6/22/12 - Slackers - Aberdeen, S.D.

Junestravaganza (Night One)

Set One:
| M'Lady  | Beards  | Destiny, She Drives a Rolls | Refrigerator | Downtown Liquor Store | Hell-Bent Woman | Fluffy Little Hands | Time [Pink Floyd] | Poet (Who Didn't Know It) | Crossroads |

Set Two:
| Soul Shaker | Chosen Ones | Modern Age | Mystic Princess | Let's Dance [David Bowie] | I'm a Bad Mamma Jamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | To the Next Episode /  Yahoos & Triangles (King of the Hill Theme) [The Refreshments] | Jumpstart My Rocket | Golden Girls Theme [Andrew Gold] | Found My Boogie | Heaven's Just a Mystery |

Encore:
| Handlebar Mustache | Say It Ain't So [Weezer] |

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This was a great return to good ol' Aberdeen. This was Dillon's first time playing in Aberdeen and we had told him all kinds of stories of how great this place is, and how amazing and beautiful the people are. Additionally, this was the first time Junebug had played Slackers, a new-ish bar in downtown Aberdeen, just a half-block away from our old haunt at the Red Rooster. I'm happy to say that Dillon's first impression of the Aberdeen crowd was a great one. Slackers really came through for us.

As soon as the night began, people were into it. The beers flowed like wine, as they may say. People were loose and ready to have a good time. Plus, the bar must have had some great specials going on, or our fans are really generous, or both, because drinks just kept coming up to us faster than we could enjoy them. We had them lined up, waiting to be consumed. And they kept coming. 

Oh, and the people were dancing. They just kept dancing. It was the kind of show you dream about. People who knew the songs were singing along, and even if they didn't know the song, they would stay on the dance floor and feel the flow.

And it was HOT. Sweat poured down our faces and the faces of the crowd. We took a brief intermission at one point and stepped outside. It was a beautiful night. Warm by most summer evening standards, but a cool reprieve from the sauna we had created inside. The cold beers I had lined up behind the drum kit, whose cans were sweating profusely, were a nice welcome present when we resumed our rocking.

The second set went over as well as the first. And it was longer, because people kept wanting to party with us. When our setlist ran out, they pretty much insisted on an encore. We hadn't planned for it. So we had to discuss it briefly. While were were discussing, a couple people started chanting "Bumblebee! Bumblebee!" Dustin turned to them and said, "I don't hink you understand our relationship -- we tell YOU what songs we're gonna play." And then, we didn't play "Bumblebee." Because, well, our bassist doesn't know it yet. What we DID give them was a fresh cut off the upcoming album. And then when they asked for more, yet again, we followed up with "Say It Ain't So," which has long been a great show closer for us.

Again, the chants of "one more song" echoed through the bar. But we were actually done this time. Some clever someone turned the "one more song" chant into "drink more beer," which quickly overpowered the previous. The owner of the bar was heard saying, "Well, don't just yell about it, actually do it!"

We hung out long after we finished playing, enjoying more free drinks, courtesy of our fans. We were then invited to an afterparty at a new art gallery across the street where we hung out and visited and wasted away the early morning hours. 

Well done, Aberdeen. This is why we keep coming back.