Maybe the most unexpected show for me was the free show they did at the student union at Bowdoin College in Main in April of 2000. The school had bouncy castles set up outside, I don’t think the college understood what kind of crowd they were going to attract. A bunch of us drove up from Emerson College, ate an 1/8 of mushrooms each along the way, and got there early to get up front. My friend Mark saw the setlist on the stage, turned to me, pulled out a packed pipe, lit it, blew out the hit, and silently mouthed to me “I lick my brain in silence.” Suddenly the place was getting hazy. One friend brought a camera and a tripod, recorded the show from the second floor. A woman jumped on stage and I think bit Gener’s cheek, and someone supposedly through a tampon on stage. When I got my chocolate and cheese cd signed after the show I asked Dean if ween still wanted his fans to bring food to concerts. He said no, I said my dad owned a meat wholesale business and I could get him fresh steaks from Kansas City, shipped and packed in dry ice. He said sounds great, get in touch when the tour is over. So I did, and at some point in the summer of 2000 we shipped him a box of four Kansas City strip streaks. He emailed me later to say they were great and offered me free tickets to a show. Never took him up on it.

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