Bicycle Music Exposition with the Freewheelers Cello Blues

All of a sudden, it is 2013, and we are working on a bicycle music exposition in the Netherlands, where we now live. Spain doesn't seem to get out of this government-created crisis and we need to make a living.... In Alicant, we lived with Alfredo Talens who was part of Critical Mass Alicante, a group of bicycle aficionados that is trying to get some attention for the dangerous situation on the roads, where bicycle lanes or safe crossings do not exist. Of course this rightwing Partido Popular government has no clue how to end unemployment, which could be done by building bike lanes so also tourism could benefit (and grow), while tragic traffic accidents could be prevented.
Today San Francisco has the world's biggest bicycle festival, organised with the SF Critical Mass movement and pleasantrevolution.net with cellist Joe Chang, who biked all over Europe in the year that Ilene was working in California.
Bicycles are a wayback experience to the 'white bicycles' idea of the Dutch Provo movement but also a durable energy vehicle, no waste of fossil fuel, and thus rightwing parties like the  current  dutch government don't like it. It seems all over the world the alternative and artist scenes are taking to the bicycle. We, as Freewheelers, of course saw this coming a Long Long time ago....

safe biking! And good music!

theFreewheelers :: uPlaya Artists

theFreewheelers :: uPlaya Artists

Who does not like the sound of a cello, played by a trained cellist? 

One of the first bands to put this into the bluesrock genre, the Freewheelers (sometimes spelled with 'de' since an old band used the same name) have played all over Europe and are now working on new material for their American tour. Always out of money, since they are not backed by a label and do everything independent, the recordings of this band are a bit on the lo-fi side. They are more a live band, however both Ilene Spain and Bas Vossen have lots of studio experience, being paid studio musicians for years. 

Check out their songs online, their home base is http://www.myspace.com/defreewheelers

Better is to hear them perform live. Put your email on the list by sending it to bas_vossen@yahoo.com as he is setting up a system to inform our fans. We'll be touring the USA from October, 22 until October next year. From then on we'll be touring Europe. Australia and Asia are also on the list, as we have fans there too. And we do not forget our fans: we'll organise a festival in the middle of every tour!

Be free. Have Wheels!
Bas

Long time no C

Well, as I just discovered in the past months, I am definitely NOT a blogger. Good luck you all and keep up the good work while we try to do the same.
The online webshop still is online, and works perfect. Thanks to all of you who ordered our cd's.
We are using the incoming money to produce a new and better sounding cd. Lo Siento por los que solo lea en espanol. Los traduciones no somos possible ahora.

Tax or not?

After working hard for the band, you know (or not) going to jamsessions and playing while you have to pay for the drinks (and of course gas to get there), getting that gig, hanging posters and attending radioshows and publishing it on as many sites as you can, driving there (picking up bandmembers that don't have a car or even drivers license) setting up, soundchecking, eating (most of the times in a different place than where we play, at least in Europe), playing 3 sets in which we have to make and keep the audience happy and dancing, getting the money from the bar-owner, most of the time after long and heated discussions, driving home, bringing the bandmember without car to his home, and walking the dog, I have to think about paying TAX.

For what, if I may ask. For the right of having cops around? For the people we see on golf courts? For stupid traffic measures? Or for 'integration'?
I would like it if the government would do something for live music, for the poor musicians that get kicked out of their income because of 'dee-jays' and karaoke'music'.

Buy our cd's and you'll hear songs about this, in a happy style!

Finally understood the Dashboard

After my brother told me he couldn't see anything on this blog -and therefor, not being any competition for his meuk.web-log.nl blog- which I didn't really understood, over a day trying to figure out how the dashboard of blogger works, I must have hit a button that made it work, made it visible to the whole wide world, and everybody on it, everyone sitting on a chair or couch wasting their asses and reading bullshit of one or another kind, since that's what it all is, this web, loads and loads of bullshit layering over each other from the beginning of it's existence. This blog adds to that, from a philosophical-humoristic viewpoint, as far as I understand what I'm doing.

A library has walls, so at least we all can see the information stops there. Interesting is that the Berlin Wall had to fall before the net got big. Also, that this internet made it possible to communicate out of the sight of governments. As with any invention, it can be used for good and bad. Actually, it all changed when the people came in that wanted to use it for moneymaking purposes.

As for the shop, thefreewheelers.webs.com, has only two products at the moment. I launched it on about ten social network websites, without realising I could better do that when the shop was fully operating... and I should make it able for people to listen to the music while they are in the shop, which I also have to figure out. Seems again that I started something big, comparable to the guy that found the gold in this state some one and a half century ago. Now I have to connect that shop to a creditcard, which hasn't happened yet. And check the advertisement cost, once it's all up and ready. There are many options. Yet I believe that working from the good old trunk is more reliable as to make an income....

Today I built a Web Store

Check this:
http://thefreewheelers.webs.com

And order your Freewheeler cd Right Now! It's one of the coolest products on Earth, and we áre the worlds Best Cello Blues Band, so check it out. I'm convinced you'll like it like all the others that we got addicted :-p