Ice Castles
| "Ice Castles" | |||||
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| Song by Ween | |||||
| from the album White Pepper | |||||
| Released | May 2, 2000 | ||||
| Recorded | c. 1999–2000 | ||||
| Length | 2:03 | ||||
| Label | Elektra | ||||
| White Pepper track listing | |||||
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"Ice Castles" is an instrumental song by Ween from the 2000 album White Pepper.
Song Details[edit | edit source]
Recording and Composition[edit | edit source]
"Ice Castles" is in the key of D# major.
"Ice Castles" was written by Dean Ween on a ukulele,[1] circa December 1998.[2] In 2015, Dean Ween released a pair of instructional videos to YouTube that show how to play the song on guitar.
Alternate Versions[edit | edit source]
An early demo version of the song appears on the bootleg Long Beach Island Tape under the title "Baroque Jam 3", with the previous two Baroque Jams being uncirculated.
Live Performances[edit | edit source]
Ween played the song live for the first time on New Years Eve of 1998, and played it a handful of times during the following year.[3] During the White Pepper tour in 2000, Ween began playing the song frequently, and it has remained a fairly common live Ween song ever since.[4] A 7/8/2000 recording from that tour appears on the album Live at Stubb's. "Ice Castles" was also played numerous times by the Dean Ween Group during the Ween hiatus.[5]
Song Themes[edit | edit source]
Instrumental, Uncommon Time Signature
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=U0CM1Sn92Bs
- ↑ "Check this out, we just wrote this little ditty here." - Dean Ween, introducing the song for the first time, December 31st, 1998
- ↑ https://brownbase.org/every_time_played.php?band=Ween&song_id=92
- ↑ https://brownbase.org/every_time_played.php?band=Ween&song_id=92
- ↑ https://brownbase.org/every_time_played.php?band=all%20bands&song_id=92