18 Aug 2025 1 min read music

Brad Frost's Frostapalooza Concert

How to celebrate life and music with your friends and family.

1 year ago, Brad Frost threw himself a 40th birthday bash that has to be one of the best ways to celebrate turning 40: by putting on a concert with all your friends playing a bunch of music together.

Exactly one year ago I was playing music with an amorphous super group consisting of all of my musical friends and family. The event was called Frostapalooza and was one of the best experiences of my life.

In addition to putting on the concert, he also rigged up a bunch of cameras and recording gear to document the concert and now 1 year later has put up all 26 (!) songs on YouTube.

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p.s. Brad's not only a cool throw himself a concert for his birthday type person, he's also a client! We recently launched his new podcast Wake Up Excited! The trailer sums up the show better than I can, but I think you'll really dig the podcast. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube.

A few of my favourites:

Money by Pink Floyd

Sweet bass solo intro + bass cam video feed by Brad to start off this classic. And yes, that's Brad's daughter dancing around on stage narrowly getting hit by Brad's bass. 😆

The Weight by The Band

Spotting web dev / client friends like Chris Coyier on banjo is a fun game to play while watching these videos:

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel

When people ask about Frostapalooza, I show them this video. It perfectly sums up the night: 18 people (!!) on stage blasting out incredible energy...

Getting everyone involved to practice and set up this one song alone would take a mountain of work. But there's 25 other songs!