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UPCOMING GIGS

COWLEY'S -- First Friday
Friday June 7th, 9:30PM

John Cowley and Sons Pub
33338 Grand River Ave
Farmington, MI
(248) 652-8441

Cowley's -- FIRST (Second) FRIDAY
FRIDAY, July 12th, 9:30PM

John Cowley and Sons Pub
33338 Grand River Ave
Farmington, MI
(248) 652-8441

Free Beer News

Jim Turns 50 at Cowley's

Jim Edelman has been the heart and soul of Free Beer since the start. So when his "Big 50" showed up, we knew a simple celebration wouldn't do it. Deb and Sue got all of Jim's friends and neighbors to show up. Jim's mother and sister from Michigan plus his aunt and cousin from Cleveland were there. There was a big Guitar shaped cake. At the end of set one we sang Happy Birthday ... then the band members ushered Jim out to the parking lot where we gave him is present. A BRAND NEW TRAILER!!! Jim's been loading (and ruining) his truck four times per gig, so this will make life a lot easier for him. His cousin John got up on stage and jammed out White Room with is and it was an overly raucous evening. Great time!!

Free Beer on Under The Radar Michigan

What a great episode of Under The Radar Michigan featuring Free Beer recording our video at Groove Box studios.
Here's a link to the episode on UTR Michigan that ran this morning
Here's a link to the video we recorded of "Love Me Two Times".

St Patty's Day at Cowley's
Free Beer adds Marcel Lim and Ron Jewell
to make it Free Green Beer for 2013!!

This is always a special day at Cowley's but this has special meaning to all of us in the Cowley's Free Beer family since the patriarch, John Cowley, the man whom the bar was named after, passed away just a few weeks ago. From 9AM to 3PM, Sean Riley played. Free Beer queued up in the hall way and took over just past 4PM We had Ron Jewell and (instead of Jim Flynn) Marcel Lim (nick named Sparky McGuiness, and finally Phil McGuiness) played the fiddle and by all accounts was OUTSTANDING!! Also, we had temporary possession of the WORLDS LARGEST SOCK MONKEY!! Thanks to Jen Wycoff for that!!
We alternated between Free Beer and Green Beer all afternoon and into the night and was just about to call it quits when Kurt and Ron provided this stirring tribute to the Cowley Family with a toast and one of John Cowley's favorite Irish songs. A fitting end to a fun St. Patrick's Day.

Tribute to John Cowley
Kurt and Ron put together a lovely toast and song to the patriarch

If you weren't at Cowley's on St. Patrick's Day this year it was a bit of a tough one ... the first St. Patty's Day without the man whom the bar is named after, John Cowley. Kurt, lead singer of Free Beer did a wonderful toast followed by one of John's favorite songs performed by Ron Jewell. Thankfully, Jim Edelman was there to record the whole thing for posterity. Here it is for you!

Nice Article By Gary Graff In the Oakland Press

We know good journalism when we read it ... Thanks to Gary Graff for digging up the dirt on Free Beer and putting it in the Oakland Press. Appreciate it!!

Kurt does a Girly Shot!

See what happens when Emily sticks something hard in Kurt's mouth, and then the end of it gets all creamy and white, so Kurt rears his head back and swallows all of it, wipes the residue off his chin, just to lean forward all satisfied.

Watch the video and see if we here at www.freebeernet.com have any part of this incorrect.

Enjoy.

GROOVE BOX STUDIOS

For those of you too far away to get to a gig or just haven't made a trip to the shows in a while, do we have a treat coming for you. As part of Jim and Tom's "Other Job", Under The Radar Michigan they were filming a segment at GrooveBox Studios ... a super cool place in the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit where bands can do a five song set, which is recorded, both audio and video, and packaged up so you can show your skills to bar owners, venues, friends, radio ... whomever. They'll post it on their website, even include it in the "radio station". For the segment UTR was shooting, they needed a band ... and funny, WE'RE in a band!! So we recorded 5 songs with some of our friends in the studio. Stay tuned, we'll be posting them soon. In the meantime, here's some photos!

FREE BEER RANG IN THE NEW YEAR
AT THE ROYAL OAK MUSIC THEATER

It was another great celebration with the Stay and Play Social Club on New Years Eve at the Royal Oak Music Theater. This time Free Beer started at 9:45PM and kept rocking right through Midnight, including the countdown and beyond. Yes. One 2 1/2 hour set including DJ Simon Matty scratching along on The Violent Femmes. Another great crowd and a lot of great friends ... oh, and we had our own dressing room again!!

Twas the Bestest BeerMas Of All!!!
Domino Effect's best show EVER
The Candy Band do only Ramones Songs
Free Beer plays Candy Band Songs!!

We KNEW this BeerMas was going to be extra special. There was so much pre show intruique! Some might not be aware but during the winter, the Candy Band and Free Beer's practice facilities are right next door to each other near downtown Royal Oak. Both bands had plotted to do something really special for BeerMas this year, but ... it was a SURPRISE! Band members were seen leaning against the basement window of the others house to take a listen.

Free Beer knew the Candy Band was not going to do their normal set. Rumors were that they were going to do FREE BEER's set, dressed as Free Beer.

Saturday December 15th finally came and Domino Effect hit the stage early. They obviously knew it was a big night because they brought their best stuff and played their best show yet.

The Candy Band came in the New Way dressed completly in LEATHER and wearing Ramones T-Shirts. They hopped on stage, Daniella wearing dark aviator glasses, and with a "ONE TWO THREE FOUR" kicked into a 15 song set of THE RAMONES. (Kurt's Favorite Band). What a great Beermas present!

Then it was our turn. Although we felt our special songs paled in comparison to the entire Ramones set by "The Ramonas" (Candy Band's leather clad alter ego band). We started the show with our closer (Love Me Two Times) then busted out Two Candy Band songs since they didn't play any. Aided by Laura Colevecchia on vocals we played "Monster" and "I'm A Monkey" with the Candy Band dancing right in front of us. Other new songs included "The End Of The World As We Know It" and "Heavy Santa" a Christmas version of Seger's Heavy Music.

Great Night. Thanks to all for making it a Merry BeerMas.

Detroit's newest band
The Ramonas!

The Candy Band busted out an all Ramones set at BeerMas 2012 including this one. See it live!!

Pictures from Beermas 2012

What a great time. Take a look at what we saw in the camera!!

Finally, Someone Sets The Numbers Straight!!

Free Beer Video? No ... Stop!

Really ... Stop. Scott put the camera on record on August 3rd at Cowley's and this is what happened. Song 1 is below and the rest of the set is on our video page.