Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD
Soundcheck:
| Raise Your Voices |
Set One:
| Poet Who Didn't Know It | Modern Day Fairy Tales | Piper | Casanova | Like a Spy | Punktry | Hello Ma Baby [Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard] | Damn the Man | Li'l Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham and the Phaoroahs] | Potion |
Set Two:
| Cake | Breathe You In | Place | Christmas Time is Here (Theme from Charlie Brown Christmas) [The Vince Guaraldi Trio] / To the Next Episode | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Clone You | Back in the U.S.S.R. [The Beatles] | Jumpstart My Rocket | Found My Boogie | Bullet In Your Head | Downtown Liquor Store | A Junebug Christmas |
We were slated to take the stage at 9pm tonight, but since the crowd was a little slow in arriving, we didn't begin until 9:36. But that's okay. By then there were enough people there to really enjoy the rock we were bringin'.
A number of these songs haven't been played or practiced for awhile, so there were minor instances of fogetting how the songs went now and then. Case in point; the set started with "Poet Who Didn't Know It" and Tony didn't remember the part in which it goes to double time and then when to come back. Other than that, the song was great.
On "Casanova", Anthony invited some kid in the crowd to come freestyle along with him. I (tony) didn't catch his name though... They brought down the house and then Anthony beatboxed us home, as you can probably guess. God bless 'im.
"Like a Spy" was really solid tonight, as was the BRAND NEW song, "Damn the Man". The crowd perhaps didn't know what hit them with kick-ass rock grooves that were NOT crunchy. The four rock endings to that song left them wanting more... endings. We pulled it off.
Tonight's second set was the better of the two. To start off, Elizabeth Andrews played violin on the first four numbers. "Cake" sounded amazing, "Place" was very strong and even gripping with the violin, and the BRAND NEW song "Breathe You In" reportedly brought tears to audience members' eyes (for real). Then, in celebration of the Holiday spirit, Dustin and Elizabeth played a duet; "Christmas Time" from A Charlie Brown Christmas. But of course, as no one expected it to come from something as smooth and lovely as that, we very prettily sang "To the next episode..." and bang, we nailed right into it, Elizabeth and all.
After Elizabeth left the stage, we began "Bad MammaJamma" and in the midst, Anthony invited local rapper, BJ Campbell to freestyle a little bit. Or a lot bit, really. The song clocked in at over twelve minutes. About the time we figured BJ was winding down, he called up another fellow, whose name I did not catch, to join in the festivities. We didn't quite know what to do, but finally Anthony leaned over to Tony and said, "Let's end it." And when Anthony, the jam-band-man, says let's end it... then boy, it's gone a little long. Anyway, it's always interesting to showcase local hip-hop artists.
"Clone You" was next and it was another case of Tony forgetting how the song goes at one point. Oops. After that, we debuted a BRAND NEW cover of the Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R." That was a good time. The show continued solid right upto the end of the set. Stacy, an old school Junebug fan requested "Downtown Liquor Store" and we HAD to oblige. I mean, why wouldn't we?
After that, it was time to spread Holiday cheer once more with our original holiday song, "A Junebug Christmas". Good times were had by all, and yet another Junebug show was pulled off successfully.
