Giles' Song

[CharmedSlayer85]

What was the name of that song Giles was singing in Yoko Factor when Spike walked in on him and does anybody know who the original artist is?

 

[sizzle-sozzle]

oh yeah that song is really nice and Anthony Stewart Head is great!
the name of the song is called Freebird and its sung by Lynard Skynard

 

[CharmedSlayer85]

oh yeah that song is really nice and Anthony Stewart Head is great!
the name of the song is called Freebird and its sung by Lynard Skynard

Thanks....I don't know why but the song has been in my head all day and I didn't even watch the episode, but it just popped up and that episode was the only time I'd ever heard that song.

 

[goldenboy]

Is screaming "Free Bird!" just an American thing? It's like a giant pop culture cliche, icon in the States. A surefire way to piss someone off. Maybe it's new and cool again? I do like the guitar in that song.

In the 1980s, Chicago Radio DJ Kevin Matthews urged his listeners to shout "Free Bird!" at a Florence Henderson concert as a sort of joke towards the musician/actress. Credited with starting the tradition of yelling "Free Bird!", he stated that "It was never meant to be yelled at a cool concert -- it was meant to be yelled at someone really lame. If you're going to yell 'Free Bird,' yell 'Free Bird' at a Jim Nabors concert."[3]

Even the avant-garde Blue Man Group gets into the act. After they play riffs from Devo's "Whip It" and other rock songs on their PVC instruments, a planted audience member shouts out "Free Bird." Blue Man's back up band starts to play the song, the Blue Men sway to the rhythm, and one of them whips out a cigarette lighter to wave. Another Blue Man douses him with a fire extinguisher.

A harsh reaction to "Free Bird" came from comedian Bill Hicks during a Chicago gig in 1989. On a bootleg recording of the show, I'm Sorry, Folks, Mr. Hicks at first just sounds irked. "Please stop yelling that," he says. "It's not funny, it's not clever - it's stupid." The comic soon works himself into a rage, but the "Free Birds" keep coming, eliciting the now infamous outburst: "Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever; kill everyone, Adolf, kill them all!" "Free Bird," he finally says wearily, then intones: "And in the beginning there was the Word - 'Free Bird.' And 'Free Bird' would be yelled throughout the centuries. 'Free Bird,' the mantra of the moron."

The conductor of the Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestra, David Stahl, irritated by outbursts of "Free Bird!" at concerts, had the orchestra learn to perform the song so that they could go directly into it from whatever piece they were performing at the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Bird