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Ginsly said:
It's crazy to see this pop up, as I'd say a lot of Ween fans don't even know about it.

I was in Mickey's midwest backing band from 2013-early 2016 and we convinced him to play That Man From The Flatland with us. Still can't believe this stuff hasn't been properly released.
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I was fishing for weirdos like you. lol Ween's been my life band. I've seen them like 30 times since 2003. a lot of john and peters jams, moistboyz reunion, dean ween group shows too

Midwest backing band? What gigs are we talking?
 
W8ST ARTS said:
I was fishing for weirdos like you. lol Ween's been my life band. I've seen them like 30 times since 2003. a lot of john and peters jams, moistboyz reunion, dean ween group shows too

Midwest backing band? What gigs are we talking?
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In mid-2013 they had been broken up for maybe a year and a half, and since some friends and I would play an occasional show of Ween covers we decided to contact Mickey. He was pretty depressed understandably, and wasn't playing much music - he's a boat captain and would take people on fishing charters.

We offered to fly him out and take care of him if he wanted to surprise a small audience of Ween fans in Chicago by sitting in with us. It was a huge risk on his part, and he didn't intend to play the whole show with us until he came to soundcheck and realized we were actual musicians and not total idiots.

That first show kinda reinvigorated him, and he continued playing with us for several shows in Illinois and Michigan as well as forming the Dean Ween Group with most of Ween. Wound up playing Shorts Brewery's 10th Anniversary Party to like 4,000 people - that was a surprise to us as well as Mickey... We came back and played there around NYE the next couple years. Sometimes the shows were tight as hell, sometimes a bit, uh, loose. We convinced him to play many songs that Ween really never played live like Flatland, Mononucleosis, and crowd favorite Kim Smoltz.

He also reformed Moistboyz, and we hosted them in Chicago. They were absolutely nuts, tore the roof off that place. Went with them to Rockford IL to help em sell merch, etc. I was pretty immersed in Ween's extended family for those few years. Aaron played some solo shows at our bar as well as Marco Benevento with Dave Dreiwitz. Did posters for some of them.

Haven't really kept up with them since the 2016 reunion and subsequent hiatus. I was kinda through the looking glass when it came to "Ween World" at that point. A chaotic, wild time.
 
Ginsly said:
In mid-2013 they had been broken up for maybe a year and a half, and since some friends and I would play an occasional show of Ween covers we decided to contact Mickey. He was pretty depressed understandably, and wasn't playing much music - he's a boat captain and would take people on fishing charters.

We offered to fly him out and take care of him if he wanted to surprise a small audience of Ween fans in Chicago by sitting in with us. It was a huge risk on his part, and he didn't intend to play the whole show with us until he came to soundcheck and realized we were actual musicians and not total idiots.

That first show kinda reinvigorated him, and he continued playing with us for several shows in Illinois and Michigan as well as forming the Dean Ween Group with most of Ween. Wound up playing Shorts Brewery's 10th Anniversary Party to like 4,000 people - that was a surprise to us as well as Mickey... We came back and played there around NYE the next couple years. Sometimes the shows were tight as hell, sometimes a bit, uh, loose. We convinced him to play many songs that Ween really never played live like Flatland, Mononucleosis, and crowd favorite Kim Smoltz.

He also reformed Moistboyz, and we hosted them in Chicago. They were absolutely nuts, tore the roof off that place. Went with them to Rockford IL to help em sell merch, etc. I was pretty immersed in Ween's extended family for those few years. Aaron played some solo shows at our bar as well as Marco Benevento with Dave Dreiwitz. Did posters for some of them.

Haven't really kept up with them since the 2016 reunion and subsequent hiatus. I was kinda through the looking glass when it came to "Ween World" at that point. A chaotic, wild time.
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Thats incredible, I was there for a lot of those transitions. Pretty much all the action on the east coast for last 20 years. Many Ween shows, from first time i saw them at Bonnaroo 2002, a lot of "live in chicago" tour, the encores with chicks making out to LMLYP..the was a lot of the company i kept), Aaron needed a break after that, then they got back together in 07 i think, after that things were rocky until meltdown out west. The GWB shows were fun (orgin of JRAD as far as im concerned) I remember seeing mickey get moistboyz back together before you got to see them, they did a packed john and peters and a show at a vfw in middle of bumfuck PA to 30 people), Saw DWG after that few times,(primus). I got to jam with mickey when he was doing the invitationals at J&P with claude on drums. That was all i needed.
I was at the Baseball Game he threw together, chris harford, bassist from buzzcocks, was in the crowd, , I can go on and on with weird ween stories. In the middle of writing this I remember exactly the show and place in time youre talking about (mind blown), wasnt there but streamed as soon as it happened. I think the Cesar demos did its job. lol
 
I had a 6'1" blonde bombshell of a GF at one point in my life who was a devoted Ween fan, and I liked them too.
She got pretty hot & bothered over a new album they were coming out with, but when it was finally released and she got it she absolutely HATED it,
hopping mad she was, and angry too.

Musically speaking, it was quite good, I said I liked it so she gave me the album, here's the demos version...

 
Feral Feline said:
I had a 6'1" blonde bombshell of a GF at one point in my life who was a devoted Ween fan, and I liked them too.
She got pretty hot & bothered over a new album they were coming out with, but when it was finally released and she got it she absolutely HATED it,
hopping mad she was, and angry too.

Musically speaking, it was quite good, I said I liked it so she gave me the album, here's the demos version...

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Long time Ween lover. I think I listen to that album for a month straight when it came out. I remember reading an interview with the band where they related how hilarious it was having a room full of highly accomplished, long-time session players react to the songwriting.
 
jubal81 said:
Long time Ween lover. I think I listen to that album for a month straight when it came out. I remember reading an interview with the band where they related how hilarious it was having a room full of highly accomplished, long-time session players react to the songwriting.
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yeah, that was both their first cohesive, concept record ..and the first time without weiss producing, bold move and so worth it. I started seeing them in 2002 well after this, but would have been nice to have caught their country tour
 
Feral Feline said:
I had a 6'1" blonde bombshell of a GF at one point in my life who was a devoted Ween fan, and I liked them too.
She got pretty hot & bothered over a new album they were coming out with, but when it was finally released and she got it she absolutely HATED it,
hopping mad she was, and angry too.

Musically speaking, it was quite good, I said I liked it so she gave me the album, here's the demos version...
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jubal81 said:
Long time Ween lover. I think I listen to that album for a month straight when it came out. I remember reading an interview with the band where they related how hilarious it was having a room full of highly accomplished, long-time session players react to the songwriting.
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W8ST ARTS said:
yeah, that was both their first cohesive, concept record ..and the first time without weiss producing, bold move and so worth it. I started seeing them in 2002 well after this, but would have been nice to have caught their country tour
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I have to admit, I was pretty nonplussed when it first came out. I didn't have as much of an appreciation for "Good Country" & Americana at the time, so it didn't get a lot of spins. Then The Mollusk came out and I was floored.

Of course now I appreciate the Country album much more, and we played many of those songs with Mickey. This one was particularly fun:
 
Ginsly said:
I have to admit, I was pretty nonplussed when it first came out. I didn't have as much of an appreciation for "Good Country" & Americana at the time, so it didn't get a lot of spins. Then The Mollusk came out and I was floored.

Of course now I appreciate the Country album much more, and we played many of those songs with Mickey. This one was particularly fun:
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The mollusk is so cohesive, especially considering their studio was flooded and they recorded teh record in a dozen places. In the liner notes I remember reading the recorded in Vernon, NJ, which always puzzled me because I grew up right there next door to the Misfits at that so I knew the area but no idea what they actually did up there in NJ.
 
Ginsly said:
I have to admit, I was pretty nonplussed when it first came out. I didn't have as much of an appreciation for "Good Country" & Americana at the time, so it didn't get a lot of spins. Then The Mollusk came out and I was floored.

Of course now I appreciate the Country album much more, and we played many of those songs with Mickey. This one was particularly fun:
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Which ones you...Strat or Tele?
 
jubal81 said:
Long time Ween lover. I think I listen to that album for a month straight when it came out. I remember reading an interview with the band where they related how hilarious it was having a room full of highly accomplished, long-time session players react to the songwriting.
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Yeah, apparently from what I read way back when, they hired the best-of-the-best Nashville session-players.

Lyrics were ... kinda challenging to sing along with that stuff aloud, in public, while wearing headphones...

Yup, as a friend used to say of his own band when playing out (all risqué country covers such as David Allan Coe, Ween, etc etc)...

"Taking the 'O' and the 'R' out of 'Country'..."




@W8ST ARTS ... Huge Phil phan, here.
Time to brush up on playing some Lynott lines, and...

...should learn some of those Dreiwitz/Session-player lines as well.

Delicious bass indeed.
 
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