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Marty Lloyd

Marty Lloyd

Founding member, lead vocalist, and guitarist of Freddy Jones Band; writer of "In a Daydream" (NASA Artemis II wake-up song).

Jul 16, 2026

8:21
course then you see that it makes people feel better a dream for a songwriter and a band an artist is to have timeless music and this thing 36 years later yeah 38 years later is proving to be an unbelievably timeless classic song i mean that's a gift
8:39
Yeah, I mean, I'm looking out a window that day writing it, and then we heard from Reed Wiseman, the commander of Artemis.
8:47
Oh, yeah.
8:47
Six weeks after we got shocked about this happening, and he let us know the story.
8:54
He's like, you know, I wanted to have it played by NASA for us, for my close friends back at home, and I wanted to give the crew that same joy that this song has brought me.
9:06
And I'm like, they're looking out their window.
9:08
their window back at all everything not just a gloomy day that I was looking at every single thing all at once

6 MINS LATER

14:55
Where the hell have you been? But, uh, the, The other part is we've got to fill you in that there is no Freddie and there is no Jones and there is no Freddie Jones, but it was a blind piano player in Chicago.

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