David Freeman Music

Sunday, December 31, 2023: Orlando, FL . Our New Year's Eve gig was at the House of Blues in Orlando. Late gig, late (-ish) flight. Easy. Pre flight burrito. Olé, Qdoba. My least favorite part of playing the Orlando House of Blues:  you have to walk through a mile of people to successfully get off Disney property so that you can find a place to run. Well, maybe the food, too, which is always terrible Disney resort food (hello impossible burger with fries), but damn, the way you're stuck in this mile long outdoor mall with only one way out is...ingenious, but also a pain in the ass. This was a pretty good one--I recall that last year's NYE gig in Indianapolis was really lame until midnight, when we all started running around on stage like jackasses. This one felt like a regular show. Pretty fun. Good crowd. I drank Monkeyboy's champagne when he wasn't looking. Does this mean I've fallen off the wagon? Wednesday, January 10, 2024: Atlanta, GA. First up on the day...

Friday, November 3, 2023: LAX to Oxnard, CA.  We landed at LAX on a Friday afternoon. The vans scooped us up and drove for a few hours to our hotel in Oxnard.  It was kind of weird to see fog come in off the ocean and completely obscure everything, an hour after landing in the afternoon sun of Los Angeles. We all ate in the hotel lobby restaurant, which turned out to be fairly decent, and then went off to our separate rooms. In the middle of the night, I awoke in a massive panic--what if I couldn't remember any of my parts to anything? I was freaking out! I knew what parts I was supposed to play, but I couldn't think of the key or the first note of anything. What if this happened on stage at one of the biggest gigs of the year? It took about forty-five minutes to finally get back to sleep. Friday, November 3, 2023: Santa Barbara, CA. The big one! The final show of the Kenny Loggins tour, at the Santa Barbara Bowl. There have been some absolutely legendary performances here, i...