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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
I've heard that story before. I watched the LS documentary on Prime(?) a while ago.
Take a look at this one:
https://youtu.be/QxIWDmmqZzY
One of the greatest live performances I've ever seen on video. The guitarists played as one, with perfect synergy and pure rock and roll joyousness. And did they ever know how to close a song! I wish I'd been old enough to go to a show. Best comment in the comments section, referring to the numerous crowd pans of young ladies in various states of undress was "Our grandmas were hot." Our grandmas? More like our older sisters. Sic transit gloria mundi. |
That is a great clip. I had a few friends back in day who were lucky enough to see the original Skynyrd live in Gainesville Florida. (I believe it was Gainesville?) I forget who all opened for them or who also played during this festival but it was full of southern fried rock bands according to my friends. 38 Special, The Outlaws maybe?
Anyways, I'm curious if you ever heard/read about the story of Skynyrd opening for the Rolling Stones back in 76 at Knebworth?
According to the story, the crowd was rather bored, forlorn and sleepy, but that all changed when Skynyrd came on and woke them up.
All the bands had strict instructions from Mick not to go out on "The Tongue" but of course Ronnie, being the southern rebel he was, paid no attention to that during the playing of Freebird.
(You can see him pushing Collins and Rossington out onto the tongue even though they are resisting because they knew the rule then he directs Gaines to come down as well)
The following acts, once Skynyrd were done their set, were afraid to follow Skynyrd because they knew it was a very tough, if not an impossible act to follow. They all let a major amount of time pass before they did decide but it didn't matter, according to the story, as no one came close to rocking the place like Lynyrd Skynyrd did, even the Rolling Stones, who played their longest set ever.
https://willhearn.com/2019/10/04/leg...-at-knebworth/
https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgewo...ic-performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7bkVxBXdA