Freebird

PM_Mama00 · #1 01-20-2006, 08:06 PM

Can someone explain why it's so popular to yell out "Freebird!" at the bar? Me and my friends do it, cuz it's fun. But what exactly started the "Freebird!" thing?

moe.ron · #2 01-21-2006, 04:44 AM

I get really annoyed when people yelled out Freebird. Almost as bad as people who are trying out guitars playing Stairway to Heaven.

PM_Mama00 · #3 01-21-2006, 11:23 AM

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Originally posted by AXiD670
Usually when people are yelling "Freebird!" at a bar, a band is playing. (Most likely you're surrounded by rednecks.) Freebird is an uber-popular Lynard Skynard song. It generally means one of two things: people are yelling it to request the band to play that song (or another Lynard Skynard song), or they're yelling it as an appreciation of the song the band is playing.

Did that make any sense?

Lol yeah makes sense. We love that song so I like to yell it out. I thought maybe there was some kind of historical thing behind it.

damasa · #4 01-21-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Can someone explain why it's so popular to yell out "Freebird!" at the bar? Me and my friends do it, cuz it's fun. But what exactly started the "Freebird!" thing?

So you like to yell out random things in a bar without knowing what they mean?

Is this a Michigan thing?

PM_Mama00 · #5 01-21-2006, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
So you like to yell out random things in a bar without knowing what they mean?

Is this a Michigan thing?

No. We yell out the song cuz we like it and want it played.

And then I heard it in that country song "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" and wondered if there was history behind it.

FSUZeta · #6 01-21-2006, 06:34 PM

pm mama, there is a history behind it and there was a story about in in the wall street journal this past year(can't remember if if was in the summer or fall). if i can find it for you i'll let you know.

#7 01-22-2006, 12:17 AM

Last year I was lucky enough to see Lynyrd Skynyrd perform on the 4th of July.

The Honolulu Advertiser ran a story on the song after interviewing guitarist Gary Rossington about it.

In addition to the reasons listed above, we all know that a lot of people do it just to annoy the shit outta the band.

How awesome to finally be at a concert and yell out "Freebird!" and the band actually plays it.

kafromTN · #8 01-22-2006, 02:59 AM

That's not "Lynyrd Skynyrd" you saw...when you lose 3 members of a band, only the name is carried on. Because Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines died in 1977 in a plane crash. It's like saying Dave Grohl is still in Nirvana.

That is all.

-Mark

#9 01-22-2006, 03:14 AM

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Originally posted by kafromTN
That's not "Lynyrd Skynyrd" you saw...when you lose 3 members of a band, only the name is carried on. Because Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines died in 1977 in a plane crash. It's like saying Dave Grohl is still in Nirvana.

That is all.

-Mark

OMG, I soooooo didn't know that three of their members died in a plane crash in 1977!

NO SHIT MARK. But being that I wasn't alive in 1977 (and neither were you, I might add) to see the REAL "Lynyrd Skynyrd" live, I was pretty happy with the "Lynyrd Skynyrd" that I saw on the 4th of July.

Maybe you should start a petition to get them to change their name then, so that they don't go around touring the country and making money offa the name that belonged to the original band since it gets your panties bunched up so much.

UKTriDelt · #10 01-22-2006, 05:32 PM

Yeah at least Skynyrd has the singer's brother up there singing... I have a much bigger problem with Axl Rose calling his new little (terrible) band Guns'N'Roses. Anyone else remember that performance they did at the MTV awards?

Edited because my grammar was messed up.

PiKA2001 · #11 01-22-2006, 10:45 PM

Free Bird was my senior class song in high school.

HBADPi · #12 01-23-2006, 01:15 PM

The title of this thread brought back memories of the time my friends and I were down in Cape Cod one night over the summer and these super drunk morons put in 10 bucks worth of change in the jukebox and made it play Freebird consecutively for what seemed like 18 hrs.

#13 01-23-2006, 02:51 PM

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Originally posted by HBADPi
The title of this thread brought back memories of the time my friends and I were down in Cape Cod one night over the summer and these super drunk morons put in 10 bucks worth of change in the jukebox and made it play Freebird consecutively for what seemed like 18 hrs.

Hahahahahaha. I can just picture it now!

At the bar the other week some drunkfcuk played Barry White songs for what seemed like 18 hours. I was ready to take my beer and hit MY head with it.

PM_Mama00 · #14 01-23-2006, 04:53 PM

Lol we pretty much own the bar we go to on Thursdays and Fridays so to piss people off we play Journey "Don't Stop Believin" everytime one of us goes to play music. Lol pisses off some of our friends but actually some of the randoms in there think it's hilarious and join in on the song playing.

HBADPi · #15 01-23-2006, 05:06 PM

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Originally posted by OTW
I was ready to take my beer and hit MY head with it.

Yup that pretty much was the consensus in the entire bar.

Plus Freebird is a long ass song too!