Gene Ween (6,196 views)

[Anacrusis]

Feb 11, 2024 8:19:48 GMT PerhapsXarb said:

I believe that Deaner sings lead on "I Got to Put the Hammer Down", "Sorry Charlie", "Loving U Thru It All", and "Alone" (although for the latter two I've linked live solo performances by Gener)

Noted, thanks! And btw: I'm gonna be posting the E4 and F4 sections in the next hour. But I'm struggling to come up with bolds. So far, I've just bolded the E4 from "Captain". Do you have any suggestions?

[Bink]

Also, gotta say, even the C2 might not be hearable there is at least a G2 in "The Argus" and I think I can hear it down to E2

[Anacrusis]

Feb 11, 2024 8:43:58 GMT Bink said:

Also, gotta say, even the C2 might not be hearable there is at least a G2 in "The Argus" and I think I can hear it down to E2

Actually, hearing it again...I think I'm just gonna put the C2 in the thread. I can hear it there.

[Anacrusis]

Thread update. I've added the E4 and F4 sections. And I've also added the notes from the Prime 5 tape and the Billy Joel tribute show. Thank you, everyone, for those finds! I'm gonna be pretty inactive again, so this'll be the last major edit - or set of edits - that I'll be able to do for a while. But I appreciate how active y'all have kept the thread. Now go worship the Boognish or whatever it is we do.

[PerhapsXarb]

Live E4s from "The Grobe"! and yeah Captain was one I was thinking of

Edit: Also there are F2s in the live performance of Alone, like in the studio

also backing falsetto G#4 in Tried and True during the last chorus

[Anacrusis]

Feb 11, 2024 18:40:03 GMT PerhapsXarb said:

Live E4s from "The Grobe"! and yeah Captain was one I was thinking of

Edit: Also there are F2s in the live performance of Alone, like in the studio

also backing falsetto G#4 in Tried and True during the last chorus

Ah, good catches. Thanks!

I've also decided to bold the Voodoo Lady E4, too.

[PerhapsXarb]

Here are some tasty G4s and G#4s (and bluesy in-between notes) on their covers of Stella Blue:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vgfC5wuAiU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgpqW4k68oU

sorry ik that's a lot of footage and there's definitely a lot more live covers, Dead, Prince, etc. on the compilation "Covering Our Asses" from the first link, but yeah this thread is looking nice and thicc as a happy Gener lol, good work! I'm just a completionist so I'll probably be Goobering some live notes here occasionally (Goober I've verbified your name with the utmost respect). God I hope I see Ween this year...

[Anacrusis]

Feb 11, 2024 21:13:28 GMT PerhapsXarb said:

Here are some tasty G4s and G#4s (and bluesy in-between notes) on their covers of Stella Blue:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vgfC5wuAiU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgpqW4k68oU

sorry ik that's a lot of footage and there's definitely a lot more live covers, Dead, Prince, etc. on the compilation "Covering Our Asses" from the first link, but yeah this thread is looking nice and thicc as a happy Gener lol, good work! I'm just a completionist so I'll probably be Goobering some live notes here occasionally (Goober I've verbified your name with the utmost respect). God I hope I see Ween this year...

Good find! I'm listing just the Roxy's notes, since it seems to cover the extremes among both.

Lol, we wouldn't want our Gener any other way, indeed. And thanks for you guys' help! The original thread looked pretty empty compared to this.

It should be pretty cool seeing Ween live; Gener still hits those notes, even going into his 50s. It's very impressive.

[PerhapsXarb]

Caprice Classic Demo: I think unwatched tracks with Gene's natural voice are the title track, Shalom Absalom, Chairman of My Own Destiny (think he's doing a Brian Johnson head-scream thing, not pitch-shifting), and Wonderful Tonight; others might have some stuff though

Some others from later-era outtakes:

Wash Me Down (great tune)
Be My Wife
I'll Miss You (about a 1/4 tone sharp, you could round down or use a live version)
I've Got No Darkside (VERY easy bold G#4)

I perused a few others (Little Miss Mandee, Cornbread Red, Louise) and there's a lot more but yeah I'll stop for now lol. Except this nice cover of I'm So Tired with a belted C5/C#5, don't think that's on the covers compilation for some reason (not sure it's actually live or if they're miming)

[Goober]

youtu.be/b-ubNSIxzm8?t=42 Gener scream probably for the spoiler. There are other screams in the song but they are probably samples.

youtu.be/INkqIAf_hro?t=94
youtu.be/g9qcihG96lU?t=1011

[PerhapsXarb]

E2 in this interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNpY9k3IPk&t=2323s

C5s and A4s in live covers of Band on the Run in 2000 e.g. here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzOhgTreyOQ