Runaway Dinosaur

Now that Ween has wrapped up their extensive 16 month tour which had them playing in Australia, New Zealand and finally Brooklyn last week there is some post tour news and some great art for sale.

Claude Coleman announced he is taking a breather from behind the drum kit to focus on his own band Amandla and get some experiences playing with other musicians. I think this will good for both sides it will allow Claude to scratch his musical itch and also opens the spot for some guest drummers with Joe Russo and Erick Slick’s names being mentioned as worthy temporary replacements. Hopefully, it truly is only a musical sabbatical and Claude eventually returns fulfilled and recharged.

Todd Slater has done a lot of work with Ween in the past and this tour produced some gems. He let the band sell only 50 at each of the selected shows and is now making the collection available to the rest of us. Here are the details directly from him.

This Friday, at 2PM CST all five of my new Ween posters will go on sale. Here’s how it’s gonna work: the prints will be sold in sets. At this time singles will not be sold. The sets will break down as follows:

Set #1:
The posters for St. Paul and Iowa (band’s likenesses) will be $75 for both prints.

Set #2:
The posters for Millvale, Tulsa and Fayetteville (pill cat, yellow sub and smoke dragon) will be $120 for all three prints which works out to $40 a print. A few notes on the history thus far: Fayetteville sold for $154 and Tulsa sold for $142 on ebay in the past month. I haven’t seen Millvale, Iowa or St. Paul show up yet. Millvale is probably my favorite one of the five, and yes, those are glow in the dark inks on the pill cat.

Set #3:
The entire series (5 prints in all) $195.

I’m expecting these to go quickly. The emails have been coming in everyday for the past couple weeks asking about prices and sale dates, so please be on time if you want one.

Tulsa is an homage to the yellow submarine animations and is five colors with metallic gold.

The detail behind Gener is a macro of a nautilus shell…I don’t want to give away every element of these prints so you’ll have to see them in person. Both of these are five colors with two metallic inks on Gener’s print.

Chasing the Dragon: this print is five colors with a metallic gold and two transparent whites. My printer, D&L, really knocked this one out of the park…a perfect print job.

Millvale is five colors on black paper and is printed with glow-in-the-dark inks.

Please let us know if you have any questions and we’ll get right back to you. It’s about 4:30 am now and I think I’m ready to stop typing…

Look for prints coming up for Jack Johnson, NIN, Radiohead, Electric Six and many others. Talk to ya soon.

-Todd.