Because you mentioned Lynard Skinard, I’ll tell a quick story about their Memphis concert in the summer of 1975. I showed up at the doors of the concert about 4 hours early and nobody else was around. About 30 minutes later, five long haired guys walked past the doors, inside. They looked at me with a smile, and opened the door to let me in. Then I realized it was the band! It was pretty cool meeting them like that. We talked for about 5 minutes as I walked around with them, and chose my preferred seat in the empty concert hall.
The concert was great! There were about 100 frisbees flying around during the concert! What a scene!!!