show etiquette

I could imagine them doing a pretty good version of it.

I could imagine Marc Ribot doing an interesting version

I read of a band (not Southern Rock) that played "Freebird" in full every time someone yelled for it. The irony would be if they became known and loved as the Freebird band to the exclusion of their regular material.

xps to majorairbro: Kim wasn't smoking, this was younger guys in the crowd. also people walking around with unlit cigs in mouth. and, no, smoking not permitted/legal.

have seen a few people smoking on stage recently, including David Thomas with Pere Ubu last year (Wayne Kramer on guitar, so got Kick out the Jams!).

Remembering the time I saw Built To Spill in the early 2000s and they played Freebird. That was the last time I listened to Built To Spill.

Ha, me too (on both counts). I feel like the same night I saw BtS do "Freebird," George Harrison had just died, and they did a great "What Is Life." The might have done another cover that night, too, like maybe Cheap Trick's "Dream Police."

lol nailed it, memory like a steel trap!!!

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/built-to-spill/2001/metro-chicago-il-3e8797b.html

Marc Robit is boring af imho

If you can’t smile at “Freebird” I feel bad for you

My old stoner rock group would do a few bars of sweet home Alabama if it was yelled to us a few times on stage.

I would think that if your band was known for playing "Freebird" in full every time it was requested, your shows would be nothing but endless versions of the song, and you'd wind up being the musical equivalent of that Tim Robinson mime performer whose promise to give money to the audience every time he breaks silence guarantees non-stop frat-boy chaos.

IT'S A FUCKING CUP

What are you doing?! What are you supposed to be doing?!!!

My old stoner rock group would do a few bars of sweet home Alabama if it was yelled to us a few times on stage.

I would think that if your band was known for playing "Freebird" in full every time it was requested, your shows would be nothing but endless versions of the song, and you'd wind up being the musical equivalent of that Tim Robinson mime performer whose promise to give money to the audience every time he breaks silence guarantees non-stop frat-boy chaos.

― henry s, Saturday, April 13, 2024 2:14 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you would essentially be Big Mouth Billy Bass: the band

Opposite concept I thought would be funny: saw Tim Kinsella play solo in Chicago when I was there and he started to play his ear-worm "whose afraid of Elizabeth taylor", just the opening guitar line. The audience "wooo"'ed, myself included at which point he said "nah, I don't feel like playing that one any more, you can't get everything you want people".

It was kinda funny, but also, I just wanted the guy to play the hits, nor his boring ass new material!

N-e-ways, I thought it'd be a great bit for aging, pissed off rocked groups to try, ideally multiple times a night

lol feist did that with a broken social scene tune when i saw her.

Ray Davies would do that with "Lola" and maybe some other tunes. He would end up playing them eventually though.

ha I am betting Jonathan Richman has never, ever done this

Freebird is great, by the way. Ironically requesting it at shows is lame.

otm on both counts, also it is fun to play

Each band must gaze deep into the audience's soul to find out if their desire for "Freebird" is ironic or sincere/

Mark Eitzel and Vudi were once booted from a Bark Psychosis show for loudly requesting "Tequila", per an AMC feature in the early 90's, I wanna say Melody Maker or maybe Lime Lizard?

Actually, the best version of this trope would take place at a Lynyrd Skynyrd show. When they come out for their final encore, asking "y'all know what we're gonna play now, dontcha?", the whole audience stares back at them in silent bewilderment.

Each band must gaze deep into the audience's soul to find out if their desire for "Freebird" is ironic or sincere/

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, April 13, 2024 5:08 PM

i like this. treat it like challenges to review the replay in sports: you only get a few, so use 'em wisely!

Am I imagining it or did Skynyrd preface Freebird in concert by asking “what song is it you wanna hear?”

My parents had a Lynyrd Skynyrd greatest hits CD when I was younger and on the live version of Freebird that closed out the album, they did in fact preface it by asking the crowd "what song is it you wanna hear?"

Freebird rules.

I have always wished there had been a song called “Slow Bird” in the 70’s to complete the cycle:

“Free Bird”…”Free Ride”…”Slow Ride”…

It's kind of dangerous for a bird to fly slow? You could just change the metadata of Neil's track and it'd fit

My parents had a Lynyrd Skynyrd greatest hits CD when I was younger and on the live version of Freebird that closed out the album, they did in fact preface it by asking the crowd "what song is it you wanna hear?"

That's were the tradition started!

Xp there’s always “Danger Bird”

My parents had a Lynyrd Skynyrd greatest hits CD when I was younger and on the live version of Freebird that closed out the album, they did in fact preface it by asking the crowd "what song is it you wanna hear?"

Xp that's what I was saying!

every time someone yells out free bird a band should just immediately do a 20 minute version of marquee moon. the nerd free bird!

but wait back up on this thread what do classical audiences do that makes them the worst? i must know.

every time someone yells out free bird a band should just immediately do a 20 minute version of marquee moon. the nerd free bird!

xpost Security told me that for the outdoor shows, half the audience claims to know somebody high up - the mayor, the head of the orchestra, whatever - and they are all relentless and demanding and obnoxious trying to jockey for better seats. Imagine hundreds of entitled tipsy people saying "do you know who I am?" and then trying to sneak or push past you to get to the front.

The point isn't whether the song Free Bird is a good song, it's that shouting it at shows to be funny is stupid and way beyond expiry

How did this start? Does it go back to the call-and-response on the live album?

yes

Pretty sure Yes has never covered "Freebird," but I bet they would *not* do a good version. Well, actually, I think they could do OK with the first part, in the mode of the first part of "I've Seen All Good People," but not the soloing section (oddly enough).

I dunno. The "jamming" section of "Yours Is No Disgrace" leads me to believe they'd have at least a puncher's chance.

yeah but the accents would be all wrong

If oy stye here tomahrah

looool

at first I thought it was your parents posing the question, and after further thought, I will stick to this interpretation.
― assert (matttkkkk)

for what it's worth my dad would often jump the gun and ask me and my brothers "what song is it you wanna hear?" before the band got around to it

bands should get into it.

someone shouts Freebird.

The band announces "This next song is called Freebird"

Then they play whatever song was next on their set list

rinse and repeat etc

"play it pretty for Atlanta"

Steve Howe could totally do the gnarliest version of the Freebird solo you've ever heard, it's Jon who I don't think could pull it off

I don't think Steve is loose enough for the solo. Not that the "Freebird" solo is not tight as hell, but it's as much about feel as it is about precision.

that's why they don't do it, it would take him 2 months to compose the solo note for note but when it was done I bet it would rule

Starship Trooper is Yes's answer to Freebird, or maybe the other way around.