Anyone wanna listen to Freebird?

[1919_4_ME]

Lynard Skynard in Oakland, California. Free Bird.
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[Ptmetals]

This made my day, totally cool brings back the good ol times.

[dutigaf]

nice find there city boy!

[Kali Komrade]

Gee... The stars and Bars... Too bad the original group isn't all together anymore but it would have been cool to see them take stage that same way now... :headbang:

We may be Cali-fornians... But were So. Cali-fornians... :beer:

[1919_4_ME]

A bump for today... :headbang:

[VonRundstedt]

If I had a dollar for every time I played that guitar solo back in the '70s, I'd be kickin Hef outa the mansion..

35 years ago I was the most dangerous git player in the most dangerous band in Miami..damn, I feel old.

[1919_4_ME]

:headbang:

[Slick]

lotta memories........... :bounce:

[GUNRUNNER5150]

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[Kali Komrade]

Ya know what would rock even more than Freebird... Freebird and gun videos.... :banana:

Think we gotta do a mix on that one... Would take a lot of videos to fill that bad boy up... :headbang:

[Dan Wilson]

I see dead people :shock:



Dan

[GUNRUNNER5150]

bumpity bump bump bump :headbang:

[patriotpa]

Freebird? You've GOT to be kidding...from the same bunch of morons who brought us Saturday Night Special? PUHLEEEEEEASE!

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special
(ed king - ronnie vanzant)
two feets they come a creepin'
like a black cat do
and two bodies are lyin' naked
creeper think he got nothin' to lose
so he creeps into this house, yeah
and unlocks the door
and while a man reaching for his trousers
shoots him full of .38 holes
(chorus)
its a saturday night special
got a barrel that's blue and cold
ain't no good for nothin'
but put a man six feet in a hole
big jim's been drinkin' whiskey
and playing poker on a losin' night
pretty soon, big jim starts a thinkin'
somebody been cheatin' and lyin'
so big jim commences to fightin'
i wouldn't tell you no lie
and big jim done grab his pistol
shot his friend right between the eyes
(chorus)
hand guns are made for killin'
ain't no good for nothin' else
and if you like your whiskey
you might even shoot yourself
so why don't we dump 'em people
to the bottom of the sea
before some fool come around here
wanna shoot either you or me


Wanna know what to call the Oct 20 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash?
A good start. :cussing:

[COPE]

Patriotpa, I have to agree with you that the political views of the band are certainly skewed to the left. On their homepage they voice just how proud they are to have been proponents of the gun control movement long before anyone else.

Although I disagree with that point, I put is aside to enjoy the music. I still get chills everytime I hear Sweet Home Alabama, and I listen to it daily.

[patriotpa]

Although I disagree with that point, I put is aside to enjoy the music. I still get chills everytime I hear Sweet Home Alabama, and I listen to it daily.

...then you probably purchase tainted foodstuffs and substandard goods made by slave labor in Red China without a thought that the money you spend goes to fuel a regime that is even now engineering our downfall.

"...May your chains rest lightly" You can look up the rest of that quote. It'll do you good.

[Roc Rat]

I like it,,, moves the brain. More appropriate now more than ever!!!

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams


Ya know,, I have heard "Saturday Night Special" many times over the years, and like many other songs of my youth,, I had not the foggiest idea of what the fuck the song was about. Never listened to the words,,, I like a lot of stuff thats bad for me,, but I keep drinking it!

[BFS1]

Bump for Free your Mind Fridays!:headbang:

[patriotpa]

Don't forget to follow it up with Barbara Streisand's greatest hits, and a comedy routine by Ellen Degenneres and Rosie O'Donnell.

[tbcseod]

Freebird has always been "special" song for me - a lot of great (and many not so great) memories of my childhood/young adulthood come back to me when that song plays - That was the song that me and my 1st finance danced to, it was the song that played when I left for the military and it was our first dance at our wedding when we finally married some 12 years later......... It was also the song played at my brothers memorial - I remeber sitting with friends singing that song aloud and I remeber singing it under my breath in church........

Its a great song that means a great deal - irregardless of the band views or whatever - Great music if just that, music that is great in its own right, not because the band dresses cool - or shares your views or plays "x" brand of instruments.

May the freebirds keep on flying!
~TbcSEOD

[Pvt. Joker]

Well, while I'm not quite as extreme on the matter as PatriotPA, I do agree with him that even back then, their "Saturday Night Special" song left me with a bad taste in my mouth about them. But then again, by the time that Freebird was getting rotated to death here back then, I was more into the still-underground punk rock music. It was anti-disco, and it was anti-hippibilly, and as such, I embraced it as music that wasn't (at that point, at least) being mass-marketed to my generation as "socially acceptable rebellion" by the same record labels that controlled the message and ideology of pop. yes, it was 3 chords and anyone without a bit of musical artistry could- and often did- have a punk band. Even the better groups of the day like the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys were not polished acts. I never did get into the image (no mohawk photos of Junior Joker floating around out there; sorry) but I liked the idea of questioning not only authority, but also those who wanted to present themselves as anti-authoritarian but in the politcally correct manner. :flame: Frankly, punk music had more in common with that Confederate battle flag in the background than Lynard Skynard ever dreamed of, IMHO.