My wife and I are celebrating our 25 wedding anniversary in Biloxi and made a 5 hour round trip to visit the Lynyard Skynyard Memorial near McComb, Mississippi. It was worth it.
I saw them in Binghamton NY within a few days of then. Skynyrd was the headliner. I'm not sure of the date, but it was a Saturday in late November of '76. I was a teenager working on a Christmas tree farm. We got paid, jumped into this older guy's Road Runner, and hauled *** the 35 miles to the show. There were still a few tickets left. We were in our filthy work clothes, covered in pine sap. We knew all about Skynyrd. They were on the local rock station all the time. Funny, I just saw the Doobie Brothers last Friday.Was first introduced to Lynyrd Skynyrd when I went to see the Dobbie Brothers on November 15 1976 . They were the opening act and I was hooked from that date on as they remain my favorite band to this day. Remember the singer being barefooted on stage. Didn't know his name or the name of the band at that moment.
I entered a Christmas light contest at ROCK 101 radio station one year and won Grand prize, season passes with premium seating at Charlottes Ampitheater. We made it to 4 shows (Charlotte is a pretty good drive from here so renting a room for the night was pretty much mandatory), The Who, Aerosmith, and 2 others that I don't recall because they were country artists. Wife took a friend girl with her to those 2 shows.May 29, 1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd - ZZ Top Groves Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The only rock concert I ever attended. It was an outdoor stadium and it rained. I mostly remember place was packed with stinky wet people and pot smoke. That was enough of that for me. Never even considered going to another concert until my wife and her friends wanted to see Alan Jackson in Charlotte, NC with Faith Hill maybe in 1995.