Thursday, October 19, 2000

10/19/00 - Dragon Radio - Moorhead, Minn.

KMSC 1500AM
Moorhead, MN


Set:
| Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | A Junebug Christmas | Terry's Apology Song to the Guy Who Fired Him Once Before | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Cake / American Pie [Don MacLean] | Modern Day Fairy Tales | La Bamba / Twist and Shout / Wild Thing / Louie, Louie / La Bamba / Twist and Shout | Breasts | Downtown Liquor Store | Found My Boogie | Back in Black [AC/DC] | Junebug's Introduction | Rich & Poor | Cupid | Jumpstart My Rocket |



This was our radio debut. A couple friends of ours, Terry Brown and Josh Trumbo, have a radio show at Minnesota State University Moorhead. The Late, Late Morning Show. They invited us to be guests on their show and we jumped at the chance.

The show lasts two hours, from 10pm to 12am and we were there for the whole thing. We talked alot about nothing (which was fun) and we played a stripped down, "unplugged" set. Anthony used Dustin's classical guitar, Dustin used Josh's acoustic guitar, and Tony used a hi-hat, a cymbal, a snare drum, and brushes. It was a little different from how we usually play. It was pretty cool.

The show was broadcast in the student union where the studio is, and people would walk by and look in the window and wave. We gave them names like Timmy and Ashley.

Thanks go out to Jeremy, Bryna, and PJ for being there at the studio with us. Thanks also go to Lisa who helped us carry stuff out and sent us email. And HUGE thanks go to Josh, Terry, and Katy for bringing us onto the Late, Late Morning Show.

Saturday, October 14, 2000

10/14/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.

Set One:
| Vacation to Oblivion | Prince Caspian [Phish] / Piper | Raise Your Voices | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Breasts | Woo-Hoo Sing Along (Song 2 [Blur]) | The Cacophany Trilogy (Kill the Children / Kill Your Parents / Jesus is Lord) (feat. Bruce Likness) | Crystal's Answering Machine | She Don't Love Him | Bumblebee | The Altar of Rock | Modern Day Fairy Tales |

Set Two:

| Junebug Mark Two | Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Cake / American Pie [Don MacLean](tease) | Fargo Gypsy Girl | The Amazing Tall Tale of the Venture Through the High Wire Maze (tease) / Voodoo Child [Jimi Hendrix](tease) | Casanova | The Radiskull [Joe Sparks] | Jack and Diane [John "Cougar" Mellencamp](the Macho Man Mix) | Like a Dream | Rich & Poor | To the Next Episode | Found My Boogie / Punktry (tease) | Cupid | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Jumpstart My Rocket |

Encore:
| The Everlasting Gaze [The Smashing Pumpkins](tease) | Downtown Liquor Store |





Tonight was a good night. We had a moderately small crowd, but that was okay. We kind of like that sometimes.


We had a TV screen on stage and during the first set we showed an Anime series called Esca Flowne. The first set started off with "Vacation to Oblivion" followed by "Prince Caspian" but this time, instead of going into "Cake" we blasted "Piper" out there. Whew! That was risky. We revived an old sing along that we used to do back in the day...yeah, like two months ago. Woo-Hoo!
And then for a special guest spot, we had Bruce Likness come up and do vocals on the third slot in the "Cacophany Trilogy". He sang "Jesus is Lord" in his best hard-core voice. Hard. Core. to the Bone. Bruce.

Crystal was finally at a show to hear the song that was written for her answering machine. It was good that she finally heard it.

During the break, we switched Esca Flowne with Transformers: the Movie for the second set.
We played the Radiskull's song for PJ and a brand new version of JCM's "Jack and Diane". Ah yes, the Macho Man Mix. Dustin sang "Oh yeeah" just like Macho Man Randy Savage and fun was had by all.

Then on the next song, we definitely had some Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz-ish stuff going on. We debuted a brand new song called "Like a Dream". It's kind of a somber tune, very dreamlike in nature and even sad and angst filled at times. While we played it, the television screen showed the dramatic and mournful death of Optimus Prime. Cosmic coincidences don't happen every day.

Dustin dedicated "Rich & Poor" to Unicron and after that, a few in the crowd chanted, "Hat, hat, hat." It was weird. Then we played our peppier dancier tunes. Our most devoted fans found their boogie and rose to their feet and danced the night away. THANKS, JUNEBUGGERS!!!

Sunday, October 8, 2000

10/7/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.

October 7, 2000
Red Rooster Coffee House

Set One [Shaggy Bandits]:
| My Dad | It's Been a Long Time | Da Bomb (Reggae version) | Dead Beat Duck | Jumpstart My Rocket |

Set Two [Credulous Copious]:
| Potatoes & Cream | If I Could Cook | Tragedy | She Makes Me Happy | Chambermaid | Purple Haze [Jimi Hendrix](Dustin's Bass Solo) | Rhinestown Cowboy [Glen Campbell](tease) | Big Bottom [Spinal Tap] | Now You're a Man [DVDA](tease) | Da Bomb |

Set Three [The Stone Cold Fobstoppersons]:NOTE: I am unsure of the order of this set at this time.
| Da Bomb (Bruce on Vocals) | portion of I'm a Bad Mammajamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | The Ugliest Girl in the World | The Brain Song | To the Next Episode | Prepare for Y2K | portion of Dupree | Fargo Gypsy Girl (Bruce on Vocals) | Downtown [Petula Clark] | Peanut Butter | I Try [Macy Gray] | Blues in G | Dan's South Dakota Story Song | More Blues in G |


Tonight is a long story, I guess. First off, Mark Hilstrom from somewhere in Wisconsin was booked to play. He didn't show up. He didn't call, he didn't write, he made no contact, he just didn't show up. Fed By Doris was supposed to open for him, so they just figured that Fed By Doris would be the openers and the headliners. That was fine. Jer left at about 8:30 to get something to eat. Then 9:30 rolled around and where was Jer? Dan and Tony K. ran down to the flame where Jer and Ky and Tony J. and Sharon were. They hadn't even received their meal yet and it turned out Jer had almost completely lost his voice. So it would be almost impossible to do a real FBD show.

Dan asked if Junebug would like to play an acoustic set since we were all there, so what we decided was that Anthony would do some solo work and Tony would do some solo work and that Tony and Dan would do a few FBD tunes.

Anthony began with a quaint little tune, "My Dad". On a whim, Dustin told Tony, "Let's go up." So they did and played the first set under the name "Shaggy Bandits." The set included "It's Been a Long Time" which appears on The Big Orange Van, Dead Beat Duck, which appears on Anthony's Rebel Without a Car, and Jumpstart My Rocket which will be on the new Junebug album.

Next was Tony with some stuff from his solo album, Drama Queen. Dustin joined in on drums on "If I Could Cook" and moved to bass for the rest of the set. This set included some of Tony's originals, some "rare" Junebug songs and a few covers and teases.

Dan got a chance to come on up and we played Da Bomb with Bruce on vocals and the third set of the night was underway. Dan named this group "The Stone Cold Fobstoppersons." I'm a little fuzzy on how things went for this set because Tony's camcorder stopped and I can't remember such things very well. I remember that at one point Dan, Dustin, and Tony were talking about various celebrities they'd met; the Smashing Pumpkins, Mary-Ann from Gilligan, the guy that wrote the "That Thing You Do" song from that movie, and Bruce chimed in saying he's met Mickey Mouse.

Peanut Butter was pretty fun too. Dan had Anthony take a mic into the audience Oprah style and have audience members sing verses.

Bruce requested Fargo Gypsy Girl and we said we'd play it if he sang it. So we did. And he did. He actually knows the song too. That's pretty cool.

We ended up playing more and more stuff till about 1:00am and then Dan closed the coffee house and everyone left. But we still played till about 1:40 just to amuse ourselves.