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.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

GROUP SHOT



Here's another shot from our one and only photo-shoot. (L to R: Dave Foster/vox-dr, Josh Kerin/bass, Dave Carroll/vox-gtr, Dann Foster/gtr, Jason Michie/dr.) Nic Hasey took these pictures for us. Thanks Nic.

Dann, Evil Terry & Dave C.


Here's a shot in the bandroom on Old Concord Road somewhere around 1994. The beauty of being young musicians is the ability to spend days on end together playing in this fashion. It might also be to the benefit of said musicians to stay away from substances in this time together. Or maybe not.

Josh and Jason circa 1995


I believe this was before Life On The Farm was released. We were just building up to it. In this photo, the band was playing a Spring-Fling for New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. Moon Boot Lover opened. Josh and Jason look like children here!!!
The location is Malick's Farm off of Bull Run. It's basically a dead-end. The nitros-oxide tanks made an appearance that night, so all you could hear between toons was balloons. It was crazy, people were falling on their faces all around. The music was insane this night. Both bands were at their peak. Moon Boot Lover had the Evans Brothers at the time, who now both front the band Soul Live.
Henniker at its' best!!!

1995 NEWSLETTER


This is a scan of one of our 1995 Newsletters with artwork by Scott Horner.

Monday, January 02, 2006

12/26/98 Christmas Party


There's about twenty layers to this photo that I could talk about, but I'm just going to pick a couple. Max Dowling and Melissa Thompson are great friends of mine who at the time, didn't even know each other. Now they have a wonderful child together and they live right down the street from me. The other day as I was looking through photos and trying to pick which ones I wanted to post on this site; I noticed Max and Melissa in this photo relatively close to each other. The story was passed along to them and they are both excited to see the photo, so here it is!!! The other reason I'm posting it is because this was our 2nd Annual Holiday party at the Contoocook Legion Hall Post #81 in Contoocook, New Hampshire. Thought the venue and band has changed, we are still throwing the same party with the same results for the ninth year now!!!! I guess this is my chance to say, THANK YOU!!! From all of us! It means so much to us that the hours of rehearsals every week and the miles driven only to lift equipment in and out of bars and small clubs, has paid-off in a way that we all benefit. We love our music and it is satifying, but it's more work than most can imagine for very little pay. We do it because we love it though and that's not ever going to change.

***PARTY ON THE MOON DOWNLOAD***

I've made our first album available for download at www.yousendit.com. It's a very safe way of transferring large files, the only problem is its only available for 72 hours. So if you miss it, just send me an email and I will re-post it for you. Enjoy.

Here's the link:

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WEUF0REHQ95S0WVQ0OEZRHMQL

FREEKS with EVIL TERRY.


Around 1989, Milan McAlevey, Dan Murphy and Myself started a band called THE BROTHELCREEPERS. Dann Foster and Dave Carroll later joined and we played for 5 years all over New England. When FREEKS happened and took off, no-one could believe how much attention we got. To this day, I still credit part of our success to the 'CREEPERS because of the following that band had developed. EVIL TERRY was a mascot to the 'CREEPERS and I sometimes wonder if 'IT' had anything to do with it as well.

PS-I'm not in the mood to clean-up photos right now, so you get what you get.

Freeks onstage @ THE STONE CHURCH in Newmarket, New Hampshire.



This was one of several shows we played @ STONE CHURCH. We shared the bill with Yep! or Jabbering Trout usually. Choosy Moms once or twice I think too.

Dann Foster and Josh Kerin in the Slaughter Barn.




FREEKS homebase was a 150 year old farmhouse on top of a small mountain in Henniker, New Hampshire. The 1849 barn had a big room in the entrance where they used to hang and slaughter the cattle. Seemed like a good place for a party. This was a very festive night on the old farm. This photo was shot by Angel Rodriquez around 1996. It's hard to believe 10 years have passed.

Dave Carroll and Dave Foster Circa 1989


A really old photo of Dave and myself, partying in the summer of '89 on my roof in Hopkinton, New Hampshire.

Dave Foster onstage @ Keene State College

Recording "PARTY ON THE MOON"


Dann Foster & Jason Michie jam in preparation for recording of FREEKS first album, "Party On The Moon". It was recorded in Bow, New Hampshire in Nevin Brown's basement studio. This shot was taken around June of 1994.

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Freeks Last Gig




This is us arriving up at Plymouth State College for a Spring-fling gig that never happened. Percy Hill, Moon Boot Lover and Groove Child were in the houses directly around us. After we arrived, some shit went down with the person who owned the frat house we were playing at. He pulled the plug and that was it. We dis-banded about a week later at rehearsal on May 8th, 1996.

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