David Freeman Music

Once again, I am late on the blog update, but these past two weeks have been full to the brim.  Anyway, let's go back to April! Tuesday, April 8, 2025: Atlanta, GA. Yacht Rock's monitor engineer Van Markinton has been working on some other projects, one of which needed horns, so my buddy Rob Opitz and I met up at Tree Sounds Studios to knock it out. Rob and I have been playing together since the mid-nineties!, so we are very comfortable playing together. It was fun! Van's horn charts were excellent, and I got to catch up with Rob.  Thursday, April 10, 2025: Augusta, GA. Yacht Rock had two gigs this week connected to The Masters. Private corporate gigs. The crew guys went the night before and brought all of gear in (and set it up), and then the band drove to Augusta in the afternoon. We showed up, ate dinner, played, and then got directly into the van and drove back to Atlanta. excellent vegetarian dinner of risotto and eggplant, and I think the pink things are onions We hu...

March was a very busy month, dominated by a two and a half week bus tour with the Yacht Rock Revue that began in San Antonio and ended in Southern California. I had hoped that this run of shows would settle into a routine in the same way that the Train tour last summer did--waking up with the bus parked in its spot by the venue, with only a short walk to a pot of coffee and a bathroom. Not so, in this case. Every day was different. Sometimes it felt like we would never finish. Wednesday, March 5, 2025: San Antonio, TX . We flew (at a reasonable hour) to Texas to meet up with our gear and bus at the first stop, the Aztec Theatre.  lunchtime flight = airport burrito This was our third time playing here, and it was definitely our biggest/best crowd (and on a Wednesday!). I had time to go for a run and do a long warm up, and I think the show overall went pretty well. We worked on a new batch of songs, and this was our first attempt at remembering everything.  On the other hand, ou...