2007 April 1
CONCERT: Gene Ween solo show
Posted by Clint under Audio, Carolyn, Clint, Concerts, John The Canadien, Journal, Media, Music, People, Reviews
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:
- The Stallion 4 - a song not even on any album, but which I know well
- What Deaner Was Talkin’ About
- Pork Roll Egg & Cheese
- Ooh Va La - hadn’t heard that before
- Flutes Of The Chi
- Alone - a great song from The Pod that you wouldn’t expect to hear, live
- Spirit Walker - hadn’t heard that before
- Don’t Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy
- Cold Blows The Wind
- Best Time At Your Party
- I’ll Miss You - another good non-album song, possibly played for guy who kept screaming for it
- Mononucleosis - another great selection from The Pod
- So Long Jerry - not on any album, but I know Ween’s Grateful Dead cover quite well, and it was awesome hearing it!
- She Wanted To Leave
- Space Oddity - hadn’t heard that before
- She’s Your Baby
- Birthday Boy - yes!
- Stay Forever
- The Grobe
- Reggaejunkiejew - well, about a minute of it anyway
- Pumpin’ 4 The Man - it was a very slow, different, more-country version of it… Quite the difference.
- Mountains & Buffalo - hadn’t heard that before
- ENCORE: Soul Love
- Gener’s Gone
All my concerts ever:
http://www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/media/concerts.htm
2007 April 2 at 1:00 PM
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