FREE BIRD!!!

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Tonight Spitfire and I helped some friends chaperone their son's 16th birthday party. This boy plays basketball with my youngest son. On up in the evening the strains of Free bird came over the sound system. I pulled a reluctant Spitfire onto the dance floor. Before long we were lost in our own little world. I was taken back to a sultry July evening in 1988. Spitfire and I had gone down to Nashville to see a friend's band that was playing at Riverfront Park.  For their last song of the evening Jason and the Scorchers struck up Free Bird. As Spitfire and I held each other close and swayed to the music that night I knew that I'd never dance with any one else. Tonight I felt that old familiar feeling again.

Tonight we celebrated life. We ate, we sang and we danced just as man has  done for thousands of years. It's sure good to be alive.

ChuckBob
 
Excellent post! God bless you and your family Chuck Bob :)
 
Good stuff Chuck Bob.  You have been blessed well.
 
That was a long dance, if they played the whole song

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I don't get the hype around "Free Bird."  I find the song overlong, repetitive, and overall boring. (Unlike, say, "Sweet Home Alabama," which has the added virtue of telling Neil Young where he can get off.)
 
It's a Southern thing Ransom. Back when I was a young buck Free Bird was always the last song the band or the DJ played for the evening.  When the fast part started everybody always snuck out with their respective other and headed  for where ever they were going.


ChuckBob
 
And here I thought ChuckBob was giving birds away for free. I'm in the market for a Canary or a Parakeet.

LOL!!

:D
 
Here in the South, if you played an instrument you knew Freebird. I remember several times in high school/college sitting down with complete strangers and forming an impromptu band. The one song everyone could play was Freebird.

More Freebird trivia: After the plane crash, the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd made an album and toured as Rossington-Collins. They came here (Lynyrd Skynyrd was supposed to have played here a couple of weeks after the date of the crash) and played to a sold out house. They didn't play any Lynyrd Skynyrd music, which was dissapointing. However, when the whole place (4000 people) shouted "Freebird" for the encore, they played the song with an empty mike and no one singing. Quite an evening for us southern high schoolers.
 
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