Videos: Freaks Ball Stars at Brooklyn Bowl – While My Guitar Gently Weeps, D’yer Ma’ker, Fire On The Mountain and More

The members of the NYC-Freaks e-mail list/Yahoo Group celebrated another trip around the sun with their 12th annual Freaks Ball this weekend at Brooklyn Bowl. Both shows were sold out as Portugal. The Man and Sam Champion performed on Friday and last night’s gig featured the “just for this event” Freaks Ball Stars. Our pal Marc Millman was in the house on Saturday and has already uploaded a number of clips from the Ball Stars set.

Freaks Ball Stars – Fire On The Mountain

Ever think you’d hear Warren Haynes and Eric Krasno team up to cover Fire On The Mountain backed by The Duo and Ron Johnson? See the video above for their momentous version of the classic Grateful Dead tune, which also features Alecia Chakour on vocals. There’s also footage of the same group of musicians, along with core Ball Star guitarist Eddie Roberts of The New Mastersounds, crushing D’yer Mak’er by Led Zeppelin…

Freaks Ball Stars – D’yer Ma’ker

You can also watch the core band with Krasno and Chakour tackle Little Wing; with Krasno, Chakour and Haynes on You Don’t Know Nothing About Love and Roberts showing off his foot tambourine work on the most fitting encore – Freaking at the Freakers Ball. Yet the song that won the most raves from members of the influential taste-making group was a sizzling romp through While My Guitar Gently Weeps featuring the core band plus Scott Metzger, Eric Deutsch, Haynes and Krasno…

Freaks Ball Stars – While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Thanks to Marc for letting those of us who didn’t attend see some of the amazing music that transpired at the Bowl. Here’s to at least 12 more years of the Freaks!

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