| rdfs:comment | - Free Bird is a ballad by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is often considered their signature song, and was frequently played at the end of their concerts.
- Free Bird is a song by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, off of their album Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd. It is the final encore of Guitar Hero II, and is noted for being over nine minutes long, and is the hardest song in the game.
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- Free Bird was a crew on the Midnight Ocean.
- Free bird es la última canción del modo carrera de Guitar Hero 2 y una de las canciones más difíciles del juego. También aparece en Guitar hero Smash hits.
- Free Bird o Freebird es una cancion de la banda sureña Lynyrd Skynyrd. Esta cancion se puede escuchar en la emisora de Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, K-DST. La canción original dura alrededor de 9 minutos, pero es acortada a los 4 minutos.
- Free Bird is a semi-obscure B-side track done by the New Downey band The Blasters. Music critic Humbert H. stated that it showed the "bloody but unbowed" attitude of a generation growing up under the iron fist of Arcturus Mengsk. The song was later banned by the Terran Dominion, and featured on the anti-Dominion contiplation album "Revolution Overdrive: Songs of Liberty."
- Free Bird is a song sung by Otto in "The Otto Show".
- Free Bird is a rock anthem by the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Starting out as a slow piano ballad, it features gospel-flavored organ, chirping slide guitar, and an approximately four and a quarter minute long guitar solo in the form of an up-tempo guitar duel. It made the charts on numerous occasions in both the U.S. and UK but only reached #19 in the U.S. Billboard charts. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988 when it was mixed with Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" by the band Will to Power. The original version of the song was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The live version is also Lynyrd Skynyrd's longest song.
- "Free Bird" (often spelled "Freebird", including by the band itself on the cover of the single) is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It first featured on the band's debut album in 1973, and has been included on subsequent albums released by the band, including the previously unreleased, unfaded-ending version of the original recording (featured onSkynyrd's Innyrds). Amazon.com music reviewer Lorry Fleming calls it "the most-requested song in the history of rock music."
- "Free Bird" is the National Anthem of the United States of America, with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, and musical accompaniment supplied by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1973. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the poem "Free Bird" after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the sight of a flock of birds which flew freely over the large American flag, a sign that the British were indeed not really that interested in claiming Baltimore, anyways.
- "Free Bird" is a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd fun Frontman Johnny Van Zant discussed this song in a track-by-track commentary to promote the band's 2010 CD/DVD Live From Freedom Hall. He said: "For years Skynyrd has always closed the show with that song and the song has different meanings for different people. This kid was telling me that they used it for their graduation song and not too long ago somebody told me that they used it at a funeral. And really it's a love song, its one of the few that Lynyrd Skynyrd's ever had. It's about a guy and a girl. Of course at the end it was dedicated to Duane Allman from the band Allman Brothers because it goes into the guitar part. If you can get through that one you've had a good night at a Skynyrd show."
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| abstract | - Free Bird is a ballad by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is often considered their signature song, and was frequently played at the end of their concerts.
- "Free Bird" is a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd fun Frontman Johnny Van Zant discussed this song in a track-by-track commentary to promote the band's 2010 CD/DVD Live From Freedom Hall. He said: "For years Skynyrd has always closed the show with that song and the song has different meanings for different people. This kid was telling me that they used it for their graduation song and not too long ago somebody told me that they used it at a funeral. And really it's a love song, its one of the few that Lynyrd Skynyrd's ever had. It's about a guy and a girl. Of course at the end it was dedicated to Duane Allman from the band Allman Brothers because it goes into the guitar part. If you can get through that one you've had a good night at a Skynyrd show." This song began as a ballad without the guitar solos at the end, and Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded it that way for the first time in 1972. Guitarist Allen Collins had been working on the song on and off for the previous 2 years. At the time of recording, the song was only 7 1/2 minutes long, but throughout the next year, Collins continued to refine the song until it was recorded for the final cut of Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd in 1973. Collins wrote the music long before Ronnie Van Zant came up with lyrics for it. Van Zant finally got inspired one night and had Collins and Gary Rossington play it over and over until he wrote the words. (thanks, Aaron - Twin Cities, MN) The lyrics are about a man explaining to a girl why he can't settle down and make a commitment. The opening verse, "If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?" was inspired by Allen Collins' girlfriend who had asked him this very question during a fight. (thanks, Chris - Philly, PA) Allman Brothers Band guitarist Duane Allman died around the same time this was released. Skynyrd sometimes dedicated it to Allman at concerts, but it was written long before his death. The double guitar solo at the end is the same style as many early Allman Brothers songs on which Duane played. Skynyrd has played this only as an instrumental since the 1977 plane crash that killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant. His brother, Johnny, took his place. For a while, he wouldn't sing it - the band played it as an instrumental and the crowd would sing the words. The band's record company did not want this on the album. They thought it was too long and that no radio station would play it. Even the band never thought this was going to be a hit. This is a Classic Rock anthem. Shouting it out as a request at concerts has become a Rock And Roll joke, and every now and then a musician will actually play it. The 2007 Mitch Myers book The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling explores this subject in a work of fiction about the first person ever to shout "Free Bird" at a concert. In 1976, a live version was released from the One More For the Road live album. It went to #38. Skynyrd always plays this as the last song at their shows. In the US, this wasn't released as a single until a year after the album came out. By that time, "Sweet Home Alabama" had already been released, and the single version of "Free Bird" was edited down. The long version from the album has always been more popular. The band Will To Power scored a minor hit in 1988 with a medley of this and Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way." Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd was Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album. They gave it the title because they knew people would not be able to pronounce their name. Gene Odom, who was Lynyrd Skynyrd's security manager, explained in his book Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering The Free Birds Of Southern Rock, that this song came about when Allen Collins' wife asked him the question, "If I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me." (thanks, Jeanette - McGrady, NC) Skynyrd's 1991 boxed set contains a demo version of this. Ronnie Van Zant thought at first that this song "Had too many chords to write lyrics for," Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington commented in an interview with Blender magazine, "But after a few months, we were sitting around, and he asked Allen to play those chords again. After about 20 minutes, Ronnie started singing, 'If I leave here tomorrow,' and it fit great. It wasn't anything heavy, just a love song about leavin' town, time to move on. Al put the organ on the front, which was a very good idea. He also helped me get the sound of the delayed slide guitar that I play - it's actually me playing the same thing twice, recording one on top of the other, so it sounds kind of slurry, echoey." (thanks, John Smith - Southington, CT) This is used as the encore song for the Face-Melters in the video game Guitar Hero II. (thanks, Patrick - Albany, NY) While the lyrics contain the phrase "free as a bird," the title itself ("Free Bird") is used just once, right before the guitar solos begin: "Won't you fly high, free bird." (thanks, James - Tracy, CA)
- Free Bird is a song by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, off of their album Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd. It is the final encore of Guitar Hero II, and is noted for being over nine minutes long, and is the hardest song in the game.
- Free Bird is a rock anthem by the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Starting out as a slow piano ballad, it features gospel-flavored organ, chirping slide guitar, and an approximately four and a quarter minute long guitar solo in the form of an up-tempo guitar duel. It made the charts on numerous occasions in both the U.S. and UK but only reached #19 in the U.S. Billboard charts. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988 when it was mixed with Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way" by the band Will to Power. The original version of the song was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The live version is also Lynyrd Skynyrd's longest song. BBC Radio 2 considers "Free Bird" a "rock radio staple matched only by 'Stairway to Heaven'.
- He feels that he is disliked by nearly every member of the forum, and notes that he reciprocates this. He constantly forgets his sister's age.
- Free Bird was a crew on the Midnight Ocean.
- Free bird es la última canción del modo carrera de Guitar Hero 2 y una de las canciones más difíciles del juego. También aparece en Guitar hero Smash hits.
- "Free Bird" (often spelled "Freebird", including by the band itself on the cover of the single) is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It first featured on the band's debut album in 1973, and has been included on subsequent albums released by the band, including the previously unreleased, unfaded-ending version of the original recording (featured onSkynyrd's Innyrds). Amazon.com music reviewer Lorry Fleming calls it "the most-requested song in the history of rock music." Released as a single in November 1974, "Free Bird" became the band's second Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1975, where it peaked at No. 19. A live version of the song also reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977, peaking at No. 38. Free Bird also achieved the No. 3 spot on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. It is used as a finale by Lynyrd Skynyrd during their live performances, and is their longest song, often going well over 14 minutes when played live.[citation needed]
- "Free Bird" is the National Anthem of the United States of America, with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, and musical accompaniment supplied by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1973. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote the poem "Free Bird" after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the sight of a flock of birds which flew freely over the large American flag, a sign that the British were indeed not really that interested in claiming Baltimore, anyways. There is speculation that Francis Scott Key actually stole the lyrics from an ancient text written in 763 B.C by Romulus just minutes after he founded Ancient Rome. Romulus first thought of the idea for the lyrics after he killed his brother Mitt "Remus" Romney. His brother then became quite peeved and cried in the corner until the 21st century, at which point he ran for dictator of the Soviet Union. Anyway, Romulus, being the clumsy wolf-raised boy he was, dug a hole to China, where Jackie Chan karate chopped the lyrics into 1812 America. Key didn't think anyone would notice, and promptly took credit for writing Free Bird. Romulus obviously became fussy when nobody believed he wrote it and adopted Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard.
- Free Bird o Freebird es una cancion de la banda sureña Lynyrd Skynyrd. Esta cancion se puede escuchar en la emisora de Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, K-DST. La canción original dura alrededor de 9 minutos, pero es acortada a los 4 minutos.
- Free Bird is a semi-obscure B-side track done by the New Downey band The Blasters. Music critic Humbert H. stated that it showed the "bloody but unbowed" attitude of a generation growing up under the iron fist of Arcturus Mengsk. The song was later banned by the Terran Dominion, and featured on the anti-Dominion contiplation album "Revolution Overdrive: Songs of Liberty."
- Free Bird is a song sung by Otto in "The Otto Show".
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