HalloWEEN!!!

from the LP Pure Guava, August Records, 1993



Could there be any more appropriate band to go and see on Halloween than Ween?!! Surely not, and so my better half & I set off a couple nights ago to experience what was undoubtedly one of the wildest and loosest Ween shows we’ve ever been to, dressed in complimentary banana and gorilla outfits (yes, we are that lame). Deaner had high praise for this area in an interview he gave to the free weekly out here, “Denver and Boulder are the places that we've played more than any other place; we're almost there once a year...it's the pot-smoking hippies… honestly, it's a very liberal, progressive, artsy community that's rich in marijuana smokers. I'm really, truly excited for the Halloween show in Denver. There's no way it can't be fun…” True to his prediction, the show was fucking epic, even for Ween, pummeling the crowd with a far-reaching 3+ hour set that all the hardcore fans are still drooling over (including a sweltering “Let Me Lick Your Pussy” to close the show, and a touching rendition of this number, "Sarah", with only Dean & Gene on stage, one of the only times they’ve ever played this track live, and something which brought the vibes so hard I saw some people crying gently)---not to mention their hilarious bunny costumes, the perfect amount of surrealism & good old fashioned fun. I also happened to be sitting near a couple from Florida, and it turned out that my first Ween concert (at Club Detroit in St. Petersburg, 1995) was also their first, something which reminded me for the zillionth time: it truly is a small world. Ween: bringing good people together for over twenty years, may we all be blessed enough to enjoy another twenty or more…all hail the mighty BOOGNISH!!