Saturday night's gig was a blast
 

For me, it was maybe the most memorable moment in the band. We're ending our second set, telling the crowd we're going to break, and this drunk guy comes up and has a request. This often happens - "just one more song!" - but drunk guy wants the Star Spangled Banner.

Dean, our singer, told him no and jokingly suggested the guy should be yelling out "Freebird!" The bar has a great laugh. Well, we've never played the damn song... nobody actually plays Freebird. But then our keyboard player, just for fun, doodles out the first few bars of it... AND OFF WE GO, like we don't have a choice.

Whoa. Dean tells 'em, "Hey we've never played this before, but, OK!" I'm grinning my big grin. Of course we all know the damn song! And we're playing it 100% perfectly, note for note... truly, never having rehearsed it once.

It seems like a joke that everybody's in on. But then the crowd gets into it. We get three minutes in, and we're near the hottest part of the song, the crowd is all flashing lighters and cell phones... when suddenly... the PA and all the amps go dead!

After a few seconds of confusion it becomes obvious we've blown a circuit, and it was all I could to to lift my bass over my head and shout power outage woohoo!!

And we all laughed. Someone in the crowd said "That's god telling you never to play that song!!!"

The song needs work, but I'm totally happy with the groove we manage. For a bunch of white guys much more ready to play Enter Sandman, it's James Brown's Sex Machine, in the blurriest YT video ever posted:

Way to lay it down whitey! When preparation turns into fun it really feels good.

got them people dancin!

People respond when you sing

GET UP!
get on up
GET UP-A!
get on up
GET UP-A!
get on up
GET UP-A!
get on up

best FreeBird story evah.

Hey Cool! I had a hard time not dancing around the living room just watching the video!

yay woohoo

Is posting your schedule out of the question?

That was great UT

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January 30th The Bier Garten - Telford, PA
Feb 13th The Crossroads Tavern - Hilltown, PA
March 6th The Jug Handle - Cinnaminson, NJ
March 20th The Bier Garten - Telford, PA
May 14th The Jug Handle - Cinnaminson, NJ
June 12th - The Crossroads Tavern - Hilltown, PA

Actually plays "Freebird": Fail. ;)



Ut's full of funk! Who new? Awesome.

TOMORROW we're at R.P. McMurphy's in Holmes, PA, MacDade Blvd, three miles up from the 476 exit. We go on at 9 and do about 45 minutes. It's a showcase for the manager and if we do well we'll get bookings out of it.

This is our first thing in Delaware Co. and so I mention it for the Delco people in case they are interested.

Then on Saturday night it's the full 4 hours at Crossroads Tavern in Hilltown PA.

I'm still holding out for a Center City show...at the Khyber, perhaps? ;)

:D That's an "A room", and we are still playing at "D rooms".