So, What Do You Do When Someone Yells "Freebird?"

Assuming, of course you don't play it. I don't, but I did, a gazillion times, played the slide part (I hate to play slide) and I don't want to do it again. I tell them that. I also tell them that if Lynard Skynard themselves jumped up on stage with me I wouldn't play it.

Of course it's just some drunk being funny, but you just can't ignore it. I usually, if it's the right crowd, also do an impromptu version of "Bad Girlfriend". That usually ends the Freebird stuff.

[Mbroady]

Originally Posted by A-Mac

Assuming, of course you don't play it. I don't, but I did, a gazillion times, played the slide part (I hate to play slide) and I don't want to do it again. I tell them that. I also tell them that if Lynard Skynard themselves jumped up on stage with me I wouldn't play it.

Of course it's just some drunk being funny, but you just can't ignore it. I usually, if it's the right crowd, also do an impromptu version of "Bad Girlfriend". That usually ends the Freebird stuff.

If someone screams out free bird I will play stairway to heaven.

[Yamaha Man]

I just tell them all requests and dedications must be written on the back of a $100 bill.

[GibbyPrague]

Its actually never happened to us, normally they ask for some Oasis ... which were happy to oblige.

[kydave]

Look for giveaway fried chicken...

[JimmerO]

I went to Carnegie Hall to hear the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky. Afterward everyone was clapping and yelling Bravo! I couldn't help myself so I yelled out Free Bird! a couple of times. Some young guy a couple of rows below me turned around an smiled...he was the only one who got it.

I give 'em the bird. For free.

[Vognell]

grab a pair of dull pruning shears, and perform an emergency orchidectomy. Gotta throw some chlorine in the gene pool from time-to-time.

[kaos]

[joeguam]

I bust them out in the mic (jokingly of course, but I'm really serious) and put them on "request ration". It ends up being hilarious and everyone laughs it off considering I then ask everyone else for requests.

[mc1]

how about sing, "if i leave here...", then just stop and walk off stage.

[lodi_55]

Um, ignore them?

[riverrummed]

Say you don't know all the words and ask them to come up and sing it while you accompany them.

[Mobilemike]

Play "Danny Boy" realllllly slowly....

[drumstrummer]

Turn it around and act like they are asking to play it. Like when Prince Humperdink says "Surrender!" And Westly replies: "You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept."