FIRST TIME HEARING LYNYRD SKYNYRD - FREE BIRD (REACTION)

[@mentalwedgee]

The only thing better than hearing Freebird for the first time is watching someone else hear it for the first time!

[@sharonkempf1276]

I totally agree with that statement! I can literally sit and watch different reactors reacting to this for the 1st time.

[@juniordaddyman]

It always makes my soul happy to see when people react to great music for the first time!!

[@mariejustme]

That’s a fact! 🤟🏼

[@jamesdalton8539]

that crowd are now all Grandma's and Grandpa's!!! that's how we used to roll ;-)

[@artbagley1406]

Rapt attention to the band on-stage and close-by friends in crowd -- NO CELL PHONES, people experienced the event with their own EYES!

[@EastCoastBruin]

I was at this concert, my first. It was an awesome show. Hearing this version of Free Bird has stuck with me my whole life.

[@jhood758]

You’re one lucky person. We were supposed to go and see them in October but they never made it to that date. I woke up to hearing about the plane crash and was devastated 😢.

[@Mooncatwasgreen]

I love the crowd as it starts to pick up and they know what's coming

[@rodjohnson2632]

I was at this concert July 2, 1977 at the Oakland Coliseum. It was one of a series of summer concerts known as "Day on the Green" put on by legendary concert organizer/promoter Bill Graham. The Outlaws opened the show, followed by Santana, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the headliner, Peter Frampton. Most people agree that Lynyrd Skynryd was the highlight of the day, although all 4 bands were great. 3 weeks later, on the 24th, I attended the Led Zeppelin concert at this same venue, which turned out to be their last ever U.S. appearance. Every week there was one or more top bands playing somewhere in the Bay Area, with ticket prices averaging around $8. What a time to be into music!

[@fuhrank]

Granny & Pappy came to ROCK! Which you cannot do with all your heart with half of your attention focused on your phone.

[@kellydavis4571]

Can't go wrong with Skynyrd!! Many great songs!!! Simple Man, Ballad of Curtis Loew, Tuesdays Gone, Sweet Home Alabama!!

[@Reclining_Spuds]

Gimme Three Steps 👍👍

[@joelmclean2898]

I love watching people that have never heard this song react when the tempo suddenly kicks up and the crowd knows it's coming and they all start going crazy. That is how concerts were back then.

[@kevinmarshall854]

One of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded!!!

[@martinellis7156]

Worth listening to the studio version as well, because of the sound quality here, but this live performance just rocks it out of the stadium.

[@vern74]

I was there. No cell phones to distract you. One just watched and listened. This was one of the greatest concerts I ever attended. Thousands of young people just having fun. Those young people are now grandparents/great grandparents but the memory never dies. Thank you for bringing some happy memories and tears to this old man.

[@cadifferentreactions]

That must have been amazing! I am so jealous

[@JacobG093]

I'm curious what concert experiences of yours top this one? Just so I can be even MORE jealous of you and your experiences 😅

[@Joe-hh8gd]

I was at this show. Before the internet turned people into zombies attached to their screens as if with an umbilical cord, people actually left the house and DID THINGS...like this, as an example. We socialized, mingled, had experiences. And unlike today, music wasnt formulaic and artificial. Sadly, such a time will never come again in our lifetimes.

[@ninawest88]

So true. I'm honored to have grown up in that time and to have witnessed such greatness❤😊

[@ugadawgs1990]

I know Spinal Tap was scheduled to play later, but their guitars were accidentally sent to a bluegrass festival in San Diego instead of the rock show in San Francisco, so they had to cancel.

[@Nasty-Canasta]

This is such a boomer comment

[@KimStinson-cf7vx]

​@@Nasty-Canasta Yours is such an ignorant comment. You just proved his point perfectly.

[@Nasty-Canasta]

@@KimStinson-cf7vx How so? Those people in the crowd are now grandparents. That demographic uses social media and smartphone as much or more than younger people. Those same people voted to make their kids and grandkids life harder. They had everything handed to them and pulled the ladder up from behind them. These videos are flooded with the exact came, copied, thoughtless, comments. Pete Townshend warned of being fooled again, and we were.

[@TonyCentaur]

One of the greatest songwriters and band EVER!

[@notablindliberal896]

A group of poor boys from just outside Jacksonville, Florida who began playing together in their teens. Allen Collins in white wrote this solo at 16 years old.This band was phenomenal. My favorite band ever. They put out many great songs on their 5 studio albums before the tragedy of their touring plane crashing on October 20th 1977. Their final abum was released 3 days before the tragedy. Southern rock is the genre, and they were the gold standard. Thanks for a sincere and great reaction. Skynyrd forever. ✌️

[@RonaldJohnson-p4r]

I love Skynyrd but the gold standard was the band that invented the genre. The Allman Brothers Band

[@notablindliberal896]

@RonaldJohnson-p4r it's only my opinion and many others, I love the Allman Brothers as well.

[@bbqujeh]

It was an amazing time growing up in the 1970s, They are southern rock at it's best. Ronnie Van Zant, Stevie Gaines, his sister Cassie Gaines and, Asst Mgr Dean Kilpatrick perished in a plan crash on October 20, 1977. Rest In Peace, y'all earned it.

[@OBIWANCANOLI77]

Never knew your grandparents were ever that cool.

[@Hayseo]

The crowd was going nuts and shaking their fists during the slow part of the song because they knew what was coming ….. What kind of sorcery is this? People singing without digital backing vocals or autotune. People playing their own instruments. It must be Magic.

[@SuperDoomspoon]

Awesome React to one of THE MOST CLASSIC SONGS in EXISTENCE!!!👍🤟

[@VanGreen-c1g]

I had the pleasure of seeing them three times in the 70s... About 3 months after this show they were all in a plane crash and we lost the singer Ronnie Van Zant, the guitarist in the white shirt and red pants Steve Gaines and his sister back up singer Cassie Gaines and all the others were seriously injured. The plane ran out of fuel and thats the reason that some of them lived as there was not any fire. They reformed about 10 years after the plane crash with Ronnies brother Johnny taking over as lead singer. They still tour today as I saw them and ZZ Top April of 2024... They only play the songs of the oringinal band. The plane crash was October 20, 1977... Yeah I'm old as dirt lol

[@russellgtyler8288]

Coolest breakup song ever. No computers, no auto tune, no dancers, no fireworks. Just pure talent.

[@buretto66]

Not even close. Wouldn't even rate as the "coolest breakup song" in the Southern Rock genre. Most people only care about the guitars anyway, skipping the syrup. Check the 'most viewed' data on the YT videos, the stats don't lie.

[@radionman8441]

@@buretto66 think I'm picking up on negative vibes here man, but don't worry, tomorrow the sun might shine in your sky as well

[@jasonwalker7916]

LS one of the best bands ever. Loved performing live. My favorite band of all time. Can't go wrong with LS . The 70s was the best era for music. Thanks for the reaction 😊

[@musicguy694]

Ronnie Van Zant - vocals and leader of the band; Allen Collins - guitar; Gary Rossington - guitar; Steve Gaines - guitar; Artimus Pyle - drums; Leon Wilkeson - bass; Billy Powell - piano; Their last performance was South Carolina’s Greenville Memorial Auditorium on Oct. 19 1977 Free Bird lasted for 20 mins The next day boarded their plane that was unsafe the Fuel gauge was broke. The only way to check the fuel was with a stick. The plane ran out of fuel the engines were burning too rich and wasting precious fuel. One engine shut down then the other did. The plane went down over pine trees killing the members of the band, Ronnie Van Zant lead singer, guitarist Steve Gaines, and vocalist Cassie Gaines, that day was the saddest in Southern Rock. I was 20 when I heard about it on the radio. I cried like a baby.

[@jamesdalton8539]

Every LYNYRD SKYNYRD and Allman Brothers Band albums LIVED on my stereo, home and car!!!!

[@HBC423]

“That smell” is probably my favorite song by them, incredible guitar

[@bobduerwald9805]

Lynyrd Skynyrd was known for their spectacular guitar work. Next up try That Smell. The song really shows the wonderful guitar play from Skynyrd.

[@MikeBUSA]

I saw them at the old RFK stadium in Washington DC (saw them 3 times before the crash) and Ron Ackerman, their tour manager, wrote about that gig in his book. It was cloudy that day with a serious threat of rain. When they started playing Freebird, the clouds parted, the first and only sun of that day shown through the clouds, and sea gulls were flying all around. It was an epic experience. Fun fact - all artists got to the stage in limousines. Except for Skynyrd. They pulled up in an old beat up Volkswagon bus.

[@mikepeters-do3te]

Best opening line ever. "If I leave here tomorrow will you still remember me. "

[@susanfox6666]

That line and so much of the rest, made it very popular to play at young men's funerals in the Midwest. It's a good-bye song.

[@robertthole695]

one of the greatest crowd reactions ever

[@alexharbison4411]

Nice reaction. Allen Collins is one of the GOATS of guitar. He wrote this as a teenager. How many people were playing guitar like this in the late 1960's and early 1970's? Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Duane, Beck....... there weren't many. That generation knew how to party and make music. Still waiting on your reaction to Stevie Ray Vaughn, "Texas Flood" live at El Mocambo. Everyone I mentioned above bows to him.

[@hunter1961100]

There is no place in the world like Northern California in the 70s. It was truly paradise but call someplace Paradise kiss it goodbye!!!

[@Balero01]

Ah the seventies. Beautiful all natural girls enjoying an epic concert and not a damn cell phone in sight.

[@ellet6560]

No sunblock either, lol

[@Wolverines9999]

This was a great time to be alive. Think about it. Your grandparents were pretty cool. stadium concerts were truly amazing.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Picking up after the Allman Brothers Band invented "Southern Rock", Lynyrd Skynyrd was the epitome of Southern rock. Although they lost most of their line up in a plane crash not long after this show, the band picked themselves up, brought in some family member and continued for decades.

[@atuuschaaw]

I cannot think of a better introduction to Skynard. Their musical well is filled with pure spring water. 😉♥

[@jimmymcintyre7944]

Saw them live in 1976. It was July 4th at the Liberty Biwl in Memphis. The lineup was The Outlaws, Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top.

[@davidteller7681]

Been a Skynyrd fan since the 70's, I really enjoy watching first time reactions to this song and to the solo in particular, it lays 'em out every time 🔥

[@jamescrane2156]

For those new to this performance, at the start the guitarist is making the sound of a bird chirping.

[@gordonpelto1069]

Great performance in Oakland, 4th of july celebration. The Oakland set came three months before the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of Van Zant, Gaines and his sister and backup singer Cassie Gaines and severely injured the other members of the band.

[@tx_1]

When you go to a club to see a live band, you always scream "Free Bird" after their last song.

[@jeremyfagner6808]

This is my opinion the best guitar trio ever. All three extremely talented guitar players.

[@anitawright7169]

This was done in The Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, CA. It is where the Oakland A's baseball team played, and the Oakland Raiders played. Lynyrd Skinner was a southern rock group. They were so very awesome. About 2 months after this concert, they were in a plane crash that killed some of them. I wished I could have been there; I only lived a few miles away. Love your tractions!

[@diverdown631]

Alot of sunburn in that crowd. Allen Collins ( dressed in white) composed that lead guitar part while in high school.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

They were the opening act for Peter Frampton ,he had just hit it big with his album Frampton Comes Alive and that is why you see the vast amount of females there

[@patrickv391]

74-75, 9th grade at Lee Burneson Jr High in Westlake Ohio. Mr. Campbells social studies class. He had us do a report on this song. Went on to see them play this a couple of times at Cleveland Stadium. What a great time to be a teenager.

[@RobbingBanks-f8y]

This song is played out for me too much , unless I see it live is the only way I can watch it , so magically done still makes my eyes water to this day. Loved your reaction to this song now you gotta listen to simple man.

[@mikehutton3187]

Whenever I played this song on the Jukebox or heard it on the radio, my girlfriend always wasted if I was going to break up with her. Well after 12 years, I finally did, and life has been so much “sweeter”. “Call Me the Breeze” is another must hear by Skynyrd.

[@Bill-c8k]

One of the greatest guitar solo in rock

[@Bennromansince1955]

Saw them in various iterations MANY times over the last 50 years; never as good as the early years before the plane crash. Was fortunate to meet Ronnie and Gary R. in 12/1973 at a concert while I was in college. They definitely played to the crowd.

[@curtismarsh4528]

If would be 110 days from this concert the band would die in a plane crash in Gillsburg, Mississippi. I was in high school, a big fan, and remember the day I heard the news.

[@DrVonChilla]

My high school years. Look at all those pretty girls....!!! I'll be FOREVER GRATEFUL to have lived in My Time. I'm an old man now, but I wouldn't trade my youth for ANY OTHER PLACE & TIME.....!!

[@757optim]

RIP free birds. Jacksonville, home of Lynyrd Skynyrd, is also where The Allman Brothers Band was formed in 1969. Must have been something in the water.

[@scottchapin2323]

One of the greatest songs ever written.

[@frankperry2874]

Imagine how many of us were created after this concert!

[@dougca7086]

That took place in the Oakland Coliseum where the Oakland Raiders football team played in 1977 a short time before their plane crashed

[@DrinkingmeadwithsamAdams]

Many think this is a solo guitar performance, it was a duet with a added base and slide guitar, it was a bunch of guys that were so tight with each other that they just knew where the others were going.

[@Jude_196]

LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE!! ENJOY!! ❤❤❤

[@andrewplumb6544]

Only the drummer is still with us.. incredible live band in all their incarnations. Awfull back story too. Allen Collins is the guy in white playing the Gibson Explorer. Thank you for reacting to this performance.

[@j.woodbury412]

Lynyrd Skynyrd were named after Leonard Skinner, who was the gym teacher at the school lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Gary Rossington attended, Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Skinner was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's rule against boys with long hair.

[@LJA46]

Day on the Green 1977 in Oakland. Later that year their plane would crashing killing members of the band, backup singers, and others. So sad.

[@joyous-b8j]

SAW THEM TWICE!!!!🐐🎸🔥😍😍😍😍😍😍😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 RIP LYNYRD SKYNYRD

[@joelmclean2898]

This song and Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven are similar in that they both start soft and slow and build into absolutely killer jams.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Just a couple of months before the plane crash that killed and injured many in the band. I was fortunate to see them when they first started touring the West Coast and they blew us away (before their first album hit it big).

[@ugadawgs1990]

Nothing says America more than Freebird, behind a confederate battle flag & Mt Rushmore decorating the stage, American flags in the crowd of beautiful women in bikinis! ‘Merica! 🇺🇸

[@Nasty-Canasta]

How does that say "America"? Please explain

[@ugadawgs1990]

@ , if you have to ask… 🤷‍♂️

[@petermorgan5303]

Gotta check out the live version of Call Me the Breeze from Skynyrd. Epic

[@sailinbob11]

I'm from Atlanta. Probably saw them 7 times. Can't remember... i was in my early teens all through high school starting around 74. Always a hell of a party.

[@mikeconway9849]

Great reaction, C&A!

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Freebird is always their encore song, even to this day.

[@ButternutGOLD]

There’s your grandma and all her friends being free

[@VanGreen-c1g]

Yyes sir Ronnie we still remember you...

[@victorbradshaw7359]

Glad to see you guys back I held off to see if you actually have a different direction

[@roydavis5222]

I saw these guys in 1977 in Portland, Maine with Foreigner and 38 Special. 6 months later they were in that fateful plane crash.

[@kevinlese633]

the greatest rock and roll song of all time

[@bobshaw8319]

Welcome to the greatest American band in history .. enjoy the ride

[@garymacmillan]

"this is nice"... I'm speechless

[@robertevans2450]

We had epic bands back then, who would play epic shows, and it was all them, good or bad. At the end of the night, it was all the band's doing, not some piece of equipment or computer's doing. Although in every epic concert, which you can evaluate, the crowd was epic too, feeding the band energy, which in turn fed the crowd energy, and it is always an amazing feedback loop. Before you decide who has what epic concert, which IMHO can't be possible as the inputs to such an evaluation is too complex to list this one for this reason or that one for that reason, I propose that there are many epic concerts and each had their own reasoning for it being epic...be it ACDC in River Platte, Led Zepplin in O2, Pink Floyd in Pulse or Pink Floyd in Pompeii, or maybe one of the Rolling Stones' tours, or maybe The Who's farewell Tommy, or many other concerts that for whatever reason turned out to be an epic one. This one was a good concert. Before you decide, check out more and be prepared to adjust your list.

[@art3mis290]

Subscribed! I have watched you 2 react to a few bands that are on my playlist this takes the cake folks! Thank you for taking me down memory lane a great way to end the weekend! Watching for your next one! Have a great year!

[@cadifferentreactions]

Thank you so much for subscribing to our channel, it is our pleasure to have you here

[@larrydest1466]

Hard to believe only the drummer is still with us,artimus pyle

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Skynyrd is the greatest band, ever. 😊

[@williamreiser3118]

Remember these people in the audience are today's grandparents I was 15 when this was recorded

[@user-Spicoli]

GREATNESS !!!!!!!

[@cshubs]

You'll want to check out the superb documentary Muscle Shoals, which tells the story of the studio(s) in Alabama where a ton of the best music of the 20th C was made.

[@robertstoner8244]

Ya I was 16 and having the best time 😊. This and stairway to heaven are considered the two best rock songs of all time. Free 🐦 gets my vote 😁

[@Mooncatwasgreen]

Every time I hear this I don't want it to end

[@Stinger2222]

And now it's time for the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East - "Whippin Post" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed".

[@KennethCotarelo]

62 NOW, DAMN!!! I WAS THERE!!!! DAY ON THE GREEN, JULY 2nd. GOT TICKETS AS AN EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATION PRESENT. OUTLAWS, SANTANA, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, AND PETER FRAMPTON!!!!! PARADIGM SHIFT IN ONES' LIFE!!!!!!!

[@bigdaddyeb56]

Welcome to Southern Rock !!! Great Reaction

[@williamreiser3118]

3 lead guitarist people this was one big band

[@kenhoyer8601]

This was the one of the Day On The Green series they would have at the Oakland Coliseum . All day, all headliners, for about ten buck to get in. My girlfriend would get free tickets from her work.

[@williamreiser3118]

Rest in peace all the original members are dead one of the all-time greatest bands to ever come into existence I lived in Jacksonville Florida in the very early eighties like 81 and you had Lynyrd Skynyrd 38 special Molly Hatchet Blackfoot the top four of southern rock in effing roll all coming from Jacksonville Florida you have three brothers Ronnie Van zant in this video he died in the crash Johnny Van zant had his own band that was the younger brother who later took over for Ronnie after the plane crash then Donnie Van zant was in 38 special

[@dougca7086]

The best guitar solo of all time even better than Hotel California

[@williamcabell142]

It’s the groups name…it’s not a person in the band…it’s was the name of their gym coach!

[@mauriceholder1386]

Allan Collins was such an under rated guitar player. Sadly the only one alive today on that stage is the drummer Artemis Pile.

[@Booderman]

Just one of MANY awesome Jacksonville, Fl. Bands ! Go down this rabbit hole ! “ I know a little” will get you moving!

[@cadifferentreactions]

could you give us some recommendations please?

[@mikeconway9849]

@@cadifferentreactions Call Me the Breeze is a good Skynyrd song.

[@Booderman]

@@cadifferentreactions Limp Biz-kit, Shinedown ,Molly Hatchet , Blackfoot , 38 special, Rossington Collins Band ,the Allman Brothers band ,JJ grey / mofro, Tedeschi trucks band,etc ! My favorite is Molly hatchet and a good one to start with them would be flirting with disaster!

[@ellet6560]

We remember you, Ronnie.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

I love that fur dress!

[@shirleybuffington6420]

This song come about from the lead singer Ronnie VanZant heard one of the band members girlfriend ask him the question if I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me.

[@RichardGriffis]

12:51 "You can smell the freedom" You could smell the weed better. lol

[@LarryNtx]

They did their final tour in 2022.

[@DouglasSkeen]

He died in plane crash makes it little more emotional when I listen to it

[@srt8rocketship241]

Also , some babies were conceived. Mississippi Kid or Things Goin' on , next.