White Pepper Time!
From Nude as the News , written by Jonathan Cohen. Their rabid fanbase is second to none in its zest, their musicianship boggles the mind, and they get to release their wacky albums on a major label. Ween are a real music phenomenon, and on the duo's latest Elektra album, White Pepper , a whole new host of genres are sliced and diced in typically proficient fashion. From the narcotic-tinged tropical fantasy "Bananas And Blow," the lumbering prog-rock of "The Grobe," the tart, jazzy "Pandy Fackler," and the lighter-waving anthem "Exactly Where I'm At," the new album is another welcome helping of Ween-ness. Dean and Gene Ween, or Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman to their families, recently chatted track-by-track about White Pepper with NATN Associate Editor Jonathan Cohen. "Exactly Where I’m At": Gene: Well, that song is kinda, I don’t know. That song is kind of incomplete. You’ll notice it just has the two verses, and the dr...