*Having been a roadie for Lynyrd Skynyrd and having been to this crash site, Id like to say you did a great job on this presentation, on this holy ground!*

A couple of years ago my son sent me Simple Man via text to listen to."Mom, everytime I hear this song it reminds me of you." It meant alot to me as my adult son is a man of few words. My daughter's husband's father passed at a young age. His favorite song was Free Bird. Thanks Adam.

I remember arriving at school and hearing everybody talking about the crash. Skynyrd were pretty big amongst our student body and they were missed dearly. Nice job on this one guys. It still brings a tear to my eyes all of these years later.

great video,Woo. I still have my ticket for the Skynyrd concert that was to be held at Madison Square Garden NYC on November 10th. '77. I have it framed and hanging on my living room wall...it is one of my most cherished possessions.

I was little girl but remember being at the grocery store with my mom that day and the teenager who took our grocery bags out to our car for my mom looked as if he had been crying. My mom asked him if he was ok and he told her about the plane crash and he had just been to their concert. They were his favorite band. So sad! Amy ~Greenville, SC

That’s my granddads old gas station. My grandmother lives a few miles down the road and the family has the gas station sign. My dad has a ton of family still in the town and a lot of them were the first ones to make it to the crash site. (It’s also pronounced Gillsburg like Vince Gill).

Well done. The rain just adds to the tragedy and finality of what happened that evening.

Deb from Idaho~~~~~What a wonderful tribute this town has given to one of the best bands that there ever was. RIP Ronnie and your fellow band entourage. FREE BIRD!!!!!

Adam, I like the way you allowed the rain and the silence to commemorate their memory, instead of background music. Nicely done. Rest peacefully, all of you.

That is a very nice memorial they have made. I didn't expect to see it there, very respectful. Thanks for sharing!

I just visited this site February 15, 2020. I was headed down to Baton Rouge to see Blackberry Smoke in concert. This memorial of Lynyrd Skynyrd is beyond beautiful and it was even more special when I visited that day because the owner of the land that donated this site and another gentleman whom both were at the crash that night was there telling everyone their story of that fateful night. ❤️

The plane that crashed was an old converted Convair. It was owned by an airline, then Jerry Lee Lewis bought it and converted it to an Entertainers Aircraft. Basically, the plane was "worn out" from years of use, when Jerry Lee Lewis sold it to an aircraft leasing company in Dallas, Texas. This Aircraft had a lot of problems in it's last years. Notice there is no mention of the two pilots that died. It was their bad judgement to keep flying that piece of crap without proper maintenance that was a major determining factor in the crash and lost lives. Thanks for another great tribute video Adam. Excellent viewing.

A very respectful vlog to a great classic rock band. The nature sounds of wind & rain drops during the closing shots made for a somber, moving experience.

I didn't know that they built a memorial for them . That's nice . Gone too soon , but never forgotten . Sorry you guys got caught up in the rain . Thank you both for taking us along and sharing this video .

Great job guys!! An excellent vid paying tribute to the best Southern Rock Band to ever hit the stage. I loved LS and especially Ronnie. I bought Street Survivors on the day it was released. Saw em in concert in February of 77, and said goodbye in October of same year. Fly High Gang. You’re All Free Birds Now.. Much Love from NC.

I want to congratulate you, on over 440K. I've been around for a long time. I always give a thumbs up 👍, but no need to comment much. From Los Angeles California USA 🇺🇸 Mr. Hahn. Age 98

I remember about a month after the plane crash, a friend and I were shopping in the record department of Sears. I found a "Street Survivors" album with the original artwork (with flames around the band members). I was like "damn, I have to buy that". It's still in my album collection.

That is a nice looking memorial to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

When I was nineteen years old I was able to see Lynyrd Skynyrd during their "Gimme Back My Bullets" tour. This was in January of 1976, Corpus Christi TX, with the Outlaws as the opening act. I still have the concert flyer that I picked up at a Head Shop and it is framed, hanging up. That concert is in the Top 5 of the many that I have been to.Ed King had left the band and it was the "Two Guitar Attack " of Collins and Rossington. I still remember Ronnie Van Zany commenting that the stage was hot that night and that it was burning his bare feet. Man! When they closed with FREEBIRD the place came apart! Hearing FREEBIRD and GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES at the same show was something that you never forget if you loved Hard Rock Southern Rock and Metal, the way I did then AND STILL DO! i'm 62 now, got diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure a month ago and they tore down the Coliseum several years ago, but I still fly my FREAK FLAG and I have my own little memorial to Skynrd which are three bricks held together by mortar that came from the Coliseum where I got to see the GREATEST SOUTHERN BAND', THE BAND THAT STARTED IT ALL, LYNRYD SKYNYRD! STARS AND BARS FOREVER!!!🎸🎶🔊🤣🤘😝✊

What a beautiful memorial. I didn’t realize it even existed until seeing this.Thank you for making this video. Like many people of my generation, many of those songs were the soundtrack to our youth. Street Survivors is such a great album because the band was growing and getting better as each year passed. I was just listening to this album the other day and I often wonder what they would have been able to produce after this. The bands entire works are classic and would still be historic if they were still alive. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ronnie’s brother Johnny and Gary Rossington and all the players for keeping the band going for all these years.

Tuesday's gone with the wind. Life can change suddenly & we can never go back and undo the past. Thanks Adam for doing this, you always have such great vids.

Great homage to the band & what happened back in October of 1977. I remember just sitting in shock when the word came out. I was able to setup Lynyrd Skynyrd's stage in Dover for Big Barrel Festival. Still have photos of the equipment. Never felt prouder than I did that day. Everybody was busy doing the last minute change over from Firefly. They had a great set & we got them loaded out real quickly and shook all their hands as they left. Gary was glad we knocked it out and allowed them time to get rest before they left. Thank you for sharing this video. I've heard alot about the memorial but yet to see it even in pictures. 👊👍🤘.

Thanks Adam and Cody , i'm 65 years old and have wanted to visit the site for a long time, now i will go..... beautiful memorial..

Enjoyed the video. We were able to visit the site a while back with permission to recover artifacts related to the crash. The owners of the actual crash site are very protective of it and we were asked to keep watch for anyone trespassing. Currently we were also contact by band family members about some of those items being in an upcoming Skynyrd museum or other similar type of location. We displayed the relics free to the public for the first time last month in SC at a relic show.

Oh thank you two for going and filming this there. This means allot to us fans.

First time I have ever seen the memorial very nice. Thank you both.

Thank you from a Jacksonville FL native, the home of Lynyrd Skynyrd. 🕊

Beautifully done! Thanks for doing this video! And that memorial site is gorgeous! This has brought back a lot of memories. Again, thank you! God bless! 💞💞

Love the sound of the rain on your umbrella

Very nice memorial they have there. On a side note I don't know if everyone else commenting knows that some time before Lynyrd Skynyrd decided to use this plane there was another band that at some point had considered using it and ultimately decided not to. That band was Aerosmith. It is somewhat fitting that you are doing this video on a cloudy, rainy day.

Some of those band members were in the hospital where I was being born in McComb on the 22nd of that October.

Went to Allen Collins's home and met his mom. I sold her a cell phone many years ago. Didn't even realise who she was until I started noticing the gold records on the wall of her living room.

Beautiful memorial for a band the world loved so much. I am happy to have grown up listening to them and recall the tragic day when we got the news. Thank you for showing this and it was befitting the sky was crying at this sad place.

I had the pleasure of being at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert back in the 70s. I'm glad I got to see and experience the show. I wasn't disappointed. Thanks for taking us to this memorial site. Its beautifully done!

Wow I can't believe we've lost Elvis in August and Lynyrd Skynyrd 2 months later 77 was a rough year for rock and roll thanks to both of you awesome video God bless you both

Thanks for taking us there Adam.It’s a beautiful memorial to a great rock band.I still love their music.Long live Free Bird!❤️♥️💖

Thanks for your time in locating this and sharing it with the world.

This is crazy! I was just watching stuff about this last month. Skynyrd has been following me around since! Awesome video! RIP to all members that have passed on.

Adam....thanks so much for this video, they were my fav. Band back then! Always wanted to go to Gillberg, Ms to see this Memorial! Now, I’m disabled & can’t . Thanks!!! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Absolutely loved today's vlog! I'm a huge fan of Skynyrd

Thanks for posting this video, it still breaks my heart to this day and makes my eyes sweat over this tragedy as a fan since 74 when I first heard them, God bless them all and may they R I P

I was living in McComb, MS when the plane crashed. They flew fairly low over McComb on their way to Baton Rouge that night. A friend was playing football that night and said the plane flew low over the football field.

Thanks for posting. Had them in my cab when they were in Waterbury, Connecticut around 1976 to play the Palace Theater. Took them to a local rock bar to hang out. What a thrill for the crowd in there that night! Nice memory. So sad when I heard the plane went down.

I was in High school at the time. Living in the Deep South, this band is the Best band ever.

I was almost 7 years old when this happened. Not until I was an adult did I start loving this band and buying all their albums. I love every song they sing with the exception of maybe one. They'll always be my favorite rock band. Such a tragedy and loss. But thank goodness we will always have their music. I love the concert here on KZfaq that was recorded at Knebworth fair. It used to be the full concert video but now it's blocked. You can still watch it in parts. That was the best concert video of them imo. Smh

I love all their songs and they were and still is my favorite band! They forever will be!

Thank you for coming back with class and respect. Missed you.

You two need some rain gear! Don't get sick... Thanks for showing us this beautiful memorial. It is a true Monument to what was lost in Southern Rock.

Surprisingly that`s the first time I`ve ever seen this on the internet.

Something about the sound of the rain against that umbrella that’ll just put you to sleep

Glad for the Memorial recognizing one of the greats of Southern Rock and Roll! Thanks for taking the time to share this Adam (&Co-D)👌✌👍

If I recall, the weather that day in October 1977 was much like it was here; cold, wet and dreary. I'd just stumbled into my 1st period classroom at Biloxi High, a junior. We'd heard the news with shocked disbelief, not yet knowing the crash occurred in MS, only 150 miles away. For some reason, it made the tragedy even harder to bear. For those who paid for and built the memorial, many thanks. It's beautiful. And also, thanks guys for putting this video together.

That was a very somber and fitting tribute, Adam. The weather even added to the solemnity. EXCELLENT, guys. 💔

Great video. Showing (or just mentioning) the last prices on those gas pumps would've added historical ambiance. As for the ending, my l;ate grandfather once said, "That which is unsaid often speaks the loudest."

Wow, that is a beautiful memorial!! Thanks for all these awesome videos Adam & Cody, I'm loving it.

Lynyrd Skynyrd.. Great Drinking Music !! I'm really glad that someone created these very nice memorials. I went there a long time ago, while in the area, but everything was off limits and gated up. R.I.P Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Thank you two Gentlemen for your great effort bringing too us the memorial shown here.I'm 79yrs and i watch the video of free bird at the Oakland Colosseum at least twice a year.⌚ran⌛for these folks way too soon.🗽🗽🗽

The most beautiful way to pay tribute to a great band, May their Music Live on, gentlemen thank you for posting this video

I’ve been so sick the last few days and binge watching your videos. You have a very good and soothing delivery and go to very interesting places. Thank you for helping me keep my mind off how bad I feel Adam & Cody

The memorial to the Lynyrd Skynyrd band members is just about perfect. I had forgotten how young they all were......

Wow the rain sets the ambiance for this vlog. What a tragedy. My mom watched with me and told me the day this happened her and a lot of her friends left work to smoke a joint for those lost in the crash. Free Bird is my most favorite song by them. Great great song

This was awesome. They were the soundtrack to my high school years. Rest in peace. You're still missed.

Adam & Cody thanks for sharing this video. Beautiful tribute to a great band.

I have one of the original copies of "Street Survivors", which were recalled shortly after the crash. That cover had a picture of the band and flames engulfing the buildings all around them. Quite a tragic foreshadowing of their untimely demise.

Thanks Adam. They did a nice job on the memorial. I was in my early 20's then, like about everyone my age was really into Skynyrd and was crushed to hear the news. I especially liked Steve Gaines guitar playing, although he wasn't with them long before the crash he was amazing, great style, clean, flawless live. They toured relentlessly in those days so I saw them after every album release/tour. I have a lot of favorite Skynyrd tunes, actually, I can't think of a pre-crash Skynyrd song I don't like.

Thank you for showing this

Thank you very much Adam, as a big Lynyrd Skynyrd fan. Very respectful. You're a gentleman, and your videos are a joy. Best wishes!

I remember that tragic event, how sad. One of my favorite bands from the 70s. Glad you guys could stop there and pay your respects

I remember that Sad day like it was yesterday.They will always be my favorite band.!

Beautiful memorial for the band members who perished that fateful day. Sad day. One of my favorite song of theirs is Sweet Home Alabama. Thank you for doing this. CO-D being a real trooper. Stay safe on the road.

Thx for this ❤ some of the best music came from that band and love the memorial

*Thanks guys for doing this video, a lot of us really, really appreciate it*

Wow, that is one of the nicest memorials I've ever seen.

I saw them at soldiers field almost 3 months before the crash The best concert I’ve ever been to!!! Will never forgot that show Rest In Peace brothers Freebird still fly’s on😢😢😭😭

This is the kind of vlogs I like not going to theme parks, Adam and Cody were not even alive when Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed. Thanks for letting us see things that we would never see.

Thank you so much for this video. I grew up a Skynyrd fan thanks to my dad. From an early age, I remember him telling me and my sister is that Lynyrd Skynyrd is the greatest band ever to live, die and rise again. And that is the truth! Skynyrd is in my blood and in my heart and I am so thankful you have done this video as I will probably not be able to get my dad there to see it in person. Thank you!!!! My favorite Skynyrd songs are Call Me the Breeze, I Never Dreamed, and The Ballad if Curtis Loew.

I was overseas in the Air Force and had bought their latest album with the infamous cover showing the band on fire before it was pulled. I don't know how rare it is but I'll never sell it.

Sweet Home Alabama is my ringtone on my phone....has been for many years. Will never change it. Love that song.

Another of one of your best videos. Thanks Adam.

With the rain falling when you guys are not speaking, it sounds like a record player without voice playing. Love this video. Thanks.💝💝💝

Great vlog Adam and cody you know when you can have a laugh and you know when not to say alot at all thak you for doing this with the respect it deserves

Now Adam... You know that this is going to be one of your biggest videos ever.... but I forgot... you already knew this.... Great job guys.

Wow! Such a beautiful memorial! Thankyou for sharing this with us!

Thank you adam and cody. It was awesome to see that. I am fan of Skynyrd. Have been since I was a teenager in the 90's. It was beautiful thing to see that memorial. Thanks again Adam.

One of my first jobs I ever had was working a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert selling live cuts of their music on CDs when EMI music had the rights to it. The band which opened before them was Allman Bros who are really awesome in their own right. Anyway, even from where I was stationed away from the pavillion, their music sounded as good live as it did over the radio.

A couple of weeks or months before the Skynyrd crash, the guys in Aerosmith rejected that very same plane - they didn’t trust the pilots (who died in the crash).

I’ve been watching you for years and you’re still as awesome as ever. God bless you Adam. 😎😊🙏

Speechless. Very, very well done. You know... The Good,... they do die young! Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us, great job in your presentation, very moving. R. I. P. L. S.

Never knew this existed, so cool, but so sad. Simple Man & Gimme three steps are my favorites. Thanks for this tour.

The sound of the rain and hearing Simple man in my head gave me chills... Thank u ATW

Thanks for that video. Friends and Brothers I never met but felt like I knew. Long live the Lynyrd Skynyrd band and the music that lives on.

This was very well done. Again, your closing shots are wonderful with the rain pattering away.

The Ballard of Curtis Lowe is my favorite song ever

Skynyrd was supposed to play in Evansville , Indiana a few days later on Saturday , my buddy still has his tickets . They were $ 4.50 in advance , $ 5.50 day of show . R.I.P. all .

I loved this video! I love Lynard Sknyard. One of my favorite bands. They will always live on in fans hearts!

Fitting weather for the visit-thank you, Adam and Cody!

Based on the Pepsi machine at the gas station selling at 45 cents, I’d say the gas station closed around 1980-1983. I can recall canned soda prices in vending machines going up to 50 cents around 1984.

im glad codys still with this channel

Many thanks, a powerful video. .....delivered with tremendous respect and admiration. Well done.

You guys did a great job with this one. The respect you had for the site was obvious. I was a senior in high school Oct. ‘77, and a big fan. I have rolled past Gillsburg on I-55 many times over the years, but never thought about trying to reach the site, usually because I was on business travel. Would sure like to someday.