Lynyrd Skynyrd- Free Bird (LIVE) 1977

[diamonddhk222]

rather be sitting in mary D's backyard - after a kickball game

[UberTroll13]

at 7:10 who are the people they are carving, dont recogize them as in original mount rushmore

[UberTroll13]

they were taken from us, because of this video, they were too epic for our generation......one day they will be given back to us, but right now, they are free as birds

[TheGoodOldRock]

Any real Lynyrd fan has heard of the movie "Freebird the movie". It's an almost 2 and a half hour long movie about this band that was released in 1996.

It contains mostly concert footage with some documentary elements and comments from surviving band members.

And for the first time ever has it been uploaded on YT in one piece.

Follow the link in the annotation to watch this movie.

[Freyja1133]

I have question.

How did Gary Rossington cheat death?

He had a near fatal autoaccident during Labor day weekend 1977

and then the oplane crash that claimed the lives of Ronnie vanzandt , Steve gaines& his sister cassie

How did he survive ?

[badazz1206]

love this song.....number 1 skynrd  fan

[jamilner7]

skynyrd lives on, god bless ronnie and the boys

[MrBigden37]

If it ain't Skynyrd it ain't shit.

[EverythingCheese]

I miss the time when live performance actually sounded like the studio, when people knew how to play music instead of just press buttons to make beats

[habs5792]

I live up in the Great White North of Canada and this is the best song ever !

[otakuNgamer]

12 persons look that awesome video and have a face like this woman at minute 7:00

[lucascjardim]

Allen Collins, The Uncrowned King.

[brettsmom23]

What I wounld give to just see them perform this too bad I didnt grow up in the 70's!!!

[Christopsy616]

Such a beautiful song. Everyone should lose their virginity to this song, fuck to this song or have a one night stand to this song. If you've done all three *Thumbs Up*

[mareckbamf]

I think it's fair to say they played it pretty for Oakland.

[FezTickle]

im not white and i think this tune is unreal!

[InmyJag]

240p we meet again..

[PooPoo2U]

@InmyJag: Stupid-ass unoriginal commenter, we meet again.

[snake63cardiff]

Respond to this video... i meet skinny moly from lynard skinard not to long ago me and my bass buddy filled in for his guys it was EPIC

[mrgreengiant101]

inspirational

[Mintonetteable]

Ok Devil here's my soul... now take me back to that date in that concert.....

[jonahtakalua1]

It's brilliant how bands back in the day didn't give one fuck about going out and obliterating an entire arena. And didn't have to worry about their ability because they were all so fucken talented. These days are a bad time for music...

[DCussen]

Man, where has the great arena rock gone?  Gotta love the crowd - all the crowds in videos are staged now - this was real.

[bearing44]

All they wanted to see was the jump. Nice bitches in their fifties now mmmm.

[boomblind12]

so technically sound for its day.. I'm not old really but they really kill it ya know.

[habib3225]

this would of been something

[cmosebboy80]

who said oakland doesnt have rockerz!!!!!

[POTVIN121]

flight 93 was truly a tragedy, but if skynyrd didn't die the world would explode

the earth just cant sustain another guitar solo of that magnitude

[09riffraff]

PEACE to all the families of the heroes of flight 93

[25jprophet]

Thank you for sharing this incredible video. I can only hope that another song this great will be recorded in my lifetime. I have hope that someday, real music will make a comeback.

[PAKIROE]

Brutal,un salado desde Españñññññññññññññññña.

[cartergirl3of3]

It's so weird looking at this crowd. everyone, these r ur moms and dads lol

[DragonWarrior11]

has anybodies fingers started on fier attempting this?

[DiCam3667]

Best damn song ever made.

[asfafasfasfasas]

whats with that girl at 07:00

[lutonwilko]

Really sad and really happy that it happened at all. Bloody great stuff.

[robi2000]

I like the low quality video version of this. Allan Collins looks like a sureal ghost in white playing the fuck outta that guitar with such southern passion. Like some impressionist painting looking into the sunny gorgeous past Ahhhhhhhhh

[baddacoodoo]

HOW BAD IS THE MUSIC OF TODAY ...Just take a listen to this kids and u will soon find out.

[bongoboyj]

Fuck too fucking short.

[jarileigh]

You can take down the "hear in HD" Most people, like me, have heard this song a million times, but not all of us are old enough to have SEEN the original line-up on TV, much less live, some of us are just getting off on seeing them live and want to SEE the vid

[TheGoodOldRock]

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[jjavitarifa]

@TheGoodOldRock Amen!!

[scagweed1]

the confederates won the war

[henhorst]

Hair in the public, hair on stage, Everyone has a lot of it and I love it.

[lucavivanarkia]

es triste ver que en estados unidos todavia exista gente racista. y lo mas triste es ver que esa gente racista comente este video. no al racismo SI A LA DIVERSIDAD! TODOS SOMOS FREE BIRD!

[MrJmart30]

steve gaines is by far the most underated guitar player of all time!!!!!



[ThisIsS000Sad]

12 people are not free as a bird

[MsStaciejm]

This was actually performed on July 2nd, not July 4th. Amazing fudging performance!!!!!!!!

[Stanwilliamsmusic]

This was filmed only 3 months and 16 days before the Plane Crash...

[lobo5786]

oh man thank you for this great memory if Skynyrd don't move you nothin will!!

[ajtony21]

WTF there's a bird on the guitar!!!...XD

[playingforbritain]

@ajtony21 the guitar is a firebird. they all have them.

[ajtony21]

If only there was a link that takes me to an HD version of this video!!!!...XD

[Canadaballer96]

I can't watch this without getting goosebumps

[atvredneck1]

this is amazing . allen collins was by far one of the best self taught guartist.

[cunt648]

black people always at the end

[kevin1230bball]

skynyrd still lives on thru rossington

[almostgone33]

Happy 4th!

[xScumFuck]

I was born in the wrong generation. :(

[SAMEfewSTARS]

@cunt648 yh there is at 9.42 everyone who thumps up him were to lazy to look! even blacks like there skynyrd!

[sirdigby727]

@MrBattleofmarathon Well you must be the oldest person on the internet

[ViniciusFiocco]

what a fucking solo

[NerothrowsawahisTV]

@cunt648 Sad but true.

[vfratus]

Good looking women, until the panties come off and you need to grab the weed whacker..

[SAMnDANI1]

12 people never got pussy in their life

[monkeybath1]

quite possibly the best song ever ? apart from jedwards lipstick of course

[deathpiggy25]

click here 6:10 to skip to solo

[TheGrizzzle]

WOW I really wish i grew up in the 70's to experience bands like this...... and the times were better too. the new times suck ass!

[sirdigby727]

@TheGrizzzle

60's>90's>80's>70's>00's

[B1aKWoLf]

@cunt648 o.0 try lookin at 9:42 then lol thers at least 2

[5B4Funky]

Who said they didn't see a black person? Shit, pay attention at 9:41. Not only is there a black person there, but my boy is in the front row with the best seat in the house. Take that all you racist slime looking for any reason at all to cause a stir.

[superbuds0714]

@5B4Funky that lucky man.

[TheTruthBeware]

@5B4Funky you sir deserve an award

[baddacoodoo]

@5B4Funky Yeh I saw him ...I waited right to the end too lol , crazy to think that this all happened 34 years ago....:(

[pilgorden]

@5B4Funky wow =3 would be ossom to sit there :D

[MrWikidBonez]

@5B4Funky I agree 100% People need an education.

[vancockerham]

@cunt648 good

[QatonChozeh]

Regarding not seeing a black person...

So what?

I didn't see any Chinese either, or any Greeks.

Maybe black people don't like good music.

Maybe there they were at the toilets.

Is there no validity to anything unless one of everything is present?

Stupid, stupid comment. And to get 52 thumbs up as of 6/19/11. Amazingly ignorant people.

[5B4Funky]

@QatonChozeh Ignorant as hell. Do a search for Rick Ross, DMX, etc... and tell me how many white people you see. So what? Most white people don't want to see DMX in concert because it's not their thing. Not their culture. I would imagine that's why you won't ever see many brotha's and sista's at a Skynyrd show. It's not thier thing. Not their culture. Doesn't make the event racist. It's the people that pull the race card when there is no reason for it to be pulled that are the fuckin racists.

[rivermandan9]

Just imagine waking up one day and playing like Gary Rossington. How awesome would that be. Great song. Ronnie we'll never forget. Skynyrd nation rules.

[2012Catfishing]

There's 1 black person lost at 9:42

[jaguar12g]

Songs like this are few and far between. Truly epic.

[spoolunker]

Best EVER!

[consigliere94]

amazing performance. the solo at the end probably was the best i have ever heard.

[ypoons89]

Thank Goodness for Polaroid!

[palmyrarocks]

One of the greatest rock songs i ever heard.

[MisterJangle]

merci from belgium ! its amazing

[ViniciusFiocco]

only women on the crowd

wow

what happened?

[RagingAspius]

@ViniciusFiocco I'm not complaining. Most of them are all attractive. But I say that, and some of them could probably be my mom now. 

[ViniciusFiocco]

@RagingAspius I'm not complaining too. It's just rare. most of them look awesome.

[chadwickba2]

What do most of these comments have to do with this great performance?

[miniduende12]

@shammond10 you have my dad ageeee

[817Alyssa]

@cunt648 lol I'm black, and my dad is mexican, and my grandma is whit/mexican, so I'm mixed breed

[TheGoodOldRock]

@rickswar And now your stupid arrogant ass got banned and we don't have to read your retarded shit.

[MrClayton174]

@rickswar im a white conservative and people like u is what make this country bad.. u racist fuck with no job and shit! im an airline pilot im sure ive shuttled your ass from time to time. u sissy lil punk. who talks shit over the interent lol!! go ahead and write smething back to me hahahaha

[Valladega]

People here can't spell for shit, it's amazing.

You guys are getting basic english words wrong.

Spend more time in school than in church you bible belt sister fucking retards.

[Valladega]

@rickswar

i'm not from the states you idiot. i'm glad im not, sharing a republic with a person like you would be a nightmare.

[Valladega]

@rickswar

you ever heard about that guy who always talks about chicks because he wants everybody to think that he likes hot chicks.

[Valladega]

@rickswar

highest poverty rate, a massive war oversees and corrupt government. yeah sounds great. fucking idiot.

[Valladega]

so many loose women

[lustmolch113]

@cunt648 what are you trying to say? Please tell me, I'm not sure where you're going

[TheGraz71]

The most beautiful song in the world to me.....fly on free bird.....

[Apple2010jan]

God Bless America... I love this song<3

[Apple2010jan]

God Bless America... I love this song<3

[daviswhitetrash]

god bless dixie! fly freebird fly......

[bollpwnbay]

@cunt648

9:38

this guy seems black to me.

[ecospiky]

@cunt648 maybe they decided to leave after they saw the huge confederate flag in the background of the stage.

[lionshand]

OMG! What is wrong with you 12 people?

[valmir64188]

wonderful time !!!

[x85DogsOfWar85x]

this song reminds me of a drug induced rage.The beginning is all calm like you just smoked a fatty,and did a bag of H...but then the solo comes and its like ya banged a gram of coke.freakin out jumpin around and shit.....does that mean that i'm fucked up in the head?????all i think about is drugs,the same thing most of skynyrd did back in the 70's....am i alone in this world??????

[jnr206]

@cunt648

9:41 bottom right screen, black man with a mustache

[somedude85213]

@cunt648 sorry but you are wrong! there is ONE black man in the audience and you see him at 9:42

[FezTickle]

@somedude85213 he was prolly there for the white girls :P jk my good buddy is black n his girlfriends white so i had to say it aha

[Hahajejeje]

whos was the fucktard high camera man who didnt tape the effin guitars!!

[roderickfysh]

not too many security guards either

[Kadavernazion]

Better times.

[shammond10]

The 70's was great, good looking women, good smoke and good music. I was 17 when they did this and life was great.

[misteraxl1]

@shammond10 you lucky bastard :) i am 15 and i live in a shit full country, Serbia, surrounded by today's pop idiots... but i know, in america its not much different...

[123wastedyouth]

@shammond10 lucky

[Aldoo97]

@shammond10

I'm jealous :(

[justanotherhopeless]

@shammond10 god damn you're lucky... :(

[neilkulp]

@shammond10 well hey im glad you had so much fun cause your generation that was havin such a great life completely fucked up this world and now my generation gets to fix it while you bitch about getting your social security!

[StopBleedingOnMe]

I'm digging the Bell Bottoms. Bring'em back!!!

[Shumnee]

@cunt648 9:40 at the bottom

[cunt648]

@Shumnee nice you saw one man

[abenshinuk]

9:36-9:42 that is ;)

[abenshinuk]

LOL 9:46 -9:52 blond jesus going mad and the guy looking behind who seems like "where am I? who am I? what's happening??". Epic moment ^^

[misteraxl1]

@abenshinuk hahaha even jesus must have some fun sometimes XD

[gofastgokart99]

in the 1970's these dudes coulda had ANY girl they wanted at ANY time...wish i grew up in the 60's and 70's

[RollingStoneSour]

Why are all the best songs never so loud?! Come on!

[amrhein90]

look at all those fucking chicks man!

[misteraxl1]

@amrhein90 it looks like girls were waaay more beautiful in those times than today :P

[lionshand]

I have never seen so much bare skin in my life!

[pnevmatix1]

great solo

[klezekpaulo]

someone is having WAY to much fun 7:00

[SpeedbeetleV2]

@klezekpaulo hahaha I love it when I laugh my ass off at a youtube comment!!!

[MisterNifty]

This great song is a cross between Iron Butterfly's "Inagodadavida," Grand Funk's "I'm Your Captain," Peter Frampton's "Do you feel like we do?" and Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All." Well, prior to her heavy usage of cocaine of course. l mention Whitney Houston's name only with her permission as it is a trademark for everyone and everything both stupd as hell and as hypocritical as a hairy fat man complaining about the enormous size of a hippopotamus.

[pedrohbo]

Allen Collins Rockz!!!

[pedrohbo]

Ronnie Van Zat geniuos

[redbluerock]

indimenticabile free bird,che emozione....

[rbmsa1]

When i saw this song live its was one of the greatest moments in my life just like in talladaga nights hevean is being hammered drunk front stage at a Lynard Skynard concert and boy was i in heaven

[jarileigh]

@rbmsa1 I'm so jealous! I was just thinking how I would have killed to see them live!

[l3om3ss1]

6:30

[ferociouspottypeople]

i dont get why nobody listens to music like this anymore...instead they listen to autotuned crap. and what happened to full bands....nowadays there is only like one singer who gets all the credit even when theyre not that good and no one cares about whoever played the instrumental part.

[kenseiden88]

thunderbird guitar. Yes!!!

[drkhill]

5 very talented musicians in this video are no longer with us, Allen Collins,  Leon Wilkerson, Stevie Gaines, Billy Powell and the great Ronnie Van Zant. Rest in peace.

[kyleize9]

like i say, if you haven't heard of lynard skynard or freebird youre not a real music fan

[dadgdfh]

THIS SONG MAKES ME CRY!

[pjicleanair420]

collins was good

[WaylonForever]

A true legend never dies and after 34 year ronnie van zant still lives in the heart of every SKYNYRD fan. I know your as free as a bird now

[wosselwozzel]

chuck norris killed 2 stones with 1 bird

[Boss302fan]

Gawd I miss those days!

Lot of cute girls in that crowd and they looked like they were having a blast!

[JNugent74]

@TheSquinny69 - Ha! Do you think 'That Smell' is about 'life and how the world was'? C'mon, man... lighten up. I know Skynyrd is incredible, but not all of their songs had the meaning of 'Freebird'. Their talent and songwriting is undeniable, but to say that 'now the music has no sense its just about getting high' tells me that you might need to expand your horizons and seek out the great music that is out there. If you look for it, you'll find it.

[ypoons89]

Great song!!! No need to worry bout getting beat up at this concert!

[whatsupbato]

If you don't like this you aren't American...better yet if you don't like this you aren't human.

[mostrodj]

The best fuckin song ever!!!

[SodaPopinski100]

the best clip on youtube.

[chopper63100]

to harley the crow with love you go.....

[vbsbb2011]

i was in this crowd was a $7 show ,most those peeps up front i went to high school with(pacific high) san leandro cali

[freestylze]

Greatest band of all time right here!.....Damn, I love this song!!!

[MaMonkey500]

All those beautiful californian girls are flooding their basements for real rock n roll

[ninin512]

@MaMonkey500 they flooded their basements? why? they could have just gone to the concert instead :S

[mutal3]

TINA1NARANJO ..That made my weekend. May he watch every step of your way

[TINA1NARANJO]

Today is my fathers Birthday; A man who was betrayed, lost & forgotten. He was betrayed by addiction, lost in spirit & forgotten in prison. He also was a artist, a son, a brother, a friend that had your back, because he was not misunderstood. He was a child of God & my Father...... who i now know that loved me all along! I dedicate this song to you because i know that you are free to be the HAWK that you are.. Fly well daddy from your only Daughter that loves you~

[funkcanna]

Id give my right bollock to be there in 1977

[TheWasskag]

NDN POWER



[clemel1]

awesome

[12Randall68]

I could only imagine sitting on the bank down from the hell house and hearing those guys practice. I was 9 when their plane went down and my mama went to their second last concert. I wanted to go but was to little. I remember when the crash happened I was so upset. I thought I would soon get big enough to see those folks live. Never happened. I did get to see Artimus not too long ago at a small venue at a place called The Music Ranch here in Lakeland Florida with his band APB. He's still got it.

[blinky855]

one of the biggest staples in rock history.....saw skynyrd live on billy powells last tour...it was something ill never forget. i love that rossington and medlock (sp?) are still playing and johnny is still carrying the torch from his brother, but it just doesnt have the same magic that these old vids have in them