Red Rooster's 10th Anniversary
Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD
Set One:
| Poet Who Didn't Know It | Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Casanova | Da Bomb [Fed By Doris] (w/Fed By Doris) | 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] ) | M'Lady | Found My Boogie | Refrigerator | Chosen Ones |
Set Two:
| The Date | Breathe You In | Place | Cake | Another One Bites the Dust [Queen] | Jumpstart My Rocket | To the Next Episode |
Tonight was part of the fantastic ten-night Red Rooster tenth anniversary celebration. Junebug's first real show was at the Rooster on May 6, 2000 and the Rooster has been a huge part of our existence thus far - this was our 27th show at the Coffee House. When introducing us tonight, Dan referred to us as a "quintessential Rooster band". Them's big words m'friend.
After starting them off with some real rock and funky rhymes, we invited Fed By Doris onstage to recreate an old tradition - a communal performance of "Da Bomb". Talk about high octane. View it here.
Next was the energetic combination of "Sweet Love" and "Bad MammaJamma", followed by the reason we do this. That's right - money. We certainly are good little capitalists. The Money Medley came out in full swing for the first time in front of the Rooster's crowd.
After playing our newest song, "M'Lady", we had a really intense workout, closing the first set with three doozies of rock-fest. "Found My Boogie", "Refrigerator" and "Chosen Ones" really did the job and our break was well earned. (When we started "Chosen Ones", a fan could be heard exclaiming, "FINALLY!")
Elizabeth Andrews lent her beautiful talents to the first four songs of the second set. She is wonderful on the violin and we love her.
Before we played the most country-fied version of "Cake" ever, Dustin was tuning his guitar to a slide tuning. He said, "I'm going to attempt something that I've never really done before, and I KNOW for a fact I'm not good at it. But that's half the fun, right kids?" Anthony replied, "Well that's just the flavor of this band, you know? We can't do anything wrong." Indeed.
We found that after Liz's set, we really didn't have a lot of time left, so we played three more tunes. "Another One Bites the Dust" is always a crowd pleaser. As is our own mega-hit, "Jumpstart My Rocket".
We closed our set with another popular Junebug tune, but a different start than usual:
Anthony: Thanks for coming out...we are now rockin' you to the end of the night. But it's another episode of your life.
Dustin: And it's the end of ten years, and the beginning of who knows.
Anthony: Of another episode of another ten years.
Dustin: Of the next decade.
Tony: The next what?
Dustin: The next decade!
Tony: Oh, decade. I thought you were gonna say,
ALL: TO THE NEXT EPISODE!
We didn't even plan it. We are simply amazing.
But even more amazing is the Red Rooster Coffee House. Thank you, Red Rooster for the great times and all the shows.
