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Posted on 04/27/2026 1:47:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
From a "Day On The Green" concert promoted by Bill Graham, 2 July 1977. A brilliant live performance, they also played "Sweet Home Alabama". I was able to replace the audio as this performance was used in "Freebird - The Movie" of which a soundtrack album was issued. Unfortunately there is no track for "Sweet Home Alabama".
MtnClimber: I saw the band on October 18, 1977 at the Lakeland (FL) civic center on the next to the last performance before the plane crash. It was the 5th time I had seen them.
The devastating Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash near Gillsburg, Mississippi on October 20, 1977, claimed the lives of both pilots and about half of the band's members.
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The last time there were so many white people in Oakland.
I heard it on the radio on my drive to college on Monday morning.
I’ve always loved this song, but after it was used in a Budweiser ad with the horse and the eagle, I love it even more.
Try this one on for size.
1st time Freebird was ever recorded. Circa 1969
My wife’s dad and his partner recorded it and five others in their studio here in Jacksonville back before MCA scooped them up.
The link was provided, it is the remastered link.
OK, I got it, it was an early version!
Probably a minority opinion here, but I’ve never liked that song.
I was there at that show. And Skynyrd was not the headliner. Peter Frampton was. Lets see the order of bands was I think Carlos Santana, then the Outlaws, Lynyrd Skynyrd and then Frampton.
What a fantastic show it was
Just dropping in to say how much I loathe, hate and despise this song.
/puke.
Feel free to disagree.
Plane crash occurred same year. California girls were pretty. Little slice of Americana gone with the wind.
Best song of the 1970s.
Music really is dead isnβt it?
I remember you writing about this event some time ago— incredible to hear it!!!
Billy Powell went to my high school. Way, way, way before I did, but it’s a claim to fame for ol’ BK.
Yeah, anytime Skynyrd comes up I can’t resist bragging. π
Don’t I could, either. Just too damned cool!
What are you, a commie?
Unbelievable. SMH
Itβs not possible to play Free Bird too loud.
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