Bootleg tape covers by Ryan Vandenbroeck ( rvandenbroeck@hotmail.com )
Subject: John and Peters review 5-12-98
From: "Kathy Falcone" ( kfb1@ix.netcom.com )
I see no one has mentioned the J&P show, so here goes....
It was my 7th Ween show I have seen. I have to say it was the fuckin
best one I've ever seen.
It was totally unannounced. It was billed as "Oh, Baby! Party with local
favorites" It was some babyshower thing or something. Anyway it was right in
the middle of the mini spring tour (after Buffalo before Kansas) I got
there about 7:30 pm (pretty late for getting into a little place like John
and Peters for a major band like Ween in their hometown) (the place holds
I'd have to say maybe a 100 people)
So we get there and we walk right into the outer bar and there's like maybe
20, 25 people there tops....
We're in like flinn no problem. Anyway I get the killer spot to set up my
microphones and I am so pumped. This place is like fuckin magical. Its like
they're playin in your basement. Chris Harford hits the stage about 9:30 or
so with all of Ween except Gener. They play for about half an hour then
Chris announces Ween and just switches places with Gene and we're on our way.
The show kicks off pretty typical of Mollusk tour stuff for about the
first 45 minutes or so....
Dancin in the Show, Pork roll, Buckingham Green, Take Me Away, Don't get 2
Close, Wavin my Dick, Dr.Rock, Pony, Golden Eel, HIV, then the show really
starts to take off (the whole time I keep yellin Marble Tulip, which I hadn't
seen in 3 years or so) (they can here anything in this place that you say to
them) ok where was I, oh yeah, next they did I Get a Little Taste of You,
Piss Up a Rope, Tender Situation, Voodoo Lady, The Mollusk, and then Gene
says their gonna do something they haven't done in a long time, you guessed
it Marble Tulip Juicy Tree ( it was fuckin incredible) the show was rockin
at this point, it just kept gettin better and better, next was Booze Me Up,
Mr. Richard Smoker, Puerto Rican Power,
Tick, Nan, Baby Bitch, Laura (also amazing), Blarney Stone (during Blarney
Stone, Glen was Playin his accordion and the boys kept taunting him to smash
it and he finally threw it into the drums)(pretty fuckin wacked) and then
they walked off.
It must of been about midnight, it looked like it was over. Claude came out
and was hangin out for a while and I asked him if that was it. He said he
pretty much thought it was. But we just kept hangin out. Finally, after
about 40 minutes, they came back for the encore. They did this old song
"Summertime" from the play "Porgy and Bess" with this guy Franciose who sang
it. (It was really out there) Then they did Hot for Teacher, then they sang
"Happy Birthday" to Bill Fowler, then they did that
Grateful Dead tune Stella Blue, after that Gene left the stage and they went
into LMLYP. They must have played it no lie about 30 minutes with all kinds
of New Orleans jams mixed into the whole thing.
Just when you thought it would never end Gener hits the stage to sing that
Pussy saga and it was finally over. It must've been 1:30 or so. I walked
out of there with my fuckin jaw hangin down. It just doesn't get any better
than that. Needless to say the tape came out great. I had one mike pointed
at the band and the other was pointed at the PA speaker behind me. Mostly
vocals were coming out of that speaker so the tape has this really great
stereo separation with vocals on one side and the band on the other. If
anyone is interested in this tape I'm into trading for it. I'm really
interested in the Buffalo show 5-10-98 or any other interesting thing from
this mini tour.
My name is Jon Bernstein and you can email me at kfb1@ix.netcom.com
"Little Birdy wants to be set free, weeeeee"
Kathy Falcone
kfb1@ix.netcom.com
http://www.thenexusalliance.com
Subject: ween tribute
From: "Chris Neri" ( cjneri@kear.tds.net )
hey, i'm not sure if i've emailed you about this, but loop disko records is
putting together a ween tribute tape. loop disko is a cassette only label
run out of a house in the boring town of sutton, new hampshire. anyway,
i'm hoping to get this tape done fairly soon, so if you'd possibly be able
to put something on your page about it, it would be much appreciated. if
you do, tell people to include band name, picture(optional), info on the
band and any other things they can think of. send contributions to: loop
disko / po box 458 / south sutton / nh / 03273
email me at: mattyv3@juno.com if you have any questions.
thanks alot,
matt
Subject: 1/18/98
From: Greenwean@aol.com
do you know anyone with the 1/18/98 show. i have some stuff to trade, but if
they have this show they probably have everything i have. my trading page is
at
http://members.aol.com/beanween/index.html
i will pay dearly for it.
Andrew
Help this dude out if you can - vein
Subject: remember me
From: wayne ( conno@webaxs.net )
Hey man how ya been... long time hey..well i do have a bit of news for youo.
I saw WEEN when they were in Australia in Melb both shows, the tickets were
expensive butn that what ya pay for quality i suppose. The show was awesome
as was the sound the played for a total of 1 hour 50 minutes and were just
great though deaner was pretty pissed, he couldnt play mutilated lips cause
he couldnt get it together, gener didnt seem that please so they went on to
play AYe Aye Aye the blarney stone, which id heard to near death since
years ago on some tape i traded, cant remember what one. my beloved brain
was indeed intoxicate the first night and very stoned the second, my bitch
arse friend found a way into the ween boys back stageand got some
photos(and no doubt fucked em both, cause she didnt stop smiling for at
least 3 days, get this, she even went back to there hotel room what a
pissa, fuck me girls can get away with so much, the bitch-she says "ohh
they are just so sweet the nicest boys, and deaner well he was just so
drunk and i was..."then she stop BITCH.)She got some fantastic photos of
them too. Ween played on the fucking radio and ive been trying to get my
friend to give me her dat tape(from the radio station) but she and i keep
forgeting its taken me this long to write to you, cause im so busy with
this crap arse thing that some bastard calls life oh well...two tears in a
bucket, mutha fuckit!!
Ive been finishing off my latest music shit 2 cd's called Young, dumb
scum(71.36mins)and The Real Spoil(73.24mins), and also just finished my web
site for them
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/1033
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/1229
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/1283
one of them should work, i never new that the damd things took up so much
time, bout 2 weeks and still in progress, though i think its done.
When i get the dat tape of the ween boys 30min interview and songs(they
even played the beatles hard days night i think it was that, then ill trade
with you if your still into stuff like that. well im gonna get going got
work to hand in tommorow and all i been doing is piss fartin around. hope
to hear from ya soon.
later mang
Wayne
Hi Wayne, yea I remember you, hope this helps you out, thanks for the info. -vein
Subject: ween live in '95
FROM: "Patrick Healy" ( Patrick@pbn.com )
I had only heard "Chocolate and Cheese" once or twice when I went to see
Ween play in the Fall of 1995 at the now-defunct Club Babyhead in Providence.
There were about 40 people in attendance, at the most. There was some guy
yelling to them that "Chocolate and Cheese is a good fuckin' album!" At the
time I thought this guy was a freak, but when I returned that night and listened
to C + C again on the headphones, I realized he was right. Dean heard the guy,
and politely said thanks. It's hard for me to remember exactly what they played,
because I wasn't too familiar with the material then. The song that I remember
the most was "The Blarney Stone". In backtracking and acquiring all the
previous albums, I was bummed to not find it on any of them. And when "The
Mollusk" came out I was happy. Other things I remember were "Doctor Rock",
which was as awesome as it always is live, and "Freedom of '76".
I think, for some reason, that this was their first tour with other musicians,
because Claude and whoever was playing the keyboards back then took a lot
of breaks whilest the brothers Ween played to pre-recorded drum machine
rhythms. Could it be "Flies on my Dick" that I am remembering? I stayed for
about two hours before my friend who I am forever grateful for persuading me
to go, wanted to leave. It was one of those nights where I walked out of the
place and wanted to tell the world what I had witnessed. And I did.
-Pat Healy
Subject: I've seen some shows, mang.
From: Galee Woods-Lemaire ( galee@ace.mv.com )
Lo, what's shakin? I've seen Ween three times. The first was in 96' I think,
when they played a free show at Tufts University. My brother goes there, so
me and two buddies drove down . Before we went to the show, we went to a
keg party, so we were all pretty shitty when we got there. The show was free
only if you had a college ID, but my brother's friends were working at the back
door and the let us in. So, we were hangin around in this hallway all drunk and
Gener walks by. Leon(my brother) starts talking to him, we shoot the shit for a
few, and then gener walked into a room. Standing in the hallway got boring so I
walked into the room and sat down next to Gene while he was strummin some
licks on accoustic. We also talked to some guy named Todd for a while. He was
one of their old friends from way back, and we all smoked a few bowls together.
We were just sittin around, waiting for the opening acts to finish and I got up and
grabbed a beer. Todd said "hey, how old are you?" "sixteen" I said. Todd, "Well,
I respect that. A man wants a beer and he just goes and takes it. But if you take
another one I'll have to hit you!" That was good enough for me.
When Ween went out on stage, we walked out with them. that was pretty cool.
Some chick was rubbing her ass against me most of the show, which is kind of
wierd because some dude said the same thing in one of your reviews. That was
my first Ween
show.
The other two were this past January in Providence and Boston.
The providence show was pretty good. Royal Fingerbowl opened, they're
awesome.
Ween played a good show, but they seemed a bit spent.
I have the exact song list. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise 'cause i wrote
em one by one! Here it goes...
Buckingham Green
Spinal Meningitis
Piss up a rope
Don't Get 2 close
Take Me Away
Waiving My Dick in The Wind
Fat Lenny
Mister Would You Please help my Pony
Dr. Rock
Golden Eel
Mollusk
Voodoo Lady
Pumpin 4 the Man
Mr. Richard Smoker
Frank (very well done)
(Chant intro{Fucking awesome})I Can't Put My Finger on It
a brief Molly(by request)
Stallion pt. 3
Oceanman
You fucked Up
Rip Van Winkle
Baby Bitch
Blarny Stone (w/ improv by Deaner)
Encore
AIDS
Freedom of '76
Captain Fantasy
Buenos Tardes
The boston show at the Roxy blew my shit and a half. They were obviosly
fired up and thy played the best show I've ever seen,
period.
Thanx.
Max Lemaire
PS the file enclosed is a drawing I did, you can use it for whatever as long
as you give me a little credit.
JIMMY WILSON GROUP REVIEW JULY, 10, 1997
Subject: Last night's jimmy wilson show
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:10:18 -0400
From: "PortiaMan"
awright, here it is.
my friends and i got there about 5 minutes before the
sound check started. there were 15 or 20 people
outide hanging around waiting for them to let us
in. forttunately, the soundcheck was loud enough
that we all heard it clearly from outside. they were
pretty much jamming, then, to my suprise, played
"now i'm freaking out". hadn't heard that one live
before(they played it durring the show too). they also
played "fire on the mountain". there were like 4
other songs of the sound check but i don't remember
them off hand. finally, they opened the doors and let
us all in. about half of the jimmy wilson group played
first. it was chris hartford, mean ween, and i don't
know the names of the rest of the guys. they called
themselves the bowel fuellers(i think). they played for
about an hour, belting out a few chris hartford songs,
some jimmy hendrix, and some other miscelaneous
songs. then ween joined the stage and went fucking
off. they started with "dancing in the show tonight"
and "th mollusk". they also played "the golden eel",
"buckingham green", and "blarney stone" off the
mollusk. "booze me up and get me hight", "now i'm
freaking out", "tender situation", "awesome sound".
all right, a pause here - "awesome sound" was
fucking nuclear. actually, the whole show was
nuclear. what a gathering of musical talent. they
played a bunch of other song, some chris hartford,
some covers, some down home jimmy wilson.
there's one song, i think it's either called "the rift"
or 'castle of ice" or something, that totally rips.
that was what they ended with. actually, after
debating for 15 minutes they cam back and jammed
out for another 20 minutes or so. to sum it all up,
this was some sick shit. every song was like a 20
minute version with unbelievable jamming piercing
through every second. they also accepted an
award for best live performance from the asbury
park music press. that was pretty fucking funny.
there is no band that is better live than the jimmy
wilson group.
did i say enough this time?
How incredibly unthinking of me. I left out a key
part of the show. at one point, mickey pulled a
rapper from poland that he had met up on stage
and he rapped in polish. it was histarical. they
played lmlyp and had this kid do the rap parts in
polish. and the chorus was in slide trombone.
pretty fucking awesome
Subject: The greatest day of my life
From Mark Schmidt ( chaos@webspan.net )
Hello!
The greatest day of my life was when I saw Ween play at Maxwell's in
Hoboken, NJ. It was just Gene and Dean and a whole lot of love. I was
right up in front, and was rocking out to their entire set. When it was
over, I snatched up the set list before anyone else could get their
grubby paws on it. When Gene and Dean were about to do an encore, I
yelled, at the top of my lungs, "Never Squeal"! To my utter delight,
they played my request. At the end of the night, I got them to autograph
my set list. They wrote, "Time is thine iniquity, mang." It was truly a
beautiful evening.
Sincerely,
Mark Schmidt,
Fan
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