Allen Collins - guitar
Ed King - guitar
Artimus Pyle - drums
Gary Rossington - guitar
Ronnie Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass, background vocals
By
the time Lynyrd Skynyrd played this sold-out show at San Francisco's
Winterland ballroom, they had become the unmistakable kings of Southern
Rock. Spearheaded by charismatic frontman, Ronnie Van Zant, the group
had taken southern boogie from the swamps and brought it to the masses.
There
is an enormous amount of energy and power in the multiple guitar mix of
the band, and that is clearly apparent when they launch into solos on
these songs. The group had built a solid following via AOR radio by
1975, and songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird" had given the
band enormous crossover appeal. The group was coming off two hugely
successful albums, its debut
(pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd) and 1974's
Second Helping, and they had recently replaced original drummer Bob Burns with Artimus Pyle.
This show was recorded during the band's tour promoting their 1975 album,
Nuthin' Fancy,
and it features Lynyrd Skynyrd at the top of their game. It was also
one of the last shows featuring their original three-guitar lineup, as
Ed King left the band midway through the tour. Skynyrd confidently
played its brand of riff-driving Southern fried rock boogie to near
capacity crowds on this entire '75 tour.
Poignant songs like "The
Needle And The Spoon" are balanced against established Skynyrd rockers
such as "Saturday Night Special" and "Gimmie Three Steps." Songs like
"Whiskey Rock-A-Roller", J.J. Cale's "Call Me The Breeze", and "Sweet
Home Alabama" are played here in their early forms—many of these
classics would re-emerge as part of the must-do repertoire of so many
country artists.
The band ends the show with a predictable but
crowd-pleasing, version of its radio anthem, "Free Bird." Sadly, the
band would change drastically when some of its members, including lead
vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, would die in a plane crash two years after
this show was recorded.
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