Andrew Freeman is a vocalist and guitarist who has played for a number of bands. Most notably for the punk rock group, The Offspring, and for hard rock guitarist George Lynch's Lynch Mob. [1]
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Andrew was added as the touring Guitarist and Back Up Vocalist to punk rock band The Offspring on their 2008 tour for their latest release "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace".
Soapbox Conspiracy was a short lived music project,that featured Andrew Freeman on Vocals, Shane Vetter – Guitars (X-Days of the New) Johny Chow - Bass (Cavalera Conspiracy, Fireball Ministry, Systematic) Jay Bomb – Drums (Sex Slaves)[2]
Andrew has performed on three tours as the lead vocalist with Dokken / Lynch Mob guitarist George Lynch. Including a much talked about feature on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno[3], and a headlining show at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA.[4] Other members of Lynch Mob when Andrew was vocalist were Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio), Marten Andersson (Lizzy Borden, Starwood), Rob De Luca (Spread Eagle, UFO, Sebastian Bach), John Macaluso (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TNT), Michael "FRO" Frowien (War & Peace).
As the guitarist, co-songwriter and co-producer for the Massachusetts band Thirty Stones. The band enjoyed success having their CD Canvas, produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall), chart as high as 5 on FMQB's Metal Detector and CMJ Crucial Spins. The band performed 250 plus shows in 2003, appearing with bands such as Sevendust, Staind, Shadows Fall, Powerman 5000, Dope, Nonpoint, Hed PE, and Lacuna Coil among others.[5]Thirty Stones were also featured on 10 different compilation CDs released by Cleopatra Records that included artists Iggy Pop, Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin). Thirty Stones reformed at the end of 2010 and were featured as the cover story of The Valley Advocate The band performed a few shows in Massachusetts and California.[6].
Andrew handled guitar duties and songwriting on Blockk 16's Too Brutal for Radio. The CD also featured Chris Caffery - Guitar (Savatage, Trans Siberian Orchestra) Rick Skator - Bass (24-7 Spyz / Bad Brains) and Ray West (Spread Eagle). The CD is distributed through Century Media and was 4 on the CMJ Crucial Spins Most Added chart. The band performed a short east coast tour with metal band, Y&T in 2005.