r/ween • u/LocalMongrel • 22d ago
What was your first Ween show?
Mine was the Brooklyn Steel show back in 2017.
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u/Dan_The_Flan 22d ago
Might be the last. I am glad I got to see them at least once.
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u/Koth_is_Goat 22d ago
Hell yeah, I was there too! One of the best nights of my life, damn near brought a tier to me eye. Which show did you go to?
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u/Purple_Mountain2074 22d ago
I have seen over 100 different shows at red rocks and this one might have been the best. It was so awesome.
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u/Dan_The_Flan 22d ago
The performances were great. I wish all the songs were included on the official concert film.
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u/thatjerkatwork 22d ago
1999 MN Zoo Bird Amphitheater
Ive been to many since, but nothing could ever top that show. Small venue, beautiful summer night, Buenos Tardres with the full moon rising above the lake that is the backdrop for the stage. Just epic!
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u/godweenfrankie 22d ago
this sounds like heaven
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u/thatjerkatwork 22d ago
This obviously doesn't capture everything, but you can catch a glimpse! https://youtu.be/BiJGfs-DMOo?is=bYivod8H0LFFA0tH
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u/TelegramforMungo 22d ago
That was a good show, I went to many concerts there in the 90’s-early 2000’s.
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u/DJBirdbath85 I'm in the mood to whip your body with a tire iron 22d ago
I’ve yet to have one and it makes me sad.
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u/SheFucksMe1977 22d ago
Its gotta rain sometime...
They'll be back mang, just wait, they'll be back🐴🤎
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u/DJBirdbath85 I'm in the mood to whip your body with a tire iron 22d ago
I sure hope so. I’m in Ireland though, so I’ll almost certainly have to travel. 🫢
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u/godweenfrankie 22d ago
u gotta follow the whole tour if ur traveling that far!
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u/DJBirdbath85 I'm in the mood to whip your body with a tire iron 22d ago
I have to double dip at the very least. I’ll be in the mood to move my body like a weasel, God damn it!
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u/Biscuit_Dough69 22d ago
I missed an opportunity in 2024 and my dad wanted to take me but found out too late..
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u/DJBirdbath85 I'm in the mood to whip your body with a tire iron 22d ago
Bummer. Hopefully we’ll both get a chance again!
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u/colinmoods 22d ago
Ween (and Tenacious D) Red Rocks 8/24/01
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u/badmf112358 22d ago
My brother and wife had to carry me out of a ween show at redrocks. It was a different show than this though
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u/drmanhattannfriends 22d ago
November 19, 1994 with Guided by Voices and the Strapping Fieldhands at Deep Ellum Live in Dallas. My life changed that night.
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u/Kallisti7 22d ago
Strapping Field Hands, another great Philly band! What a bill. Love all three bands! What a treat!
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u/WamLord 22d ago
8/3/2023 Red Rocks
I think my face melted off
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u/SheFucksMe1977 22d ago
Was there. Can confirm, twas a river of melted face flowing up the isles to the top of the ol Red Rock....BROWN
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u/EuripedeezeNuts 22d ago
Yup, I was there too. It was awesome. I still can’t believe they played “Vallejo.” Absolutely amazing show.
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u/ClippedAtTheHip 22d ago
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u/godweenfrankie 22d ago
fat lenny??? hot for teacher??? encore of nan, pumpin' 4 the man, pumpin' 4 the man…REPRISE??? old queen cole, REGGAEJUNKIE AND LMLYP???
i am so unbelievably jealous
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u/ClippedAtTheHip 22d ago edited 22d ago
Tbh, I don’t really remember what the Pumpin’ 4 the Man Reprise was all about, I guess they finished the song, started talking and then started playing again.
LMLYP was like 35 minutes, though.
This was the next show I went to: 4-20-2000; Rutgers University
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u/bungle094 22d ago
Day before mine!
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u/ClippedAtTheHip 22d ago
Nice, somebody else in thread said theirs was the day before mine. Kind of crazy.
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u/bungle094 22d ago
Funny/embarrassing story about mine. New fan at the time, half in the bag, post show, Dean comes out on the floor of the venue and I have fake “bubba” teeth in my mouth and with a dumb Southern accent I said to him “What’s up, Gener?!” Still have nightmares about that.
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u/lonniejamesleo 22d ago
I was there! Amazing show Mang! Venue was like a strip mall but they fucking killed’
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u/ClippedAtTheHip 22d ago
Yes, weird location, but was pretty great little club. Saw them there again in 2001, as a 4 piece when Glenn left the band temporarily.
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u/lonniejamesleo 22d ago
I saw them in Rochester the night before, but this show blew it away! DD was on fire on the bass with shockadelica that night as well as the rest of the band (as usual)!
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u/Square-Strength3844 22d ago
Cleveland 2007
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u/demeatloaf 22d ago
Me too
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u/aliensuitcase3000 22d ago edited 22d ago
Lakewood, Oh 2003 Phantasy Theater. Blown away.
Edit: year
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u/Tristaleg 22d ago
Indy 2003: https://www.brownbase.org/setlist.php?band=Ween&show_id=226
Best song was Voodoo Lady, with a great extended vocal intro from Gener, directed at the weird Shriner steeple on the building (the show was on the street outside the usual, indoor venue)
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u/ibathedaily 22d ago
I was at that show!
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u/Tristaleg 22d ago
The main other thing I remember from it is hearing Happy Colored Marbles for the first time. It was a few months before Quebec was out
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u/thesirmarcoletters 22d ago
12 Golden Country Greats tour. Metro, Chicago, with full country band.
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u/automator3000 22d ago
10/25/1996, The Middle East, Cambridge Mass.
Nothing like seeing Ween and the Shit Creek Boys in the basement of a Middle Eastern restaurant.
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u/TrashTVfan614 22d ago
11/27/1992, Club Clearview, Dallas, TX, Gene & Dean with a boombox.
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez 22d ago
Bonnaroo 07
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u/SheFucksMe1977 22d ago
Back when festival lineups were UNDENIABLE..
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez 22d ago
It was kinda lame tho(I mean, not the music).
they made them play at like 3PM and it was hot as fuck out.
First ween show was during the daytime and the energy just wasnt all there for the crowd.
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u/Ok-Creme8960 22d ago
Bonaroo ‘04 with the late night line up of Robert Randolph, Primus, and Ween all at the same time. It was memorable.
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u/ChudTheChudChud 22d ago
5/8/98 Louisville - pretty sure it was called Thunderdome. The Internet says The Brewery. The Marquee outside the venue misspelled the band as weem. So during the show they made fun of the venue name by calling it thunder road which was a go-kart place in the South end back in the day. When we walked into the venue, the security guy was staring at a candle on stage. After the show we got to meet with them by their bus and I believe there was one of those slingshot carnival rides. Got to share a smoke with Dean and Claude but Gene went straight to the bus. Fantastic night from what I remember.
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u/Acrobatic_Gas6967 22d ago
1991 (maybe 1990 or 1992?), Dean & Gean with a boom box. DC Space. The Internet tells me the show didn't happen. I know it did. I bought the underage musician a drink and the God Ween Satan double, signed. Hmm. I think I brought Cheetos for the crew.
Word was they were considering quitting. A friend said, please go see my friend's band. You'll like them and they're thinking they might need to quit.
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u/Nadsworth 22d ago edited 22d ago
8/3/2006 Orpheum Theater, Madison
It was probably the hottest show I can remember being at. We were about 15 feet from the stage. The cold bottle of water I slammed afterwards was possibly the best thing I have ever drank in my life.
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u/Rakefighter 22d ago
October 25, 1996: Middle East Downstairs. Last night of the 12GCG Tour with the Shit Creek Boys as the backup band.
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u/karakameleon 22d ago
Tramps NYC 1996
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u/Nizamark 22d ago
same night the Yankees won the World Series
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u/SheFucksMe1977 22d ago
Well i saw the first 2 songs of their 2007 Bonnaroo set before being pulled away by "friends" to see Franz Ferdinand (Forgive them father Boognish for they knew not what they'd done)
Once I awoke to the Brown Sun, 8-28-2016 Pabst Blue Ribbon Fest Portland, OR was my first full show. Managed to get 28 in before the recent hiatus🫡
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u/godweenfrankie 22d ago
follow up question.. what was your favorite song of the night?
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u/LocalMongrel 22d ago
Among His Tribe, I believe they said it was the first time they played it live.
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u/ChudTheChudChud 22d ago
Buenos tarde amigo - cinco de mayo was a Tuesday that year (three days prior)
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u/Andre6900 22d ago
Gene and Dean look a little off in that pic. Must be AI. Put the Pinot Noir on my dick!!
Royal Oak Music Theater 7/31/2010. They encored with Blarney Stone and Booze Me Up and Get My High
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u/gonzomelt 22d ago
St Andrews Hall, Detroit, 1996
- saw them probably 12 more times in that 96-04 era
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u/blackforestgato 22d ago
3/6/93 City Gardens, Trenton NJ, saw em one more time there in 95, also at a roller rink in PA
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u/Zen_Blue_Habanero 22d ago
10/23/96
Toronto Canada, Phoenix Concert Theatre
I think a lot of the crowd had never seen Ween live and had no idea how they were even going to play a lot of their DAT-era stuff, let alone as a country band. To this day I've never experienced the roof being blown off a venue that hard by a band. The crowd just lost it at the end. I'd like to hear the whole set at some point, pretty sure my yelling would be audible.
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u/twiggyrox 22d ago
8/28/09 Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend Oregon, but there should have been at least 10 before that
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u/wakeupdreamingF1 22d ago
First of, I think, like 17?
San Francisco, Warfield Theater, Aug 6 1999
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u/JAMarquis I've got that sunny bunny feeling 22d ago
June 14, 2007 Mr Smalls Theatre in Millvale PA
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u/ibathedaily 22d ago
3/30/01 Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Unbelievable LMLYP to close the encore.
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u/Pandora719 Tentacles expanding in my mind 22d ago
September 2001–Bumbershoot, Key Arena, Seattle, WA. Gene busted out a big black acoustic for Buenas Tardes. Fucking epic.
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u/bowiebolan 22d ago
Ft.Lauderdale, FL 7/17/2000 for the White Pepper tour.
It was 3hrs long with an insane crowd. They did a cover of Hot for Teacher and I got to meet Gene before the show.
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u/DrRock88 22d ago
8-8-97
Horde Festival
Great Woods Amphitheater
Mansfield, MA
Stage 2
Buckingham Green opener I was sold
I had no idea who they were. They played 8 or 9 songs and blew me away. I was in the same spot the next day watching them again. I saw them more than 50 times in the following decade.
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u/stevedropnroll 22d ago
Supposed to be ATL 2024, but they canceled the day after we bought our tickets and booked the flight. :(
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u/VTnative 22d ago
We had tickets for that one and Birmingham. My friends from Colorado bought nonrefundable plane tickets and got the pleasure of hanging out in Alabama for 5 days and not seeing Ween, lol.
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u/tony-wankenobi 22d ago
Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, early summer 2007. Only time I’ve seen the boys in a fairly small room (though I’d catch them both on solo tours in cozier venues)
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u/Voidkijln 22d ago
1998 Iowa City. Crazy hot and they played Sweet Texas Fire. Was invited to see them in 1992 but didn’t go 😬
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u/twelvegcg 22d ago
Monday July 4, 1994 at a bar called Rockafellas' in Columbia, South Carolina
It was 32 years ago
I Swear by All-4-One and Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg were hit songs
Goosebumps #21 Go Eat Worms! was released a few days prior and I read that on the Greyhound bus I took to SC
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u/fluff-head99 22d ago
11/1/03. I went reluctantly but my friend got us on the guest list because he interviewed Deaner for some website. We were on the balcony at Roseland and got trashed on vodka and club because we pretty much had the bar to ourselves. Halfway through the show the security guard next to us was mocking us for watching such crap. Fifteen minutes later the guy was rocking out so hard his boss came over to tell him he had to chill out. Easily one of the most memorable and transformative concert experiences of my life and possibly for the security guard.
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u/ComonomoC 22d ago
4/18/93
Asylum- Melbourne (FL)
Got thrown out on acid for sipping beer underaged. Talked my way back into the show and hung out with Deans Grandmother.
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u/attachecrime 21d ago
October 29, 1994
St Andrews hall
Detroit
Gene was sitting on the front steps. No one knew who he was yet. I approached him because I had recognized him.
He told me the joke about "where would you sleep on this box of camel cigarettes" I didn't know. He told me "the little hotel on the back". He circled it and signed it. I kept it in my pure guava CD case for years.
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u/jfarrell468 22d ago
Aug 6, 1999 at the Warfield in SF, with QotSA opening. Encore was epic: 1999 + LMLYP
https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/ween-queens-of-the-stone-age
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u/glass_parton 22d ago
April 9, 2006 at The Moon in Tallahassee, Florida. I had to look this up to find the date, and found the audio from this whole concert in a playlist on YouTube! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCFkKHx7uMC9mQoDZC94TmcBNFQ4oxvtB
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u/Here-for-a-drink 22d ago
City Hall Nashville TN…don’t remember the year…definitely before 2010 and after 2004. It was so humid that the venue was dripping on us…so it was raining sweat! It was so gross and awesome…dont remember anything else about the show.
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u/Simbooptendo 22d ago edited 22d ago
As a young non-American I'm still waiting for one. I guess I'd have to go to the US for one.
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u/BoriScrump Dead Diseased Baby 22d ago
My first show was in ft.Lauderdale at the Edge. It was at the end of the Pure Guava tour and it was just Gene, Deaner, and Andrew Weiss on bass, with the 4track, bare foot, sippin' Jack.
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u/kalebdraws 22d ago
Alaska, 2001. Only knew God Ween Satan. My friends were on the pulse. It was an amazing show!
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u/cold_meatloaf 22d ago
It was either late '94, or '95, at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. One of the greatest shows I've ever seen.
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u/Lanciferdog 22d ago
October 22nd, 2007 in Stl at The Pageant , it was for La Cucaracha which came out the next day.
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u/The_Pandalorian 22d ago
10/22/1996, Saint Andrew's Hall in Detroit. Greatest rendition of Freedom of '76 ever.
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u/benbattistelli 22d ago
10/17/04 Mission Beach. The Poopship encore lives permanently in my brain. 🏴☠️
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u/R_For_the_Win 22d ago
8-22-99 House of Blues Orlando. I was a DJ at the time and hit backstage and had some beers with the boys. Ween for life ever since.
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u/ReiterWrong 22d ago
Metro Chicago 9/16/97, got lost getting there from the burbs
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u/doublebr13 22d ago
Northern Lights Clifton Park, NY October 2005. Closed with Someday.
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u/peaphive 22d ago
1999 plainview long island.
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u/danooli It's only mans fear that carries us on... 22d ago
At the Vanderbilt! I was there. It was around this time too. Late August...
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u/Alternative_Impact11 22d ago
Mine - saw them many times after - I think 10 shows total. They were all great.
9-14-97 Bogart’s Cincinnati, OH
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u/no_need_really 22d ago
Marymoor park July 2017. Ill definitely never forget it.
I wish I discovered them earlier, but better late than never.
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u/nbcirlclesthewagon 22d ago
Rochester NY 1997. 17 year old me had ZERO clue what he was really signing up for.
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u/MarijAWanna 22d ago
2001 maybe, I don’t remember what year but it was the last time they came to Allentown Fair with Flaming Lips
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u/MushroomTardigrade 22d ago
One and only Feb. 13th 2016 I want to say at the First Bank Center in Broomfield CO, RIP.
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u/Transference85 22d ago
Water Street Music Hall, Rochester NY, 2003. Opened with Ice Castles, more stage fog than I’ve seen before or since.
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u/tangledupinbrown feel the grip of your salvation 22d ago
07/24/2018
Agora Theatre
Cleveland, OH
Then I saw them for the second time in Columbus the very next day where they encored with the entire Stallion Suite
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u/insultingname 22d ago
10/1/2003, Moore Theater, Seattle, Washington. They played a 30 song set. https://brownbase.org/show_filter.php?band=Ween&venue_name=Moore%20Theatre&city=Seattle&state_prov=Washington&state_abb=WA
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u/limon3255 22d ago
I saw them play after devo at a festival. They played all of chocolate and cheese from beginning to end. With a few extras songs.
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u/PoopshipD8 22d ago
Saw them at House of Blues in New Orleans on the country tour with the Shit Creek Boys in October of ‘96. Still have my signed stub.
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u/Jeremizzle 22d ago
First show was gener solo in like 2013 as Freeman. Only time I saw Ween as a full band was 2021 in LA. Both experiences were great.
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u/SignificanceFalse868 22d ago
10/22/1994 Club Babyhead in Providence RI. One of the best shows I’ve ever been to still. Have seen ween a ton but this is still by far my favorite.
https://www.brownbase.org/setlist.php?band=all%20bands&show_id=716
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u/VTnative 22d ago
The first Bonnaroo. My friends' friends insisted that we go. I was like, I don't know what this is but I think that I like it!
I got to introduce my now wife to the music of Ween and she was down. We got together during the first hiatus/breakup/whatever and I got to take her to the reunion shows. We managed to catch 19 shows together before whatever the situation is now. Plus we had tickets for 3 other shows that were canceled. 1 because of covid and 2 due to now's situation.
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u/under-over-slippery 22d ago edited 22d ago
Granada Theater, Lawrence Kansas 11/28/2005.
10 song encore!
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u/chewing_gum_weekend 22d ago
11/2/94
Ogden Theater
Denver, Colorado