Ween. Are they great or what?

One of many concert moments seared into my neural circuitry was hearing for the first time a pre-Chocolate and Cheese song played as a band on their Chocolate and Cheese tour: it was "Big Jilm" and that whole "band sound," in contrast with the Pure Guava sound, which was like a glorified game of Simon, made me stand there with my jaw hanging open like a dental patient.

xxxp yeah Dave Dreiwitz has a long chops-heavy history, played bass and trumpet in Tiny Lights for years before joining Ween

The drummer was like super duper almost like Bernie Purdie level

Still overall I find kinda spiritually vacant and mean w them, I could appreciate it but I could never get too close to that band

Does Dean Ween get any guitar mag love? He was really shredding Zappa style

was it the live in chicago dvd?

the keyboardist used to tour with earth wind and fire lol

def funny how a couple of early 90s 4 track goofballs turned out to be great musicians

"or what"

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lol i came in here to post this again

savage

Does Dean Ween get any guitar mag love? He was really shredding Zappa style

They got a huge jam band audience from Phish covering Roses Are Free, but I don't think the classic guitar dude market ever cottoned on

(Deaner is one of only two chopsular guitarists I ever want to hear, so this is not an educated impression.)

global - yeah live in Chicago

xp who's the other one?

That Pogues pisstake pirate song is fucking garbage

Ocean Man is a good pop song

who's the other one?

P. R. Nelson

I was at one of those gigs they used for Live in Chicago. I remember it being a good show but was sadly equally memorable for how obnoxious the audience was - they knew a taping was going on, and were acting accordingly.

xp I kinda strongly dislike "The Blarney Stone" and "Buenas Tardes Amigo."

Encore: Pollo Asado, Demon Sweat

best finale

frank ocean sounds exactly like ween https://twitter.com/mlle_elle/status/766908276374016000

lol

all i see turns to brown

Meme Ween

I'm killing it

good ween song

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

i see i already posted about this

I don't hear it. This sounds like neither fake-Prince nor fake-Paul Mccartney.

guys

Kim Smoltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65dRRa3GoM

how tf was this not on an album anywhere. I think I've played it a dozen times the last two weeks.

nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-J6d7zUsc8&app=desktop

really on a rare Ween track kick right now. there are so many good ones. kinda funny given some of the garbage that actually *does* make the album.

If memory serves, most of those Mollusk outtakes have merit.

https://archive.org/details/ween2018-08-17.MK4-2448

https://archive.org/details/ween2018-08-18.MK4-2448

two high-quality recordings of the band's recent Portland shows. they sound amazing.

Is the boredoms collabo any good

haven't heard it in a long time. some people really like it but it sounds like it was just recorded over a long weekend or something

this song is just the weirdest/most dumbest thing, I love it

https://youtu.be/mwjuh8HjsmY

could swore Deaner left to do his own thing

I can’t believe this band never made it big.

think the story is that Gene broke up the band due to his addiction problems, as apparently he'd get offered drugs and alcohol nonstop while the group was touring which is ahh pretty hard for an addict. Dean Ween Band is just something for Dean to do in the meantime

I'm not really sure what the status of Ween proper is now. can't really blame them for getting back together given that Ween can sell out decent sized venues while their solo acts tend to hit the local band spots. I mean they still sound great and they're still doing wild 3-hour sets, so idk what the deal is

Deaner never left: Gene left during that period of getting sober when they tell you not to make any major life decisions. Deaner started two new bands to play local bars & the rest of the live Ween band carried on playing Ween songs in clubs as The Dean Ween Group for a few years. They now have two albums of originals and a rotating membership, and don’t play any Ween hits live.

Gener tried to play Ween-sized venues off the back of his solo album of Rod McKuen covers, unsurprisingly flopped hard, licked his wounds and after a few years played a reunion show at Red Rocks. It doesn’t seem likely that they’ll write & record together again, but Ween now play handfuls of big shows through the year, and Dean keeps playing bars at home and clubs on the road.

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I can't believe this movie had 8 minutes of Ween-related scenes in it. my god they look so young

https://vimeo.com/115094989

I can't believe Gene Ween & Slash covered "Wiggle Wiggle"

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

last night's show in Milwaukee was excellent. we missed the first song ("Buckingham Green", I'm told), and the second was "Laura", a song I didn't even know they played live. in all, they played like, half of The Pod, and a bunch from Pure Guava too. they also did a cover of Bowie's "Lets Dance". kind of wish I wasn't so wasted for it, but that's Ween for ya. I gotta say, their crowds are exactly as advertised.

the show last night in st. paul was stupendous. 'fluffy' solo blew the roof off the palace. excited for 2nd show tonight. i'm sober now so knowing gene was too was sort of helpful and inspiring? but yes their fans are dirt twirling hippies and weirdos, it's great

show is already up, wow. well fluffy was the last song of main set- also funny was '# Deaner plays Gener's guitar to sound more like "Jerry" wherein he put on heavy mutron and got that gooey 78 estimated prophet sound. they can be such hams, dean especially

https://archive.org/details/Ween2018-11-03.MK012

😊

all i see turns to brown

This is a very good semi-officially band-approved fan comp that I never knew about for some reason. About 2/3 pulled from Pod-era. Flows nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8HeoaLCaQ

I wish their live shows would include a 20-30 minute section with cassettes as the backing tracks. Pure Guava songs sound weird live imo.

it's weird they turned into the grateful dead for people who know who Steve Albini is

great post

yah perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65dRRa3GoM

this isn't on that comp but it's probably one of my favorite songs full stop.

I think if I made a list of "Top 10 songs I can't believe weren't ever on a studio album", Ween would have like 6 of them