Celebrating 10 years of The Mollusk, Dean Ween recently posted the raw sessions from their beloved sixth studio album on the band's chocodog site. "I've been told that "file sharing" is all the rage among kids nowadays so I figured I would take this opportunity to share something with all y'all," Deaner says on his blog. "I meant to do this during the summer, but we were pretty busy getting the new record together and touring." These recordings don't include every song from the album, he adds, but only those that were done in the summer and fall of 1995 at a rented beach house in New Jersey. They had to halt sessions that November to record 12 Golden Country Greats in Nashville. And when they returned to the beach house, it was flooded. So they finished recording in good ol PA. As a result, a few songs like "The Blarney Stone" and "Jonny on th' Spot" aren't here. Ween's tour of kicks off tomorrow. Stay brown.October 16, Bluebird Nightclub, Bloomington, IN
October 17, The Canopy Club, Urbana, IL
October 19, Orpheum, Madison, WI
October 20, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
October 22, The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
October 23, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus, OH
October 25. House of Blues, Cleveland, OH
October 26, The Docks, Toronto, ON, Canada
October 27, Fillmore Detroit (State Theater). Detroit, MI
November 4, Rialto Theatre, Tucson, AZ
November 5, 8pm House of Blues San Diego
November 6, Ventura Theater, Ventura, CA
November 8, Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
November 9, Santa Cruz Civic, Santa Cruz, CA
November 10, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
November 12, Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
November 13, Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
November 14, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
November 16, Flames Central, Calgary, AB
November 17, Edmonton Events Center, Edmonton, AB
November 23, Sonar, Baltimore, MD
November 24, Tower Theater, Upper Darby PA
November 26, Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
November 27 Calvin Theater, Northampton, MA
November 28, Orpheum, Boston, MA
November 30, Terminal 5, New York, NY
December 1, Terminal 5, New York, NY
You can download it here: http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/mollusksessions.mp3
or a version cut into tracks:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QL6Q6D0M
Dean'''s blog: http://brownietroop.ning.com
