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That's what the Freekbass show at The Haunt was last night: pure bass porn!  Nearly two hours of thumb-slapping (and occasionally fuzzed-out) bass, hard-rocking guitar, and funky drums, and that's after two good opening bands, all for a five dollar cover charge.  Now that's living!  I wasn't familiar with Freekbass's material going into the show, but "Mission," part of the opening medley, was especially catchy:

The touring band is a trio, but a highlight of the show was an impromptu jam with four members of Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band on tenor sax, trombone, and percussion.  Freekbass also worked a couple of covers into the set, the funkiest-ever renditions of "Fame" (David Bowie, not Irene Cara) and "Come Together."

Freekbass is well-regarded in his home town of Cincinnati.  Here's the video of his song for the Cincinnati Reds where you can check out his "custom-built Mutron bass":

I meant to write up a little about the Rozatones too, but I'm too exhausted from my late night out.  So that'll be next.

Update 11/10/07: The Ithacan, the Ithaca College newspaper, published senior writer William Earl's interview with Freekbass on the 8th.  It's worth a read as it goes well beyond the standard bio material that you find everywhere else on the web.  Why is his bass shaped like that?  Freekbass explains, and now it makes sense.