No prob

They flew the flag cause when they went overseas to play the locals would call them yankees (general term for people for the states) they wanted people to know they were from the South. They were all actually pretty liberal.

@@chrisray7849 Liberal then, isn't liberal now.

The symbol of a flag is like a living being...... It is forever changing and adapting to those who honor it. To my generation the flag stood for the love of the States we lived in, the music we listened to (Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Outlaws etc.....). We loved Families our Mamma's, our fishing, our trucks n cars,our beer, our sports and anyone who was down was always welcome. We never looked to offend anyone for we figured we were all from the same swamp (Florida) and shared the same mosquitos.😉 BTW Free bird still blows away Stairway to Heaven!😂

ACTUALY THE REBAL FLAG WAS MCA RECORDS IDEA THEY PROMOTED THAT. IT WAS NOT ANY OF THE BAND MEMBERS.

Lol if I sing this song I make sure to emphasize the p to make sure no one mishears

Jiu-Jitsu 4 Odin facts

Jiu-Jitsu 4 Odin couldn’t agree more my friend.

You thought he said N****r word, because of a flag. Not everyone that has a Rebel flag is a Racist. Glad you looked up the lyrics so you could hear a white non racial man with a Rebel flag sing a tribute to a black man. Yes some white people are racist, just like their is some racist black people

@@bryanhale6018 we all know the song, our dads grew up listening to them and they became legendary after the plane crash in 1977, it killed the singer, Ronnie and the writer of every song they came up with. They always used the Rebel flag in their album covers and when they played live, they sing Sweet home Alabama and Free bird was their biggest hit. Ronnie's brother sings the songs Ronnie wrote now and they still use the Rebel flag. The song was about a white friend they had who would always get their glass coke bottles because Ronnie's family didn't believe in taking them to the store and cashing them in. They didn't need the money so let friends who had it harder go through their coke bottles. The guy who always got the bottles became their bodyguard when they started the band but Ronnie oneday said, I have a idea about the coke bottles. They went to their shed in the woods by the river and Ronnie already wrote the song but it didn't make sense so they changed the words to a black man they just made up. Their never was a Curtis Lowe but it was the blues so it had to be because blacks invited the blues. Sweet home Alabama was written because Neil Young wrote a song about this group because they always had a Rebel flag and Neil wrote a song called southern man and talked about when were they going to stop burning their crosses and listen to what ur good book says. When the band heard what he wrote, they had to respond. Just like a rapper would so they wrote sweet home Alabama. In the second verse they say, I heard Mr Young sing about her, I heard Ole Neil put her down. Well I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man doesn't need him around anyhow. The lost Ronnie in 1977 and Ronnie was like another 2pac, he wrote so many songs, when he died. His brother replaced him and they are still singing the songs to this day in concerts and the same songs Ronnie wrote. They don't have knew songs, nobody is a song writer but the band still lives on and he wrote so many hits, they don't need to sing any other songs and wasn't around but 5 years and Ronnie was gone, he was one of the ones who died in the plane crash but yea, they want play a concert if someone says u can't have a Rebel flag so anyone that books the band already knows that and they always sell out any concert they do, even now and Ronnie died in 1977

Actually the only person that saw through curtiss color was the singer. His mother beat him for seeing Curtis and no one showed up to his funeral. Also curtis died poor, implying lower status.

@Jiu-Jitsu 4 Odin no it's not . It's about a colored man who plays the blues. They say it in the documentary "If I Leave Here Tomorrow". Ronnie Van Zant didn't see color he saw music and

@@Tom-jn7id think he refused to "see color" ... kids "see" what they are taught, by watching or by being taught. Nelson Mandela said that if one can teach hate then they can teach love

Exactly

Yea his name was made up, change name to protect against lawsuits. I agree these were not racist, their use of that flag was mainly a sign they were from the south & was part of persona given to them by record company but they weren't against it because to them & most of us grew up in 60's-70's, it sidn't mean that to majority of people, the hate groups turned it into something ugly. When they played in Europe, people biught big confederate flags, they were on hats, belt buckles & shit. Tgey were proud to be from the south though & their music & others who had that sound became known as Southern Rock.

Well said

A lot of people see the flag as an anti government symbol. And I'm glad that its lost its south shall rise meaning. Race relation have a while to go for many. But not for me. Were american and were chillin.

People still do

David Howard BEAUTIFUL

@dabadadeeda So true

The best sounding guitar is the one thats crusty as fuck and smells like 20 years of alcohol and weed lol

Never heard the full story, I knew the man was real and so was their love for him and his amazing ability. Saw them in Fresno, Ca while in the Navy just a few months before they crashed on October, 20, 1977. It was my 20th birthday, have never been in a fight that I hurt so much afterwards. 44 years now on my birthday I raise a glass and tell Ronnie and the others that they were great and yhey are missed . Saw the remaining Members and Johnny doing vocals in Selma, Tx at the Verizon outdoor theater, it was great for concerts. They opened for Greg Allman, (Greg you don't follow Lynyrd Skynyrd) his music was great but we had nothing left to give. People were walking out, The Who found that out in Madison Square Garden that same thing from what I hear, don't care who you are, you don't want to follow Lynyrd Skynyrd. They take you to a level that when their done, your done. You are in a euphoric state is the best I can describe it, (for the record, Johnny sounds incredibly like Ronnie, but gives his brother all the praise and glory)

Curtis is fictional it was a tribute to all the old blues players including Ricky Medlocks grandfather Shorty

Lol no doubt

Wiley Coyote fuck that flag

Jiu-Jitsu 4 Odin ur wrong, that song isn’t racist

@@jagdawgii929 You are right. He doesn't know what he is talking about. After they sing "In Birmingham they love the Governor" the backup singers follow it up by saying "Boo Boo Boo"

@Jiu-Jitsu 4 Odin They were *booing* Wallace.

It's sad but he also wasnt a real person

Exactly!

@@jerryandrews3699 only if u are dumb as a bag of rocks I don't think the song was written before 1865 ,,come on now

@@marybright5630 Excuse me? I'd appreciate it if you could write in a complete sentence? Do you know anything about this song? The band?

People hear what they want to. He saw the confederate battle flag and automatically had a pre-determined view point.

fire1937 sad but true. Everyone is waiting with bated breath to be able to say something bad about another race

Shannon Pace. Hey now, I’m from this generation and I know that flag is not racist.

@@jakefisher9284 maybe not, but most of the ones who think it's racist, are from this generation.

Shannon Pace And from the shitty states like California

I'm not from this generation and I've known my whole life that this flag has represented racism. The only ones who seem to have missed the memo on this are white southerners because the black southerners knew this from the minute that flag went up a pole. Frankly it should have been banned as soon as the Confederacy surrendered. We don't fly any other government's flag on US soil and certainly not one of a country that took us to war and lost.

@@MaggieValera it's a battle flag

Lol I had to double check n pull up them lyrics

Fairly tape recordings were pretty bad its easy to mis hear lyrics on them

@@BabyDyce32 I immediately caught you too and was like he's bout to google the lyrics (shit that's what I'd do) and you went for your phone haha. The south in general gets a super bad portrayal usually from people who have never been there, let alone spent time there to where they are qualified to speak intelligently or accurately about the culture. I would contend the southeast has the friendliest people of anywhere on average and race relations are better because in the deep south, everyone is poor. Not just one group. Southerners, more so than in any other area, as blacks and whites, live next door to each other. Work together. Live TOGETHER. There are bad spots and bad folks of course but that's literally everywhere. I mean there are Nazis all over the west coast but no one just brushes Cali, Portland and Seattle off with a blanket determination of "just a bunch of racists, fuck them" like Hollywood and the media do to people living in the south.

I appreciate you. And yeah that's an on going theme on my channel, "we keep it real over here." If I heard something I'll tell you, but 100% of my reactions are genuine.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, that's why I do it. And yes, my mom is amazing.

I never mistook the word picker for any thing else. I don't think many people did

Yes

The song itself is about rhythm&blues at the same time it's about one of the band members grandfather bu the name of Shorty Medlocke

Lynard skynard not racist

ABSOLUTELY BROTHER.

Its lynyrd skynyrd and curtis loew is a made up person but one of the family members from a band member inspired the song

I too am from Jacksonville and I too thought he was saying “something else” when I first heard it. I knew LS to not be prejudice or fascist also and was taken aback when I thought I heard “something else”. Also, the confederate flag is not what many people think it is. It was for them a symbol of their southern pride.

No it didn't sound like that wash your ears out

Lisa Michelle your a fool... I was around in early skynard days and all their fans including them worse and rep the confederate flag.... the southerners were the originals on working with black people.... some of the worst racial tension events happened in the north back them

I’m 15 and I love the flag

jawhitaker09 thank you!

Funny...I literally just posted the same thing. Its propagamda to say its racist. The flag has a history the goes back way befor the slavery issue.

Its complicated!! Not that simple!! Most southern people were poor and 99% never owned slaves. They were brainwashed and brought into a war they did not start. The one part of that war that I have pride in is the fact that southerners however brainwashed out gunned and out manner fought like hell to the end. Also what people call the Confederate flag was never the Confederate flag. It was the flag they carried in battle. With that said...the song is a true story and what inspired Van Zant to be a musician. No Curtis Lowe no Ronnie Van Zant.

@@SacredWaves no it doesn't

“knew”..... it’s a great song, not sure they didn’t do that on purpose to get peoples attention? 😳 Smart move if that was the thought process... could be totally accidental though ?