12/31/02 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.

December 31, 2002
New Year's Bash, 2002/2003
The Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD

Set:
| Last Moment of 2001 | Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow / Piper | Modern Day Fairy Tales | Casanova | The Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | Rich and Poor | Jumpstart My Rocket | Crystal's Answering Machine / Found My Boogie | Back in Black [AC/DC] | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Bumblebee / Last Moment of 2001|

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At long last, Junebug has returned. It's been roughly nine months since the last time we played a show. Children have been conceived and born since the last time we played a show. It was good to be back.

Tonight was the annual New Year's Bash at the Red Rooster Coffee House. Other bands included The Dimbulbs, Jeremy & Leslie, Ella, los hermanos muertos, the comic stylings of Tom Seth Whitman, and FBOPSTOP (a Fed By Doris tribute band).

We took stage after performing our old pre-show ritual backstage and the crowd was restless. We started with a soothing version of "Last Moment of 2001". (Yes, 2001!) We teased 'em with the beginning of "Pay the Toll..." and cut right into Piper and they didn't know what hit them. The hits kept coming through the night and the crowd got even more into it as the night went on. Songs began and the audience recognized them and cheered.

Alex "Forehead" Forred played bass with us tonight, and gave an admirable performance.
All in all, this night was a blast. It was a fine moment in Junebug history.

3/30/02 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.

March 30, 2002
The Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD

Set:

| Punktry | Punktry (International Version) | Piper | Vacation to Oblivion | Modern Day Fairy Tales | He's Runnin' | Casanova | Raise Your Voices | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Jack and Diane [John "Cougar" Mellencamp](Macho Man Mix) | Like a Dream | Prince Caspian [Phish] / Cake | The Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | Jumpstart My Rocket (attempted and abandoned) | She Don't Love Him | Cupid | Found My Boogie | Bumblebee | To the Next Episode |

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We weren't sure Anthony was going to make it to this show. We thought it was either he play the show or quit his job. Well, it turned out that he was able to pull some strings and make it anyway. Woo!

Fed By Doris opened the show for us tonight playing a little longer so that we had time to all get assembled. Dan Cleberg also played bass with us tonight for the whole show. Yay Dan!

Things were a little weird tonight. We had an odd setup and some of the sound balance was off. There was a lot of flopping around and kicking over of mic stands and some drums, cymbals, etc. In the words of Anthony, "There were some truly brilliant moments tonight..." but there were also some awful moments. Such as Jumpstart My Rocket... Tuning was off, people were playing in different keys, and then Tony's kickdrum pedal fell apart in two places at the same time. We had to stop. Heather (in the audience) mouthed the words, "What the hell is going on?" We left it up to the Junebuggers whether or not we should continue. The vote was in favor of abadoning it. We did.

Elizabeth joined us on "Like a Dream" tonight. Yay Liz!

Near the end of the show, Dustin ripped the setlists off the floor and shoved them in his mouth. He also rolled on the stage knocking over the water-filled Farah Fawcett cup. He also lept atop Tony's kickdrum and jumped off. He then rolled on the ground throwing over mic stands. Then Tony stood up and meagerly pushed over his cymbal stand. He then gingerly tipped over his floor tom. Finally, he tossed his sticks at the floor where the cymbal lay. An audience member was heard saying, "Go Keith Moon."

At the very end of the show, Dustin gave some advice; "Don't drink and play music, kids."