Captaindave said:...so to be on the safe side - just a little "insurance" so to speak.. the audience will never notice or care...I'd do it that way myself...going on memory here of details from 35 years ago, folks...
All I remember of the two 70's concerts was Zorba was the final song of the encore, and the audience was so worked up by what was obviously the crowd favorite they wouldn't have noticed any flubbed notes at all. It's like a party atmosphere at that point...everyone's clapping along, the band's cutting loose on the last song, and the concert ends on a high point. Thing is, as in tune as my ear was to music, melody, pitch and rhythm even at that age, I don't recall Herb and Bob Findley NOT playing it correctly!
Plus, you figure after all those years in concert, it would be hard to FORGET how to play that tune! Sort of like the exercises a lot of brass and woodwind players practice with constantly over the years.