We are remembering the impact your life had on all of us Mike. I know you are playing beautiful music in a heavenly place! Big love to all the friends and family who love you and wish you were still with us.

Mike, miss you bud

Mike, miss you bud

Mike, miss you bud, love listening to GGG although I get choked up every freaking time! Miss you Mike, T,S

Hey mike just sitting here thinking of old times. I really miss making music with you and Joel. It was so much fun at the Dog when you helped me book my first show there. Sitting in on recording sessions and you asking me my thoughts on a recording. The friendship that you gave me. I fell so fortunate to have had you as a friend. It also made me happy that you got to meet Linda the love of my life. She was able to meet a truly great guy and friend. I wish I never left Colorado so I could have been there to help you out when you needed it the most. Jennifer took great care of you and you both were lucky to have had each other. You had the kindest heart. When it was my time to leave Gina we sat on the steps of the studio and you didn't want to tell me it was my time to find a new band. I told you that it was OK and if I didn't work out I understood. We both had a good cry not because you found a new drummer but that nothing could break our friendship. I will always love you Mike. You were a real true friend. We will meet again. Till then I will be thinking of you. Its natty light time just for you. If anyone reads this have a natty light for mike.

Thinking of Mike, Jenn, the Freeman family, and all of Mike's many many friends today. I was recently back in the house that Jenn & Mike shared and it was wonderful to be there. There was much more life than death in that house when Mike lived there, and it is the happy life memories that I remember. I expect Mike would be happy that there are many happy memories still being made there and that his presence is felt by all who visit. We miss you, Mike!

HI Mike, we were driving home from Durango on Sunday 09/09/12 and your GGF song "Ruin Sunday For Monday" came up on shuffle. We turned it up and sang along! It was great to hear your voice and have you with us! We miss you buddy! Love, chan-i-ta!

Hi Son. When you, me and Bill went to Yellowstone in the summer of 2006 you had turned your ankle the week before. Bill and I catered to your every whim complete with portable camp chairs and Bill's carrying you across creeks near our cabin. You taught me how to recognize ospreys and referred to a black gull you called a "seagrow". I cherish your memory and I wish you were here with me now.

Mike we still miss and love you. Time moves right along but your memory will stay with us. It's been two years since you and my sister left here for your true home in heaven, may God always keep both your spirits alive with music, love and laughter!

You were loved so deeply by so many people who mean so much to me. I wish I had known you better.

I miss you buddy... Just this morning someone asked me if we still played in the band. Two years later it's still hard to explain without getting choked up. We shared a lot of great times together and I think about you everyday.

Hi Mike. I can't believe it has been two years since you moved on up! Life isnt the same without you here. We all miss you so much. Stop by tonight for a toast! Love, Shanita!

Missing Mike as always -- this week has hit me like a storm cloud! In the last year, memories and dreams of Mike being sick have been replaced with visions of him before the diagnosis. I think today calls for playing some GGF...LOUD.

We miss you man!

I wanted to sing Happy Birthday to you today Mikey, but I can't. I let you sing to me instead. It was nice to hear you voice. Love You Big Brother. --Claire

Hi Mike-I can't believe it has been one year since you have moved on up!! I know you were with us when we made our toasts to you buddy! We all really miss you down here! Lots of love from us down here! xoxox

My Friend Mike...I know there are many people that will never forget you, myself included. It was a pleasure knowing you and working together at the brewery. Thanks for getting my first band in Denver an opening spot with Gina Go Faster and always being a good guy. Much Love My Brother-Woody

Mike missing you bud, please look over us as we need your strength at this time. love you bro

Mike was @ work the other day in the back on the B-Line and some GGF came on. I MISS YOU BUD!!!

I can't believe it's been six months since you left us, Mike. We love you.

I talk to you every morning son. I miss you. Love Dad Freeman

Happy birthday yesterday dawg - I miss you

I spent the best 10 years of my life in denver. first playing drums for MeanFace and then with Gina Go Faster. Mike and I quickly became good friends, not like the bond with Joel but i concidered him a good friend. His insainly funny attitude about things made me look at life differently. i always tried to call him at least once a week for a few laughs. i miss hanging out drinking his fav Natty Light and countless flying dog beers. I will never forget Mike. He called me the fattest punk rock drummer. That will always crack me up. He is in the Lords hands now but he will always be in our hearts.

The day I was to meet Mike, Joel proudly told me in advance that his best friend could projectile puke on demand. When Mike came home from college for a stint, he came over to Joel's and sure enough-he was able to puke on command-straight out of a window! I'm sure we started the night with some terrible and cheap beers like Rainier, then later on I remember an "ugly stick" being used to help provoke some puking actions, and then there was the puke in the shape of a tube going out of Joel's bedroom window. It was pretty silly but funny and we all had a lot of fun that summer hanging out, drinking a bit too much and acting crazy. The end. Nose crinkles apply *here*.

My true friendship with Mike came after he met Jenn. I'm sure part of that has to do with us being more grown up, learning to share our best friend Joel after 10 or so years, and also because Jenn helped to bring out the best in him. A 'good' side effect of being in love I think. This is when I became much better friends with Mike, rather than me just being Joel's wife mostly. I became friends with Mike's love and then I got to spend more time with Mike doing things other than just band and bar things-like camping, hiking, and traveling. I got to know Mike's soft, caring, and even vulnerable side. I've always known that Mike was those things, but I was finally able to apply them to our friendship. I'm so thankful that we did finally become better friends. My life is definitely richer because of all of the good things that came with the Mike Freeman package. I love you and miss you Mike. Thankfully, I know that you are at peace in in a good place. This brings me great peace. Thank you for you. Love, Shan

I’ve learned a lot about Mike through the things that other people have said and written about him on the Caring Bridge site during his 16 month fight against cancer. I didn’t know the “rock star” Mike that many people knew although I did know the Mike that made you laugh in every single conversation with him. But really I knew the Mike that was an amazing partner to my sister. The “family man” Mike. The Mike that made fun of my mother (and got away with it), the Mike that participated willingly in Christmas programs and hours of the Jordan stocking tradition, the Mike that helped out behind the scenes at my wedding, the Mike that tolerated the Jordan family stuck in his house for a week in a Colorado blizzard, the Mike that loved my sister. I will miss him terribly, not just for who he was, but for what he was to one of the most important people in my life.

I am so sorry for your loss. I know how you are feeling. I lost my grandfather to Pancreatic cancer a couple of weeks ago. My prayers are with you.

The Best Thing - I wanted to share one of the many incredible memories I have of Mike. There was a labor day a few years ago that everyone seemed to be out of town including Jenn. The only ones left were me, Dan, Tim and Yamada and of course, the hero of the story Mike Freeman. Him and Yomo lived together at the time and we went over there for a barbeque. Some good eats and a thousand beers later, we need to run to the gas station. I guess someone needed some smokes or something. There was a gas station close by so we walk there sometime after dark. Mike decides we need to have a contest while we're there. He says "Ok guys. Seriously. Everyone needs to try to find the best thing in there and buy it. Whoever buys the best thing wins." As we get closer, one of us asks " Ok Mike, so the coolest thing wins right?". Mike says back to us like we're idiots "NO! The coolest thing is totally different contest! Buy the BEST thing"... P.S. I don't remember what everyone bought, but I think Mike walked out with a sweet pair of boxers/playing cards combo that he was very proud of. In fact, he was so proud of them that I think he tried to put them on on the way home, but instead walked the last two blocks with has pants around his ankles, laughing hysterically and clutching a Natty Light. Among the others were a scuba mask and a...well...ladies refreshing kit that went out of fashion a few years ago I think. One of the best times I've ever had doing nothing. He had a way to always make the most of those moments. I'll miss you buddy. Tof

Toeknee and I talk about Mike all the time. We miss him sooooo much already! But we have some super great memories that always make us smile!

Ok. So I figured this is a good place to post some funny memories that we all have. I have this one that keeps replaying in my head and I just don’t know why! It’s not particularly special or unique. But it is a memory I have that still makes me laugh. There was a period a LONG time ago where Mike and I did not really get along. I don't know if we just didn’t like each other, maybe we got on one anothers nerves...who knows. We were not cruel or mean spirited to one another. We just seemed to be annoyed when the other was around. We purposely antagonized each other sometimes. Seeing each other was like, "Ugh not THAT person again..." And because Mike and Joel were best friends, and Shannon and I were best friends, we could not really avoid each other’s presence. It was on a Sunday, Shannon and Joel lived over on Bryant and I showed up because the guys were over watching football and Shannon was bored out of her mind. We went to the kitchen and Shannon and I started making cocktails and goofing around. Eventually we went to the living room because the Broncos were winning and everyone started getting crazy. Mike was sitting on the floor in front of the sofa with his arms folded. There was absolutely nowhere for me to sit other then next to Mike. So I did. Football is on, then there is a commercial break. The timing was perfect, there was brief moment where it was dead quiet. Mike took this opportunity to lift his butt cheek up and rip a deadly fart right on my hip. I gasped loudly in complete horror, Joel started laughing really hard and Shannon got really, REALLY ANGRY!!! I could not stop laughing for like 2 hours. For some reason after that Mike and I started to get along better. Maybe he did mean it at the time to make me angry, but all it did was make me laugh really hard. So we must have found some sort of common ground with what we found funny. This was reflected a few years later when for Christmas, I gave him a t-shirt from a company called Colon Blow and on the back it said "Poopin’ Is Cool".

I just read that Mikes Carepage will be retired soon and I got a little sad BUT now we can come here to hang out in Mikeland and share Mike-mems which is super cool! I’ll post some pics soon:)

Despite working for an award-winning craft brewery, it was humorous that Mike’s favorite drink was Natural Light. He was fond of having a Natty with a Johnnie Walker on ice with a splash of water. "Top shelf and bottom of the barrel!" he’d say.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Mike Freeman. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.