David Freeman Music

Damnit! I once again failed to keep the blog up to date. My musical life jumped into hyperspeed, and I've just been trying to keep up. Here's a recap: Thursday, April 21: Night one of a two night stand at Venkman's. This one was pretty good for me. We added Whenever I Call You Friend  (as seen in the picture below), and it went pretty well. It's a relief that the sax solo was pretty easy to get into my head (unlike Cool Change, which I can never quite nail at the gig); the string part is pretty simple, too, but it's fun to play. I guess it doesn't take much brain power for me to make it happen, so it's almost like having a song off in the middle of the gig. Friday, April 22: Night two at Venkman's. Cody Madlock subbed on guitar for Monkeyboy and did a good job. It's fun to have subs on this gig--they hear the music differently than the main guy does, so you hear some little cool part that you usually don't get. Other times, it's just that t...

Greetings, readers! It's been almost a month since I updated the blog--my apologies! My world has rapidly accelerated back to pre-COVID speed, and I've been hanging on for dear life. Anyway, here we go! Friday, March 25: We set sail on The Beach Boys Cruise out of Miami on the Norwegian Pearl, a boat we know very well (I think somebody said this was our sixteenth music cruise, and almost all of them have been on here). Norwegian used their downtime to update the cabins. I approve! It's mostly just a less orange color scheme, but the bathroom has been updated as well.  The sail away show featured The Temptations. There is still one original guy and he's eighty-something years old.  The other fourteen guys are younger guys, replacements through the years. Are they still The Temptations at this point, or a cover band? I noticed when when we were trying to get on board that there were a TON of horn players--an oddly disproportionate number of sax cases and trumpet bags--co...