Saturday, February 17, 2001
2/17/01 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.
Friday, January 26, 2001
1/26/01 - NDSU Memorial Union - Fargo, N.D.
Set One:
| Vacation to Oblivion | The Altar of Rock | Prince Caspian [Phish] / Cake / American Pie [Don MacLean](tease) | Raise Your Voices | I'm a Bad MammaJamma (Who Works at Wendy's) | Woo-Hoo (Song 2 [Blur]) | Breasts | Jack and Diane [John "Cougar" Mellencamp](the Macho Man Mix) | Rich & Poor | Couch | Death Monkeys | Modern Day Fairy Tales |
Set Two:
| Piper | Casanova | Back in Black [AC/DC] (Worcester Remix) | Cupid | Jumpstart My Rocket | Found My Boogie | It's Been a Long Time | The Cacophany Trilogy (Burn the Children / Kill Your Parents / God Bless Love) | Downtown Liquor Store | Like a Dream | Breakout [Foo Fighters](tease) / To the Next Episode | Bumblebee |
Well we packed up our gear and headed up to Fargo, ND. Finally, PJ could walk to a show. But he didn't. We kidnapped him and made him show us where the venue was. Fliphed walked though.
The crowd was diverse. We had some loyal fans find their way up to Fargo from Aberdeen. We had a few friends from high school show up and that was a nice surprise. There were also many many people we had never seen before.
The gig was in the basement of the Memorial Union which also houses a pool hall, food court, bowling alley, and video arcade. There were many people engaged in these activities while we played the evening's music.
Most of tonight's songs hadn't been played since November, some not since September. So as you can imagine, things started off rocky, but we fell into the Flow as the night went on. With the exception of a couple false starts, and a couple shaky endings, the rock felt good.
Afterward, Anthony attempted to trash our hotel room, PJ did the Elaine dance, Bryna and Becky did some synchronized swimming out of water, and we were all awakened in the hotel by a woman's soothing voice saying, "Ladies! Would you like to look more beautiful?"
Special thanks to Dex for running the board, Dan Cl. for the use of extra cymbals, and Tony's family (Laurel, Angell, and Hunter) for showing up.
Sunday, December 10, 2000
12/9/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.
Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD
Pegtop played at the Rooster tonight. Fed By Doris opened the show with Junebug following. Pegtop played and afterward, two members of December Stars closed.
We felt really on tonight. "High Octane" as Anthony might say. There was definitely a lot of energy as we played to a packed house. We started with Jumpstart and moved right into a rockin' version of Modern Day. After that, we payed a small homage to Pegtop by playing our own version of their Jo. And we threw the crowd into a tizzy when we sang "Jo just wanna go...TO THE NEXT EPISODE!!" Tonight's version of Episode had a couple surprises and new items (i.e. 60's surf style drum solos, Twilight Zone guitar solo behind the head). And just as we said "Thank you Aberdeen, Good night," Dan Cleberg approached us and asked if we'd do Liquor Store. How could we not? So there it was (dedicated to Tony's sister Wendy as usual).
After we were done, Pegtop rocked the house. Right on boys, the rock was good.
Thanks to everyone who came out. This might be our last show for awhile. We appreciate the support.
Sunday, November 19, 2000
11/18/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.
Red Rooster Coffee House
Aberdeen, SD
We played some rock. We played some roll. On the television screens we showed Neon Genesis Evangelion (the big TV) and the video from the annual Twine Trips. At the break we removed Evangelion and added Akira.
We tried something new tonight. We added an overture which consisted of a medley of portions of a few of our songs. It went okay.
We followed that with the unlisted track from The Big Orange Van, "Roly Poly". Also from BOV we played "Farm Life" for the first time in front of an audience. We put our hearts into it and let everyone know about life on the farm.
Another highlight was "Back in Black". We performed it as it would be performed by a choir of red roosters. It was beautiful.
Unfortunately, PJ didn't have his gear. Unfortunately, when PJ stopped by Tony's mom's house to get the camcorder, Tony's mom wasn't there. Unfortunately, Dan's camcorder got knocked onto the floor by a person at the show and broke. Unfortunately, we have no recording of this show. Awwwww.
Big Kudos go out to PJ, Bud, Shane, and Kate for driving 100 miles or more to be here.
Thursday, October 19, 2000
10/19/00 - Dragon Radio - Moorhead, Minn.
Moorhead, MN
Saturday, October 14, 2000
10/14/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.
Tonight was a good night. We had a moderately small crowd, but that was okay. We kind of like that sometimes.
Sunday, October 8, 2000
10/7/00 - Red Rooster - Aberdeen, S.D.
Red Rooster Coffee House
Tonight is a long story, I guess. First off, Mark Hilstrom from somewhere in Wisconsin was booked to play. He didn't show up. He didn't call, he didn't write, he made no contact, he just didn't show up. Fed By Doris was supposed to open for him, so they just figured that Fed By Doris would be the openers and the headliners. That was fine. Jer left at about 8:30 to get something to eat. Then 9:30 rolled around and where was Jer? Dan and Tony K. ran down to the flame where Jer and Ky and Tony J. and Sharon were. They hadn't even received their meal yet and it turned out Jer had almost completely lost his voice. So it would be almost impossible to do a real FBD show.
Dan asked if Junebug would like to play an acoustic set since we were all there, so what we decided was that Anthony would do some solo work and Tony would do some solo work and that Tony and Dan would do a few FBD tunes.
Anthony began with a quaint little tune, "My Dad". On a whim, Dustin told Tony, "Let's go up." So they did and played the first set under the name "Shaggy Bandits." The set included "It's Been a Long Time" which appears on The Big Orange Van, Dead Beat Duck, which appears on Anthony's Rebel Without a Car, and Jumpstart My Rocket which will be on the new Junebug album.
Next was Tony with some stuff from his solo album, Drama Queen. Dustin joined in on drums on "If I Could Cook" and moved to bass for the rest of the set. This set included some of Tony's originals, some "rare" Junebug songs and a few covers and teases.
Dan got a chance to come on up and we played Da Bomb with Bruce on vocals and the third set of the night was underway. Dan named this group "The Stone Cold Fobstoppersons." I'm a little fuzzy on how things went for this set because Tony's camcorder stopped and I can't remember such things very well. I remember that at one point Dan, Dustin, and Tony were talking about various celebrities they'd met; the Smashing Pumpkins, Mary-Ann from Gilligan, the guy that wrote the "That Thing You Do" song from that movie, and Bruce chimed in saying he's met Mickey Mouse.
Peanut Butter was pretty fun too. Dan had Anthony take a mic into the audience Oprah style and have audience members sing verses.
Bruce requested Fargo Gypsy Girl and we said we'd play it if he sang it. So we did. And he did. He actually knows the song too. That's pretty cool.



