Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990–1998

Paintin' the Town Brown
Paintin' the Town Brown
Live album by Ween
Released	June 22, 1999
Recorded	December 1990 – November 19, 1997
Genre	Rock
Length	2:06:56
Label	Elektra
Producer	Greg Frey, Kirk Miller, Ween
Ween chronology

Paintin' the Town Brown is a live compilation by American rock band Ween, released by Elektra Records on June 22, 1999.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	7.8/10 ^[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

Paintin' the Town Brown serves as a live retrospective for the group, a 2-CD set containing songs from Ween's first live shows (which were simply Dean, Gene, and a DAT deck) to Ween's tour in support of The Mollusk (though no songs from that particular album are featured).

This album was initially meant to be the first release on Ween's own record label Chocodog, but Elektra took the project away from the group and released it themselves. This would serve as part of the basis for Ween's departure from Elektra.

Track listing

Disc one

All tracks are written by Gene & Dean Ween, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Source	Length
1.	"Mushroom Festival in Hell"		Holland 1/91	2:48
2.	"Japanese Cowboy"	Ween / "Vangelis" Evanghelos Papathanassiou	Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (October 11, 1996)	4:21
3.	"Mountain Dew"	Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Scott Wiseman	Cicero's, St. Louis, MO (March 14, 1992)	5:20
4.	"Bumblebee"		Switzerland 12/90	1:23
5.	"Voodoo Lady"		Amsterdam 12/97	6:48
6.	"Ode to Rene"		San Francisco, CA 2/93	2:24
7.	"Mister Richard Smoker"		Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (October 11, 1996)	3:08
8.	"Doctor Rock"		Melbourne, Australia 5/95	3:10
9.	"I Can't Put My Finger on It"		Oslo, Norway 12/97	8:48
10.	"Cover It with Gas and Set It on Fire"		Trenton, NJ '93	1:20
11.	"Awesome Sound"		Amsterdam, Holland 12/97	7:54
12.	"Tender Situation"		Leeuwarden, Holland 12/90	4:33
13.	"Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?"		Oslo, Norway 12/97	3:56
14.	"I Saw Gener Cryin' in His Sleep"		Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA (October 11, 1996)	2:15
15.	"Marble Tulip Juicy Tree"		Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA (April 30, 1996)	5:36
16.	"She Fucks Me"		9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. (October 28, 1996)	3:53
Total length:				1:07:17

Disc two

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Poop Ship Destroyer"	The Blue Note, Columbia, MO (January 31, 1995)	26:07
2.	"Vallejo"	Huntridge Theater, Las Vegas, NV (November 14, 1994)	30:48
3.	"Puffy Cloud"	Los Angeles, CA 10/94 (unverified)	3:04
Total length:			59:39

Personnel

Dean Ween - guitar, vocals. Bass and drums on "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Mountain Dew," "Bumblebee," "Ode To Rene," "Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire," "Tender Situation," and "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree". Liner notes
Gene Ween - guitar, vocals
Claude Coleman - drums on all tracks except "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Mountain Dew," "Bumblebee," "Ode To Rene," "Cover It With Gas And Set It On Fire," "Tender Situation," and "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree"

Guests

Andrew Weiss - bass on "Doctor Rock," and Disc Two.
Dave Dreiwitz - bass on "Voodoo Lady," "I Can't Put My Finger On It," "Awesome Sound," and "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?"
Glenn McClelland - keyboards on "Voodoo Lady," "I Can't Put My Finger On It," "Awesome Sound," and "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?"

The Shits Creek Boys

(Heard on "Japanese Cowboy," "Mister Richard Smoker," "I Saw Gener Cryin' In His Sleep" and "She Fucks Me")

Bobby Ogdin - percussion, piano, keyboard
Matt Kohut - bass
Danny Parks - guitar
Stu Basore - pedal steel
Hank Singer - fiddle, percussion

Technical

Greg Frey - producer, compilation, editing
Kirk Miller - co-producer and compilation, mixing on all tracks except "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Bumblebee," and " Tender Situation"
Pidah Kloos - mixing on "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Bumblebee," and " Tender Situation"
Ween - producer, compilation
Gregory Burke - design

Charts

Album

1999, Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 1990–1998: Heatseekers No. 37

References

^ Ankeny, Jason. "Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 90-98 – Ween". AllMusic. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
^ Josephes, Jason. "Ween - Paintin' the Town Brown". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 26, 2001. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
^ Sarig, Roni (2004). "Ween". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 864–65. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[AM-1] Ankeny, Jason. "Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live 90-98 – Ween". AllMusic. Retrieved February 13, 2018.

[2] Josephes, Jason. "Ween - Paintin' the Town Brown". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on November 26, 2001. Retrieved February 13, 2018.

[3] Sarig, Roni (2004). "Ween". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 864–65. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

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