Sounds AMAZING! Hey, Check out THE SUBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE. An amazing duo who wrote a song called Dead Peasant Uprising. CHECK THIS SONG OUT!!! This song has been taking Americans back to an inspired view of the working class and the 99%. Many have revered this as an anthem for the 99%. Google em'...treat yourself and enjoy!!!
Maybe Neil did write this about getting beaten up in a bar. A little bit of it might of been about the generations of terrible racism and racial oppression that occured in the South, that whole KKK/ slavery thing too. Idk.
@joverboss in the kkk's heyday(the 1920's) most of there members came from the Midwest (Indiana having the most members) not the south. You can say what ever you want about slavery in the south but racism was nation wide.
@Kyussfan96 Are you trying to say they had slaves in the northern states too? Now thats food for thought! It was a worldwide accepted practice at the time.
What a joke. Is not racism not just stupidity or hatred, but worst people who are simply just stupid. I am from the south and my family immigrated here while there was slavery. And no they did not own slaves. And did Neil Young's forefathers ever own slaves? He's from Canada. Look at what the Canadians did to the Native-Canadians. He was probably upset with his own background, however he didn't want to point the finger at his own forefathers for what they did. He should write a song about them.
I think it's great that Neil Young actually stood up and said how horrible racism is. because it is horrible. his vocals in this song is so dramatic that is sounds creepy and eary when he shouts "I saw cotton and black, tall white mansions and little shacks" and although Lynyrd Skynyrd said they like Neil Young's music a lot, I think it's very disrespectful that they mocked him and this song in "Sweet Home Alabama"
@OddManSam it was mainly the fact that he grouped racism as a "southern man". When racism is everywhere and there were many southern men that weren't racist, it was embarrassing to intelligent open minded people from the south
@PhazzerPhire i really like this guys music, but this is kind of like punching someone in the stomach whose stomach is cast iron. Alabama. Probably the last state with clean water and smogless air.
Southern Man, everything is your fault. I came to a bar with my hip, new age thoughts and got beaten up. It wasn't at all cool with me. I truly, truly hate the south and you should as well. Thanks for listening. Neil Young, a true contemperary.
That's my point, Neil Young went to a bar in the 70's in the deep south, started talking about Young's "liberal agenda" (what rednecks heard: "I'm a queer, you should be one too, you're ignorant if you don't accept the transcendent Neil Young" says Neil Young.), then (naturally) got his ass beat. So what does he do? He writes a song about how ignorant everyone in the south is.
@somethinillremember9 That is the most small-minded and stupid thing i have ever heard. This is what makes me think u are an ignorant redneck. You are saying that it wasnt because all of the horrible lynching and racism that was in the south. it was because he was being "queer" Ik this is hard for u to understand, but sometimes people have different ideas from you. And the "liberal ideas" he was preaching are not hate people because of the color of the color of their skin, and be nice to people.
@imcoleyo Oh i dont know maby listen to the lyrics they are true... I saw cotton and I saw black Tall white mansions and little shacks. Southern man when will you pay them back? I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking How long? How long? So true. and you have to remember the time that this was written.
I think the KKK started to be commandeered by people that wanted to co-opt the hatred and eventually vanquish it (hint - a fellow by the name of Green)
The cross burning is a certain symbol that no one gets crucified.
@kroovyandcal Almost embarrassed to say this but i have lived and my mom's whole family live in Pulaski, Tn. (home of the klan) the town really is against them now, but stories from grandparents and such say that they burned crosses in mainly alcoholics and wifebeaters yards back in the 30's and so.. more white's than blacks actually.. they started as like a vigilanty group.. Of course as time went on they became the disgusting group they are today
Civil War actually had very little to do with with slavery, It was more taxes and the Union was not letting the South have much say in anything. The Union destroyed, looted, and burned many Southern Towns to ruins.. I was born and lived a great portion of my life in Toledo Ohio so it's not like I am some biased southernor, it's just the Union made text books and stories like they were heroes much like claiming the wars today arent about oil :/.. Regardless, Neil Young and Skynyrd are LEGENDS
TOO many of u know nothing of what ur talking about...HERE IS TRUTH: from the info cover of the Second Helping Lynyrd Skynrd album) who by the way, Even their name for the band started as a mock tribute to their tyrannical High School gym Coach, Leonard Skinner.. "Sweet Home Alabama" started as a joke..Gary was tuning up & started strumming 3 chords, as King listened He came up with a counter to Gary's Riff ..to which he said it "just hit him like a ton of bricks" Ed came up w/ little loops
@cb61998a that completed the basic idea & Allen put something else on that then Ronnie started singing & w/in 30 minutes "Sweet Home Alabama" was born.. That which started as a tribute to their days recording in Muscle Shoals,(AL) turned into a mock political statement of populist regional pride,,they laughed, said,.ain't that funny? Never the less, Van Zant sounded like he was trying 2 pick a fight w/ ALL of North America, defending Wallace & boldly answering Canadian-born Rocker Neil Young..
@cb61998a and his (Neil's) double barreled blast at the Old racist South in his song, "Southern Man"& "Alabama","I thought Neil was shooting all the ducks to kill 1 or 2", Van Zant would later admit..Van Zant later chuckled of "Alabama", "it hit the top 10 & we've been paying for ever since".Van Zant even wore a Neil Young T-Shir on the Cover of Street Survivors album, it was all in fun, the mocking Neil Young & Young even said once, he was PROUD to be the subject of Skynyrd's Southern anthem.
Southern Man was a criticism of a particular group of Southerners (KKK types) and was never meant as a condemnation of Southerners in general. Still, it's a great song musically and lyrically has an important message.
I thinks when Neil says he's gonna cut him down Skynyrd say we don't need him around anyhow. And ol Neil put her down because he paints in Alabama a picture that decries how the locals: Skynyrd feel about their state.... Nonetheless Neils lyrics were first and Skynyrd seem to have made a lyrical slight or mention at/of Neil about these lyrics. Both Alabama and Southern Man are songs from the 1970s and Skynyrd's Sweet Home came out that same decade. Both Artists (Young,Van Zant) wrote good music.
@lancetop I am from the South & still LIVE in the South..Alabama to be exact..I am proud of WHERE I AM FROM..I am proud of my "heritage"..I am proud of my family LINE that I came from..HOWEVER, that does not mean..I agree with things that happened in the past! I DON'T keep a frigging stash of crosses on hand in the "barn"..in my "out buildings" OR in my car/any other place! The only PLACE I HAVE A CROSS IS AROUND MY NECK ON A NECKLACE! Stupidity, there STILL IS NO CURE FOR IT..YET!!
I'm originally from California mountains and have been in Texas for 7 years . I have talked to people and visited many areas in our country . The people from the South are among the best . My wife left her purse at a gas station in Alabama and 3 days later someone mailed it to our house . I constantly hear douche bags bashing the South . They probably know very little about it .
@jasavak I don't know if it helps that when yankees have it in their head that southern men and women are racist, occasionally there will be a dick head that proves their point in all the wrong ways, I grew up in southern Maryland and get called "racist" for just having a southern accent at times because of that one dick head that makes us all look bad, but I understand your point the south has some very nice generous people in it just like the north does it all depends where you are.
@jethrodassam it's not far from virginia, that's telling you something, to top it off anything below the mason dixon is geographically the american south.
@jethrodassam look up what the true definition of a southern state is, and while you are at it search up what the mason-dixon line is, anything below the mason dixon is the south.
@jethrodassam Even if you consider MD a 'northern state' (whatever that means anyway), I know exactly what he is talking about. Southern MD (St. Marys/Calvert Co.) Is different than any other area in the region. Most locals speak in heavy southern dialects and the area is surrounded by farmland and countryside. Hardcore rednecks. You should visit, might learn a thing or two.
So you do understand this was written at a time when southerners hated hippies and neil young had pranced into a southern bar going "I'm the symbol of new-age thought and an end to you rednecks reigning over people." Then, he got beaten up. So HE WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT.
HERPIDEE DERPIDEE DERP I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ALABAMA, EVER HEARD OF WHAT ALL MY PARENTS AND THEIR FRIENDS SAY ABOUT HIPPIES. WE AREN'T IGNORANT REDNECKS LIKE YOU SO CALLED SOPHISTICATES SAY AND I'M GOING TO LAUGH WHEN YOU PEOPLE (YANKEES AREN'T REALLY PEOPLE THOUGH, A BUNCH OF LOUSY ENGLISH OPPRESSING THE SCOTCH-IRISH RACE LIKE BACK IN THE OLD COUNTRY) AND YOUR GLOBALIST AGENDA FAILS AND THE SOUTH (WHICH MAKES UP MORE THAN 70% OF THE U.S. ARMY) SAYS FUCK YOU AND BACKS OUT OF
YOUR FALSE ZIONIST OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL AND THE ARAB NATIONS AND HOW YOU STIR UP WAR BETWEEN THEM. THEN YOU CRY "WE FUCKED UP" AND IT'S TOO LATE. INTERNET TOUGH GUY UP IN THIS BITCH.
@somethinillremember9 uhh where i live in NY im surrounded by trees there isnt a skyscraper for 150 miles my father is in the military i fish and hunt and there isnt much difference between u and me unless u count geography and food
@somethinillremember9 uhh where i live in NY im surrounded by trees there isnt a skyscraper for 150 miles my father is in the military i fish and hunt and there isnt much difference between u and me unless u count geography and food
@jnlabrk6 Flying the Confederate Flag doesn't mean you do not love America or that your a traitor. People of Mexican descent still fly the tri-colored flag, it's just being proud of where you come from, God Bless Dixie God Bless America and God Bless Neil Young
@somethinillremember9 no, because by southern he means stupid and small minded, which califoria (for the most part) isnt, where as alabama and missisippie are.
@lletinsk you would look more intelligent if you could spell a state right, Mississippi wow... And no matter where you go in the world there will be smart people and small minded people, at the time he was writing this the south needed to get their act together.. But by southern he definitely didnt mean stupid and small minded
@thinkformyself100 sure, criticise my ninja spelling. and i didnt say that by southern he meaned small minded and stupid, i was talking about the idiot somethinillremember9
@HOAX900 i agree, but this was written at a time when the civil rights movement was ending, and there was so much violence, so i think he was critising that. it is not really talking about now.
@shofneb1 Yes, recognizing that there might be something wrong with the common perception of an area and removing yourself from that makes you a traitor. I suppose you would say the same to North Korean emigrants, no?
Lynyrd Skynyrd are a bunch of conservative rednecks from Jacksonville, Florida. Neil Young is a liberal hippie from Canada. They are as different as the KKK and the NAACP.
@Slatrelle If I’m so wrong then why was Lynyrd Skynyrd performimg at a Republicans party in 2000 and 2004 during the Republicans Convention and why did Neil Young release a cd called “Living With War?” On his cd he had a song called “Lets Impeach the President” referring to George Bush. Can you explain that?
@sahkrov Maybe skynard are conservative hippies and young is a liberal redneck. As far as I know, they both wrote songs for each other. Also, sometimes you have to advertise your shit. 2004 was a perfect time to gain attention on either side of the war. There not that different. They are both successful musicians from the same time period and I bet they both appreciate each others shit.
@Slatrelle I'm african american and I relate more with Neil Young than Lynyrd Skynyrd. I've been through Alabama and ain't nothin "Sweet Home" about it. It's Sweet Hell Alabama for me! Neil Young was siding with African Americans when he wrote "Southern Man." Lynyrd Skynyrd salutes the Confederate Flag at their concerts and Neil Young doesn't. Johnny Van Zant once said "Fuck Neil Young!" at a concert while singing "Sweet Home Alabama." Why would he say that?
@sahkrov VAN ZANT actually spoke it best when he said..."we're not into politics, we don't have no education,& Wallace don't know nothing about rock 'n' roll." As quoted by Ron O'Brien, in 1997 (on their Second Helping release album info cover)..this was in regards to "Sweet Home Alabama" being nominated as the Official State (AL) song, which Wallace struck down the idea after learning..following the line.."In Birmingham they love the Governor, Skynyrd sang the words, "Boo, boo, boo."
@cb61998a What LS says and what they do are two different things. They say Boo, boo, boo to Wallace, then they turn around and salute and wave a Confederate (White Supremist)flag at their concerts. Unlike LS I give a damn about politics and education. As an African American I'm offended by and hate everything about the Confederate flag and what it stands for. I respect the Star Spangled Banner (the real American flag).
@sahkrov wow, retarted to the max. the reason that the south left the union was because of the very heavy and unfair taxes and tariffs the north was making. and another thing, african americans freedom was a by-product of the civil war, and was not a direct goal of the war. and idk why u take such offence to the confederate flag. i live in NY, and have a beachtowl with the flag on it, i also have black and mexican friends, and they dont give a fuck and see it as a joke.
@quertyb0y5 dumbshit the south also left the union because Abraham Lincoln was not going to let slavery expand to states it was not already in and eventually he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which banned slavery every. Think before you type
@sahkrov There are actually African Americans in my neighborhood bearing the Confederate flag, it all depends on how it's being used. Nothing is wrong with being proud of where you came from. Many African Americans have items that have had the African continent on it and I do not view this as racist
@sahkrov Todays LS had nothing to do with SWEET HOME ALABAMA, it was the Great Ronnie Van Zant and original LYNYRD SKYNRD of the 70s that wrote the song. And as we all know that band died with Ronnie on Oct 20th 1977 when plane crashed. I know he wasnt at 2000 convention this skynyrd band of today might have been but not original.
NOTICE in 1971, the lack of rude people snapping snaps with their ultra cool cellphones and otherwise disturbing a great live show! Sad that in today's world, one cannot go to a concert, even a small initmate show in a coffee house, without half the audience snapping photos from their cellphones all through the song, with the light from the screens disturbing the show and turning it into a techno circus. Sigh. 2012 is all wrong. 1971 had it all right, yes or no?
southern man and sweet home alabama are both incredible songs. neiil young was a lynyrd skynyrd fan and skynyrd were fans of his. they both did covers of each others aforementioned songs in concert on more than one occasion. there is no feud and there never was a feud.
@trampredboy6544 Because it was well documented in Neil Young's autobiography. Read about it. Lots of people from the south don't like NY because they think he was making "fun" of the southern man which was not the case at all. They were fans of each other.
@The72koenig I wasnt a fued Neil was just saying in the song "We don't need no southern man" and lynyrd Skynyrd heard it and put it in their song " Sweet home alabama" saying " Neil young will think bout us a southern man do need you either" .. they could have been fans ive never seen a REALLY Neil Young version of Sweet home Alabama and no song by neil covered by Lynyrd.
@The72koenig not a feued but there were some instances where you know skynard said "a southern man dont need him around anyhow" which is not really fighting words by any means but i cant help feeling it would be an awekward thanksgiving. Nothing too major though ur right. Neil is too peaceful for that anyways
@jeremywells1977 - Steve Van Zant(RIP) was not as musically talented as Neil. I'll take Crosby, stills, Nash, and Young over Lynard Skynard any day. Or Neil on his lonesome.
@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
Neil Young was writing HIS perception of the TIME people. That time has passed...Let the past be the past... We are all One human race and until people lposting on here, let go of the past,, we can't get to a racial balance and that's so sad.......
@TulaiMr Hitler was a Socialist. He also put everything under government control, much like today's Liberals. You should try to look at the political model of right wing and left wing like this: To the Left is a sliding scale leading to total Government control, to the Right is an opposing sliding scale leading to no Government control at all. To the left of center you'll find Democrats, Liberals, Socialists (of every stripe), Fascists all the way up to total Communism.
@Fratalian274 Hitler was a Socialist. He also put everything under government control, much like today's Liberals. You should try to look at the political model of right wing and left wing like this: To the Left is a sliding scale leading to total Government control, to the Right is an opposing sliding scale leading to no Government control at all. To the left of center you'll find Democrats, Liberals, Socialists (of every stripe), Fascists all the way up to total Communism.
@IamDayoldHate1 Slavery would have died out anyway because of the Cotton Gin. Not many people in the North wanted a war over slaves, anyway. There was a very great deal of resistence in the North when Lincoln published the Emancipation Proclamation which, if you actually read it, didn't free anybody!
Only 6% of the south were slaveowners Neil! Many people in the north had slaves, even Lincoln had slaves, and the capital building was built by a slave labor.
@PaintballMasterAlec Not to mention the fact that there were Blacks fighting for the South in the Confederate Army before there were any fighting in the Union Army. U.S. Grant was also a slave owner while R.E. Lee was not. Lee thought slavery was 'wicked' to use his own words.
doesn't their 'good book' (the bible) find slavery acceptable? However I'm sure slavery in the south was way worse than any slavery in Biblical times...
Hopefully we are moving into a new world community of HUMANITY!
TheSpeakingbear 13 hours ago
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ThSubjctvPrspctv 3 days ago
Love love this one.
Lynda910 5 days ago
AMAZING GUITAR IN THIS SONG
EziixPked 5 days ago
Maybe Neil did write this about getting beaten up in a bar. A little bit of it might of been about the generations of terrible racism and racial oppression that occured in the South, that whole KKK/ slavery thing too. Idk.
joverboss 6 days ago
@joverboss in the kkk's heyday(the 1920's) most of there members came from the Midwest (Indiana having the most members) not the south. You can say what ever you want about slavery in the south but racism was nation wide.
Kyussfan96 3 days ago 2
@Kyussfan96 Are you trying to say they had slaves in the northern states too? Now thats food for thought! It was a worldwide accepted practice at the time.
johnnyhl3 17 hours ago
i think i just found another musical hero!
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What a joke. Is not racism not just stupidity or hatred, but worst people who are simply just stupid. I am from the south and my family immigrated here while there was slavery. And no they did not own slaves. And did Neil Young's forefathers ever own slaves? He's from Canada. Look at what the Canadians did to the Native-Canadians. He was probably upset with his own background, however he didn't want to point the finger at his own forefathers for what they did. He should write a song about them.
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michaelkfonteneau 1 week ago
I think it's great that Neil Young actually stood up and said how horrible racism is. because it is horrible. his vocals in this song is so dramatic that is sounds creepy and eary when he shouts "I saw cotton and black, tall white mansions and little shacks" and although Lynyrd Skynyrd said they like Neil Young's music a lot, I think it's very disrespectful that they mocked him and this song in "Sweet Home Alabama"
OddManSam 1 week ago
@OddManSam it was mainly the fact that he grouped racism as a "southern man". When racism is everywhere and there were many southern men that weren't racist, it was embarrassing to intelligent open minded people from the south
Skynyrd and Young were both LEGENDS
thinkformyself100 3 days ago
WOW!
chugach69 1 week ago
song totally rules
dektarion 1 week ago 3
Neil Young > Lynyrd Skynyrd
mmcguga1 1 week ago
The SOUTH SUCKS ASS!! Heh. Just kidding. See how easy it is to get stupid people all riled up?
awwwyeaboyeeee 1 week ago
73 people lost their slaves
codeastronomer 1 week ago 2
@codeastronomer lol
passwordbird 1 week ago
War was over a while back...ya'll come out of the hills and chill...lol!
PhazzerPhire 2 weeks ago
@PhazzerPhire i really like this guys music, but this is kind of like punching someone in the stomach whose stomach is cast iron. Alabama. Probably the last state with clean water and smogless air.
neirfane 2 weeks ago
@PhazzerPhire A lot of wars were over awhile back,,,sadly, we start others to take their place.
willyD200 1 week ago
Neil Young is from Canada
think about it...
neilinderbitzin1 2 weeks ago
Although Neil Young may have good musical talent, I think we can all agree that this was a total douche move on his part
SPOREthomas 2 weeks ago
Southern Man, everything is your fault. I came to a bar with my hip, new age thoughts and got beaten up. It wasn't at all cool with me. I truly, truly hate the south and you should as well. Thanks for listening. Neil Young, a true contemperary.
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
@somethinillremember9 lol new age thoughts are anything but "hip". and why would you go to a bar and spout out random new age crap?
SPOREthomas 2 weeks ago
@SPOREthomas
That's my point, Neil Young went to a bar in the 70's in the deep south, started talking about Young's "liberal agenda" (what rednecks heard: "I'm a queer, you should be one too, you're ignorant if you don't accept the transcendent Neil Young" says Neil Young.), then (naturally) got his ass beat. So what does he do? He writes a song about how ignorant everyone in the south is.
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
@somethinillremember9 That is the most small-minded and stupid thing i have ever heard. This is what makes me think u are an ignorant redneck. You are saying that it wasnt because all of the horrible lynching and racism that was in the south. it was because he was being "queer" Ik this is hard for u to understand, but sometimes people have different ideas from you. And the "liberal ideas" he was preaching are not hate people because of the color of the color of their skin, and be nice to people.
lletinsk 3 days ago
we are all American, now everyone shut the fuck up and listen to the music.
ThrashMyLIFE 2 weeks ago
FUCK Skynard!!
DustinTheWind2121 2 weeks ago
@DustinTheWind2121 You're a complete moron. Good luck with that.
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
Neil's guitar! Genius!
TheRelger 2 weeks ago
just wonderful!
ledzep19691 2 weeks ago
Neil Young has no idea of most of the south... Who is he to judge?
imcoleyo 2 weeks ago
DustinTheWind2121 2 weeks ago
@imcoleyo Southern man don't need you anyhow!
angiefful 1 week ago
I think the KKK started to be commandeered by people that wanted to co-opt the hatred and eventually vanquish it (hint - a fellow by the name of Green)
The cross burning is a certain symbol that no one gets crucified.
kroovyandcal 2 weeks ago 2
@kroovyandcal Samuel Green was his name. He deferred the hero award to some actor playing Superman on TV
kroovyandcal 2 weeks ago
@kroovyandcal Almost embarrassed to say this but i have lived and my mom's whole family live in Pulaski, Tn. (home of the klan) the town really is against them now, but stories from grandparents and such say that they burned crosses in mainly alcoholics and wifebeaters yards back in the 30's and so.. more white's than blacks actually.. they started as like a vigilanty group.. Of course as time went on they became the disgusting group they are today
thinkformyself100 2 weeks ago
Civil War actually had very little to do with with slavery, It was more taxes and the Union was not letting the South have much say in anything. The Union destroyed, looted, and burned many Southern Towns to ruins.. I was born and lived a great portion of my life in Toledo Ohio so it's not like I am some biased southernor, it's just the Union made text books and stories like they were heroes much like claiming the wars today arent about oil :/.. Regardless, Neil Young and Skynyrd are LEGENDS
thinkformyself100 2 weeks ago
Long live Dixie
Elvisissouthern 3 weeks ago
Wow, I just enjoy the song..
truckerdan57 3 weeks ago
TOO many of u know nothing of what ur talking about...HERE IS TRUTH: from the info cover of the Second Helping Lynyrd Skynrd album) who by the way, Even their name for the band started as a mock tribute to their tyrannical High School gym Coach, Leonard Skinner.. "Sweet Home Alabama" started as a joke..Gary was tuning up & started strumming 3 chords, as King listened He came up with a counter to Gary's Riff ..to which he said it "just hit him like a ton of bricks" Ed came up w/ little loops
cb61998a 3 weeks ago
@cb61998a that completed the basic idea & Allen put something else on that then Ronnie started singing & w/in 30 minutes "Sweet Home Alabama" was born.. That which started as a tribute to their days recording in Muscle Shoals,(AL) turned into a mock political statement of populist regional pride,,they laughed, said,.ain't that funny? Never the less, Van Zant sounded like he was trying 2 pick a fight w/ ALL of North America, defending Wallace & boldly answering Canadian-born Rocker Neil Young..
cb61998a 3 weeks ago
@cb61998a and his (Neil's) double barreled blast at the Old racist South in his song, "Southern Man"& "Alabama","I thought Neil was shooting all the ducks to kill 1 or 2", Van Zant would later admit..Van Zant later chuckled of "Alabama", "it hit the top 10 & we've been paying for ever since".Van Zant even wore a Neil Young T-Shir on the Cover of Street Survivors album, it was all in fun, the mocking Neil Young & Young even said once, he was PROUD to be the subject of Skynyrd's Southern anthem.
cb61998a 3 weeks ago
Southern Man was a criticism of a particular group of Southerners (KKK types) and was never meant as a condemnation of Southerners in general. Still, it's a great song musically and lyrically has an important message.
WytZox1 3 weeks ago
That smell sounds like a burning plane crash. That was Gods doing
jackmister00 3 weeks ago
I grew up with this music and I still think it's better than anything new. Amazing! His guitar playing is unreal.
jlanza227559 3 weeks ago
@jlanza227559 I am huge fan but on the guitar thing its all kewl.
truckerdan57 3 weeks ago
fu*k obama
taters55 3 weeks ago
more than certainly my favourite musician ever.
blimey613 3 weeks ago
iste edo meta to tragudi tu rapsodu?
MrOmonoiatis 4 weeks ago
This band knew what was going on and let the whole world know about it !
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If you like Neil Young check out "The Silver Rollers". Wicked new group!
Quantzification 4 weeks ago
Ok, the point is that prejudice is terrible, satanic and evil. NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THE F****N MUSIC!!!!
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wakeupsheepleppl 1 week ago
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FUCKING EH! Thank God someone said it!
wakeupsheepleppl 1 week ago
I thinks when Neil says he's gonna cut him down Skynyrd say we don't need him around anyhow. And ol Neil put her down because he paints in Alabama a picture that decries how the locals: Skynyrd feel about their state.... Nonetheless Neils lyrics were first and Skynyrd seem to have made a lyrical slight or mention at/of Neil about these lyrics. Both Alabama and Southern Man are songs from the 1970s and Skynyrd's Sweet Home came out that same decade. Both Artists (Young,Van Zant) wrote good music.
TheDanNoonan 1 month ago
I'm a Southern Man, but I had the good sense to escape. I moved to the West Coast, where normal people are the majority.
lancetop 1 month ago
@lancetop you're a fuckin traitor and don't deserve your heritage
shofneb1 1 month ago
@shofneb1 my Southern "heritage" happens to be slavery, Jim Crow, extreme homophobia, religious fanaticism, and now anti Latin sentiments....
You think that's something to be proud of? I wish I would have left the South when I graduated from high school in N.C. in 1973.
lancetop 1 month ago
@lancetop Thank you for your honesty.It's the only way things change
loper11p34 3 weeks ago
@lancetop I am from the South & still LIVE in the South..Alabama to be exact..I am proud of WHERE I AM FROM..I am proud of my "heritage"..I am proud of my family LINE that I came from..HOWEVER, that does not mean..I agree with things that happened in the past! I DON'T keep a frigging stash of crosses on hand in the "barn"..in my "out buildings" OR in my car/any other place! The only PLACE I HAVE A CROSS IS AROUND MY NECK ON A NECKLACE! Stupidity, there STILL IS NO CURE FOR IT..YET!!
cb61998a 3 weeks ago
@cb61998a
I'm originally from California mountains and have been in Texas for 7 years . I have talked to people and visited many areas in our country . The people from the South are among the best . My wife left her purse at a gas station in Alabama and 3 days later someone mailed it to our house . I constantly hear douche bags bashing the South . They probably know very little about it .
jasavak 3 weeks ago
@jasavak wow, finally someone that has a logical mind on youtube =P
quertyb0y5 2 weeks ago
@jasavak I don't know if it helps that when yankees have it in their head that southern men and women are racist, occasionally there will be a dick head that proves their point in all the wrong ways, I grew up in southern Maryland and get called "racist" for just having a southern accent at times because of that one dick head that makes us all look bad, but I understand your point the south has some very nice generous people in it just like the north does it all depends where you are.
HOAX900 2 weeks ago
@HOAX900 Southern Maryland? Are you serious? lol
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam it's not far from virginia, that's telling you something, to top it off anything below the mason dixon is geographically the american south.
HOAX900 2 weeks ago
@HOAX900 No shit Sherlock. lol Virginia is Obviously in the south. Not far from it means nothing. You're a northerner. Deal with it. lol
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam a northerner would be pennsylvania, there were tons of confederate supporters in southern MD, what's that telling you?
HOAX900 2 weeks ago
@HOAX900 Maryland is a northern state. I'm sorry, but you can't change that. You're so stubborn that you won't even accept facts.
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam look up what the true definition of a southern state is, and while you are at it search up what the mason-dixon line is, anything below the mason dixon is the south.
HOAX900 2 weeks ago
@HOAX900 Wow! You don't know where the mason-dixon line is.
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam Even if you consider MD a 'northern state' (whatever that means anyway), I know exactly what he is talking about. Southern MD (St. Marys/Calvert Co.) Is different than any other area in the region. Most locals speak in heavy southern dialects and the area is surrounded by farmland and countryside. Hardcore rednecks. You should visit, might learn a thing or two.
JLE102191 2 weeks ago
@JLE102191 I should visit hickland? I'm a world traveler. What a ridiculous waste of time that would be. lol
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam
So you do understand this was written at a time when southerners hated hippies and neil young had pranced into a southern bar going "I'm the symbol of new-age thought and an end to you rednecks reigning over people." Then, he got beaten up. So HE WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT.
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
@somethinillremember9 lol southerners hated hippes, ever heard of the grateful dead? MTB?
quertyb0y5 2 weeks ago
@quertyb0y5
HERPIDEE DERPIDEE DERP I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN ALABAMA, EVER HEARD OF WHAT ALL MY PARENTS AND THEIR FRIENDS SAY ABOUT HIPPIES. WE AREN'T IGNORANT REDNECKS LIKE YOU SO CALLED SOPHISTICATES SAY AND I'M GOING TO LAUGH WHEN YOU PEOPLE (YANKEES AREN'T REALLY PEOPLE THOUGH, A BUNCH OF LOUSY ENGLISH OPPRESSING THE SCOTCH-IRISH RACE LIKE BACK IN THE OLD COUNTRY) AND YOUR GLOBALIST AGENDA FAILS AND THE SOUTH (WHICH MAKES UP MORE THAN 70% OF THE U.S. ARMY) SAYS FUCK YOU AND BACKS OUT OF
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
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YOUR FALSE ZIONIST OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL AND THE ARAB NATIONS AND HOW YOU STIR UP WAR BETWEEN THEM. THEN YOU CRY "WE FUCKED UP" AND IT'S TOO LATE. INTERNET TOUGH GUY UP IN THIS BITCH.
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
@somethinillremember9 generally zionists, or a form of judiasm, doesnt hate isreal, smart stuff. internet common sense in this bitch.
lletinsk 3 days ago
@somethinillremember9 uhh where i live in NY im surrounded by trees there isnt a skyscraper for 150 miles my father is in the military i fish and hunt and there isnt much difference between u and me unless u count geography and food
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@somethinillremember9 uhh where i live in NY im surrounded by trees there isnt a skyscraper for 150 miles my father is in the military i fish and hunt and there isnt much difference between u and me unless u count geography and food
ARMY2498 1 week ago
@somethinillremember9 Death to the Confederacy. Death to Traitors that fly the Traitor Flag. God Bless John Brown.
jnlabrk6 1 week ago 6
@jnlabrk6 Flying the Confederate Flag doesn't mean you do not love America or that your a traitor. People of Mexican descent still fly the tri-colored flag, it's just being proud of where you come from, God Bless Dixie God Bless America and God Bless Neil Young
thinkformyself100 3 days ago
@jnlabrk6 power to the rebel flag weeeoooooo!!!!!!!!
didlybop1 3 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
@jnlabrk6 you are ignorant along with everyone else that agrees with you...history lesson needed very much
dhze93 2 days ago
@jnlabrk6 You want death. Your an idiot!!!
johnnyhl3 17 hours ago
@somethinillremember9 and CCR
quertyb0y5 2 weeks ago
@quertyb0y5
CCR Was founded by gents from California, thank you very much. Would you call a Californian Southern?
somethinillremember9 2 weeks ago
@somethinillremember9 no, because by southern he means stupid and small minded, which califoria (for the most part) isnt, where as alabama and missisippie are.
lletinsk 3 days ago
@lletinsk you would look more intelligent if you could spell a state right, Mississippi wow... And no matter where you go in the world there will be smart people and small minded people, at the time he was writing this the south needed to get their act together.. But by southern he definitely didnt mean stupid and small minded
thinkformyself100 3 days ago
@thinkformyself100 sure, criticise my ninja spelling. and i didnt say that by southern he meaned small minded and stupid, i was talking about the idiot somethinillremember9
lletinsk 2 days ago
@jethrodassam yeah didn't think so
JLE102191 2 weeks ago
@JLE102191 I've driven through Maryland several times. What's the point of this?
jethrodassam 2 weeks ago
@jethrodassam thankfully maryland is not the south
kern39743 2 weeks ago
@HOAX900 technicality YANKEE!!
angiefful 1 week ago
@HOAX900 i agree, but this was written at a time when the civil rights movement was ending, and there was so much violence, so i think he was critising that. it is not really talking about now.
lletinsk 3 days ago
@jasavak this song is not meant for this time. he is talking about the violence in the south at the time of the civil rights movement.
lletinsk 3 days ago
@shofneb1 Yes, recognizing that there might be something wrong with the common perception of an area and removing yourself from that makes you a traitor. I suppose you would say the same to North Korean emigrants, no?
pseudogenesis 1 month ago
@shofneb1 stfu...ur the southern man this song refers to
TheDrayday15 1 month ago
a southern man dont need a canadian around any how
jeremywells1977 1 month ago
Why are there so many boobs in the recomended videos?... not complaining
odiealegodediego 1 month ago
I think musicians can have differences of opinions about politics and still respect each others art.
illuminatus32 1 month ago
Lynyrd Skynyrd are a bunch of conservative rednecks from Jacksonville, Florida. Neil Young is a liberal hippie from Canada. They are as different as the KKK and the NAACP.
sahkrov 1 month ago
@sahkrov You are absolutely wrong.
Slatrelle 1 month ago
@Slatrelle If I’m so wrong then why was Lynyrd Skynyrd performimg at a Republicans party in 2000 and 2004 during the Republicans Convention and why did Neil Young release a cd called “Living With War?” On his cd he had a song called “Lets Impeach the President” referring to George Bush. Can you explain that?
sahkrov 1 month ago
@sahkrov Maybe skynard are conservative hippies and young is a liberal redneck. As far as I know, they both wrote songs for each other. Also, sometimes you have to advertise your shit. 2004 was a perfect time to gain attention on either side of the war. There not that different. They are both successful musicians from the same time period and I bet they both appreciate each others shit.
Slatrelle 1 month ago
@Slatrelle I'm african american and I relate more with Neil Young than Lynyrd Skynyrd. I've been through Alabama and ain't nothin "Sweet Home" about it. It's Sweet Hell Alabama for me! Neil Young was siding with African Americans when he wrote "Southern Man." Lynyrd Skynyrd salutes the Confederate Flag at their concerts and Neil Young doesn't. Johnny Van Zant once said "Fuck Neil Young!" at a concert while singing "Sweet Home Alabama." Why would he say that?
sahkrov 1 month ago
@sahkrov VAN ZANT actually spoke it best when he said..."we're not into politics, we don't have no education,& Wallace don't know nothing about rock 'n' roll." As quoted by Ron O'Brien, in 1997 (on their Second Helping release album info cover)..this was in regards to "Sweet Home Alabama" being nominated as the Official State (AL) song, which Wallace struck down the idea after learning..following the line.."In Birmingham they love the Governor, Skynyrd sang the words, "Boo, boo, boo."
cb61998a 3 weeks ago
@cb61998a What LS says and what they do are two different things. They say Boo, boo, boo to Wallace, then they turn around and salute and wave a Confederate (White Supremist)flag at their concerts. Unlike LS I give a damn about politics and education. As an African American I'm offended by and hate everything about the Confederate flag and what it stands for. I respect the Star Spangled Banner (the real American flag).
sahkrov 3 weeks ago
@sahkrov wow, retarted to the max. the reason that the south left the union was because of the very heavy and unfair taxes and tariffs the north was making. and another thing, african americans freedom was a by-product of the civil war, and was not a direct goal of the war. and idk why u take such offence to the confederate flag. i live in NY, and have a beachtowl with the flag on it, i also have black and mexican friends, and they dont give a fuck and see it as a joke.
quertyb0y5 2 weeks ago
@quertyb0y5 dumbshit the south also left the union because Abraham Lincoln was not going to let slavery expand to states it was not already in and eventually he issued the Emancipation Proclamation which banned slavery every. Think before you type
MrLukerules11 2 weeks ago
@sahkrov There are actually African Americans in my neighborhood bearing the Confederate flag, it all depends on how it's being used. Nothing is wrong with being proud of where you came from. Many African Americans have items that have had the African continent on it and I do not view this as racist
thinkformyself100 2 weeks ago
@sahkrov Todays LS had nothing to do with SWEET HOME ALABAMA, it was the Great Ronnie Van Zant and original LYNYRD SKYNRD of the 70s that wrote the song. And as we all know that band died with Ronnie on Oct 20th 1977 when plane crashed. I know he wasnt at 2000 convention this skynyrd band of today might have been but not original.
chance501 1 month ago
@sahkrov Haha you know so little :D
TriH4rdGaming 1 month ago
If I had a radio station I think this might be the first song I'd play
midawin 1 month ago
Still just as damn good:)
MikSmith72 1 month ago
Feeling Southern today
wackygoose1 1 month ago
NOTICE in 1971, the lack of rude people snapping snaps with their ultra cool cellphones and otherwise disturbing a great live show! Sad that in today's world, one cannot go to a concert, even a small initmate show in a coffee house, without half the audience snapping photos from their cellphones all through the song, with the light from the screens disturbing the show and turning it into a techno circus. Sigh. 2012 is all wrong. 1971 had it all right, yes or no?
MrDanbloom 1 month ago
70+ people have Arthritis so bad from picking the six string they couldn't quiet manage to click "Like"...
efish991 1 month ago
Lynyrd Skynyrd can suck it. this has so much soul to it
mrneontrafficlights 1 month ago 19
@mrneontrafficlights why all the hate they are both very good singers and neither deserves to "suck it"
chrisdubs121 1 month ago
@mrneontrafficlights We stopped burning crosses a long time ago, that's why we have Obama
THEgreatCORNHOLIO245 3 weeks ago
@mrneontrafficlights skynyrd were racist that the bottom line
06cc14701 3 weeks ago
@06cc14701 the ballad of Curtis Lowe is praising a black man. Black people were featured on their album cover before
thinkformyself100 2 weeks ago
Skynyrd are from Florida, what the fuck is that about..
shittyfagg 1 month ago 2
@shittyfagg florida is the south
knowtwodrugs 1 month ago
@knowtwodrugs i just meant, they're not from alabama. But oh well. No biggie.
shittyfagg 1 month ago
@shittyfagg Florida was and still is one of the most conservative southern states in the US. Much of the "old south: mentality is still there
bruce1chubb 1 month ago
@bruce1chubb
unless you are anywhere near the coast. in which case, there is zero "southern culture".
arbitor365 1 month ago
@shittyfagg obviously you haven't been to jacksonville. lol
tcroweification 2 weeks ago
:)
katinasvenska 1 month ago
Neil Young. Better than anything, anybodys, got to say on youtube.
StringBender420 1 month ago
Reading these commends i heard screaming and bullwhips cracking Oo
drpimpelmees 1 month ago
southern man and sweet home alabama are both incredible songs. neiil young was a lynyrd skynyrd fan and skynyrd were fans of his. they both did covers of each others aforementioned songs in concert on more than one occasion. there is no feud and there never was a feud.
The72koenig 1 month ago 32
@The72koenig How do you know there was or wasn't, a feud?
trampredboy6544 1 month ago
@trampredboy6544 Because it was well documented in Neil Young's autobiography. Read about it. Lots of people from the south don't like NY because they think he was making "fun" of the southern man which was not the case at all. They were fans of each other.
SKOJCV 1 month ago
@The72koenig There was a feud, but it was short-lived.
scarface82us 1 month ago
@The72koenig I wasnt a fued Neil was just saying in the song "We don't need no southern man" and lynyrd Skynyrd heard it and put it in their song " Sweet home alabama" saying " Neil young will think bout us a southern man do need you either" .. they could have been fans ive never seen a REALLY Neil Young version of Sweet home Alabama and no song by neil covered by Lynyrd.
TriH4rdGaming 1 month ago
@TriH4rdGaming i love southern/northern/eastern/western man/woman/child and i love you too.
The72koenig 1 month ago
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Lateral0Thinking 1 month ago
@The72koenig not a feued but there were some instances where you know skynard said "a southern man dont need him around anyhow" which is not really fighting words by any means but i cant help feeling it would be an awekward thanksgiving. Nothing too major though ur right. Neil is too peaceful for that anyways
specie44 1 month ago
@The72koenig thx for clearin that up for everyone who didnt know this.
Man0nTheM00n44 1 month ago
@Man0nTheM00n44 no worries, cheers.
The72koenig 1 month ago
i dont give a shit what anybody thinks, this song is so far superior to sweet home Alabama as to completely negate anything skynyrd has to say
ShoveDaddy 1 month ago
neil young is from canada
jeremywells1977 1 month ago
BTW... Sweet Home Alabama, folks!!
graceyangel414 1 month ago
Long live the south!!!
graceyangel414 1 month ago
As Ronnie Van zant would say a southern man dont need you around any how
jeremywells1977 1 month ago
@jeremywells1977 - Steve Van Zant(RIP) was not as musically talented as Neil. I'll take Crosby, stills, Nash, and Young over Lynard Skynard any day. Or Neil on his lonesome.
TicinoParadise 1 month ago
@TicinoParadise never said he did not have talent but skynard is one of the best bands ever
jeremywells1977 1 month ago
@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
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@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
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@TicinoParadise First of all you are probably referring to Ronnie Van Zant(RIP) since Steve Van Zant does not exist.Second of all Neil is Canadian and do not have his facts straight.And third and most important of all,I've listen to them for 30 years and there is no Neil's song that can match Freebird!!!
marigotification 1 month ago
Neil Young was writing HIS perception of the TIME people. That time has passed...Let the past be the past... We are all One human race and until people lposting on here, let go of the past,, we can't get to a racial balance and that's so sad.......
Pammiekay1 1 month ago
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@TulaiMr Hitler was a Socialist. He also put everything under government control, much like today's Liberals. You should try to look at the political model of right wing and left wing like this: To the Left is a sliding scale leading to total Government control, to the Right is an opposing sliding scale leading to no Government control at all. To the left of center you'll find Democrats, Liberals, Socialists (of every stripe), Fascists all the way up to total Communism.
Iknewb4udid 1 month ago
@Fratalian274 Hitler was a Socialist. He also put everything under government control, much like today's Liberals. You should try to look at the political model of right wing and left wing like this: To the Left is a sliding scale leading to total Government control, to the Right is an opposing sliding scale leading to no Government control at all. To the left of center you'll find Democrats, Liberals, Socialists (of every stripe), Fascists all the way up to total Communism.
Iknewb4udid 1 month ago
@IamDayoldHate1 Slavery would have died out anyway because of the Cotton Gin. Not many people in the North wanted a war over slaves, anyway. There was a very great deal of resistence in the North when Lincoln published the Emancipation Proclamation which, if you actually read it, didn't free anybody!
Iknewb4udid 1 month ago
Only 6% of the south were slaveowners Neil! Many people in the north had slaves, even Lincoln had slaves, and the capital building was built by a slave labor.
PaintballMasterAlec 1 month ago
@PaintballMasterAlec Not to mention the fact that there were Blacks fighting for the South in the Confederate Army before there were any fighting in the Union Army. U.S. Grant was also a slave owner while R.E. Lee was not. Lee thought slavery was 'wicked' to use his own words.
Iknewb4udid 1 month ago
can we all just agree that the midwest sucks?
gamer4life1723 1 month ago
@gamer4life1723 fuck you
adiofootwear11 1 month ago
Mind your own business Neil...what is going on in Canada?
crustymcfaden 1 month ago
@crustymcfaden Amen Crusty....I assume the Native Americans in Canada are really happy right now (from North Carolina).
1996Duc900ss 1 month ago
@crustymcfaden what
marshalrox 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
both sides north and south were praying to win the war, whose side did GOD pick? the union
mickeyadams527 1 month ago
@mickeyadams527 Vietnam did't pray as much, but the Union lost.. at least morally
Curtiss92 1 month ago
doesn't their 'good book' (the bible) find slavery acceptable? However I'm sure slavery in the south was way worse than any slavery in Biblical times...
oberlin1990 1 month ago