Wednesday, January 30, 2008
"Take me away to some other land. Thank you people."
Ween
Monday January 28th - Athens - Georgia Theater
Tuesday January 29th - Atlanta - Tabernacle
Holy hot shit. What a couple of bitching days. 6+ hours worth of music & 60 songs later, I am a better man. Ween destroyed. I mean absolutely fucking leaking brain matter destroyed. Georgia is destroyed.
Started off cutting out of work around 3:30 on Monday and driving straight to Athens. First stop was at Nick's Satisfactory tshirt shop. His shit is completely legit now - he has this huge octopus that spits out amazing shirts. Met up with him and picked up the UGA boog shirts and had a chat. Then straight down to the Caledonia to meet Griggs to start the Forum happyhour. Alan Corey and Sadia came by for a drink before borders, and so did zeig, ian, and mb. A BUNCH of people showed up and the ween mix was jamming. Really had a great time meeting folks and selling those shirts. They went over yall, really well. By the time Jon and I walked up to the theater (wearing them of fucking course!) you would have thought we were the band. Everyone was freaking the fuck out. I had people hugging me, wanting to buy 10 of them. I told everyone who wanted one to meet me outside afterwards. Bought the poster for the show (which is fucking insane) and quickly ran it back to my car. Got back and JC had 2 cold ones waiting. We decided to jam canned beer b/c god knows that Theater keg beer will cause a fungus in your kahonkis. Called Griggs, Kevlane, and MB who were waiting at the Caledonia and told them to get the fuck up here it was about to be on. Unfortunately didn't see Griggs or KevLane the rest of the night, it was so packed.
9:15 the band rolls on and the place fucking erupts. They are all in a really fucking good mood (except the drummer claude who had the flu) and were really giving us one to remember. The set list was incredible, one of the best i've seen hands down. The other cool thing was Jon (who has a moderate amount of ween stuff) knew all but 4 songs. So the average listener had a great jam too.
Athens Setlist:
1. Exactly Where I'm At
2. She Wanted to Leave
3. HIV
4. Spinal
5. Bananas and Blow
6. Learnin to Live
7. Voodoo Lady
8. Party
9. Take Me Away
10. Even if You Don't
11. Waving my Dick in the Wind
12. Touch my Tooter
13. Pandy Fackler
14. Buckingham Green
15. Bare Hands
16. Final Alarm
17. Mutilated Lips
18. Stroker Ace
19. Gabrielle
20. Johnny on the Spot
21. Did You See Me
22. The Mollusk
23. Frank
24. Booze Me Up
25. Fat Lenny
*Encore*
26. Licking the Palm
27. Mushroom Festival in Hell
28. You Fucked Up
29. Fiesta
30. Blarney Stone
This setlist was brown as hell. Face melters. Deaner was bent over doing his hunchback solos half the show. So many crazy ones in here. Those that immediately stick out are Touch My Tooter, PANDY!, Buckingham Green, among others. This run: Stroker Ace > Gabriel > I'll Be Your Johnny On The Spot about killed me. Jon and I were going fucking crazy. Johnny was over the top as hell and they hadn't really even started with the browness. The rest of the set was WILD. People moshing, hippies jamming, the dudes in front of us who were TRIPPING BALLS were doing some killer interpretative dancing. At one point JC was running to get more brews (we broke by the way and started with the big keg beers) and the 2 dudes in front of us turn around to me and hold up a Visine bottle and ask me "is it time?" - i yelled, "WHAT IS THAT?!"...."Liquid mescalin, BRAH!"...."uh, no im jammin fine brah"... Then later the guy asked me if i knew where we could score some coke. Maybe it was my CB jacket? who knows. Flip and i are buzzin completely as they are closing the show and finish the set with one of the most rousing versions of "Blarney Stone" EVER maybe. Everyone was hugging and swaying and getting their balls punched. Incredible. Didnt want it to end but Claude the drummer looked like death. Show ends and we are hammered, yet jam jam jammin. I walk out front and there were a bunch of poeple waiting to get shirts.
We heard the band might be hanging at GA Bar so we went to the Globe first for a drink and met up with a friend of one of Ween's managers and had a beer waiting for some time to pass before going to the GA Bar. Dude was cool as hell and i bet he thought Jon and i were totally retarded b/c we were krunkly yammering on and on about the show. WE walk out of the Globe and run into this dude who was freaking out to get one of the shirts. FREAKING OUT. He and his friend follow us down to the caledonia parking. The friend of the dude ended up being a total fucking DOUCHE. He got into it with Jon about what sized dress shirt he wore as we're standing with my trunk open. A few more big ass burley dudes (gentle giants) come down and buy up a few of the XXL ones while this kid is being a punk as bitch. We close up shop and head to get a cab home b/c we dont want to die. VAN cab pulls over and fuck 2 other people already in there, we get in anyway (little did we know). This girl and a guy (who was face down passed out leaning on her) were in the seat in front of us and Flip and I had to call Ice to give him some fucking updates. We were drunkenly recounting the night (in CNN talk) when i was telling ice about how the dudes in front of us at the show were hilarious stoners and wanted cocaine. The dude who was passed out starts swaying and leans back to Flip and says something like "you dont know shit about cocaine!" and Flip says "what the fuck do you know about me!?" then the dude starts to swing his arm back like he was taking the worst drunken swing at someone ever. Flip puts his hand on the dude's arm to stop him and then he starts pushing back on the seat and getting pissed off. Rising up out of the seat and trying to fight us all the while his bitch ass girlfriend was yelling at us. Ice said it sounded like we were in Baghdad over the phone with all the yelling. The cab pulls over and the driver starts yelling too. The bitch then says "they started it"...i thought flip was going to mind whip her. Everyone calms down and within 1 second the dude had passed out again. What a fucking piece of shit. I think we had some choice words for the asshole as he almost fell out of the van. Get home to Flip's safely and head right to bed to crash. Exhausted.
Next morning we get up and I get to JAMMMMMMMMMMM some new Flip jams. Mind scorch #47 in the past 24 hours. Woah, seriously. 4 horse strong. Meet up with my lady (who has a job going on in ATH) for lunch and then head back to ATL to catch a nap before heading to Ice's for the preshow jam. Get to ice's at 5:15 and he, AJ, and Ayers are already there jamming. Ayers brought the funnel. Its on. Ween jamming the stereo and we have a killer taco bell prejam at the Chardonnay Cooldown. SM and Laura make their way over and we are outta there. We head over to SIDEBAR which is a bar around the corner where more of the Forum folks were meeting up and was also where i told people i would meet them with the shirts. Walk in and blam sold like 13 shirts right off the bat. I am nearly out of them btw. Met some really really cool people. We were running kinda late so i had to jet quickly then ice and i had to run all the way back to the car to drop off the box of shirts as the rest of the crew heads in. We get back, no line to get in which was cool and grab a brew and walk in. At this point the place is half empty, but its usually a late crowd so it was nice to find a spot (right in front of the sound board up against the railing) and just chill. Ran into this guy Johnny who has been documented by the band as their biggest fan. He lives in Memphis and has been to every show since like '97, that was up until the Durham show this year - he was sick as a dog and he missed Durham, M Beach, and Athens. Anyway he is so close to the band that he rides in the bus with them and shit, bros. He had been calling me to get one of the UGA Boog shirts so when i introduced myself he was excited to see me. I gave him his shirt and 2 for Gene and Dean. Also met up with Tim at this point to pop his Ween cherry. Oh what a glorious night to do that. SM and I waxed poetic about the first time she saw them her freshman year at the 40 watt. Laura now has also seen them 2 times and had a great time. She really is a loving wife for putting up with my penchant for bands who play epic brutal live shows. Between Ween and GBV she's seen some barnburners with me, and i love her for it!
The band hits the stage around 8:10 and the world is right. Atlanta is a funny place for Ween. They have had some of their really craziest shows here but after the awesomeness of Athens i didnt know how it was going to roll esp with Claude being sick. But what the fuck to I know? The show was up to the hammjamm from the night before if not ready to hammjamm more. FUCKING INTENSE SHOW.
Atlanta Setlist:
1. ICE CASTLES
2. AIDS
3. GOLDEN EEL
4. THE STALLION PT. 3 (FUCKING AMAZING!!!)
5. BANANAS AND BLOW
6. LEARNIN' TO LOVE
7. VOODOO LADY
8. ZOLOFT
9. TRANSDERMAL CELEBRATION
10. TAKE ME AWAY
11. STROKER ACE
12. OBJECT
13. BUCKINGHAM GREEN
14. WITH MY OWN BARE HANDS
15. YOUR PARTY
16. LAURA (woah!)
17. PISS UP A ROPE
18. DON'T SQUEAL ON THE PUSHER (LONG DRUM SOLO)
19. TOUCH MY TOOTER
20. MISTER WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP MY PONY
21. WOMAN AND MAN
22. ARABIC CHANT / CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT
23. OCEAN MAN
24. THE MOLLUSK
25. EL CAMINO
26. BUENOS TARDES (WTF. FREAKIN')
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27. FIESTA
28. PUERTO RICAN POWER
29. DR. ROCK (!!!!!!!!!!)
30. SOMEDAY
Out of the two nights they only played 11 of the same songs both nights. Wow, there's something to be said for that. They were on fire, totally ripping and by the time it got to Transdermal...they had us in the palm of their hand. The show probably sold out b/c it was so fucking crowded. I went to go to the bathroom and make a beer run and it was almost impossible to get back. I was that dick walking through the crowd pushing my way back up, which meant that was the only beer run I tried b/c i dint want to jeopardize not getting back in our spot. Oh well. Woman & Man, fuck. Pony, fuck. Cant Put My Finger On It, FUCK!!! "Are you surprised when I touch the dwarf inside?" STALLION, TRIPLE FUCK! It was just a fucking jam session through and through. Saw a bunch of songs i have never seen before which was cool and it looks from the sound of things that these two shows might have been 2 of the best of the tour so far! Hell yes. When they started the closing number Dean rang one chord out that started like the first chord to one of my ace jams "Fluffy" which i have never seen live. This is the song i could easily see me sheding some man tears during (esp after all this recent dog drama). It ended up being the song "Someday" which was almost as epic, but not really. Fluffy probably would have put it over the top.
Anyway fucking insane coupla days. Loved every minute of it, even the Theater hangover yesterday. Best Ween shows i've seen, and I feel really lucky to be able to catch one of my favorite bands 2 nights in a row and having them deliver a completely different set both nights. This band is the real deal, i love them. Ok now i'll stop writing about them for a while, promise. i know you guys are probably sick of it. DEAL WITH IT! I'm just jammin'...
WeenMonday January 28th - Athens - Georgia Theater
Tuesday January 29th - Atlanta - Tabernacle
Holy hot shit. What a couple of bitching days. 6+ hours worth of music & 60 songs later, I am a better man. Ween destroyed. I mean absolutely fucking leaking brain matter destroyed. Georgia is destroyed.
Started off cutting out of work around 3:30 on Monday and driving straight to Athens. First stop was at Nick's Satisfactory tshirt shop. His shit is completely legit now - he has this huge octopus that spits out amazing shirts. Met up with him and picked up the UGA boog shirts and had a chat. Then straight down to the Caledonia to meet Griggs to start the Forum happyhour. Alan Corey and Sadia came by for a drink before borders, and so did zeig, ian, and mb. A BUNCH of people showed up and the ween mix was jamming. Really had a great time meeting folks and selling those shirts. They went over yall, really well. By the time Jon and I walked up to the theater (wearing them of fucking course!) you would have thought we were the band. Everyone was freaking the fuck out. I had people hugging me, wanting to buy 10 of them. I told everyone who wanted one to meet me outside afterwards. Bought the poster for the show (which is fucking insane) and quickly ran it back to my car. Got back and JC had 2 cold ones waiting. We decided to jam canned beer b/c god knows that Theater keg beer will cause a fungus in your kahonkis. Called Griggs, Kevlane, and MB who were waiting at the Caledonia and told them to get the fuck up here it was about to be on. Unfortunately didn't see Griggs or KevLane the rest of the night, it was so packed.
9:15 the band rolls on and the place fucking erupts. They are all in a really fucking good mood (except the drummer claude who had the flu) and were really giving us one to remember. The set list was incredible, one of the best i've seen hands down. The other cool thing was Jon (who has a moderate amount of ween stuff) knew all but 4 songs. So the average listener had a great jam too.
Athens Setlist:
1. Exactly Where I'm At
2. She Wanted to Leave
3. HIV
4. Spinal
5. Bananas and Blow
6. Learnin to Live
7. Voodoo Lady
8. Party
9. Take Me Away
10. Even if You Don't
11. Waving my Dick in the Wind
12. Touch my Tooter
13. Pandy Fackler
14. Buckingham Green
15. Bare Hands
16. Final Alarm
17. Mutilated Lips
18. Stroker Ace
19. Gabrielle
20. Johnny on the Spot
21. Did You See Me
22. The Mollusk
23. Frank
24. Booze Me Up
25. Fat Lenny
*Encore*
26. Licking the Palm
27. Mushroom Festival in Hell
28. You Fucked Up
29. Fiesta
30. Blarney Stone
This setlist was brown as hell. Face melters. Deaner was bent over doing his hunchback solos half the show. So many crazy ones in here. Those that immediately stick out are Touch My Tooter, PANDY!, Buckingham Green, among others. This run: Stroker Ace > Gabriel > I'll Be Your Johnny On The Spot about killed me. Jon and I were going fucking crazy. Johnny was over the top as hell and they hadn't really even started with the browness. The rest of the set was WILD. People moshing, hippies jamming, the dudes in front of us who were TRIPPING BALLS were doing some killer interpretative dancing. At one point JC was running to get more brews (we broke by the way and started with the big keg beers) and the 2 dudes in front of us turn around to me and hold up a Visine bottle and ask me "is it time?" - i yelled, "WHAT IS THAT?!"...."Liquid mescalin, BRAH!"...."uh, no im jammin fine brah"... Then later the guy asked me if i knew where we could score some coke. Maybe it was my CB jacket? who knows. Flip and i are buzzin completely as they are closing the show and finish the set with one of the most rousing versions of "Blarney Stone" EVER maybe. Everyone was hugging and swaying and getting their balls punched. Incredible. Didnt want it to end but Claude the drummer looked like death. Show ends and we are hammered, yet jam jam jammin. I walk out front and there were a bunch of poeple waiting to get shirts.
We heard the band might be hanging at GA Bar so we went to the Globe first for a drink and met up with a friend of one of Ween's managers and had a beer waiting for some time to pass before going to the GA Bar. Dude was cool as hell and i bet he thought Jon and i were totally retarded b/c we were krunkly yammering on and on about the show. WE walk out of the Globe and run into this dude who was freaking out to get one of the shirts. FREAKING OUT. He and his friend follow us down to the caledonia parking. The friend of the dude ended up being a total fucking DOUCHE. He got into it with Jon about what sized dress shirt he wore as we're standing with my trunk open. A few more big ass burley dudes (gentle giants) come down and buy up a few of the XXL ones while this kid is being a punk as bitch. We close up shop and head to get a cab home b/c we dont want to die. VAN cab pulls over and fuck 2 other people already in there, we get in anyway (little did we know). This girl and a guy (who was face down passed out leaning on her) were in the seat in front of us and Flip and I had to call Ice to give him some fucking updates. We were drunkenly recounting the night (in CNN talk) when i was telling ice about how the dudes in front of us at the show were hilarious stoners and wanted cocaine. The dude who was passed out starts swaying and leans back to Flip and says something like "you dont know shit about cocaine!" and Flip says "what the fuck do you know about me!?" then the dude starts to swing his arm back like he was taking the worst drunken swing at someone ever. Flip puts his hand on the dude's arm to stop him and then he starts pushing back on the seat and getting pissed off. Rising up out of the seat and trying to fight us all the while his bitch ass girlfriend was yelling at us. Ice said it sounded like we were in Baghdad over the phone with all the yelling. The cab pulls over and the driver starts yelling too. The bitch then says "they started it"...i thought flip was going to mind whip her. Everyone calms down and within 1 second the dude had passed out again. What a fucking piece of shit. I think we had some choice words for the asshole as he almost fell out of the van. Get home to Flip's safely and head right to bed to crash. Exhausted.
Next morning we get up and I get to JAMMMMMMMMMMM some new Flip jams. Mind scorch #47 in the past 24 hours. Woah, seriously. 4 horse strong. Meet up with my lady (who has a job going on in ATH) for lunch and then head back to ATL to catch a nap before heading to Ice's for the preshow jam. Get to ice's at 5:15 and he, AJ, and Ayers are already there jamming. Ayers brought the funnel. Its on. Ween jamming the stereo and we have a killer taco bell prejam at the Chardonnay Cooldown. SM and Laura make their way over and we are outta there. We head over to SIDEBAR which is a bar around the corner where more of the Forum folks were meeting up and was also where i told people i would meet them with the shirts. Walk in and blam sold like 13 shirts right off the bat. I am nearly out of them btw. Met some really really cool people. We were running kinda late so i had to jet quickly then ice and i had to run all the way back to the car to drop off the box of shirts as the rest of the crew heads in. We get back, no line to get in which was cool and grab a brew and walk in. At this point the place is half empty, but its usually a late crowd so it was nice to find a spot (right in front of the sound board up against the railing) and just chill. Ran into this guy Johnny who has been documented by the band as their biggest fan. He lives in Memphis and has been to every show since like '97, that was up until the Durham show this year - he was sick as a dog and he missed Durham, M Beach, and Athens. Anyway he is so close to the band that he rides in the bus with them and shit, bros. He had been calling me to get one of the UGA Boog shirts so when i introduced myself he was excited to see me. I gave him his shirt and 2 for Gene and Dean. Also met up with Tim at this point to pop his Ween cherry. Oh what a glorious night to do that. SM and I waxed poetic about the first time she saw them her freshman year at the 40 watt. Laura now has also seen them 2 times and had a great time. She really is a loving wife for putting up with my penchant for bands who play epic brutal live shows. Between Ween and GBV she's seen some barnburners with me, and i love her for it!
The band hits the stage around 8:10 and the world is right. Atlanta is a funny place for Ween. They have had some of their really craziest shows here but after the awesomeness of Athens i didnt know how it was going to roll esp with Claude being sick. But what the fuck to I know? The show was up to the hammjamm from the night before if not ready to hammjamm more. FUCKING INTENSE SHOW.
Atlanta Setlist:
1. ICE CASTLES
2. AIDS
3. GOLDEN EEL
4. THE STALLION PT. 3 (FUCKING AMAZING!!!)
5. BANANAS AND BLOW
6. LEARNIN' TO LOVE
7. VOODOO LADY
8. ZOLOFT
9. TRANSDERMAL CELEBRATION
10. TAKE ME AWAY
11. STROKER ACE
12. OBJECT
13. BUCKINGHAM GREEN
14. WITH MY OWN BARE HANDS
15. YOUR PARTY
16. LAURA (woah!)
17. PISS UP A ROPE
18. DON'T SQUEAL ON THE PUSHER (LONG DRUM SOLO)
19. TOUCH MY TOOTER
20. MISTER WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP MY PONY
21. WOMAN AND MAN
22. ARABIC CHANT / CAN'T PUT MY FINGER ON IT
23. OCEAN MAN
24. THE MOLLUSK
25. EL CAMINO
26. BUENOS TARDES (WTF. FREAKIN')
--------------------
27. FIESTA
28. PUERTO RICAN POWER
29. DR. ROCK (!!!!!!!!!!)
30. SOMEDAY
Out of the two nights they only played 11 of the same songs both nights. Wow, there's something to be said for that. They were on fire, totally ripping and by the time it got to Transdermal...they had us in the palm of their hand. The show probably sold out b/c it was so fucking crowded. I went to go to the bathroom and make a beer run and it was almost impossible to get back. I was that dick walking through the crowd pushing my way back up, which meant that was the only beer run I tried b/c i dint want to jeopardize not getting back in our spot. Oh well. Woman & Man, fuck. Pony, fuck. Cant Put My Finger On It, FUCK!!! "Are you surprised when I touch the dwarf inside?" STALLION, TRIPLE FUCK! It was just a fucking jam session through and through. Saw a bunch of songs i have never seen before which was cool and it looks from the sound of things that these two shows might have been 2 of the best of the tour so far! Hell yes. When they started the closing number Dean rang one chord out that started like the first chord to one of my ace jams "Fluffy" which i have never seen live. This is the song i could easily see me sheding some man tears during (esp after all this recent dog drama). It ended up being the song "Someday" which was almost as epic, but not really. Fluffy probably would have put it over the top.
Anyway fucking insane coupla days. Loved every minute of it, even the Theater hangover yesterday. Best Ween shows i've seen, and I feel really lucky to be able to catch one of my favorite bands 2 nights in a row and having them deliver a completely different set both nights. This band is the real deal, i love them. Ok now i'll stop writing about them for a while, promise. i know you guys are probably sick of it. DEAL WITH IT! I'm just jammin'...
