The Nestor Tavern
Fargo, N.D.
Set One:
| Pay the Toll to Ride the Junebug Flow | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Found My Boogie | M'Lady | Last Night | Moon Over the Water | Place | Lady Madonna [The Beatles] | Soul Shaker | The Blue Jay Booster | Clone You | Chosen Ones | Crossroads |
Encore Set:
| Good Vibes | Share | The Date | Downtown Liquor Store | Damn the Man |
We embarked upon our Junetacular Junestravaganza Dakota mini-tour! First stop: The Nestor Tavern in Fargo! The show started with our dear ol' friend, Kelsey Lee, followed by Pat Lenertz & Friends, finally leading to Junebug. This show was really cool because there were a lot of old friends in attendance. Our crowd was made up of probably 90% Jamestown High School alumni, which has never happened before to our knowledge (aside from that one show that Tony and Anthony played as a duo in 1996 AT JHS). There were people from our grade and the class below us as well as two of my (tony's) sisters and people who went to JHS with them in the '80s. So throughout the night, it was fun to just throw occasional shout outs to JHS and hear them holler. Nick proposed a toast to the Jamestown "Cougars" but then asked what our mascot really was. Everyone shouted "BLUE JAYS" and at one point I sang the Blue Jay Booster, much to Joey Schmuhl's delight (although she kept requesting "I Want Kathy", which we don't play).
Also in attendance were Bud and Travis from the San Haven Chuckle (who are also JHS alumni) and their ladies. They were shaking their booties and it was nice to see them.
It was a pleasant turn of events that there were no natural disasters this time around. We halfway expected there to be a tornado or severe hailstorm or something of the sort. Earthquake, hurricane, Godzilla, [insert SimCity disaster here (excluding flooding, we've already done that one)].But there wasn't even so much as a famine. Sadly, it seems our powers of devastation have faded.
With Anthony and Tony deciding that all our songs will now be known as their initialisms ("Moon Over the Water" now known as "MOTW"), seeing the Chuckle's bums again, and Travis G. air-humping Dustin's guitar solo, it was a pretty typically crazy Fargo show.
With a lot of our old JHS friends there tonight, "Place" was dedicated to Pete.
We seriously underestimated our set time tonight and came to the end of our setlist before our alotted time was up. So we took a break, even though the peeps in the bar wanted us to keep going. We formulated a new mini-set, however, and returned for a kick-butt encore set. This was a first. We've done one- and two-song encores before, but never an encore set. So for what it's worth, there you go.
A few songs into said encore set, an entire corner of the room, which was occupied by my sisters, Wendy and Laurel, began chanting "Downtown Liquor Store"! I said that Wendy is a known felon, so we'd better do what she says. And we did. She actually joined us for a very brief moment, but then jumped off the stage far too soon. She should have sung the whole dang thing. Seeing as how she actually did rob a liquor store, I'd say she's earned it.
Well, that was our Fargo show, folks. Tomorrow, the Red Rooster in Aberdeen.
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