{"id":5270,"date":"2022-02-01T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2022-02-01T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:01:36","slug":"say-it-aint-so-no-more-weepies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"SAY IT AIN’T SO…NO MORE WEEPIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess the correct title for this blahg should be: “SAY IT AIN’T SO…NO MORE THE WEEPIES.” <\/span><\/strong>\"Scott<\/a>Earlier in this month I posted my 2022 False Ducks Video Ramble, THE 2022 FALSE DUCKS VIDEO RAMBLE<\/a>, in which I mentioned that Deb Talan and Steve Tannen, known collectively as The Weepies, have split up.\u00a0 I hadn’t heard any news of the duo throughout 2021 so I checked their Facebook page earlier this month and read the following post:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Weepies final shows EVER are coming up in January 2022!<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s been a time of big change all around for sure. Before the pandemic we realized we had to go our separate ways. We are both so grateful for the time we spent making music, putting it out into the world, and sharing it with all of you. It was magical, and we\u2019re both forever changed and enriched by that time. As we move on to other creative projects we hope that you, like us, will treasure the era when we made music as The Weepies.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Thank you for the support through the years. We\u2019ll see you in the days ahead. <\/em><\/h4>\n

All the best to all of you.<\/em><\/h4>\n

Deb & Steve<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

What a punch to the gut!\u00a0 I checked out their Wikipedia entry and found that the following last line had been added:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Talan and Tannen got married in 2007 and had their first son in October that year.<\/sup>They went on to have two more sons later. They later divorced, which was finalized on New Year’s Day 2020<\/em><\/h4>\n

Again, what a punch to the gut.\u00a0 Readers of this blahg will know that I’m a huge fan of The Weepies and had seen them twice in concert in Toronto.\u00a0 I wish them the best but I’m still deeply saddened by this news.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 I guess the biggest thing for me, besides the fact that there won’t be any more new The Weepies albums, is that I won’t get to see Steve and Deb live together again.\u00a0 Perhaps they’ll tour Canada again separately and I’ll probably go to their individual concerts but I’ll never see The Weepies live again.\u00a0 I saw them twice in Toronto back in 2016 and 2018.\u00a0 Here is a picture when they played The Drake in 2016:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted to take some video of the concert but I couldn\u2019t shut off the bright light on my cell phone.\u00a0 I decided to record part of the concert from my pocket but I only managed to record part of the song \u201cJolene\u201d sung by Steve and part of his next song about a Jig.\u00a0 Here they are:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/Jolene.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

 <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/Jig.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 I did manage to find the following video online that someone posted from that concert in Toronto.\u00a0 This is The Weepies performing “Ever Said Goodbye”: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n