elj
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Re: incessant talkers
November 28, 2005 at 10:48 PM UTC
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Originally posted by _Sexy Fitsum_:
homophobe much?
Yes, I fear homosexuals. When confronted with a non-hetero individual, I often run in terror.
bcooke
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Re: incessant talkers
November 28, 2005 at 11:32 PM UTC
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I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.
Doctor Doom
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 12:48 AM UTC
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I think if every time someone yelled that, bands would start playing the song – and not just a few notes, but the whole song – people would stop yelling it.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 12:50 AM UTC
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Originally posted by Cooke:
I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.
i think it's kind of funny.
radioclash
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 03:09 AM UTC
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
Originally posted by Cooke:
I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.
i think it's kind of funny.
you be betty
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 11:26 AM UTC
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
Originally posted by Cooke:
I would personally like to know when will people finally get the clue that it is not nor ever really was funny to yell requesting Free Bird at a show.
i think it's kind of funny.
are you kidding me?? I LOVE THAT GUY!
seriously, there is one at every show. always makes my night.
Doctor Doom
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 12:28 PM UTC
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Originally posted by you be betty:
are you kidding me?? I LOVE THAT GUY!
seriously, there is one at every show. always makes my night.
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. It's likely that not once in your life has someone ever yelled "Freebird" in earnest sincerity. So why funny?
I'm not being critical, I sincerely want to know. I think you may hold the key as to why this phenomenon looks likely to survive long beyond the generation that spawned it.
muschi
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 01:24 PM UTC
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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
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 02:10 PM UTC
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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.
elj
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 02:20 PM UTC
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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.
Doctor Doom
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 02:21 PM UTC
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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.
Doctor Doom
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 02:23 PM UTC
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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.
Yeah, but you don't go around telling inside jokes from Abe Lincoln's time, do you?
elj
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 02:28 PM UTC
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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
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 03:34 PM UTC
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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
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 03:53 PM UTC
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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
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 04:07 PM UTC
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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
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Re: incessant talkers
November 29, 2005 at 04:19 PM UTC
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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.