show etiquette

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.

https://www.concertarchives.org/image_uploads/photo/image/672277/large_Chicago_Tribune_Sun__Aug_8__1976_.jpg

Same planet, different worlds

1976?? 77?

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

Very similar. The codas of both are guitar solos over three chord patterns: Yes is I - ♭VI - IV and Lynyrd Skynyrd is I - ♭III - IV.

Ooh someone knows some theory!

1976?? 77?

1976! Someone taped the Yes set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kquodhaWXqQ

They're both in G as well.