Remember when the Alabama_Shakes blew the doors off Egan’s bar on the Strip in Tuscaloosa at a not-so-secret secret show the night before the Iron Bowl?
blew the doors off of Egan’s bar on the Strip in Tuscaloosa at a not-so-secret secret show the night before Alabama blew the doors off of Auburn inside Bryant-Denny Stadium?
Smith recalled the bar “was beyond packed.” And when Egan’s filled up, there wasn’t much room to operate. “We’re talking about the bar having to issue wristbands for entry,” heAgain, word eventually got out the show was happening. The bar filled to capacity before 10 p.m. and instituted a “one-out-one-in” policy. Dozens of people lined outside the door hoping one person would leave so another could enter. But only a few were willing to give up a spot.
Smith isn’t the only one who moved on to bigger and better things since that night in November. Already on their way up, the Shakes did OK for themselves, too, since winning two studio albums and winning four Grammys. Brittany Howard went solo with her album “Jaime,” which netted a Grammy for Best Rock Song.
Alabama Shakes surprised Egan's on the Strip in Tuscaloosa with a secret show on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Lee Bains & The Glory Fires opened the show on the Friday night before the 2012 Iron Bowl. Then an employee at the bar, current Druid City Brewing Company co-owner and brewmaster Bo Hicks helped orchestrate the Alabama Shakes surprising Egan's bar on the Strip in Tuscaloosa with a secret show on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Lee Bains & The Glory Fires opened the show on the Friday night before the 2012 Iron Bowl.
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