
I've never tried covering it before, and was delighted to find that it's super easy. It's a breezy and easy chaser after gorging on the buffet of Chocolate and Cheese. My parents naturally assumed it was for me, and I in turn naturally assumed it was from the person who had left it (some of you know Mat Sanborn, heheh).Īnyway, Deaner. My high school friend had just gotten GodWeenSatan and was so excited to share the absurdity with me, he called when nobody was home and instead of leaving a message he played "Got a Weasel" in its near entirety with no message. My first exposure to Ween was from my parent's answering machine. Always a problematic band in one way or another, yet always near and dear to my heart. Small, dirty bar somewhere south of San Pedro….

Recreating a long lost bootleg version of the song, recorded in a May or may not have also been secretly fantasizing that I was BoonĮnergy in there somewhere, and while in the process of making this, I Whatever it’s worth, I think I made an effort to channel some D. Is no live version of Viet Nam on that record, I decided it would alsoīe fun to make a cover that sounded like it was recorded live. Release of live recordings, and realizing (to my surprise) that there After pulling out Ballot Result, the 1987 posthumous But also, I’m not gonna pretend for a second that I can playĪs fast as any of those dudes, so that’s the default direction I took Probably one of the most obvious choices one could make when doing aĬover. To attempt to be ironic by slowing it down. My initial idea for the song was to do something counter-intuitive and Out an interesting way to cover Madonna, I abandoned that idea andĭecided I would wade into the sacred waters and take a stab at Viet Time learning the keyboard part for Borderline and trying to figure Minutemen song has ever even occurred to me.

Strangely, I don’t think the idea of covering a Were a band that made me want to immediately go buy shitty gear and Minutemen, perhaps more than any other band I can think of, completelyĭefined the idea of what I thought punk rock was supposed to be. There aren’t very many albums I can say that about. What is more amazing is that I’ve never gotten tired of When required to do the math, I realize that Double Nickels on theĭime has been on regular rotation in my music collection for well overģ0 years now.
