Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Zeppelin Hysteria + Ween = Yay!
A week and a half ago, the mass hysteria in our little slice of the music world surrounded the Ween shows at Terminal 5 here in what the Allman Brothers webmaster would call “Manhatten.” Now less than a full fortnight later, the mass hysteria in every crevice of the world at large (hello, CNN reports!) surrounds three fraying and graying Brits and an old friend’s son: Zeppelin’s in flight.
So while we frantically search for videos and downloads, first-hand reviews and second-hand energy from the festivities in London, let’s combine the two great hysterias of the past two weeks into a post celebrating this glorious performance of Ween absolutely fuckin’ nailing Zep’s All of My Love back in 2003. You can search high and low for dynamic covers that capture the spirit and power of the original, but I’m not sure you’re gonna find anything better than this.
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Great clip, Ween does a great job with covers. I saw them encore with ‘Ohio’ and ‘All Of My Love’ and they did a fantastic job with both of them.
i love this clip! great stuff and very fitting timing. (would have loved to have seen the ‘Ohio’ cover Dave.
I chuckled a tad at that verbage in how it read in my head:
“phishian moby…dick love”
i don’t know. all i got was ‘dick love’….
thanx for the clip.
cheers.
fahkin nice!!
Bah. So Ween can play Zeppelin. Big deal. I can go down to the local sports bar on any Friday night and hear a bunch of wankers playing a note-perfect Zeppelin cover. I can buy the last crappy Tesla album (as opposed to the many crappy Tesla albums that preceded it) and hear a bunch of wankers playing note-perfect Zeppelin covers.
What I want to know is, where’s Ween in this cover? I don’t hear any Ween. I don’t hear Ween telling us, “hey, audience people, this is how this song blew my mind” or “if Ween had written this song instead of those hacks in Zeppelin, it’d go like this.”
It’s a nearly perfect cover. And it’s completely lame.
F1CE! Live from Chicago DVD -> EVERY WEEN fan should pwn “even if you don’t”
ROCKIN’ my office mates fates presently
Chuck, how do you really feel about it?
hey chuck, sometimes a song is just a song. and sometimes, a song is more than a song. sometimes, you think a song is more than a song, but its just a song. sometimes you think its really just a song, but its actually a metaphor. and other times, its a metaphor, but its really an analogy. and still other times, a song cant be assessed as of itself as being a song because what does a song feel like? It’s like saying when you try to extrapolate a song, you say, if a song is indeed infinite, then how – what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what’s stopping it, and what’s behind what’s stopping it? So, what’s a song, you know, is my question to you…
Good point, neeko. If the cover was nothing more than a band loving a song and sharing the love, then more power to them.
Sometimes a song is just a song, and sometimes it’s a hell of a lot more. I assume, if a song is worth covering, that the band thinks it’s more than just a song. I wish Ween had found a way to tell us why it’s more than just a song.
Chuck, if you found anything even remotely close to a point in my inane rambling post, than god bless you. In fact, we are all dumber for having read my post. may god have mercy on my soul.
seriously, i cant go fuckin five minutes without referencing some fuckin movie. what the hell is wrong with me!
sometimes a dumb post is just a dumb post, and sometimes a dumb post is more than a dumb post.
(couldn’t resist)
in this case, it was riddle wrapped in bacon
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