From The Singing Senators to the Second Amendments, straightlaced politicians playing rock music is about as anachronistic as you can get. The only thing worse than a band of actors is a band of politicians. One long, metallic, studded, ramming bar.Ĭapitol Offense, a.k.a. Andy made the right choice.įaithful to Original? It’s a mash-up of Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1988, by a band named after a key work of non-fiction by Frederich Nietzsche, so fuck you.
It’ll be perfect.Įpilogue: Will to Power’s ∻aby I Love Your Way/Free Bird medley hits #1 for a week in 1988. Plus, I’ve got this chick singer who looks like Stevie Nicks and a guy that looks kinda like Kenny Loggins.
Best part is, we can do the entire song on two keyboards. He’s the free bird just trying not to get tied down, man. Both are songs theoretically about lovers, so we have the woman saying how much she loves the man with Frampton (always the woman, am I right? Ha ha), and then the man sings Skynyrd. So, I’ve been thinking, you know that Frampton jam, ∻aby, I Love Your Way, and Skynyrd’s ∿ree Bird? Well, they’re basically the same key, so I played around with the chords, and they fit perfectly. Here goes the pitch: Look, Andy, we need to make a song with as little money as possible that will make us as much money as possible. Other times, it can totally blow your mind. Hey, I’m not alone, which explains why we’ve all heard some band in some venue at some ungodly hour try to cover it. Someone like myself, who’s starting to rekindle his passion for extended guitar solos, loves the four-minute, triple harmonic riffing at the end of the song. Regardless of the mayhem that ensues from some John Barleycorn in a backward hat, the song maintains its status as the sweeping rock ‘n’ roll opus it’s always been. And over the years, it’s somehow managed to crossover into other live mediums, like comedy clubs, as you’ll see from Bill Hicks’ historic meltdown on a guy who yelled it during his set: Modest Mouse frontman and grump extraordinaire Isaac Brock was so sick of it that he even included a small rant about it on their live album, Baron von Bullshit Rides Again. Too many (inebriated) fans think it’s hilarious to yell it from the crowd, and musicians and fellow concertgoers hardly tolerate it anymore. The common douche bag practice of screaming “FREE BIRD!” at concerts has been around for what seems like ages. Everyone knew it was his song, and it was beautiful.Forty years later, we still can’t shake off Lynyrd Skynyrd’s debut album, (Pronounced ‘l?h-‘nérd ‘skin-‘nérd), all thanks to four of its songs: ”Gimme Three Steps”, “Simple Man”, “Tuesday’s Gone”, and “Free Bird”. But really, just “Free Bird”.
Everyone knew Scooter was in the house when they heard that familiar guitar opening.Īlmost as soon as they heard news of his passing, everyone he knew was sharing photos of themselves playing "Free Bird" and raising a glass in his honor. Anytime he was out at the bar, he would play it over the jukebox, even paying extra money to have his selection skip to the front. "Free Bird" was always one of his favorites, and he could really belt it out. Scott loved Southern and classic rock, and many of my childhood memories include spending days helping him (or getting in the way) as he worked on projects in the garage with the stereo blasting our local classic rock station, K-SHE. "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd has been the song all of Scott's loved ones associate with him and play in memory of him. My "bonus dad," Scott "Scooter" Stewart of Shiloh, Ill., passed away in January 2021 from COVID complications. What follows are individual stories of those who have passed, those mourning them and the songs that continue to unite them. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of a loved one lost to COVID-19. Two years later, more than a million people have died in the United States from the disease. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
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