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I havent seen Gene and Dean for a LONG TIME! Since they had their troubles and solo time. This tour was amazing!!! They were able to show the kids that two old geezers could still rock n' roll!!! Artpark is an absolute OUTSTANDING VENUE! 10/10!!!!

Ween isn't a live band: they are THE live band. If you haven't found this out by listening to their live albums, you'll find this out soon enough by seeing them perform. This is their natural habitat, freeing them to all the room to jam and joke that the band ever needed. I can't recommend them if you don't like their records, but if you do, they stand taller onstage than they ever did in your headphones.

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Ween Announce U.S. Tour

By Jazz Monroe

Ween will tour the United States this year. The jaunt begins next month in Dallas, Texas, at the South Side Ballroom, and wraps in September at New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. Big shows in Oakland and Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre are among those sandwiched in-between. Check out the itinerary below.

Gene and Dean Ween reunited with drummer Claude Coleman Jr., bassist Dave Dreiwitz, and keyboardist Glenn McClelland in 2016 for a pair of Colorado shows that kicked off a spate of sporadic tour dates (albeit without accompanying new music). This is their first formal tour since the reunion, and with it comes a new merch store offering Ween koozies, keychains, and soap on a rope, among other treats.

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04-25 Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom 04-26 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 04-28 New Orleans, LA - Orpheum Theater 04-29 New Orleans, LA - Orpheum Theater 06-29-07-02 Scranton, PA - Peach Music Festival 07-28 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre 07-29 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 07-30 Wheatland, CA - Hard Rock Hotel and Casino 08-01 Sandy, UT - Sandy Amphitheater 08-03 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre 08-04 Kansas City, MO - Grinders KC 08-05 St. Louis, MO - St. Louis Music Park 09-08 Minneapolis, MN - Surly Field 09-09 Chicago, IL - Salt Shed Outdoors 09-10 Madison, WI - The Sylvee 09-12 Newport, KY - MegaCorp Pavilion 09-14 New York, NY - The Rooftop at Pier 17 09-15 Providence, RI - The Strand Ballroom 09-16 Hampton Beach, NH - Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

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Ween Announce “40 Years of Ween” Tour

A run of US shows this spring and summer

This year marks 40 years since the formation of Ween , and the band are celebrating the anniversary with a run of 2024 US tour dates.

The “40 Years of Ween” tour begins on April 19th in Atlanta before making stops in cities including Nashville, Raleigh, Seattle, Portland, and more, wrapping up on August 10th in Eugene, Oregon. These dates follow a previously-announced run of shows in Phoenix, Arizona and Del Mar, California for next month, as well as a September Chocolate and Cheese  30th Anniversary show.

Fans can look for deals or search for tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub , where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

See Ween’s 2024 tour dates below.

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Earlier this month, Water from Your Eyes paid tribute to Ween with a cover of   “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All),” as part of Sounds of Saving’s “Songs That Found Me at The Right Time” series.

Ween 2024 Tour Dates: 04/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy Theatre 04/20 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater 04/21 – Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company 04/23 – N. Charleston, SC @ Firefly Distillery 04/25 – Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit 04/26 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater 04/27 – Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island 08/02 – Missoula, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater 08/03 – Missoula, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Pavilion 08/06 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 08/08 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square 08/09 – Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square 08/10 – Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater 09/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann ^

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Ween Announces 14-Date Summer Tour, First Since 2016

Ween  is getting back on the road for the band’s first full-fledged tour since reuniting in 2016 . Announced on Tuesday, the band’s 14-date summer tour will feature shows from coast to coast from July through September.

Ween’s summer tour will begin on the West Coast and move eastward, starting in late July with a trio of California shows at Greek Theatre  in Los Angeles (7/28) the Fox Theater  in Oakland (7/29), and the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Wheatland (7/30).

Following a gig at Sandy Amphitheater  in Salt Lake City (8/1), Ween will return to  Red Rocks Amphitheatre  (8/3). The band last played the iconic Morrison, CO venue last August as part of the South Park  25th anniversary concerts with Primus and series creators  Trey Parker  and  Matt Stone . Prior to that, Ween’s last headlining shows at Red Rocks came in the form of a two-night run in 2018.

Moving through the Midwest, Ween will stop in Kansas City, MO (8/4) and St. Louis, MO (8/5) before breaking for a month. In September, the band will pick up where things left off with shows in Minneapolis (9/8), Chicago (9/9), Madison, WI (9/10), and Newport, KY (9/12). Finally, the tour will wrap with a run of Northeastern dates in New York, NY (9/14), Providence, RI (9/15), and Hampton Beach, NH (9/16).

Tickets for the 2023 Ween summer tour go on sale to the general public on Friday at 12 p.m. ET. Pre-sales begin on Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time. The band also relaunched a new-and-improved online store .

Following a year-long reunion tour in 2016, Ween has shied away from extensive road dates and instead opted for a weekend warrior approach of three-night runs— oftentimes spread across two states —scattered throughout the year. The band just completed another trip to Las Vegas’ Brooklyn Bowl  over the weekend, marking the first Ween shows of the year as well as  Gene Ween  (Aaron Freeman)’s 53rd birthday. Revisit  Live For Live Music ‘s review of the three-night affair here .

Click below to view a full list of Ween 2023 summer tour dates. For more information, head to the band’s website .

Ween Summer Tour 2023

7/28 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre 7/29 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater 7/30 Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Hotel and Casino 8/1 Salt Lake City, UT – Sandy Amphitheater 8/3 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre 8/4 Kansas City, MO – Grinders KC 8/5 St. Louis, MO – St. Louis Music Park 9/8 Minneapolis, MN – Surly Field 9/9 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed Outdoors 9/10 Madison, WI – The Sylvee 9/12 Newport, KY – MegaCorp Pavilion 9/14 New York, NY – Pier 17 9/15 Providence, RI – The Strand Ballroom 9/16 Hampton Beach, NH – Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom

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Ween Announce “40 Years of Ween” Tour

The post Ween Announce “40 Years of Ween” Tour appeared first on Consequence .

This year marks 40 years since the formation of Ween , and the band are celebrating the anniversary with a run of 2024 US tour dates.

The “40 Years of Ween” tour begins on April 19th in Atlanta before making stops in cities including Nashville, Raleigh, Seattle, and more, wrapping up on August 10th in Eugene, Oregon. These dates follow a previously-announced run of shows in Phoenix, Arizona and Del Mar, California for next month, as well as a September  Chocolate and Cheese  30th Anniversary show.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, January 18th at 10:00 a.m. local time, with general sale following Friday, January 19th at 10:00 a.m. local via Ticketmaster . Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub , where your order is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.

See Ween’s 2024 tour dates below. Update: Ween has announced a full-fledged 40 anniversary tour .

Get Ween Tickets Here

Earlier this month, Water from Your Eyes paid tribute to Ween with a cover of   “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All),” as part of Sounds of Saving’s “Songs That Found Me at The Right Time” series.

Ween 2024 Tour Dates: 02/14 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 02/15 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 02/17 – Del Mar, CA @ The Sound 02/18 – Del Mar, CA @ The Sound 04/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy Theatre 04/20 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater 04/21 – Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company 04/23 – N. Charleston, SC @ Firefly Distillery 04/25 – Asheville, NC @ Rabbit Rabbit 04/26 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater 04/27 – Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island 08/02 + 08/03 – Missoula, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater 08/04 – Spokane, WA @ Spokane Pavilion 08/06 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre 08/10 – Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater 09/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann

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Ween Plot 40th Anniversary Tour

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Ween have announced its 40th-anniversary tour, slated to commence on April 19 at the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, followed by a string of Southern appearances in the spring and a culmination of Pacific Northwest stops to mark the tour conclusion in August.  

After opening up the celebration run, the band will follow up on April 20 at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tenn. The next night, they’ll pick up an ensuing stop at Avondale Brewing Company in Birmingham, Ala. After an evening away from the stage, Ween returns on April 23 at Firefly Distillery in N. Charleston, S.C.

The excision will lead the band to Rabbit Rabbit in Asheville, N.C., on April 25, followed by an evening at Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, N.C. Ween’s final show slated for the Southern region lands on April 27 at Brown’s Island in Richmond, Va. 

Ween will take a considerable chunk of time away from the road before resuming their 40th-anniversary tour on the other side of the country, beginning with a two-night stand on August 2 and 3 at KettleHouse Amphitheater in Missoula, Mont. After, they’ll perform at the Spokane Pavilion in Spokane, Wash., on August 4.

The final shows will arrive on August 6 at the Paramount in Seattle, and ultimately, the closing date: August 10 at Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene, Ore. Not part of their anniversary tour, yet on the calendar, is their 30-year celebration of Chocolate and Cheese , slated for TD Pavilion at the Mann in Philadelphia. 

Scroll down for ticket information and to view the band’s forthcoming touring schedule. 

Ween 40th Anniversary Tour:

April 19 – Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre – Atlanta

April 20 – Ascend Amphitheater – Nashville, Tenn. 

April 21 – Avondale Brewing Company – Birmingham, Ala.

April 23 – Firefly Distillery – N. Charleston, S.C.

April 25 – Rabbit Rabbit – Asheville, N.C.

April 26 – Red Hat Amphitheater – Raleigh, N.C. 

April 27 – Brown’s Island – Richmond, Va. 

August 2 + 3 – KettleHouse Amphitheater – Missoula, Mont.*

August 4 – Spokane Pavilion –  Spokane, Wash.

August 6 – Paramount Theatre – Seattle

August 10 – Cuthbert Amphitheater – Eugene, Ore. 

Tickets go on sale Friday, January 19 at 10 am local venue time at ween.com .

*Check the venue website for presale information

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It’s a hazy, summer evening in the American Fartland, and in the security line to the outdoor Ween concert — which snakes around the block into an alley — a man is shouting. Shirtless, or at least shirtless in the memory of this observer, he lumbered through the queued multitude, unleashing a stricken bellow: “Big Jilm! Big Jilm!” “Big Jilm” is, of course, a track from Ween’s 1992 major-label breakthrough “Pure Guava,” and a live favorite. But why was this man hollering it outside the venue before the concert had even begun? Was he befuddled by drink or dope, as the hitch in his walk and the lurch in his voice suggested? Did he really think the band would somehow hear, and honor, his request, or was it all an act in the service of pre-concert shenanigans? (Spoiler alert: Ween did not play “Big Jilm.”)

The question of how much of Ween’s particular blend of sordid edgelord humor, solvent-huffing surrealism and crotch-thrusting classic-rock dynamics is a bit — a calculated and knowing performance — and how much is sincere used to come up a lot, but it’s ultimately one the band has made irrelevant through sheer persistence and surprising resilience. Notions of irony and appropriation, three-plus decades into the band’s career, seem entirely beside the point. The band — core duo Gene and Dean Ween on vocals and guitar, and longtime trusted associates Glenn McClelland on keys, Dave Dreiwitz on bass and the indefatigable Clyde Coleman Jr. on drums — have proved their integrity by sticking around and playing their hearts out to steadily growing audiences as the decades roll on by.

While most bands of their vintage have turned to ‘90s package tours or the desperate measure of alternative-nation-themed cruises, Ween has continually garnered an impressive array of new fans. At least half the diverse Kansas City crowd looked to have been toddlers, or, incredibly, not even born yet when the band scored a novelty hit on MTV with “Push th’ Little Daisies,” thanks to a clutch endorsement from Beavis and Butthead. Nostalgia has no place in a Ween show — or, if it does, it’s nostalgia for an era entirely of Ween’s own creation, one in which the slinky hedonism of Prince mixed with the precise virtuosity of Steely Dan, the hambone melancholy of Jimmy Buffett, the heavy sumptuousness of Hawkwind and the dramatic wizardry of Pink Floyd. This sui generis brew is then filtered through a zany, subversive cartoonishness that mocks and celebrates those and countless other influences in equal measure.

Do some of Ween’s references and japes seem dated? Well, the band’s decision to “dust off” as the Deaner phrased it, the aggressively tasteless relic “The HIV Song,” from 1994’s Chocolate and Cheese felt unnecessary, and the fake Jamaican patois adopted by Gene (who is a master of accents and character voices, it must be said) for “Mango Woman,” the b-side for the “Push the’ Little Daisies” single, could probably be relegated to the realm of “It was a different time.” But largely, even the band’s angrier breakup anthems — Dean’s toxic county barnburner “Piss Up a Rope” and especially the sublimely dissonant “Baby Bitch,” which contrasts male vitriol with a creamy vocal melody to enormous effect — landed with all the inventive melodic power and emotional heft that’s been surprising critics and flummoxing naysayers for as long as the band’s been at it.

The last time Ween played Kansas City was in 2018, only a few years after the band reunited following Gene’s departure to work on his various addictions. At that show, Dean was clearly driving, while Gene, if not exactly shaky, appeared hesitant to really throw down. Five years later, Gene looked to be on firmer footing — in “fine fettle,” in the language of music critics covering middle-aged acts — dancing, emoting and commanding the stage like an oddly compelling mix of Michael Stipe and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” mainstay Colin Mochrie. His vocals and demented charisma shone on the bizarro-world Yankee Hotel Foxtrot -era-Wilco jam “Exactly Where I’m At” and a monstrously sexed up version of “Springtheme,” from Pure Guava, transforming the original’s enjoyable romp to a luxurious display of sticky bedroom funk, with especially decadent, engaged work from Dreiwitz and Coleman.

The world of Ween has always been built around the fate-kissed partnership of Gene and Dean (they met in junior high, according to the lore), and a less lopsided dynamic between them has greatly increased their power. Dean’s powerhouse guitar theatrics — he’s an expert at Van Halen-style shredding, Teutonic thrash, swampy choogle and beefy All-American noise, as well as sundry other styles — work best against Gene’s delicate, almost elfin grace and ability to sound sincerely romantic even when singing about scabrous subjects. The best example of this came late in the sprawling 37-song set, when Coleman, Dreiwitz and McClelland left the stage, leaving Ween’s founding fathers to play a moody “Squelch the Weasel,” from their debut album God Ween Satan: The Oneness, together, as it was in the beginning. The pair infused the lilting psychedelic trifle with a palpable melancholy, giving us a sweetly sad, intimate window into their long partnership, acknowledging the weight of the years and the heaviness of their shared experience. Few bands can tap into the primordial essence of their being so purely and simply late in their career, and no band but Ween could do it in a song called “Squelch the Weasel.” In true form, the rest of the musicians returned to the stage to follow up this moment of tender revelation with the triumphantly tropical live staple “Ocean Man,” giving it all the brio and zest in their considerable arsenal.

Though the band has not released a studio album in more than a decade and a half, Ween continues to find plenty of life and novelty in their extensive catalog, playing at least a couple songs from every album and digging into a wealth of b-sides, compilation tracks and deep cuts. (“Loop de Loop,” a primer on how to tie your shoes from Spongebob Squarepants was a delightful surprise). As for the gregarious “Big Jilm” fan from the entrance line, well, he may not have heard his favorite jam, but he probably didn’t leave disappointed. And if he was bummed out, he could take solace in knowing that there’s a good chance he’ll hear it in the years to come, as Ween shows no signs of slowing down or burning out. Time, amazingly — somehow — is on their side.

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When writing a review of a band it might help to atleast get the drummers name correct.

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