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1OldGI

1OldGI

This week marks the 35th anniversary of the release of the greatest rock and roll song ever recorded. Their managers told them not to put this on their first album (it was too long). Well, thank God these guys are a bunch of Florida Rednecks that don't like to be told what to do. IMHO, if you don't like this song, you should quit listening to music PERIOD. Ladies and Gentlmen MY national anthem!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2331361172433508243

This video has incited me to HBAD (hat band acquisiton disorder) must have an Eastern Diamond Back hat band for one of my fedoras. Yee Ha! Hey wait, that's Ron Jeremy on keyboard right?
 
Tom C

Tom C

Over the years, guitar magazines the world over have published articles listing "guitar riffs that must die". Almost every riff in Freebird makes the list, and deservedly so IMO.
 
arghblech

arghblech

I yell Freebird at bands that suck. It is universally considered to be the biggest insult in music.

More than once a member of the band (and once the entire band) have come off the stage to get me :biggrin:
 
Walter Sobchak

Walter Sobchak

arghblech said:
I yell Freebird at bands that suck. It is universally considered to be the biggest insult in music.

More than once a member of the band (and once the entire band) have come off the stage to get me :biggrin:
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+1

I also yell it whenever I'm at a karaoke night. Which, is never....since I got married. And also, I sing like Don Knotts.
 
M

Mr. Clean

Thumbs up for Lynyrd Skynyrd, two thumbs way down for Free Bird. Time has not been kind to the song. After following the link to verify that was really what we were talking about, I quickly closed the video before I was robbed of 12 minutes :eek: of my life that would be irretrievable.

Best to lay off the G&Ts.
 
strat1117

strat1117

Really dude? Free Bird is your end all and be all of music?

It's a good song, southern rock anthem and all that, but, well, frankly, I'd rather go wallow in my own crapulence.

I guess I didn't have to edit the teeth out of my original post (#2). You guys all said it for me. Thanks!
 
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1OldGI

1OldGI

rdeakle said:
OH GOD dont tell me its free bird...

EDIT:...... It was free bird....
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No accounting for taste I guess. Dude, I can understand the guys from up North not being on board but come on, a guy from Gainesville hating on Skynrd!? Where'd you go to college University of Georgia? On the lighter side, I recently saw David Spade on Comedy Central goofing on Lynrd Skynrd. He said just once he would have like to seen Lynrd Skynrd OPEN a concert with Free Bird. The place would be empty as soon as the song was over. He also said that every song other than Free Bird that they ever did should have simply been called "Not Free Bird" All pretty harsh assessments to me. This is some great guitar work whether you like the song or not.
 
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Legion

Legion

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I don't mind it. I really like the use of it in the final scenes of The Devils Rejects movie directed by Rob Zombie.

I guess the way you feel about a song depends on your associations with it. I'm a bit young to remember when it first came out...

Actually it was released the same year I was!
 
Groundhog

Groundhog

JimBow said:
This is stunning. It's a classic, and it's being treated as if it were the plague....
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+1.
It's not my favorite Skynyrd song, but it deserves a little more respect. It's true that the song has been played ad nauseum along with "Sweet Home Alabama", but it's still a classic. It's just a shame that these two songs have come to identify the band, but neither is anywhere near as good as "Tuesday's Gone" or "Simple Man." True Skynyrd fans have more appreciation for "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" or "Workin' for MCA".

Besides, the true official Redneck Anthem is "Gimme Three Steps." :wink:

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BTW GI, us Dawgs like Skynyrd too.:wink:

I never noticed that Billy Powell and Ron Jeremy do kind of look alike.......

And David Spade is a sawed off little sh*t who probably listens to Air Supply.
 
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