It’s not country or rockabilly. It’s Southern Rock❤

I grew up in that era, and I do believe most people considered this to be Southern Rock

As a northener raised by a southern mama the Confederate Flag just represents southern pride, it has nothing to do with hate just love for the south and southern ways.

Damn...there is no preparing someone for hearing that epic guitar solo for the first time. Iconic af. ♥

You asked so…The Rebel flag, for me, is Southern pride-proud, happy, blessed to be born and raised in the South. I don’t want anyone offended, oppressed or discriminated against! I love all people. AND I am an American first.

In 1975, I was a young Marine stationed in the Philippines. I met a young girl there, and our favorite club had a band that closed out each night with Free Bird. As you can imagine, that song struck a special chord with me, as I was beginning to feel very close to that little girl. Every night we were there we danced to that song. To make a long story short; I'm 68 years old now. We were married 45 years and raised two fine men. She died three years ago, and I can't listen to that song without tears running down my face. But you'll never see me turn it off.

Lyrnyrd Skynyrd is Sothern Rock, I was introduced to it in 1970's when I lived in Jacksonville, FL. I actually met Ronnie VanZant (lead singer) when he worked in a auto parts store there. He invited me to the Enlisted men's club at NAS Jax, where I was stationed; as they were playing there on the weekends. I did go and was amazed by that band. They finally released their first album "Smokin" in 1973. I purchased that album produced in a studio but admit that the live performances were the best. All of them are dead now except the drummer. The guy playing slide guitar Gary Rossington died last year. Many were killed or injured in a plane crash. They are part of my history, them and the Allman Brothers band of which I think you would love also. Anyway I thoroughly enjoy your show and glad that the Rappers are now enjoying what we Baby Boomers grew up on. 😁

Those lyrics - If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me - breaks my heart knowing that was just a few months before the plane crash ❤️💔😓

Lynyrd Skynyrd is a "Southern Rock" band, from Jacksonville, FL. They took their name after their high school gym teacher, Leonard Skinner. The band was in a plane crash three months after this performance. The singer, one of the guitarists, and (that guitarist's sister) a back-up singer died in the crash. They have a deep catalog, and are worth checking out further. Thanks.

To us Southerners, the confederate/rebel flag represents Southern pride, nothing more, nothing less! Always America first! 🇺🇸

Livin' in the 70's - Northern states - we only thought of confederate flag as the Rebel flag, and did not associate it with supremacists. It represented anyone who rebelled to the "norm" - being told what to do. Being independent. But that was the '70's up North.

Not a cell phone in sight. Just love and the music. This is what America is all about in its heart. Back in the 70's everyone was listening to the same songs at the same time.. Casey Kasem was America's DJ and when a song played the whole country was listening together. You don't see this now, 1000's of ways to listen to music. There will never be a time like the 70's again.

For most southern people the Confederate flag just stands for southern heritage and pride….nothing to do with racism or hatred…and back in the 70’s we just all got along!

My mom went to this concert. Says to this day it is her favorite live show she has ever seen. Still iconic

The vinyl original recording is long as well. It's Southern Rock. The long simultaneous twin and bass guitar solos were also on the original recording. You can hear echoes of the double guitar style riffs in another brilliant band from the South, the incomparable Allman Brothers, who also lost members in an accident. Skynnard pianist was classically trained. These boys were fiercely loyal to their music.

We were on the way to Lynard Skynard concert ..when it came over the radio..that their plane crashed. I was crushed, I loved Ronnie, barefoot singing his ass off. I still have that concert ticket.. loved them, the best.

I'm homesick for the 70's. Love, peace, and rock'n'roll. That whole crowd is stoned on good Ole Mexican weed. I miss it! 😢

The great thing about '70's music is, we had it all. Rock, southern rock, ballads, folk, country, early hip hop and a whole lot if crossover

Ronnie, Gary, and Alan all attended and met at Robert E. Lee High school in Jacksonville Florida they took their name from a high school teacher/coach Leonard Skinner who suspended them because of their long hair. The flag is simply a demonstration of regional southern pride. It was a well desired and designed flag but they were not overtly prejudiced. Listen to the Ballad of Curtis Loew. Most of the boys are now buried in Jacksonville about 5 miles from where I survived 3 emergency open heart surgeries in 2012. Redneckognize musical brilliance when you encounter it. Talent like theirs is worthy of respect, praise, and admiration.

As a Southerner that was born and raised in Alabama, the “rebel flag” represents our heritage and our ancestors. Not hate, racism or anything else. It’s the same as representing your state flag but it’s a collective southern pride for us. We’re Americans first, just southern Americans. Lynyrd Skynyrd was a play in their high school janitor. His name was Leonard Skinner. The category of music would be southern rock.

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Skynyrd is the epitome of Southern Rock. Them, along with The Allman Brothers are the icons of that special sub genre of rock n roll.

This band born and raised in southern Florida, USA 😊, southern rock ❤

SOUTHERN ROCK!!!! Southern Rock!!! This is a 70’s band love and peace baby!!

This is Classic SOUTHERN ROCK!

I was one of the lucky ones that was 17 in 1977. Man did we all come up on some good rock and roll. Those were the days

One of the most iconic guitar solos. Rip.. gone to soon

Southern Rock and as far as the genre goes, you're at the pinnacle right here my friend. These guys. This song. You said it all when you said "America first".

My mom was in th crowd and said it was love, peace, joy and love. No hatred or fighting and almost everyone had a dubbie in hand. An era of music history that will never come again. The confederate flag to me and most everyone i know means southern pride, hospitality and consideration. Like saying please and thank you, opening doors for strangers, getting something off the top shelf for someone who can not reach, and saying ma'am and sir. Kindness to others is always the thing to do.

Billy Powell was a roadie for them, and one day he sat down and played what became the opening music to Freebird. The band heard it, and made him the full time keyboard player.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was a southern band from Florida and it just showed a little southern pride; nothing more. That performance was in Oakland over a thousand miles away and the crowd loved them.

I was there , attended so many “ Day on the Green”. The best music ever! Everyone was just there for the music and everyone was kind. We were tripping over bodies and packed like sardines but no one cared, it was all love.

Sad to know that all the band members on this stage are no longer with us except for drummer Artimus Pyle. Legendary band. RIP to them all. ❤🕊❤🕊❤

Anyone else missing Billy Powell like crazy right about now? I mean the amount of talent on that stage is insane

Lynryd Skynyrd was from Jacksonville FL, hence the rebel flag. The guitar solo at the end is know for being epic. I have a version of the song that is 17 minutes. The album version is 7 or 8 minutes. This is Southern Rock

The best thing about being born in the 70s is that we didn't really have just 1 genra that we belong to. We loved all kinds of music.

These young girls are now great grandmas!

This is Rock and Roll, Southern Style. Free Bird is an anthem.

The genre is Southern rock and Skynyrd’s hometown of Jacksonville, FL was the epicenter. Along with Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, and Blackfoot all came out of Duval

Okay... NOW you're in my wheelhouse!! *I was front and center* for this show!!! 😊 This is the famous footage of this concert that's used in several documentaries. You can get a copy of this concert from *Wolfgang's Vault* AND, best of all... *I was there!!!* (This is "Southern rock," as is CDB Charlie Daniels band, Rock-A-Billy is more elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Stray Cats, etc.). It's one of the "Day on the green" concert series put on at the Oakland coliseum for years and this one was extra special as it was 4th of July weekend and there were *FOUR bands* that day... The opener was *Santana* followed by *The Outlaws* (Green grass and high tides forever) then *Skynyrd* played an amazing set (as seen here! 😊) and finally, *Peter Frampton* played and it was his release of "Frampton comes live.". I was about 20 feet from the stage when they were playing!! 😊 The concert was an all day affair and it cost us the (then obsurd) price of *$8.50* for advanced tickets, there was *no way* I was paying the $12 gate fee... That's ridiculous! 😊 Lynyrdd Skynyrd is a play on the name of their highschool gym teacher,whom they hated and always gave them a bad time. Their revenge?? Him seeing and hearing them/his name thrown in his face everytime he turned around. 😊 This was right before the famous plane crash that took out several members of the band. I've seen them several times since over 50 years and it's never been anything but good but, it's really the "cover band" over the years as Ronnie was the driving, creative force. But, they've persisted and still draw a huge audience and usually toured with ZZ Top, a great pairing. 😊

The whole generation of Southern Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker and many more. They were the southern, northern, eastern, western didn't matter where you were from more of the home town life of the rural people of the USA that connected on a whole lifestyle level. Rock ON!

I'm 70 years old and I've seen LS 4 times in concert in my life. And this song is always this long. We wouldn't want it any other way. Oh, the good old days.

I grew up with Lynyrd Skynyrd, THANK YOU for covering this.

Nothin could beat that 4 guitar army attack!! Legends! 👍😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯

I am 74 now. In the 50's I was young; in the 60's I was fine: In the 70's i was in my prime. I spent my life going from show to show feasting on the next new music. how lucky was I?

lmfao, look at all those beautiful great grandmothers in the front of the crowd

I feel so fortunate that I was in the generation that got to see the original bandmates of Lynyrd Skynyrd live in concert. P.S. ITS SOUTHERN ROCK

Love your channel. 58 years old and love your reaction to the music I grew up with. You’re the kind of person I’d love to have a beer with. As for the flag, it means nothing more than being a rebel to this crowd. I get the sensitivity and have come to understand it as I get older. But, we’ve made it more that what it was in this video.

I’m 64, I was 16 and saw them in Washington DC. Hey! We’re Grandparents now.. we had some serious fun in the 70’s..,no cell phones! Not needed. We Remember!

That's how we rolled in the 70's on the Day on the Green. LOTS of bands, an entire day of music. Was there, loved this one. Great memories, lots of sunburns.

It's not the Confederate flag, it's the Battle Flag of the Army of Tennessee. The actual Confederate flag, was very different. Tennessee's Battle Flag was, for many years, nothing more than a symbol of the spirit of southern people, including a significant number of black communities, to overcome adversity - the pride of a people. When Nathan Bedford Forest, and his cronies, created the KKK, one of their first raids was of a community flying the flag. The flag was taken, and kept, as an insult, turning it into a symbol - for both sides. The KKK carried it as an insult. The rest of the south carried/displayed it for what it really was, a symbol of the pride and spirit of all southerners, regardless of race, creed, religion, sex, etc. That's still how the vast majority of those of us from the south view the flag. We're Americans, and we proudly fly Ol' Glory, high. A bit below, but with equal pride, we fly that old battle flag.

I saw them just before graduating high school in May of 1976 at UCSB campus stadium. They were awesome. So glad I got to experience the original band lineup!

I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd live two years before Ronnie was killed. Such an awesome performance. The stadium was sold out but there were so many people outside we could hear them singing along. You left us, Ronnie, but we still remember you, freebird.

What is the meaning behind the song Free Bird? Van Zant replied that in essence, that the song is "what it means to be free, in that a bird can fly wherever he wants to go." He further stated that "everyone wants to be free...that's what this country's all about." The song is dedicated to the memory of Duane Allman by the band in their live shows.

That is what made the whole 70's and 80 's the best. They knew there audience and played it up.

The 70 was the Best music ever!

This is my era, and this is the one song that no matter what you were doing, when this song came on, you stopped whatever you were doing, cranked it up as loud as you could and rocked out. And if you were driving, no matter where you were going, you just drove baby, even if it meant you overshot your destination, or you were late to where you were going, it didn't matter, you just kept driving until it ended! ❤

I was privileged to see the last concert they played before the plane crash😢 They were fantastic! I’m a 68 year old “white” woman. The Confederate flag does stand for southern heritage, as others have said. Also, in the 70’s,80’s black and white were fine with each other. My dad was in the Air Force, we moved every 2 years we played with Everyone. No Racism. Period. We lived literally with every race, even in Italy. My dad taught us to look at each person as a person, not color. This new generation has their feelings on their shoulders, and get their feelings hurt about everything! Grow up People, we are all the same.

Watching the bass player is a total mind fck.✌️

Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Their name comes from one of their school teachers who was named Leonard Skinner

"Call Me The Breeze " is the BEST Lynyrd Skynyrd song ever. You absolutely cannot sit still when it's on! 🥳💯💣💥👌

Played this while taking my brother off life support. Cant hear it without tears now. I listen anyway because its great music.

This what you call a good time! No labels needed.( rock, country southern rock,,,etc) If you dont move when this is played, regardless of your age, you are dead.

These guys played live so well because they practiced like madmen. I'll never forget the album cover with fire engulfing some of the plane crash victims killed. They had to change it after their deaths. Anybody with that original album has a goldmine...if they even want to part with it. I know I wouldn't. oh yeah, Southern Rock EPIC!! STILL 50 years later

Lynryd Skynrd was the best rebellious SOUTHERN ROCK band in the world! When they were killed in 1977 I was 19 and cried for a week. We had the best music EVER!❤

One thing, if you had listened to the studio version first, you would have missed the piano solo as Billy Powell wasn't part of the band then. He later hired on as a roadie and one night while tearing down, he spotted a piano, sat down and started playing, saying he would add that to Free Bird. Turns out he was classically trained and was hired as full time pianist on the spot.

Well, since you asked ... I was born in Jacksonville, Florida and moved to Bluffpoint, New York when I was in the 6th and 7th Grades. Then we moved back to Jacksonville. To me the Confedate Flag is just to show my pride of being from the South.

They recorded this song with the big guitar solo….it was a huge hit! Everyone cranked up the volume when it was played on the radio.

In the 80s we called it southern rock here!! When my step dad passed away...we played it when everyone left the gravesite! His Harley setting on the graveside! Bittersweet! Thank you! Hope you enjoyed!!

My parents went to school with them back in the 60’s. My uncle played with them when they started. I’ve been a fan my whole life of Skynyrd!!!

It was like that everywhere,i yearn for those days... peace,love

Future great grandma's...all natural, no tats!!!! Love it!!!!

Lynyrd Skynyrd was Southern Rock. Not Rockabilly. Doobie Brothers were also Southern Rock. Molly Hatchett. ZZ Top. Allman Brothers. The Marshall Tucker Band. I am a child of the 70's! Best decade of music ever. Free Bird was my high school class graduation song back in 1979. Our class was huge for those days and fractured by "cliques" but we were never going to change. We were leaving, but would they ever remember us? I also danced to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man with my son at his wedding in 2016. My words to my son. This band has been one of my faves for almost my entire life. .... You ask what the Rebel Flag means.. it is just that.. the "Rebel" Flag and represents southern nonconformity and southern heritage. Those of us who grew up with that flag do not connect it to slavery. Times are changing. Back then - US Flag, Texas Flag (sometimes before the US Flag) - all of the variations, Rebel Flag.

Yep oldies now from the 1970’s! This was my time, graduated 1977! ❤

The dude goes off on a 8 minute rock solo to top all rock solos. Just lettin' his fingers do the talkin'. And the solo works at every stage with the chords pushing the background sound. insane!

It’s sad to think that just months later the whole bands life’s were changed forever, not just the loss of Ronnie, Steve and Cassie but the physical and emotional impact that took them a decade to recover from. I’ve always enjoyed being able to go online and revisit this moment.

Try not to break everything into "genres". This is just killer music, and it's rock and roll ! Technically, it's known as "Southern Rock", and Skynyrd is the # 1 Southern rock band there ever was, and one of the greatest bands of all time. This is the greatest live performance in all of history, and these 90,000 people were fortunate enough to be there.

I just found this great reaction I was at this concert and when this song came on it was so loud in the stadium stadium it was the best concert I ever went too thanks for a great memory

My husband jokes that Freebird is the DJs go to the potty song 😂😂😂’

Lynyrd Skynyrd was their Jim teacher in Highschool he hated their long hair but he soon became their biggest fan.

Greatest musical solo in history! 50 years later, 1//2 the guitar stores out there STILL have signs saying "NO FREEBIRD" !

- 'SOUTHERN ROCK', baby! :) - Extended jams are part of the genre, along w/ multiple lead guitarists "dueling/battling". - "What song is it you wanna hear?... 'FREEBIRD'!" - Your "gawking" in amazement/confusion was priceless. Great reaction :)

😊😊😊😊 always wait for the eyes bulging when the guitars come on! Cracks me up every time....does anyone else say "wait for it.....wait for it.....then hooked another one!"

Legendary!!!!!!!!!! Great great great band......!!!!!!!🤗😪

Btw, that solo was so iconic imho because when you have the guitars all jamming out full throttle and you feel like it is all out of control and then everyone syncs back up and then drives forward again right before it all falls apart. Amazing, to be that trusting in your partner in ANY situation. That too is Southern.

Members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash. Lead vocalist and founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist and vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, Captain Walter McCreary and First Officer William John Gray all died as a result of the crash12. The rest of those onboard suffered various injuries, the majority of them severe2.

Watching this on your channel. Leonard Skynyrd is a southern rock band, and if you know your American history, the north and the south went to war at one time, the civil war . I believe the confederate flag for them is representing the south . AGREE, RESPECT OUR AM AMERICAN 🇺🇸 ♥️♥️♥️

My most favorite band of all time. So many of their songs had meaning back in 70’s. All these songs by this group were written while these guys were in their early 20’s. Most stations didn’t want to play a song this long, the band said play it like it is. It’s a love song. They toured with the “Who”. They didn’t know the piano player could play, he was a roadie, who sat down at keyboard. The Rebel flag was just a flag that represented the South, nothing more. From Tennessee, go Vols, just won CWS. Skynrd played a 45 minute version of “Free Bird” in Memphis at outdoor concert.

Thank you BP for playing the anthem of my generation. Southern Rock at its absolute best. Play their song Simple Man or The Ballard of Curtis Lowe sometime. They were so good. The original band members are all gone now, but they are not forgotten. Leonard Skinner was their gym teacher from high school. The flag is a symbol of Southern pride in general.

The flag meant FREEDOM to them. Listen to the documentary and Ed King explains it. Thanks for loving this song as much as I do and have for 50 years ❤️

Lynyrd Skynyrd was Southern Rock all the way the 70"s rocked the best.

My forearms always ache in sympathy with the drummer after hearing this song.

You're authenticity is the reason I love this channel so much!!

God I miss the 70’s!! Everything started falling apart in the 80’s. 😢 Thanks for reacting to this!!! 👏👏👏

Your appreciation of music is awesome! Love your channel and your insight on different genres really pulls you into the music and appreciate it more !!!

I was born & raised in Middle TN & I grew up listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their genre is Southern Rock. You need to read their back story, very tragic! As far as the confederate flag it represents the south. Nothing more. Loved your reaction & your channel! Much love! ❤️

It amazes me when someone has never heard 'Freebird' either by Lynyrd Skynyrd or just even if it gets yelled out at a concert during a break, "Freebird!" With your lighter held up. But maybe I'm too old? RIP RVZ and all. This is classic southern rock.

About 8 of us were going to be at the concert, the plane crashed on the way to our concert. I still remember the disbelief and broken heartedness I felt, as did we all. RIP to those who were lost 🙏 💔

That's called... SOUTHERN ROCK form the 70's!

It also was the beginning of dueling guitars. I was at that concert it was truly amazing.