At his show at the Berkeley Greek Theater last week, the great Bob Dylan, just as he and his band were about to close out his set, decided to give in to a heckler who screamed out, in fully clichéd fashion, "Free Bird!" As Consequence of Sound tells us, Dylan (or his lead guitarist) just launched right into the infamous 1973 Lynyrd Skynyrd ballad which has become a joke among (basic) concert-goers dating back to the late 1970's. But this abbreviated rendition of the 14-minute song is no joke.
Dylan currently has a new album out called Fallen Angels, featuring a selection of torch songs from the Frank Sinatra era.