New (old) live ween cd/dvd

[gitCHu ONe.]

Yeah if you\'re trying to get someone into ween, don\'t play GodWeenSatan right away. They may lose some respect for you if you do. Once they are accustomed to the ways of ween, then they\'ll understand.

However, I do like to play "You Fucked Up" at a bar where everyone is lame... right as I leave. I also manage to ask the bartender to turn it up right before that song comes on. I can only imagine the horrific looks on peoples faces. Good times.

I know so many people that think Ween IS a country band for as much as Piss Up A Rope got played on the Jukebox after I played it for the first time. Now I ask people if they like Ween. They say they do, and then I play "I\'ll Be Dancing In the Show Tonight" followed up by "LMLYP". Good times.

[bezerker]

haven\'t heard much of chocolate and cheese, but just listened to spinal meningitis, somewhat.  can you say nannies ?

[Gfunk]

[Igziabeher]

white pepper definitely has its own personality beyond their other albums.  i can see how people either love it or hate it, i used to not like it that much, but it grew on me eventually.  i\'m a the mollusk kinda guy personally.

[Gordo]

I go through album phases and love one more than the others at any given time.. The Mollusk=winter breath, White Pepper=spring chicken, Quebec=stoned/naked/bittersweet, 12 Country=stooper sloppy tacos, Chocolate=foreplay>straightbuttfuck, Shinola=drunken rooftops, GodWSatan=aggressive blinking, Guava=highschool giggles, and so on and so forth.

Ween produces melodies that have always been in your head but never gotten the air time, then write lyrics and sing them in ways you\'re almost glad you\'d never think of. It\'s fucking beautiful.

And yes, they NAIL every genre. Live Mickey? For-fucking-get about it.

Favorite tune off each album:
Quebec-- "Tried and True"
The Mollusk-- "Cold Blows the Wind"
White Pepper-- "Flutes of the Chi"
Shinola-- "Transitions"
12 Golden-- "Mr. Richard Smoker"
Chocolate-- "Baby Bitch"
GodWSatan-- "LMLYP"
Cucaracha-- "With My Own Bare Hands"
Pod-- "Sorry Chip" (<Guava-- "Stallion Pt. 3"

[FrankZappa]

that was awesome. LOVE that song! awesome ween conversation going on here. I\'m right there gordo as far as it depends on what mood I\'m in, but white pepper is one of those rare albums i can put on at any time and use to change my mood, where as other albums you just have to emphasis how you already feel. It\'s like post war dream or dark side to me in that way. fucking brilliant abum.

Actually since it was mentioned yesterday, I can\'t stop listening to it again! :lol:

[Gfunk]

I go through album phases and love one more than the others at any given time.. The Mollusk=winter breath, White Pepper=spring chicken, Quebec=stoned/naked/bittersweet, 12 Country=stooper sloppy tacos, Chocolate=foreplay>straightbuttfuck, Shinola=drunken rooftops, GodWSatan=aggressive blinking, Guava=highschool giggles, and so on and so forth.

:lol: "foreplay>straightbuttfuck"=rotfl

Ween produces melodies that have always been in your head but never gotten the air time, then write lyrics and sing them in ways you\'re almost glad you\'d never think of. It\'s fucking beautiful.

Def, never thought of it that way but i totally concur.

that was awesome. LOVE that song! awesome ween conversation going on here. I\'m right there gordo as far as it depends on what mood I\'m in, but white pepper is one of those rare albums i can put on at any time and use to change my mood, where as other albums you just have to emphasis how you already feel. It\'s like post war dream or dark side to me in that way. fucking brilliant abum.

Actually since it was mentioned yesterday, I can\'t stop listening to it again! :lol:

I fuckin love that tune also. one of my favorite ween songs. heres a little sumthin about the video:

Video created by Adam Phillips, who formerly worked for Disney explains:

In 2003 I created a music video for Ween. The song was ‘Transdermal Celebration’ from the album Quebec.had bought the album and listened through a few times.. I’d been a Ween fan proper for a few years by that stage, but listening to the new songs prompted me to check out their website for the first time.

There I saw a notice to fans saying “Transdermal video, looking for ideas”. The third track on the CD “Transdermal Celebration” was one of the songs that I really liked, so I emailed Ween’s manager right away with some sketches and a short synopsis.

He replied saying that unfortunately Ween had decided to go with a live video for the song, because they were about to go on a tour. I was gutted.. so after some thought I emailed back, saying that I would do the video free of charge, for the experience of it.

They gave me their blessing to go ahead, I got an email from Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween) with some explanation of the lyrics. Sadly the email was later lost in a hard-drive crash, but I’ll always remember his opening line:

“Hi Adam it’s Aaron, it’s 3am I’m fucked up in Jersey City..“

So I got to work right away. At the time (October 2003) I was still working full-time for Disney.. I asked the studio manager for a month off so that I could do this music video. We were smack in the middle of crunchtime on “Return to Neverland”, so I knew I’d be very lucky to get as much as two days off. To be allowed any time off during crunchtime was unheard of, so unfortunately I had to threaten resignation (actually that’s something I’d never told anyone until now).

After a bit of negotiating I managed to get two weeks. Since landing my job at Disney, I saw this as the biggest opportunity life had thrown at me, so it was something I had to do.

I worked for around 12 - 14 hours each day on the clip and at the end of the two weeks I delivered it to Ween. I got another email from Aaron telling me how much he loved it, and how it captured the song perfectly. He told me it’d be the official video and that they wanted to pay me for it.

I rate that two weeks (and the month that followed) as the best working experience of my life to date. The video became a special feature on Ween’s ‘Live in Chicago’ DVD.


These days I look at it and wish I’d had more time to fine-tune, but there’s not much about the actual working experience that I’d change. Thanks Ween  

Posted by Musical Stew Daily

here\'s some shit about the new release:

Ween will dip into the archives for its next release. At the Cat’s Cradle, 1992 captures Ween in Carborro, NC on December 9, 1992, when the group was solely comprised of Dean and Gene (along with some samples, tapes and a drum machine). In addition to the full show from that night, the set also boasts a DVD featuring live footage culled from a 1991 Halloween performance, a 1992 Trenton, NJ radio session and a 1992 stop in Columbus, OH

Liner Notes:

From our first “real’” concert in 1987 until the release of Chocolate and Cheese in 1994 we played concerts as a duo–Aaron on vocals and acoustic guitar and me on electric guitar with the bass and drums played from a cassette deck, Later on we purchased a DAT machine for the backing tracks and this speeded up our show a little. A typical Ween set was no more than an hour long, and we’d play about 24 songs in that amount of time. There was no jamming at all whatsoever. Things are a lot different now. Every night we had to face the crowd pretty much naked, there was nowhere to hide, no room for an off night. We did a lot of talking to the crowd and one another between songs, we pretty much had to. We faced a lot of hostile audiences when we were the opening act on a show. There was a lot to hate about us but we won over a lot of people in the process because of our sheer nerve.

A lot of our closest friends feel that Ween live pretty much ended when we switched to a traditional band format with a bass player and drummer; I dunno about that but by the release of Pure Guava our show was no longer interesting to us. We were doing a lot more touring and playing the same songs with no room for improvising had gotten boring for us. Once we started releasing records and touring more as a duo we got a lot better at it, we stopped caring about what the audience thought of us and just focused on having fun onstage. This was when we maximized our brownness. I don’t remember too much about this concert other than the fact that we played the Cat’s Cradle a lot of times and in a few different locations. Public Enemy had played the club a few nights before and blown up the P.A. and our sound man Kirk Miller was pissed. I thought it was great because Public Enemy are one of my favorite bands of all time and I was just happy to be playing on the same stage. Our touring party consisted of Me, Aaron, and Kirk Miller, our soundman and driver. Once we signed to Elektra we added a tour manager, Paul Monahan, who would stay with us for many years. Anyway, this is pretty typical of what we sounded like on a good night those first few tours

[princesscaspian]

I go through album phases and love one more than the others at any given time.. The Mollusk=winter breath, White Pepper=spring chicken, Quebec=stoned/naked/bittersweet, 12 Country=stooper sloppy tacos, Chocolate=foreplay>straightbuttfuck, Shinola=drunken rooftops, GodWSatan=aggressive blinking, Guava=highschool giggles, and so on and so forth.

:lol: "foreplay>straightbuttfuck"=rotfl

Ween produces melodies that have always been in your head but never gotten the air time, then write lyrics and sing them in ways you\'re almost glad you\'d never think of. It\'s fucking beautiful.

Def, never thought of it that way but i totally concur.

TOTALLY... and thats what gets me about albums like God Ween Satan and Pure Guava... how do tunes like springtheme, touch my tooter, and don\'t get 2 close *not* get stuck in your head? and GODWEENSATAN!!! ahhhh Nan, Marble Tulip Juicy Tree, Cold and Wet, FAT LENNY!!! DONT LAUGH I LOVE YOU!!!... AHHHHHh its fucking awesome!!! Gordo, dude, i want to like, shake you or something because i feel so passionately and agree with you *completely* !!


frankzappa you never seen that Transdermal Celebration video?! its on the Live In Chicago DVD in the extras!!

[Gfunk]

TOTALLY... and thats what gets me about albums like God Ween Satan and Pure Guava... how do tunes like springtheme, touch my tooter, and don\'t get 2 close *not* get stuck in your head? and GODWEENSATAN!!! ahhhh Nan, Marble Tulip Juicy Tree, Cold and Wet, FAT LENNY!!! DONT LAUGH I LOVE YOU!!!... AHHHHHh its fucking awesome!!! Gordo, dude, i want to like, shake you or something because i feel so passionately and agree with you *completely* !!

woah, take it ease.

[princesscaspian]

Favorite tune off each album:
Quebec-- The Argus
The Mollusk-- Cold Blows the Wind
White Pepper-- Back to Basom
Shinola-- Someday  ( : : : sigh : : : )
12 Golden-- Help Me Scrape the Mucus off my Brain
Chocolate-- Spinal Meningitis
GodWSatan-- Nan
Cucaracha-- Object
Pod-- Captain Fantasy (amazing tune you guys... the album is tough but this song is a GEM)
Guava-- Springtheme



Honorable mentions:
Argus--- not the quebec song, a totally different song on the \'rareties\' album
I Got To Put the Hammer Down - from The Friends EP
I\'ll Miss You - from the "Beautiful Girls" soundtrack
Stay Forever - absolutely impeccably beautiful song


.... ugh im gonna be up all night posting in this thread

TOTALLY... and thats what gets me about albums like God Ween Satan and Pure Guava... how do tunes like springtheme, touch my tooter, and don\'t get 2 close *not* get stuck in your head? and GODWEENSATAN!!! ahhhh Nan, Marble Tulip Juicy Tree, Cold and Wet, FAT LENNY!!! DONT LAUGH I LOVE YOU!!!... AHHHHHh its fucking awesome!!! Gordo, dude, i want to like, shake you or something because i feel so passionately and agree with you *completely* !!

woah, take it ease.

sorry gfunk, its hard for me to censor my passion.

[Gfunk]

just bustin balls caspian, i miss ya. p.s. of montreal = wicked gay. point me in the right direction for their songs that don\'t suck.

[princesscaspian]

lol i guess i never saw \'em as gay.... but i can see that. kevin barnes is pretty flamboyant by definition. where did you start? try Satanic Panic in the Attic.....  disconnect the dots, lysergic bliss, my british tour diary... also Sunlandic Twins...  Oslo in the Summertime, So Begins our Alabee, The Party\'s Crashing Us.... ?

[Gfunk]

lol i guess i never saw \'em as gay.... but i can see that. kevin barnes is pretty flamboyant by definition. where did you start? try Satanic Panic in the Attic.....  disconnect the dots, lysergic bliss, my british tour diary... also Sunlandic Twins...  Oslo in the Summertime, So Begins our Alabee, The Party\'s Crashing Us.... ?

hmmm lysergic bliss, eh? fair enough i\'ll look into those.

aaaanyways back to ween.

favorite songs per album:
quebeck - transdermal
chock & chee - a tear for eddie (hazel)
mollusk - she wanted to leave
white pepp - tie: flutes of chi / the grobe
shinola - the rift
12 golden - i\'m holding you
god ween satan - not sure yet
the pod - dr rock i think
guava - springtheme
friends ep - hammer down
la cucharacha -3 way tie blue baloon / woman & man / your party
favorite song not on an album (i think) - beacon light

[bezerker]

mollusk - she wanted to leave

ser tune

[FrankZappa]

I borrowed the live dvd from sleeper but never got to the extras. :shrug:

Favorite tune off each album:
Quebec-- The Argus
The Mollusk-- Cold Blows the Wind
White Pepper-- Back to Basom
Shinola-- Someday ( : : : sigh : : : )
12 Golden-- Help Me Scrape the Mucus off my Brain
Chocolate-- Spinal Meningitis
GodWSatan-- Nan
Cucaracha-- Object
Pod-- Captain Fantasy (amazing tune you guys... the album is tough but this song is a GEM)Guava-- Springtheme



Honorable mentions:
Argus--- not the quebec song, a totally different song on the \'rareties\' album
I Got To Put the Hammer Down - from The Friends EP
I\'ll Miss You - from the "Beautiful Girls" soundtrack
Stay Forever - absolutely impeccably beautiful song

That said, damn princess, get out of my head! Don\'t know if I have shinola. La cuccaracha I have to go with papa and call for your party. White pepper I think the whole album is so good I don\'t know if I could pick one song. need to listen again. On 12 great country mucus is #1 unless I\'m in a  "fuck you all I feel like belting out silly lyrics" mood, and then it\'s piss up a rope. Otherwise, you\'re list is spot on! :thumbsup:


aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh all this discussion I just want to listen to ween all day now and I\'m stuck at work. screw this, I\'m going out to the car to get my ipod.