incessant talkers

[muschi]

DumDum, it's not that hard to get the origin of the freebird phenom w/o ever having seen the origin of it. if im not mistaken the most notable instance of it is from beaver and butthose. where'd u get your dr degree anyway dum dum?

[thirsty moore]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
 Especially since you're not old enough to have any idea where it comes from or why it was funny the first couple of times someone did it?  

Who the fuck are you to say this?  I cannot begin to describe how irate I get when people pull this on "how could you know" business on me.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  Just out of curiosity, why do you find it funny?  Especially since you're not old enough to have any idea where it comes from or why it was funny the first couple of times someone did it?  You can't possibly know that millions of herd-following longhairs across our nation at one time considered "Freebird" the single greatest accomplishment of human civilization, and consequently yelled it at every show because they really wanted to hear it.  

You know, my life doesn't overlap that of Abraham Lincoln's, nor have I ever lived in a country that allows slavery, but I think I can make a pretty good defense of why the Emancipation Proclimation was important.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by econo:
  Who the fuck are you to say this?  I cannot begin to describe how irate I get when people pull this on "how could you know" business on me.

Easy there dude, we're having a discussion on why people yell "Freebird," it's not like we're talking about some major life-or-death issue.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by [username edited by p.c. moderator]:
   

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  Just out of curiosity, why do you find it funny?  Especially since you're not old enough to have any idea where it comes from or why it was funny the first couple of times someone did it?  You can't possibly know that millions of herd-following longhairs across our nation at one time considered "Freebird" the single greatest accomplishment of human civilization, and consequently yelled it at every show because they really wanted to hear it.  

You know, my life doesn't overlap that of Abraham Lincoln's, nor have I ever lived in a country that allows slavery, but I think I can make a pretty good defense of why the Emancipation Proclimation was important. [/b]

Yeah, but you don't go around telling inside jokes from Abe Lincoln's time, do you?

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
 Yeah, but you don't go around telling inside jokes from Abe Lincoln's time, do you?

Dude, that's so cotton gin of you to say.

[sacriforce]

what Dr. Doom said makes perfect sense. It's not like going around saying "Where's The Beef" or some other classic one-liner. This is Skynyrd, motherfucker. Recognize.

[Sir HC]

I remember when years back someone did the Freebird thing to Fugazi and they gave the guy the finger, a free "bird" as it were, ha ha.
 
 People have said there is a need to update the song to shout out at gigs, maybe Rico Suave?
 
 And this talking is not a new phenomenon, years back I went to Cracker when "Eurotrash Girl" was big.  We left 1/2 way through the set (got in free) because you could not hear the band over the conversations.  I put the problem more to people whose concert experiences are mostly those at bars where the band was secondary and just there for background noise.  They take that attitude to real concerts.

[edbert]

You can't possibly know that millions of herd-following longhairs across our nation at one time considered "Freebird" the single greatest accomplishment of human civilization, and consequently yelled it at every show because they really wanted to hear it.

I'm that old, and my recollection is that it was initially a goof on the live Skynryd album that came out in the 1970s with the audience yelling for Freebird between every song. I don't think many of the first people to yell for it at non-Skynyrd shows were actually into the song.  As far as it being the special hillbilly anthem, no not particularly, there were other songs at least as big in that role and you never heard people yelling "Green Grass And High Tides Forever!!" at non-Outlaws shows

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by edbert:
 I'm that old, and my recollection is that it was initially a goof on the live Skynryd album that came out in the 1970s with the audience yelling for Freebird between every song. I don't think many of the first people to yell for it at non-Skynyrd shows were actually into the song.  As far as it being the special hillbilly anthem, no not particularly, there were other songs at least as big in that role and you never heard people yelling "Green Grass And High Tides Forever!!" at non-Outlaws shows

Wait, you mean Doctor Doom DOESN'T know everything?  My world is crumbling around me.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by edbert:
  you never heard people yelling "Green Grass And High Tides Forever!!" at non-Outlaws shows

1) "Green Grass and High Tides Forever" is too much of a mouthful
 
 2) "Freebird" went beyond being the anthem of redneck hippies, to a much broader mainstream stoner audience.
 
 For example, my sister's Leland Jr. High School yearbook, from 1980, states that "The biggest debate of the year was which was the best song of all times: 'Stairway to Heaven,' or 'Freebird.'"

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I always like to yell Homer Simpson's eternal "I like music!" at every band I happen to see preform. It's sort of the catch-all to end all catch-all's.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
 Wait, you mean Doctor Doom DOESN'T know everything?  My world is crumbling around me.

Your attitude is not conducive to furthering this serious academic inquiry.  As a result, you are invited to stuff a sock in it.

[thirsty moore]

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
 For example, my sister's Leland Jr. High School yearbook, from 1980, states that "The biggest debate of the year was which was the best song of all times: 'Stairway to Heaven,' or 'Freebird.'"

Allmusic.com dates Led Zeppelin IV as being released in 1971.  Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd was released in 1973.  So your sister's junior high class had no business debating songs that were written before they entered junior high.  

[kosmo vinyl]

The first time I recall hearing the request was at a True Believers show around 86, and it was actually quite funny given the three guitar lineup the band had.  It was funny a couple after that and now down right annoying.... sorta like an catch phrase SNL picks up on...