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Next Gig... Saturday, July 12th Hamlin Pub CLARKSTON

A NEW PLACE!!!  Sure, it's the Hamlin Pub, but this is a different Hamlin Pub.  This is our first time at the Hamlin Pub in Clarkston, so if you could be real cool and come out, do that thing that you always do when we play and impress yet one more bar manager that Free Beer is the bestest band, we will buy you your very own Free Beer.  All you have to do is ask.  See you on Saturday, July 12th!! WE HAVE PICTURES!!

The Livonia Spree is history and now all we have to do is wait for the for the editors to finish our feature length documentary "Beer Tap", all about a band that has been together 15 years and is hired to play the Beer Tent at a suburban community festival.  If you would like to see some pictures from the set, you may recognize some of the extras. NOW we have pictures from Cleveland. Scott left his camera in Tom's van on the trip back from Cleveland and Tom brought it back at the MS Gig in Lake Orion.  Wanna see a girl with semen on her shirt?  Click Here!

Free Beer Voted Best Local Band in Michigan in Detroit News Poll!!

An Open Letter to Free Beer Fans and Detroit News Readers…

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.  We all thought that was pretty cool.

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 name.

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.

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.

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.

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.  Enjoy!

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!!

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 brother!

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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Neil Rubin's Detroit News Article about  Free Beer!!

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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.