Along this line ... I was playing at a senior center this past weekend ... and something happened that I have been anticipating for years ... we were playing a mix of 1930s/1940s music plus some 1950s/1960s early rock ... and ...

A resident yelled out: "FREEBIRD"!

Not a staff member, but a RESIDENT yelled this out ... (he was probably the youngest resident, maybe in his late 60s in age ...

And ... we played a 2 minute shortened version of Freebird, complete with a (brief) guitar solo in the flavor of the tune ... :-) I think they were shocked! :-) Then I broke into Stairway to Heaven - just the intro (acoustic guitar and flutes), the guitar solo, and the ending ... just for fun ... got some laughs, and probably a lot of "What is that?!" looks too!

I always wondered when this would happen, and it did just a couple of days ago! This definitely shows the changing population at "old folks homes" and such, as the years go by! :-) The youngest in the senior centers / retirement places grew up on rock'n'roll!

Jim