A Louisiana group called Dash Riprock solved this issue with a tune called "Stairway to Freebird." It's hilarious...basically they blended the two songs as obnoxiously as possible. You can probably download it somewhere online
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Playing Free Bird!
- Thread starter NickInMesa
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In the Pixar movie "Cars" there is a scene where he has to talk to a crowd in his sponsor's tent, the crowd goes silent and someone faintly yells "Freebird!"
Fly on Freebird!
Awesome. I had to laugh, not flame'n on Skynrd or anything. I think they were a great band, but growing up in the good ole' south You can get a bit tired of hearing their songs. I think I recall even hearing Freebird at a funeral one time.
I yelled it when I was at a Skynrd concert. They came back and played it as their encore and it was the best song I've ever heard live. I'll never forget that one.
I've done the same
Hell, who hasn't???
I also like to yell "JIMI!!!" - something folks used to yell at disco bands back in the '70s - at least at the high-school dances I attended...
As someone who grew up in the south and still resides there. It is nauseating how often this song is played and or requested.
What I find even more nauseating is how it's been equated with the conservative south as some kind of theme-song, while the band was anything but conservative.
What I find even more nauseating is how it's been equated with the conservative south as some kind of theme-song, while the band was anything but conservative.
It has, what, one of the original members?
To me that's just a group of guys co-opting some really great music by a really great band. It's lynyrd skynyrd in name only.
Someone should write a song named "Play Freebird" about some drunk requesting freebird... then when a drunk requests freebird by yelling Play Freebird the band could play "Play Freebird"
2. Ricky Medlocke was the original drummer before they got a record deal.He's now a guitarist.
Still,I agree with your sentiments.
Like others said. Learn the most obnoxious very of freebird possible and play it for them. We also broke into eye of the tiger every tome a fight broke out. Club owners love that.
I like Blue Man Group's take on it. For the unaware, there is a part of their show where they start to play various popular songs on tuned PVC pipes. A plant in the audience calls for Free Bird, at which point the backing band starts it up. One of the Blue Men pulls out a lighter, but another one puts it out with a fire extinguisher.
Not much escaping it in the South, so I prefer teasing the opening before leading into something much heavier (usually thrash metal or some NWOBHM) to throw 'em off.
Not much escaping it in the South, so I prefer teasing the opening before leading into something much heavier (usually thrash metal or some NWOBHM) to throw 'em off.
