David Freeman Music

Another weekend with the Yacht Rock Revue. No Saturday gig, which was weird, but also nice to be home for a change. I think we all looked at it like it was a weekend's worth of work with a little gap in the middle. Besides, with flying home on Monday and then playing a gig on Tuesday, everybody's just trying to keep up. Friday: Back at the Park Tavern! This used to be our big gig of every month in the summer, but now it's just "where are we this Friday." We have this date in May and one in June, and I think that's all our schedule will allow. We played three new ones on this gig: Jackie Blue, Shakedown Street,  and Lady (by Styx--not to be confused with the Little River Band song or the Commodores song or the Kenny Rogers song). I really like Jackie Blue --it's fun and the vibe is cool; Shakedown Street was unexpectedly enjoyable; Lady  is pretty over-the-top, but definitely a 70s classic. The rest of the setlist was pretty much our standard stuff the...

Back to the Northeast to complete our run of shows up there. Thursday: First stop, NYC! We were supposed to be back at Irving Plaza, but there was some sort of mix up in the booking, so we ended up at the Playstation Theater in Times Square. On the one hand, cool--bigger room, bigger stage. On the other hand, Times Square... Pictures from my pre-gig run... Not a bad gig, by any means. The room felt kind of sterile, but we still had a pretty good crowd (in the 500-600 range) for a Thursday night in a part of town populated by tourists. I'd have no qualms about coming back here. Plus, any time a crew moves the gear for you, I am thankful (or maybe it's the other way around--any time we have to drag our own gear, I'm not so thrilled). A solid warm up for the weekend, let's say. Drove to Yonkers after the show. Didn't get lost. It's a lot further from the city than I thought it would be. Friday: Woke up and drove four hours to Boston...

It's been a quiet week. The band flew to Austin Saturday for a wedding. More of the same stuff here... I watched the documentary Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two , which intertwined footage of the band's two nights at Wrigley Field and the Cubs' 2016 season, ending in their seventh game World Series victory.  Excellent! I highly recommend it, even though hearing the hits off their album Ten  temporarily rendered me a pile of depressed Gen X mush. Lots of time to kill in Austin--we finished sound checking just after 5 PM and didn't play until 9, so I tried to go for a run. Unfortunately, it was 90 degrees! Slow going, but I got it done. waiting for the bats to come out SRV. 5'5" in real life And the backline...we got some of the same gear that we had the last time we were in Austin. Different/rusty keyboard stands, and one of the Nords (Bencuya's bottom keyboard) was a crappy sounding Nord 2. The top keyboards were, unfortunat...