David Freeman Music

Soooo...more successful midwestern gigs! The absolute best part of this weekend was hearing the crowd respond every night when we played Hey Nineteen . The second verse begins, "Hey Nineteen, that's Aretha Franklin / She don't remember the Queen of Soul", and every time Greg sang that, the audience would go berserk. It was a wonderful moment. Thursday: Cincinnati, Ohio. Bogart's is a pretty important room in this part of the country. When I was in college, friends were always making the trip over to see bands play here, so the significance of being on stage at Bogart's cannot be understated. Duke Pre gig food. I'm not happy with the styrofoam and the plastic fork, though. This gig was pretty good--our first time in Cincy brought 499 people out on a Thursday night. I had a good solo on Taking it to the Streets , but I was off for most of the rest of the show. It felt like my hands wouldn't work together on anything. Friday: ...

More dates in the midwest. Friday: We played a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser in Dublin, Ohio (home of Wendy's!). The gig was fine, pretty corporate feeling (complete with an overbearing handler). When we finished soundcheck, it was pouring outside, so we didn't get a chance to eat dinner, so we ate lots of bananas, trail mix, and chips and salsa. I guess I didn't sleep too well the night before--I felt pretty wiped out the whole day, and couldn't summon much enthusiasm for the gig. Fortunately, it was one set, a couple of encores (actually, we played a couple of songs for an encore, and then had to go back and play one more as a second encore), and we were done. These lights were a little too close, a little too focused, and a little too hot. Saturday: From Columbus, we headed west to Indianapolis. The view on I-70 was clouds, corn, and soybeans. We blew a trailer tire near Knightstown, Indiana. boom posing for pics Monkeyb...

Once again, Scott Glazer asked me to join him at Blind Willie's for his monthly gig there. This time, we were joined by Mace Hibbard (sax), Nick Johnson (guitar), Geoff Hayden (keyboard), and Justin Chesarek (drums). The band was in a good mood, and though I didn't feel like I played anything great, it was still fun. Mace's style is very different from mine, and I loved standing next to him while he unloaded long, creative lines. Great stuff! Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a crowd there to see us (though there never seems to be). We had an audience of maybe four when we began, and it grew to maybe ten at the most. Blame it on the rain, or blame it on Wednesday night.

No gigs to speak of this weekend, but check out the big article about the Yacht Rock Revue in this month's issue of Atlanta Magazine! http://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/confessions-cover-band-yacht-rock-revue/

Yacht Rock put up big audience numbers this past weekend, with a sellout in Nashville (600 people), and two nights at Conner Prairie in Indianapolis (4,350 and 5,580). Impressive, no? Thursday: We're still looking for the right room in Nashville. This room sounds great, but it's kind of small--we need a thousand seater with a good vibe. In the mean time, we play here--Top Golf in Nashville (they call the music room The Cowan ). Load in, soundcheck, and then we hit some balls and hung out with our Nashville buddy, Jerry Roe. We'd been off for almost two weeks, so things were a little rusty. I definitely had a few spots where I hoped that muscle memory would save me. For the most part, it was a pretty solid show, though. The crowd was so-so. The people across the front line were, by and large, unenthusiastic, which didn't help us with the energy. Maybe 'cause it was a Thursday? Lots of blank stares. Not sure what was up with that. Apparently, we broadca...