Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official)
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I was a junior but I hated all that rock crap.
I wasn’t even aware of it.
Led Zep, Lynyrd Skynyrd etc... Owned my school.
Well it ended up being that way anyhow.
I was a sophomore in high school, driving home from Football practice (Thursday before a friday game). Heard about it over the radio.
43 years... wow.
Love all the bands that had multiple great guitarists, and Skynyrd certainly did,.
This Yankee has always been a Southern Rock fan.
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‘Simple Man’ is a song that I have shared with male relatives as dear to my heart.
I was a young girl when a friend shared their music with me. It was an album her big brother had, laf. Was after the wreck. But I loved the music right away.
Great band. I don’t know how many albums they released before their tragic accident, but lots of great tunes on them. I’ll still crank the radio whenever they come on, except for Freebird. I just got burned out on that tune
Saw a documentary (think it was on CNN, believe or not) about the band. Pretty wild bunch who loved to get drunk and rowd especially Ronnie. Even if he wasn’t killed in the plane crash, he still may have had an early demise.
Any of us who ever picked up an electric guitar learned Freebird before anything else. (Well, except maybe Smoke On The Water.) The chords and the rhythm were simple. Even if your notation and phrasing were somewhat incorrect, as long as you found the right key, you were jammin’.
I was at that Oakland show in July 77. That and Led Zep a few weeks later. I was gong to college and finaly left school to go into the Army a couple of years later. Those were the days...
Dec 06, 1973 Quadrophenia The Who / Lynyrd Skynyrd Capital Centre Landover, MD
Went to the record store the next morning to buy their album, and the owner had no clue who I was talking about.
I told him he needed to get plenty of copies of their album, because people are going to be coming in in droves to buy it. 8>)
I saw them in their next to last show in Lakeland, FL.
“Freebird” was my High School class song. 1978.
“Red, White and Blue”. As patriotic as it gets. Always gives me goose bumps. And so appropriate for today.
Man, I saw them with Ted Nugent in Chicago a few Weeks before the crash. Best concert I ever went too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5aPNxv-pU
Old Skynyrd: “Cutis Lowe” and “Simple Man”. “Mississippi Kid” is underrated.
Later Skynyrd: “God and Guns” and “Red, White & Blue”
Saw them play at the Hollywood Sportatorium in So. Fla. two nights before the crash.
From the time Sweet Home hit the radio they were on my turntable every day.
The core band of Ronnie, Gary, Allen and Leon were OK musicians and songwriters. IMO, it took people from outside the band to raise them to the next level. Ed King did it for them on Three albums and Steve Gaines did it for them on the last album.
Gary said so as much in later years, paraphrased: “Steve had a whole bunch of songs that we Skynyrdized and that became Street Survivors”.