When life hands you lemons (a spring-storm-induced block-wide blackout in the middle of a concert), take a page from and make lemonade (n rollicking acoustic performance in the dark).
A few songs into the Denver band’s 4/20 set (featuring their mixture of “original High Country Folk Rock and Southwestern Psych”) at the hi-dive on South Broadway, the power for the entire block blew mid-song. The band almost got off stage, but some encouragement from the crowd and the light of several smartphone flashlights saw them reconfigure on the spot into an acoustic act, recruiting members of Extra Gold and other local non-electrified musicians to join them on stage for a round of covers.
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And in a nice bit of irony, it being the high holiday of 4/20, they found a fiddle player for a rendition of Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson’s “,” featuring :
Take back the weed, take back the cocaine baby
Take back the pills, take back the whiskey too
I don’t need them now, your love was all I was after
I’ll make it now, I can get off on you
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You can see Last of the Easy Riders — with electric guitars and all, hopefully — at at Fort Greene on May 4th.
