Allen Collins was pure energy onstage..he ALWAYS looked like he was having fun. (which made paralysis especially cruel) No one deserves that..but for the most exciting guy...who couldn't find any peace...from suffering...it breaks my heart. When I hear Skynyrd he's the first one I think of.
Donamtrx..You aint kiddin brother.., Allen Collins was a pure force of nature, Ohhh but, GODDAMN HE COULD PLAY THAT GIBSON, (or Fender if need be..), LIKE A PILLAR OF FIRE. !!!!! ..AWWW DAMN..WHAT A BAND..!!!!! 🙏🎸L.S.🎸🙏
It had to be HELL for poor Allen , but he MANED up and proved to be the artist he was by being the musical director for that first reunion tour after the faithful ✈️ crash . R.I.P. A.C. ✊🏼 ✌️
@@dzyanist MY goodness, when I think what LS did musically in their basically short run ! CAN you imagine WHAT 🎵 🎸 was to come !! What HUMBLE, Musical 🎸 geniuses these brothers, and sistas were and ARE ! Gary still goin 💪! R.I.P. to rest of the good ole boys from Boston 💪
So true. I know he was always a crazy man behind the wheel, before he got into music, he wanted to be race car driver & heard several friends say, you were takin your life into his hands when you got into car he was driving. I know some people have no sympathy for him, he brought it on himself but he paid the ultimate price the last time, not death because he probably would,have peeferred that but to be paralyzed, to not be able to even pick up a guitar, much less play one & then yo tour with the guys & have to go out on stage & talk abt his story, tgat he killed a person while impared & this was result. I think it was Gene Odom that said he would lay tough guy while out there but then went to side of stage to watch the guys play & tears would just roll down his face just makes me cry. I hope he is up there reunited with his friends playin together again & just waiting for Gary's time for the band to be complete again, he & Gary were really soul mate friends if that nakes sense & I know it has to be rough for Gary to go out & play w/o them all. Love these guys
''Gimme back my bullets'' is a great album, lots of good cuts on here, ''Every mother's son'', ''Searchin'', ''Cry for the bad man'', everything that band put out was great, I don't know, maybe it's just me being a die-hard fan.
They had albums filled with good songs. Not a filler tune like so many albums you could buy back in the 70's. Some albums had only one good song and the rest were junk. Skynyrd gave you all good songs.
I loved that album and the songs were good and pretty simple. I learned a lot of them as a young learning guitarist. I was getting pretty good but I wasn't real good. It wasn't that hard to figure the songs out. Like the first album. Second helping was pretty intense. You could here the progression in the 3 guitar attack. I loved nuthin fancy also. I think Bullets and Fancy are my two favorites.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American Icon. They are the sound of the South. They are without doubt the Greatest Rock n Roll band to ever come out of America. May their music live on forever.!!!!!!!
ya i agree with that statement. Them and Bob Seger represent American music based on geography for me. Seger north and LS the south. Total icons. I am Canadian and thats American music too me. The Band is our iconic band that makes us proud.
Listening to Gary telling the story of how Billy Powell becomes Skynyrd’s pianist (starts at 12:41) and I am all choked up. It makes my heart race and I just shake my head at what a shame it is they were stopped in their tracks at the height of their career. Billy Powell changed their music incredibly and his beautiful piano playing, I believe, propelled Skynyrd forward with such strength. I wish I had made the effort to meet Billy Powell before he left this earth. God bless him and God bless them all.
Thank God Gary Rossington has such a good memory. I saw them so many times in the 70’s. I can’t believe how much I took it for granted at that time. The 70’s were like a blur to a lot of us…not for Gary Rossington. He is THE historian for us all. God Bless him.
No Bull When Skynyrd started off rehearsing in the Hell House they played all their instruments through one amp and bought more amps as soon as they earned the money from gigging It really was a rags to riches story 👍🏻
I love you guys...I from Jacksonville...I wish Ronnie knew how much we did love him. I saw them at St. Peppers on the corner of Atlantic and University...those were the days.
A FRIEND OF MINE FROM JAX, TOLD ME THAT JAX WAS NOT A ROCK AND ROLL LOVING TOWN TO ME GIMMIE BACK MY BULLETS ALBUM WAS GREAT, I LOVE EVERY SONG ON IT,, NO MATTER HOW MANY GUITAR PLAYERS THEY HAD GARY AND ALLEN DID A FINE JOB THERE, THE SONGS WERE GREAT, , TO ME ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD IS AS GOOD AS THE ALLMAN BROS. AT THE FILLMORE EAST, ALBUM, HANDS DOWN MAN, THANK YOU GUYS FOR SAVING THE FOX,,COUSIN FIGEL
@@monsterpoppies5225 it was too good to be true, What could have been? Figures, at least there's recordings, Take care, live long and do right, or at least try.
Wow I didn't know Steve stayed out of some songs at the Fox - (I've done it before myself with members of Pig Vomit) But their T for Texas alone was worth the wait!!
One More From the Road has always been my favorite. I had the fold out album and listened to it over and over, closing my eyes and trying to imagine I was actually there.
WOW!!! I always assumed Leon was fired by Ronnie before the release of the 1st album. I never would have guess it was to get a regular job at a dairy.LOL
Skynyrd came out during my high school days I was into 1974-77 outdoor jam parties, non fires tailgating getting stoned drinking bud strohs and miller pony’s trying making out with girls in back of the van just jammin. One more from the road all day everyday much more important than school or college at the time sex drugs rock n roll
I just listened to a January 1977 Skynyrd interview in which Ronnie said that they had originally planned to record their live album at the Rainbow Theatre in London but it closed for refurbishment so they ended up at The Fox.
Steve wouldn't have been in Skynyrd very long. He would have his own band. He like Hendrix was very humble and not an aggresive person. Ronnie knew Steve was a natural front man kick ass singer writer and player. I am blessed I got to play with him.
⚘🍁🍂.."God Bless him" is right..GOD BLESS EM ALL..!!! Where did the fuckin time go ??.. They say, you never know what you have, til you lose it.., Thats damn right, man.. damn right.. 😞..🎸
I don't think leon was the "original" bass player. As a matter of fact I know he wasn't. I'm sure I'm not the only one aware of that. Am I? Larry Junstrom. I think. Anyway 7-10-74 columbia sc. Greatest concert ever. leon was there.
@@redrock717 Ed King played bass on the first album. Leon came back the day sweet home Alabama was written for the Second helping album. Larry Junstrom was the original bass player. he later joined 38 special.
The songs on Gimme Back My Bullets were fine....the reality is the production just wasn't great...Tom Dowd was a genius but by that time he'd lost his touch. The recording sounds distant... especial the drum sounds....a serious drop-off from the previous albums. Dowd also started out withe Street Survivors album and everything had to be remixed with some help from Ed King. It is what it is.
@@rustybird8803 Hey bro. You took my wrong. I've been defending the Dixie Flag publicly since they wanted to get rid of it. Born and raised in the south. Defend it to the end. LIve and die in Dixie. Amen.
Grew up going to different schools together with these guys. I did the same thing, collecting soda bottles and taking them to the Winn Dixie on US1 in Miami back in the 60-70's. 😂 Kicked out of Miami Palmetto in 1974ish, BUT I did go back and with summer school and night school, sadly cheating, I graduated with my class in 78. Miami was great to grow up in back then, Not so today. May they All Rest in the Peace of Jesus 🙏 Viva Cristo Rey 🙏
What does Ronnie say in the live recording on "T for Texas" as he introduces Steve Gaines and Leon quotes it after they talk about it sounds something like "Watch out or we'll stick an okie on em". Anyone know what this means or what he says?
I would have to disagree with that on the Gimme Back My Bullets album!!! I'd first bought the album on cassette tape back in 1992 and it was a great album!!!! The fans of Lynyrd Skynyrd should had bought it when it first came out in 1976!!!! I'd bought the remastered CD back in 2004!!! I've got all of the Skynyrd albums with Ronnie Van Zant as lead vocals on CD!!!!
The day that plane crash soul of the Lynyrd Skynyrd sound died the last time I saw a good representation of the band was win the album 20 came out Huey Thommason Ricky Medlock Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson we’re still alive and the drummer was Owen Hale and let me tell you folks he would piss all over Delmer I would not spend one dime going to see this band today especially without Gary in the lineup WTF it’s time to go they’re just up there for the money have a good friend of mine who went up to see them in New Jersey about a month ago I told him not to do it he wasted his money and walked out he told me I was right he should’ve listened
Don’t really appreciate the way Gary talk down about Billy Paul being this goofy guy Toten the amps around I was a roadie for a band for several years and they appreciated what I done cause I was good at setting up the equipment and running the sound he really should appreciate Him but rest in peace both of them
Allen Collins was pure energy onstage..he ALWAYS looked like he was having fun. (which made paralysis especially cruel) No one deserves that..but for the most exciting guy...who couldn't find any peace...from suffering...it breaks my heart. When I hear Skynyrd he's the first one I think of.
Donamtrx..You aint kiddin brother.., Allen Collins was a pure force of nature, Ohhh but, GODDAMN HE COULD PLAY THAT GIBSON, (or Fender if need be..), LIKE A PILLAR OF FIRE. !!!!! ..AWWW DAMN..WHAT A BAND..!!!!! 🙏🎸L.S.🎸🙏
guy was just really dealt a crappy hand. losing his friends, his wife&his baby, the car accident.. :( Guy was a great guitarist though.
It had to be HELL for poor Allen , but he MANED up and proved to be the artist he was by being the musical director for that first reunion tour after the faithful ✈️ crash . R.I.P. A.C. ✊🏼 ✌️
@@dzyanist MY goodness, when I think what LS did musically in their basically short run ! CAN you imagine WHAT 🎵 🎸 was to come !! What HUMBLE, Musical 🎸 geniuses these brothers, and sistas were and ARE ! Gary still goin 💪! R.I.P. to rest of the good ole boys from Boston 💪
So true. I know he was always a crazy man behind the wheel, before he got into music, he wanted to be race car driver & heard several friends say, you were takin your life into his hands when you got into car he was driving. I know some people have no sympathy for him, he brought it on himself but he paid the ultimate price the last time, not death because he probably would,have peeferred that but to be paralyzed, to not be able to even pick up a guitar, much less play one & then yo tour with the guys & have to go out on stage & talk abt his story, tgat he killed a person while impared & this was result.
I think it was Gene Odom that said he would lay tough guy while out there but then went to side of stage to watch the guys play & tears would just roll down his face just makes me cry.
I hope he is up there reunited with his friends playin together again & just waiting for Gary's time for the band to be complete again, he & Gary were really soul mate friends if that nakes sense & I know it has to be rough for Gary to go out & play w/o them all. Love these guys
''Gimme back my bullets'' is a great album, lots of good cuts on here, ''Every mother's son'', ''Searchin'', ''Cry for the bad man'', everything that band put out was great, I don't know, maybe it's just me being a die-hard fan.
They had albums filled with good songs. Not a filler tune like so many albums you could buy back in the 70's. Some albums had only one good song and the rest were junk. Skynyrd gave you all good songs.
I loved that album and the songs were good and pretty simple. I learned a lot of them as a young learning guitarist. I was getting pretty good but I wasn't real good. It wasn't that hard to figure the songs out. Like the first album. Second helping was pretty intense. You could here the progression in the 3 guitar attack. I loved nuthin fancy also. I think Bullets and Fancy are my two favorites.
No, breeze aleigh, it’s not just you, what you’re saying is true.
Right on ...i loved that album..cry for the bad man is one of my top 10 ever..those album sales??? I of mmm is mine
No, your right. Skynyrd didnt put out any bad songs period. All the b side/ throw away stuff on first and last is top notch.
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American Icon. They are the sound of the South. They are without doubt the Greatest Rock n Roll band to ever come out of America. May their music live on forever.!!!!!!!
ya i agree with that statement. Them and Bob Seger represent American music based on geography for me. Seger north and LS the south. Total icons. I am Canadian and thats American music too me. The Band is our iconic band that makes us proud.
Skynyrd never made a bad album....
That's a fact👍🏻
You are correct sir.
ROGER THAT Jimmy 👍
Every song was good. Ronnie was one of the greatest songwriters in music history
They never made a mediocre song...in moi opinion👌🏻
The original Skynyrd never did. The “tribute” band, however, made nothing but less than mediocre songs.
@@joshg2350 ..u got that right....SHO GOT THAT RIGHT!😜
@@joshg2350 you are correct sir, if they have mediocre then they got lucky.
Brother Gary
Dats a fact Jack! 👍It wasn't in there makeup to do average. Simply too gifted and too real of a people. Dem boyz was ferreal for real... Yea...
Agree!!!!!
Listening to Gary telling the story of how Billy Powell becomes Skynyrd’s pianist (starts at 12:41) and I am all choked up. It makes my heart race and I just shake my head at what a shame it is they were stopped in their tracks at the height of their career. Billy Powell changed their music incredibly and his beautiful piano playing, I believe, propelled Skynyrd forward with such strength. I wish I had made the effort to meet Billy Powell before he left this earth. God bless him and God bless them all.
Thank God Gary Rossington has such a good memory. I saw them so many times in the 70’s. I can’t believe how much I took it for granted at that time. The 70’s were like a blur to a lot of us…not for Gary Rossington. He is THE historian for us all. God Bless him.
Somebody should make a movie about Skynyrd. Ronnie was larger than life.
I've never heard of a band that paid their dues and earned every dime they got to the extent that Lynyrd Skynyrd did.
No Bull When Skynyrd started off rehearsing in the Hell House they played all their instruments through one amp and bought more amps as soon as they earned the money from gigging It really was a rags to riches story 👍🏻
Never had a number one hit!
I love you guys...I from Jacksonville...I wish Ronnie knew how much we did love him. I saw them at St. Peppers on the corner of Atlantic and University...those were the days.
I love Gary! He's hilarious when he tells his stories.
He was the shy, quiet one of the band. Now he is making up for it..lol..love Gary!
Gary is an ass wipe
T G your so right..... Gary is a piece of shit and if Ronnie was alive he would whoop his ass 3 times over...
T G You must be deaf as well as blind. Jealous much?
The spirit Of 76 Idiots everywhere
A FRIEND OF MINE FROM JAX, TOLD ME THAT JAX WAS NOT A ROCK AND ROLL LOVING TOWN TO ME GIMMIE BACK MY BULLETS ALBUM WAS GREAT, I LOVE EVERY SONG ON IT,, NO MATTER HOW MANY GUITAR PLAYERS THEY HAD GARY AND ALLEN DID A FINE JOB THERE, THE SONGS WERE GREAT, , TO ME ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD IS AS GOOD AS THE ALLMAN BROS. AT THE FILLMORE EAST, ALBUM, HANDS DOWN MAN, THANK YOU GUYS FOR SAVING THE FOX,,COUSIN FIGEL
These guys were ahead of the time. That’s why there music still kicks ass today.
great interview. Gary and Leon sound so energetic and full of very interesting details about those great days
Leon Rest In Peace ☮️
I Can Truly Say “You are Loved & Missed By Us All...!
"Bullets" is my favorite album, funny how they describe it as their worst...
Same here, different and heavy!
f marz I know. Where do these people who write that $h!t come from?
GBMB ... The sound is thin without Ed. Still , all the songs are great.
One More From The Road - Best effing album of ALL TIME.
T 4 Texas cooks like a BBQ !!!
Lee Richards Seriously. Artimus Pyle and Steve Gaines lit that band on fire.
@@monsterpoppies5225 it was too good to be true,
What could have been?
Figures, at least there's recordings,
Take care, live long and do right, or at least try.
My favourite album
I'm surprised to hear these guys weren't happy with "Bullets". I really like that one, some cool songs on there.....
Leon and Billy are still missed badly... for me, it's not the same without them.
Thanks for all that you do for Skynyrd and us Fans here on your Channel......
Man skynyrd has always been my favorite, it was in the 70s and it is now ,they represent us poor southern folks
Southern people are not poor in spirit though. I know that. From a yankee.
Wow I didn't know Steve stayed out of some songs at the Fox - (I've done it before myself with members of Pig Vomit) But their T for Texas alone was worth the wait!!
Gimme Back My Bullets. Is still one of my favorite albums of all time. Had it on 8 track.
One More From the Road has always been my favorite. I had the fold out album and listened to it over and over, closing my eyes and trying to imagine I was actually there.
I loved every song the original Lynyrd Skynyrd made
My favorite album is gimme back my bullets. Then second helping then nuttin fancy. They have always been my favorite band. But I love UFO too.
Cry For The Bad Man Is The 1st Song I Choose To Listen To, When I put This Album On.. Its A Good Album, TO ME, All The Way Around.
Agree Mike. Great album. "Cry" is prob my favorite off this album.
thank you so much
Gimme back my bulletts is my personal favorite.
Cry for the Bad Man is mine
I agree, i think its their best! A heavier album for skynyrd!
WOW!!! I always assumed Leon was fired by Ronnie before the release of the 1st album. I never would have guess it was to get a regular job at a dairy.LOL
Gimme back my bullets is a phenomenal album!
Bullets was a Great Album
I wore out that 8 track. "One More From The Road."
Skynyrd came out during my high school days I was into 1974-77 outdoor jam parties, non fires tailgating getting stoned drinking bud strohs and miller pony’s trying making out with girls in back of the van just jammin. One more from the road all day everyday much more important than school or college at the time sex drugs rock n roll
@@Youngpinevr you need to tell that to your psychiatrist and not bother us with your problems
That Fox show was so cool. I was 17. Living in the south it was close to home.
I just listened to a January 1977 Skynyrd interview in which Ronnie said that they had originally planned to record their live album at the Rainbow Theatre in London but it closed for refurbishment so they ended up at The Fox.
Gimme back is tune d down Hal f step. So it sounds flat. I love it great album. Its heavy. Just turn it up.
Totally agree, my fav and have said its their heavy metal album!
I think Steve Gaines if there was a future would have added alot to the band
@Edward Tasi I agree. As good as both Allen and Gary were they didn't come close to the talent of Steve.
@William Harvey Ronnie had told Gary and Allen that one day they would all stand in Steve's shadow.
@@breezealeigh148 probably because you was the best musician in the band.
Steve wouldn't have been in Skynyrd very long. He would have his own band. He like Hendrix was very humble and not an aggresive person. Ronnie knew Steve was a natural front man kick ass singer writer and player. I am blessed I got to play with him.
Ed would have eventually came back in my opinion.
GBMB continues to rise in critical and fan opinion. Its my personal favorite.
why are ya"ll talking bad about this album.ROCKING.
Love it
⚘🍁🍂.."God Bless him" is right..GOD BLESS EM ALL..!!! Where did the fuckin time go ??.. They say, you never know what you have, til you lose it.., Thats damn right, man.. damn right.. 😞..🎸
Allen probably didn't like it very much when they would tell the story of how he was brought into the band
Haha Ronnie does sound a bit like of a wild cowboy lol
Damn good
greatest interview so far thats slightly different but very interesting
I don't think leon was the "original" bass player. As a matter of fact I know he wasn't. I'm sure I'm not the only one aware of that. Am I? Larry Junstrom. I think. Anyway 7-10-74 columbia sc. Greatest concert ever. leon was there.
yep 38 special guy
Yes Leon was the original bass player
Leon was on the first album, so he might as well be the original
@@redrock717 Ed King played bass on the first album. Leon came back the day sweet home Alabama was written for the Second helping album. Larry Junstrom was the original bass player. he later joined 38 special.
The songs on Gimme Back My Bullets were fine....the reality is the production just wasn't great...Tom Dowd was a genius but by that time he'd lost his touch. The recording sounds distant... especial the drum sounds....a serious drop-off from the previous albums. Dowd also started out withe Street Survivors album and everything had to be remixed with some help from Ed King. It is what it is.
BloozeDaddy The songwriting outshines the bad mix tho
Gary's laugh at 11:00 cracked me up!!
I have always thought that Nick Saban, head coach of Alabammy football, sounds like Leon Wilkeson
Nice catch !! Definitely very similar sounding.
Why would anyone dislike this?
Notice they had the "Dixie" Flag on the mic stand. AKA the "Rebel" flag.
Ya so fuckin what.?
Yes they d I d
Its the south fuck you
Do you h.ave any idea ..who these men were or where they came from?
@@rustybird8803 Hey bro. You took my wrong. I've been defending the Dixie Flag publicly since they wanted to get rid of it. Born and raised in the south. Defend it to the end. LIve and die in Dixie. Amen.
Love bullets.
Grew up going to different schools together with these guys. I did the same thing, collecting soda bottles and taking them to the Winn Dixie on US1 in Miami back in the 60-70's. 😂
Kicked out of Miami Palmetto in 1974ish, BUT I did go back and with summer school and night school, sadly cheating, I graduated with my class in 78.
Miami was great to grow up in back then, Not so today.
May they All Rest in the Peace of Jesus 🙏 Viva Cristo Rey 🙏
Gimme back my bullets one of my fav albums
I run a podcast would love to have you on ASAP, to talk about your channel and Skynyrd let me k ow if interested
Funny interview😀Leon is missed🎸
What does Ronnie say in the live recording on "T for Texas" as he introduces Steve Gaines and Leon quotes it after they talk about it sounds something like "Watch out or we'll stick an okie on em". Anyone know what this means or what he says?
He was referring to Steve Gaines,who was from Oklahoma
Because Steve was from Oklahoma.
"Watch out I'ma sic an Okie on ya"
James Dean Ronnie had just introduced Steve Gaines to the crowd he's from Oklahoma.
Oklahoma
Not a big Slayer fan but this is good!
I would have to disagree with that on the Gimme Back My Bullets album!!! I'd first bought the album on cassette tape back in 1992 and it was a great album!!!! The fans of Lynyrd Skynyrd should had bought it when it first came out in 1976!!!! I'd bought the remastered CD back in 2004!!! I've got all of the Skynyrd albums with Ronnie Van Zant as lead vocals on CD!!!!
I swear Gary sounds so much like Willie Robertson from Duck Dynasty.
CAT IN THE HAT 👒. GARY ROSSINGTON WAY COOL 😎
The day that plane crash soul of the Lynyrd Skynyrd sound died the last time I saw a good representation of the band was win the album 20 came out Huey Thommason Ricky Medlock Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson we’re still alive and the drummer was Owen Hale and let me tell you folks he would piss all over Delmer
I would not spend one dime going to see this band today especially without Gary in the lineup WTF it’s time to go they’re just up there for the money have a good friend of mine who went up to see them in New Jersey about a month ago I told him not to do it he wasted his money and walked out he told me I was right he should’ve listened
Dowd had screwed the Pooch on Gimme Back My Bullets
Gimme back my bullets,,, cause I can't find any to buy lately,,,🇺🇲👍😨🇺🇲
Don’t really appreciate the way Gary talk down about Billy Paul being this goofy guy Toten the amps around I was a roadie for a band for several years and they appreciated what I done cause I was good at setting up the equipment and running the sound he really should appreciate Him but rest in peace both of them
I