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  • grandi cazzo grandi

  • Yeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

  • They are UNDERRATED. One of the BEST bands of all TIME. These guys could ROCK!!!!!!! So could Charlie.

  • Why are "Southern Rock" bands never inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame? How the hell can music like this be ignored? Some kind of conspiracy or politics maybe? Gotta be rigged.

  • @NYhomewrecker Sort of. A lot of people don't realize Jann Wenner decides who gets in.

  • I was Marshall Tucker open for the Doobie brothes in 1974. Both bands rocked. This song is one of my all time favorites. It was a staple in my crowd.

  • well, guess we need to remember how it use to be,,cuz it aint like that no mo.

  • I have burnt alot of miles to 24 hrs. at a time...

    I drank a couple shots of Jim Beam in my truck driving threw Spartanberg in honor of our favorite SOUTHERN boys here....

    We were blessed to grow up havin them shape our lives.

    They ruined me. Nothing compares to our music......

  • Toy Caldwell is my all time favorite guitar player. Olga from the Toy dolls is right on his heels though.

  • LONG LIVE M.T.B...ROCK ON......

  • Count Toy Caldwell as a guitar master with anyone you can think of; and he just used his THUMB !!!

  • As great at Doug Gray is , it had to be hard for him to stand to the side of the stage and watch his bandmates rip it up .

  • best

    

  • one of the best jams ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to play this one in Idaho with the smokejumpers

  • Southern Rock is what saved the 70's. I saw MTB with CDB, Outlaws & Grinder switch in 1976 at the Miami Baseball Stadium... Charlie loved playing with these guys. A true family of Sothern Rockers

  • Caught Marshall Tucker 'bout 3x in '75-76. Charlie was touring with them and would always play with and be introduced by them. Even though Spartanburg based, they did a lot of the cowboy stuff, Toy (loved all his thumb downstrokes, like Wes Montgomery) even seems to have some western swing at times. Remember...If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

  • @crcausey According to things I've read, his Dad had a western swing band, when Toy was growing up.

  • These guys were a band in the true sense... Everyone played to the top of their game. Awesome. Too bad Toy and Tommy died. What would they be like today?

  • What a fucking awesome live version, id love to of seen this live!

  • @Thejimislim Didn't see this particular show but did see them play this with Charlie Daniels on fiddle. I think it was 1975. It was right after Long Hard Ride came out I know, because they opened the show with that.

  • Freakin Great. Have the LP.  Still love them boys' music,. God Bless!!!!!!

  • Did Charlie Daniels Play for MTB before he hit it big?

  • toy an tommy were happy with them

  • Too much talent for one god damn stage! They were the best!

  • Saw this live,FUCKIN KICK FUCKING ASS!

  • Loved those guys. and their great great sounds ...their music just flows right along

    ...

  • Agreed, however the R&RHOF Sucks, there are so many lame non rock acts in the hall that it has failed to live up to it's name. Saw MTB a few times and they never failed to deliver the goods on stage, gotta love southen rock cause it always rolls...

  • Doug Gray singing. What a good person he is, always smiling!

  • the great Toy Caldwell, .....may the fastest thumb in the west RIP

  • rebred2006 Those were the days weren't they. I wish a great band like this would come out of the woodwork and light up the music world again, this stuff we hear today....you call that music!

  • @rmcoolj1

    You are right. Saw em about 10-12 times. Nobody will ever be able to encompass what they could. Still say MTB was the best band ever.

  • Any one got a better tune than this....................? Didn't think so. What a fabulous song.

  • Saw Daniels warm up for Tucker in early 70's DAniels joined them for this song later in the show, allI can say is AWESOME!!!

  • Hillbillies on acid. In a very good way.

  • I've been a fan of this great southern rock band forever, the 70's were the absolute best era for music and musical talent, this band was outstanding. I was at this very concert in Nashville in 75, it was amazing!! Remember this jam session well, well, what I could remember of it HAHA!! Oh, those were the days!

  • @rmcoolj1

    Saw em 8 times back in the 70's, 80's. The best ever.

  • QUE BUENO!!! TOMMY,TOY AND GEORGE, GRACIAS POR LA MUSICA!!!!GRAN BANDA LA MTB!!!!

  • This was one of the best, if not the best, concerts ever.

  • Quanti ricordi con questa conzone, a partire dal 1981 quando ero carrista a Cordenons...

    ciao

  • Tommy, Toy AND George all left too soon :(

  • Toy & Tommy were both thumb pickers ... always amazed me .... still does.

  • Best song of all time.

  • THE WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!!!!!!!...ZIGGY

  • toys workin that thumb pick. these were the magic years for music my brothers

  • charlie daniels use to be cool hippie. Now he is just a fucking tea bagger

  • @frndthdevl YOU are an absolute fucking GOOF. You probably suck dick in your spare time. 

  • this kicks ass

  • I think they cut out at least two parts. The live original was over 20 minutes

  • Let's not forget Tommy Caldwell! The whole band was amazing. Saw them in 1974 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Blew us away. Their first song was "How Can I Slow Down". I had never heard anything like it. The timing was perfect. I saw them again years later. Tommy was gone. Almost the same. I agree, Paul Riddle an amazing underrated drummer playing those yellow Pearls!!!!

  • Toy Caldwell and Charlie Daniels were friends. Toy left us way too young.

    That man could play.

  • @Callmps - Tommy AND Toy left us too early. :^(

  • There isn't a new band out there that can put out live jammin' like this. 70's were the best for real music.

  • How nice it would be to have a clean playback of this, man oh man!

  • Rock N Roll Forever. The 70's will never die.

    And "only" 9 minutes long. Im thinkin they should of jammed at least 20 minutes.

  • Along w/ the Dead, ABB and a couple other west coast groups they were one of the 1st "jam bands"....what musicianship! How may bands incorporate flute solo's ( Tull maybe? ) and bass solo's ( the Who maybe? ) into their songs. Toy was one of the most soulful guitarists of all time.

  • love this vid and song, Charlie is tearing it up

  • to 30kitcat Yeah what about that Tucker Flute Nobody does the FLUTE like MTB

    The MTB FLUTAGE just Blows my MInd Hands down the best Flute in Music EVER.

  • saw them on my birthday 74 or 75 kick ass!

  • Hey Meoffs13...Its Spartenberg and its in SC

  • How could you have a fiddle and a sax in a rock band? That's what it was like in the Gonzo South, folks. There weren't as many "rules" then as there are today.

  • THIS IS AWESOME!!! LOVE TUCKER & CHARLIE!! JERRY EUBANKS GREAT ON THE SAX AND THE TUCKER FLUTE!!

  • THIS IS AWESOME!!! LOVE TUCKER & CHARLIE!!

  • That is some major ass kicking..Southern style.

  • #1 under-rated band of all time. These guys were unreal. If you were so unfortunate as to not be able to see them in the 70's you missed some of the best music ever played. People who know good tunes will be laughing when you bashers start attacking my post.

  • This is IMHO the 2nd best live rock song of all time (only Incident on 57th St can top it); this band was so hot at this time it humbles me to watch the video. This happens to be a great version, as well. We can't relive the past but thank goodness for audio and video recording. Lady GaGa my ass, LOL.

  • @rebreb2006 Anybody that knows great music won't bash you. If they do, they don't know shit. You could put UFO on that list too, right up there with them.

  • charlie sold out almost as bad as fuckin kenny rodgers. "i get up in the mornin. . .i get down in the afternoon. .! thet song made him famous, and to sanitize it after all these years fells like sandpaper on my soul. my old lady and i drove from ghicago all the way to jackson miss. to find the antioch baptist church and got a picture on the steps. thats how much i love the guy!

  • Great!

  • ii was fortunate to see them in spartan borough n.c there hoe town a dozn times or more them,wet willie,elvin bishop,skynard, charlie d, all the southern bands back in them days i was stationed at fort bragg just up the road apiece

  • Yo Swede, saw them in 73/74 too in LA with the Allman Bros. Never really liked Country until these guys. These songs bring back great memories. Smoke filled concerts. Didn't need to bring anything to get high. Just breath. Miss those days!

  • i love how the horse hare starts coming off charlie's fiddle one ba fiddle player ever! nough said

  • big ass country boys kicking butt.

  • I first saw the Marshall Tucker Band at the New Year's Eve show '73-'74 at the Cow Palace in San Fransisco, along with the Allman Bros. Band and the Outlaws. What a show that was!

    I knew right there the Marshall Tucker Band was going to be big! I saw them four more times during the '70's and every time it was better than the last time..

    Why is it, that some of the best among us have leave us so soon...

  • Tommy, I never new him, what a musician! With PT, the back bone of the band. Love it...

  • HALL OF FAME IS A JOKE /WHEN THEY PUT ABBA IN , THAT PROVES THAT THEY DON"T KNOW WHAT ROCK & ROLL IS...........

  • I love you so much Doug!!!! Miss you like the dickens!

  • I believe that Toy Caldwell and Tommy Caldwell are both deceased may God rest their souls.

  • One bad ass MF Southern Rockin Song EVER made. Bar Nunn (WY) These boys knew how to play. God bless Toy and Tommy RIP. Saw them in '78.Where have the good sounds (songs) gone??????

  • Been a fan for a very long time of MTB...in their early years they just tore it up. And by the wy I live here in Nashville and attended many of the Vol Jams where you really didn't know who just might show up. I was there for this one as well. Toy was just in another league.

  • LOVE DOUG GRAYS VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Wow! It doesn't get any hotter'n that!

  • ive been driving about six hours trying to reach that arkansas line

  • This is one bad ass video!!! Toy,Tommy,George,Doug,Jerry,Pa­ul& Charlie sawin on that fiddle,.....AWESOME !!! I love Tommy's solo,and what can you say about Toy that has'nt been said a thousand times? He's definitely "feelin it" here!!! They were a wonderful group.Too,too bad they suffered so much loss....What a band !!! Good 'ol southern boys,God love 'em....

  • Blackie call me man this is your buddy in Laurens from old ups days

  • Blackie was on light s. great shots of Tommy

  • Blackie V D were u runnin lights here? WATUP BUDDY

  • although Cant you see is most famous song, this is my favorite. Its kicks ass, listen in car and you will be doing 90 mph on interstate beatin the hell outta your steering wheel, truley a sign of a badass song ! ROEBUCK SC BABY

  • anything with dick betts and chas. daniels. lets not forget MTB. only flippin great.

  • I heard both Dickie Betts in the 70's & 80's but Dickie gets the backseat to Toy Live . If to listen to the clasics well we can discuss.Beause Fillmore East is five star. But I headd Toy fill a stadiun like few can

  • That's Charlie Daniel playing the fiddle. He was great friends with the original band. They should be in the R&RHOF!

  • this is a great dvd for your collection! please buy & support your ledgendary bands! i have the original vinyl album as well!! k.c.

  • Toy Caldwell- so underated but was one of the best guitarists. Looks a little too coked out but played his ass off. Thanks for posting the video- brings back great memories

  • I don't see the coked out part? But anyways they played because they loved to play. New bands today play to become famous, thats been lost somewhere between FM and tv. Their from a generation of great music. God bless them, and the USA.

  • And why are they not in the R&RHOF??

  • Toy and Tommy both played with their thumbs. Unique styles.

  • Ha! Think they were all coked out. Just blazing. Yes Toy was way under rated. In my music collection hes there with Hendrix, Wes Montgomery and the best of them. These Carolina boys sure could play.

  • sweet as it was 35 yrs ago

  • Man I use to drink and drink and drink with my best friends while listening to Marshall Tucker all the way from sun down to sun up! Thanks for posting this!

  • One of the greatest "jam" tunes EVER...

  • I'm from Spain.

    I love USA for things like that.

  • true southern fried,whiskey soaked kick ass rock...period!

  • Paul Riddle was a motherfucker on drums. One of the most underrated of all time.

  • @cityleewolfe YOU ARE SO RIGHT...I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY HE NEVER GOT A SOLO SPOT WHEN THIS WAS RECORDED FOR THE GREY ALBUM(WHERE WE ALL BELONG)

  • @cityleewolfe

    No doubt about it . It's cool to see that somebody's giving the man the respect he deserves .

  • the whole band at the time was underrated. Toy Caldwell on guitar is GOD. i wish i got to meet him before he passed . i was just a tiny kid . But this song on the album Where we belong , is just a great driving song. nothing gets me happy when im out delivering pizzas.

  • @cityleewolfe I agree completely. When I first heard a Marshall Tucker recording, I thought they used two drummers.

  • me and linda m 1977

  • i saw em in syacuse , ny in 1980,,,, they were great,,the weed was great,,,and the women were super great...party on dudes

  • Heard this for the first time somewhere in '77 living in Amsterdam and played it loud and mean without a break ever since!! The best Tucker song ever!!

  • I saw them at the Mississippi River Festival at SIU Edwardsville, IL. Encore and played it 28 minutes...unbelievable jammin'

  • Must play song when riding US 59 north (across East Texas)--Houston to Texarkana--a 250+ mile, 6 hour, pine-forested ride to the Arkansas Line from Texas' largest city.

  • Met them in high school ... moved to Spartanburg hoping to meet/see them again in the later years only to learn too many were now dead.

    They were the coolest and best!

  • This is music. Played - albeit al little too fast- from the heart by musicians who devoted their lives to being the best players they could possibly be. Wish I was born earlier.

  • im wheat bread myself

  • it just barks....two drummers my style........

    thanks for sharing.

  • Great Stuff ....., saw them in Dayton, Ohio They were great. Thumber Toy & Tommy & Doug's voice .....Magic Stuff AND Charlie too ......Tickets to see these guys today would be clear up in the hundreds of dollars, I'll bet,,,,,,, I would spent it , too?

  • Great video- saw them a few times in the 70's. Last show I sat 1st row at Nassau Coliseum. The week after Tommy had the accident. What a shame.

  • My cousin got me tickets for my 17th birthday summer of '76 at Casino Arena in Asbury Park NJ. The Outlaws were the opening act. Wow.

  • I hear ya Slug. Saw them the same year at at Sunshine Jam ( a enefit concert for jimmy cotter). at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville FL. I didn't vote for the peanut, but not only did they have the MTB and CDB, .38 Special and the Outlaws played. Skynyrd was scheduled, but Ronnies voice was shot after a tour. 9 hour long concert!!!! Charlie played w MTB on the same song. AWESOME! Oh, and the ticket was just $10, which I got for free from a guy on the USN ship I was on because he was getting out.

  • didnt charlie sing with skynyrd for ronnie.

    I just read about this in a lynyrd skynyrd book

  • Amazing...never seen the live version with Charlie Daniels...Thanks!

  • Wow. Thanks so much. One of my favorite jams by one of my favorite bands. It just doesn't get much better than that. God bless you Toy and Tommy. Your music will live forever.

  • Awesome to see this. Brings back the old days. Timeless music! Great!

  • What a GREAT video!!!!! And as SC mentioned a time capsule of talent! Pure unadulterated Southern Rock!!! :-) 100 proof!

  • Tommy ruled! Great video, to see this is like just a time capsule of talent.

  • This is one of my favorite road trip songs. The album version is 13 minutes long. Gets you down the road almost another 20 miles. Love the bass solo.

    These guys were too rock n roll for country, too country for rock n roll. Didn't get that much air time. I have at least 5 of their albums. Great stuff.

  • Toys all thumbs.  southern spartanburg county fuckin smokes baby

  • Nice jam with Charlie Daniels at 4.00.

    Saw them in 1968 at the Providence Civic Center.

  • I think you meant 1978!

  • You are correct.

  • One of the Greatest Bands of all times. Toy .....RIP bro. Gone but not forgotten.

  • Are you familiar with the Marshall Tucker Band?

  • love this...............

  • hey TELL . GOD BLESS YOU ! and i will say that to doug when i see him on the the 25th @ big tent south of bayfield ,wi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!. THNX. !!!!

  • wow a dvd of all these old mtb clips would be awsome .oh boy put me down for one maybe two hell yeah.

  • nuthin but thumb gotta luv it!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • the greatest musical climax ever!!!!!words can not describe this.....from heaven:}

  • Best version of this song ive ever heard is off of thier "Where We All Belong" album.

  • and guess where ? the performing arts center in milwaukee! where i was born ! ya you right the best recorded sond ever , especially if you listen close to some guy in the audience saying f**k yea ! dam i was only 13 @ the time .

  • that right thumb was amazing....wow, we miss you, Toy.....as a native of Texarkana, I enjoy this song quite a bit as I've made the trip from south Texas back home many a time

  • Tommy Caldwell, Leon Wilkeson and Ean Evans, the greatest Bassist of all Time!

  • I saw these guys with Lynyrd Skynyrd in Athens, Georgia in 1976 or 1977. Southern rock at its absolute finest. A good time was had by all.

  • I'm from Brooklyn and used to catch these guys every year from 77 to 81 at the Nassau Colliseum when I was in HS and these shows sold out fast! Good music is universal and they loved that venue probably because they were a little surprised at how much we loved them here in the NYC area. These shows were incredible.

  • I remember hearing Paul Riddle saying they really loved playing in the NYC area.

  • reminds me of sitting on my front porch at Wittenberg trying to study......a loooong time ago. Long Live MTB!

  • Love it! Jamin at it's best

  • pickin with only there thumbs

  • I posted my nomination to the RNR hall of fame, long overdue!

  • My favorite band of all time and it's not close. Only got to see them live once, but wow. You'll never hear a bass solo like the one is this tune....it splits the Earth smooth open, even God himself just shakes his head and says "Dayummmm....".

  • Thats some killer music, from the soul.

  • One of the all-time classic jams

  • One of my favorite bands of all time! Thanks for posting!

    Does anybody have a copy of Singing Rhymes? Awesome MTB song, but I cant find it anywhere but on my vinyl and CD collection! I wanna find a vid!

  • i read that that tommy guy dies in 1980 ?

  • Tommy Caldwell died in an auto accident in 1980 in Spartanburg.......very, very, sad time.

  • THESE GUYS WERE GREAT. Nothing to compare to these days.(and we should not). They have a CLASS by themselves. Blues, Rock, and Country was never put together so artfully as the brothers did in the 1970's. GOD bless them. Amen.

  • drank a few beers with Doub, Toy and Paul t and George m... back in '78 In Binghamton,ny. After Tommy died.. I miss these guys

  • music like this etc.. will be history in 20 yrs..we grew on this and sorry others wont..this is music..ty for posting

  • simply put, they were the best. No one since has had that much talent at once on stage. Better for growing up with them, sadder for knowing "they" are gone forever.

  • Brings back memories of one of my all time favorite shows (in 1974, I think): MTB headlining and the Outlaws opening, at the Santa Monica Civic. Great crowd and great venue, 1 block from the beach. Plus, Dicky Betts joined them for several songs at the end of the set. If anybody was at that show and can remember the songs Toy and Dicky played together, let me know. I think one was "Everyday I Have The Blues," but my memory is hazy  after 35 years. An underrated band. especially live.

  • Gotta Hand it to MTB. I mean who says we're gonna help create a whole genre of music by mixing rock/country/western/jazz and better get a flute/sax player for good measure.

  • Great song, but who would name their kid Toy???

  • Sarah Palin :)

  • When they get those thumbs a movin' there ain't no tell what gonna happen!

  • Toy Caldwell was da man on that Les!! Thumbing the fire outta that thang! Tommy ain't no slouch on the bass either!

    I miss the original guys too. Like Skynyrd, replacements are good, but no match for the original. Although, I would have liked to have seen Rickey and Allen together!

  • mtb has always been one of the BEST kick ass bands OF ALL time!!

  • Charlie is getting it with that fiddle

  • thanks! this great, the best 24 hours

  • Goddamn!! Thats music to get your ass down the highway real good!!

  • Saw these guys back in August '75 for the grand opening of the Superdome in New Orleans. An enormous crowd of over 100,000! Also were the Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels, and Wet Willie!

    .... seems a lifeitme ago

  • South Carolina got it right , way long wait but fell same way

  • Better live than on an album for sure. This just cannot be beat!!!!!

  • I reall miss this band

  • Damn Boy!!! WHERE do you get these? You ARE the man!!!

  • thanks for posting man i would crank this up in mybig rig delevering fire works from springfeild mo to van buran arkansas and smoke a big fatty and just movin man hats off to mtb! very underated band they kick ass! adios mycyver over and out

  • Nobody better than M.T.

  • i love marshall tucker,,, gimme desert melody everyday