Free Beer. Free Beer your friendly neighborhood Detroit Michigan Rock Band, yes a Cover Band, but not your usual Detroit, Royal Oak, Plymouth, Birmingham, Ferndale or Farmington cover band. Nor are we a usual Oakland County, Wayne County, Macomb County Michigan Cover Band or Bar Band. We were once voted the Best Cover Band, yes Detroit's Best Cover Band, by the Detroit News. We play the First Friday of each month at Cowley's Pub, Farmington, Michigan. Kurt Schwartz Vocals, Scott Brown Keyboard, Jim Edelman Guitar, Tom Daldin from Under The Radar Michigan Drummer and Duane (Dewey) Larkin on Bass.
Saturday February 11 Fishbones
St Clair Shores 23722 Jefferson Avenue
St. Clair Shores, MI
(586) 498-3000
MOTOWN WINTER BLAST -- Saturday February 11 4:30PM
Free Beer is playing the Winter Blast on Saturday February 11th from 4:30P to 5:30P at the Michigan Lottery Stage. It's at Campus Martius on Woodward in Downtown Detroit. The Michigan Lotter Stage is on Monroe, backing up to Farmer on the south side of the Compuware building. There is a heated tent so don't freak out about standing in the cold. It should a good opporutnity for you to bring out any underage, alcohol adverse or go to bed early types so they can get an early dose of Free Beer before our gig later that night at Fishbones! Go to www.WinterBlast.com for directions and information.
SHEREE'S BIRTHDAY!! It was Sheree's Birthday on Saturday 2/4/12, so we moved our normal First Friday concert to the First Saturday to accomodate. Sheree is a lovely young lady, and I must say that her friends are just as lovely (and possibly a little less modest). We only did two sets and set two set a new world record for length at over 2 1/2 hours (not kidding). Two special guests, Rick Shine -- lead guitarist from Mitch Ryder's band and Bob White on vocals both joined us on stage for a hootenanny!!
Free Beer at Motown WinterBlast 2/11 4:30P It must have been our performance in the 100o heat the Arts Beats and Eats festival this summer that qualified us for a spot on the Motown WinterBlast lineup … whatever it is, we’re in. Rocking. Outdoors. Summer or Winter. Hot or Cold. Free Beer is there. We will be playing at 4:30PM on the Michigan Lottery Stage, then packing up the gear and heading out to Fishbone’s SCS later that night. A twofer!!
Return to Fishbones on February 11th It's back to the East Side with us. Free Beer returns to Fishbones on Saturday February 11th. Our last time there was our Halloween costume party which got way out of control later in the night, so let's see if we can recreate it without the costumes.
WE
HAVE PICTURES
Just posted the shots from Sheree's Birthday at Cowley's on Saturday night. Over 100 shots so if you aren't in there, it's because you didn't want to be in there.. Also, more photos our first gig at The South Bar back in Friday the 13th in January. Check it out here on our
Photos
Page or you can see them on our FACEBOOK page now.
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Free
Beer VIDEO!!
This time, Jim gave Scott the "Monopod" at Cowley's on Thanksgiving Saturday 2011 so he could move the camera farther than an arms length away from himself and get right in Kurt's Face. Not award winning video, but interesting, nonetheless.
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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!
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!
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schedule around
our schedule, go to our Gigs Page for
the most up to date list of future gigs.
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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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