Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, S.D.
Set:
| Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Spring Fever | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Found My Boogie | Refrigerator | M'Lady | Last Night | Like a Spy (Not the Stalker) | Downtown Liquor Store | Place | To the Next Episode | Lady Madonna [The Beatles] | Chosen Ones | Jumpstart My Rocket | Gamma Ray [Beck] | Aphrodite | So True | Darn the Man |
Encore:
| Crossroads | Clone You |
Oh, Red Rooster Coffee House. How we love you.
Every time we come back to Aberdeen it is more rowdy and more fun. As people know, we used to live in Aberdeen and Dan at the Red Rooster gave us our first real show. So Aberdeen will always hold a special place in our collective heart. In fact, when I (tony) said we were from Minneapolis, Dustin said, "Boo. We'll never be from Minneapolis. We're from Aberdeen, South Dakota!" Cheers erupted. But Nick actually is from the Twin Cities, so there it is. But the sentiment was correct. We love Aberdeen's Red Rooster Coffee House and we always feel at home there.
The show started out right with "Pay the Toll," continued with "Spring Fever" and then brought it up again properly with "Bad Mamma" and "Found My Boogie." After "Refrigerator" I heard a guy proclaim, "I love refrigerator!" I can only assume that we made him realize how much he loves his own household fridge. You, see, we're all about the goodness here. Now they'll live happily ever after.
The crowd at this show was incredible. This is the first show in which I've really noticed people singing along to nearly every song. Specifically during "Last Night" during Anthony's vocal breakdown, the whole crowd was singing along in a chorus of awesomeness and ego-building wonderfulness. Anthony said, "I loved that chorus effect on the breakdown." I felt obligated to tell him, "It wasn't an effect, people were actually doing it!" "No need to fake it," Dustin added.
We really veered from the setlist at times tonight. People kept shouting out requests, and they were songs we actually felt like playing, so we rolled with it. Except "Freebird." We didn't play "Freebird." "Not the Stalker" and "Downtown Liquor Store" weren't on the setlists, but we played 'em.
A question that's in my mind, however, is whether we've really been away long enough that people have forgotten the "Next Episode" routine. After "Place," I said "Did we rock it? How far would you say we rocked it?" Anthony and Dustin began asking the question too, but it took a good thirty seconds for anyone to shout it out. I guess it's possible that we're not quite as clever as we think.
Our show closer tonight was supposed to be "Damn the Man." Well, the Red Rooster is a family place, and there was a certain six-year-old young lady named Cora right down front rockin' out. Anthony made a judgement call that perhaps "Damn the Man" wasn't necessarily appropriate, so we played "Darn the Man". At the part where Anthony usually says, "that sunofabitch," I offered, "like an old pair of socks." Because to my knowledge, that would be correct usage of the word darn. Sadly, my little lesson was lost underneath Anthony's cry of "Everybody!" In retrospect, some things are better kept to myself.
When our set was over, after we had thanked the crowd, everyone started chanting, "encore, encore!" As Dustin noted, we're easy. They talked us into it. Even though we were pooped out, we gave it our all for two more songs. Because you're worth it, Aberdeen!
This was definitely one of, if not the best Rooster show we've ever played -- and that's saying something. Nick had heard a lot of stories about this place, but when he finally got to experience it first-hand, he loved it. He said, "This place rocks. You guys are sweet!"
A few special shout-outs are in order. First of all, Dan Cleberg is our guy. Secondly, Fed By Doris stepped up to play a spontaneous set when two of the booked gigs had to cancel. Thirdly, Butt Mugly was the winner of the 48-hour Bands and they opened tonight. And finally, Jeremy Burckhard ran sound, and he ran it well, like he always does. So we'd like to thank him specifically for that.
So, to sum up: Aberdeen rocks.
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