Freeks - Henniker Kind Band

A now defunct band from Henniker, New Hampshire. Freeks dissappeared right before the internet took-off and the band has never had a web presense, yet everything exists for one. So now, in blog format, I'm creating an online archive of our music, stories and photos. No chronology.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Beauty


This is the cover on back of my Ibanez guitar that i used to play in Freeks. My good friend Bill Lett free-handed this scrimshaw work using only an old Grateful Dead poster that my brother had as a guide. Look at the detail in this piece! He is an amazing artist! He gave this to me for my birthday one year and i often left the guitar backwards on stage so people could check it out... but they hardly ever even noticed it.

The old band room


This was the best band room ever! If you are reading this page, you probably came over here more than once...I miss these days! From L to R is David f., Josh K., David c., Danny F. and Jason M. The photo was taken by our good friend Nic Hasey.

Monday, August 07, 2006

new posts coming soon...


in the meantime, don't forget to check out the archives above the links... We love hearing your feedback too, so please leave a comment.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

FREEKS AT NEC


Monday, May 15, 2006

Slaughter Room

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Chicken Valve


Dann and I have been cleaning out the old band-room in Henniker @ FMI headquarters and coming across all kinds of old stuff. There, soaked and festering in black-mold, I found this old scrap of notebook and managed to salvage it pretty well.


I was sketching one day and wrote this limerick just for fun. I literally opened a book and took the first word I saw; grabbed another one, and a word....and so on. Eventually, once it had legs, I came up with this silly thing.

Well, as the story goes, that was it. For months or even a year, until one day when I was leaving the band-room, I left a note for whoever cared, that I'd be back shortly, or whatever-. I ended the note with another limerick about TWISTY GERBER. I honestly don't know where the Barbapoppa reference came from since I didn't know what it was at the time and since learning, am sure I've never watched it. I think I had heard the word. anyway, that verse was;

"combination barbapoppa, puddle snake-Sue, Twisty took out little FREEKS and Broke it for a loop. Terry broke it up with blinding winds and bended howls- Twisty dropped down to his knees and succumbed to Terry's scowl (was gone within the hour)."

FREEKS was a name Milan gave the gear-shifter in Danny's pick-up truck. He had a dream that Big-Z would go out late at night and have conversations with the shifter. "Oh FREEKS, I just don't know what to do about my boys!....They paah-ty all night long and ya' need a fa-kin' bull-do-zah' to wake 'em up in the mowan'in'!!!"

TERRY was the bands Mascot, who was androgenous, (hence TERRY) and was all powerfull through the forces of telepathy.

So that's the second verse.

3.

"Quick plum smidgen slid off safely to the side, and slipped a tiny microchip into the monkey's eye.
the tiny-chip bled hell-fire into the monkey's brain. The beast watched on in silence as the monkey went insane."

I'm not really sure where that one came from. I think we wrote that and the choruses on the spot. I believe Josh Kerin had come to rehearsal with that song as something he had written. We added my lyrics to it because I had just come with them as well.

(Help me guys if I'm forgetting something okay. I know you're out there.)

Mostly, I just wanted to post this picture. And I have a lot more where that came from.....

Saturday, April 01, 2006

circa 1987


I had just bought my drum-set 1 or 2 days before... Check out the height on those cymbals! And Dave's Les Paul! That thing played better than any guitar I've ever played! Danny's rockin' those acid-wash jeans and tank!

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Group Shot


I haven't come across a good copy of this image yet, so I'm posting what I've got. You know I'll fix it when I get it...
Please leave comments and let me know if there's anything you'd like me to post here. Thanks for looking everyone!!!
We hope to get together sometime this Spring or Summer, so keep your eyes & ears peeled for a little sumpin'...

Grit-break...


Wif' & Skitch on a grit-break while recording "Life On The Farm" @ West Sound Studios in the glamourous south-end of Londonderry, NH. There actually wasn't a single hint of a farm, but the songs were written and inspired during our times at Skitchs' barn and up at LHF.

Evil Terry's Ransom...


Our mascot was abducted and strapped to a telephone pole in downtown Contoocook, NH. I actually passed right as a cop was showing up to investigate the naked-androgenous figure in chains. He didn't look half as amused as I was. Jimmy Fraser is still in question as to Terry's final disappearence. I recieved a broken leg, then later the mask; both by mail. Nothing else ever became of it....

We miss you Terry.

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