This is one of my favorite tv clips of us. "Pure guava" was still a new record and we had just written this song. I think this is one of our last performances as a duo. This was filmed early in the morning and we were very stoned.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was saying. I meant it was funny for the camera to focus in on it like it was a person, no comment on the sound of the band. I know the machine is a big part of their early sound.
Dudemang said "one of the greatest". Jeff Buckley wasn't a fan of being compared to anyone, so respect his wishes and don't be a dee eye see kay to this man for no reason. Especially when its reflecting YOUR opinion. I do however, wonder if Buckley was a Ween fan..
They liked to fuck around and goof off (which is one reason we all love 'em), but their talent is no joke. As young as they were in '93 and they did THAT. Not to mention the fact that they can play any genre and pull it off like pros. These guys have to go down as one of the most underrated bands/music acts of the time.
@@ghostninja5035 Bruh, the album's been out for 26 years now. I don't think he was talking about people in the audience. Over 800K have watched it on RU-vid compared with about 40 in the studio.
@@eliweiss4118 Right, so let me add "... or, the 20 people who watched it live." For real, this show was canceled in like a month because nobody watched it.
I love how Daft Punk included this track as part of their famous 1997 Essential Mix on Radio one, the set that launched them into stardom. Thanks Ween!
Being a devoted Ween fan feels like being in a very select club. Lucky to hear them, back in the day. It’s possible to find one perfect Ween song for almost anybody to enjoy. 😘
Best part of that whole performance is Deaner's sarcastic rock hand throw. I wonder did anyone in that audience lose their shit when they realised they were seeing something truly special?
"Ironic," not sarcastic. That's the splendor of Ween; they don't do sarcasm. Everything they do is what they love, and that's what makes all their music so deeply good ... or Boognish, if you please.
The distance between the time this was posted and now(2006-2020) is greater than the time between it airing on TV and being posted on RU-vid(1993-2006) which really fucks me up for some reason. Time was more time-y back then...
If fucking nothing in the world had ever introduced me to Ween, the very notion of Supermarket Sweep would have implied that Ween existed and forced me to join them.
The amazing thing about Ween is they have no formula really. If you listen to their albums they make songs in almost every genre of music. These guys are insanely creative and you can tell they had fun making this stuff.
I've never seen a tv presenter look so socially awkward and anxious before. Like you can actually see her brain beating itself up after every question she asks - even though they aren't bad at all! This isn't a complaint in any way. It's really endearing and a breath of fresh air given all the slick, confident plastic people droning on - in media and real life
I was an infant when this aired. Like probably close to newborn, Sinead OConnor tore the Pope up on SNL the day I was born. I guess I’m trying to wrap my head around the total sense of awe upon realizing ween has truly been brown as fuck longer than I’ve even been alive Thanks for making such awesome tunes guys Would have been so sick if my mom had been into Ween instead of Phish but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I break up Ween's discography into 3 eras: ***The experimental 4-track era (GodWeenSatan, The Pod, Pure Guava) ***The breakthrough era (Chocolate & Cheese, 12 Country Greats, The Mollusk) ***The mature era (White Pepper, Quebec, La Cucaracha) I do this because it's difficult to judge Quebec against GodWeenSatan or The Mollusk against The Pod. They're occured in totally different phases of Ween. However, it's easy to compare GodWeenSatan to The Pod or White Pepper to Quebec.
La Cuca is easily their worst actual album. Quebec I love to death but the pacing is weird as hell and I prefer my own tracklisting without the garbage interludes and what not that seemingly do nothing for it as a whole. The Mollusk is the best thing they ever did. White Pepper, Chocolate, Country, and The Pod are still up there though and thoroughly amazing. I think you can reasonably compare these records. I barely if ever even listen to the debut outside of 3 or so songs, and the same thing with Pure Guava. I think they started to get a little bit more mature with The Pod. But those early two albums are simply not very good IMHO. Kinda like some Butthole Surfers experimental stuff that's cool but not really good. I strictly go by what I listen to, and what I think are great songs for the most part. Quebec to me is a really druggy album, but I just don't really like the Motorhead opener, still a good cover, and some of the absolute TRASH like The Fucked Jam and Chocolate Town. I have no idea why they even felt the need to go back to shite like that. I take all that out and tracklist it like a concept album almost, ending with Captain and Alcan Road and beginning with Zoloft. I can't go back after the brilliance of The Mollusk. La Cuca was just not good as an album or anything else and sounds dated, and it's probably good they quit there. Album barely had a single worth playing. In fact it did not. I have a 40 song playlist of their stuff, and not a single song comes off of La Cuca. Their worst album ever made. Like REM's Around the Sun but worse lol.
@@poeticalbliss7882My favorite part about Quebec is the fact that you can shuffle the album and it is still great. The Mollusk is better, but the problem is if you shuffle it or put it on a playlist it kills the pacing. I don’t think I’d ever listen to Pink eye (on my leg) or I’m dancing in the show tonight by themselves willingly, so they aren’t enjoyable unless it’s a full album listen (in my opinion). La Cuca, although i do think it is probably Weens worst album, isn’t completely terrible. Fiesta is a classic goofy ween opener and Your Party is not only a great closer but one of Weens best songs in general (In my opinion). I generally think their first album, Pure Guava and Chocolate and Cheese are really overrated (C&C is still pretty solid, it’s just not one of my favorites) But no one agrees on anything. It’s a matter of opinion. Your Opinion is fair, and even someone who thinks La Cuca is Weens best and the Mollusk is Weens worst has a fair opinion. Because we all enjoy different things.
SonnyBoy Novoselic It is a description of their songs that have a lo-fi sound, usually distorted or modified vocals, and strange (stranger than normal) lyrics. Freedom of 76' is an incredible Ween song. However in my opinion, it is not one of their brownest tracks. This performance is pretty brown though.
SonnyBoy Novoselic @ SonnyBoy & Joseph, I'm new to the" WEEN SCENE" and I too, was confused on the whole "BROWN" thing, Thanx for clearing that up people.
This is so good! I saw Ween on Bonnaroo a couple of years ago, and I nearly cried of joy=P My friends and I are from Norway, and we went to the states mainly to see Ween at that festival:)
I had that TASCAM 488 machine, and moved up to a 688 when my wife bought it for my birthday. Used that thing until the gears wore out. Thank God for digital - but it served a purpose at the time ...
I absolutely loved it! My wife surprised me with that one for my birthday, and I got about 10 years of hard use out of it as a multitrack, and another couple of years using it as a mixing board - I ran the wheels off of that sucker! Since I have a lot of master tapes that need a 688 to transfer over to my digital setup, I hope to buy another one if I can find a decent one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I highly recommend the 688 - TASCAM did a wonderful job on this one!
wow. this is the first time I heard this song. I just remember Pushin th' little daisies playing all the time on a local music video broadcast station in my late teens. Then listened to ocean man when I found out that song was the inspiration for spongebob squarepants. I regret not exploring Ween's full body of work sooner.
These brothers were the one thing that kept me feeling rock when I was diving deep into hip-hop as a kid. Not to say my dive was in any way regretted or regrettable, just that they were always there to show me there were other ways to be fucking dope.
This is *_so_* good. Ween sure could be soulful when they wanted to be. I think the audience, and Ms. Pratt, were a bit shocked at how soulful and bluesy and talented these two awkward looking white kids who seem like they ended up on the wrong sound-stage actually _sound_. They're *_so_* stoned btw....you can easily tell. I love Dean's little smirk around 0:33. He probably finds the situation of playing before an audience who is *_so not_* their target audience to be rather absurd/surreal/hilarious. But...once they start _playing_, well kids...that's why you should smoke weed.
I smoked weed for years on end and didn't end up sounding like this..... what did I do wrong? I've seen tons of family guy but I still sound like crap....? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
I keep coming back to this clip about once a year, and remind myself how much I love this song. This version was so raw, so embryonic, but they fucking nailed it. VIVA LA WEEN
Yes!! Never saw this. Man it does sound just like the album track too!! And yes, as others have pointed out, the camera shots of the DAT are priceless.
This is the best Ween interview. Fairly in-depth look at how they worked before Claude, Glenn, Dave, etc. with plenty of funny moments. Every time I watch this and I hear Mickey say "Yeah sure, sounds great!" I always laugh out loud. I also like how they (kinda?) predicted the country record at 1:29 when they joke about going to a "real" studio with a backing band. And of course, a blistering version of '76
I was in the audience for the show taped right after this and it was pretty funny because this was filmed at Kaufman Astoria studios in Queens, NY and when my friends and I got there we went inside and asked the receptionist where to go and she just said to wait outside so we went back outside and stood there and then as people showed up they got in line behind us til there was this massive line down the block. So then Ween comes out the front door and they kind of stand around and we look at them and they look at us and they look at us and we look at them and then I think they got into a limo (correct me if I'm wrong) and just kind of stayed there a bit (they seemed a bit lost or something, just standing on the sidewalk waiting for something), then the lady came out looking for their audience because they didn't know where the heck we all were ha ha. So we went in and got warmed up by this British dude named Jules I do believe and given copies of Sassy and the new magazine for boys which I can't remember the name of and most folks just left it there, anyway. It was super hot with the lights. The guests were crips and bloods, man! And there were some Guardian Angels in the audience as well. Jane really neglected our side of the studio (we were on the left, stage right I guess) and people started complaining because they wanted to ask questions but she just never came over to our side. During a commercial break she was like, "We'll do lunch!" (Uh yeah, right.) Aside from Sassy magazine which I started getting from the very first issue, Jane Pratt is kind of horrible and a big name dropper. It's no wonder this show tanked (was the boy magazine called Dirt? I think it was.) And yeah Ween acted pretty weird so knowing they were stoned makes complete sense now! (Was the limo not a stretch one? I think it was one of those smaller ones. OMG I'm old my memory is failing.)
