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Is that supposed to be someone in the crowd making a song request? (Or am I missing some extra meaning, here?)
There’s always that one drunk guy at the end of the night at a bar who yells “Somebody play Freebird…dude!”
Yeah, I’ve been properly edumacated by now (and I do get it now).
…just remember to hold up your lighter when hollering for “Freebird”…
*grabs lighter, tube top and bandana*
[LINK] Rock anthem “Freebird” on YouTube
Thanks Rho! Man, that took me back..
YW!
I don’t go back that far, but have since brushed up on
the classics…
*a little off subject*
I just took rent from somebody wearing a Freebird shirt! Eerie I say!
I too possess a shirt that says “I’m as free as a bird” and people don’t get it either. Just like my “your Mom goes to college” one.
I’m so misunderstood!
You’re just mad that I sit online all day and talk to hot chicks.
Besides, you and i both know that i’m training to become a cage fighter XD
and there was I thinking it was an arrested development ref…
You know, I learned something today…
I don’t quite get it either….
please to read above comments. kthnxbai!
Wow… neither of them get it? Pretty pathetic.
Anyway, yeah. Freebird is more monumental than another a-hole being sworn in as president. Skin color means nothing.
I don’t get it either, so if Matrix would please come off his high horse and explain to us uneducated people what it means…
I think Matrix struggles with post partisan depression.
*Rimshot*
I’ll have to remember this one for later use. LOL
Copy pasta’d!
Oh Pshaw – I stole it from Maureen Dowd. *link*
Freebird is arguably the most popular song by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd (who also did Sweet Home Alabama, What’s Your Name, among others)
They always close their shows with it, and it has become something of a legendary song in rock music, more specifically Southern Rock, due to it’s great guitar solo (in my opinion) and length. On their Greatest Hits album, the last song is a live version of Freebird, in which you can hear people in the crowd yelling “Freebird!”, and that has become somewhat of a joke over the years. This picture is a reference to the iconic status the song has reached.
The Disney movie Cars also does the same thing this picture does. If you listen in the beginning when Lightning goes to give his speech to his sponsors, when the light goes on him and it’s silent, if you listen you can hear a single car say “Freebird!” from the back.
wow, Id say that clears things up
Thanks, from all us born after 1980 :p
if you like videogames just play guitar hero 2 it’s the final song.
What do you mean “somewhat of a joke”? To those of us born before 1960 it became a joke the second hundred times we heard it. (Skynyrd? sorry, not while we’ve still got Allman Brothers.)
“Woohoo! Les Brers in A Minor!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKAr5s9qTdw
(for some reason, PK no longer gives me a space to put a link now that I’m logged in?)
Click the blue lettering above the comment box. You won’t lose
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Not so much a joke… consider it a meme!
Trudat. >.> I wasn’t born before 1960…but the Allman Brothers > Skynyrd.
Any day.
i used to wait tables in a restaurant that had a jukebox….
there was an older waitress i worked with who LOVED the first part of freebird, then when it went into the jam session towards the end she hated it and would hit the reset button (when it played on auto of course)..
i thought it was funny she never realised they were the same song
I wouldn’t be so quick to call people pathetic. Afterall, not everyone has had the pleasure of seeing the original Skynard in a stadium (some of these people are young whippersnappers you know.)
I’ve seen them a couple of times. I’m not a whippersnapper, but still too young to have seen them pre-crash. I did see them in some pretty big outdoor arenas though. They put on a fun live show.
dunt geddit
Dont get it :-/
Freebird is a song by Lynrd Skynrd. It is often shouted out at other concerts by fans for the band to play. There is always one person that shouts for it at a show.
It is often shouted out at other concerts by fans for the band to play. There is always one person that shouts for it at a show.
Ah, great. That was exactly the sort of thing I was wondering about with my “extra meaning”-question. Thanks for explaining it!
Alternatively, you can shout “Freebird” at a band that sucks, as a taunt suggesting that they don’t have the chops to play the song.
Conclusion: Most people live in a cultural wasteland… I’ve even heard ‘Freedbird’ shouted as a suggested encore at a Pet Shop Boys concert…
I am pretty sure I’ve never heard it. Then again, most concerts I attend are classical, so there’s not much shouting at all. :/
(Or do I mean “classic”?)
Classical… I tend to be pretty catholic (small c) in my musical tastes.
So… from a spot of Elgar through to the Alice Cooper splatter zone…
I’d be the one screaming for the MC-5 “Kick Out the James Motherf**ker”…you know, with it being a political get-together and all…
yet you have the neustautzende man as your icon..
one wonders
One wonders what?
totally get the request thing, but also theres the whole ‘what happened to lynrd skynrd, and who did it to them “starkly juxtaposed” with who is being sworn in’ thing which is much sharper
I do hope i’m not the only one to see that
Do you mean the plane crash or the horrific spectacle of the remaining few band members playing the casino/state fair circuit?
They’ve added new members and they still tour and still do big venues.
Yeah, more than half of the original members died in that crash, but they’re not has-beens. Has-had-better-times, yes. But not has-beens.
They played Gator Growl (University of Florida’s homecoming show, which is HUGE; comedians like Bill Cosby, Bill Engvall, and Dane Cook have done it; they only just recently added bands), and I saw them in Jacksonville and that was a huge venue too.
…and they still drop the big Confederate Flag as a backdrop…hmmmm…not saying…but just saying…
it’s considered a symbol of southern pride to plenty of people, not just a “we think you should be slaves” flag
Understood…but it does have some negative connotations for a lot of people who aren’t from the south…
i understand. but lynard sknard is from the south, so their original audience would understand at least.
Yeah…I’m a music fan and get it, but there’s a ton of racist yahoos around where I live who see that flag and feel like they want to go off and burn a cross…when Skynyrd played here a couple of years ago, the town asked them not to unfurl the flag, as there had been some incidents involving race here earlier in the summer…The crowd was upset when the flag didn’t come down during the Freebird encore, but I think they understood why (at least the rational thinking people understood)…The white supremecists in the area held a rally later that month and called Skynyrd a bunch of race-traitors because they “sold out the south”…Go figure…
symbolism is a b!tch sometimes, especially when people hide behind it.. i dunno if the band could ever totally give up on it though. for the part of the flag that is southern pride it would be a real kick in the teeth if someone told you “no, you can’t use this flag anymore” imagine what people would do if the US flag were to be associated with something awful and wasn’t allowed anymore.
“if the US flag were to be associated with something awful”
whaaa
fail
From Vietnam forward, it’s not seemed to be a major issue…
It’s just a personal pet annoyance of mine when part of a band hires on new members and goes on as the original band after a majority of the original members have left and/or died. I’m not saying they should quit music, more just “Dude, start a different band. You’ve pretty much got a different band anyway, so don’t call it the same thing.”
I sort of agree with you, but if you take a band like Pink Floyd which is more aural rather then visual, you don’t notice that Roger Waters left. Although, with Richard Wright having died I don’t know that it would be the same. On the other hand, when Keith Moon died The Who tried to carry on, but really, it just wasn’t the same, was it? If a person in a band is the focal point, as Ronnie Van Zandt was, it just isn’t the same having his little brother up there trying to take his place. The persona of Lynard Skynard was Ronnie Zandt.
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On the other hand, how do you explain Nine Inch Nails? Or is it even worth the trouble?
You mean the issue that NIN pretty much is Trent Reznor and whoever he feels like playing with at the moment? I don’t really have a problem with that.
I really did think the remaining members of Pink Floyd should have done something after Waters left other than continuing to call themselves Pink floyd, but I still liked them. If David Gilmour continues to tour as PF without Waters IOR Wright, I think he’d be pushing it a bit, though.
*sigh* That’s OR, not some bizarre acronym…I can’t type today.
I think the problem with PF was Waters had given up on the band, but the other three thought that they still had a bit of road left in them. Have you seen the Pulse DVD? Even though Waters isn’t there, you can really tell that he wasn’t missed.
Haven’t….just added to my Netflix queue, thanks!
If you like PF, I think you’ll like the DVD. I drive my wife crazy with it!
Love that DVD…I agree about PF and Roger Waters…to some it’s heresy, but they evolved after Syd Barrett “left”, just as they evolved after Roger left… Granted, Momentary Lapse of Reason was no Dark Side of the Moon, but I loved that album (and the Division Bell) because they still had the desire to make great music…I wasn’t listening to it thinking “Boy I wish Roger Waters was playing bass on that song”…
bu they are different bands. pers’nly i can bear early floyd, or fleetwood mac, with peter green.
, which works great
NIN sounds like a whole steely dan thing going on (i think i have heard a few seconds of NIN, so obviously i mean ‘kinda’
it’s not about thie lineup it’s all about the feel
I love Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green. After him ,they were something completely different imo.
absolutley.
same with post syd floyd.
but waters leaving floyd made little or no difference.
Btw, have you got (or heard) Eddie Boyd’s album with Green, McVie, and Fleetwood? I have it on vinyl somewhere, still haven’t managed to find it in any other form. It’s great, anyway.
Roger Waters WAS the lyrical and musical genius behind Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here, the Wall, and the Final Cut. Pink Floyd without Waters was Pink Floyd without their writer of music and lyrics for the past 10 years and the other band members rarely contributed half of what Waters did. They didn’t evolve after Water’s left. They did a shit album and then the Division Bell, which had two, maybe 3 good songs on it, tops.
I see your point, but in this particular instance, the singer is the dead singers brother and sounds like him quite a bit and some of the other musicians were friends of the original band for years as well. It’s not quite the same as “hiring other musicians.”
i always thought the ‘ahem’ crash was down to the panthers not liking the ‘get to the back of the bus, boy’ kinda mentality that surrounded the band.
It’s a generational thing, too. All us old farts (35 yrs and above) pretty much get it. Hey it’s in Cars too. When Lightening McQueen is in his sponsors tent around the beginning of the movie and the crowd of rusty cars is quiet, someone yells out Freebird. I hadn’t heard it until recently and I had seen that movie many times. I guess it was quiet enough in the house for me to hear it. I laughed so hard that my kids were like WTF is so funny! It was not easy trying to explain it to them.
Yup, being older than dirt helps too…
Oh hush, Methuselah still has a few centuries on you, I’m sure. How do you think it makes all the REALLY old people feel when you whine about such things?
Who was whining? I think it’s remarkable I’m not dead…
‘e says he’s not dead!
…I can’t take him like that.
Well, can you hang around for a couple minutes? It won’t be long…
35 makes one an old fart? Wow, that really puts a damper on my plans. I wanted to get out a bit more before I ended up a senior citizen…
gotta see the up side… you can retire soon
WHAT? I haven’t even started my career!
See you at the bingo and the early-bird buffet, Aedriel!
(I’ll be the one doing 15 mph in the left lane with my right turn signal on, ok?)
*facepalm*
@diss – and don’t forget to leave your seat belt hanging out the door, whapping along the ground as you go …
Lol! Should I also spent 10 minutes carefully easing my car into about three parking spaces?
*rolls stockings from ankles to knees*
Hey, wait up, ya whippersnapper! I just got a new paint
bottle. Now where did I put that thing…?
*wobbles along with four-prong cane through sea of cats*
It’s ok, Rho…you’ll be able to catch up with me in the express lane at the gorcery store. It’s going to take me a minute, because after my purchases have been totaled (those 27 cans of cat food are all the same brand, so that’s one item…then there’s the All-Bran, the Oil of Olay, and the Soap Opera Digesty!) Il” be sifting through 300 mostly-expired coupons to find any that I can apply, and then once all that’s done I’ll root through my purse, pull out the checkbook, and start filling out a check. I will, by the way, be carefully subtracting the total before tearing the check out and handing it to the cashier.
That’s great. I’ll meet you there. That will give me time
to describe my toenail fungus to the pharmacist for a
while, and ask him if he’s related to six people I think I
remember from my youth. I also need to ask the
manager about three products no longer made that I
like to buy, and ask them why they don’t carry dusting
powder like they used ta…
I’ll be wearing the folding plastic rain hat; I just had a wash and curl and it looks like it might sprinkle.
Just remember…DON’T TRUST ANYONE OVER 40!!
What?!?! Wait, back the age trolly up, ok? I’m well past 40 and I think I can be trusted..
I know…I’ll be 40 in April…I just remember hearing that when I was back in my teens…
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BTW, I think you’re VERY trustworthy Eddie…
Whew! At least someone other then Uncle Sam thinks so..
Make it “never trust anyone under 35″ and you’ve got a winner, MG!
@Diss: I read that as “Never trust anyone under 35″ – as in 35- inches!! Brought Randy Newman’s “Short People” to mind…
Rho, your left turn signal’s been on for the last six miles…and the belt from your raincoat’s hanging out the door…
Quit yer mumbling! Why do kids today always mumble?
And is there some geometric flow chart that I’m not aware of that shows the corrolation between age and the size of the car they drive? It’s the 80-year-old that drives the Cadipontifordiac-x-tra-large-Boat-hauler.
I once got talked into riding with an 89yo woman
in an old Lincoln. I swear that thing was sea
worthy! The suspension gave rise to a feeling
that we were atop an elephant balanced on a
small tree stump. The next time you see one
of those little old ladies looking under the top
of the steering wheel of a car-boat, remember
to count your lucky stars that you aren’t a
passenger.
You know, dear, you remind me of my late husband’s second cousin. she was such a lovely girl, but then she got the colon cancer and the next thing you know she was gone. If you have a minute, I’d love to tell you about all the people I knew that died suddenly at, oh, just about your age!
LMAO!!
Or hitting Pondo with a fistful of buffet coupons while wearing black double-knit polyester pants hiked up to the armpits with white socks and lace-up wedge shoes in toupe and a banded bottom pullover in gold lame. Don’t forget your clip-on sunglasses and the beaded glasses strap necklace to accessorize your clear plastic-frame glasses! Top it all of with a blue-white pouffy hair cranked into tight little curls and you have a bona fide ol’ fogey.
Oooh… You paint a vivid picture. I could even smell that air freshener-scented perfume…
Almost forgot! For women, you also have to have ghastly red lipstick creeping into the wrikles and folds around the mouth, caked on powder in the wrong color and candy-pink nail polish. For the men, it’s Aqua Velva, hair growing anywhere but on the head and a button-down, plaid shirt in a Western style paired with a hat 15 years out of style.
I don’t think being old has much to do with it, as I’m 25 and I get it. Or am I an old fart too? lol
Nice avatar, Jexxa, even thought at first I saw “Kilroy is Here.”
(the cat’s head + star = eyes; the cat’s tail is the nose). See *link*
No – young fart but still just a fart.
I suppose I’d rather be a fart than a turd.
Always remember, farts don’t have lumps.
For the record, I’m 19, and I laughed my oversized rear off at that part too. No worries! Some of us young ‘uns get it
If it makes you feel better, I’m 18 and totally got the joke. I tend to joke around and yell out Freebird randomly. I started to at a Sister Hazel concert, but decided to go with the rest of the crowd and chant “All for You” instead.
I’ve heard Freebird requested as a joke pretty much any time there’s live music going on (up to and including a random guy with a violin at a croquet match–it’s just that universal)
I’d agree that at this point, people are pretty much doing it as a joke. Now, 25 years ago….yeah, they probably meant it. But it became such a cliche (the drunk redneck guy in the back requesting Freebird at a totally inappropriate concert/show) that people started doing it to be funny. Hell, I remember doing it some years back when me and a couple of my friends were watching a couple of our other friends play a barely-attended show at a small club; there were maybe 10 people in the place; their music was kind of acoustic/folky stuff, and near the end of the set about three of us held lighters in the air and yelled “play Freebird!” We probably wouldn’t have if they hadn’t been friends, but they thought it was funny too so it was ok…
If they’d been real sports, they’d have played it…
Very true!
Things just couldn’t be the same
If I had a hammer.
‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now,
Blowing in the wind.
And this bird you can not change
Though the times they are a changing.
Lord knows, I can’t change.
we used the shout ‘play something good!’ in these situations, didn’t always go down so well.
sorry, that was me
I used to be in a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, and whenever someone in the crowd would request Freebird, we’d (in unison) flip them off and reply “no charge!”
Oh lawd, I lol’d. Thanks for that.
I lol’d. That’s good, real good.
If you’ve never been to a concert in America, you may not understand this one. If you’ve ever been to any concert, this is pretty funny. I’ve heard Freebird shouted and everybody from Aerosmith, Dave Matthews, Phish, and even Metallica. It’s just something people do, because shouting funny things in a huge crowd is…well…funny!
Yeah, while it seems to be a bit more than just an American phenomenon, I think it’s not a “thing” in Sweden. Then again, since I have never been aware of it, it might possibly have been shouted at some concert I’ve been to. I wouldn’t have noticed.
Suppose anyone ever shouted “Freebird!” at ABBA? I would like to have seen that if so…..
Probably? I think they played a lot in the States and elsewhere?
Geez… I would think even the whippersnappers would know this one… it’s on Guitar Hero II for God’s sake.
And the fake people in the crowd yell it in the game too. Sheesh.
Well I’m a whippersnapper that gets it, so woot for me. But not because of that game though…just to be clear.
Haha! I get it. ^_^
haha that’s cute ..all that’s missing is the Bic lighter.. aw good times.
Here in Oz, it’s “Khe Sanh”, or later in the night just: “PlaysomefugginBahnseyacaaaahnt”.
The sentiment translates well anyway
The lighters are missing cause they took them at the gate on the way in, along with many other things… I know this cause that line is drawn to almost exactly where I was sitting, and no, I didn’t shout freebird, I was way to cold after sitting there for 4 hours….
oh yeah? well you see the guy that yelled freebird? i’m the guy right next to him.
on his right. holding the pipe. taking a toke.
That was you? Wow! Thanks for the hit. I was the redhead on your right.
Thanks for sharing. I slipped a little something in your coat pocket. Did you
find it?
always happy to share!
and thanks for the threads off your jacket. without those, my contact lens and a good strong sun that day, i never would have been able to macgyver the flame to light up!
i found a snot-filled kleanex. that was you?
or was it the chick tract in the other pocket? [link]
either way, thanks a lot…
Euhhh….
Poe’s law?
you think i’m pretending to be a funny-mentalist?
oh wait, i’m a little slow sometimes. you meant the chick tracts didn’t you?
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sorry, no poe. i remember the tracts from the early ’70’s, and i think they were around before that.
jack chick is kind of like an earlier, somewhat softer version of the phelps clan – basically, he hates everybody too. while i don’t doubt that he believes most if not all of what’s in his tracts, a big part of me still thinks he has always been in it mostly for the money, where as the phelps clan i think are only allowed to be out in public due to the reagan administrations massive fund cuts from the mental health system
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interesting article on the republican messiah [link]
I guess it fell out of your pocket. It was a sketch I drew at the
event. [LINK]
hahaha
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