DJ Strike performs with De La Soul at 10 Barrel Brewing Co.'s east side pub Saturday. (Brian McElhiney/Bulletin photo)

What happens when two-thirds of your band can’t make it to the gig?

When you’re De La Soul — or rather, Dave, AKA Plug Two, AKA Trugoy, AKA the one member of De La Soul who made it to 10 Barrel Brewing Company’s 10th anniversary party at its east side pub Saturday — you play the gig.

DJ Maseo has been missing from the group’s current tour (DJ Strike stood in at 10 Barrel), but Posdnuos couldn’t make the show due to flight complications, according to Dave (from the stage) and 10 Barrel’s director of marketing Andy Goggins. Organizers attempted to get a plane to fly Posdnuos out from California, but it wasn’t in the cards, Goggins said.

But the event was a success overall, with more than 4,000 people through the gates to sample beer, listen to live music, check out vendors and celebrate 10 Barrel. All proceeds from beer sales were donated to seven local charities.

“All in all, some of that stuff happens in the world of rock ’n’ roll, I guess,” Goggins said. “But there was plenty of beer to go around, and people had a good time.”

The packed crowd was in party mode by the time Dave and fill-in DJ Strike hit the stage shortly after 10 p.m., and willing to forgive two-thirds of the group missing. And to their credit, Dave and Strike gave it their all for the scant half-hour they got to perform, packing the short set full of fist-pumping favorites. As Dave himself put it before leading the audience in yet another chant-along, “F— that, I’m not gonna not show up.”

While Posdnuos and Maseo were certainly missed on De La classics such as “The Grind Date” and “Oodles of O’s,” Strike did a fine job filling in the gaps around Dave’s rhymes, at one point even joining the MC at the front of the stage to trade lyrics. Any disappointment was not in evidence on this crowd’s faces — everyone seemed far too busy dancing.

At various points, Dave set the crowd to jumping up and down on the concrete in front of the stage. He stopped a call-and-response chant (“When we say ‘ah,’ you say ‘ah,’”) at least twice, building the energy each time. The set climaxed with a rousing rendition of “Me Myself and I,” with Dave and Strike spitting the classic track’s lyrics at the wound-up crowd.

The rest of the day’s performers were all pushed back an hour due to the flight complications with De La Soul’s members. Local duo Scribbled Rhymes, Reno’s Moondog Matinee, Seattle’s Acid Tongue and Brent Amaker and The Rodeo (which combined Johnny Cash-esque country with burlesque dancing) performed for the constantly growing crowd.

Attendance hit its peak around the time Rubblebucket hit the stage, shortly after 8:30 p.m. The Brooklyn-based indie/dance band got the crowd moving right away with “On the Ground,” with charismatic singer/saxphonist Kalmia Traver leading the six-piece through the stomping rhythms and some swinging, full-band choreography.

Band co-founder and trumpeter Alex Toth almost matched Traver for energy — the two seemed to be competing for most unhinged performance on such tracks as “If U C My Enemies,” the title cut from the group’s new EP. Other highlights included “My Life,” with gentle verses giving way to a bone-crunching, guitar-driven chorus; and the upbeat rallying cry “Silly Fathers,” led by Traver’s post-chorus chanting: “We’re not safe, we’re not secure.”

The set built up to “Came Out of a Lady,” which the band dedicated to 10 Barrel. As the rhythm section settled into a tight groove, Toth jumped into the crowd and rode a crew member’s shoulders out to the far reaches of the audience and back, blowing into his horn as hard as he could.

— Reporter: 541-617-7814, bmcelhiney@bendbulletin.com