If you went to a Skynyrd show and they DID NOT PLAY Free Bird, what would you do?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: If you went to a Skynyrd show and they DID NOT PLAY Free Bird, what would you do?

[liberaltrucker]

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd ceased to exist on October 20, 1977

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Van_Zant

These fuckers clinging to the name are at best
pretenders. At worst, plagiarists.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. The tipping point, for me, was when they paid off Ronnie's widow...

They did the "Tribute" tour...OK, that was reasonable, a way to bring closure and say goodbye to the fans. Except they didn't say goodbye, they stuck around. And they had an agreement with Ronnie's widow that three original members had to be in the band in order for them to keep calling it "Lynyrd Skynyrd." They had Rossington, Powell, and Wilkeson...then Leon died. So they threw money at her and she went away. Now it's only Rossington.

Reminds me of when The Monkees lost Tork, then Nesmith, then Jones & Dolenz put out an album called "Changes"...



...and one critic wrote "The next album will probably be recorded under the name "The Monkee"..."

:rofl:

[liberaltrucker]

3. The only time I saw Skynyrd live was at Rickwood Field in Birmingham

in 1974. A concert I'll remember till the day I'm planted.

:)

[IDemo]

4. I'm ineligible to attend a Skynyrd concert, since I don't have a Bic lighter

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Yeah, but if they didn't play "Free Bird," you wouldn't need one

I don't think the audience flicks their Bics for "Gimme Three Steps"...although I COULD be mistaken.

:rofl:

:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. My band was all-original (we did do a Suzanne Vega, John Hiatt, and another cover I can't remember).

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We (intentionally) had songs in our sets that would allow each
band member (except the drummer, poor Happy Sweaty Jimmy)
to take a break for bathroom or beer (or both... ... or MORE :evilgrin:).
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I would use mine to hide in the crowd and shout totally
inappropriately (yet gleefully and wickedly), "FREE BIRD!!
FREE BIRD!! FREE FUCKIN' BIRD, YOU FUCKIN' FUCKS!!!!!"
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I got away with it for quite a while before they busted me and
finally knew who that asshole in the crowd was ("he's here for
EVERY... FUCKING... SHOW").
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[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Rolling Stone recently ran a bit on a new Bob Dylan book by Greil Marcus...

...who had written a piece on "The Last Waltz" right after the event, long before the movie...and he lamented that someone in the audience had indeed yelled for "Free Bird."

When I first moved to California, the crowd I ran with had a special treat for the really shitty bands (like Y&T, who inexplicably opened for Peter Gabriel on his first solo tour after leaving Genesis):

"PLAY SLOOP JOHN B!"

You had to be there, yes, but it was always good for a few laughs from the crowd.

[flvegan]

8. Thank the music gods that I can go home 15 minutes sooner.