Sweet Home Alabama

phatnev · Unread post by **phatnev** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:08 pm

Im having trouble with this song, there are so many different tabs. Does anyone play it and have a perferred tab? Does anyone have sound clips or can someone record em quick?

dustin · Unread post by **dustin** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:22 pm

i will ever understand was so great about that song yes it a cool song but like stairway to heven since everyon eelse in the world i wants to play it so therefore i don't heh. plus if you read the lyrics to in away they are supporting what alabama did to black people by saying that neil young was not right in his song called southern man sorry for not being able to help you heh

chosta · Unread post by **chosta** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:26 pm

Code: Select all

e-------------------------------(0)---------------------------------
b------3------------3-----------3------------------------------------
g---------2-----------2---------0----0h2-----------------------------
d-0-0---------------------------0--------0h2----------2p0----------
a------------0h3-3-------------x--------------0h2------------------
E-----------------------0h3-3--3-----------------------------------

repeat minus the 0-2 hammer-on's, end with

b----0-0--2-0-0-3-0-0-3/5

i'm too lazy to tab out the other part, olga.net probably has it

phatnev · Unread post by **phatnev** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:36 pm

Thanks Olga.net has it they just have 3 different versions and they are weird

Ranting Thespian · Unread post by **Ranting Thespian** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:59 am

I will never learn to play that song because of what it says about Neil Young, and the even futher meaning about that in the song. Without that part, it's a good song.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:50 pm

dustin wrote:i will ever understand was so great about that song yes it a cool song but like stairway to heven since everyon eelse in the world i wants to play it so therefore i don't heh. plus if you read the lyrics to in away they are supporting what alabama did to black people by saying that neil young was not right in his song called southern man sorry for not being able to help you heh

good for you man, you aren't the stereotypical alabamian

i think anyone in alabama who isn't a drunk (which is very few people), actually is pretty tired of this song

and southern man is a WAY better song

borocks · Unread post by **borocks** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:52 pm

can anyone tell me what's this about...Neil Young, the song, the alabamians,...
Don't know what's going on. What's the prob with the song?
(I'm a ploke, write understandable

)

dustin · Unread post by **dustin** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 1:38 am

listen to southern man by neil young and then listen to sweet home alabama. and the fact that almost every white redneak in alabama will most likely fight you if you didn't play that song for them heh

wargs · Unread post by **wargs** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:34 pm

I dont think Sweet Home Alabama in anyway justifies or glorifies the racial tensions of the South in any way. The part in the song about not needing Neil Young around was a direct response to N.Y. implying in his song Southern Man that everyone from the South is a back woods, uneducated, bigot. I think the point was that NY was motivated by a northern liberal's stereotype and that not everyone from Alabama or the south for that matter should be lumped into that generalization. In essence they were asking what does a Canadian know about living in the South, that maybe before you go shooting your mouth off you should learn a bit about what youre talking about. Anyway thats just my thoughts on the whole thing. By the way Im not from the South and I love NY, I just think that Southern Man was a cheap shot.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 5:44 pm

wargs wrote:I just think that Southern Man was a cheap shot.

it really doesn't matter what the message of the song is, cuz Southern Man is about 20x the song the Sweet Home is

wargs · Unread post by **wargs** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:29 pm

Dont tell me that the message of the song doesnt matter. It was the message of the songs that started the thread. This thread was not about who thinks which song is 20x better than the other. Anyone can say "oh it doesnt matter bc this is 20x better than that" Thats just a shortcut to thinking. I was merely trying to answer a question put forth in a previous reply. Sure I interjected my own opinion into my answer but at least I thought about it and gave an intelligent, well thought out response. Sorry if Ive offended you but your reply was trite.

dustin · Unread post by **dustin** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:35 pm

i'm from alabama and i say southern man is most likely right on during that time period because even to day most white people still say negative things about black people i hear it everyday and tell them to shutup everyday( when i say everyday kind of maybe couple times a month:)

*edit for bad alabama grammer
*edit again because i'm stupid

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:51 pm

wargs wrote:Dont tell me that the message of the song doesnt matter. It was the message of the songs that started the thread. This thread was not about who thinks which song is 20x better than the other. Anyone can say "oh it doesnt matter bc this is 20x better than that" Thats just a shortcut to thinking. I was merely trying to answer a question put forth in a previous reply. Sure I interjected my own opinion into my answer but at least I thought about it and gave an intelligent, well thought out response. Sorry if Ive offended you but your reply was trite.

i didn't mean the message doesn't matter, i meant that it is inconsequential when comparing the two songs because the music in southern man is much better

sorry if you thought my opinion was trite and thoughtless, but i dont see how it was a "shortcut to thinking". was i supposed to be considering the weight of each songs social message? well, i dont care about that at all, i just think southern man is a better song.

so, sorry if i'm dumb and i dont think out my responses well enough, after all im just a stupid redneck from alabama

everydayDMBfan_18 · Unread post by **everydayDMBfan_18** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:53 pm

Damn straight you are!!!

wargs · Unread post by **wargs** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:47 pm

Look FJ I wasnt trying to call you stupid or ignorant, merely that your reply to my post was sperficial in regards to the context of what I wrote. If this thread was a comparison of the two songs solely on the basis of which is more musically compelling then yes your reply would have been 100% appropriate. However, I did not even attempt to compare the two songs. So by saying that the message is inconsequential in a comparison of the two you totally missed the whole point bc I wasnt even comparing the two.

Dustin, when did I ever say that Southern Man wasnt on point? What I said was that SHA was a defense against the stereotypes and generalizations prostelyized in Southern Man. Whether or not those stereotypes may have actually applied to some in the south at the time does not mean they applied to all. Which I think is what SHA was also trying to point out. After all, if I were to take Neil's word for it then you must be an ignorant, backwoods racist based solely on the fact that your from the south.

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