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Ween played the Hollywood Palladium (review, setlist)

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Ween brought their tour to LA on Thursday night (10/13), playing the Hollywood Palladium, an epic two-hour-plus, 29-song set that covered, of course, a huge amount of stylistic ground from throughout their career.

It was an incredibly fun night, as Ween’s reputation as a must-see live band is completely justified. Gene and Dean haven’t lost a step and their band is as tight as it comes. In a live setting they register as possibly the most self-aware jam band of all time, ripping through their classic songs with a loose precision and abundant guitar solos. The crowd knows every song, and they played a ton of favorites, like “Big Jilm,” “Mister Would You Please Help My Pony,” “She Fucks Me,” “Don’t Get Too Close 2 My Fantasy,” “Your Party” and I could keep listing them.

Ween inspire a kind of obsessive, nerdy cult fandom that can be stifling in the wrong context. Here, there was something beautiful about seeing these weirdos playing to a big, adoring crowd who knew every song. Ween get to have their cake and eat it too, making fun of the broad concept of rock ‘n’ roll while rocking out and being worshipped as much as any of the gods that they clearly love. They’re jokers, but at this point in their career they’ve almost moved beyond that by virtue of their musicianship, as funny as these songs still are. And for every broad piece of comedy they hit, like “The HIV Song” or “Bananas and Blow,” there’s subtler, more cerebral nerd-music-comedy like “Exactly Where I’m At” or “Transdermal Celebration,” where the humor is entirely in the reverence for the specific musical form that they’re referencing.

Oh and they covered “Ace of Spades.” It was a great night, and you can check out some Intagrams from the show, along with the setlist, below.

Ween’s tour returns to the NYC area for three shows at Capitol Theatre on  November 25-27. Three day passes and tickets for the 11/25 and 11/27 shows are still available.

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Ween — 10/13 Hollywood Palladium Setlist
Pork Roll Egg and Cheese
The Golden Eel
Mutilated Lips
Exactly Where I’m At
Push th’ Little Daisies
Big Jilm
Ooh Va La
Ace of Spades
(Motörhead cover)
I Can’t Put My Finger on It
Woman and Man
The Stallion, Part 1
Japanese Cowboy
Papa Zit
Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
The HIV Song
Buckingham Green
Your Party
Bananas and Blow
A Tear for Eddie
She Fucks Me
Stroker Ace
Gabrielle
You Fucked Up
I’ll Miss You
Don’t Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)

Encore:
Fiesta
Touch My Tooter
Transdermal Celebration
The Mollusk

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