re: Lynyrd Skynyrd's performance of "Free Bird" in Oakland, CA in 1977 was PEAK America...

A LOT of natural breast meat back then…

The decline of America happened before 1977.

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Knebworth beats this. It has all of what you mentioned in the Oakland performance, plus the fact that they blew the Stones off their own stage.

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I wish the video quality was as good as Oakland, and give me California tans over the pasty Brits but yeah, Skynyrd going into the Stones backyard and walking out on the tongue simply because Jagger told them it was off limits, and then blowing away the greatest rock band of the time was a power move of epic proportion.

The story goes, the next band up, 10cc, delayed coming on stage for two hours as they were intimidated to follow that performance. The Stones didn't take the stage until even later, played the longest set of their career, and didn't wrap up until 2am. Such a great time to be alive.



Loudersound article on Knebworth

Allen Collins

This will soon be scrubbed from history.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”

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Is that crowd Boomers or GenX?

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Boomers. Most of Gen X was not even in elementary school yet. Im solidly Gen X, but give boomers their due. That generation could throw a damn festival concert.

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Yeah, those folks in the crowd were the young group of boomers, coming in at the tail end of the Boomer generation. In 1977, us older Gen Xer’s were in elementary and preschool and most of Gen X hadn’t even been born yet.

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I can watch that concert close with Freebird every day and probably not stop getting chills from it.

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I will make it a point to watch any and all documentary type content on Skynyrd. I was 10 yrs old growing up in BR when the plane went down. My Mom and Dad had tickets to the BR show that next night. What is crazy, my maternal grandmother was going to be babysitting my brothers and I that night and she called early that morning from her brothers house outside of Liberty, MS, only a few miles from the crash site. Her brother and nephew had gone out to the crash site to help with the rescue efforts when the plane went down. She was calling to ask if my parents still wanted her to come in. It was how my Mom and Dad learned they wouldn't be going to a concert that night.

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The decline of America happened before 1977.

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Ehhh, no part has ever been perfect. 9/11 started a rapid decline, Covid put in the deathnell. It can come back, but social media ( yes I realize this is social media for all the goobers that can't wait to point that out) and everyone stuck to their phones and isolated aren't going to help. Skynyrd is one of my favorites, although I'm 50, I can remember them as a young boy. My dad was a big fan of bands like Skynyrd, Zeppelin, even Aerosmith back then. CCR was another favorite of his.

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Have you seen this one?
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Last Stop, an Emma Harrignton Documentary

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Yeah, that is a great documentary, very well done. My people grew up with all of those guys interviewed. They apparently reached out to the family for an interview, but they are both gone.