I was in that 1986 New Hope Solebury Jr./Sr. High School talent show. I heard their performance from backstage, my 12 year old mind not comprehending that history was being made.
Even though I grew up in NJ, my grandparents used to live in New Hope off of Aquetong rd. Every opportunity we would visit then and we'd hang out in the town. I was a teen in the 90's, as a kid we'd go to the bookstore, and for some reason always buy Bernstein Bears books (I think the Stan and Jan were from New Hope). When I got older I would hang out in the record stores, there was a Zipperhead there, and Superkind. When Chocolate and Cheese came out, the one record store (I think the one by the bridge) plastered their windows with the cover and my mom was horrified by it. Now New Hope is so different. Love Saves the day is still there, but it moved to the corner by the Bridge, and the bookstore is still there. That's pretty much all I can remember.
@@tonecot8932 I lived across the river from New Hope.the river was running thin when I live there was only about 6 to 8 feet wide. That town was very ahead-of-its-time in the 90's. It's almost like the San Francisco of the East coast. Gay people could walk down the street in the early 1990s and not be harassed by a bunch of drunk jocks. I would cross the river is often and as possible.play with every musician I can possibly come across cuz there's a lot of people just playing on the street.I would pick those people up and bring them back to my house let them sleep in my basement feed them and make music with them they would leave and I would never see them again but I would be left with an incredible demo. To my 20-something year-old mind in the 1990's, it was a very welcome escape from everything and everybody who was telling you what to do and how to live your life.I would go there every chance I got just to hang out and hit the stores and play with random musicians it was a great time in my life.
In my opinion this is the greatest band ever formed. They never stick to one sound, they are funny ash, they are just in general really weird and I love it.
Can't believe I haven't seen this before! I was introduced to Ween when Push the' Little Daisies debuted on MTV and was "mocked" on the next episode of Beavis & Butthead. I knew IMMEDIATELY I loved this fucking band - what a bold move to put that tune in front of a national audience! A few years later in my senior year of high school, me and a friend hosted a weekly 4-hour evening set on our local pirate radio station. Our time slot was *always* Ween-heavy (also Primus and whatever weird shit we could dig out of the crates). Half the time we'd override call-in requests with something from Pure Guava or The Pod if people asked for anything we thought was lame. "Aaalllrrright that was Tool with Stinkfist, and thanks to Julie for calling in! Just for you, here's the Eagles with Hotel California, comin' up on pirate radio 94.9FM..." [Cues up Pollo Asado] The ratio of love to hate from the community at large was hard to measure, but we made sure to broadcast the hate calls live and I still think we were on the right side of history.
I was born in 1983, my brother had POD on tape and I'd steal it from him all the time. When CDs came out our dad bought a CD player and he took my brother and I to go buy some. My brother picked the then brand new pure guava album, and I would borrow it so much he just gave it to me and got another copy for himself. Now as a 38 year old mom of 4 I've been making my kids listen to ween and I realized I don't really know much about them, other then how nobody knows who they are, but the few that do have been my closest friends. Thank you Dean and Gene for giving me permission to be weird on a keyboard and make shit up when I was little, and for giving me a safe haven of music to go to whenever I miss my brother or how things used to be. I'm happy to keep spreading ween all across the land and I've even started ween Wednesdays posting 3 songs every Wednesday on fb. I encourage everyone with FB or any social media to do the same. The world would be a better place if more people listened. #weenwednesday 💕
Oh my god. After watching the video it came to me like a bolt of lightning. #weensday !!!! Tell your friends !!! 🤣 Thanks for making this video and posting it. I'm totally subscribed now ❤️
I dont think this is anywhere near what deaner was talking about. If you really want to know what deaner was talking about look up "the crucial squeegie lip".
The story about the girl who travelled from Australia to meet Ween while they were touring there. Thats the shit sad movies are made out of. I'd watch that movie and sob heavily at the thought of it happening to me. XD
Johnsense sir, what does, "Brown" mean? I hear it used when Ween is spoken of, but I fail to recognize its meaning. Would you please be kind enough to explain? Thank you, God bless.
Lol in Highschool I did a project on the drug Zoloft and used their song as the background music on my PowerPoint I can never get enough of their music hands down their my favorite band
Overall, this was pretty enjoyable, even knowing about most of it beforehand. However, if this was made to "educate" anyone on early Ween, then the lack of time spent discussing the fact that for a while it was just Aaron & Mickey with a drum machine (before subsequently transitioning to a full band) was egregious.
Johnsense - yeah I remember even in late 1992 (nov?) or early 1993 (winter?) they played at Emo’s in Houston and it was just the two plus a tape machine. Have a video tape of that show somewhere and maybe a dvd, just homemade. I had gone off to college out of state and couldn’t be there, but my gf at the time did go, and a friend also, who made the video. Billy was his name?
Went to John and Peters a few years back to see the Meat Puppets, I was doing their social media at the time. That place still allows smoking indoors. It's a wild scene. Deaner came by and hung with the band, I sat from a distance wondering "Is this really happening right now?"
@@ronnieluna7173 "i don't like band because other band i like said they didn't like them back in like 1997 and i can't form my own opinions or detect sarcasm" TMBG obviously does something right if they can manage to string a career over this many decades with this many songs and this many fans continuing to support them through and through. you tell on yourself by pretending they aren't nearly just as brown as the boognish boys, just with a slightly different comedic tone in their songwriting like Oingo Boingo or something...
I saw them for the 1st time opening for The Ramones at City Garden (aka Sh*t^ Gardens) barely 18....they got my attention, but then they played L.m.l.y.p....n I was HOOKED! Bought every tape I could find, went to every show I could go to. Even after just moving to New Zealand, I HAD to go to their Wellington -San Francisco Bathhouse show in 2007...stood next to a Kiwi who was going to every tour date in the country! WEEN IS THAT SPECIAL! :-*
Their shows were always incredible and I've never seen anything like them, especially 20 to 25 years ago. Half the crowd cheering, the other half "F*** you, WEEN!" They were so eclectic that some concert goers couldn't stand the thought of a band playing literally whatever the hell they, or Boognish, wanted. Sunny fish melon jelly ballin the jack at the meat wagon now.
How does the creator of this channel not have more subscribers?! This is awesome! I love learning about the history of music that I listen to and I've only just started listening to ween in the last year or so, so this is just phenomenal stuff imo.
Absolutely brilliant documentary Steven Phipps thank you. Lots of cool footage that I've never seen before. Too those who trash talked on this probably don't even have a clue of how talented Ween is or can even name five songs
I used to be one of those people that said “ween schmeen…” not in a hater kind of way but just couldn’t be bothered with them. Until I actually listened and was pleasantly surprised - now I love ‘em
They are so fu**ing weird that i cannot not like them. They make me question what I think is good. And I'm a Stones, Floyd, Yes and Zeppelin fan at my core. So beautifully strange....and committed to their craft. Luv em.
I remember seeing them play a kick-ass show in about 2010 at the FOX theatre in Pamona, CA & briefly met Dean & Claude after the show outside before they left... SUPER nice guys!
In the late 90s my brother was cooking at a bar and grill in Bellingham wa when he looked up and saw a customer had came back to the line and handed him a $40 tip and said it was because he heard the Ween he was listening to.
Awesome. My wife and I too have made our pilgrimage to see there stomping grounds. My wife is from Trevose PA. which is very close to Newhope and her family lives about 45 mins from The Pod, the horse farm where they rented a place and lived and made The Pod. We had to go see it when we visited her family back in like 1995 or 96.
James Young from 3RRR in Melbourne Australia, and Angela Catterns from Triple J in Sydney got Ween to top 10 in Aus, it was marvelous watching my parents expression when Push the little Daisies came on the radio lololol
Great old footage: the talent show, that performance of final alarm (what year was that? Dave looked so young but the band was coming into its 5-piece day).
from no other band's breaking up (beside the Beatles') I was affected so deeply like Ween's split. I love Ween. +Steven Phipps, thank you so much for this documentary, and the early day's footage!
I wore a black armband all day, and to school - mourning when the Pogues kicked Shane MacGowan out/replaced him with Joe Strummer/Shane quit/whatever happened. But Ween breaking up didn’t feel real to me. It seemed like a bad patch and that those two could not stay apart forever. And now that I have seen them touring again (well, I did before the covid) - I guess that feeling of the connection/immutability of Ween turned out to be true, praise boognish :)
Old stomping grounds. TSR on the ford's radio, wasted hours looking for fun and crazy times across the river in a club off Calhoun street. Good memories.
