David Freeman Music

November was slow, but I kind of needed the time for some other stuff, and just the general catching up on life. November 1, 2025: Atlanta GA. Remember the New Orleans brunch gig that I did at that crappy restaurant in Buckhead? We played Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans, and it reminded me how much I loved the Harry Connick Jr/Dr. John version on Harry's album Twenty . It also made me think about how much my grandmother liked the Pete Fountain/Al Hirt style of New Orleans music, so this one's for her! November 6, 2025: Decatur, GA. Nick had a solo show at Eddie's Attic, and he invited me to play a few songs. My part started with Nick doing a solo version of the Kenny Loggins song Heart to Heart , and when he got to the sax solo, I interrupted him (this was a planned bit), and we began together from there. After that, we played three Yacht Rock Revue songs: Doobie Bounce , Step , and Bad Tequila (where I managed to get lost in what we were doing and complete...

Not as much stuff happening in October... Wednesday, October 1, 2025: Mashantucket, CT. What a name! This was a corporate gig at a bar in a casino. We started the day by flying from Atlanta to Hartford, where two sprinter vans picked us up and drove us seventy-five minutes to the gig.   We used rented gear for this one, and all of it was good, but hot damn, my in-ear mix was worse than ever! It sounded like I was playing along with a band in the room next to us. All I could hear was my keyboards and the kick drum. Totally survivable for ninety minutes, but it was really bad. We have another fly date coming up in December, and I would like to set everything at the same level and then start turning individual instruments down. Maybe that's the move...? Some consoles have an app and wireless so that I could make adjustments without having to ask for a million things, and I would like to try fixing it that way. We'll see. I've definitely worked my way into a giant mess. Anyway...

Here we go! This is a big update. Lots of gigs, lots of pics. And I'm late with it because we've had some family stuff happening at home that needed me more, so I'm just now pumping this out.

 Beginning at the end of July... Thursday, July 31, 2025: Dewey Beach, MD. 11 AM flight--not too bad. TSA flagged my backpack (the two spare mouthpieces in a pouch look kind of like a disassembled pistol), but the agent tasked with looking at them told the agent next to her that she "didn't feel like looking for it" and then gave me my backpack back without a detailed search. Uhhh.... Anyway, we flew to Baltimore, and the vans picked us up and drove two and a half hours to Dewey Beach, through some pretty heavy rain a couple of times. these need another week We did the usual set up and soundcheck, and then I tried to squeeze in a run before the next line of rain came through--and failed! I got soaked.  I think this was a pretty good gig. It seemed good and raw and loose, but I was told that the room does not sound good--there are too many people trying to talk over us. Oh well...it looks like it sounded good! With all the rain blowing through, it was really humid--I had t...