Live in Toronto Canada
| Live in Toronto Canada | ||||
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| Released | November 15, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | October 23, 1996 | |||
| Venue | Phoenix Theatre | |||
| Length | 76:00 | |||
| Label | Chocodog Records | |||
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Live in Toronto Canada is a live album by Ween, released in 2001 on Chocodog Records, being the label's first release.[1]
All tracks on the album are excerpted from a single live show, on October 23, 1996, at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, Canada. The album features the Shit Creek Boys, Ween's name for their touring country backing band of Nashville musicians on the 12 Golden Country Greats tour.
Liner Notes[edit | edit source]
In November of 1995, we went to Nashville to record our 5th album "12 Golden Country Greats" with an all-star lineup of veteran Nashville session players. With the help of our producer and longtime friend Ben Vaughn, we put together a backing band of the best players from the golden age of country music to record 10 country flavored tunes we had written that year.
This posed a problem upon the release of the record in the summer of the next year. Most of that band had long since retired from touring and we ruled out the possibility of playing shows to support the release of the album. Instead, we planned on playing two shows in one night at Tramp's on July 17, 1996 in New York City and tried to see if the musicians would make the trip for a long weekend.
The person who seemed the most interested in the project from the beginning was Bobby Ogdin, who played the piano on most of the record, and he assured us that he could put together an incredible Nashville band for the shows, so he became our "musical director" so to speak. I sent him CDs of all of our records and he wrote charts for the band. We had only two days to rehearse for the gig and I was completely terrified... I don't think I slept a minute the night before.
As it turns out, the shows were a great success, the music was completely over the top and the crowd basically freaked out. Everyone in the band wanted to do more so we decided on a 3 week American tour starting in October of that same year. It turned out to be the most rewarding experience of our musical career. I don't think we played a bad show the whole tour---the 8 piece band sounded like a 747 landing on your house.
The music on this CD was recorded on October 23 in Toronto at the Phoenix, the last night of a hard run of 5 shows in a row. The thing I remember the most about this night is that the World Series was taking place, and the band was split between Yankees fans (us) and Braves fans (the Nashville guys) and the game was on a TV at the bar in the back of the club, 100 yds. away from the stage. This was the night that Jim Leyritz hit a late inning home run that turned the series in the Yanks favor and doomed the Braves to 5 more years of underachieving and mediocrity.
This concert was recorded on cassette by our longtime soundman Kirk Miller and pretty much captures the drunken essence of what this band sounded like on a good night. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did making it.
dean ween 11/01[2]
Track Listing[edit | edit source]
The other songs played at this show that were not included on the album:[3]
A Tear for Eddie; Baby Bitch; Big Jilm; Birthday Boy; Don't Shit Where You Eat; Freedom of '76; Georgia on My Mind; I Can't Put My Finger on It; I Don't Want to Leave You on the Farm; Little Birdy; Piss Up a Rope; She Fucks Me; The Blarney Stone; The Stallion Pt. 3
Known Personnel[edit | edit source]
Sourced from the liner notes unless stated otherwise.
- Gene Ween - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Dean Ween - guitar, vocals
- Claude Coleman, Jr. - drums
- Bobby Ogdin - piano, keyboards, percussion, director, photography
- Matt Kohut - bass
- Hank Singer - fiddle, percussion
- Danny Parks - guitar
- Stu Basore - pedal steel guitar
- Kirk Miller - live engineer, mixing
- Greg Frey - mastering
- Ben Vaughn - producer
- Mick Preston - guitar tech
- Paul Monahan - photography
- Cotter - album art
- Patricia Frey - design, layout
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Catalog number CDR1001
- ↑ CD liner notes
- ↑ https://brownbase.org/setlist.php?band=Ween&show_id=508