Posted on 03/17/2005 6:25:05 AM PST by Rodney King
One recent Tuesday night at New York's Bowery Ballroom, the Crimea had just finished its second song. The Welsh quintet's first song had gone over fairly well, the second less so, and singer/guitarist Davey MacManus looked out at the still-gathering crowd.
Then, from somewhere in the darkness came the cry, "Freebird!"
It made this night like so many other rock 'n' roll nights in America.....
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I yelled it at a lounge lizard band on Guam that had one keyboardist and a guitar...and the guitar player closed with it!
Here is a low-quality link to "Stairway to Freebird," btw. There are better ones on that site, however.
http://ia201109.eu.archive.org/hdd1/audio/eh-2004-11-26.flac16/eh2004-11-26d302_64kb.mp3
I learned that lesson the hard way too- 50% of SOMETHING is always better than 100% of nothing.
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