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Up came the smiling head and extremely longneck of a life-size Apatosaurus—what everybody used to call a Brontosaurus, thanks to The Flintstones.

The movie turned the Pasadena club into an overnight tourist draw and popularized pearl snap shirts, longneck beers, the steel guitar and mechanical bulls across the country.

Nursing a longneck Bud, “Bob was thinking about the moon,” writes Jim Tankersley in his book, “The Riches of This Land.”

The singer’s collaborator for “Longneck Bottle,” Steve Wariner, reacted to the news on Wednesday and tweeted, "If you’ve ever seen @garthbrooks live, you know why he consistently wins ‘Entertainer of the Year.'"

The beer-soaked, sun-stroked reality of the larrikin steps into frame in 4573, a brilliant, blistering jam that paints a familiar scene: a man, four longneck lagers in, screaming his head off from the sidelines at a local kids’ football game.