Michael Hayes Scholarship Fundraiser Event
Knights of Columbus Hall
Faribault, Minn.
Acoustic Set:
| Spring Fever | Share | M'Lady | Moon Over the Water | Place | The Date | Breathe You In | Crossroads | So True |
Electric Set:
| Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | Last Night | Clone You | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Found My Boogie | Chosen Ones | Lady Madonna [The Beatles] | Good Vibes | Aphrodite | Jumpstart My Rocket |
Tonight was jolly good fun. We convened in Faribault, Minnesota with the Michael Hayes Scholarship Event already in progress. Michael Hayes was a boy who used to spend time at the Renegade Skate Park. Tragically, he recently died suddenly in his home. The Skate Park set up a scholarship in his name to allow kids to go to skate camp who couldn't normally afford it.
We decided tonight that since we had a time slot from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. that we would play two sets. The first set was our first ever acoustic set, as sort of a warm-up for the acoustic show on March 6 in Wyoming, Minnesota. It went pretty well. It was a sit-down affair. Some of the songs went very well, some not so well. Since it was new to us, we had some trouble hearing one another, but it wasn't too big of a deal.
This is the first Junebug show in which at least one fourth of the audience was under the age of seven. There were a lot of adorable kids running around, scooting around with their bellies on skateboards, jumping and dancing. They were adorable. In "The Date" Anthony used his descretion and sang the line, "Then I grabbed your derrier..."
As a side note, one of the mothers asked me before the show if we play any AC/DC. Sadly, I had to let her down.
In between sets, I met a little boy who was eyeing my drums quite fervently. When I say "little" I mean little. He weighed less than my dog, I think. He couldn't have been older than four, if even that. He said his name was Nate and I asked him if he liked the drums and if he'd like to try them out. Boy, he sure did. He seemed to enjoy this turn of events.
The electric set was pretty rockin' solid. After the third song, the sound guy requested "Clone You". Anthony said that anytime someone requests a song of ours, we'd better play it, to keep the masses happy. I said that in rock 'n' roll, you've got to keep the sound guy happy. He has access to the "Suck" knob.
"Bad MammaJamma" was a hit tonight, but is that a surprise? Really? Adults and children alike were boppin' and groovin'. Afterward, Anthony informed the crowd that the rest of the set was going to be made up entirely of fast food-themed songs. We then played, "Five Dollar Footlong" as well and "Ba duh ba ba ba... I'm lovin' it!" Then I exclaimed that "I'm thinkin' Arby's." Then we ran out of steam, seeing as how the joke had played itself out.
It was a fine show, and we had fun. And money was raised for the scholarship fund. We were happy to play our part!
Today we taped an interview and performance for the Rising Sound show on Cities Live internet radio. We headed up to Maple Grove to the American Guitar and Band store, which is where they put together the show, and which is a great music instrument store worthy of your business. 
After we were done with the show, we stuck around at the store for a little while to film snippets for our upcoming... podcasts! What did I say? Monthly podcasts from Junebug? Who knows if that's what I said or not. Just wait and see on that. But wouldn't that be fun?
First off, it was a long night. Secondly, it was a late night. Thirdly, it was one of our best shows. Fourthly, it was one of our worst shows. "How can this be?" you may well ask. We're Junebug. We find a way.
But then something happened. I know not what, nor when exactly it came about. But we started falling apart, little by little. It was bizarre. It wasn't too blatant, I suppose. And hopefully it wasn't too noticeable to folks not familiar with our stuff, but it's probably a good thing we ended our set when we did. In fact, onstage we had flirted with the idea that we might play beyond our setlist, since we had more time. But before "Damn the Man," Dustin proclaimed, "Yeah. This will definitely be our last song." Probably not a bad decision in the least.
