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Post by know ID yuh on Jan 26, 2011 10:48:11 GMT -8
They played Seattle last night, and from what I hear they killed it. Drew, Deaner and Gener use 'brown' as an adjective to describe their craziest, trippiest, jaw-hanging-open-and-droolin'-est music and performances. Their classic live album 'Paintin the Town Brown' tells a story in the liner notes about how, around the time of 'Pure Guava', they aspired to become successful enough to buy a mist machine/cannon that would spray their audience with diarrhea when they would play 'Poopship Destroyer'. They never did... Not yet, anyway, but apparently they're still goin' on feelin' strong so there's still time for that. Moving onto the obvious question. Being the giant Ween-head you are, if you were blasted with shit tonight, would it be fantastic, disgusting, or just brown?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 26, 2011 10:50:08 GMT -8
If after twenty-five years they actually unloaded a shit cannon on the crowd at the Crystal Ballroom, I'd be ECSTATIC.
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Post by Drew on Jan 26, 2011 10:55:14 GMT -8
I saw them at Sasquatch last year of course. And I'm a fan, have all the albums. I just haven't been initiated into the mythology of Ween. I wish I could see them again.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 26, 2011 11:34:20 GMT -8
was bored in class this morning so I put together my schedule of shows. Keep in mind these are all Minneapolis shows but almost all of them are hitting the nw too
2-9 Radio Dept (7th street) 2-11 Best Coast/Wavves (varsity) 2-24 Baths (alternatively the smith westerns) (7th street) 2-25 Akron/family (cedar) 3-4 menomena (campus) 3-14 Elephant 6 (varsity) (alternatively mark kozolek at the cedar) 3-23 the dodos (cedar) 3-25 Rural alberta advantage (first ave) 4-3 Toro y Moi (7th street) 4-5 acid mother temple (7th street) 4-8 cults (7th street) 4-9 cut copy (first ave) 4-12 destroyer (cedar) 4-14 starfucker (triple rock) 4-25 Foals (varsity) 4-30 Zola Jesus (7th street)
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Post by stamper on Jan 26, 2011 11:49:43 GMT -8
you'll have to let me know how the Radio Dept show is... i really enjoy them, but not sure what they'd be like live.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 26, 2011 12:56:24 GMT -8
I'm not expecting to be blown away but it's like 10 bucks so it should be nice enough. I'll let you know though.
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Post by stickfigures on Jan 26, 2011 21:48:34 GMT -8
I just saw St Vincent for free today. Oh my it was amazing. So much better live than recorded. Gotta love Sundance Film Festival and the music cafe.
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Post by interstateeight on Jan 26, 2011 22:18:59 GMT -8
Holy shit, apparently there are perks to living in Utah.
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Post by stickfigures on Jan 26, 2011 22:55:01 GMT -8
Oh yeah. I laugh to because so many people come to the SFF and buy the credential passes. If your smart,you can see almost any movie you want, by just getting in the wait list line. If you get the the music cafe as they are opening, you don't have to have festival credentials either.
I did miss a screening of a film we wanted to see tonight (well we were too far back in the wait list line and they ran out of room in the theater) but it was worth it because once again I saw St Vincent for free.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 27, 2011 0:48:23 GMT -8
Stormy, how was muthafuckin' WEEN?
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 27, 2011 0:53:47 GMT -8
Fine, log off.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jan 27, 2011 8:07:14 GMT -8
Sorry Friendly, my mind was too melted to try and form a coherent sentence after Ween. FUCKING INCREDIBLE. They played for almost three hours and they sounded great. They played a lot of songs I never thought I would hear. I'll have to get HG to post the setlist because he was keeping track. The band was getting along great, there seemed to be moments of reconciliation between Gener and the rest of the band throughout the show. By far the most brown I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Deaner's solo on Voodoo Lady had me spent halfway through the show. And they played this slowed down and amazingly, awesomely creepy Spinal Menengitis. Then they closed with Heart Shaped Box. I am on my way to work now and my ears are still ringing and my brain is still in a puddle.
So, long story short, Ween was SO RAD.
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Post by Lump on Jan 27, 2011 8:13:42 GMT -8
Dammit, I wanna see Ween again now.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 27, 2011 8:21:01 GMT -8
I spent all night keeping track of the setlist and then I didn't click 'Save Note' on my phone, and then it ran out of batteries and I lost it. Shit.
Stinky Pink pretty much go it right, though - brownest Ween EVER, ever. Opened with 'The HIV Song' and then did an INTENSE 'Golden Eel'. Covers of Bowie's 'Let's Dance', Neil Young's 'Old Man', and yeah they closed with 'Heart Shaped Box' which was awesome.
Best 'Voodoo Lady' I've ever seen, definitely the best 'Spinal Meningitis' I've ever seen. Bruising solo on 'Buckingham Green', a way far-out 'Polka Dot Tail' of all things, Gener seemed to particularly enjoy 'Back to Basom'.
Interestingly, my favorite part of the evening was 'Ice Castles'. Like Stormy said, after the shit that went down in BC the other night, it was clear that the band was working some shit out. Each member of the band took the opportunity to get right up in Gener's face over the course of the show and looked him right in the eyes. Gener moved around the band and spoke with each of them frequently between numbers. But I was saying after the show how I got the sense that each of their songs really means something to them, and I think the greatness of a Ween show is that they build setlists that reflect their individual and group moods; I think 'Ice Castles' is their apology song. It's a good one for the whole band to jam on, but at the center of it is that beautiful guitar duet between Gener and Deaner. They stood facing each other two feet apart and played a slow, deliberate version of it and they never took their eyes off each other. I swear to god it looked like make-up sex, it was really an amazing moment.
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Post by Lump on Jan 27, 2011 8:30:12 GMT -8
This is almost too heart-warming.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jan 27, 2011 8:35:15 GMT -8
Also I almost got kicked out during Bananas and Blow for smoking a joint. The guy had his hand on my shoulder and I just dropped it on the ground and started pantomiming frantically to hold him off/confuse him and then he got distracted by a guy behind us with a joint. So I just turned around and started rocking out again and the guy just took off somewhere else. Good times.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 27, 2011 8:38:54 GMT -8
Then after the show, she totally found the joint on the ground. So fuck you, dude at the Crystal Ballroom who goes around stealing joints.
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Post by Lump on Jan 27, 2011 8:45:04 GMT -8
Do they play Waving My Dick in the Wind much? I know I've seen a few videos of it, but didn't know if it was a rare occurrence.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 27, 2011 8:51:15 GMT -8
I've seen them do 'Wavin My Dick' a couple times. Deaner says often that 'Mollusk' is his favorite Ween album, and is the only one he ever goes back and listens to, so their sets are usually pretty 'Mollusk' heavy (which I TOTALLY support, def. my favorite Ween album too).
'Golden Eel' was #1 on my list of songs that I wanted to see them play; after they played it last night, the only two songs off 'Mollusk' I've never heard them do are 'Cold Blows the Wind' and 'Pink Eye (On My Leg)'.
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Post by Lump on Jan 27, 2011 8:54:55 GMT -8
Bitchin', Mollusk be my favorite as well. I just love "Wavin' My Dick" though. Somethin' about that song.
"I'm doin' the best I can, goddamnit!"
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