Billy finishes up on the piano and Steve takes over in a fantastic solo at 4:43. Ronnie grins with admiration as Steve works the fretboard - just a fantastic solo. He closes out and Allen Collins takes over for another great solo.
One of my favorite versions. Great to see the boys jamming in '77. God Bless America
I saw them at their next to last concert at Lakeland Civic Center in Florida.
The studio version is on my 'heard ~10,000 times and I don't want to hear it again' list.
I like the live version because it has a bit of room for improv.
Steve didn’t play on Second Helping did he?
I thought Ed King played the opening chords in studio in Atlanta after noodling with Kooper on piano and Rossington helping too
Not gonna google it’s cheating
Classic opener
Like Smoke or Purple Haze or Whole Lotta Love or Paranoid or I’m 18
Or Statesboro Blues
Some songs just bam! You know them instantly
Yeah Gaines was amazing. Ronnie once said he expected Steve to go on to a solo career that would surpass anything Skynyrd ever did, that’s how much he was blown away by him as a musician. What’s interesting about those old videos is how many young girls are in the audience. Now girls that same age are into sh*t like Justin Bieber. What happened?
BFL, am currently sitting in the GA 6th District Republican convention.
Saw LS twice in the 70s. First time they were blind running drunk, fighting with each other on stage. It was terrible.
A couple years later I saw them from right on the wall from the days of “festival seating”. Top ten all time show for me, and I’ve seen a lot of live music over the years.
Lord...I can’t change...
I saw that day on the green in 77, and saw them again last week at the duck Commander 500.
Ronnie: "Don't let that flag hit the ground!"
Great tune and look at that great big beautiful Confederate flag!
I looked up their 1977 tour dates. I saw them on October 18, 1977. The plane crash was October 20. I vividly remember my disbelief when I heard about it on the radio.
Wow, thanks for posting. I remember that feeling and it’s great to have some shred of it on my little laptop screen.
Big wheels keep on turning....
!gnip
For me, Steve Gaines took Lynyrd Skynyrd to the next level and it hurt when he died.
Here's a recording of Steve Gaines performing I Know A Little live before joining Skynyrd.
He and his band Crawdad with Ain't No Good Life follows.