[1992-01-21-WCW-Clash of the Champions XVIII] Music Video: Fabulous Freebirds

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This is hysterical. Hayes and Garvin's lip synching is completely off with the song and this is cheesy as hell.

 

"Hell of a future, hell of a past, we do it our way, we're gonna kick your ..."

 

They actually found fans to catch on camera singing along!

 

This really needs to be seen by anyone who has never seen it.

[Tim Evans]

They were lip synching? It sounded like they were talking over the soundtrack. This was kinda sad and embarrassing to watch.

[shoe]

OMG this was horrible and great at the same time.

[rainmakerrtv]

I remember shuddering watching it at the time, but now look at it as some classic enjoyable WrestleCrap .

[BackToBionic]

This is hilarious.

[jasch]

Hayes and Garvin remind me here of people I grew up with who used to be the coolest mofos in the world but forgot to change with the times and ten years later are embarassing to be seen with in public. This falls in to the so bad its good category for sure.

[El-P]

Godawful segment. Embarrassing stuff. Remember when the Freebirds were cool ? Long time ago.

[Kevin Ridge]

It didn't seem like they were making much of an attempt to lip synch to the song. When the camera got a close up on them they were attempting to sing but the moments were they are walking through the crowd their mouths were barely moving. Stunningly awful at first until you can't but laugh at how bad it is.

[MikeCampbell]

This is as good an example as any at why NWA and WCW never really tried any "sports entertainment" stuff like vignettes for debuting workers. At least "Badstreet USA" had a following and got a crowd reaction.

[BackToBionic]

It didn't seem like they were making much of an attempt to lip synch to the song. When the camera got a close up on them they were attempting to sing but the moments were they are walking through the crowd their mouths were barely moving. Stunningly awful at first until you can't but laugh at how bad it is.

Hayes talked about that on one of those Legends roundtable things. Basically, they couldn't hear the music at all (good ole WCW screw-up) and Garvin had only heard the song a couple of times so he had no clue what to do.

[WingedEagle]

Awful. You can put up with a lot of trash from CT over the years because it would be well produced and look professional. That is not the case here, so instead of going along with the show you're sitting there thinking about terrible something is and it completely takes you out of the show. Why even bother?

[PeteF3]

I called the Freebirds' entrance at WrestleWar, with DDP and Big Daddy Dink, professional wrestling at its least cool. Well, that entrance was Jimi Hendrix at Monterey compared to this. The song is so awful and Hayes' soft-shoe routine so mystifying that even WWF-level production values probably couldn't save it. This doesn't even have the camp value that Rhythm & Blues did. I believe we're mercifully approaching the end of this "New Freebirds," and none too soon.

[garretta]

I'll make a deal with you, Michael: I'll tell you my excuse for anything you like if you'll tell me yours for writing this song. From the ass-kickers of "Freebird" and "Badstreet U.S.A." to the midcard clown act epitomized by this......whatever. Unbelievable.

 

This isn't quite as embarrassing as Dok Hendrix for Hayes, but it's awfully close.

 

Of course, WCW made things a thousand times worse with their inexcusable technical screwup, but where was Hayes saying, "Look, you dim bulbs, we can't hear the stupid song! How can we lip sync to it if we can't hear it?"

[soup23]

One of the more wrestlecrap moments in wrestling history. Garvin and Hayes look just like two drunk uncles who get carried away at your wedding and you pull out the video every once in a while to get a laugh at them making asses of themselves.

[dawho5]

I don't know what to say here. It is like one of those movies that are so bad they become entertaining that are the best ones to watch on MST3K. It's a complete trainwreck, but looking away is somehow not an option.