Free bird

Did they really play Lynyrd Skynyrds "Free bird" on that tour? Does anyone has a mp3 of that one?
Would like to hear it :)
Thnx

Which tour? Please be specific

Well now having myself seen Skynyrd LIVE 3 times...

...Queen+Paul Rodgers covering Freebird?..

...& how does Brian do the triple guitar attack of the original lineup of Gary Rossington, Allan Collins, & Ed King (later Steve Gaines)...

..or the reformed 1991-present version which I have seen with Gary Rossington, Ed King, Randall Hall, (later Rickey Medlocke, Hughie Thomasson)..

I gotta hear Paul singing Ronnie's part."won't you fly me a freebird yeah!!!"

Get out your bic lighters. Queen doing Southern Rock!

I appreciate Lynryd Skynyrd.

They were a pretty damn good band. They played with a lot of fire.

I've just recently listened to Second Helping for the first time in long while and I must say that it's really a superb album.

Arlene R. Weiss wrote:

Well now having myself seen Skynyrd LIVE 3 times...

...Queen+Paul Rodgers covering Freebird?..

...& how does Brian do the triple guitar attack of the original lineup of Gary Rossington, Allan Collins, & Ed King (later Steve Gaines)...

..or the reformed 1991-present version which I have seen with Gary Rossington, Ed King, Randall Hall, (later Rickey Medlocke, Hughie Thomasson)..

I gotta hear Paul singing Ronnie's part."won't you fly me a freebird yeah!!!"

Get out your bic lighters. Queen doing Southern Rock!

they do have Jamie Moses in the band so they could at least do two guitars if not three :)

Yes- they played it in Newcastle ;)
Nope- I think someone was ignorant enough tom istake it with SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE. Or just a wind up...

Didn't Roger once said he hated that song?

I thought it was merely reported as being one of the songs played over the PA before the concert at some of the venues. Is this where the confusion lays ?

Fenderek wrote:

Yes- they played it in Newcastle ;)
Nope- I think someone was ignorant enough tom istake it with SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE. Or just a wind up...

F: Not ignorant, just a wiseass. Guilty as charged.

Cheers!

-Crazy

ps: Cologne/Koln?

Crazy LittleThing wrote:

F: Not ignorant, just a wiseass. Guilty as charged.

Cheers!

-Crazy

ps: Cologne/Koln?

Was it you?
PS
Probably... Still not entirely sure...

I think Lynyrd Skynyrd are great, but didn't Roger think they were arseholes when they met them on tour in the 70's?

You're damn right! I think he said it in Uncut magazine march '05. I really can't believe they did that.

Maybe it isn't roger who's drumming but a session musician dressed up as him...

Oh hell, they should have done this with john deacon. Nobody would have noticed it.

wesi72 wrote:

I think Lynyrd Skynyrd are great, but didn't Roger think they were arseholes when they met them on tour in the 70's?

Well...as musicians and performers, I like Skynyrd's music alot..like I said I've seen em 3 times in concert..and I met them once too at a meet & greet. I used to think the world of them...but...

Let's see...as people though...

...Artimus Pyle was constantly squablling with theband and left Skynyrd for better things which turned out to be...being arrested for child molestation or something to that affect,

Billy Powell was arrested for beating the living crap out of his wife,

Allan Collins couldn't lay off drugs & booze & got arrested UMPTEEN times for wrapping his car around trees while wasted til the idiot finally was in such a bad wreak his passenger...his girlfriend was killed & he was charged with vehicular manslaughter..and Collins was paralyzed from the waist down & died in the early 90's from pneumonia complications related to his being paralyzed.

Leon Wilkeson was a violent drunk who met up with some not so nice associates..one night the band found his throat slashed on the tour bus (he survived)...it's disputed wether his
ex-girlfriend did it or a pissed off Ed King...then Wilkeson got liver disease from boozing and died a few years back.


Ed King also squabbled with the band and depending on who you speak to..after he SUED Skynyrd..he was either fired or he quit.

Gary Rossington can't lay off the booze and drugs...used to wrap his cars around trees. Became supposedly sober, but got so overweight (he makes Roger look anorexic) that a few years back he needed quintuple bypass heart surgery & the drs ordered him to stop treating his body like a garbage dump.

Every single original member of the band has sued one another repeatedly..including the estate of Ronnie Van Zandt..Judy..Ronnie's wife..who is a Hard Ass Red neck BITCH big time if you see her in interviews.

You think some people on QZ are pissed about Roger & Brian touring in 2005 using the name and as Queen,...

...well Judy sued the remaining band members after the plane crash a zillion times saying they couldn't call themselves Skynyrd..

...then Judy finally came to a "financially agreeable" agreement in 1991...but every year she still is battling Rossington in court about anything he & the band do over releases of music old & new, box sets, tours, merchandise, DVD's, concert footage. Half the time the damn band is duking it out in court.

Ed King sued Gary. Randall Hall sued Gary. Gary sued Judy. Judy sued Gary...etc. etc. etc.

Fellow QZoners, these (Skynyrd) are NOT nice people.

EVEN back in the original days of Skynyrd...you know how Ronnie & Gary used to...chill as friends...by brawling with one another til they were bloody & Ronnie gored Gary with a broken bottle. True Story. This was NOT a fight too. They were only "playing".

Yes,they don't appear to be that friendly a bunch!
I saw a documentary about them once (I think it was Behind The Music on VH1) and thought it was one of the saddest stories I have ever heard.
Musically though, they are very good. I would like to go to see them live having seen a recent DVD of a concert (Vicious Cycle Lyve?).
They sound a bit like the Beach Boys and Guns n' Roses rolled into 1 group (and then some)!

Lynyrd Skynyrd hated Queen And Queen Hated Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fact.