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  • When I was in high school I saw the Outlaws with Alvin Lee as the opener. Was probably the best concert I have ever went to. Both of them ROCKed!

  • Green grass and high times of the 70s and 80s are a part of many of our lives. It was the best time for music and to be alive!!! Its a much different world today and harder to get along with those who dont share our passion for music. Whatever, we push on and rule!!

  • Saw them in 1981 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver with Black Sabbath. I had never heard of them before that. After that I never forgot them. They were awesome!

  • What a great band at the height of thier career/talents! Awesome...too bad the guy playing the Les Paul killed himself..what a shame...Thanks for the great memories.

  • freaking CLASSIC. love this shit

  • truck dawg,hey brother trucker! i run teams myself,no i did not mean dexies midnite runners.check into dixie dregs.couple of good starters 4 u =songs titles are"take it off the top"......"ice cakes"...."cruise control"...instrumental southern rock 1976 to 'bout 1982, UWILL LUVIT. .keep n touch..... be safe on that road! pdg

  • These were the Outlaws circa Bring 'em Back Alive...Saw them probably at their Zenith years 1979-81 headlining Madison Square Garden when Southern Rock was king...even in New York City! Molly Hatchet, the opening act, just released Flirtin' With Disaster...The disco era actually forced a lot of REAL rock out at that time

  • Saw them at the cape cod coleseum back in 1977-take my breath away even today!

  • These are examples of master guitar players...virtuoso's...I'm not sure can find young Rock guitarists like this these days.

  • @jarden69 my bet is you cant'even come close to that kind of skill! ,check out dixie dregs from that era also!(steve morse'1st comm.group gillarock63'

  • @pdgriffith63 Dixie dregs arent they those frenchie idiots that sing come on Eileen .Ya cant throw Dixie into yer name and be Southern Rock .Thats as stupid as Keith Urban saying he is country .BULL BUTTER

  • @jarden69 They learn three cords and think they have the world buy the nuts .Its like the Red hot chili peppers disrespecting Sammy Hagars newest band .Sammy can run circles around those piss ants dancin around in their gold undies

  • That wasnt just a guitar solo that was something that came out of another zone, another planet it made the hair on my neck stand up on its end, never heard something with so much sould and emotion i about cried

  • Outlaws forever

  • This is fantastic. I see these guys with my friends a few times back in the late 70's in the Chicago area and the shows were always great. This video brings back a lot of great memories. Thanks for sharing. One of my favorite Outlaws songs. Gonna have to break out a few records and do some spinning and listening.

  • First heard this a few days ago on the Rock Band Game!!!!

  • i have bring it back alive right in front of me, waiting for obama to leave so it can fix my record player!!!!!

  • Page always did some great jams, Allman Bros, etc, this is great stuff...I had The Outlaws Bring It Back Alive 30 years ago, still one of the best live albums ever.

  • this is the only song that has 2 parts

  • awsomeness......

    

  • rip hughie

  • Hughie should have performed this song with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  • The Outlaws take over the Watseka Theatre Watseka Illinois on Friday october 14, 2011

  • and to follow that up the last song was free bird both bands on stage 3-guitarists 2-drummers etc. omg you had to be there best concert ever can't imagine it smoke in the air love'em both

  • yep I also so the outlaws live in the day they where the opening band for skynyrd in san antonio at the once great venue municipal auditorium.early 77' before the plane crash

  • From 5:25 until 6:39 changed my life forever but that just leads to 6:40 - 7:00 which makes this my favorite song of all time. To this day, I still cry once in awhile just from the sheer beauty of it. It's one of those things that will never get old and can never be out played. Not something you can say very often about the music of today.

  • Reminds me of better times than these times now, and better times to come.

  • Guitar Army! So happy I got to see the original band play this and many others!

  • This song was always very mysterious. It makes people go crazy. I saw it live in the day.

  • The first few bars after the intro, at 0:50 make goose bumps on my arms.

    One of my favorite pieces to listen to, and to play when I can find another guitarist to jam with. RIP Hughie, Billy, and Frank, I miss you. You live on forever in your music.

  • @Rocky169 holy shit hahah yessss

  • hwpinthenw I was being facetious, Hughie will always be Mr Outlaw. Incidentally, So Low is being re-released on Hughies' widow Marys' website.

  • this is one of those very few songs that give me goosebumps because it is so damned good.

  • Damn. Feel sorry for the second guitar soloist. How do you follow such a bad ass solo?

  • @bert111777 This was Hughie's song, listen to some of Billy's for his work. Both soloists were very equal, just different in styles. Sadly Billy Jones never made the reunion band, nor did Frank O'Keefe, as both died in 1995.

  • THE FLORIDA GUITAR ARMY TOOK NO PRISONERS!

  • Where's HP?

    He's Mr Outlaw, isn't he?

    Guess not.

  • @lillie1951 Henry was on the far right. The solo's were Hughie & Billy. And Hughie was Mr Outlaw, not Henry.

  • Damn it....why wasnt i alive yet? couldnt my parents have worked a little faster?...

  • Awesome!

  • The Outlaws..Fuck Yes...pass me a Strohs someone......

    

  • @SEAMOKTactical Wow! I was just thinking the same thing!!!

  • Kick ass Outlaws.

    Steve

    Southern California Golf Schools

  • Does anyone remember the poster "The Outlaws hang out in Sedgefield Jeans"?

  • Pure enjoyment and it's nice to put the headphones on and enjoy. I T's an escape from the pure crap Hollywood's been putting on tv since the 90's.

  • Legendary Heavy Metal Bands are always fascinated the the Outlaws "Green Grass and High Tides..." Dan O'Niallain

  • some people need to stop riding coat tails and shut the fuck up

  • que groso!! 

  • NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTY version of the song....Thank you for sharing this!!!!!

  • i remember seeing The Outlaws back n the mid to late 70"s n Ohio n an old Ohio state highway garage. Man those were the days.

  • This song was dedicated by The Outlaws to the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band the rest of the Outlaws tour. This performance was the night after te plane crash killed Ronnie, Steve, Cassie and the others.

  • everytime i hear this song i think about sitting my buddy Corm's basement, on summer vacation from school, smoking hash and eating purple microdots. we listened to this song on a turntable that had auto repeat...for freaking hours. it was like a religion. saw them a bunch of times with molly hatchett and blackfoot. saw them at the roundup in jfk stadium in philly too...ah the good old days!!! my kids think i'm the most uncool dad on the planet. hahahahah!!!!!

  • @chazblitz Hey man I must know you ! I did the same thing !...

  • I saw them Many many times live back in the dat - fuckin awesome!!

  • I like the harmonics at 3:30!

  • Great song! The guitar duel is one of the best in rock history.

  • continuous dueling guitar solos..... doesn't get any better

  • This would be in my top ten favorites if I could narrow down all the really great songs to ten. If I had to fill an ipod, this would certainly be on it.

  • IM ONE OF THE OUTLAWS FANS FROM DAY #1 HUGIE GREAT!...BILLY THE ABSOLUTE BEST & THE TRUE SOUL OF THE " OUTLAWS HE COULD SHRED WITH THE BEST!!!....WITHOUT BILLY JONES THERE NEVER WAS THE TRUE OUTLAWS SOUND ANYMORE AS NOBOBY COULD MATCH HIS UNIQUE STYLE!!!....NOBODY EVEN CAME CLOSE!...HIS STYLE IS LIKE DICKY BETTS MIXED WITH BILLY CRAIN & HIMSELF AS I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY MATCH HIS STYLE, EVER!...HE WAS THE BEST!!! & I REALLY MISS HIM REST IN PIECE BILLY YOU ROCKED MY WORLD AND STILL DO!!!!

  • Amazing! Hughie will always be one of my all time favorites, the man could frickin' jam!! What an imposing stage presence too!!

  • I can't put words on what I feel listening to this song but damn it's freaking good !

  • You can air-guitar your ass off to this one......love it kicks in.....

  • One of the greatest songs ever put to vinyl......that's right; VINYL......snap, crackle, pop...AWESOME.

    Some phenomenal string bending in this bad boy....

  • Molly Hatchet opened for the Outlaws at the Orpheum Theatre in 1977...these southern rock guitar legends rocked the plaster off of the ceiling...

    God, I miss the 70´s...when music was real...

    amazing riffs...timelss...thanx, Hughie...

  • @Mrnewvision7777 Those were the days!!

  • @Mrnewvision7777 Orpheum, Boston! So many great bands! Anyone who was anyone! Great to take the T and see awesomeness 5+ nights a week!

  • @Mrnewvision7777 I saw them with Foghat headlining about the same year, it might have been 1978 but the same story, Outlaws should have came out last:-) Foghat was hard to listen too after the Outlaws performance.

  • Molly Hatchet opened for the Outlaws at the Orpheum Theatre in 1977...these southern rock guitar legends rocked the plaster off of the ceiling...

    God, I miss the 70´s...when music was real...

  • awesome music love it

  • Green grass and high tides last forever! :D

  • My very favorite southern rock band, these guys kick ass. I only wish I could play guitar like they do!

  • This Guitar Lead is absolutely Perfect  !!!!!!!!!!!

  • time of my life back in the 70s hollywood sporitorium the concert of all time the outlaws, lynard skynard ,and cdb the only real true southern rock bands all the rest are just wish they could bes

  • dragontigerbull ,

    Me too. I still wear my t-shirt occasionally. Salem Civic Center Salem Va with Marshall Tucker Band and the night before Blackfoot and Johnny Van Zant. Two back to back nights of great southern rock.

  • 111 today how com i vent heard tihs before----

  • songs in the key of Emin = best songs to rip solos to

  • Billy Billy is miss ya' bro'

  • Went to college in Sept 1980...small college, small gymnasium - I find out that the college student union hired the Outlaws to play one weekend in like Nov/December. They opened with "Ghost Riders" non stop Southern Rock...one of the best concerts I've ever been to...Hughie and the boys were great that day.

  • when my dad saw them, they played 45 minutes of this song.

  • Fine, fine, fine music. FOREVER!!!!

  • Saw these guys 5 times in Up State New York during the 70's and around 1980. By far my favorite band from the south. To this day I probably listen to them at least 3 times a month. I was stunned then pissed off when Billy took his own life. R.I.P. Frank, Billy, Hughie

  • i still have my 1980 concert shirt

  • one word : MASTERFULL !

    

  • yeah, i was at this show...egggcellent

  • 2010 on youtube this very page, memories that will last a lifetime

  • 1974 Convention Center. "Warm Up Band" for the Marshall Tucker Band..People warmed up quickly..3 encores..When Marshal Tucker appeared.. a chorus of boos greeted them!...sad for MT, but an endorsement of the Outlaws!

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  • 19 people need to find their souls and set them free...

  • It was Volunteer Jam III or IV, Charlie Daniels told the crowd in Nashville, " We got some boys from Gainsville, Florida that want to play for ya." Rapt is the only description for the people that were there. Paul and Thomason showed us that there were quitarist to equal Rossington and Collins. I remember the Outlaws. Thanks damulder.

  • patty3173,

    It is funny you mention that story at the Meadowlands because in the early 1980s (maybe 1980 or 1981) while I was a student at Va Tech something very similar happened in Roanoke Va. As they opened with this song being the only song they were going to play because it was raining. As they started to play this song, the rain stopped and the show continued all the way through. Even Rossington Collins band came on stage after the Outlaws finished. It was amazing.

  • .........ero ragazzino ed ascoltavo questo pezzo.........oggi l' ho riascoltato ....qualcosa di buono dagli usa

  • this song was actually written by God and was passed down to the human race through these genius musicians.

  • Don't people understand that guitar players want to watch the LEFT hand???

  • these guys are a very talented band !!

  • RIP Hughie Thomasson

  • AMAZING!!!! ( bows in respect )

  • Saw them at a county fair in Florida in the early 90's. It was sad to see that they were palying for a crowd of a few hundred. They deserved better. They are such and awesome band.

  • One of the greatest guitar solos ever

  • @mickihotchick I agree with you but its more like " the best music ever " 'cause this isn't realy a solo.... I thought it was but I was wrong :/ if it was a solo the name of this music should apear in some sites that have lists of the best guitar solos, but it don't

  • 1 of the great bands ever ...

    still have lot's of Outlaws in my regular rotation -

    saw 'em with Molly Hatchet at Madison Square Garden

    around 1979......

    Then saw Henry Paul at a bar in Seaside Hights NJ around '84

  • This band is so under rated

  • fender hall of fame 

  • If this is not one of your Top Ten favorite songs, you are a very sad person.

  • @michaelpc420 boy you got that right!

  • @michaelpc420 I agree totally!!! This has been in my top ten forever Actually probably top five!!! :)

  • @michaelpc420 Nope, you're a very happy person, and you know the 10 best songs in the world.

  • @michaelpc420 NO DOUBT!!! whats funny about that is that over the years any time that someone has posed that ? to me,"whats my top ten favorite jams"? and being a guitar player myself Ive gotten that question pleenty and damned if this wasn't always the 1st song that came to mind, especially when considering songs that were the ultimate riff laden all out jam fest jams and makin it on the radio too, mind you. "THIS IS A TRUE ROCK AND ROLL MASTERPIECE"!!! What other epic jams u guys?BsdsFREEBIRD

  • If this isn't one of your Top Ten favorite songs, you aren't someone I want to know. And your very sad.

  • The sound and visuals arent too clean but the guitar playing is awesome.

  • 1980 Stampede Corral, Calgary,Alberta.... The Outlaws opened for Black Sabbath led by Ronnie James Dio... it was a strange combo but rocked that ol' hockey arena to the foundation. RIP Hughie...

  • why don't they get the credit they deserve ???!!!! cmonn

  • BILLY NAILED IT!

  • One of the best concert I have seen. Long Beach (late 70's) & 38 Special.

  • wish i could of been there, i remember when i first heard this song 10 years later on the radio, i went directly to the music store and bought the cassette.

  • the greatest rock and roll song of all time.

  • How I miss the posting of a cpl yrs back of this song :(

  • HT & BJ: Great guitar players the likes we will not see again. RIP.

  • This song is broken into "parts" because youtube cant contain the level of awesomeness. its got nothing to do with video length. what else do you expect when you put a song of this caliber on a site that is full of nothing but 13 year old pathological liars?

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  • @MetricHotrodsdotcom im 14 and i love the outlaws, skynyrd, blackfoot, marshall tucker, and he allman brothers

  • @MetricHotrodsdotcom Well said! Though I resent the age comment, as does anyone who is actually an adult and enjoys the outlaws at the same time.... No 13 yr olds here...

  • @MetricHotrodsdotcom good comment myfriend ,nothing can be said on youtube without an angry adolesent picking fun through childish comments ,which i might add they will look back on in years to come and feel ashamed,fantastic music timeless!

  • @MetricHotrodsdotcom I laughed so hard when I read that first line....hahah level of awesomeness..\m/

  • I seen this dudes in North Tondawanna Ny IN A BAR tHEY JAMMED!!!

  • AWESOME JAM!!! Fortunate enough to have seen them! 

  • Nassau Colosseum 1978(?) GGHT encore lasted 45 mins. Glorious exhaustion

  • Back in, I guess 1990 or so I was stationed at Ft. Devens, MA. There was a bar in Ayer MA that held around 300 people and was the local concert venue. The Outlaws were scheduled to play there but there was a huge blizzard the day of the show and I was sure it was canceled. I drove out (ya gotta love four wheel drive) and when the band came out there was about 20 people there. Great show and I got to drink beers with the band after the shoe. It don't get much better than that...

  • @Hornadayfan The bass player at the time Jeff Howell is from my area and I played in a band with him for a few years. Still see him on a regular basis.

  • R.I.P Hughie

  • Free Bird be damned! GGHT is the best guitar rock song ever!

  • this concert was in the ol sam houston colisium on dec 31st 1977 with the outlaws opening up for skynard and marshall tucker. folks brought in fireworks into the concert. at midnight some ol man slide down sideways on a rope dressed in a diaper to bring in the new year?? all the bands were great, but I have to say that skynard tore it up as the closing act.

  • @geraldjoz

    Impossible, the Skynyrd plane crash was 2 months prior to the date you mention.

  • Hey Mavis41558 was there too in 76 buffalo with my older brother I was only 15 at the time but damn I miss the real rock concerts , and at 7 bucks a ticket! this is in the top 500 greatest rock songs of all time, and easily top 50 for guitar playing IMHO

  • Simply fantastic - Time passes too quickly

    RICKYBZN1

  • I saw this band in 1975 at the Silverdome in Michigan. They warmed up for Seeger , Ted Nugent and Foghat. They blew these big names away. It is very hard to follow the Outlaws. It was all downhill after they left the stage. They rock and they make it look easy.

  • Hughie Thomasson - Outlaws, Tampa, FL. R.I.P. my friend and God Speed

  • Mmm back when music had soul and heart poured into the guitar. Also, it appears 16 people have missed the "Like" button.

  • This is 10 years before I was born. When I was little my dad had cassettes of stuff like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, The Outlaws, Blackfoot, Charlie Daniels, and etc. He said to my mom, "I want him to know what good music sounds like." He tells me that story all the time, my mom still rolls her eyes to this day. Lol. She always like stuff like Heart, and Journey, and Pat Benatar, etc. and they both listened to country too, I grew up with a wide range of music.

  • @GoodOlRudy better for you my dear.... cause its all good no matter what... every song tells a story of sorts

  • Middle 70s at the Palladium in NYC on 14th Street. They blew the roof off, what a show. I actually remember the first time i heard this song. I was in a record store (yes record) flipping threw albums and this was playing through the speakers. I was drawn to the speakers and stood there in amazement. What a f@@#ing rocker of a song. A rock Icon.

  • This was *the* music when I was in high school! Too bad they don't make 'em like this anymore!

  • I seen this Band in 1981 ,it was a very good show.

    soaring Raven

  • South is risen again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 1975 new haven opened for the doobie bros and stole the show

  • epic..i have no other words to describe my feelings

  • I wish I was there

  • i still have my 1980 concert shirt...i'm a metal head but i always loved southern rock...outlaws..charlie daniels...molly hatchet..allman bros...i saw the all..the old days were better

  • patty3173..Its official ..I'm jealous. These guys are AWESOME!

  • THE FLORIDA GUITAR ARMY always underated in my opinion. GREAT BAND!

  • i saw the outlaws with molly hatchet and skynyrd two nights ago, and it was honestly the greatest concert i have ever been to! none of them have lost it a bit!

  • Would you let me past your face to what's really you? Love this old song! ♥

  • Love this song. Play it on rock band 1 all the time :)

  • Green grass and high tides forever

  • What a jam.

  • I can play this with a broken hand,am now

  • @Syzygy60 sure lets see it post a video? u couldnt even play it with 2 hands

  • vibrate this

  • generally speaking

  • fuck Obama

  • that is some of the best vibrato you will ever hear

  • GGHT > Freebird

  • seriously one of the best songs ever written.

  • here's one for ya, how about hocus pocus, by focus?

  • One of the best bands ever ..Deadon pickin all there riffs are smokin..Showmen thru and thru... They just dont make them like this anymore...

  • The three best songs that have long solos based over a three chord progression. 1. Stairway to heaven solo on the song remains the same. 2. Freebird 3. This song. oh, and an honorable mention goes to "I'd love to change the world" by ten years after. not the best solo, but that song is baddass to the core. There's probably better out there than these, but these ones sprung to mind. I can't listen to one without being reminded of the others.

  • At 3:30 that is some wicked harmonic technique.

  • CRANK....IT......UP!!!

  • 1979 Giants Stadium: in mud and rain people ran for the exits. In ten miraculous moments, the headliners, the Outlaws came on, played this song, the crushing stopped and the sun broke blue over New Jersey. No sh>>t. I was pregnant at the time and my friend's husband was a roady with an infant up in the booth. We were in a corridor half crushed and.. honestly the skies opened.

  • @patty3173 I can't believe you posted this. I was there too. (Boston was the other band) No one can understand when you tell them about the weather that day. It was one of those moments when the clouds pulled back and the sun broke thru. I'm sure we are not the only two who has this burned to our memories. Thanks Patty.

  • @patty3173 I was there too and can back her story. But Boston was the headliner though

  • @patty3173

    You Know it Patty....one of the most astounding classics ever,,ya ever...ever,ever, ya..ever,ever!!

  • @patty3173 I was there too. I was only 17 and didn't know too much about the Outlaws ( I was there to see Boston) but the Outlaws rocked.

  • @patty3173 ahh the old stadium

  • @patty3173 I was at that show and you are right, it rained and it was hot! When they started playing this song the sun broke through the clouds and they paused and put their sunglasses on. It was *%%()%*&% awesome!

  • @patty3173 My friend was at that show and he told me the exact same thing. I wish I was there to see that, must have been amazing!

  • All my buddies know that when I die, they gotta chain all the amps and speakers they can find together and CRANK IT so I can hear it one more time! - wherever I end up...like "bowman" said in earlier post... no frills, no statements just PLAY THE SONGS!!! If it's good the peeps will buy it... MANY BOUGHT IT! And rightly so! Keep it simple - do it well - and they do!