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Ween has tried on just about every genre of music in its 20-plus years of existence, but never before has the Pennsylvania duo embraced the dancefloor quite like on “Friends,” the title track of a new self-released EP.

The song was produced by Reinhard “DJ Voodoo” Raith, one of the principal figures behind the Crazy Frop ringtone phenomenon of the past few years. “We were doing the demos for it and Aaron ["Gene Ween” Freeman] thought it would be good to get a European dance guy to re-do that song,“ guitarist Mickey "Dean Ween” Melchiondo tells Billboard.com. “We don’t even play any instruments on the EP version.”

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an apartment they used to share and called the Pod, where they recorded the songs for their most recent albums. “That place was truly, like, pretty gross,” Mr. Melchiondo said. “If you have the image of a bachelor’s apartment and what a pigpen it is, the Pod was like 150,000 times that.

"The apartment was a perfect square broken up into little square rooms, with a ping-pong table in the kitchen blocking off everything so you’d have to shimmy past it. We probably would have moved out sooner if it wasn’t for the ping-pong table. We’d play marathon games that would last all day and night, as long as 10 CDs. When we left, the walls were all destroyed.

"Next to the ping-pong table there were, like, seven hats, and our hair was so long we couldn’t play, and all of our friends’ hair was that long, so whenever you played, you had to put on a stupid hat.”

“Neither of us liked to clean,” Mr. Freeman said, “so we just never cleaned. The dish situation was really bad. We’d never throw out our bottles because we had good intentions of recycling them someday, so we had this whole closetful of old bottles with a little beer in the bottom of each one and fruit flies coming up around them.”

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Ben Vaughn and Dean Ween (seated left) with Gene Ween and members of the legendary Jordanaires in Tennessee during the recording of Ween’s 12 Golden Country Greats | photo courtesy of Ben Vaughn and Mickey Melchiondo.

12 Golden Country Greats, 1996 album by Ween. Recorded in Nashville with the help of numerous legendary country musicians, including the Jordanaires, Buddy Spicher, Charlie McCoy, Hargus “Pig” Robbins, and Russ Hicks.

The record’s producer talks about a couple of copyright infringements including a excerpt from an Ali speech that had been cut off the record…

“Yeah, they did cut it off pretty harshly.
I asked Mickey, and he said Muhammad Ali’s people found out about it, and yanked it. But the other thing is, ‘Japanese Cowboy’ too closely resembled ‘Chariots of Fire‘ by Vangelis, and Vangelis’ people sued, so when you look up the publishing information for ‘Japanese Cowboy,’ it’s now a co-write with Vangelis.”

Ben Vaughn