Thursday night (3/29) I saw Gene Ween of Ween do a solo show. It was fantastic! Read John The Canadien’s review. Tracklist and more review below.

So, the show was at The State Theatre in Falls Church. I had no idea that bands played there; I thought it was just another movie theatre. I guess that explains why I always saw police around there when I went to the Kaiser-Permanente Urgent Care Center that is across the street. There’s not normally a need a police a movie theatre.

Anyway, it was also a non-smoking venue. I’d never heard of such a thing. A band playing music without the ability to smoke? Okay, that was a small sacrifice to make for seats. Yes, the show was seated. I haven’t been to a seated concert since my first concert ever (the Moody Blues … with my parents). I definitely preferred it. They also had seated dinner tables; people could eat dinner at a table during the show. This was just strange. Bands I see don’t do things like that usually.

The show was excellent; definitely a great experience for any hardcore Ween fan. This show also rewarded those of us who know all the off-album songs by slipping a few of those in. So nice to hear Ween songs I’ve NEVER heard!

Download a full dvd of the entire show (4.3G; ~15hr download) at the BrownTracker HERE.

Here was the track list:

  1. The Stallion 4 – a song not even on any album, but which I know well
  2. What Deaner Was Talkin’ About
  3. Pork Roll Egg & Cheese
  4. Ooh Va La – hadn’t heard that before
  5. Flutes Of The Chi
  6. Alone – a great song from The Pod that you wouldn’t expect to hear, live
  7. Spirit Walker – hadn’t heard that before
  8. Don’t Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy
  9. Cold Blows The Wind
  10. Best Time At Your Party
  11. I’ll Miss You – another good non-album song, possibly played for guy who kept screaming for it
  12. Mononucleosis – another great selection from The Pod
  13. So Long Jerry – not on any album, but I know Ween’s Grateful Dead cover quite well, and it was awesome hearing it!
  14. She Wanted To Leave
  15. Space Oddity – hadn’t heard that before
  16. She’s Your Baby
  17. Birthday Boy – yes!
  18. Stay Forever
  19. The Grobe
  20. Reggaejunkiejew – well, about a minute of it anyway
  21. Pumpin’ 4 The Man – it was a very slow, different, more-country version of it… Quite the difference.
  22. Mountains & Buffalo – hadn’t heard that before
  23. ENCORE: Soul Love
  24. Gener’s Gone

All my concerts ever:
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/media/concerts.htm