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Back in the Alley's in Royal Oak, Friday May 18th
Everytime we have played here, we have been pleasantly surprised with how our fans have adapted to the situation. First time, we played upstairs and everyone managed to find us. Next we played in the bar downstairs and everyone managed to squeeze in to the tight space. Who knows what we are going to do this time. Only one way to find out. Be there on Friday May 18th!! Directions are here!! |
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Out by the Lake, Saturday May 19th
This should be fun. We don't get out to this part of the metro as often as we used to, but we really look forward to some sunshine on the deck of the White Lake Inn before the gig, and some of the most fun and entertaining dancers in the region later that night. It will be a good time. See for yourself on Saturday May 19th. Directions are here!! |
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First Friday ... May The Fourth Be With You
Yep, May The Fourth be with you. Free Beer in full "Fourth" at Cowley's for the first Friday of the month. The evening started out slow since the weather is starting to get nice, but by the end of the first set, the place was packed and the dance floor was full. |
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Cinco De Mayo at the Royal Oak Farmers Market
Free Beer headlined the main stage at the big Cinco De Mayo celebration in downtown Royal Oak at the Farmers Market. We were really excited to get this gig, but neither Dewey or Jeff could make it, so we signed up Mike Weilgat, bassman from Domino Effect, who sat in for Beermas last year signed up for the chance to play so close to home. Then Tom rechecked his calendar and saw a graduation on the date. So we checked our stable of sit in Drummers and all of the regulars were booked too. Thank goodness Scott lives next to Russ Ristau, drummer for the Basements. After a furious few weeks of practice Russ and Mike had the set list down and we hit the stage ... LAST ... after everyone was good and lubed up from when the doors opened at 4PM!! |
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Just posted the photos from Cowley's on Friday May 4th and the Cinco De Mayo celebration at Royal Oak Farmers Market on Saturday May 5th. We still have the shots from The South Bar on Friday April 28th too. Of course there are the prerequisite Monkey shots. Check it out here on our
Photos
Page or you can see them on our FACEBOOK page now.
Wanna see a girl with semen on her shirt? Click
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Why is Free Beer on the cover of Maxim Magazine?
We have no idea
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Another "Major Award" for Free Beer
Voted "Best Band Name" by Real Detroit Weekly!!
We cannot say how proud or astounded we were when we heard that Free Beer had been voted 2012 "Best Band Name" by RDW. Of course it did take us 18 years to get noticed. Tough room. Click the link below, find us near the bottom of page #3
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MySpace?
LISTEN TO FREE BEER TUNES!
Free Beer has it's own MySpace
page where you can hear our music and be our Friend.
OK. It's not as cool as Facebook but you can't play
our tunes on Facebook, so that's how it is. Check it out now, funk soul
brother!
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HIRE US!
Free Beer is always looking for new
places to play. So if you want to book us, or know a bar
owner who is looking to deplete his entire stock of beer at retail
prices, click here to
let us know about it!
GOT NOTHING TO DO?
If you want to plan your
schedule around
our schedule, go to our Gigs Page for
the most up to date list of future gigs.
UPDATED STAFF
PAGES
Same old text, new Graphics and now our
Bass Player Dewey has his own page!! Check
it out ...
"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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