WEEN ON DRUGS
From High Times , written by Neil Strauss. A "really, really high" conversation with Gene and Dean Ween - the guys who made Scotchguard famous. Since junior high school, Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman - as "brothers" Dean and Gene Ween - have been recording wacked-out odes to eggs, weasels, flies and bongs in relative obscurity. Then came The Pod , their second release on New York indie Shimmy Disc - made after the boys "filled up 3,600 hours of tape and inhaled five cans of Scotchguard" - national attention and a major-label deal with Elektra Records. The newest album from these 22-year-old idiot savants, Pure Guava , features 19 songs that sound like hallucinations the Butthole Surfers might have had. And on the promotional single for "Push th' Little Daisies," there are bonus songs like "Smoke Some Grass (Really Really High)," an eight-minute tribute to a particularly potent bag of weed; and "Mango Woman," on which...