Is there a similar yin-and-yang dynamic in Ween?
AVC: How many songs have you and Aaron written over the years? DW: I have no way to know. While we were on our little break between these two albums, I tried to transfer just our four-track tapes, which were from when we lived at The Pod for two years. And I couldn’t do it. I quit after the third day. It was such a massive undertaking. I felt like they were weighing me down, having every Ween tape ever at my house. So we got a storage bin, and I took every single thing we’ve ever done and put it there. AVC: Do you ever go back to an old tape for new song ideas? DW: No. I’m not really interested in that. We put out [the unreleased-songs compilation] Shinola, and I had really mixed emotions about doing it. I don’t like to do anything that feels reflective or retrospective when we’re still making new records. It’s not a healthy thing to do. We called it Volume 1, but I don’t know if I want to go through that again anytime soon. The songs on that record are songs we regretted not putting o
