Subject: ween review
From: "Kris Lucius" ( failedabortion1@hotmail.com )
here is a contribution to your fabulous reviews page: Awww, thanks
may 9 Newport Music Hall Columbus OHIO
Excuse me if I get too "deep" here, but I thought this was worth
sharing. On May 9, 1994, I was 16 and I got in a car wreck that put me
in a hospital for two weeks and damn near killed me. On May 9, 1998, an
old friend showed up at my house at college, in from out of town for a
concert looking for a place to crash. I knew he liked all this weird
hippie music, something I don't really dig. As we got drunk on my front
porch he kept telling me how much I would love this band he was going to
see, ween. I just smiled and said "oh", planning on staying in that
night. He kept telling me I'd love it-- "They aren't like the dead or
phish I swear." I still didn't think that I, my fave bands being the
pixies, dead milkmen, rev. horton heat, tmbg, etc., would get into it.
Finally, he offered to pay for my ticket if I didn't like it. Now,
being securely drunk, I happily took his proposition. I won't ramble
any more, but I'll just say I payed him back for the ticket halfway
through the show. Now, a little over a month later, I have 4 ween cds
and I've learned about 30 of their songs on the guitar. I hope they
keep it going for years to come, because I have alot of years of not
listening to them to make up for.
-Kris
failedabortion1@hotmail.com
Subject: May 9th at the Newport
From: "Heide L. McClure" ( ladibugg@sprintmail.com )
I want to start off by saying that this was my first ween show, and it
was definatly not my last. I was for the entire show, plowed onto the
front of the stage which I must say, minus the plowing part was just
where I wanted to be. I payed my $3 to get in early so I would be right
up front, and was determined to stay there. I did, even though I payed
for it the next day with bruises everywhere. I can not express enough
how out of control the brut's in the mosh were, I got kicked in the face
many times as people scrambled to get on the stage to stagedive. Ween
has been my favorite band for about 4years now and I struggled at points
to enjoy the show because I was being literally crushed by some bald
Arnold Schwartzenager wannabe. If you were close to the front you know
who I mean. Anyway Im a big girl and I can take care of myself, I just
want to say thank you to the nice guys who stood around me and kind of
protected me, fuck off to all the insane assholes that were so fucked up
they came to fight not to enjoy. I just hope that Ween will come back
and give Columbus another chance. I'm sorry that I did'nt know they
played Pittsburgh because I used to work at the club they played.
Now this has nothing really to do with anything, but maybe a fellow
Ween enthusiast will appriciate this, I came to this show with two
extra tickets which I obviously could'nt scalp because I went in at 6:30
and did'nt want to lose my front row spot, so I went to the ticket
booth to leave the tickets for my roomate in case she got off work
early, and waiting in line to buy tickets was the very person who I
first heard Ween with, an ex-boyfriend from 4 years ago. I've lived out
of state and have not seen him for 4yrs. Any way I gave him the two
tickets. I thought that was a huge coincidence, since were both from
about an hour and a half away. Weird huh?
That's it Im done rambling. Thanks for reading this, see you at the
next show.
I LOVE WEEN!
Subject: WABLIN' HANKS' STUPID WIFE!!!!!!!!
From: AngryBill3@aol.com
we took a road trip to columbi to see the MANGS! had a good time at the
show...talk about ENERGY! so anyway, we drank like alot of beer (among other
things) and saw old friends. so the cool part of the night (besides the
obvious) WABLIN' HANKS' stupid wife got smashed in the head by a flying combat
boot...she then passed out so we had to go. did the show get shut down or
something? there seemed to be alot of people outside when we drove passed.
also, wablin noticed that someone had gotten their ear bitten off and a cop
beating up the filthy bum who did it...he kept slammin his head into the wall
; tellin him to shut the hell up. he jussed sat back and laughed. hey ween,
dont be discouraged by columbi...theyre nice people who obviosly like your
music (maybe a little too much if thats possible) i guess it was too much
energy for an inside show.oh well, gotta go. take till later and toke it
easy...by the way, stella blue kicked ass...thanks for playin it
your mangs,
ANGRY BILL
and WABLIN' HANKS
p.s. travis trip played at the horseshoe that night....YEEEEEEE-HAAAAWWWWW!
Here is email #2 -vein
Subject: a couple of things by wablin hanks
From: AngryBill3@aol.com
back in clevo just before halloWEEN, i saw ween play. but before all that i
took some mushrooms, 10 hits of uncle sid, a whole bunch of speed, and smoked
about an ounce of kind nodgies. the crowd melted and i dont remember anything
else...was it a good show?
then i saw them in columbi. i saw DEA officers so i didnt do anything. the
show was great, but the crowd did not melt. it was also angry bills first
show. i was sober, but one really cool thing happened afterwards...someone got
thrown out of the hotel window right above ours. since the clevo show, there
have been certain side-effects. i piss my pants and forget who i am every half
hour. bye
angry bill and wablin' hanks
(i think)
From: "bryan lunsford" ( boomjamcountry@yahoo.com )
Subject: Last night in Columbus at Newport
Alright.........
For those of you who attended the Newport Ween show and felt the need to
mosh and stagedive and all that other lame shit, thanks you stupid
motherfuckers. You ruined the show for everyone. Ween didn't play half as
long as they should've because of your dumb asses. They even changed their
set because of you morons. For those of you reading this who were not
there, these fuckups were moshing and stagediving to "Mister Would You
Please Help My Pony" for Christ's sake. What the fuck, what the fuck, what
the fuck. Was it because one of their Epitaph bands wasn't in town? I just
don't understand idiocy like that. A couple of my friends were in
Louisville the night before, and they played twice as long. They also
played B-sides like "Puerto Rican Power" and "Booze Me Up And Get Me High".
For the Columbus show you could tell they were really thinking we were a
stupid crowd, even though it was just the 10% of jackasses that felt the
need to turn the show into fucking Woodstock '94.
Oh, and to all you who were there and trying to just chill and watch the
show, thanks for doing so. Too bad jocks and fuckups are learning about
Ween (how I will never know).
Rock on!!!
From: shindig666@aol.com (Shindig666)
Subject: Re: Last night in Columbus at Newport
I thought the Newport show was great. I'm no jock or frat boy, there's noone I
like on epitaph. I'm also not personally into moshing or stagediving but as
far as that kindof stuff goes it was a pretty cool crowd. I didn't notice any
brutes, no elbows, fists or knees flying. Just good natured shoving and
bumping. There was alot of stagediving, but they started tossing those people
out at some point. Did that make you happy? What's the last "big" rock show
you went to where people didn't do that stuff? People were having fun, the
energy was high and ween seemed to be enjoying themselves. They played for
over 3 hours. If anything the band seemed a little bemused if not amused by
the enthusiasm they were greeted with.
gary