On Friday night, Ween kicked off their summer tour at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan. To say that the band had something special planned for their tour opener would be an understatement, as Ween offered major bust outs across the thirty-song set. Perhaps most notably, the group performed “She Caught My Fancy” toward the middle of their performance, marking the seventh time the song (which has never been officially released, though recorded on 2000’s White Pepper) has been played in the band’s history, with the last time being during their summer tour in 1999. The emergence of “She Caught My Fancy” after eighteen years no doubt was a highlight of the group’s set; however, the group also offered “Stay Forever” and “I Don’t Want It” ahead of “She Caught My Fancy,” both of which hadn’t been played since Ween’s performance last fall at The Capitol Theatre following Thanksgiving, and “Don’t Laugh (I Love You),” which was last performed at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in October of last year.
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You can watch Ween’s full tour opener (at least up until “I Play It Off Legit”) at the Royal Oak Music Theatre from Friday below, courtesy of Joe Dank. The “She Caught My Fancy” bust-out marks the first song in part 4 of 5, starting at around thirty seconds in.
[Photo: Erik Kabik]
Setlist: Ween | Royal Oak Music Theater | Royal Oak, MI | 6/2/2017
Set: Captain Fantasy, Don’t Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy), Did You See Me?, The Mollusk, Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down), Happy Colored Marbles, Touch My Tooter, Poison (tease), The Stallion pt 1, Take Me Away, I Gots a Weasel, Bananas and Blow (tease), The Grobe, Your Party, Stay Forever, She’s Your Baby, I Don’t Want It, She Caught My Fancy, Learnin’ to Love, Object, Don’t Laugh (I Love You), Mister Richard Smoker, Pandy Fackler, You Fucked Up, I Play It Off Legit, Buckingham Green, How High Can You Fly?, Never Squeal, Someday
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