WEST REGION Round 1 (5Coil/12Free)

coil for me on this one. nostalgia vote.

Free will be the 12-seed upset.

I don’t even think of it as much of an upset though. Free is probably the most underrated jamming vehicle.

Free is a good one, but being a huge Leo fan, you can’t beat the end-of-coil Page solo. Nummy

Not a big fan of either of these…

But had a really funny moment during a Coil, so there.

Tough one for me. Like Coil mostly for Page’s solos.

Love Free for its sentimentality and composition. Thought it and Theme to be the two strongest songs from the Billy Breathes collection of music. I’m going with Free just to tighten the competition a bit.

Coil fer sure.

coil is a fantastic song especially with the extended leo outro

Coil’s a nice tune, with the great outros by Page, but you pretty much knew what you were getting. Free on the other hand had that possiblity of surprising you. It may have had many ‘standard’ versions, but Coil was just about always standard.

VOTE FOR FREE!!!

I don’t know if either of them would be able to take on Disease in the next round anyway.

Well just vote Free and we’ll see!

I never liked Free much as a song. Love some of that jam on the Brooklyn DVD!

Coil on the other hand, … my God it is truly beyond me that the beauty of the composition that is Squirming Coil (not to mention that the implication of freedom in Coil strikes me as more profound than that which is found in Free, ironically) could be eclipsed by any element of Free, even the element of surprise.

The Squirming Coil all the way.

I HATE COIL… hate it with a passion… and no, I don’t know why - I just do. That and Julius…never liked either one of them.

And I think Free is a great song. So I have to go with it.

^^omg. you hate the coil? that is disturbing to me, but to each his or her own.

Wow, very well put man… it would’ve taken me 16 paragraphs to try to articulate what you said in a few short sentences. Right on.

Free = Funk. Coil = easy set ender! Free wins!

tied???

this is craziness!

Free got interesting in latter years, and is worthy, but its NO Squirming Coil!

Tanis root? Satan? that is my shit!

one of the great moments was always to get page playing some beautiful piano improv all by his lonesome on stage…

COIL COIL COIL!

oh, oh, oh this one is getting interesting.

SOMEONE GET IN HERE AND VOTE FOR FREE!!!

I voted for “Coil,” but I wouldn’t be that upset if “Free” won.

But I’ll be keeping my eye on that 31st vote.

the craziest thing about this pairing is how much i remember people HATED “Free” for like 3 or 4 years when “Billy Breathes” first came out. and i mean HATED.

to think that it could oust Squirming Coil in the FIRST ROUND is just amazing to me…

“its been a great tour… come see us again, thanks.” - say it leo!