Author Topic: Ween (Read 12682 times)

Filler. · « **on:** September 9, 2003, 09:45:17 pm »

who else loves these bitches?

http://www.chocodog.com/ween
http://www.weenradio.com/

Woodbury · « **Reply #1 on:** September 9, 2003, 09:55:55 pm »

Not me.

Filler. · « **Reply #2 on:** September 9, 2003, 09:59:31 pm »

you not like them Woodbury?

Filler. · « **Reply #3 on:** September 9, 2003, 10:34:05 pm »

http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/ween/ween_new/cheese.mp3

http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/ween/ween_new/cheese2.mp3

Filler. · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2003, 04:53:37 pm »

not ONE person likes Ween here?!

Filler. · « **Reply #5 on:** September 15, 2009, 11:20:11 pm »

Quote from: Filler. on September 10, 2003, 04:53:37 pm

not ONE person likes Ween here?!

I'll try again

It's been one of those days... a very brown Ween day.

Zappa once asked a serious question in 1986, 'Does Humor Belong In Music?' and 'No' was the overwhelming response. If it was in the hands of Zappa fine, let him do what he bloody wants, but there wasn't anyone else really doing it well enough to answer back with a confident 'yes'. Except for Ween perhaps.

Ween are 25 years old, with three or four must listen to LP's under their arms and a live show to walk a hundred miles to. Their early influences are vast and almost wilfully eclectic. They can chow down on the dirtiest doom-metal sludge feast and rise with an almost angelic Carpenters-like love ballad straight after. Hip Hop, punk, soul, R&B, blues, funk.. ah the funk guitars in the hands of Gene Ween.

Wiki suggests 'Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents, and the lo-fi punk movement.' and goes on to prod Zappa and Waits as 'influences' etc... but it's the Prince likening that I love the most.

My favourite LP is undoubtedly 'The Pod'. It's probably one of the most gloriously fucked up albums I've got... so pretty in places and then so stoned in others, and now... it's nearly all out their in glorious Youtube vision. But you need an intro, and it's God Ween Satan - an LP that screams out to be listened to in sequence more than most - it all kicks off with a classic of theirs... You Fucked Up.

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GOD WEEN SATAN: THE ONENESS

1.   "You Fucked Up"    1:37
2.   "Tick"    1:53
3.   "I'm in the Mood to Move"    1:16
4.   "I Gots a Weasel"    1:22
5.   "Fat Lenny"    2:07
6.   "Cold and Wet"    1:12
7.   "Bumblebee"    1:19
9.   "Don't Laugh (I Love You)"    2:49
10.   "Never Squeal"    2:25
11.   "Up on the Hill"    1:56
12.   "Wayne's Pet Youngin'"    1:41
13.   "Nicole"    9:20
14.   "Common Bitch"    1:46
15.   "El Camino"    2:17
16.   "Old Queen Cole"    1:34
18.   "Nan"    2:55
19.   "Licking the Palm for Guava"    1:07
20.   "Mushroom Festival in Hell"    2:35
21.   "L.M.L.Y.P."    8:48
22.   "Papa Zit"    1:15
24.   "Old Man Thunder"    0:23
25.   "Birthday Boy"    3:31
26.   "Blackjack"    4:36
27.   "Squelch the Weasel"    3:11
28.   "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree"    5:24
29.   "Puffy Cloud"    2:40

WEEN: THE POD

1.   "Strap on that Jammypac"    3:03
2.   "Dr. Rock"    3:11
3.   "Frank"    3:46
4.   "Sorry Charlie"    3:51
5.   "The Stallion (Pt. 1)"    2:51
6.   "Pollo Asado"    2:45
7.   "Right to the Ways and the Rules of the World"    5:05
8.   "Captain Fantasy"    3:19
9.   "Demon Sweat"    4:11
10.   "Molly"    4:49
11.   "Can U Taste the Waste?"    1:39
12.   "Don't Sweat It"    4:02
13.   "Awesome Sound"    2:22
14.   "Laura"    4:37
15.   "Boing"    1:33
16.   "Mononucleosis"    3:01
17.   "Oh My Dear (I'm Falling in Love)"    1:57
18.   "Sketches of Winkle"    2:44
19.   "Alone"    3:12
20.   "Moving Away"    3:06
21.   "She Fucks Me"    3:59
22.   "Pork Roll Eggs and Cheese"    3:02
23.   "The Stallion (Pt. 2)"    4:35

wiki blurb stuff: Most often considered the band's "challenging album," The Pod (named for the apartment Dean and Gene shared in which all of the album's songs were recorded) is probably the band's most surreal. All of the songs have a murky, sludgy quality to them, possibly due to being recorded on a four-track, and many of the vocals are manipulated in strange ways. The lyrics are also quite druggy and bizarre. Contributing factors may have been drug use (the album notes claim that the band used Scotchgard as a recreational drug, although they have later confirmed that this was a running joke), and the fact that Dean and Gene both came down with cases of mononucleosis during the recording of the album.
The Pod has since been remastered and reissued by Elektra Records after the relative success of such Ween albums as Pure Guava and Chocolate and Cheese (At the time of the reissue, The Pod was available on Shimmy Disc Records).
The cover art on The Pod is a takeoff of the 1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen LP record cover. Ween simply positioned a photo of Mean Ween's head (wearing a "Scotchgard bong") over Cohen's cover art and did alterations to the title and other graphics. The copy of the Leonard Cohen record that Ween used had purportedly belonged to Dean Ween's mother. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but was later disproved by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of". The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device use to send THC directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days[citation needed].

Get brown.

Filler. · « **Reply #6 on:** September 15, 2009, 11:21:58 pm »

a media and arts move I think

kavah · « **Reply #7 on:** September 16, 2009, 06:38:48 am »

ha ha ^

just had a listen to the one that was Eastenders ( according to wiki, the lyrics are bit choice like, must have been the instrumental

)

Slugworth · « **Reply #8 on:** September 16, 2009, 12:29:46 pm »

I have an 11 minute live version of voodoo lady, its the bollocks

penfold102 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 16, 2009, 01:51:05 pm »

Quote from: Filler. on September 10, 2003, 04:53:37 pm

not ONE person likes Ween here?!

I love Ween - I remember when I was sixteen and someone pulled Pure Guava out of their bag. After hearing Push the Little Daisies I was hooked and I still listen to Ween every now and again. Personally, the Mollusc and 12 Classic Country Greats are my favourites - Piss Up A Rope, Japanese Cowboy, Mutilated Lips are just genius tunes.

Seen them a couple of times in London and their sets are legendary - never have a support band and play for about 3 hours, only to keep the Boognish at bay!!

If anyone hasn't listened to Ween before I would say get Quebec as that is probably their most accessible album (and Happy Coloured Marbles is one of my fave tracks)

penfold102 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 16, 2009, 01:52:18 pm »

Quote from: Slugworth on September 16, 2009, 12:29:46 pm

I have an 11 minute live version of voodoo lady, its the bollocks

You drive me crazy with your boogie oogie oogie oogie oogie oogie oogie oogie

Filler. · « **Reply #11 on:** September 16, 2009, 05:05:08 pm »

You can't go thru life without listening to a good session of Ween. Or seeing them live of course...

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am amazed Eastenders had Piss Up A Rope in the cafe!! Ha.

Filler. · « **Reply #12 on:** September 17, 2009, 10:53:08 am »

FAO Terry de Niro... (plus any other old skool guitar hero lovers...)... the youtube clip above is a must watch

Vastly underated guitarist is mr Gene Ween.

And who likes a bit of Moistboyz? Very close to the bone band... haha. Gene Ween on guitars. One for Juan Loco perhaps.

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and this is a lovely one...

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Filler. · « **Reply #13 on:** September 16, 2015, 07:22:09 pm »

So I'm listening to music, and my Spotify thing is in shuffle mode - the online version. I used to have a hatred of the shuffle button. Now I use it quite regularly. Still not sure if the button sits well with me, but hey. I've got a shit load of variety on my 'list' etc... classical, modern and old, 30's, 40's jazz and swing, 50's 60's 70's 80's, 90's, 00's,10's + jazz, hardcore punk, modern, prog, rap, blues, soul ( God bless Doris Day), world, and was recently going thru a Creedence, Byrds, The Band, etc thing... dozens of those types of bands, and then this song crops up that I didn't know, and I'm thinking, 'Who the fuck has written these appalling lyrics and thought they could get away with it?' So I checked my phone, and it was Ween: Your Party. I thought it might be by a band that Timbo likes

. Only band on earth that could get away with this. I was tickled. Not an album I'm au fait with.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/UtBIgZ1IVFQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/UtBIgZ1IVFQ</a>

eddiedingle · « **Reply #14 on:** September 16, 2015, 07:54:02 pm »

Love this band. Looks like I'm the only one. Hail the boognish

Buggy Eyes Alfredo · « **Reply #15 on:** February 5, 2016, 03:30:49 am »

Next week, they return after a four year hiatus. They have promised a 94 song set.

Filler. · « **Reply #16 on:** February 6, 2016, 07:34:07 pm »

Great to hear they're back. Shame it's 3 gigs in the States only. Would love to see them just one more time.

Saw the heads up and went straight for 12 Country Greats, and Piss Up A Rope was a perfect tune to listen to yesterday.

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... and today.

Edit: The protests I mean, not my dear wife. If I ever sing this she knows that tonights the night.

elbow · « **Reply #17 on:** February 7, 2016, 11:32:53 pm »

I love Ween, a criminally underrated band. Not sure if I could pick a favorite album, a toss up between The Mollusc and Quebec for mine.

Will be interesting to see if the old magic is there on the comeback shows. Aaron (Gene) and Mickey (Dean) had a very bitter fallout last time around. I do so hope so, I'd love to see them live as the clips and live albums I've heard are all astonishing:

Probably the best version of Voodoo Lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCBe-ME0Kho

Roses Are Free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELJJaqc_ko

The Stallion Pt. 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQqpUf7vzs

Transdermal Celebration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vb6JqVKSd8

Buenos Tardes Amigo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dcafgAIl0

Let's Dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk5iUtKeadU

Chanelling the inner Pink Floyd with "Did You See Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WipBHKmhIOU

And lastly, probably the greatest video of all time. Gene and Dean in a bedroom with the live debut of I Got's A Weasel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czPde8oJghk

Filler. · « **Reply #18 on:** February 8, 2016, 08:46:08 pm »

Quote from: elbow on February 7, 2016, 11:32:53 pm

I love Ween, a criminally underrated band. Not sure if I could pick a favorite album, a toss up between The Mollusc and Quebec for mine.

Will be interesting to see if the old magic is there on the comeback shows. Aaron (Gene) and Mickey (Dean) had a very bitter fallout last time around. I do so hope so, I'd love to see them live as the clips and live albums I've heard are all astonishing:

Enjoyed going thru those links. 'Let's Dance' is such a Ween track to cover

First time I've seen the I Gots a Weasel vid - lovely. What was their falling out about?

Seen them 3 times. First time was in London around Chocolate and Cheese I think - where their Voodoo Lady was the major stand out track that night. Fucking superb - went on for ages, ha. Everyone who wanted to see Ween was there it felt like - everyone up for it. It was so good, we drove up to see them in Sheffield or somewhere the next night to see them again. In London they rocked the packed house down for 3 hours+ - think they walked off stage after 45 minutes in Sheffield. Didn't blame them... 100 people watching the gig, more were at the bar round the corner. Massive yawning gaps of space everywhere. Saw them in London some years later, to another packed house, but didn't top that first time.

Always remember in that first gig... there was this blonde girl near the front of stage wearing a feather boa. She was particularly animated, in an animated audience - just stood out a little in the 'pit'. The set ends, and the cheers for an encore start, and after a few minutes, she's seen walking up the side of the stage and disappearing thru stage left. 15 minutes we all stayed banging our feet, and clapping hands... ages we were... no house lights going up... then... out of the smoke, comes Ween on stage again... with the drummer, Claude Coleman Jr, wearing a feather boa and a huge smile is on his face and on the rest of the bands. That was a cracking encore

elbow · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2016, 06:45:20 am »

Quote from: Filler. on February 8, 2016, 08:46:08 pm

Enjoyed going thru those links. 'Let's Dance' is such a Ween track to cover First time I've seen the I Gots a Weasel vid - lovely. What was their falling out about?

Seen them 3 times. First time was in London around Chocolate and Cheese I think - where their Voodoo Lady was the major stand out track that night. Fucking superb - went on for ages, ha. Everyone who wanted to see Ween was there it felt like - everyone up for it. It was so good, we drove up to see them in Sheffield or somewhere the next night to see them again. In London they rocked the packed house down for 3 hours+ - think they walked off stage after 45 minutes in Sheffield. Didn't blame them... 100 people watching the gig, more were at the bar round the corner. Massive yawning gaps of space everywhere. Saw them in London some years later, to another packed house, but didn't top that first time.

Always remember in that first gig... there was this blonde girl near the front of stage wearing a feather boa. She was particularly animated, in an animated audience - just stood out a little in the 'pit'. The set ends, and the cheers for an encore start, and after a few minutes, she's seen walking up the side of the stage and disappearing thru stage left. 15 minutes we all stayed banging our feet, and clapping hands... ages we were... no house lights going up... then... out of the smoke, comes Ween on stage again... with the drummer, Claude Coleman Jr, wearing a feather boa and a huge smile is on his face and on the rest of the bands. That was a cracking encore

I'm well jealous! The reason they split up was basically that Gene was trying to go sober and felt the temptations of the road were too much. I hope he's found some kind of peace.

I've been on a bit a Ween binge recently. Some of the stuff that never made the cut on their albums are fantastic. This was left off 12 Golden Country Greats:

http://youtu.be/V1GXuIzdiNM

This never made it past the demos for Quebec, but clearly shows the undying love for Prince they both have:

http://youtu.be/2liD7pahHN4

I'm not sure where this from, but it sounds like Quebec era as well:

http://youtu.be/d_wxVh1BuNA

Filler. · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2016, 09:56:36 am »

Quote from: elbow on February 13, 2016, 06:45:20 am

I've been on a bit a Ween binge recently. Some of the stuff that never made the cut on their albums are fantastic. This was left off 12 Golden Country Greats:

http://youtu.be/V1GXuIzdiNM

I've been getting very brown these last few days too... Ween non stop virtually. Adored those demos - dozens of brilliant outtakes on YT... Weenradio all morning. Absolute delight. Will write more later...

elbow · « **Reply #21 on:** February 13, 2016, 10:07:56 am »

Quote from: Filler. on February 13, 2016, 09:56:36 am

I've been getting very brown these last few days too... Ween non stop virtually. Adored those demos - dozens of brilliant outtakes on YT... Weenradio all morning. Absolute delight. Will write more later...

They just finished the comeback gig. Would you look at that for a set list!

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ween/2016/1st-bank-center-broomfield-co-13f30d85.html

What Deaner Was Talkin' About

Buckingham Green

Beacon Light

Bananas and Blow

Japanese Cowboy

Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)

Now I'm Freaking Out

Roses Are Free

A Tear for Eddie

Your Party

How High Can You Fly

Nan

Puerto Rican Power

Tick

Wayne's Pet Youngin'

The Goin' Gets Tough From the Getgo

Mister Richard Smoker

Wavin' My Dick in the Wind

Gabrielle

Ooh Va La

Awesome Sound

The Stallion, Part 3

Big Jilm

Licking the Palm for Guava

Mushroom Festival in Hell

Even If You Don't

Sorry Charlie

With My Own Bare Hands

Don't Laugh (I Love You)

Boys Club

Homo Rainbow

Encore:
Fiesta

Buenas Tardes Amigo

Filler. · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2016, 08:58:04 pm »

Quote from: elbow on February 13, 2016, 10:07:56 am

They just finished the comeback gig. Would you look at that for a set list!

A belter! Great to see Buenas Tardes Amigo as the goodbye tune. Lovely.

Claude Coleman Jr. on the get back together: "Boognish almightily rose through the smoldering, smoking cracks of subterranean Earth and into the sky, and slapped Gene and Dean upside their heads with 25 feet of flaccid penis and told them to get their shit together. In other words, the universe more or less initiated the return of Ween."

“We’re doing so much rehearsal work, overcoming a lot of emotional strife, drama…wading through a pond of poo to get to the flowery meadow under a blue sky and open sun. That moment when we’ll walk out, everything will be love and magic, and, yeah, I imagine there’ll be an ovation for like twenty minutes. Which will be intense. It’ll bury all the bullshit; it’ll squash everything and anything else there is, and we’ll be under a roar of love and appreciation that you can’t walk away from or pretend to be unaffected by.”

A photo from last night:

Have to admit, my eyes watered a little seeing that pic.

The full gig - some vids and a small write up: http://www.jambase.com/article/ween-returns-to-the-stage-at-1st-bank-center-in-colorado#

Haven't seen the vids yet (or heard the set), except I HAD to listen to A Tear For Eddie.

Filler. · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2016, 09:42:35 pm »

I found out yesterday that I saw them first at The Garage in Highbury, 31 March 1995. Then Sheffield Leadmill the day after. Why I didn't remember it was The Garage I don't know as I've been there alot. I still don't know where I saw them for the 3rd time, but it could have been Kentish Town - really don't know, but it was much much larger anyway.

Before the Garage gig, I do remember scratching my head how they'd do all those garbled vocals, those weird voices and noises etc, but they almost played it straight, and just rocked the house down. And he's a fantastic bloody guitarist is Deaner. He had that smile and that orgasm face on all night. Bare footed - beers to the left, Marlboro in the mouth. And all those ween distortions and waa-waa were all at his fingertips. Was extraordinary really.

While reading on the net I came across a couple of people who put that Garage gig down in their top 10 all time best gigs which I thought was interesting. One fella claimed he'd been to 700+ gigs, which isn't bad going, and had that gig in there. It was special mind. Really special. The next night couldn't have been any different!

Also read a bit more about the split. Some really good interviews with Mickey particularly. About his fishing business and his nights out - his worst ever gig was very funny:

[quote:

My worst gig nightmare---by dean ween ---11th grade

ween had just released “the mollusk” album, which is my favorite ween album ever. It is all folky sounding songs about the ocean. Before that record we had released our country album and toured with old session guys from Nashville. We hadn’t been on tour as a rock and roll outfit in some time and we had just assembled what would become our permanent band for the next 18 years. The band was Me and Aaron, Dave Dreiwitz on bass, Claude Coleman on drums, and Glenn McClelland on keyboards. I think it was the 4th gig for that lineup. We got a gig at the State University of NY (SUNY) on the Plattsburgh campus. Plattsburgh is up on the border of NY and Vermont so we figured it would be a bunch of hippies in the crowd. What actually happened was that there were two student councils at SUNY Plattsburgh, a black council and a white council—they got to decide the budget for the concert, who they wanted to play at their big spring fling event. The black students voted for Busta Rhymes, who was our label mate on Elektra Records at that time. The stoner white kids voted for Ween and then it was settled. Ween would play before Busta Rhymes in a massive Gym that held 5,000 people. We rented a van for this one show and drove up, all excited. When we got there it was a giant empty room with no one seemingly in charge. Busta Rhymes posse was there onstage, they had the student sound guy setting up 50 microphones for his boys, they just wandered around the stage and yelled “MAKE SOME NOISE”!. There were tough looking ghetto brothers walking all around the stage and the gym, occasionally yelling into the mics, yo, yo, yo, check one two. Busta Rhymes wasn’t even there. The only thing they needed to soundcheck was a turntable and the 50 mics, the easiest soundcheck in the world. Somehow it took 3 hours. Finally everybody wandered off and it was our turn to soundcheck right as the doors were opening. So I wrote a setlist that heavily featured our new songs from The Mollusk, a very prog-rock record. We go onstage and the whole crowd as far as I can tell, is black people. We start by playing “The Golden Eel”, a song about a fish in Aaron’s fishtank, we wrote the song while tripping on mushrooms. The black people hated it. They started throwing cups, bottles, change, chairs, anything that wasn’t nailed down. By the third song we were dead in the water, as we say in boating land. I just put my head down and played as best as I could, trying hard to tune out the crowd. All of the sudden I felt like someone punched me in the stomach with a baseball bat. I got the wind knocked out of me and stumbled backwards. When I looked up there was a 40 oz. bottle at my feet. It had hit me in the gut/dick. The perpetrator was a 300 lb. black sister who was standing right below me at my monitor. I looked her right in the eye and she waved me forward, as if she was going to tell me a secret. I leaned in and she said “baby, you gots to go.” She then stuck two thumbs down in my face to reinforce the point. And then to make sure I heard her she said again, “MOTHERFUCKER YOU GOTS TO GO.” We started to make it a challenge, us against the crowd, we can do this with dignity right? Wrong. By the time we finished our set it was a game of dodge ball, the whole crowd had a mob mentality, they were throwing everything that wasn’t nailed down with malicious intent and we were stretching our songs as long as they could go, I was taking 10 minute guitar solos just to be a dick. Just for the record, we kicked ass, we were playing with the inspiration of 14 year olds, absolutely fucking shredding to try and win the crowd over to our side. In some sick way I think we did. Anyway, we finish up and find out that Busta Rhymes hasn’t even left BROOKLYN yet! 3 ½ hours away. The teacher rep asks us to go back on and we laughed in his face as we got our check and left.

But that’s not the end of the story. We go back to our hotel, a Holiday Inn off the side of the interstate. Me and my guitar roadie Mick Preston go to the hotel bar and start drinking heavily, trying to forget the whole experience, but not really caring so much. We get wasted and the bar has a pool table that we hold for 4 hours. Around last call, 50 scary looking brothers walk in and some guy comes over to the pool table and says “last game fellas.” It ws Busta Rhymes and his posse. I tell the guy that if Busta wants to shoot pool he has to beat us first, and plus I want to tell him a story. So Busta Rhymes walks over to the pool table and I introduce myself and tell him the story about what it was like opening up for him. After all, we are on the same record label and we both have new records out. Well he thought it was the funniest story he ever heard, me getting hit with bottles---he said “THIS IS MICKEY FROM THE WEEN, THEY’RE NOT VERY POPULAR WITH THE BROTHERS.” He made me re-tell the story of our gig to every guy in his crew and posse and they were laughing their asses off. He paid for the drinks for the rest of the night and me and Mick played doubles against him and his bodyguard on the pool table until like 5am. I think he gave the bartender $5000 to keep the bar open just for us. He was the nicest guy in the world, he kept high fiving me and had me tell him the story of the gig over and over until I was hoarse. He bought all the champagne in the place, Moet-- White Star, the best they had. It wasn’t Cristal, but Moet is pretty delicious. That’s pretty much the end of the story. We all stumbled back to our rooms and I distinctly remember him giving me a hug and telling me we’d see each other again out there but it never happened and probably never will again. Not the worst gig experience I’ve ever had, but one of the more memorable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ween/comments/1xg0hn/mickeys_worst_gig_nightmare_via_fb/ end quote. Had to edit out the quote tag as was giving me a headache re-reading it.]

Came across a fucking weird forum conversation about them too. American site - they speak a different language! Ha. All giving it the 'Yeah! Ween!' - swapping stories and favourite songs - but they're all on drugs out there surely! Haha Would take me an age to find that again in my history. Maybe I might tomorrow.

But those Caesar demos and those songs that that fella on youtube put up - blew me away this morning. Never heard them before. Can't wait for a few hours alone to give those an 11. Wednesday it's looking like. So cheers for that - that's a great heads up

elbow · « **Reply #24 on:** February 13, 2016, 10:37:06 pm »

No worries! Ceaser is ace. That picture you posted above is beautiful, lovely stuff.

A mate of mine hadn't heard them, so I insisted he borrow my copy of The Mollusc (green vinyl) a few weeks back. A day later the texts started, he was hooked big time. Job done!

elbow · « **Reply #25 on:** February 14, 2016, 09:07:08 am »

Second night. Fuck me, The Pod songs are getting some love and rightly so!

Pork Roll Egg and Cheese, Take Me Away, Transdermal Celebration, Back to Basom, Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?, The Grobe, Stroker Ace, Object, Ice Castles, The Golden Eel, Happy Colored Marbles, Kim Smoltz*, Tried and True*, Baby Bitch*, Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain*, Joppa Road*, I Don't Want It*, Frank, She Fucks Me, Ocean Man, You Fucked Up, Poopship Destroyer, Transitions, Ace of Spades, Laura, Zoloft, Doctor Rock
Encore: Pollo Asado, Demon Sweat

Filler. · « **Reply #26 on:** February 14, 2016, 10:32:36 am »

Lovely. God I wish I was there. 99.9% they played Ace of Spades at the Garage all those years back.

Reckon tonight will be full of their love songs for Feb 14. Going to be so so tender

Filler. · « **Reply #27 on:** February 14, 2016, 11:07:17 pm »

I found out that a friend of mine was painting his house ready to sell, late into the night tonight and texted him he needs some Ween - Molusk or Quebec. My wife's sisters husband. I don't know if he knows Ween. And I get home and click on both openers for each album - just to gauge what it would be like to give Ween a first listen. (I've been killing Ween this week - so much more to get thru). If he clicks on Mollusk what is he thinking listening to 'I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight'? What the fuck? Why do I want to listen to this!? But does he wait till the next tune, The Mollusk, and does he go... wait a minute ... this is beautiful. I've got a massive smile on my face, but this is beautiful.

Or does he pick Quebec and his first Ween track is 'It's Gonna Be A Long Night' (a truly great live version). He's immediately going to think, 'Rob - mate - (mate!!) I've sort of indicated that that noise/punk/jazz/mess shit you yap about - It's never been much of an interest of mine.'
'Yeah, but I'm still working on you.'
Feel the love of Ween boy, feel the love of Ween.

So while thinking about that, I read the Ween blurb on Spotify - someone from 'Rovi', whatever the fuck that is, and it mentions, again, this parody thing. Ween 'parodying' country and western, or 'parodying' this that and the other. Never ever, have I understood that. Never ever, have I got a sense of 'parody' about Ween. A knowing 'tongue in cheek' ness maybe, but parody? Not a chance. Parody, if you were to draw a pie chart, parody would be quite near to 'taking the piss', and Ween have never taken the piss.

Thing is, I don't think I've ever read a review of Ween and thought - yep - you've nailed something there. I can't work them out at all. I understand why I love Captain Beefheart. Can't quite put my finger on what Ween are doing. I love them for that. And I know how all those screaming fans at Beatles gigs felt when I'm about to see Ween.

I saw a 10 second clip on a doc on YT of them playing in their school - their first ever gig as 15/16 year olds, and they were mashing their heads up then! Deaner bent over making this cacophonous barrage of noise with Gene singing sweetly to his right. God it was all there.

Fuck me what a band.

Fucks sake thought MoTD2 was on past 1030. Great to have a proper striker again.

They're big Billy Joel fans. Dan Seager. Beatles, (Peter Frampton !?!), Springsteen. Floyd. Funk, soul, schlager. Metal, Motorhead, Beefheart, Bowie, Prince, Black Flag, Abba, Queen... you name it... they're there. But it's about love Marty. It's about love.

Filler. · « **Reply #28 on:** February 14, 2016, 11:53:11 pm »

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Buggy Eyes Alfredo · « **Reply #29 on:** February 15, 2016, 01:04:55 am »

Quote from: elbow on February 13, 2016, 10:07:56 am

They just finished the comeback gig.

Encore:

Buenas Tardes Amigo

Pure sex.

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elbow · « **Reply #30 on:** February 15, 2016, 01:17:15 am »

Ween and Queens of The Stone Age doing "Homo Rainbow" from way back:

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Ace.

Filler. · « **Reply #31 on:** February 17, 2016, 09:38:24 pm »

'All those going to the purgatory room after this, this is for you, that's right.'

Only band I can think of that could get away with that. God I've giggled this week. Love Ween.

Ween playing Comfortably Numb: https://youtu.be/wNGXC1cvFI0 Embedding disabled.

Ween, or rather Mickey, some of the Moistboyz, and other compadres... playing Floyd's 'Echoes'.

"A faithful version of the Pink Floyd classic "Echoes" from the "Meddle" album performed by Guy Heller, Bill Fowler, Mickey Melchiondo, Ray Kubian, Sean Faust, and Chris Williams. We grew up watching "Live at Pompeii" all the time and finally got to execute this song properly."

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and it's pretty good. Vocals are duff. Near on 40 minutes... but a lovely listen to a red sky at dawn this morning.

Alonso_The_Assassin · « **Reply #32 on:** February 25, 2016, 05:05:14 am »

Thought I'd reply in this thread, Filler.

I've been listening to "Molusk" for the last week. Really dig it, although reading about their history it seems like their most focused album. I tried "Chocolate and Cheese" years ago, perhaps wasn't in the right headspace to consume it. I started with that particular album on the basis of 'Freedom of '76'. Great track.

Where should I go to next? I've got "White Pepper" ready to go. Decent?

elbow · « **Reply #33 on:** February 26, 2016, 08:16:34 am »

Quote from: Alonso_The_Assassin on February 25, 2016, 05:05:14 am

Thought I'd reply in this thread, Filler.

I've been listening to "Molusk" for the last week. Really dig it, although reading about their history it seems like their most focused album. I tried "Chocolate and Cheese" years ago, perhaps wasn't in the right headspace to consume it. I started with that particular album on the basis of 'Freedom of '76'. Great track.

Where should I go to next? I've got "White Pepper" ready to go. Decent?

Yes, very much so. Some belters on that one. Exactly Where I'm At, Flutes of Chi, Falling Out, Stay Forever, The Grobe to name but a few. Follow it up with Quebec and your laughing. I can't stop listening to Captain and The Argus from that fine album.

By the way, you know the song Atlas by Battles? Have a listen to "So Many People in The Neighbourhood" and tell me they (Battles) didn't rip it off. The Battles tune is at least three years later.

http://youtu.be/hnGq69ey5tw

http://youtu.be/IpGp-22t0lU

Filler. · « **Reply #34 on:** February 28, 2016, 07:17:48 am »

Think I'm right in saying that Dene Ween has The Mollusk down as his favourite Ween LP, and Quebec as his least favourite, due to the difficult times during recording, so I've read.

Sounds dull, but I'd give every LP a go - there's fun to be had on all of them. I've more or less always heard them chronologically, but the one time I felt slightly disappointed was when White Pepper came out. Some great stand-out tracks mind. The one LP I'm really enjoying at the mo is La Cucaracha (2007), their last LP. An album I knew the least well until now, and one that was widely accepted as not being too great, but have fallen for it now. Love the Santana-like 'Woman and Man' and then that delicious 'Your Party' song - that brief overblown mental drum machine freak-out 2/3 of the way thru Fiesta never fails to make me smile, and the smearing of Cher's Antares Autotune vocals in Spirit Walker. An effect that requires cremation. Any modern singer who uses it needs burning too.

I remember the reading a lukewarm review of Pure Guava (NME or MM) when it came out, that had Reggaejunkiejew down as 'pointless', but I had that LP on the day it came out and loved it. Particularly Reggaejunkiejew. Really good album that one... I'd give that a go. But you cannot fail to give God Ween Satan a go either. That was my opener to Ween... 'You Fucked Up' - love at first listen. No one does overblown quite like Ween

elbow · « **Reply #35 on:** July 18, 2016, 07:12:22 am »

Here's a recent show from the comeback tour. I've watched this a few times, I have to say they sound as good as ever. Gene is clean, sober and happy. Indeed, the whole band looks made up to be doing what they love.

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There's some gold right there. Take Me Away! Touch My Tooter! Happy Colored Marbles! You can also spot Kurt Vile rocking out at the side of the stage at one point.

Filler. · « **Reply #36 on:** February 21, 2017, 09:24:22 pm »

Saw a great piece of footage of Ween coming on stage at one of their recent gigs... Deaner walking on stage, then, to the cheers, stood infront of the mic, then both arms aloft like the guitar rock god he is

Then this morning, I find out that he's recently released a 'solo' LP, by the Dean Wean Group, called 'The Deaner Album'. Released late last year. Meant to call the label today to ask a few things (not just 'is it really £35!?') but tomorrow I will (when the wife is out).

Quote

'The deaner album found Dean moving to a more ensemble approach to recording, as he enlisted the services of current bandmates as well as old friends including the Meat Puppets Curt Kirkwood, legendary punk drummer Chuck Treece, and Parliament-Funkadelic guitarists Mike (Kidd Funkadelic) Hampton, Scott Rednor, and Bill Fowler among others. If I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea, I would call a session and have the whole band come in and learn the song and play it together, The Deaner says. That was really different for me. I could actually show some patience and not just half-ass it. If I needed a drummer, I would get the best drummer I could to play that particular song.
http://schnitzel.co.uk/shop/details.php?req_id=65&artist=ween

And it's on youtube. Which is nice. Cracking album... don't let the first song fool you

And if you're reading AlonsoAssassin... you'll enjoy Moistboyz too... start from Moistboyz 1 (Dean Ween's other band - very dark brown hardcore.)

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Buggy Eyes Alfredo · « **Reply #37 on:** February 21, 2017, 10:35:00 pm »

Feb. 18th in Vegas!

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Filler. · « **Reply #38 on:** February 21, 2017, 11:56:43 pm »

Quote from: Buggy Eyes Alfredo on February 21, 2017, 10:35:00 pm

Feb. 18th in Vegas!

We need them in the UK. NEED them.

Ideally, we'd have a short solo tour of Gene... followed by a short tour of whatever Deaner brings with him (a mix of Moistboyz and Dean Ween Group), and a good 12 date tour of England. I'd be skint.

elbow · « **Reply #39 on:** February 22, 2017, 02:28:49 am »

Quote from: Filler. on February 21, 2017, 11:56:43 pm

We need them in the UK. NEED them.

Ideally, we'd have a short solo tour of Gene... followed by a short tour of whatever Deaner brings with him (a mix of Moistboyz and Dean Ween Group), and a good 12 date tour of England. I'd be skint.

Nick Oliveri, on/off Queens of The Stone Age bassist and sometime Moistboyz is playing an acoustic tour in Australia soon. He's doing a meet and greet thingy, i'll definitely have a word and make it so.