freebird

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

"Freebird" and "Stairway to Heaven" followed a critical formula of 70s rock anthems:  you basically take two unrelated songs and tack them together, and hopefully have an extremely long guitar solo in there somewhere, too.
 
 "Starship Trooper," by Yes, also followed this formula, with the delightfully pompous added touch of being divided up into "movements" like a classical piece.
 
 And then of course there was "Feeling That Way / Anytime," by Journey, which really deserves more acclaim for 70s cheese-rock anthem status than Freebird does.
 
 For the 90s, I've long believed that "I Am The Resurrection" by the Stone Roses is that decade's "Freebird."
 
 and heh... one thing I'll never stop laughing about is my sister's Junior High School yearbook from 1980, where they note that "the biggest debate of the year was which song rocked more, Freebird or Stairway to Heaven."
 
 Ah, if only that were the biggest thing we had to worry about now....

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I don't think any song by Stone Roses has received even a quarter of the popularity of Stairway to Heaven or Freebird.
 
 What is the biggest thing we have to worry about now?
 
 

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  "Freebird" and "Stairway to Heaven" followed a critical formula of 70s rock anthems:  you basically take two unrelated songs and tack them together, and hopefully have an extremely long guitar solo in there somewhere, too.
 
 "Starship Trooper," by Yes, also followed this formula, with the delightfully pompous added touch of being divided up into "movements" like a classical piece.
 
 And then of course there was "Feeling That Way / Anytime," by Journey, which really deserves more acclaim for 70s cheese-rock anthem status than Freebird does.
 
 For the 90s, I've long believed that "I Am The Resurrection" by the Stone Roses is that decade's "Freebird."
 
 and heh... one thing I'll never stop laughing about is my sister's Junior High School yearbook from 1980, where they note that "the biggest debate of the year was which song rocked more, Freebird or Stairway to Heaven."
 
 Ah, if only that were the biggest thing we had to worry about now....

Weren't devil-fingers invented because of the FREEBIRD guitar duel? <img src="http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/banger.gif" alt=" - " />

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Devil fingers were invented by OZZY concert goers after Ozzy bit off the head of a bat onstage in 1978.  The fingers originally symbolized a bat silhouette, and eventually came to more generically represent the devil.

[ggw]

Ronnie James Dio begs to differ.
 
 http://www.mk-magazine.com/news/archives/000929.php
 
 

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  Devil fingers were invented by OZZY concert goers after Ozzy bit off the head of a bat onstage in 1978.  The fingers originally symbolized a bat silhouette, and eventually came to more generically represent the devil.

[kosmo vinyl]

then "how soon is now" fits in the 80s... come to think of it maybe thats what we should use to counter "freebird" requests.  

[kosmo vinyl]

taking this one step farther... as a super uber hipster handshake we can all shout "HSIN" and make each other giggle as everyone else think we are all crazy. that until some blogger goes and ruins its but posting it..

[ggw]

I always thought "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the "Stairway to Heaven" of the '90s.

[ratioci nation]

I suggest everybody yell Hot Freaks, as me and several friends would do at Superdrag shows, maybe I should go to the John Davis Iota show and do the same

[Venerable Bede]

Hook Em Horns!!!
 
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[Summerteeth]

They said when the paramedics got there, they could still here Freebird playing on the stereo.  You know its very long song.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Y. P. Blood:
 Me, I was one of them pussy boys cuz i hated football, so i got a guitar but a guitar was a poor substitute for a football with the girls in my high school.  So my band hit the road, and we didn't play no Skynyrd, neither.  I came of age rebelling against the music in my high school parking lot.  It wasn't until years later after leaving the south for a while that I came to appreciate and understand the whole Skynyrd thing and its misunderstood glory.  

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[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

that's probably because I made it up.     <img src="http://www.xs4all.nl/~ernstmul/images/yahoo/33.gif" alt=" - " />
 
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Ronnie James Dio begs to differ.
 
  http://www.mk-magazine.com/news/archives/000929.php
 
   

Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
  Devil fingers were invented by OZZY concert goers after Ozzy bit off the head of a bat onstage in 1978.  The fingers originally symbolized a bat silhouette, and eventually came to more generically represent the devil.

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