Comments on: What Gener Was Talking About

What Gener Was Talking About

mannequito — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:19:02 -0800

These demos represent the final writings and music of Gene Ween, before he departed and the inner FREEMAN emerged. On that note, we have received a two word personal statement from Aaron: "stay tuned."

previously - including this particularly insightful comment by kjh

By: frenetic

frenetic — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:37:49 -0800

RIP Gener. Thanks for everything.

By: fishmasta

fishmasta — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:41:50 -0800

I doubt Ween will be having a reunion anytime soon based on how things ended, but I hope that's not the last I hear from them (individually or together). Marvelous Clouds was a fine album, but I'm more curious to hear what a solo album of songs written by Freeman himself would sound like. And I hope Dean doesn't retire to fishing completely. He's one of the most versatile guitarists I know.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:57:00 -0800

And I hope Dean doesn't retire to fishing completely. He's one of the most versatile guitarists I know. The episode of Guitar Moves with Dean was awesome.

By: dortmunder

dortmunder — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:02:09 -0800

And I hope Dean doesn't retire to fishing completely. He's one of the most versatile guitarists I know. Moistboyz just released a new album, so he hasn't retired yet.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:13:36 -0800

They've got an awesome sound.

By: Saxon Kane

Saxon Kane — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:19:08 -0800

Moistboyz will never retire.

By: item

item — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:19:54 -0800

The waste has been tasted.

By: mediocre

mediocre — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:24:53 -0800

I was just mourning the passing of Ween a couple days ago while listening to White Pepper (my personal favorite). Was going to make a MeFi post to talk about it, no less. I remember listening to it on release thinking that their must be some hidden rancor between the two hearing Falling Out, even if its not strictly about Melchiondo . I don't feel that Ween will ever really be dead, however. Even if it takes ten years for the fake brothers Ween to find each other again. Gene Ween isn't a person obviously, it's a state of being. I also remember reading about the flameout slash breakup when it happened and seeing footage of Freeman for the first time in unnumbered years and thinking "Holy fuck, who is this old man singing for Ween now?" So I can see why he may have wanted to divorce himself from the relentlessly immature Ween.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:23:44 -0800

the relentlessly immature Ween I dunno. The Mollusk continues to strike me as one of the most mature albums I've ever heard. But it does, granted, seem to be the outlier of the Ween catalog.

By: evisceratordeath

evisceratordeath — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:32:37 -0800

The Mollusk continues to strike me as one of the most mature albums I've ever heard. "Waving My Dick In The Wind" excepted of course.

By: Rev. Syung Myung Me

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:39:21 -0800

I felt sad that I didn't really connect with the last Gener demos like I thought I would. (I bought them as soon as they became available, because WEEN.) Though, too, I still haven't clicked with La Cucaracha as a whole. Some songs I love ("Fiesta", "Object", "With My Own Bare Hands", "Friends" - though I think the EP version was better, Shamemaker (which is SO Cracker)), but a lot of it is kinda meh ("Woman and Man", "Blue Balloon", "Your Party"), and one I flat out hate ("Fruit Man"). Of course, I'm thinking that these are pre-meeting-with-Deaner demos? So perhaps it's that they ARE in more of an unfinished state than Ween Demos (which I've heard a lot of and often dig) typically are.

By: mediocre

mediocre — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:42:41 -0800

"Gener's Gone" really seems to have an air of self aware finality about it. But that's probably just a happenstance retrospective analysis.

By: freakazoid

freakazoid — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 15:54:37 -0800

Thanks for the Moistboyz tip. Missed it all somehow. Am digging Paperboy at the moment.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:18:13 -0800

That Paperboy video is fucking great.

By: Annika Cicada

Annika Cicada — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:29:06 -0800

Ween is of a specific early-to-late 90's vintage with an exquisitely disturbing and trashy bouquet up front, followed by a long finish of superbly placed intellectual piss, vinegar and fox's ass. Unfortunately the lot's decanting life has well passed it's optimal date, but cases kept cool and out of sunlight can still be found and are best enjoyed at raucous moments of unkempt nostalgia.

By: JLovebomb

JLovebomb — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:16:03 -0800

I am almost certain Ween would say fuck right off to that description of themselves.

By: Theta States

Theta States — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:24:36 -0800

I'm not in to the demos, but glad they both have survived so far. I can't wait for his first proper studio outing of original material.

By: Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 06:41:34 -0800

You forgot to mention the distinct guava, chocolate, cheese, and white pepper notes.

By: Dr. Wu

Dr. Wu — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:26:49 -0800

What's that unholy glow I see? Could BOOGNISH once again be rising??

By: snottydick

snottydick — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:19:15 -0800

"Waving My Dick In The Wind" excepted of course. That's a rather immature assumption.