Paintin' the Town Brown was the first Ween

Ween

Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...

 live album, released by Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

 on June 22, 1999.

Paintin' the Town Brown serves as a live retrospective for the group, a 2 CD set containing songs from Ween's very first live shows (which were simply Dean, Gene, and a DAT deck) to Ween's tour in support of The Mollusk

The Mollusk

* "She Wanted to Leave / " contains the main song, "She Wanted to Leave", as well as a reprise of "I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight".- Personnel :* Dean Ween - Guitar, Vocals, Engineer* Gene Ween - Vocals, Engineer* Kirk Miller - Sound Effects...

(though no songs from that particular album are featured). Among the notable tracks on the album are songs from the 12 Golden Country Greats

12 Golden Country Greats

The original version of "Powder Blue" runs for 4:16 and ends with a sample from Muhammad Ali. Ween were denied permission to use the sample by the Ali lawyers, but Elektra pressed the album accidentally...

tour (featuring a band of Nashville session musicians named The Shit Creek Boys), a nearly half-hour long take on the song "Poop Ship Destroyer", an in-bookstore acoustic rendition of "Puffy Cloud", and a few live-only songs such as "Mountain Dew" and "Cover It with Gas and Set It on Fire".

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.

Disc one

Disc two

Personnel

Dean Ween

Dean Ween

Dean Ween is the stage name of Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr., American guitarist and half of the alternative rock group Ween.-Biography:...

 - Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, Vocals, Liner Notes

Gene Ween

Gene Ween

Aaron Freeman , best known as Gene Ween, is a musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween...

 - Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, Vocals

Danny Parks - Guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

Dave Dreiwitz - Bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

Matt Kohut - Bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

Andrew Weiss - Bass

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

Stuart Basore - Pedal Steel

Hank Singer - Fiddle

Fiddle

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, Percussion

Bobby Ogdin - Percussion, Piano

Piano

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, Keyboards

Pidah Kloos - Mixing

Kirk Miller - Producer, Compilation, Mixing

Greg Frey - Producer, Compilation, Editing

Ween

Ween

Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...

- Producer, Compilation

Gregory Burke - Design