Any Ween people here?

norminal said:
Not really a Ween fan (don’t know much about them), but I dig the cover Devin Townsend did:

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That song kicks ass. One of my favorites to play

Devin does a pretty cool cover of it. A little too polished for my tastes, but nice nonetheless.

The solo and how it came to be as absolutely WILD story:

I think enough time has passed where I can finally tell my favorite Ween story of all-time. The businesses and the people involved have long since closed their doors and moved on for good and hopefully the people involved (and Carlos himself, if it comes to that) will have a good sense of humor about this story.

In 2003 Ween released our album Quebec on Sanctuary Records. We worked on the album for two years in our beach house in Holgate, NJ, a rented house in the Pocono Mountains of PA, the garage behind Aaron’s house in Pt. Pleasant, PA, my upstairs guest room, and finally Andrew Weiss’s living room in NJ. We also worked at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ and Graphic Sound Studios in Ringoes, NJ. It was not a great period in our personal lives, Aaron was going through a divorce and I was partying way too hard myself — it was some dark shit. The record is one of my favorites, but it is a depressing album lyrically. It was not an easy record to make either, as evidenced by the amount of places we worked, trying to find the right environment. There are demos available online that I posted where you can hear the process at work, we racked up our normal batch of like 6 dozen songs or more before whittling it down to what was finally released, 15 tunes.

I am a huge fan of Carlos Santana. He is one of my favorite guitarists of all-time. He is playing better these days than ever before in my opinion. His music is more radio friendly, for sure, but as a guitarist he has aged like a fine wine. Only Neil Young, Prince, and a small handful of others can make that claim as they become members of the AARP.

We were working in Andrew’s living room on the song “Transdermal Celebration,” our drummer Claude Coleman had just gotten into a horrific car crash and left us without a drummer for the recording and ensuing tour. Eventually it worked itself out where the record took so long to complete that Claude made enough of a recovery to do the world tour with us supporting Quebec. In the meantime though, even though Claude had played on some of the demos, drumming on the album was left up to me, Josh Freese, and Sim Cain.

“Transdermal Celebration” had been recorded three times by this point, with a drum machine, with Claude playing drums, and the final take on the album which features Josh Freese. It was the eventual single from the album. So, we’re in the middle of this session and I get a phone call from my roadie (nameless) who also worked for a backline company (nameless) that supplied amps, drums, lights, etc. to bands touring in the Northeast. My roadie told me that Carlos Santana’s equipment (including his guitars) had arrived via a trucking company that night at their depot. Carlos was recording an appearance on “Good Morning America” the next morning and his equipment was to be delivered to the set in NYC in a few hours.

What needed to be done was immediately clear to me, I had an opportunity to play the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” through Carlos Santana’s amplifier and guitar. I had one shot at it, it meant taking a hard disk recorder to a storage space where all of Carlos’ stuff was sitting in transit. I arrived at 2 a.m. We (very carefully) unpacked his equipment and set up his stage gear and in one take I recorded the guitar solo for “Transdermal Celebration” (the one that appears on the album, playing through Carlos Santana’s guitar, pedalboard and amplifier. The whole thing took 10 minutes and we were terrified we were going to get caught. A lot of people would have lost their jobs. We got the fuck outta there really fast after that. So the solo on “Transdermal Celebration” was played through all of Santana’s shit in what resembled an early morning bank heist or something…

Of course a story like this requires visual proof, so here it is. Don’t tell anyone about these please.

-Dean Ween 6/14

(ref)
 
JiveTurkey said:
I watched a bunch of King Gizzard and Les Claypool solo vids over the past weekend. This is as close to spawn country as I have ever gotten :unsure: :satan
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How you liking the gizz? and which albums were you checking out? definitely some very different styles album to album lol
 
spawnofthesith said:
How you liking the gizz? and which albums were you checking out? definitely some very different styles album to album lol
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I started watching a bunch of tinydesk concerts on YT. Which started recommending other oddball artists. Idles being one of them. Who from their tinydesk seemed like some british-ironic-hillbilly punk thing in a awesome way. Then got recommended electric performances where they are all geared up and doing artsy-synth-punk with 3 guitars and a bank of keyboards. Just weird "not my genre" types of things and I am digging it. Somewhere along this journey; King Gizz recommendations of the same types of performance started getting rolled into the mix.

This thing being an example. I know they have (at least that one) "metal" album but no idea where my recent experiences fall into that album's timeline as I have read they are prolific af?

Other video I can't seem to find is the only evidence of anyone playing a reverse flying V I have ever seen :oops::ROFLMAO:
 
JiveTurkey said:
I started watching a bunch of tinydesk concerts on YT. Which started recommending other oddball artists. Idles being one of them. Who from their tinydesk seemed like some british-ironic-hillbilly punk thing in a awesome way. Then got recommended electric performances where they are all geared up and doing artsy-synth-punk with 3 guitars and a bank of keyboards. Just weird "not my genre" types of things and I am digging it. Somewhere along this journey; King Gizz recommendations of the same types of performance started getting rolled into the mix.

This thing being an example. I know they have (at least that one) "metal" album but no idea where my recent experiences fall into that album's timeline as I have read they are prolific af?

Other video I can't seem to find is the only evidence of anyone playing a reverse flying V I have ever seen :oops::ROFLMAO:
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I love KEXP and tinydesk stuff

Prolific indeed, they have 25 studio albums (first one released in 2012) :rofl
 
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