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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,...

Back in October, Neil Young pledged to remove all of his music from Amazon. And in a recent post on the Neil Young Archives, he said he's sticking with the plan. "Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," he wrote. "The president's international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore his actions. If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon..." Young's complete catalog and a vast archive of live concerts, studio outtakes, and concert films is available on the Neil Young Archives...

A "Reaction Video" from a "reaction" couple, which are great (Bikkuri personal opinion, and one of my favorite couples)... They have been one of my favorites to watch.. a different generation, whom no one would expect to even listen to our generation, nor type of music.. (I avoid 'U-Tube' as much as possible, but some things can't be avoided.)

Kid Rock - All Summer Long [Official Music Video] | 3:48 Kid Rock | 2.33M subscribers | 153,154,302 views | October 29, 2009

(Badfinger cover)Susanna Hoffs – Name of the Game (feat. Aimee Mann) | 4:45Susanna Hoffs | 57.6K subscribers | 226,653 views | October 19, 2021

There's nothing better than experiencing music live. In fact, some of the best versions of classic songs are live versions.

In art, as in life, some things are not always what they seem. So it is with the song that gave Lynyrd Skynyrd a US Top 30 hit in 1975. The song in question has always been perceived as an anti-gun protest song. Actually it’s more complicated, more nuanced than that. Saturday Night Special was a protest song with a caveat. In the words written and sung by Ronnie Van Zant, the leading figure in the band’s first great era, there was a question that went to the heart of America’s gun culture: ‘Why don’t we dump ’em, people, to...

The estate of the late Gary Rossington, the last surviving founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd who passed away in March, is on the market for $12 million.Listed by Cynthia Chandlee of Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, the property is located in Milton, Georgia, approximately 30 miles north of Atlanta, sitting on 80 acres of land.According to the home’s listing, the property features a main and guest house, two barns and a private lake complete with two boat docks.The main house is 7,516 square feet, with five bedrooms and five and one-half baths, a formal dining room, study, eat-in kitchen...

Rickey Medlocke has spoken out in favor of removing Saddam Hussein from power, and now he's urging people who share his feelings to speak out with him. Medlocke, lead guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd and a founding member of Blackfoot, has issued this statement about Hussein. "The time has come for us to speak up in support of our government and our troops," Medlocke said in the statement. "The very freedom we cherish, the freedom that allows us to disagree and to speak up about it, is the sort of freedom that Saddam Hussein has denied his own people. He has...

(Headline USA) “Son of a Sinner” singer Jelly Roll was the big winner at the CMT Music Awards, as the rapper-turned-country singer took home three awards on Sunday as an outsider who won over fans with his confessional songs. The tattooed singer got emotional during the show in Austin, Texas, which aired on CBS, as he thanked the country radio industry for its acceptance and shouted out to those who felt like him. “You can be whatever you want to be. I promise you that. I told them that I wanted to be a country singer and I am standing...

The founding member and guitarist, who provided the seagull-like slide guitar leads to Skynyrd’s signature “Free Bird,” survived the band’s infamous 1977 plane crash. GARY ROSSINGTON, A founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd whose ethereal slide guitar helped make the Southern rock band’s song “Free Bird” an indelible anthem, died Sunday at the age of 71. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing...

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, the southern rock band's last surviving original member, has died at the age of 71. "It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today," the band posted Sunday evening on Facebook. His cause of death was not immediately clear. Rossington cheated death on multiple occasions, Rolling Stone reported. In 1976, he survived driving his vehicle into the tree. One year later, he survived a plane crash that killed the band's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve...

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given. “It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire Rossington family in your prayers and respect the family’s privacy at this difficult...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made a surprise appearance at a recent Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Hollywood, Florida, where the stunned crowd erupted in loud applause and chanted “USA!” DeSantis appeared onstage with his wife, Casey, and their children, during the band’s show Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Lynyrd Skynyrd has made no secret of its admiration of De Santis. Earlier this year, lead singer Johnny Van Zant and his brother, Donny Van Zant, released a new single dedicated to the governor titled “Sweet Florida.”

Tuesday's Gone with lyrics

Scene from Forrest Gump (1994) Music: Lynyrd Skynyrd / Free Bird

Friendly reminder that I'm posting this under BLOGGERS & PERSONAL so anything goes. I can post pretty much anything I want in here and it doesn't have to do with anything about politics. So grounding. The premise is that the human body is electrically charges and so it is necessary to put on your bare feet and put them on the ground for a while with no shoes or socks. Sounds all new-agey and hippie-like. I know. But I am a convert. When I spend some time outdoors in my bare feet on a regular basis, I really do feel...

Nearly fifty years after it was written, “Free Bird” is still the signature concert closer for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose final farewell tour wraps up in October in Manchester, Tennessee. Founding members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins wrote the song in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1970, and it wasn’t long before “Free Bird” and its extended guitar solo near the end became one of the band’s most well-known tunes and a live-show favorite.

Full title: Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and co-writer of Sweet Home Alabama, Ed King, dies aged 68 at his home in Nashville ........... Classic rocker Ed King died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post shared on his account. He was 68. 'It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Ed King who died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee on August 22nd, 2018,' the post said. 'We thank his many friends and fans for their love and support of Ed during his life and career.'

RIP