Why do Americans love Free Bird so much?

It is? Wow, all my life my teachers have been lying to me telling me The Star-Spangled Banner was the national anthem when it was actually some rednecks singing about leaving their wife.

What else does the south have going for it

>Lisa Ann
Gross.
Would still bang for freedom's sake

Literally a meme

absolutely

Simple man is the best sky are song though

you wanna know why?

Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change!!!!!!

Equal parts the 90-minute guitar solo and the lead singer dying in a plane crash which makes the lyrics seem more poignant than they actually are.

Too bad their kids and grandkids didn't die so that they could stop sham touring under their name

they originally dedicated the song to Duanne Allman's death.

do we?

It's not just touring, they're releasing new music under the name Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it is horrifically awful. I really don't know who to be angrier with -- the unimpressive family members or the idiots who keep giving them money.

I didn't know that. Makes sense.

Because it's meant to mock African Americans, a free bird is the opposite of a caged slave. It's a White Supremacist anthem.

Name a better song.

Because it's about saying "F. U." to the man and doing whatever you want.

listen to more music

based and radpilled

Sounds legit.

No, No it's not.

It's a very typical 70s rock number with a ridiculously long run time, laid-back vibe, and extended length solo.

Also the bird motif is a very very typical 70s rock cliche and if you listen to enough music from that period you'll notice it all over the place.

The solo is ok but not very expressive. I've heard better.

IDK maybe it sounds better live. Some musicians can't emote well in front of nobody but a recording engineer. Just ask Eric Clapton.

It's a shame Ronnie died in that plane crash. They could be hanging out with Trump and Kid Rock at the White House, throwing back bud light and making fun of that nigger Obama.

this and american pie are boomer memes
i like it when a classic rock station plays one of them so it's all you hear for the whole trip if you don't change the station

Especially when as I said, Freebird is built around every 70s hard rock cliche in the book.

LS were pretty anti-republican if you're familiar with their history. They outright supported Jimmy Carter back when he was a democrat.

I don't think that's a fair argument to use because the 70s was another time with different political alignments than today and the South had always been a Democrat stronghold (aside from how Carter was a Southerner). The switch of the region to a Republican stronghold was a quite recent one.

70s Jimmy Carter was extremely pro-human rights. Moreso than his modern day contemporaries.

Redneck core

>Nixon and Reagan were California Republicans
California Republican. Nowadays it's hard to put those two words together in the same sentence.

Every American goes from loving it to hating it to ironically liking to loving it again. Same with Lynyrd Skynrd and most classic rock in general. It's just one of those songs.

you for damn sure going to hear it on the 4th

it's a boomer meme.

>some cover band playing at a local state fair
>somebody in the audience shouts 'freebird!'
>[hundreds of drunk boomers chuckling in unison]

every fucking time.

*craaack*
*sip*

And depending on how drunk I am I may mouth the entire guitar solo and get escorted out of whatever bar/family party/living room I'm at

Yeah why did they love birds and bird motifs so much in 70s rock?

>The Eagles
>Freebird
>Get Your Wings
>Fly Like An Eagle
etc etc

Because Birds can fly and everyone wants to be free to fly away from this shitty world.

i'm fucking getting tore up that weekend
'merica

It symbolized freedom or something. One of the big 70s rock cliches all the songs had was wanting to escape a hopelessly corrupted, rotting society. They all did it. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Steve Miller, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, etc.

Sometimes even in funk.

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Ironic how many of those wanting 'freedom' in the 70s sold out in the 80s and became part of the machine.

Was that like how Springsteen turned into lighter-waving stadium rock and recorded Dancing in the Dark when he always used to criticize rock star excess in the 70s?

The money, it weakened him.

because america is the land of freedom

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It happened in the 60s user. LBJ said Democrats lost the south for a generation after passing Civil Rights and Nixon's campaign strategy was the southern strategy. The country had more or less flipped politically by the time LS even formed.

>it's popular so it's bad!!!
dilate

It's a pretty cliche metaphor for freedom but it's not limited to rock. Like A Bird by Cohen is a fanous example.

Yeah there's dozens of examples of songs about birds representing freedom. There's a reason the Bald Eagle is American's national bird.

>illegal to collect rainwater

Do Americans really...

youtu.be/KIGNNOZ0948

Freebird is actually good though

It's really long, has a cool guitar solo, and it's a song about personal freedom in the context of a relationship that references our national bird and supposed ideal of freedom without being too on the nose about it.