Tara MacLean

Anecdotes

Reference to Freebird

See, a number of years ago I was attending a small concert where one of my favorite singers was performing (Tara MacLean... you've probably never heard of her). Anyway, we are sitting at our table listening, and at the end of one of her songs she asks the crowd if there are any requests. This was a crowd of people that for the most part had never heard of her.

So she asks if there are any requests, and someone shouts out "Freebird!" She gets a bit of a confused look on her face, because she is Canadian and doesn't quite get the joke behind the request, it being a predominantly state-side (I can't say "American" here) tradition/custom/whatever.

Fortunately, her guitarist sitting next to her (whom she later married, then divorced, but is still on good standing with) knew the reference and got an evil look on his face. He picked up his guitar, and started playing the opening melody to "Stairway to Heaven". Everyone started to laugh at that, and the look that Tara gave Bill (her guitarist) was absolutely priceless.