 Another such instance from 1974 in Helsinki affected rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, as described below.Later this same yell-out-at-a-concert "role" would be taken over to a far greater extent by Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird", although the "Whipping Post" tradition made something of a later comeback at indie rock shows.With the advent of album oriented rock radio formats in the 1980s and later, "Whipping Post" became less visible in the rock consciousness, but upon the reformation of the Allmans in 1989 and their perennial touring it held a regular slot in the group's concert set list rotation.