first time I heard Free bird
Steve Gaines join Skynyrd in May of 1976 it was not June! Yo human so we all make mistakes but I know for sure he joined in 1976!
My first albums: Two from the road… Darkness on the edge of town and Hotel California…no wonder I’m a tune snob😂
3:30 gotta love Artimus
Imagine if the Ronnie and the boys in Skynyrd took Cassie's word about her kid brother Steve and let him into the band sooner? Imagine the sound with Steve's input on the Gimme Back My Bullets album?!
I know that this sounds old but,"only the good die young."
“More than able…” fuckn aye.
😊👍🏁
STEVE HIGH GAINES
How you think his other band reacted when he told them he was quitting them to be a guitarist for Skynard???
The Last Rebel.Randall Hall Verifys it too.Blue Lagoon
So much talent died that evening. As far as I am concerned, it's up there with Buddy Holly.
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He died the big star that he thought he was going to be but just never got there. so sad.
Biggest mistake of his life was joining lynyrd skynyrd. Sad but true.
Dude I have to know what the song playing in the background is at :16 like whattttt lol that’s fire
Alone in the Multitude - Steve Gaines
Steve Gaines joined Skynyrd in May 1976!
Steve Auditioned in Kansas on May 11th 1976.
Two weeks later, Ronnie VanZant called Steve and told him to be in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the end of May. Steve was asked to join them for his first show on June 3rd in Myrtle Beach. South Carolina. He was going to be Skynyrd's third guitarist.
Steve looks so much like my girlfriends girlfriends boyfriend I thought it was him when I first met him... no jokes man, height, hair, beard, smile everything, he looked just like him, name was Steve and he had a southern drawl.. I chit you not man.. I showed him how to use the internet or a browser and navigate send emails in oh 93 or so was it? fact is the last time I saw him I gave him my internet address book, yup, in the day you could buy an internet address book had all the URLS in it as there were no search engines yet so you had to know the address to go anywhere so they published a book just like a phone book yellow pages.. chit you not.. crazy tho how much this guy looked like Gaines... I had a camera and took a few pics of him with his girl but when I broke up with my girl she kept all that..
Wasn't that dude at 4.40 on Cops with all those pythons n his house??
There is some recordings of Steve Gaines you can stream on Qobus and/or Tidal I assume made before his time with skynryd? He plays and sings very well but goes on a little to long with the singing, he would've been a star and he was the only guy Ronnie ever let on stage to sing his own song other than Ronnie himself I understand!
Which documentary was this part of?
was Ronnie having issues with pollups on his vocal cords
hes the one
I know a little
Oki meet atlanta
the band didnt want Steve to know they were out of their mind drunken maniacs lmao
I wanna know…who the hell forgot to fuel that plane…???…prayers to family/friends/fans of Skynyrd..saw them at their best…and they were the best..just sayin’…