Lynyrd Skynrd - Original Band Live1975 - Free Bird - Dolby Pro Logic II384KBS.mp4

I downmixed this Audio using Dolby Pro Logic II 384kbs. The finished Audio lists at 340kbs. It sounds extremely good and the video is HQ.
I used the 1975 Live Version on this one as this is maybe the best version muscial wise I could find for editing. This is before Steve and Cassie Gaines joined the band - completely original members.
"Free Bird"
According to guitarist Gary Rossington, for two years after Allen Collins wrote the initial chords, vocalist Ronnie Van Zant insisted that there were too many for him to create a melody in the belief that the melody needed to change alongside the chords. After Collins played the unused sequence at rehearsal one day, Van Zant asked him to repeat it, then wrote out the melody and lyrics in three or four minutes. The guitar solos that finish the song were added in originally to give Van Zant a chance to rest, as the band was playing several sets per night at clubs at the time. Soon afterward, the band learned piano-playing roadie Billy Powell had written an intro to the song; upon hearing it, they included it as the finishing touch and had him formally join as their keyboardist. The song was originally written in memory of Duane Allman.It has become something of a humorous tradition for audience members at concerts to shout "Free Bird" as a request to hear the song, regardless
of the performer or style of music. The phenomenon began earlier in the 1970s with The Allman Brothers Band's epic "Whipping Post", but then took off to a much greater extent with "Free Bird", which was very popular by 1979. This can be traced back to Skynyrd's first live album, 1976's One More from the Road. For their second encore, Van Zant asked the crowd, "What song is it you wanna hear?", which was immediately followed by several shouts of "Free Bird", to which the band responded with a 14-minute rendition of the song. The spoken interaction was reproduced on the album as an introduction to the song.I still remember Ronnie saying to his guitarists ``Bring all my Mules out here and Kick em one time' at which point all the LS guitarists came out front and jammed together.
Allen Collins's then-girlfriend, Kathy, whom he later married, asked him, "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" Collins noted the question and it eventually became the opening line of "Free Bird"

LYRICS:

"Freebird"

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And this bird you can not change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows I can't change.

Bye, bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah,
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it so badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.

But if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change, oh, oh, oh, oh.
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord, help me, I can't change.

Lord, I can't change.
Won't you fly high, free bird, yeah?

Video:
Frame Width: 720
Frame Height: 544
Data Rate: 2056kbps
Total Bitrate: 2397kbps
Frame Rate: 29 FPS

Audio:
Dolby Pro Logic II
Bit Rate: 340kbps
Channels 2(stereo)
Audio Sample Rate: 48 khz