To celebrate our move to Anchor.fm, we’ve gone back and taken another look at our earlier episodes.  Man, it’s been a while, and we’ve learned a lot.  Although our earlier lo-fi era certainly had it’s brown charm, we thought it couldn’t hurt to remaster these sons a’ bitches.  We ran noise reduction and took a fine tooth comb to the .wav file, adjusting amplification to improve listenability.  While we didn’t include any deleted scenes, or give you an extended peek at the Wampa, we hope that these improvements make this episode better to listen to.

Episode 1: 10/27/1996, The Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA.

Regulators, mount up. In this episode we discuss how we first got into Ween, and the first show ever, on the Twelve Golden Country Greats tour.

The story begins for us in the winter of ‘96.  For me, it was listening to Chocolate and Cheese for the first time ever as I rode home from volleyball practice, and just being totally blown away by “Voodoo Lady,” while Shane just remembers that the first person we knew who had the album was a buddy of ours who had gotten it through BMG solely for the gratuitous nature of the lady on the cover.

Twelve Golden Country Greats landed that summer, and by the next fall we had caught wind of tour dates and a show at Philadelphia’s own Trocadero.  Shane got the tickets and thus began our love affair with Ween live. Join us as we tell the tale of the show, go through the setlist, and recount the high points of the show.  It may be almost 25 years ago, but after relistening to the show, the memories sure did come rushing back!  Once brown, forever brown.