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Next Gigs...
Friday, December
5th John Cowley and Sons Pub
Saturday, December 6th Hamlin Pub CLARKSTON
Friday, December 12th Beermas at The New Way Bar |
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Gig season is here and Free Beer is Jolly! This
weekend we have two gigs ... first our normal
"First Friday Of The Month" at John Cowley
and Sons Pub in downtown Farmington on Friday,
December 5th. Then we head north against Santa
traffic to The Hamlin Pub in Clarkston on Saturday
December 6th. The final show of the year is our
annual Beermas Party at the New Way Bar on Woodward in
Ferndale on Friday, December 12th.
We have already started
playing songs from our Holiday set, like "Grinch",
"Most Wonderful Time" and "Gloria"
but with our extensive touring schedule we haven't
actually started practicing them. So if you love
improvisational theater, surprise parties and other
"unexpected things" you are really going to
appreciate this year's version of the holiday songs.
It was a great
Thanksgiving Eve at the Library West Bloomfield ...
Steve Tocco is still sitting in for the ailing Tom #6
Daldin who is still recovering from shoulder surgery,
so we have plenty to be thankful for. We hope to
see you at one of the final three shows of the year.
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Cowley's in
Farmington 12/5
Hamlin Clarkston 12/6
New Way Bar
Ferndale 12/12
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HAVE PICTURES!
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Missed the last gig? No
problem. Click Here.
It's the brand new Library Pub in West Bloomfield for our
annual Thanksgiving Eve show. The first 50 pictures
are courtesy of the band, but after that, the camera got
passed around the crowd and we got some interesting candid
shots ... no bathroom photos, but lots of interesting stuff.
PLUS ... Keith Tyler uncovered
a TREASURE TROVE of old Free
Beer photos. Check'em out HERE
Plenty
of pictures to add to the ongoing project to have a picture
of anyone who as ever seen the band. Up to 15,000
photos and counting.
Wanna see a girl with semen on her shirt? Click
Here!
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Does
anyone have a Blow Dryer?
We have been tempting fate for months,
putting our drinks in convenient places like the
tops of speakers. It hadn't cost us until
November 22nd at the Hamlin Pub in
Rochester. Jim had his diet Coke placed
conveniently on top of one of the cases that sat
on the subwoofer, right next to the board when
our zealous version of the Kinks "You
Really Got Me" rocked so hard that it
rumbled the pop right off the case and dumped
the entire thing into the sound board! It
was freaky because as we were singing, it
actually sounded like it was underwater.
We took a quick break and Jim asked the bar
manager if he had a blow dryer and sure enough
one of the waitresses came up with one.
15 minutes of holding the board upside down, blowing
a fan and the blow dryer on the board, we were
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ONE
WORD ... CROTCH
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Crotch
was the topic of discussion earlier in the
evening prior to the band going on at the Hamlin
Pub Lake Orion on November 15th. One
picture is the crotch of a band member who had
an operation in the region that when a certain
event took place, became quite
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Other
members of the band had this procedure as well,
describing it as a "Dull, but lengthy
pain". The second picture is of the
crotch of a guy we'll describe as "One
Word". Just prior to mentioning
that the Britney Spears song was going out to
all the bald people in the house, he came up to
Scott and said ... well something ... we're not
sure because the words were kinda blurry.
The only words we could decipher were "one
word". As he stepped up to the mic to
say his one word, he didn't see the drum riser
... he tripped, he fell grabbing anything he
could before he hit the ground he took out
Kurt's guitar strap, Dewey's lip and a cymbal
stand. Not in that order. The good
bouncers at the Hamlin escorted him from the
building soon after.
See
if you can find the guys attached to each of the
Crotches on our
Hamlin Lake Orion Picture Page. There
was something about one of the crotches that we
didn't notice until after we developed the
pictures. Let's just say that I don't
think HE had the operation yet |
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"You can't be a real country
unless you have a beer and an airline.
It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear
weapons,
but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa
THE
FREE BEER STORY
Known in
among audiophiles as "Detroit's Most Persistent
Band," Free Beer has been kicking around the Detroit
music scene since the Summer of 1993. People
have been talking about Free Beer for years. Here's just a
sampling of some of their comments ... "...
a wonderfully bizarre entertainment experience! Classic!"
-- (a former)
METRO TIMES (employee) "...
soooo, you're a five piece?..." (our first booking agent)
"...Free
Beer may be the only band in history to do a selection by
old school Swedish Punk Band The Hives and follow it up with
Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash ..." -- Neil
Rubin, THE DETROIT NEWS "...
so what you're saying is I have to pay for the beer? ..."
-- Our First Confused Fan "
... I said turn off the amps or we are taking you downtown ...
" -- Royal Oak Police on their third stop at the Free
Beer House Party
Click
the links to find out more about the legend of Free Beer. Or see
us live ... Click Here to find out where the next gig is
at.
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