Wild Oats
Aberdeen, SD
Set One:
| Raise Your Voices | Piper | Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | M'Lady | Vacation to Oblivion / Modern Day Fairy Tales | Paint it Black [The Rolling Stones] | Like a Spy | Refrigerator | Li'l Red Riding Hood [Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs] | Bullet in Your Head |
Set Two:
| Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Underneath the Sweet Love | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | The Money Medley (For the Love of Money [The O'Jays] / I Need Some Money [John Lee Hooker] / Gimme Some Money [Spinal Tap] / Money [Pink Floyd] ) | ??? [The Allman Brothers Band] / To the Next Episode | Jumpstart My Rocket | Found My Boogie | Downtown Liquor Store | Breasts | It | With a Little Help from My Friends [The Beatles (Joe Cocker version)] |
Set Three:
| Back in the USSR [The Beatles] | The Date | Breathe You In | Place | Cake | Another One Bites the Dust [Queen] | Damn the Man | Clone You | Sledgehammer [Peter Gabriel] |
We finally got our first shows at Wild Oats in Aberdeen. This is a very good thing for us because people actually go to this bar and most of them are people around our age that have an appreciation for local music. So if we want to play around town, this is a good venue to have available to us.
We decided it would be worth it to rent some gear from Pauer Sound to blow the crowd away and make us sound amazing. Enter Joel Burckhard. He helped us set up and set levels on the sound board. According to him and the crowd, we sounded amazing.
We played three sets tonight, featuring our best known songs as well as a few new covers we whipped up for this very occasion. Tonight was the debut of our versions of "Paint it Black", "Another One Bites the Dust", the Joe Cocker version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" and the "Money Medley" which includes a full version of Pink Floyd's "Money". These all went over well - and we later found out that the crowd kept expecting "Next Episode" to pop out of any of them! Ah, our goal was finally achieved.
It was a good night. People came in and stayed (with the exception of the table of women that exited past us single file during the first song). It took a little while, but the crowd bought enough beers to fall into the music and find their boogies. It was a really great experience to play in front of a largely different Aberdeen crowd. The night ended with the great closer, "Sledgehammer". There was no sitting with arms crossed or bored brooding. Everyone was dancing, bobbing, nodding or moving in some capacity. It was tons of fun. Afterward, a few regular Junebug show-goers went so far as to say it was one of the best 'Bug shows they had ever seen. High praise indeed.
And Josh got a mic for the first time tonight.
Huge thanks go to Pauer Sound, Joel Burckhard, and Randy from Wild Oats.
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