Re: Freebird

[John Paul Davis <johnd at antioch-college_edu>]

Mike Doughty's solution is a good one too - it showed up on his live album:

"I'm gonna ask you a favor, and that is from tonight and for the rest of 
your life, when you get that impulse to shout 'Freebird', don't shout 
'Freebird', shout 'It's Raining Men.' 'It's Raining Men' is the new 
'Freebird'.
(Someone from crowd shouts: 'It's Raining Men!')
"I cannot play 'It's Raining Men.' But if I could, I would. You have my 
word as a gentleman."

Mike has a veritable arsenal of responses to audience memebers what 
shout out song names. Another favorite of mine:
(Someone in crowd shouts out: "Song Name!")
to which Mike replies:
"You are correct. I did write that song and it is in my reportoire, and 
I thank you for recognizing that fact."

Mike Doughty is the King of In-Between-Song Banter, IMHO.

- John

np: "Si, Se Puede" - Antibalas


Barry S. Lawlor wrote:
> I was at the Aimee Mann/Duncan Sheik concert last night when someone in the
> crowd yelled, "Freebird!!!"

-- 
John Paul Davis
Center for Community Learning
Antioch College
http://www.antioch-college.edu/ccl

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The concept "anti-American" is an interesting one. The counterpart is 
used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships. Thus, in the 
old Soviet Union, dissidents were condemned as "anti-Soviet." That's a 
natural usage among people with deeply rooted totalitarian instincts, 
which identify state policy with the society, the people, the culture. 
In contrast, people with even the slightest concept of democracy treat 
such notions with ridicule and contempt. Suppose someone in Italy who 
criticizes Italian state policy were condemned as "anti-Italian." It 
would be regarded as too ridiculous even to merit laughter. Maybe under 
Mussolini, but surely not otherwise.

- Noam Chomsky
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