David Freeman Music

Friday, November 8, 2024: Phoenix, AZ. Yacht Rock played a private event at a golf club in Arizona. Good gear from SIR in Phoenix--always greatly appreciated! This gig...hmm. It got really cold once the sun went down, which seems to affect me more and more as I get older. I used to just be annoyed about it, but it feels like I'm getting closer to the point where I can't function when it's cold on stage. The hand warmers I brought from home helped, but I was still sitting on my hands to keep them from going numb. Anyway, it was a strange party. Very few guests seemed to be there during our set. Novmeber 9, 2024: Denver, CO. The next morning, we were all up early to head to Denver for a public show at one of our favorite venues, Mission Ballroom. We flew on Frontier, which was a little bit of an adventure compared to our usual Delta flights. We ended up with twice as many bag tags as we needed, and Frontier wanted to cancel them all and start over, but most of the luggage w...

October 5, 2024: Atlanta, GA.  It's crazy that our annual show at Chastain in Atlanta is no longer a big deal to us, it terms of the size of the show. These days, the Chastain show is a homecoming gig for us, and it's fun to catch up with our old friends who have stuck with us. October 10, 2024: Atlanta, GA. We played a benefit for the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials in Atlanta. All of our meals were delivered in plastic boxes, and there were no recycling bins in the dressing rooms, so everything went into the garbage can. C'mon man! It took me an hour and a half to get to the gig, which I think might be a personal record, definitely a PR for 2024. It didn't matter, though, because the load in was enough of a pain that things were getting to the stage for setup just as I arrived.   Ok gig. This room at Monday Night Brewing is a terrible space for a band. I bet it didn't sound too good, even with our top notch sound engineers. We did get to home at the end of th...

We flew home from the end of the tour (Phoenix) on the morning of September 12, 2024, and a week later, we were back up and running. Here's how the end of September looked. September 19, 2024: Atlanta, GA. We played a private event at the rooftop on Ponce City Market on rented gear. Getting to the rooftop is kind of a pain in the butt, between the parking and the need for someone to accompany you on the elevator. Once you get up there, it's not too bad, though. Anyway, kind of a lame gig, and the backline guys weren't really on the ball, so we had to wait around (I want to say that they forgot to send all the wireless microphones? Something like that--they forgot an essential part of our show gear). So, it took extra time waiting around because they had to go back and get the stuff, then bring it over, park, do the elevator thing, then hand it over to Zach to get it going. Another big factor in this gig--Nick got sick and couldn't sing at all, so the setlist was carved...