Well yes nearly all of Ween's earlier songs are directly inspired by their use of psychedelics. I know you kids who learned about Ween via Spongebob might not like to hear that, but it's true. If you look up (on YouTube) Ween singing "Push the Little Daisies" (their first music video) on the old Beavis and Butthead show, you'll see that they show mushrooms on camera multiple times during the video. In the "It's Pat" movie, Ween give Pat mushrooms and she starts to go on a trip until Ween tell her they got the mushrooms at Safeway. They are famous for their use of psychedelic mushrooms primarily early on (and prescription drugs like Zoloft later in their career).
As for the kid claiming that you don't have to be on psychedelics to write psychedelic songs-- technically that is true, since Ween's big inspiration Frank Zappa never liked to do shrooms or LSD. But Zappa's song lyrics are clearly written by a sober individual while many of Ween's lyrics could only have been written while tripping or the morning after. Check out tunes like "The Stallion, Part 3" or "Little Birdy" if you want to know what it feels like to be tripping-- those songs really capture the ecstatic psychedelic experience.
And to those of you kids reading this, just because Ween started tripping at age 15 or 16 and developed into geniuses doesn't mean it's healthy for everyone. Generally, people should not do psychedelics except after adulthood and only in a proper setting and for proper reasons (and there are many proper religious or spiritual reasons for using power plants and psychedelics for artists and shamans).
Well yes nearly all of Ween's earlier songs are directly inspired by their use of psychedelics. I know you kids who learned about Ween via Spongebob might not like to hear that, but it's true. If you look up (on YouTube) Ween singing "Push the Little Daisies" (their first music video) on the old Beavis and Butthead show, you'll see that they show mushrooms on camera multiple times during the video. In the "It's Pat" movie, Ween give Pat mushrooms and she starts to go on a trip until Ween tell her they got the mushrooms at Safeway. They are famous for their use of psychedelic mushrooms primarily early on (and prescription drugs like Zoloft later in their career).
As for the kid claiming that you don't have to be on psychedelics to write psychedelic songs-- technically that is true, since Ween's big inspiration Frank Zappa never liked to do shrooms or LSD. But Zappa's song lyrics are clearly written by a sober individual while many of Ween's lyrics could only have been written while tripping or the morning after. Check out tunes like "The Stallion, Part 3" or "Little Birdy" if you want to know what it feels like to be tripping-- those songs really capture the ecstatic psychedelic experience.
And to those of you kids reading this, just because Ween started tripping at age 15 or 16 and developed into geniuses doesn't mean it's healthy for everyone. Generally, people should not do psychedelics except after adulthood and only in a proper setting and for proper reasons (and there are many proper religious or spiritual reasons for using power plants and psychedelics for artists and shamans).
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