My first concert ever. Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1974. My senior year at Jacksonville High School. I went with my best friend, Gaylen Burnside. We loved it so much, we drove up to Fayetteville, AR, the next night for their show there! Badass Southern boys who could rock! Lynyrd Skynyrd.🇺🇸🔥

@BuzzPatterson Saw them in Atlanta and Chattanooga!

@BuzzPatterson And Ronnie was a pretty damn good baseball player and a heck of a scrapper! 💪🏼🇺🇸👍🏼

@BuzzPatterson 1979 Constitution Hall, back in the USSA tour ELTON JOHN. 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍 Front Row Seats - We had a blast!

@BuzzPatterson My first concert was also there, 12 years later. RUSH.

@BuzzPatterson One of my most unforgettable small town concert was Lee Greenwood at the High School and sung God Bless the USA!

@BuzzPatterson Dude, that must have been bad ass!

@BuzzPatterson My first was Zeppelin about 3 years later, Jim Greco took pity on me

@BuzzPatterson Lucky sir. I had tickets a few days before the crash. Missed out on Americans best Southern Rock band

@BuzzPatterson One of my firsts too. July 1976 Nashville. They were headliners but there were many greats there. It was awesome!!

@BuzzPatterson One of the few concerts I never saw - they were a tad before my time.

@BuzzPatterson Barnhill? I used to work for Kix 104 in Events, many a concerts at the old Barnhill.

@BuzzPatterson I was at the Hyatt in Hawaii when I saw in the paper that their plane had crashed.

@BuzzPatterson Wow! I was 7, so I couldn't go. You're the man, Buzz!

@BuzzPatterson For a second I thought Corey Feldman got real fat.

@BuzzPatterson An anthem sang in every bar back in the day.

@BuzzPatterson Molly Hatchet’s song ‘Gator Country’ sums up the best of the Southern Rockin Roll.

@BuzzPatterson You're a lucky man!! 🎵 All I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied

@BuzzPatterson My wife took me to see Lynyrd Skynyrd in Reno. It was an outdoor concert at what is now the MGM Grand. I forget what the place was called back then. Bally's or something like that. It was a lot of fun.

@BuzzPatterson Saw them 5 times. Twice in England. Once at the Rainbow Theater in London and Once at the Knebworth concert in 1976. 3 times in the states. All this before the plane crash. Such a sad day!!

@BuzzPatterson They were the epitome of rock n roll in our era. I’m from just north of Little Rock myself and they toured here often, even before they became super famous. This state LOVES Lynyrd Skynyrd and always will.

@BuzzPatterson My first concert was Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville!youtu.be/mYjNceo2VaQ?si…

@BuzzPatterson Went to many a concert at Barton.

@BuzzPatterson 1974 was a very good year! Senior then myself!

@BuzzPatterson I didn't know it was Ed King on lead guitar on Sweet Home Alabama. Ed also played bass until he left the band.

@BuzzPatterson I'm a '76 baby so I never saw them, but they're one of my favs. I used to put on my Skynyrd LPs and dance around the house with my son when he was a baby. When he got married, Tuesday's Gone was the song he chose for our dance. 🥹 I also had a cat named Lynrd. 😸

@BuzzPatterson A couple of friends and I were on our way to Nacogdoches, TX to be in line for ticket sales when we heard on the radio that their plane had gone down. Sad. I never got to see them live.

@BuzzPatterson Saw them in Memphis at the Liberty Bowl, same tour. Awesome show. I thought Ed King was a rough tough biker. 😅. Eric Clapton headlined. I love Eric but Skynyrd blew him off the stage at that show. They were doing it to everyone.

@BuzzPatterson 1978 for me. Junior high that year. I'm from Stuttgart. Been to Barton so many times. Didn't know you are from Arkansas. Salute 🫡

@BuzzPatterson Never knew you were from Jacksonville.

@BuzzPatterson @np755xc6km Ed King doesn't get the accolades he deserved.

@BuzzPatterson My senior year of high school 1975, we had Kiss perform in our gymnasium with Rush as their opening band. In our F'ing gymnasium.

@BuzzPatterson I think they died coming back to Arkansas. I remember people held onto the tickets. My first show was also in Arkansas, Blue Oyster Cult opening for Rush 2112. 1977? Pine Bluff.

@BuzzPatterson The story of how they came up with the band name cracks me up every time I think about it I had a shop teacher~ his name escapes me

@BuzzPatterson Barton Coliseum was an epic venue back in the day!

@BuzzPatterson My first was The Carpenters in 1973.

@BuzzPatterson Had my first one in 1074 at Barton. Styx in my case.