Just sayin

Lynard Skynard has two songs: Freebird aaaand Not Freebird

a good song. And yes, I like the extended solo at the end.

Hi,

Back in the day, Yes a long time ago; I went to a Who concert. I had always wanted to see the Who, hearing incredible things about their live shows. Alas, it was not to be.

The opening act was this unknown band named Lynyrd Skynyrd. I had never heard of them at that time. Their sound system that night was awful, they were obviously so over medicated that they kept making simple mistakes & they were not even tight that evening.
It was not good. I thought these guys would never make it big & why are they here on stage.

The same for the Who. They kept having major technical issues with their sound equipment & it was obvious that they were at bit over medicated as well. Roger Daltrey broke at least 4 or 5 microphones, Pete townsend was in a very bad mood all night & that drummer guy, Keith moon fell off his drum set & was having problems keeping the time.

Without a doubt one of the worst concerts I have ever attended. I still have the ticket stub with all my other concert souvenirs.

Hi,

When you pay money to see a professional musician, they should be perfect. When you fall off your drum set & can't stand up because you are drunk, can't get your guitar tuned because you are stoned out of your mind, shows total disregard for those people that paid to see the show.

There is no such thing as an off night if you call yourself professional & charge people to see you.

Further, in discussions about pirating copies of music, the practice is invariably defended on the grounds that the artists make their money from touring, rather thsn from record sales. If that's truly the case, then they have no excuse not to give 100% at every performance.

Sure, the language of ticket sales is structured to protect the venue and performer against any financial repercussions of playing a bad show, but that's just legalistic CYA. The artist should still be held to a standard of professionalism if he or she expects to get paid.

Berlin Germany, 1971 or 72. Rod Stewart and the Faces were forced off the stage early on in the show by an angry mob of concert goers.

My personal eye-witness account:
It was shortly before or after new years eve and fireworks were easily gotten and easily smuggled into the concert. Furthermore, back then beer and wine were purchaseable at the show and could be consumed anywhere in the venue.

The opening act was a very poor imitation of the heavy metal band Uriah Heep. It was a relief when they left the stage but when it was announced that Rod Stewart and the Faces were going to be late that awful band retook the stage while boos rained down on them. They left the stage midsong when a few firecrackers landed onstage.

After a lengthy time Rod Stewart came to the stage alone and berated us for our treatment of the opening band and made some claim that due to contractual agreement he and his band would perform shortly but he was reluctant to do so at this point. More boos and more fireworks followed him as he exited the stage.


The band's equipment got set up, and Rod Stewart and the Faces took the stage and started the show. Fireworks and now bottles started hitting the stage on occasion.

A large firecracker lands in front of Rod Stewart, he kicks it off the stage into the crowd. The crowd where the firecracker exploded rushes the stage, Rod grabs his mike stand like a baseball bat and swings on the first person to come near him, knocking him back offstage back into the crowd.

The front ranks of the audiance then swarm the stage totally engulfing the band, before security could get there. Mass confusion and lots of fighting ensue onstage, then security reaches the bandmembers and pull them backstage.

30 minutes later, Rod Stewart amid a group of big Security types comes back on stage and informs us that those who wish to leave would be reimbursed at the door and those who wished to stay could do so, that the show would continue after those wanting to leave had left.

About a third of the concert attendees left. My date was a fan so we stayed. Rod Stewart and the Faces performed short set as promised.

True Story, I Googled it but only came up with link to photo of Rod with the microphone stand.

http://www.imagesanddesigns.com/Other/Rod-Stewart-Faces-Berlin/12430220_G8wKn5/889744322_QudRe

It was the very one I recall seeing him swing before he got swarmed under.

I'm not a fan, though.

I moved to Tampa in late '70, I knew the Outlaws way back. Have two cd's to listen at work back in Texas now.

The 87,402nd time, not so much...

I'm one of them.

Allen Collin's guitar solo on Freebird is pretty hot. It's a lot of fun to play, and it's hard to play correctly.

100 Greatest Guitar Solos: #3) "Free Bird" (Allen Collins, Gary Rossington)
http://www.guitarworld.com/features/gw-archive/guitar-world-lists/100-greatest-guitar-solos?page=4

but a pretty cool song.

FWIW, he's playing a Gibson Explorer, not a Firebird.......sorry, I'm kind of a guitar geek.

Carry on......

I was just quoting from a review.

Not sure it can be taken seriously and I don't even know how to hold a guitar.........

...before the singing starts and after the singing ends.

The droning, sleepy, ponderous lyrics make me want to vomit.

For sheer suckage, the original outmatches even the late 80s cover/medley by Will to Power, and that's saying something!

... whining, moaning simplistic crap.

at the end of The Devil's Rejects.

I used to think Tom Clancy books were good literature too..................

To me it represents nostalgia and my teen years. It doesn't matter if it is good or not. All that matters to me are the strong, positive feelings I had when I listened to it cranked up ad nauseum in my youth. Whenever I hear it, it takes me away to that time in my life when everything was uncertain and I was able to temporarily lose myself with exuberance in the energy of that song.

I'm a huge fan of their pre-In Through The Out Door catalog, but I really wish I had last heard "Stairway" in 1983.

I grew up in the 80s listening to 60s, 70s, and 80s rock and it was all cool when I was a kid. But after listening to that stuff for so many years, it just didn't do much for me anymore and I just wanted to get into the new stuff.

There are still a few of the old classics I get into. I've been listening to Jimi Hendrix's non-popular stuff lately and I just bought Ozzy's "Diary of a Madman" and "Blizzard of Ozz," but that's music that you normally don't hear around here on the radio.

When I listen to the classic rock stations on commercial radio and they are playing the same stuff they did 30-40 years ago, I just don't understand how people can just listen to the same music for that period of time. But a lot of people do. Perhaps most people just get into the stuff they grew up with that made the greatest impression on them.

It can get quite hectic in the booth. Sometimes the jock just needs a few minutes to take a pee or a . They're also often played at the end of an airshift, so the jock can head out a few minutes early.

Maybe with all this automation we'll hear less of them.

However, I know several radio stations during the 90's that would have "get the Led out" days where they would play nothing but Led Zeppelin all frickin day long. To this day I can't stand Led Zeppelin for this reason. It's not because they weren't talented and didn't lay down some good tunes, because they did. It's because I've simply heard their music as many times as I care to for my entire life.

Every week or so at work I have to get through a day with someone's radio blaring the local "classic rock" station for 7+ hours while we work in the shop. It's freaking torture! While this might amount to spot-checking the state of mainstream radio I'm nevertheless amazed at just how damned repetitive it is. Pretty much a succession of "corporate rock" hits or stuff from decent bands but only "1st song on side A stuff" everyone's heard ad-nauseum....peppered with screaming obnoxious commercials. I tell you, when the day is over I'm "world weary" with such a cluttered head I want to wander into the wilderness for a week to clear my head.

Like you I used to like Freebird and STH but it's everything I can do not to hate them now.

However, I have a few of them available on XM plus many other good stations to pick from. So as soon as they play as song that has been overplayed till hell won't have it, I can just channel surf, and if that doesn't get it done I can switch over to the iPhone. Long gone are the days when there was only one channel to pick from that wasn't disco or country and you had to settle for whatever they played. I don't miss them.

It's not only just the lack of commercials, but the programming is superior too. Lots of stuff that isn't all "hits".

FM radio is dead to me, both figuratively and literally.

For a moment there I thought you said "Freebird is an awful song", but that can't be right. I need to step away from the computer for a while, my English reading skills are failing me.

HATE IT. The song sucks, and the people I've known who love it and scream it when they hear it have been morons.

And don't talk to me about Led Zep--I thought they were awful back in 1969 and I STILL think they're awful.

At the guy's weekly band practice.

What rock did you crawl out from underneath? Because that's probably the only place in the world that could spare you from the dreckitude called 'Freebird'

I cited the Will to Power version upthread on purpose; when it came out, I realized immediately that--as bad as it was--it was no worse than the original.

So sue me.

last time I heard it my neighbor was blasting it out his window with his awesome system that makes all his music sound great. I was a bit drunk and it was fantastic.

Sure, it's overplayed. But it rules.

Best use of freebird in a movie was that rob zombie flick...the devils rejects...this scene....Play sum skin-erd !!!!

Michael Hayes is the only one still alive, IIRC.

The original Tequila debauchery song does NOT suck. Well maybe on occasion after brain cells reassemble it 'kinda sucks. And on very rare moments it sort of trudges along. And if you want to be very very picky, once in the blue moon period it rots eardrums with a shit aftertaste.

OK OK it's horrible...