Ween doing "Touch My Tooter" at J&P's place.

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Gene and Dean Ween recorded The Pod and Pure Guava at "the Pod," a fly-ridden shack they shared on a horse farm on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township.

They recorded both albums on a Tascam 4-track, and according to Deaner, they didn't even bother buying new tapes for Pure Guava but simply recorded over demo tapes that other bands had given them on the road.

This is arguably the band's "brown"-est period- a term they devised to describe anything "f*cked up in a good way."

As their producer and sometimes bass player Andrew Weiss put it:

"...you know, stuff's always so well-orchestrated, or tries to be, when people make records, but the best sound you're gonna get out of stomp box is when the battery's right at the point of dying and it sounds like it's being strangled or something. So it's kind of like those glorious mistakes are what you're lookin' for."

(Chocolate and Cheese, Hank Shteamer, 33 1/3 books)

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A New Hope live-music/dive-bar institution since 1972, J & P's has given many local bands a chance to practice in front of an audience.

Hometown heroes Ween have a photo print hanging at John and Peter's, the same print of Ringing Rocks that was in the liner notes of Chocolate and Cheese. The photo was taken by Danny Clinch, an Annie Leibovitz protégé.

Ween used to play the occasional surprise show at this bar.

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Outside of Mrs. Slack's 8th grade typing class, Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman (both born in 1970) started cracking each other up about an alternate universe where the god Boognish reigned supreme.

After an elaborate transformation, Dean and Gene Ween were birthed in the holy flames of Boognish, and the band, Ween, was created as the great one's mischief-making rock-surrogates on this plane of reality.

That first initial logo of Boognish is still the defining emblem of Ween.

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