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NEXT GIG
Friday, May 16th
-- Hamlin Pub LAKE ORION
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Coopers moved to Friday, May 30th!! |
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back out to Lake Orion, close to the Pistons action
out at the Palace. We can only hope that they
have taken care of the Orlando Magic by the time we
hit the stage on Friday May 16th at The Hamlin Pub in
Lake Orion.
DB
Coopers will now be on Friday May 30th instead of
Saturday, May 31st ... change your calendar!!
CLEVELAND ROCKS! Start making plans now to
road trip with us to Jim's hometown of Cleveland
(actually, Lyndhurst OH, just east of
Cleveland). There's been word of a bunch of Free
Beer fans invading OHIO and maybe you should visit the
Rock Hall then head on over to Scalper's to show them
how we do it in the D? It all happens on
Saturday, June 14th! Click
Here for the Gig's page with links to the
Scalper's website for directions.
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The pictures from May 2 at
Cowley's are up, and as is our way we have left the full
weekend of photos from Cowley's on Friday April 4 and lots from the Hamlin Pub on
Saturday April 5, where it was 89X night, the Pistons
Automotion dancers were there with a Free Throw competition
for Playoff tickets. You might be in there too!
Wanna see a girl with semen on her shirt? Click
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Free
Beer Voted Best Local Band in Michigan in Detroit News
Poll!! |
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Open Letter to Free Beer Fans and
Detroit
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Something
really weird happened this week. It
actually happened this time last year too. We
figured that it was a fluke or some sort of mistake.
Jim
blamed Scott. Scott blamed Tom.
Tom blamed Dewey. No one blamed
Kurt. But when it happened again this year, I got to
tell ya, we really were puzzled.
So,
The Detroit News named Free Beer as the best local band in
their 2007 Readers Poll. If you remember last year, we
were the Second Best Band in
Detroit, which lead to lots of Number 2 jokes all year long.
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But
this? This is a whole other level. It's
definitely pretty cool. And it's pretty weird, because
all year long, we've pretty much done the same things we've
always done. Played songs that we really like and that
other people seem to really like and appear to like dancing
to those songs. We played a lot of really fun shows
and some really cool bars.
Beyond that, it wasn't a year of massive change for Free
Beer. In fact, I kept a journal this year and
here are the only things we changed this year:
- Dewey
bought him self one of those 5 string basses. It's
still a lefty, so no one else in the band can play it.
- Kurt
got a new cord that connects his foot pedal to his amp.
- Scott
got a fancy new keyboard that pretty much plays itself
- Tom
got a new hi-hat stand and some new sticks
- Jim
bought a new amp.
- The Sock Monkey got a
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Now,
I'm no genius, but those CAN'T be the defining differences
between Second Best and BEST…CAN IT???
We
are super appreciative of whoever filled out these best of
forms with our band name on it. We are
very aware that there are a lot of bands in
Detroit
and we're kinda wondering if you've seen ALL of them before
you sent your vote in.
Seriously,
what can we expect in 2008? Come on, you
and I both know it's all downhill from here.
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Tom
and the Sock monkey will start their own band playing
anti-war songs, but the band will break up when they can't
decide what war to sing songs about.
Scott
and his fancy keyboard will get a regular gig at the Holiday
Inn and there won't be room on the stage for the rest of us.
Kurt
will decide that it's time to buckle down at work and devote
all his time to designing the ultimate wiring harness.
Jim
will open up a combination unicorn research center and drive
in movie complex.
Dewey
plans on buying a 10 string bass and will take a year off
work to have 5 more fingers added to his right hand, so he
can play the thing.
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So
here's the deal, Free Beer is just like a lot of bands.
We like recognition. We like to
play bars. And we like people to come see
us. If this Best Local Band in Detroit
thingy can keep the gigs coming, then boy-howdy, do we like
being number 1!
Thanks
Detroit News and whomever filled out their ballots.
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Upon finding
out from Dewey that Free Beer had been (somehow) voted the 2007
Detroit News "Best Local Band" in Michigan, Steve Tocco, fill
in Drummer for Free Beer penned this nifty limerick in response.
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SOCK
MONKEY BIRTHDAY CARDS!!
Remember Spanky The Sock Monkey's Birthday party at the
New Way with the Candy Band? We finally scanned in all
the birthday cards. You should check them out!! Click
Here!!
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SOCK
MONKEY NAMED!!
Our contest went off without a hitch and our Sock Monkey
has a name!! He will now be known as "Spanky The
Monkey". Close second was "Shock The
Monkey"
Thanks everyone for your
entries. Look for Spanky The Monkey merchandise in
stores everywhere soon!
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Click
here for
pictures of
Spanky's Friends!
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MySpace
Free Beer has it's own MySpace
page where you can hear our music and be our Friend.
If you haven't signed up yet, click this banner to the right
and Free Beer gets MONEY! Check it out now, funk soul
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Keith
Tyler
03/29/2007 10:36 PM
Subject: A
realization...
So I'm in Fort Worth, Texas for work,
and I check in to my hotel tonight. The clerk at the
front desk tells me about the complimentary chili dog dinner
being served in the lounge area. Now coneys have always been
my downfall so I go drop my stuff off in my room and head
back down to indulge in a couple of free dogs. I make
myself a plate and go take a seat at a table when I realize,
"I'm going to need a beverage to wash this down",
so I head back up to check out the choices. Over in
the corner I spot a tray of steins and a beer tapper
sticking out of the counter. "Could it actually be
possible???", I ask myself. So I grab a glass,
stick it under the tap, and pull back on the handle...
It's now a couple of hours later, and I'm back up in my room
with two coneys and about 8 beers in me so far. I'm
just finishing off one more stein-ful and I come to the
realization...
"FREE BEER really does ROCK!!!"
KT
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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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