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COMEDY | Gene and Dean Ween...
Frank Zappa’s long-lost sons come to us in the form of Gene and Dean Ween, collectively Ween, who practice eclecticism for the sake of eclecticism and make us all come back for more. You will laugh. Hard. Tickets $23 in advance, $25 at the door. 9 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...
Dave Dreiwitz, the band’s bassist and trumpet player, now plays with the band, Ween...
...long can Ween continue their mission of shameless mockery of the music world? As long as the drugs hold out, it seems. And judging from White Pepper, the drugs are plentiful. The band claims that for the new album they replaced their usual daily regimen of mushrooms and LSD with "alcohol and pharmaceuticals, giving them new insight into the psyche of working class America...
...Bananas and Blow," White Pepper's tracks either subtly ape the Beatles or not-so-subtly ape the alternaballad crowd that wishes they weren't just aping the Beatles. Though Dean and Gene are as keen in their satire and respectable in their musical skill as ever, something from Ween's past albums and raucous live shows is missing on White Pepper, and it's not just the word "fuck" or the hallucinogens.White Pepper doesn't quite have the quirky magic that makes Ween such a great band. B -Taylor R. Terry...