Set:
| Spring Fever | Last Night | Share | Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | Refrigerator | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Found My Boogie | M'Lady | Moon Over the Water | Place | Casanova (jam) | To the Next Episode | Chosen Ones | Soul Shaker | Like a Spy (Not the Stalker) | Jumpstart My Rocket | Crossroads | Jamming Out in a Soundproof Room | Damn the Man |
Aberdeen was the second half of our Dakota Junebug weekend. It was the Junetacular Junestravaganza Mini Tour! The poster was designed by me (tony) with a big top circus theme. Well, as luck would have it, my father-in-law had some radio advertising time that he donated to us. He put together an ad that sounded like it was promoting a circus. It ran on 106.7 and 94.1 in Aberdeen and it was hilariously wonderful.
Fro9 opened the show, followed by A Month of Sundays, moving on to Junebug. Anthony had hoped it was going to be a nice, sunny, mellow day so that "Spring Fever" would make sense. However it was 42 degrees and rainy. In June. But we played it anyway, although it was more upbeat and peppy in an attempt to fool the masses into believing it really was nice outside. Also, we started it before Nick was even on stage. He was waiting in line for the rest room. But he joined us soon enough at it was all good.
At one point tonight, I told the crowd that we used to live in Aberdeen. It was met with a loud, "Bull crap!" So we had to defend ourselves by letting everyone know we still have 605 area codes on our cell phones and we even whipped out our South Dakota driver's licenses to prove something or other, I'm not sure what.
Something happened tonight that leads us to believe we must be doing something right. At one point during "Poet" a pair of ladies panties flew forth from the crowd and got hooked onto Anthony's thumb while he played. He finished the song with the undergarment attached to his hand. This is rock and roll. This is why we do it.
It's also a sign of a good show when there is a dogpile in front of the stage. Sometimes this happens in Aberdeen. It did tonight. It's kind of baffling and my thirteen-year-old brother-in-law wasn't sure what to think of it. Was it cool? Was it not cool? He alternated between approving laughter and shocked disbelief. But that's really the kind of thing we're used to as members of this band -- utter confusion.
One of the reasons that it's always fun to play the Red Rooster is that as our former home base, we're able to get away with pretty much anything musically. In the Cities we don't always play some of our more mellow tunes, but at the Rooster, people appreciate them. So we were able to whip out songs like "Share," "Place" and "Spring Fever." We're also able to do our more experimental numbers like "Jamming Out in a Soundproof Room." This one was actually requested tonight and we were happy to oblige, though Nick had never practiced it.
We hadn't been to Aberdeen since March and we won't be back until October, but it's always worth it to be at the Rooster. We love all our Aberdeen fans and can't wait to see them again.
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