mollusk sessions download from ween.com
dweller
mig just uploaded a work tape from the mollusk album. you can download
it from ween.com
in the waste section.
the direct link is here
http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/mollusksessions.mp3
mig writes:
I've been told that "file sharing" is all the rage among kids nowadays
so I figured I would take this opportunity to share something with all
y'all. I meant to do this during the summer, but we were pretty busy
getting the new record together and touring. It has been ten years
since we released "The Mollusk", our 6th studio album, so to celebrate
this we've decided to give you the raw sessions from the record. I
don't mean to come off like a self righteous storyteller but indulge
me for a minute here.
We had always talked about recording an album down at the beach during
the offseason, when no one else was around. Holgate, (which is the
southern tip of Long Beach Island, New Jersey) was the spot where we
decided on recording. This was because my father had built a house
there in the '70's and I had a lot of roots in Holgate. My sister and
I have a trailer down there presently. Anyway, in the fall of '95
Aaron and I rented a beachfront property where we were gonna write and
record our new record. Greg Frey (who would later become our manager)
helped us rent a Ryder truck and set up our 16 track tape deck and
mixing console. The place was gorgeous and it turned out to be a very
productive environment, for awhile at least.
In November we halted our sessions in Holgate and went to Nashville to
record "12 Golden Country Greats", a project we had scheduled prior to
the Mollusk sessions. We had already written the tunes for that record
and the albums were treated as separate projects. After we got back
from Nashville our enthusiasm for our weekly beach trips had
diminished somewhat from laziness and fatigue. We took a few weeks off
and finally we went back down to the beach house in December, only to
find that the pipes had frozen and burst and water had been
continually running across the floor for at least a month. Everything
was dripping with beads of water, like an aquarium.
We had no choice but to move out and finish the album back at home. We
wrote and recorded a few more songs in a rented farmhouse in Holicong,
PA and Claude's home studio in Hopewell, New Jersey. Andrew Weiss then
took the tapes and mixed them, we also did some overdubs and re-
recorded a few tunes from the beach. The bulk of the record was made
at the shore though, and that was where the album took shape. We
worked from Sunday til Thursday every week and would go home for the
weekends. These sessions were bounced from a cassette that I kept for
the ride home. Every Thursday I would add whatever we had recorded
that week onto this tape. I transferred this old tape to my computer
and encoded it here for you. It doesn't have the songs we made at
home, like The Blarney Stone, Jonny on th' Spot, etc. This is just the
music recorded in that flooded beach house. We would rent it two more
times to write the songs for White Pepper and then Quebec. The record
was eventually released in June of 1997.
Adam Finkelstein
dweller <matt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>hey,
>mig just uploaded a work tape from the mollusk album. you can download
>it from ween.com
>in the waste section.
>the direct link is here
>http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/mollusksessions.mp3
>
>mig writes:
Ween is just so fucking brimming over with rectitude. The tape
sounds really good. Thank you!
Adam
Riptides
"dweller" <matt...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hey,
> mig just uploaded a work tape from the mollusk album. you can download
> it from ween.com
> in the waste section.
> the direct link is here
> http://www.chocodog.com/chocodog/mollusksessions.mp3
>
Where would one get this if it's already been removed from the website?
-rip