The Ragged End Of Nowhere: Hello Ween

Moving sucks. I'm moved out of the SF apartment but still have to move into the NYC place. Writing about moving would be masochistic so I'm going to skip it. I'm in Oxford, Mississippi now in the middle of a short run with Ween. It's my first time working for them and so far it's been pretty sweet. It's a whole different scene than the one I've been working in for the last few years but they're one of my favorite bands so the shows have been particularly fun. They typically play for 3hrs with no intermission. The first show we played was in Asheville, NC. It's a typical hippie college town in the mountains of western NC. Since there was no security at the stage kids were jumping up and dancing across the stage the whole show. Now, I'm all for the kids digging the rock, but it's pretty excruciating to watch a procession of kids jump up on stage, do some lame dance and make the devil horns at the crowd and then timidly lay onto the crowd in hopes of stage diving without getting hurt. The whole thing devolved during the encore when the band played LMLYP. This is a song where the band lets girls (girls only) on stage to dance. As the band played more and more people invaded the stage. At first they stayed behind the line of monitor speakers but soon they just took over the whole stage until they surrounded the band. Welcome to Ween tour.

Safe behind the wedgeline...